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AP - The House has approved a $410 billion bill that boosts spending on domestic programs, bristles with congressional earmarks and chips away at policies left behind by the Bush administration. The vote Wednesday was 245-178, largely along party lines. It clears the way for the Senate to consider its own version of the measure. Read entire story.

Obama Is Trying To Abolish Debate

Obama’s Reichstag Fire and The Coming Enabling Act
By
Don White

The Republican National Party has called the Democrats’ $787B “stimulus” plan rushed through Congress last week and signed by the president four days later “Barak Obama’s Reichstag Fire.”

Obama and his gang are students of history. Historians point to the Reichstag Fire that gutted the German Parliament house in Berlin on February 27, 1933 as the turning point for the Nazis in gaining enough power to pass what was called an “Enabling Act” or the power to suspend parliament.

The Enabling Act allowed for the establishment of Nazi Germany. When will things be bad enough for Obama to get his enabling act to suspend our freedoms?

Have you noticed that Obama hasn’t smiled much since coming to power? It’s all a ploy. He has done his best to make the financial crisis look insoluble by normal means. His purpose is to, first, spend as much money as possible to pay back campaign promises. That’s where the “bums rush” $787B is going.

He doesn’t want the problem to get solved too soon because a recovering country would spoil everything – his chance to enslave American taxpayers and generations to come. Have you noticed, he has held back a real stimulus bill – one Treasury Secretary Timoth Gaithner promises is still to come? There will be a second – and maybe a third -- so called “stimulus” bill of trillion-dollar proportions. That will be the real bill that should have been passed first, because only then will it address the core problems of getting America back on its feet.

When you have a hostage congress, like the Democrat congress, you may not need “an enabling act” to pass freedom-stifling bills.

But Obama wants to serve more than two terms. He wants three or four or five, and that will take an enabling act, because right now we have term limits for presidents. His next act has to be to eliminate term limits. That will come when terrorists are at our door, after they fire some missiles at Washington or other American cities.

So it isn’t in Obama’s interest to fight terrorism like Bush did. He wants porous borders with Mexico, despite the fact that Mexico is near a state of total political collapse, with the drug cartel about to take over. When that happens, as it surely will, how do you keep drug cartel terrorists out of our country? You don’t, not with the cavalier way Obama, has reacted to our border emergency. Expect the Democrats to ask for an additional trillion dollars to bail out Mexico’s drug cartel government.

Whether the Reichstag fire was caused by the Nazis themselves or by the Communist Party which at that time had 17% of the German vote is unimportant for this discussion. But history repeats itself. Just as Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Omanuel called the financial meltdown an opportunity to do things not otherwise possible, Hitler’s words echo the same sentiments in 1933. Hitler called the fire a "sign from heaven", and claimed the fire was a Fanal (signal) meant to mark the beginning of a Communist Putsch (coup).
Hitler was the Chancellor. His aim was first to acquire a National Socialist majority in order to secure his position and eliminate Communist opposition. Obama’s aim today is to create a one-party system in America and to remove the Republican Party opposition. Hitler hoped to abolish democracy in a more or less legal fashion by passing the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act was a special law which gave the Chancellor the power to pass laws by decree without the involvement of the Reichstag
The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were beginning a 'plot' against the German government. Historians disagree as to whether van der Lubbe acted alone or if the Nazis were involved. The responsibility for the Reichstag Fire remains an ongoing topic of debate and research.
Governments love to declare their countries in a “state of national emergency.” That, alone, eliminates much political opposition. But the money the U.S. is spending on the first of Obama’s rescues is meant to cement support for his re-election. The only way to get a two-thirds majority to declare a national emergency is to have 60 Senate votes. This time Obama bought off three vulnerable and very liberal Republicans, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow from Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Specter got what he wanted out of the deal, $6 Billion for stem cell research, which conservatives and others oppose. Once again, our Constitutional rights of debate in chambers were circumvented.
Watch out, more funny business is coming. Soon, Obama will find a way to get around the Constitutional provisions making us a free people, including freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. Our voting rights have been severely jeopardized with the $3 billion going to ACORN for more Democrat style ”community organizing.” Owning guns will be next, and that will be where citizens stand in large numbers openly rebel.
The day after the fire, Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree, signed into law by Hindenburg using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany and was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause. Obama has said he will not invoke the so-called :”fairness doctrine”, but don’t believe him. He won’t initiate it, but you can believe the Democrat Congress will and he will make it look like they forced him to administer this law against his will. Watch out, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanity, Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Neal Boortz, and Bill O’Reilly. It’s coming.
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Major Indexes Fall to 1997 Levels
Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday.

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Plan to Buy Foreclosures Meets with Criticism
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Tlhe Politics of Money

As Republicans see President Barak Obama stumble with each passing day on the zillions of dollars he "wastefully" throws on financial flames in the form of bailouts and stimulus bills, their eyes have got to be on the 2010 congressional races and the 2012 presidential race in three years.

Mitt Romney has been actively campaigning for Republican candidates in places like Virginia. Beyond him, we don't see much happening for Republicans to regain control of Congress. Why isn't John McCain more active in this arena? We can't go through another time where Democrats control Congress with Obama in the White House. It's an active recipe for fraud and disaster.

Assuming Obama's approval ratings plummet further as he continues to focus on spending vast amounts of money on the socialization of America, Republicans become emboldened, especially when it appears he is fighting a gas fire with water and everything he does seems to spread the flames of failure because the economy will not come around soon. Republicans know better. This is a recession, let capitalism run its course. Let GM and Chrysler fail. Get rid of the excess we're paying to have these unions hang around.

Someone last night on the Glenn Beck Show estimated unions add $1,600 to the price we pay for each American car. Union people, it was estimated, receive average annual pay of $152,000 per year, including benefits.

Is it any wonder why the unions, via GM and Chrysler, are clammering for more money than the $17 billion we've already given those two car makers? They want another $23 billion this year. Then what will it be next year, and the next and the next? When will the Democrats wake up? We must let them fail, that's what capitalism is about. Stop spending money on failing entities. Their management and unions aren't worth it.

We could still be involved with eight or ten percent unemployment in four years and that bodes badly for Obama.

But can Republicans match the vast amounts Obama spent on the last election? The president raised roughly $750 million during the 2008 campaign, and it's almost certain that he will raise $1 billion (and possibly MUCH more) for his 2012 re-election race.

That means to avoid being totally swamped by Obama financially (as McCain was in 2008) the GOP nominee must demonstrate a national fundraising base that can deliver at least $500 million and probably closer to $750 million for the November 2012 election.

One attractive candidate the nation is watching is Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisana. He is young, handsome, highly intelligent and extremely capable. He raised $3.5 million in 2008, apparently looking to his re-election bid in 2011. Do these results mean that he can raise those huge sums in a few years time necessary to mount a presidential campaign?

No. But it does indicate a significant level of excitement for him among donors in Louisiana and nationally, an excitement likely to increase after he gives the Republican response to Obama's Congressional address next Tuesday leading into Jindal's [State of the Union] response.

These numbers show his already huge appeal to Republicans in Louisiana and nationally," said Phil Musser, a Republican consultant and former executive director of the Republican Governors Association. "They also show he's got a solid, disciplined staff in place and is committed to -- and is executing -- a strategy to organize and monetize that interest."

Jindal has played coy to date on a 2012 race, insisting that he is focused on winning re-election in 2011. We believe him. But, assuming he wins that race -- and wins it easily -- he will have to look seriously at whether or not a national bid makes sense. That decision is still a ways off (and budgetary struggles in Louisiana could complicate his glide path) but with his moves over the first few months of 2009, Jindal is putting himself in a place where he will make a decision on a presidential run from a position of strength rather than one of weakness.

At least one reader believes all this emphasis on candidate money raised is wrong. Instead, they should be "reporting on the candidates' positions on important issues of the day. American Democracy is in grave trouble,and a large part of the reason is the political obligation that comes with accepting donations from private entities. Until the presidency can no longer be 'bought,' America won't be able to elect the best man or woman for the job." Phil Gordon

My response to that is that candidates flip-flop too much to count on any stances they take during the campaign. Obama is the worst. He promised transparency and he gives us a 1078-page bill demanding it be read in 12 hours. No senator or representative read the entire bill. No voter got to see it until it was almost passed. Where's the transparency?

He promised no more earmarks or playing favorites with taxpayer money. The recently passed $787 billion bill had a lot of pork in it -- things that should have been openly debated like Harry Reid's fast-transit rail system from LA to Vegas, medical reform, and other favorite projects of special interest folks.

We had better watch Obama closely. Where did he get most of his election money? He claims it was from small internet donations. No one believes that. The more likely senerio is several rich folks like George Soros loaned him millions of dollars and Obama's people divided it up into small pieces, putting millions of anonymous donor names on it. Many of the people on those lists don't exist or are cartoon characters.

It's a known fact that very little of Obama's election funding was verified. Because of the financial bailouts, Obama has billions of dollars in non-designated funds that, presumably, he can spend any way he wants without Congressional oversight. When he pays back his Soros loans, he may be tempted to use taxpayer bailout money. He wouldn't be that crass and bold, would he?

Yes. He believes in doing things the Chicago way, and we all know what way that is. The Federal election machinery is so lax I doubt anyone will ever do anything about this kind of election fraud, especially while he's president. And I'm talking about the election fraud Obama has already perpetrated, not the new one of using bailout money to pay back Soros which could only compound the problem. Obama wants to get so insulated, so powerful that in four years no one can oust him. His dictator-like tendencies will be strengthened if he has any amount of success in extinguishing the financial fires in four years. Dream on, Hussein.

The FEC (Federal Election Commission) was established by Congress, post-Watergate,

"... to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) -- the statute that governs the financing of federal elections. The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.

The FEC is one of the most inept commissions ever. It is either moribund due to political maneuvering or stupidity. A man whose name starts with the letter 'O' should go to jail for all of his election finance fraud, but no one seems interested in investigating it further. To muddy the water further and create opportunity for more fraud, Obama is now taking over the duties of what used to be a non-partisan activity to avoid political jerrymandering -- that of setting congressional boundaries in each state to maximize the number of democrat seats.

Barack Obama championed a new campaign finance law last year that can't be implemented until we get some new FEC appointees confirmed. Democrats in Congress frustrated Bush's suggested appointees. The new law would require disclosure of "bundled" campaign contributions from lobbyists. Obama and his Senate colleague Russ Feingold say the bundling disclosure requirement would "go farther than any other provision in the lobbying reform bill to shine a spotlight on the dangerous connection between money and legislation." Uh, huh...sure it would, but I doubt Obama wants light shed on his shady dealings.

How about Mitt Romney? He has the ability to raise large sums of money. No one knows if by 2011 he will even want to make himself available for a presidential run, however.

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Posted Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at 6:20 AM ET President Obama appears to have fallen into a pattern: Every victory is followed by a setback. The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with Republican Sen. Judd Gregg withdrawing as the nominee for commerce secretary. Gregg said he "made a mistake" accepting the nomination because he had "irresolvable conflicts" with the administration, specifically citing the stimulus package and the handling of the census. The White House was surprised by the decision that made Gregg the third prospective cabinet secretary to bow out from consideration. The Post notes that "nearly half a dozen" of the White House's top apointees have had to withdraw or faced "embarrassing scrutiny" in the past few weeks. "Since the president took office last month, not a week has passed without the White House responding to a personnel crisis," notes the NYT.

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Now Obama Is Spending $2 Trillion, Not Just One

. Beware: The Financial Sky Is Falling On America!

There's frightening news today of what Obama and his Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have up their sleeves.

They are not content to spend just $1.2 Trillion ($838 billion plus interest),

now they want to cause further reverberations and double the ante. Two times $1.2 trillion is $2.4 trillion. Add that total to the Bush bailout of $700 billion plus interest and you have three and one-half trillion dollars. Wow! Where's it all coming from, China?

I was listening to comedian-commentator Dennis Miller yesterday on the radio and you should see what he has become. One day he’s a staunch conservative, but now he’s afraid that Obama' so-called Fair Plan could take conservative talk-show hosts off the air. Worst of all, Miller is too frightened now to even take what he naively calls “strident” calls. I recall someone during the presidential campaign who wouldn't let an old lady call Obama what he is, an Arab terrorist, and where is he now? Back in his Senate seat he should have relinquished long ago, and his name's John McCain.

I'll go one further. Obama is an Arab economic terrorist bent on destroying America.

If you’re a conservative and you care about your country and the terrible turn of events that are unfolding financially, don’t listen to Dennis Miller just like you shouldn't have listened to McCain or voted for him. Tune in on Fox News’ Glenn Beck and Shawn Hanity.

The Height of Insanity

But the double-wammy financial spending plan unveiled today has to be the height of insanity. Who’s going to pay back this horrendous financial load Obama is putting on the taxpayers. It’s our kids and theirs, seven generations down.

This “genius” plan is sure to fail and backfire. When it does, I hope the Republicans and conservatives will be there to pick up the pieces. I hope none of them vote for it. Senators Olympia Snow, Sharon Collins (both of Maine) and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania are anti-Republicans. Why they would vote with Obama on this insanity, no one has revealed.

I’m wondering what Pennsylvania and Maine get out of this? What’s the payback?

Obama, they say, is keeping up his “dawn-to-dusk effort to sell his plan by flying to Fort Myers, FL, a city the reporters said was especially hard hit by foreclosures. Let him go. I don’t wish him well.

He’s not an economist, but he uses his bully pulpit like he was the smartest man in the world. He relies on Economist Milton Friedman’s views. But when you ask other "smart people" – other economist -- they will disagree with Friedman nine times out of ten. There are as many views on the best way out of this as there are states in the Union.

Obama says he will use the money to help “thaw” credit markets. Why aren’t they “thawed” by now. Banks have all our taxpayer money already.

Yet, the rumors I hear from real people who have tried to latch onto something nice for half price, one of those foreclosures, is that the banks don’t really want to sell them at reasonable discount prices. And most of the foreclosed properties are not on the market yet.

What’s reasonable? I’d say 50% off. Yet, they persist in dropping the price only 20% to 30%. It’s like diamond sales. The brokers put on the market only 25% of their inventory. If they flooded the market with all of it the prices would plummet. Well, it’s our money that the banks are using, and these prices should be allowed to plummet. We bailed out the banks, didn’t we, many times over?

What’s the new trillion dollars about? It includes a public-private partnership of over $1 trillion to help strengthen banks. Geithner promised the bailout plan would lead to “cleaner and stronger” bank balance sheets by imposing tough new standards and using government and private incentives to get the banks lending again.

Yes, we all understand banks need to lend again. But what’s stopping them right now? Why do we need to give them more money and incentives? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve about had it with banks? They shouldn’t have all our money. We should have just let them fail for all the good they are currently doing.

Stay tuned. Treasury is going to hype this over the top. They will be on TV every day until the $835 billion is law, giving us little hints about what the new trillion will do for us – as if we haven’t been done in already? They still haven’t spent $350 billion of Bush’s $700 billion bailout, rescue plan, or whatever you call it. Where's that going, to Kenja, Africa? Actually, Obama has a free hand in spending it. Congress already appropriated it last year without strings.

This new trillion envisions big private investors buying more than $1 trillion in troubled assets from the banks.

What are those “assets?”

They’re the houses that they should be selling the public at ten cents on the dollar. Instead, they’re going to sell them to some big spenders like Donald Trump and George Soros and they'll turn around and offer them to us for seventy-five cents on the dollar. How fair is that?

The administration announced this program to create a partnership between the government and the private sector -- Obama's buddies, his big campaign donors who broke the laws giving him millions at a time which he reported as small donations from individuals -- to get private investors to buy toxic mortgage-backed securities that are currently infecting the balance sheets of banks.

Congressional aides who were briefed on this plan said that Treasury officials said it could involve between $250 billion and $500 billion in government support. In his prime-time news conference, Obama depicted his administration's rewrite of the bank bailout effort as a template for "restoring market confidence." Then someone asked when this spending will all end.

Here’s what this non-economist, Obama, had to say:

The AP said Obama brushed aside the question on whether his administration would seek more funds for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. "We don't know yet if we'll need additional money, or how much additional money we'll need," Obama said.

This bailout plan is already riddled with fraud and poorly planned concepts.

America first! I say. We are owed a good deal on those deeply troubled mortgages. Or haven't you heard? The bailouts took taxpayer money.

But no, it won't work for taxpayers to end up with houses for their kids. There are enough private individuals who would like to invest ten cents on the dollar for their children so that they can afford a house, but apparently Obama is not going to look out for the little guy in all of this. Oh, no! It’s payback time for his big-time election campaign donors.

Watch out, America. You’re being given the shaft again, this time by a man you should remember not to vote for in 2012.

The Big Test Is On! It's About testing Obama's Mettle

Here it comes! I knew it was coming -- the beginning of Russian moves to oust the United States out of Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan.

But that may not be the real immediate goal of the Soviets. It may be that by buying out the president of Kyrgyzstan and getting him to order the American base in his country closed, Russia could be in a good position to push America around.

Vlad Putin is smart. Is Barak Obama his equal? We will soon know. Putin wants to force us out of the lease on that Kyrgystan air base -- and we beleive they have upped the ante. We pay something like $150 million a year for that lease.

Perhaps Putin offered Kyrgyzstan $200 million. His chess game is set to make us feel obliged to go to Moscow and negotiate, not only use of the air base, but some far more important deals -- particularly that missile defense ring that is so close to Russian territory it makes Putin nervous, but which could be a valuable defense for countries like Poland and the Czeck Republic against military incursions from Iran and Russia onto foreign soil.

Georgia wishes it had been both a member of Nato last year when Russia invaded that country and that it had a defense missile system.

Russian officials took pains on Wednesday to reassure President Obama that they hoped to cooperate with him in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But the conciliatory words sounded peculiar beside the blunt fact of the base closure, which seemed to communicate that American plans in the region should be coordinated with Moscow.


“The calculation behind the Russian move is that the Americans have not so many alternatives,” said Fyodor A. Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Politics. “If you need something there, you should go not to Bishkek but to Moscow.”

A New York Times story said that Russian leaders also hope to secure concessions from Mr. Obama on a variety of issues, among them planned missile defense facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland, revamped security structures in Europe, and a renegotiation of the Start I arms treaty.

Utah Freshman Congressman, Jacob Chaffets, Sleeps On A Cot

CNN is running an ongoing column by Utah freshman representative
of which I will share with you. He sleeps on a cot in his office to save $1500 a month and avoid commuting time and expense while he's away from his home and family in Utah. Read the excerpt, then click to the story.
Over the past several weeks, the 22 Republican freshmen have been building our friendships.
Our bond is tight, we are all working hard and we are having fun, too. This week, House Republicans met with President Obama and debated the stimulus bill. I voted against it. Our national debt has increased an average of $2.8 billion per day since January 2007. We must cut spending, not increase spending, for the long-term health of our economy.
One day I went up to see my colleague Chris Lee's (R-New York) office. He's on the seventh floor of the Longworth Building and he had me crawl through the window in his office out to the balcony for a wonderful view of the Capitol. We talked about putting a barbecue out there in the summer and having the Republican freshman class over for some burgers.
Being a member of Congress is nothing short of amazing, but the worst part is not being able to go home to my family at night. I miss my wife, Julie, and our kids, Max, Ellis, and Kate. They are in Utah and I am here in Washington four nights per week.

It is an honor to serve. Now that we are settling in, the real work has begun. The noise in the hallway is the least of my problems. I've got my cot, now let's figure out how to get
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jason Chaffetz.