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FYI!
Newt Gingrich will be at the "2012 Wilson GOP Kickoff" THIS Saturday @ 4-7:30p @ the Wilson County Fairgrounds.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
April 14th, 2012 – Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party: Keynote Speaker: Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich
For Immediate Release
contact: Laura Long
title: Organizer
organization: Triangle Conservatives Unite!
email: laura-long@nc.rr.com
url: http://www.triangleconservativesunite.com/
For My Friends. You are invited to attend this Tax Day Tea Party at the Capital and Legislative Buildings in Raleigh on Saturday April 14th and then have your local events at other times. Its 5pm to 8pm so you can still have a morning or early afternoon event and still make it. I am asking everyone that can please come to this semi state wide event. Thank you and thank you for everything you do. PS. Local Rockingham friends if you want to carpool call or email me at 910-334-3087 or Russ580@yahoo.com
Raleigh, NC – April 14th, 2012 --Triangle Conservatives Unite (TCU) is proud to host the 2012 Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party. The Tea Party will be held at the Halifax Mall this year, from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.
Triangle Conservatives Unite is a conservative group made up of NC citizens who are tired of overspending, unbalanced budgets and government corruption. In 2009, when CNBC reporter Rick Santelli ranted about President Obama's housing bailout plan, he stated that Chicago was holding a Tea Party. He was referring to the 1773 Boston Tea Party where colonial protesters dumped tea into the harbor to protest British taxes. The idea hit home with Americans and people across the country responded to this “call to action”. The Tea Party movement has grown more popular each year.
The Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party is sponsored by 106.1 RUSH Radio, along with many of the conservative groups and businesses in our area. This is a great time to meet some of the people who are seeking office this year. Many of our clubs and groups will be set up to inform and meet the public.
Our keynote speaker is Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House. Other speakers include organizers, club leaders, politicians and community activists.
We would like to invite the public to our event. You do not have to be a member of the Tea Party or affiliated with any group to attend. This is a family friendly event where you can learn about fiscal conservatism, elected officials and volunteer opportunities in your community.
Event Details
Who: Triangle Conservatives Unite
What: Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party
Where: Raleigh, NC – Halifax Mall (16 W. Jones St., Raleigh, NC, 27601)
When: April 14, 2012 – 5:00pm until 8:00pm
contact: Laura Long
title: Organizer
organization: Triangle Conservatives Unite!
email: laura-long@nc.rr.com
url: http://www.triangleconservativesunite.com/
April 14th, 2012 – Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party
Keynote Speaker: Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich
For My Friends. You are invited to attend this Tax Day Tea Party at the Capital and Legislative Buildings in Raleigh on Saturday April 14th and then have your local events at other times. Its 5pm to 8pm so you can still have a morning or early afternoon event and still make it. I am asking everyone that can please come to this semi state wide event. Thank you and thank you for everything you do. PS. Local Rockingham friends if you want to carpool call or email me at 910-334-3087 or Russ580@yahoo.com
Raleigh, NC – April 14th, 2012 --Triangle Conservatives Unite (TCU) is proud to host the 2012 Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party. The Tea Party will be held at the Halifax Mall this year, from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.
Triangle Conservatives Unite is a conservative group made up of NC citizens who are tired of overspending, unbalanced budgets and government corruption. In 2009, when CNBC reporter Rick Santelli ranted about President Obama's housing bailout plan, he stated that Chicago was holding a Tea Party. He was referring to the 1773 Boston Tea Party where colonial protesters dumped tea into the harbor to protest British taxes. The idea hit home with Americans and people across the country responded to this “call to action”. The Tea Party movement has grown more popular each year.
The Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party is sponsored by 106.1 RUSH Radio, along with many of the conservative groups and businesses in our area. This is a great time to meet some of the people who are seeking office this year. Many of our clubs and groups will be set up to inform and meet the public.
Our keynote speaker is Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House. Other speakers include organizers, club leaders, politicians and community activists.
We would like to invite the public to our event. You do not have to be a member of the Tea Party or affiliated with any group to attend. This is a family friendly event where you can learn about fiscal conservatism, elected officials and volunteer opportunities in your community.
Event Details
Who: Triangle Conservatives Unite
What: Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party
Where: Raleigh, NC – Halifax Mall (16 W. Jones St., Raleigh, NC, 27601)
When: April 14, 2012 – 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Coverage of Newt Gingrich visit to New Bern
Video: Gingrich visits New Bern, comments on Santorum campaign suspension
Gingrich Says He'd Consider Santorum As VP: NEW BERN -- During his trip to New Bern, Newt Gingrich said he would consider Rick Santorum, among others, as his vice presidential candidate. That comment came on the heels of Santorum's announcement that he's pulling out of the presidential race. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made a campaign stop Tuesday in New Bern. Gingrich stopped at the Pepsi Store first then had lunch at The Chelsea. It was $60 a plate to attend the speech and all of the proceeds went to the Craven County Republican Party. News Channel 12 was the first to ask Gingrich for his comment moments after Santorum announced he was suspending his race.
Gingrich campaigns in New Bern-- Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign gained visible momentum in New Bern on Tuesday as the third-ranking Republican presidential candidate received news of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s decision to bow out of the race. Gingrich had spoken in Raleigh earlier and at a New Bern luncheon fundraiser for the Craven County Republican Party with remarks that indicated his efforts were less about winning the GOP nomination and more about keeping a strong conservative voice in the campaign to help shape the party platform.
Newt Gingrich Visits New Bern w/Video
Gingrich Says He'd Consider Santorum As VP: NEW BERN -- During his trip to New Bern, Newt Gingrich said he would consider Rick Santorum, among others, as his vice presidential candidate. That comment came on the heels of Santorum's announcement that he's pulling out of the presidential race. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made a campaign stop Tuesday in New Bern. Gingrich stopped at the Pepsi Store first then had lunch at The Chelsea. It was $60 a plate to attend the speech and all of the proceeds went to the Craven County Republican Party. News Channel 12 was the first to ask Gingrich for his comment moments after Santorum announced he was suspending his race.
Gingrich campaigns in New Bern-- Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign gained visible momentum in New Bern on Tuesday as the third-ranking Republican presidential candidate received news of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s decision to bow out of the race. Gingrich had spoken in Raleigh earlier and at a New Bern luncheon fundraiser for the Craven County Republican Party with remarks that indicated his efforts were less about winning the GOP nomination and more about keeping a strong conservative voice in the campaign to help shape the party platform.
Newt Gingrich Visits New Bern w/Video
Newt Gingrich Visits New Bern!
Newt Gingrich spoke at a special Craven County GOP fundraiser luncheon at The Chelsea Restaurant, today in New Bern, NC.
Following that Newt appeared for a press conference at the Craven County GOP headquarters, just as news was breaking that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race.
Sean Hannity will be interviewing Newt shortly on his radio program.
Following that Newt appeared for a press conference at the Craven County GOP headquarters, just as news was breaking that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race.
Sean Hannity will be interviewing Newt shortly on his radio program.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
NEWT GINGRICH COMING TO NEW BERN!
Craven County Republican Party will be hosting Newt Ginrich for a luncheon fundraiser at The Chelsea Restaurant, Tuesday, April 10th. Tickets are $50.00.
Contact GOP Headquarters: 252-296-2141
Contact GOP Headquarters: 252-296-2141
Saturday, January 14, 2012
TPN--JUDSON PHILLIPS: Which Presidential candidate actually supported the Tea Party movement?
Tea Party support is something all of the candidates in the GOP primary want. Of course they do. This movement represents the heart and soul of conservatism in America and none of them are going to win without it.
Which Presidential candidate actually supported the Tea Party when he was not running? The answer will surprise you.
Ron Paul’s supporters, especially the more obnoxious one’s like to claim that Ron Paul is the father of the Tea Party movement.
The basis for their claims is that in December 2007, Ron Paul had a fundraiser and he called it a “Tea Party.”
On February 18th, 2009, Rick Santelli of CNBC lit the fire for what would become the Tea Party with his famous rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile. Within a couple of days activists from across the country were planning the first Tea Party Rallies.
Neither Ron Paul nor his supporters had anything to do with the planning of those rallies.
How do I know?
It is simple. I was a part of the planning. We who were planning those rallies met almost nightly for conference calls. People who were on those calls have become some of the leading figures of this movement. Amy Kremer was on there, as was Eric Odom, Mike Leahy, activists who formed the Dallas and St. Louis Tea Parties and some others throughout the country.
Ron Paul did not support nor did he appear at any of those rallies.
After February 2009, we began planning the Tax Day Tea Party rallies, which would define this movement.
Where was Ron Paul? Again nowhere.
But there was one politician who stepped up and was willing to help the Tea Party movement. He was not running for office at the time and all he did was ask what he could do.
He did not try to take control of the movement nor did he try to use it for his own benefit.
Who was this person?
It was Newt Gingrich.
CONTINUED:
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/which-presidential-candidate-actually-supported-the-tea-party-mov
Which Presidential candidate actually supported the Tea Party when he was not running? The answer will surprise you.
Ron Paul’s supporters, especially the more obnoxious one’s like to claim that Ron Paul is the father of the Tea Party movement.
The basis for their claims is that in December 2007, Ron Paul had a fundraiser and he called it a “Tea Party.”
On February 18th, 2009, Rick Santelli of CNBC lit the fire for what would become the Tea Party with his famous rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile. Within a couple of days activists from across the country were planning the first Tea Party Rallies.
Neither Ron Paul nor his supporters had anything to do with the planning of those rallies.
How do I know?
It is simple. I was a part of the planning. We who were planning those rallies met almost nightly for conference calls. People who were on those calls have become some of the leading figures of this movement. Amy Kremer was on there, as was Eric Odom, Mike Leahy, activists who formed the Dallas and St. Louis Tea Parties and some others throughout the country.
Ron Paul did not support nor did he appear at any of those rallies.
After February 2009, we began planning the Tax Day Tea Party rallies, which would define this movement.
Where was Ron Paul? Again nowhere.
But there was one politician who stepped up and was willing to help the Tea Party movement. He was not running for office at the time and all he did was ask what he could do.
He did not try to take control of the movement nor did he try to use it for his own benefit.
Who was this person?
It was Newt Gingrich.
CONTINUED:
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/which-presidential-candidate-actually-supported-the-tea-party-mov
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
CQ Roll Call Daily Briefing: Newt vs. Nancy
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Today In Washington
THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama is flying toward Kansas, where at 2 (Washington time) he’ll deliver a speech that aides describe as a curtain-raiser for one of his central 2012 campaign themes. At the high school in Osawatomie — the town 50 miles southwest of Kansas City where Teddy Roosevelt delivered his New Nationalism address in 1910, calling for a “square deal” for all Americans — the president will describe this as a “make-or-break moment” for the middle class and all those working to join it in the face of widening income inequality. And he’ll promise to spend the rest of his presidency working for a country “where everyone engages in fair play, everyone does their fair share, and everyone gets a fair shot.” (Excuse me does this not sound like it is right out of Atlas Shrugged?) (Aides say Obama’s been working in the speech for a month and that a pitch for the payroll tax extension will be only a tangential add-on.)
THE SENATE: Convened at 10 and at noon (just before the weekly caucus lunches) will vote on whether to break a filibuster that’s preventing the confirmation of Caitlyn Joan Halligan, who was first nominated for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 15 months ago. The outcome appears too close to call. Most Republicans think she’s too liberal, and they’re eager to maintain the three vacancies on the country’s second-most-prominent federal bench at least until after the next presidential election. (They’re also aware that Democrats view the 44-year-old Halligan as eventual Supreme Court material: New York’s solicitor general from 2001 until 2007, she then headed Weil, Gotshal’s appellate practice for three years and is now general counsel to the Manhattan D.A.)
THE HOUSE: Convened at 10 for speeches and this afternoon is set to pass 10 more non-controversial bills. One would outlaw the sale of synthetic drugs that imitate the hallucinogenic or stimulant properties of drugs. Another would tinker with D.C. zoning rules to speed up the long-planned redevelopment of the Southwest waterfront.
IT’S ON: Four weeks from the Iowa caucuses, and it’s clear the opening round of the Republican nomination race has become Newt Gingrich’s to lose — and that his legendary lack of self-discipline and delayed fundraising aren’t the only big reasons he might stumble. He’s also got to get past another former Speaker of the House.
Nancy Pelosi says she has a dossier on her predecessor that she’s ready to talk about “when the time’s right,” and yesterday she suggested that — if Gingrich’s presidential run sustains its new viability — she’d go public with her views about the House ethics committee case against Gingrich that resulted in a $300,000 fine against him during his third year as Speaker. Pelosi wasn’t then in the Democratic leadership, but she was on the investigative panel. She had initially suggested — in talking to the liberal Talking Points Memo over the weekend — that she was preparing to disclose confidential documents from that era. But her office now says she’d only be out to explain the myriad details of the ethics case, which she thinks would poison the GOP electorate on its new favorite. (The panel concluded Gingrich used tax-exempt contributions for political purposes and then misled congressional investigators about it. He’s the only Speaker ever formally reprimanded by the House.)
Gingrich, with typical brio, responded to Pelosi yesterday “for what I regard as an early Christmas gift,” then attacked her integrity and called for harsh House sanctions if Pelosi violates congressional ethics secrecy rules. “It tells you how capriciously political that committee was that she was on it. It tells you how tainted the outcome was that she was on it,” he said.
The additional scrutiny on the former Speaker’s every move will intensify in light of the newest Iowa poll — from the Washington Post and ABC — that has Gingrich at 33 percent among likely caucus-goers and Mitt Romney and Ron Paul tied for second at 18 percent. Michele Bachmann seized on the results as good news of sorts this morning, because she said her 8 percent (when combined with the undecided) shows she still has a chance to win — and live up to her Iowa straw poll boomlet from the summer. The Minnesota congresswoman said there was plenty of time left for the voters to realize that both front-runners Romney and Gingrich “are flawed candidates.”
Romney, meanwhile, was continuing his steady, mainstream, establishment, presumed-front-runner campaign today with a visit to Arizona, where he’ll pick up former Vice President Dan Quayle’s endorsement.
DEFENSE OUT FRONT: The military spending bill, by far the biggest single piece of the unfinished appropriations agenda, is close to final form.
If the other eight measures don’t get unstuck over the weekend from their year-long limbo, defense hawks will push hard to clear this one measure ahead of all the others — arguing that it’s ultimately non-controversial and closely tracks the policy decisions that are sure to emerge from the defense authorization conference. But the leadership will surely resist, because it sees the Defense appropriations package as a legislative sweetener that, if combined with the more contentious domestic spending bills, would make a “megabus” that is relatively easy for both parties to accept. In fact, if any measure is likely to drop out of such a catchall, it’s going to be the most controversial one — governing the departments of Labor, HHS and Education — which is deeply mired in disagreements about both spending levels and policy riders. Unless the parties can quickly resolve their differences on both fronts, Hill leaders are likely to insist on a continuing resolution that would simply keep funding for those three departments at current levels through next September.
In the military spending bill, the tentative $518 billion grand total would be about 2 percent less than what the House advocated and 4 percent less than what Obama initially sought — but about 1 percent more than what the Senate planned to spend, which was based on the number nominally agreed upon in this summer’s debt limit deal. That mans appropriators will need to shave $5 billion from the other national security bills, for foreign aid and the Homeland Security Department.
One of the final sticking points — as has been the case for several years now — is language governing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But the debate isn’t anymore about whether there should be a super-expensive backup engine; there isn’t going to be one. Instead, the debate is about the pace of the purchase plan for a plane that’s supposed to anchor the fleets of all the services for the next decade or more. The program’s managers are having second thoughts about how quickly to procure the jets while glitches continue to surface on test models, and slowing down the procurement would save a bit of money in the short run.
NO SHORTAGE OF IDEAS: Two centrist senators, Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Susan Collins, say they’ll unveil a payroll tax extension plan this afternoon with potentially broad bipartisan support. (They’re keeping the details under wraps until their rollout.) Unless their plan catches fire, it looks as though the week will end on a note signaling continued impasse: Another Senate vote on Friday in which almost all the Democrats vote in favor of, and almost all the Republicans vote against, raising taxes a smidge on millionaires to finance another year with $1,000-lower Social Security taxes for everyone else. But on either side there’s still not all that much sense of panic, or even suspense, about the ultimate outcome: A holiday-season package — with a price tag above $180 billion — that would extend (but not expand) the payroll tax cut, renew unemployment benefits and avert a 27 percent reduction in payments to doctors who take Medicare.
Reid’s latest plan is to pay for the continued payroll tax break by imposing a lower-than-before surtax of 1.9 percent on household earnings above $1 million beginning in 2013 — and ending after 10 years. He’s also come up with $38 billion by increasing fees that mortgage lenders pay to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and means testing jobless aid and food stamps to exclude millionaires. Except for the millionaire tax part, Reid’s plan is pretty close to something that would be acceptable as a starting point to the GOP leadership in the House — which would then want to add the "boiler MACT" and Keystone XL pipeline provisions.
OFF RAMP: Randy Babbitt probably won’t last the week as head of the FAA, and he’s almost certainly spent his last day wielding any federal authority. He’ll probably resign by tomorrow, before the “discussions with legal counsel” about his employment status reach the conclusion that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is justified in firing him. Babbitt was put on indefinite administrative leave yesterday, as soon as word reached DOT that he’d been arrested Saturday night on charges of drunken driving in the northern Virginia suburbs.
Deputy Administrator Michael Huerta is running he agency for now — and when Babbitt goes he’ll likely be tapped to be acting administrator through the end of next year. (Though Huerta, who’s running the troubled NextGen effort to reinvent the air traffic control system, is on generally good terms with Congress, there’s little incentive for Obama to tempt a confirmation fight for a job that’s really high-profile but might be open again in January 2013.) Lawmakers and the airline industry had almost nothing but good things to say about Babbitt — an Eastern pilot for 25 years and also president of the pilots' union — but his position has not become untenable, if for no other reason than LaHood has made a campaign against drunken driving one of the hallmarks of his tenure.
INSIDE SHIFT: Two big West Wing moves involving long-ago Capitol Hill staff power players are being rolled out more or less in tandem this week. Jennifer Palmieri, who’s now the top political person at the progressive Center for American Progress think tank, is headed back to the White House as deputy to Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer. (She toiled there for all eight years of the Clinton era, the last three as deputy press secretary — having entered the Clinton orbit as a senior aide to Leon Panetta back when he was making the switch from California congressman to OMB chief.) Palmieri was also DNC press secretary in 2002 and John Edwards’ spokeswoman in 2004. Phil Schiliro, meanwhile, is completing his slow fade out of the president’s inner circle; he’ll leave the White House payroll altogether at the end of the month, with no private-sector-landing-pad job announced. He’s been a special assistant with a hodgepodge portfolio this year — following two years of mixed results as the president’s top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, a job he got after decades as the right-hand man to Henry Waxman, another House Democrat from California.
— David Hawkings, editor
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Today In Washington
THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama is flying toward Kansas, where at 2 (Washington time) he’ll deliver a speech that aides describe as a curtain-raiser for one of his central 2012 campaign themes. At the high school in Osawatomie — the town 50 miles southwest of Kansas City where Teddy Roosevelt delivered his New Nationalism address in 1910, calling for a “square deal” for all Americans — the president will describe this as a “make-or-break moment” for the middle class and all those working to join it in the face of widening income inequality. And he’ll promise to spend the rest of his presidency working for a country “where everyone engages in fair play, everyone does their fair share, and everyone gets a fair shot.” (Excuse me does this not sound like it is right out of Atlas Shrugged?) (Aides say Obama’s been working in the speech for a month and that a pitch for the payroll tax extension will be only a tangential add-on.)
THE SENATE: Convened at 10 and at noon (just before the weekly caucus lunches) will vote on whether to break a filibuster that’s preventing the confirmation of Caitlyn Joan Halligan, who was first nominated for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 15 months ago. The outcome appears too close to call. Most Republicans think she’s too liberal, and they’re eager to maintain the three vacancies on the country’s second-most-prominent federal bench at least until after the next presidential election. (They’re also aware that Democrats view the 44-year-old Halligan as eventual Supreme Court material: New York’s solicitor general from 2001 until 2007, she then headed Weil, Gotshal’s appellate practice for three years and is now general counsel to the Manhattan D.A.)
THE HOUSE: Convened at 10 for speeches and this afternoon is set to pass 10 more non-controversial bills. One would outlaw the sale of synthetic drugs that imitate the hallucinogenic or stimulant properties of drugs. Another would tinker with D.C. zoning rules to speed up the long-planned redevelopment of the Southwest waterfront.
IT’S ON: Four weeks from the Iowa caucuses, and it’s clear the opening round of the Republican nomination race has become Newt Gingrich’s to lose — and that his legendary lack of self-discipline and delayed fundraising aren’t the only big reasons he might stumble. He’s also got to get past another former Speaker of the House.
Nancy Pelosi says she has a dossier on her predecessor that she’s ready to talk about “when the time’s right,” and yesterday she suggested that — if Gingrich’s presidential run sustains its new viability — she’d go public with her views about the House ethics committee case against Gingrich that resulted in a $300,000 fine against him during his third year as Speaker. Pelosi wasn’t then in the Democratic leadership, but she was on the investigative panel. She had initially suggested — in talking to the liberal Talking Points Memo over the weekend — that she was preparing to disclose confidential documents from that era. But her office now says she’d only be out to explain the myriad details of the ethics case, which she thinks would poison the GOP electorate on its new favorite. (The panel concluded Gingrich used tax-exempt contributions for political purposes and then misled congressional investigators about it. He’s the only Speaker ever formally reprimanded by the House.)
Gingrich, with typical brio, responded to Pelosi yesterday “for what I regard as an early Christmas gift,” then attacked her integrity and called for harsh House sanctions if Pelosi violates congressional ethics secrecy rules. “It tells you how capriciously political that committee was that she was on it. It tells you how tainted the outcome was that she was on it,” he said.
The additional scrutiny on the former Speaker’s every move will intensify in light of the newest Iowa poll — from the Washington Post and ABC — that has Gingrich at 33 percent among likely caucus-goers and Mitt Romney and Ron Paul tied for second at 18 percent. Michele Bachmann seized on the results as good news of sorts this morning, because she said her 8 percent (when combined with the undecided) shows she still has a chance to win — and live up to her Iowa straw poll boomlet from the summer. The Minnesota congresswoman said there was plenty of time left for the voters to realize that both front-runners Romney and Gingrich “are flawed candidates.”
Romney, meanwhile, was continuing his steady, mainstream, establishment, presumed-front-runner campaign today with a visit to Arizona, where he’ll pick up former Vice President Dan Quayle’s endorsement.
DEFENSE OUT FRONT: The military spending bill, by far the biggest single piece of the unfinished appropriations agenda, is close to final form.
If the other eight measures don’t get unstuck over the weekend from their year-long limbo, defense hawks will push hard to clear this one measure ahead of all the others — arguing that it’s ultimately non-controversial and closely tracks the policy decisions that are sure to emerge from the defense authorization conference. But the leadership will surely resist, because it sees the Defense appropriations package as a legislative sweetener that, if combined with the more contentious domestic spending bills, would make a “megabus” that is relatively easy for both parties to accept. In fact, if any measure is likely to drop out of such a catchall, it’s going to be the most controversial one — governing the departments of Labor, HHS and Education — which is deeply mired in disagreements about both spending levels and policy riders. Unless the parties can quickly resolve their differences on both fronts, Hill leaders are likely to insist on a continuing resolution that would simply keep funding for those three departments at current levels through next September.
In the military spending bill, the tentative $518 billion grand total would be about 2 percent less than what the House advocated and 4 percent less than what Obama initially sought — but about 1 percent more than what the Senate planned to spend, which was based on the number nominally agreed upon in this summer’s debt limit deal. That mans appropriators will need to shave $5 billion from the other national security bills, for foreign aid and the Homeland Security Department.
One of the final sticking points — as has been the case for several years now — is language governing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But the debate isn’t anymore about whether there should be a super-expensive backup engine; there isn’t going to be one. Instead, the debate is about the pace of the purchase plan for a plane that’s supposed to anchor the fleets of all the services for the next decade or more. The program’s managers are having second thoughts about how quickly to procure the jets while glitches continue to surface on test models, and slowing down the procurement would save a bit of money in the short run.
NO SHORTAGE OF IDEAS: Two centrist senators, Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Susan Collins, say they’ll unveil a payroll tax extension plan this afternoon with potentially broad bipartisan support. (They’re keeping the details under wraps until their rollout.) Unless their plan catches fire, it looks as though the week will end on a note signaling continued impasse: Another Senate vote on Friday in which almost all the Democrats vote in favor of, and almost all the Republicans vote against, raising taxes a smidge on millionaires to finance another year with $1,000-lower Social Security taxes for everyone else. But on either side there’s still not all that much sense of panic, or even suspense, about the ultimate outcome: A holiday-season package — with a price tag above $180 billion — that would extend (but not expand) the payroll tax cut, renew unemployment benefits and avert a 27 percent reduction in payments to doctors who take Medicare.
Reid’s latest plan is to pay for the continued payroll tax break by imposing a lower-than-before surtax of 1.9 percent on household earnings above $1 million beginning in 2013 — and ending after 10 years. He’s also come up with $38 billion by increasing fees that mortgage lenders pay to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and means testing jobless aid and food stamps to exclude millionaires. Except for the millionaire tax part, Reid’s plan is pretty close to something that would be acceptable as a starting point to the GOP leadership in the House — which would then want to add the "boiler MACT" and Keystone XL pipeline provisions.
OFF RAMP: Randy Babbitt probably won’t last the week as head of the FAA, and he’s almost certainly spent his last day wielding any federal authority. He’ll probably resign by tomorrow, before the “discussions with legal counsel” about his employment status reach the conclusion that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is justified in firing him. Babbitt was put on indefinite administrative leave yesterday, as soon as word reached DOT that he’d been arrested Saturday night on charges of drunken driving in the northern Virginia suburbs.
Deputy Administrator Michael Huerta is running he agency for now — and when Babbitt goes he’ll likely be tapped to be acting administrator through the end of next year. (Though Huerta, who’s running the troubled NextGen effort to reinvent the air traffic control system, is on generally good terms with Congress, there’s little incentive for Obama to tempt a confirmation fight for a job that’s really high-profile but might be open again in January 2013.) Lawmakers and the airline industry had almost nothing but good things to say about Babbitt — an Eastern pilot for 25 years and also president of the pilots' union — but his position has not become untenable, if for no other reason than LaHood has made a campaign against drunken driving one of the hallmarks of his tenure.
INSIDE SHIFT: Two big West Wing moves involving long-ago Capitol Hill staff power players are being rolled out more or less in tandem this week. Jennifer Palmieri, who’s now the top political person at the progressive Center for American Progress think tank, is headed back to the White House as deputy to Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer. (She toiled there for all eight years of the Clinton era, the last three as deputy press secretary — having entered the Clinton orbit as a senior aide to Leon Panetta back when he was making the switch from California congressman to OMB chief.) Palmieri was also DNC press secretary in 2002 and John Edwards’ spokeswoman in 2004. Phil Schiliro, meanwhile, is completing his slow fade out of the president’s inner circle; he’ll leave the White House payroll altogether at the end of the month, with no private-sector-landing-pad job announced. He’s been a special assistant with a hodgepodge portfolio this year — following two years of mixed results as the president’s top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, a job he got after decades as the right-hand man to Henry Waxman, another House Democrat from California.
— David Hawkings, editor
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
SUN JOURNAL NEW BERN--Letter to the Editor: Gingrich and immigration, by Edwin Vargas
November 30, 2011
As a political frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election, Newt Gingrich’s stance on immigration has something for everyone.
Due to the liberal media’s back and forth bashing on Gingrich’s stand on immigration here are the facts:
Under Gingrich, there would be no federal overhaul. The 1988 Simpson-Mazzoli Act on immigration barred employers from hiring undocumented immigrants and fortified security along the Mexican border. It also offered some amnesty to some undocumented workers. The bill did not diminish the flow of undocumented immigrants into this country, and it was seen as a failure by many.
The real road on immigration would take three paths under Gingrich: enforcement, legal path to citizenship, and eligibility.
Gingrich has advocated a double-down approach and enforcing current immigration laws by securing the border as the No. 1 priority and by using rapid response teams and predator drones to the total fence approach that currently has holes in it. We have enforcement laws on the books that our federal government does not abide by.
Gingrich has stated he would make some of the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States eligible for legal status. The immigrants who came here as children and later served in our military should have a path to legal status. The DREAM Act had this provision but it never passed into law.
Gingrich also has stated the requirements dictating who would be eligible: being self supporting and purchasing health care. If they are not on this path, the individuals would pay a fine.
Rep. Silver Reyes, D-Texas, made this statement, “In President Obama’s and my vision of America, families who have been here for 25 years, who have paid their taxes, who are integral parts of our communities and churches, should not be separated.”
From the looks of things, Newt Gingrich is on the right path to control illegal immigration by enforcement, legal path to citizenship and eligibility. If he is not caught up in the media meat grinder, this plan may have some real traction into controlling a problem that has gone on for decades. If we want to hand over the election to Barack Obama, the Republican candidate must walk a tightrope on immigration to be firm but fair. If we take the approach of deporting everyone who is illegal, Barack Obama will be reelected, end of the lesson.
Edwin Vargas, New Bern
As a political frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election, Newt Gingrich’s stance on immigration has something for everyone.
Due to the liberal media’s back and forth bashing on Gingrich’s stand on immigration here are the facts:
Under Gingrich, there would be no federal overhaul. The 1988 Simpson-Mazzoli Act on immigration barred employers from hiring undocumented immigrants and fortified security along the Mexican border. It also offered some amnesty to some undocumented workers. The bill did not diminish the flow of undocumented immigrants into this country, and it was seen as a failure by many.
The real road on immigration would take three paths under Gingrich: enforcement, legal path to citizenship, and eligibility.
Gingrich has advocated a double-down approach and enforcing current immigration laws by securing the border as the No. 1 priority and by using rapid response teams and predator drones to the total fence approach that currently has holes in it. We have enforcement laws on the books that our federal government does not abide by.
Gingrich has stated he would make some of the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States eligible for legal status. The immigrants who came here as children and later served in our military should have a path to legal status. The DREAM Act had this provision but it never passed into law.
Gingrich also has stated the requirements dictating who would be eligible: being self supporting and purchasing health care. If they are not on this path, the individuals would pay a fine.
Rep. Silver Reyes, D-Texas, made this statement, “In President Obama’s and my vision of America, families who have been here for 25 years, who have paid their taxes, who are integral parts of our communities and churches, should not be separated.”
From the looks of things, Newt Gingrich is on the right path to control illegal immigration by enforcement, legal path to citizenship and eligibility. If he is not caught up in the media meat grinder, this plan may have some real traction into controlling a problem that has gone on for decades. If we want to hand over the election to Barack Obama, the Republican candidate must walk a tightrope on immigration to be firm but fair. If we take the approach of deporting everyone who is illegal, Barack Obama will be reelected, end of the lesson.
Edwin Vargas, New Bern
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/gingrich-102463-immigration-letter.html
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
They're at it again! Dems are using a page from the Gephart playbook to demonize GOP Medicare plan.
Posted by Arthur Bruce Robertson on May 31, 2011
http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A942934
I first became aware of the cunning manner in which facts are distorted for political purposes back in the 1994 election cycle. Then Missouri Democratic Congressman Dick Gephart demonstrated a mastery for twisting the truth by mis-characterizing it altogether. When Newt Gingrich introduced his "Contract with America" concept for the GOP platform that year, Gephart craftily destroyed what could have been one of the best programs to improve America ever conceived. I found myself frustrated and enraged at the lies and mis-characterizations Gephart kept pounding to defeat Newt's excellent ideas.
I was further dismayed at the seeming lack of active 'defense' offfered by other Republicans, who should have stepped forward to defend against Gephart's oft-repeated lies. I was also amazed at the lack of accountability required by the 'media'. It seemed that regardless of the outrageous claims made by Gephart, no one in the media challenged him to back them up with fact or example. Watching all this political gamesmanship play out is what actually caused me to start paying attention to politics and government generally. The effectiveness of lying, fear mongering, and demogogery proved too much for Newt's Contract With America, especially given that virtually no one was making any effort to defend it or clearify its intentions and benefits.
Today, I am watching history repeat itself, as the Republican plan for an intelligent and necessary re-structuring of Medicare is being assaulted with lies, fear mongering, and demogogery just like the Contract With America was seventeen years ago. Congressman Paul Ryan has stepped forward to boldly address the crisis which looming bankruptcy of Medicare poses. He has offered a simple and effective solution to assure future generations of retiring Americans that healthcare will be available to them when those who are now 55 reach 65 in 2022.
The plan involves ending the fee for service arrangement of today, which has been proven to be horrendously inefficient and fraught with waste and fraud. In its place, the government would simply provide the money for seniors to purchase health insurance in the open market. This plan would utilize the competitive forces at work between the various insurance companies to create a better product at a lower cost. By moving seniors into the private market for their healthcare, the climate for waste, fraud and abuse would be eliminated, while giving Seniors more choices. A much better way of handling the healthcare needs of retiring Americans, while saving taxpayers billions. With the budget deficit and National debt under discussion, Ryan's plan, endorsed by most Republican members of Congress, offers one giant step toward fiscal responsibility and a balanced budget. A good thing for America, right? Of course it is, but the wicked Democrats can't stand it.
No, they must seize the opportunity to politicize Ryan's plan, painting it as 'doomsday' for Seniors and for one purpose: If they can scare Seniors and others approaching retirement into believing the Ryan plan is not in their best interest they hope to turn them against not only the plan, but against Republicans generally, and secure them as Democratic voters in 2012. By lies and mis-characterizations Democrats hope to frighten voters into believing Republicans are scoundrels and Democrats deserve their support. Even though Democrats have not offered any solutions of their own, other than "Obamacare", they want to destroy the Ryan plan before it gets traction in the Congress or with the public at large. Regardless of its merits, they would use lies and scare tactics to defeat it, simply to convince more voters to vote Democratic in 2012. That is not only dirty, it is patently unpatriotic!
Terms like, "kill Medicare", "destroy Medicare as we know it", "hand Seniors over to the evil Insurance industry", "deny Seniors that which they've spent their whole lives building" and other such gross misrepresentations are already having their effect on uninformed and gullible Seniors. Witness a recent State election in which the Democrat won in a formerly very Republican stronghold. If Republicans nationwide don't take action to properly define and frame the Ryan plan for Seniors, I fear for its success. If Democrats succeed with their scare tactics, based on lies and mis-representations, we may once again witness the counter-productive results of the Gephart stategy. Dems will do their best to make the 2012 election a referendum on Ryan's plan to reduce Federal spending, balance the budget and save Medicare from bankruptcy. And they will be using the Gephart playbook all the way to election day.
http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A942934
I first became aware of the cunning manner in which facts are distorted for political purposes back in the 1994 election cycle. Then Missouri Democratic Congressman Dick Gephart demonstrated a mastery for twisting the truth by mis-characterizing it altogether. When Newt Gingrich introduced his "Contract with America" concept for the GOP platform that year, Gephart craftily destroyed what could have been one of the best programs to improve America ever conceived. I found myself frustrated and enraged at the lies and mis-characterizations Gephart kept pounding to defeat Newt's excellent ideas.
I was further dismayed at the seeming lack of active 'defense' offfered by other Republicans, who should have stepped forward to defend against Gephart's oft-repeated lies. I was also amazed at the lack of accountability required by the 'media'. It seemed that regardless of the outrageous claims made by Gephart, no one in the media challenged him to back them up with fact or example. Watching all this political gamesmanship play out is what actually caused me to start paying attention to politics and government generally. The effectiveness of lying, fear mongering, and demogogery proved too much for Newt's Contract With America, especially given that virtually no one was making any effort to defend it or clearify its intentions and benefits.
Today, I am watching history repeat itself, as the Republican plan for an intelligent and necessary re-structuring of Medicare is being assaulted with lies, fear mongering, and demogogery just like the Contract With America was seventeen years ago. Congressman Paul Ryan has stepped forward to boldly address the crisis which looming bankruptcy of Medicare poses. He has offered a simple and effective solution to assure future generations of retiring Americans that healthcare will be available to them when those who are now 55 reach 65 in 2022.
The plan involves ending the fee for service arrangement of today, which has been proven to be horrendously inefficient and fraught with waste and fraud. In its place, the government would simply provide the money for seniors to purchase health insurance in the open market. This plan would utilize the competitive forces at work between the various insurance companies to create a better product at a lower cost. By moving seniors into the private market for their healthcare, the climate for waste, fraud and abuse would be eliminated, while giving Seniors more choices. A much better way of handling the healthcare needs of retiring Americans, while saving taxpayers billions. With the budget deficit and National debt under discussion, Ryan's plan, endorsed by most Republican members of Congress, offers one giant step toward fiscal responsibility and a balanced budget. A good thing for America, right? Of course it is, but the wicked Democrats can't stand it.
No, they must seize the opportunity to politicize Ryan's plan, painting it as 'doomsday' for Seniors and for one purpose: If they can scare Seniors and others approaching retirement into believing the Ryan plan is not in their best interest they hope to turn them against not only the plan, but against Republicans generally, and secure them as Democratic voters in 2012. By lies and mis-characterizations Democrats hope to frighten voters into believing Republicans are scoundrels and Democrats deserve their support. Even though Democrats have not offered any solutions of their own, other than "Obamacare", they want to destroy the Ryan plan before it gets traction in the Congress or with the public at large. Regardless of its merits, they would use lies and scare tactics to defeat it, simply to convince more voters to vote Democratic in 2012. That is not only dirty, it is patently unpatriotic!
Terms like, "kill Medicare", "destroy Medicare as we know it", "hand Seniors over to the evil Insurance industry", "deny Seniors that which they've spent their whole lives building" and other such gross misrepresentations are already having their effect on uninformed and gullible Seniors. Witness a recent State election in which the Democrat won in a formerly very Republican stronghold. If Republicans nationwide don't take action to properly define and frame the Ryan plan for Seniors, I fear for its success. If Democrats succeed with their scare tactics, based on lies and mis-representations, we may once again witness the counter-productive results of the Gephart stategy. Dems will do their best to make the 2012 election a referendum on Ryan's plan to reduce Federal spending, balance the budget and save Medicare from bankruptcy. And they will be using the Gephart playbook all the way to election day.
Friday, February 25, 2011
NC RENEGADE: IMPEACHMENT?
February 25, 2011
Newt Gingrich has outlined grounds for initiating impeachment hearings against the president for violating his oath of office. Mr. Obama already has been backed into a corner and now we will see how he and the labor unions react to another threat to the demolition of their power base. The perfect storm is upon him and absolute, corrupt power never goes quietly into the night; this is even more dangerous since his foundation comes out of the Chicago political machine and the church teachings of the Rev. Wright.
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/impeachment/
Newt Gingrich has outlined grounds for initiating impeachment hearings against the president for violating his oath of office. Mr. Obama already has been backed into a corner and now we will see how he and the labor unions react to another threat to the demolition of their power base. The perfect storm is upon him and absolute, corrupt power never goes quietly into the night; this is even more dangerous since his foundation comes out of the Chicago political machine and the church teachings of the Rev. Wright.
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/impeachment/
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