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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 10, 2014 7:19:56 GMT -5
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/texans-check-your-ropes/Texans, Check Your Ropes …Congressman Steve Stockman announced Wednesday he is organizing opposition to an anti-gun control bill to be introduced this year by U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Lindsay Graham, which appears to closely follow an Executive Order issued last Friday by President Barack Obama. Cornyn announced the bill in an interview this month with traditionally liberal “Texas Monthly” magazine. According to Cornyn the “Graham-Cornyn Mental Health and Criminal Justice Reform Act” expands the National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system to include Americans who have sought treatment for mental health issues. The bill seems to be nearly identical to an Executive Order issued last Friday by Obama. “Cornyn’s Bloomberg Bill is the Holy Grail of gun control,” said Stockman. “Cornyn’s Bloomberg Bill is an aggressive expansion of the anti-gun agenda. Unable to ban guns they are now banning law-abiding gun owners, and Cornyn is leading the charge.” “John Cornyn has opened a new front in the Left’s War on Guns by now seeking to ban law-abiding gun owners. Cornyn’s Bloomberg Bill is the same gun control bill demanded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and appears to be nearly identical to Barack Obama’s latest Executive Order,” said Stockman. “With Republicans like Cornyn who needs Democrats?”
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Post by avordvet on Jan 10, 2014 15:46:38 GMT -5
Heard this today, shows the blending of the GOP Progressives and the Leftists... As we well know here, the two parties are on the same page and singing the same songs. Surprising Segment Compares Gov. Chris Christie to President Obama — You’ll Want to Hear the QuotesJan. 10, 2014 2:43pm Erica Ritz While many on the right are dismayed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s “bridge scandal,” thinking it may dash any presidential aspirations the Republican may have had, some conservatives are saying good riddance. After an initial “love affair” with Christie, Glenn Beck has long maintained the governor is more progressive than he first believed. On Friday, Beck said that not only is Christie a progressive Republican — he sounds almost identical to President Barack Obama on many issues. www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/10/surprising-segment-compares-gov-chris-christie-to-president-obama-youll-want-to-hear-the-quotes/
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Post by avordvet on Jan 10, 2014 16:09:05 GMT -5
‘Main Street’ GOP Groups and Their Leftist FundersUnions are funding Republican groups to help push through amnesty for illegal immigrants.By Michelle Malkin, January 10, 2014 12:00 AM What do George Soros, labor unions, and money-grubbing former GOP representative Steven LaTourette all have in common? They’re control freaks. They’re power hounds. They’re united against tea-party conservatives. And they have all operated under the umbrella of D.C. groups masquerading as “Main Street” Republicans. www.nationalreview.com/node/368071/print
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Post by avordvet on Jan 11, 2014 7:51:27 GMT -5
Yeah this GOP 'hopeful' is the same guy that has been dragging his feet on every scandal that obama has put forth. From Benghazi to the IRS scandals, Issa has been a 'no show' in getting to the bottom of ANY of them... Just sayin Issa heading to New HampshireVista lawmaker to speak at venue known to host presidential hopefulsBy Mark Walker11:59 a.m.Jan. 10, 2014Updated3:23 p.m. Rep. Darrell Issa is headed to New Hampshire next month to speak at a venue that has been a must-do appearance for presidential aspirants. www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/10/issa-newhampshire-presidential-politics/
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Post by avordvet on Jan 12, 2014 12:33:36 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 16, 2014 4:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 17, 2014 5:12:17 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 17, 2014 16:57:44 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 28, 2014 12:40:56 GMT -5
Boehner, Republicans Warn Obama Not to Exceed AuthorityTuesday, 28 Jan 2014 11:06 AM, By Newsmax Wires House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama likely has the authority to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers. But the speaker warned against any other unilateral steps that could encroach on the Constitution. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Republicans-Minimum-Wage-boehner-obama/2014/01/28/id/549451
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Post by avordvet on Jan 29, 2014 8:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 31, 2014 12:26:08 GMT -5
Does the Republican Party have a death wish?January 31, 2014, Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner With Obama's approval numbers plummeting, public support for Obamacare crashing, and at least a dozen Congressional Democrats announcing in the last few days they are retiring, normally the Republican Party would be doing cartwheels with glee as this political goose with the golden egg laid one right in their laps, for free. Rarely has any opportunity been seen in politics like the present perfect storm that is building to lay to waste Democrats. Conditions are more than ripe for a complete massacre in both the House and Senate in November, that is, except for one inexplicable factor. The Republicans looked their gift horse in the mouth and said, "No thank-you." www.examiner.com/article/does-the-republican-party-have-a-death-wish
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Post by avordvet on Feb 3, 2014 13:00:21 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 4, 2014 5:48:58 GMT -5
Your GOP at work... New $1 trillion Farm Bill 50% bigger than last Farm BillBy: Steve Stanek, 2/3/2014 10:24 AM This article originally appeared on heartland.org. The U.S. House of Representatives in late January passed a nearly $1 trillion farm bill that raises spending nearly 50 percent above the last farm bill in 2008. Senators are also expected to soon pass the bill, as it represents the outcome of negotiations involving House and Senate agriculture committee members. www.humanevents.com/2014/02/03/new-1-trillion-farm-bill-50-bigger-than-last-farm-bill/
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Post by avordvet on Feb 4, 2014 15:58:11 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 11, 2014 15:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 11, 2014 19:20:30 GMT -5
Yup... ncrenegade.com/editorial/boehner-keeps-on-folding-now-proposes-clean-debt-ceiling-bill/Boehner Keeps On Folding: Now Proposes Clean Debt Ceiling Bill A week ago, we reported that unlike on previous occasions, this time Boehner decided to fold like a lawn chair early in this year’s debt ceiling hike debate, and sure enough moments ago Politico confirmed as much when it reported that “House Republicans are abandoning their plan to lift the debt limit and restore military pension cuts due to flagging support from the rank and file. The announcement was made Tuesday morning in a private GOP meeting.” As we also predicted, Politico adds that “now, the GOP will have to pass a so-called clean lift of the debt ceiling — one without policy strings attached. But even that won’t be easy. Senior Republican lawmakers and aides are openly wondering just how many of their members will vote for a clean debt ceiling — Democrats will have to bear the brunt of passing the bill, GOP insiders say.” And the punchline for the vote, which is set for Wednesday, “Senior GOP sources wonder if they’ll be able to get 18 Republicans to vote for a debt ceiling increase — the bare minimum for passage if every Democrat votes yes.”
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Post by avordvet on Feb 12, 2014 8:42:30 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 12, 2014 11:17:51 GMT -5
Boehner and Cantor Lead GOP Debt Ceiling List of ShameBy CHQ Staff | 2/12/14 Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were elevated to their positions through the hard work and votes of millions of limited government constitutional activists who made the 2010 Tea Party wave election possible. Yet from the moment he took the Speaker’s gavel Boehner has been intent on diluting the influence of the limited government constitutional conservatives in his own House Republican Conference and undermining – indeed often actively opposing – the agenda that the vast majority of House Republicans campaign on and voters expect them to enact. Boehner and Cantor’s latest betrayal of Republican voter expectations is yet another increase in the federal debt limit enacted yesterday with a mere twenty-eight Republican votes. www.conservativehq.com/node/16346
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Post by avordvet on Feb 12, 2014 15:34:11 GMT -5
And of course the GOP capitulates on command from their senate overlords...
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Post by avordvet on Feb 14, 2014 5:06:36 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 18, 2014 12:46:31 GMT -5
'Retire Mitch' McConnell signs pop up around KentuckyWritten by Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, Feb. 17, 2014 Signs urging voters to “Retire Mitch” began springing up over the weekend in Louisville, Lexington and northern Kentucky, providing the first concrete evidence of a national tea party group effort to take down U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. connect.freedomworks.org/news/view/428496?destination=node%2F428496
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Post by avordvet on Feb 20, 2014 5:16:34 GMT -5
The GOP has assisted Obama's agenda the entire time, by not putting the brakes on they are JUST AS COMPLICIT as the Socialists when the train goes off the tracks. Obama’s Massive Debt Made Possible By Establishment RepublicansBy CHQ Staff, 2/19/14 In the time Barack Obama has been President of the United States the public debt of the country has more than doubled. Using the U.S. Treasury’s Monthly Statement of the Public Debt our friend Terence P. Jeffrey of CNSNews calculates the public debt of the federal government has climbed by 106 percent while President Barack Obama has been in office, increasing from $5,749,916,000,000 at the end of January 2009 to $11,825,322,000,000 at the end of January 2014. How could this happen if Republicans, allegedly the Party of fiscal discipline, have been in the majority in the House since the 2010 election? Doesn’t the Constitution invest the power (and responsibility) for the purse in the House? Yes, the House holds the purse strings for the federal government, but the problem is that establishment Republicans are every bit as addicted to spending as are the Democrats. During the administration of establishment Republican President George W. Bush, when Republicans held a majority in the House for six of eight years, the public debt of the U.S. government also nearly doubled! www.conservativehq.com/node/16418
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Post by avordvet on Feb 26, 2014 6:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Mar 9, 2014 14:04:33 GMT -5
Leading Republicans Move to Stamp Out Challenges From RightBy CARL HULSE, MARCH 8, 2014 WASHINGTON — As conservative activist groups stirred up trouble for establishment Republican Senate candidates in 2010 and 2012, party leaders in Washington first tried to ignore the insurgents, then tried to reason with them, and ultimately left it to primary voters to settle the matter. But after several of those conservatives — in Nevada, Colorado and Delaware in 2010 and in Indiana and Missouri in 2012 — managed to win their primaries but lose in the general election, party leaders felt stung by what they saw as avoidable defeats. This election season, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are taking a much harder line as they sense the majority within reach. Top congressional Republicans and their allies are challenging the advocacy groups head on in an aggressive effort to undermine their credibility. The goal is to deny them any Senate primary victories, cut into their fund-raising and diminish them as a future force in Republican politics. “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in an interview www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/us/politics/leading-republicans-move-to-stamp-out-challenges-from-right.html?_r=0
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Post by avordvet on Mar 10, 2014 3:42:03 GMT -5
‘We Are Going to Crush Them Everywhere’: Care to Guess Who’s Behind This Prediction for Tea Party in Midterm Elections?Mar. 9, 2014 4:00pm, Dave Urbanski Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t merely say Tea Party candidates challenging him and other established Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections don’t pose much of a threat. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (Image source: AP/J. Scott Applewhite) McConnell’s prediction is arguably more along the lines of fighting words. “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell told the New York Times. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.” www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/09/we-are-going-to-crush-them-everywhere-care-to-guess-whos-behind-this-prediction-for-tea-party-in-midterm-elections/
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Post by avordvet on Mar 13, 2014 16:44:01 GMT -5
McConnell Prepared to Cut Backroom Deal on IMF BailoutDaniel Horowitz, March 13th, 2014 at 01:25 PM Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill to authorize loan guarantees for Ukraine, similar to the bill that passed the House last week. The loan guarantee bill doesn’t directly increase spending; rather it adds Ukraine to the list of countries eligible for Economic Support Fund (ESF) grants. ESF grants have already been appropriated and are used as “walking around cash” for the State Department to send to allied countries in need of assistance (although the money often goes elsewhere). However, the bill does transfer extra funds into the Treasury in order to cover any potential default on the loan. Let’s put aside judgment on the underlying bill for a moment; the more critical issue at hand is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “reform” provision. Senate Democrats tacked on a provision that would weaken our sovereignty within the IMF, ostensibly increasing our quota and limiting our power. Here is how the Heritage Foundation describes the reform package: www.redstate.com/2014/03/13/mcconnell-prepared-cut-backroom-deal-imf-bailout/
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 13, 2014 22:15:53 GMT -5
Still think you can vote your way out of this mess? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Welcome to the monkey house. So it goes... www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/13/house-of-cards-moment-lindsey-graham-caught-on-hot-mic-offering-john-kerry-some-help/Here’s What Lindsey Graham Offered to John Kerry When He Thought the Microphone Was Off ... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was caught on a hot mic Thursday telling Secretary of State John Kerry to let him know how he could “help” with House Speaker John Boehner. Kerry had just testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the need to provide Ukraine with economic assistance amid its turbulent transition following the ouster of former President Viktor Yanukovich. Both House and Senate Republicans have expressed opposition to the proposed bill, mainly over a provision that would give unused U.S. Military money to the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.). Graham was offering “help” in working with Boehner over his and other House Republicans’ opposition to the Senate’s version of the Ukraine aid package, a spokesman told TheBlaze. “Let me know what I can do to help you with Boehner,” Graham is heard saying on the hot mic.
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Post by avordvet on Mar 15, 2014 6:34:34 GMT -5
Mark Levin: D.C. Establishment Tried To Sabotage Jolly In FL-13Posted on March 14, 2014 MARK LEVIN: Last Friday, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Speaker’s office and the Republican establishment thought Jolly was going to lose. So they go to their favorite source, the liberal website Politico, and they trash this guy. And they dump all over this guy. And I read from it. And they point out that they had three other Republicans but they couldn’t convince them to run, they were stuck with Jolly. Jolly came out of this January primary, he didn’t have any money and he didn’t hire the right finance director. And they’re laying this out, I mean a few days before this Tuesday’s election, they’re going on and on about how his staff was incompetent… www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/03/14/mark_levin_dc_establishment_tried_to_sabotage_jolly_in_fl-13.html
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Post by avordvet on Mar 21, 2014 3:58:59 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Mar 24, 2014 14:52:57 GMT -5
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