Well I think I did this a few months ago, and when I find an email of interest I try to pass it on. So basically the premise of this diary is to inform the community as to the communication that is going on the wingnut side of reality. So, as if we didn't already know, they are lining up against the stimulus bill.
Which apparently is the Conservative Underground Headquarters. Or Headquarters of the Conservative Underground. Or Underground for the Conservative Headquarters. I mean they all sound silly. One would be an underground lair when we all know they reside in high rises built on the backs of working people. One would pretend that the Conservative movement isn't being propagated by the MSM media and Rush L. And one would be a subway system. Probably a privately owned subway, free market and all.
- Fairness Doctrine on Steroids is On the Way
The evidence is mounting day by day that the left is getting ready to use the new power they have in the Obama Administration and Congress to reinstate something similar to The Fairness Doctrine.
- Obama Is Wrong. Radical Tax Cutting IS The Answer.
Barack Obama has been very consistent about several elements of his storyline. It has three basic parts: First, the financial system just needs a little confidence. Second, the economy just needs a huge dose of spending on left-wing priorities. Third, and key to the point here, tax cuts don't work.
- The Israeli Elections: A Primer
Netanyahu, even from second place, may be called upon to form the next Israeli government.
- Tim Geithner Fails
And That's Just the Democrat Perspective
- Will House Democrats Ignore the Transparency Measure they Unanimously Voted to Approve?
236 Democrats voted in favor of a motion to give the public 48 hours to inspect the final Porkulus legislation before voting. Not one voted against it.
- Jindal to Give State of the Union Response
The nation will hear from a fresh face who is deeply conservative and well liked.
- There's More Than Meets The Eye With the Caterpillar CEO
He's a member of the President's economic advisory team.
- "Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be held without trial"
No, seriously.
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- Fairness Doctrine on Steroids is On the Way
The evidence is mounting day by day that the left is getting ready to use the new power they have in the Obama Administration and Congress to reinstate something similar to The Fairness Doctrine.
Two Senators recently expressed an interest in providing government mandated "balance" to talk radio. Liberal Democrats are preparing to use the full force of the federal government to attack conservative talk radio, especially leaders like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Matt Drudge, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and other conservative/libertarian leaders. Liberal Senators will use the roadmap written by the left wing Center for American Progress I refer to as the Fairness Doctrine on Steroids that would implement a comprehensive stifling of conservative talk radio. The lefty's idea is different from the fairness doctrine, yet it would be a more effective tool to stifle conservatives on the radio. So much for the First Amendment.
The solution they propose includes three specific government actions for a de facto nationalization of talk radio:
1. Limit the number of stations one evil conservative company can own both locally and nationally;
2. Shorten license terms so they can use government pressure to get snoozers like Bill Press on more radio stations; and,
3. Require that these broadcasters prove that they operate in the "public interest" including the government mandated reporting requirements that the content of the programs contain both popular conservative viewpoints and unpopular liberal viewpoints.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- Obama Is Wrong. Radical Tax Cutting IS The Answer.
Barack Obama has been very consistent about several elements of his storyline. It has three basic parts: First, the financial system just needs a little confidence. Second, the economy just needs a huge dose of spending on left-wing priorities. Third, and key to the point here, tax cuts don't work.
The President's people are hoping against hope that a big pulse of spending will keep us from tipping over the edge into full-blown deflation. There is a deep error baked into this, which is this: the deflation is already here. We shouldn't be pursuing counter-cyclical macro-policy at this point. Rather, we should be looking for ways to keep individuals from hitting the wall, where they face the choice of making their mortgage or credit-card payments, and buying food.
Americans figured out months ago that they should be paying down their debt. There's almost a sixth sense for when job losses will increase, and salaries and wages will fall even for those who don't lose their jobs. This "paradox of thrift" absolutely will result in a weaker economy, but the Administration needs to face the fact that there's nothing they can do about this.
Instead, they need to figure out how to support the people who are desperately scrambling to pay down their debts. This is a way to directly avoid the deflationary spiral.
The standard argument against cutting taxes in a recession is that people who receive extra money will tend to save it and pay down debt, whereas countercyclical economic dogma says that you have to spend more, rather than save. That's what Obama is talking about when he says that tax cuts aren't the answer.
But tax cuts actually are the answer. The economic weakness is a forgone conclusion, because it results from de-leveraging. You can't put that genie back in the bottle.
The most radical, and effective, thing we could do for the economy right now is this: Stop collecting all forms of Federal business, income and payroll tax. EVERY PENNY OF IT. RIGHT NOW.
Gasp! Yes, I said it, and I meant it. Go on an absolute, 100% Federal tax holiday. That's a real shot in the arm that would suddenly inflate the economy by a solid $1.5 trillion or more per year.
Are you worried about the resulting fiscal deficits? Don't be. There is a huge amount of demand for debt from global investors, and the credit crunch has blown a huge hole in private debt formation. That leaves a lot of room for the government to borrow more.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- The Israeli Elections: A Primer
Netanyahu, even from second place, may be called upon to form the next Israeli government.
First and foremost, and for reasons too numerous to be entered into here, Israel has no constitution. Its political system, like so many things here, has been constructed on the fly, and is essentially a largely improvised combination of extreme parliamentarianism and the proportional voting system. What this means in plain English is that all votes in a national election are cast in order to determine the makeup of Israel's unicameral legislature, the Knesset. Its members are not selected individually, or by regionally-based elections. All votes are cast nationally, and for political parties only - i.e. Kadima, Likud, Labor, etc. - which field lists of candidates who will be given a Knesset seat, or not, according to the percentage of the vote each party receives.
In short, if a party receives ten seats, the first ten names on its list will sit in the next Knesset. After consultation with the other party leaders, the party with the largest number of seats is, usually, called upon by the president - a largely symbolic office in Israel - to form the next government, which must be composed of a bloc of parties which control a majority of the Knesset, i.e., at least 61 seats out of the total of 120.
This process is further complicated by the fact that no single political party in Israeli history has ever attained the 61 seats necessary to form a government on its own. As a result, an Israeli election is often a preliminary round, to be followed by weeks of protracted negotiations with other parties in the hopes of forming a viable coalition.
This system has its drawbacks, of course. Almost by definition, it cannot produce a majority party, and often cannot produce anything resembling a stable government. Coalitions often depend upon the participation of one or two second-tier parties who can come and go as they please, potentially bringing the government down with them. The constant horse-trading required to create and maintain coalitions can have equally deleterious effects, as important ministries are often handed out for purely political reasons, the most recent example being ex-Labor party chairman Amir Peretz, who received the defense ministry, a role for which he was grossly unsuited and unqualified.
SOURCE
http://newledger.com/...
- Tim Geithner Fails
And That's Just the Democrat Perspective
"We need more details from Treasury on how exactly it plans to remove bad assets while protecting the taxpayer," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told the New York Times. "We have zombie banks that are weighed down because their liabilities exceed their assets. Without a precise mechanism for addressing toxic assets, it will be difficult to increase lending."
When even John Kerry thinks you are light on details, you've got problems. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are equally underwhelmed.
A's surround themselves with A's. B's surround themselves with C's.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- Will House Democrats Ignore the Transparency Measure they Unanimously Voted to Approve?
236 Democrats voted in favor of a motion to give the public 48 hours to inspect the final Porkulus legislation before voting. Not one voted against it.
Despite this, House Democrats are preparing to ignore the motion they voted for in order to pass this spending bill as quickly as possible.
A House contact told me via email:
"[The motion to instruct] is not legally binding - motions to instruct are often ignored by Democratic conferees - but that is primarily because they believe they can get away with doing so in the court of public opinion.
"The bottom line is that they all voted for it yesterday, and if they opt to ignore it today by refusing to allow a 48-hour online review before a vote, it is because they are betting that their duplicity will not be noticed by their constituents."
That sounds about right for this crowd.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- Jindal to Give State of the Union Response
The nation will hear from a fresh face who is deeply conservative and well liked.
Technically, President Obama will not be giving a 'State of the Union' address. In the year of a president's inauguration, he typically delivers an address that resembles the SoTU in all respects, except it comes in February rather than January. Jindal will be responding to this message from President Obama.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- There's More Than Meets The Eye With the Caterpillar CEO
He's a member of the President's economic advisory team.
Until President Obama bragged to the AP today that Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens allegedly promised to rehire "some" laid off Caterpillar workers if the "stimulus" bill Obama so desperately wants is passed into law, no one knew Owens was on Obama's economic advisory team.
Convenient, isn't it, that a member of Obama's own economic board - though the AP is not identifying him as such - is allegedly endorsing his spending plan.
SOURCE
http://www.redstate.com/...
- "Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be held without trial"
No, seriously.
Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners.
She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges.
Never mind that Barack Obama said otherwise on the campaign trail.
SOURCE
http://www.latimes.com/...
Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com
I'll be honest, I am from Mass. I don't think my Senator was ever "going wobbly on the stimulus" I think my senators have been pretty firm.
So yeah, thats what redstate has been spewing. Hopefully these won't expose my identity to the red(state) army. But maybe that'd be a good thing because even opening these emails makes me feel dirty.
Anyone can do this, I just thought I'd post it so you wouldn't have to click their links.