The Blog of the Rhode Island Republican Assembly
Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL), before his tenure in Congress, had the distinction of being only the sixth federal judge in American history to be impeached from office (for bribery and perjury). Rep. Hastings is now a member of the House Rules Committee.
He had this gem to say earlier today. You’ll be seeing this video again in the Fall:
“All this talk about rules. When the deal goes down, we make ‘em up as we go along.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHTJSu_2Lk[/youtube]
Pollster Frank Luntz: “I see why Barack Obama might push it for ideological reasons. But why would Congress go along when their own jobs are in jeopardy?”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyH6HMNbqeM[/youtube]
During the White House Summit on health care on Thursday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and President Obama disagreed as to whether the Democratic health care bill would cause premiums to rise. Fox News’ Jim Angle found Senator Alexander was right.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ad-fqqjFhI[/youtube]
Centrist Democrat Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) announced earlier today his decision to not seek re-election for a third term this Fall. Who’s next?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9no4El2R4[/youtube]
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama’s rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush…
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by “George Bush and his cronies” are not so easily solved.
“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)
More Kennedy: “One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven’t kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We’ve tried too hard to do that right thing, and that’s to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place.”…
Read More: National Journal
This is a pretty good web ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee, pointing out the complete lack of transparency by the House Democrats in crafting health care “reform” legislation behind closed doors, in violation of the president’s own repeated promises.
A Government takeover of Healthcare is knocking on America’s door. Unfortunately for Americans, Nancy Pelosi and her Liberals allies aren’t opening up their door to let anyone in on the process.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7_TsP7_ivo[/youtube]
As good as it is, the appearance of what certainly looks to be an iPhone in the ad probably will mean that it won’t be up too long after the ‘cease and desist’ order is received from Apple. However, the point will have certainly been made by then.
Sounds familiar…
With troublemakers enjoying near-diplomatic immunity from punishment, schools have no choice but to hire armies of workers to mitigate their impact…and as in any well-formulated, government-financed, make-work scheme, everyone receives a turn at the trough. There will be more social workers, mental health counselors, anti-violence program supervisors and coordinators, role models, and mentors for at-risk students, right on down to more janitors skilled in graffiti removal, school safety officers, technicians to repair vandalized surveillance equipment, classroom assistants to keep an eye on the mischief-makers, and whatever else it takes to staff these prison-like schools…
These extra bodies necessary for maintain dangerous schools are also a windfall for the Democratic Party and its expand-the-state policies. Bloated school payrolls guarantee more dues-paying members to education unions like the NEA and AFT, both central to Democratic fundraising and voting drives. (These unions also supply many delegates to the party’s presidential nominating convention.) They are also a ready-made voter base for erstwhile “education” mayors and governors “committed to helping the children” who all the while push government farther into fiscal insolvency…
Read More: The American Thinker
John Fund: Democratic Incumbents Are Running Scared…
“The nonpartisan Cook Political Report released a new update on the 2010 elections yesterday. A full 54 Democratic seats in the House are now rated as “highly competitive,” with nearly half already seeing the GOP challenger running even or ahead of the Democratic incumbent. Only six GOP-held seats are in play as possible Democratic pickups. Republicans need to win 40 seats to take back control of the House. Nervousness in Democratic ranks will be heightened even more by Cook’s finding that a total of 95 Democratic seats are potentially vulnerable — almost two-fifths of the entire Democratic caucus.”…
Read More: The Wall Street Journal