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The Democrat party, drenched in the blood of slavery, apologizes for it but refuses to acknowledge THEIR role

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 29 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party at June 23rd, 2009 - 10:23 pm

And of course, they fail to point that out as the senate passes a bill apologizing for slavery. Think calls for reparations aren’t far behind?

Great piece by former San Diego mayor Roger Hedgecock of KOGO radio in San Diego on WND…

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, “You wonder why we didn’t do it 100 years ago. It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice.”

“Senator (Harkin), you didn’t do it 100 years ago because 100 years ago you Democrats were enforcing Jim Crow segregation laws, poll taxes to keep blacks from voting, and riding around in sheets and pointy hats just in case blacks didn’t get the message.

Southern Democrats spent the next 100 years trying to keep freed slaves down with segregation laws, poll taxes to deny the right to vote, and lynching to enforce the social order. The KKK was formed by a Democrat; no Republican has ever been a member of the KKK. This is the heritage of the Democratic Party.

In fact, the Democratic Party was formed in the first place to defend and expand slavery.

In 1840, the very first national nominating convention of the Democratic Party adopted a platform which read in part:

Resolved, That Congress has no power … to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states … that all efforts by abolitionists … made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery … are calculated … to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union.

You say “It’s important to have a collective response” because you want to bury the origins, purposes, and historical practices of your own party.

Got that, Sen. Harkin? Your party was born defending slavery as necessary for the happiness of the people and threatening secession and war if slavery were challenged.

Principled Republicans knowing their history would have authored a resolution reciting the facts that the Republican Party was formed, among other reasons, to oppose slavery and that the Republican Party and its first President Abraham Lincoln responded to Southern, Democrat-led secession with a successful war that preserved the union and freed the slaves.

After Lincoln’s assassination (by a Democrat), the Republican-led Congress (over the objections of the Democratic Party minority) amended the Constitution to confirm the liberation of the slaves (13th Amendment: slavery abolished), and the 14th Amendment (freed slaves are citizens equal to all citizens) and the 15th Amendment (right to vote guaranteed to freed slaves).


Read the whole thing here:

Drenched in the Blood of Slavery

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House Proposes Legislation To Have The Treasury Dept. Control Employee Wages

by WrathofG-d ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Politics at March 31st, 2009 - 11:30 am

The U.S. Democrat majority is taking further steps to completely control the private sector.  Like all tyranny, what was borne out of a crisis, is exacerbated by professed “good intentions”.  If we continue down this path, all major aspects of the private sector could be owned and controlled by the Federal Government.  I fear that the actions we see today are going to be used as precedent for future actions along these lines, and thus the damage to our Liberty being done today to ‘cure the crises’ will be irreparable.

Oh, and if you object to the Government taking full control of the once-called private sector, you are “corrupt” and unpatriotic!  Read the article below.

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The House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill.  The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government.  It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place.  And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

The purpose of the legislation is to “prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards,” according to the bill’s language.  That includes regular pay, bonuses — everything — paid to employees of companies in whom the government has a capital stake, including those that have received funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The measure is not limited just to those firms that received the largest sums of money, or just to the top 25 or 50 executives of those companies. It applies to all employees of all companies involved, for as long as the government is invested.  And it would not only apply going forward, but also retroactively to existing contracts and pay arrangements of institutions that have already received funds.

In addition, the bill gives Geithner the authority to decide what pay is “unreasonable” or “excessive.” And it directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate “the performance of the individual executive or employee to whom the payment relates.”

The bill passed the Financial Services Committee last week, 38 to 22, on a nearly party-line vote. (All Democrats voted for it, and all Republicans, with the exception of Reps. Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones of North Carolina, voted against it.)

The legislation is expected to come before the full House for a vote this week, and, just like the AIG bill, its scope and retroactivity trouble a number of Republicans.  “It’s just a bad reaction to what has been going on with AIG,” Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey, a committee member, told me. Garrett is particularly concerned with the new powers that would be given to the Treasury Secretary, who just last week proposed giving the government extensive new regulatory authority. “This is a growing concern, that the powers of the Treasury in this area, along with what Geithner was looking for last week, are mind boggling,” Garrett said.

Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat who wrote the bill, told me its basic message is “you should not get rich off public money, and you should not get rich off of abject failure.”  Grayson expects the bill to pass the House, and as we talked, he framed the issue in a way to suggest that virtuous lawmakers will vote for it, while corrupt lawmakers will vote against it.

“This bill will show which Republicans are so much on the take from the financial services industry that they’re willing to actually bless compensation that has no bearing on performance and is excessive and unreasonable,” Grayson said. “We’ll find out who are the people who understand that the public’s money needs to be protected, and who are the people who simply want to suck up to their patrons on Wall Street.”

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DON’T JUST SIT THERE….DO SOMETHING!

Contact your House of Representatives!

In addition, here is the contact information for Barney Frank, and Alan Grayson if you are so motivated.

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U.S. Now Sees Iran As Pursuing Nuclear Bomb

by WrathofG-d ( 11 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, George W. Bush, Iran, Nuclear Weapons at February 12th, 2009 - 12:53 pm

It was reported today in the LA Times, that U.S. Intellegence officials are now reversing their previously staunch position regarding the infamous 2007 N.I.E report which claimed that Iran had halted all work on nuclear bombs in 2003.  It seems that they now believe that Iran will reach “developmental milestones” this year!

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U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb

In a reversal since a 2007 report, U.S. officials expect the Islamic Republic to reach development milestones this year.

Reporting from Washington — Little more than a year after U.S. spy agencies concluded that Iran had halted work on a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration has made it clear that it believes there is no question that Tehran is seeking the bomb.

In his news conference this week, President Obama went so far as to describe Iran’s “development of a nuclear weapon” before correcting himself to refer to its “pursuit” of weapons capability.

Obama’s nominee to serve as CIA director, Leon E. Panetta, left little doubt about his view last week when he testified on Capitol Hill. “From all the information I’ve seen,” Panetta said, “I think there is no question that they are seeking that capability.”

The language reflects the extent to which senior U.S. officials now discount a National Intelligence Estimate issued in November 2007 that was instrumental in derailing U.S. and European efforts to pressure Iran to shut down its nuclear program.

As the administration moves toward talks with Iran, Obama appears to be sending a signal that the United States will not be drawn into a debate over Iran’s intent.

“When you’re talking about negotiations in Iran, it is dangerous to appear weak or naive,” said Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear weapons expert and president of the Ploughshares Fund, an anti-proliferation organization based in Washington.

Cirincione said the unequivocal language also worked to Obama’s political advantage. “It guards against criticism from the right that the administration is underestimating Iran,” he said.

Iran has long maintained that it aims to generate electricity, not build bombs, with nuclear power. But Western intelligence officials and nuclear experts increasingly view those claims as implausible.

U.S. officials said that although no new evidence had surfaced to undercut the findings of the 2007 estimate, there was growing consensus that it provided a misleading picture and that the country was poised to reach crucial bomb-making milestones this year.

Obama’s top intelligence official, Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, is expected to address mounting concerns over Iran’s nuclear program in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee today.

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It is best summed up by Carl In Jerusalem:

Am I the only one who is wondering whether someone tried to sabotage the Bush administration’s ability to take action against Iran? Why?

The NIE was criticized from the day it came out. Some speculated that it was issued to facilitate a rapprochement with the Iranians at Israel’s expense. Others claimed the CIA had been hoodwinked into issuing the report. Even the US’s senior intelligence officers retreated from it. But the retreat had little effect. Despite specific intelligence presented by Israel, the Bush administration no longer had a military option. And it wouldn’t let Israel have one either.

Now that there’s a new administration in power, whose goal is ‘discussions’ with Iran and not force, the NIE is being discarded into the dustbins of history. Anyone else smell a rat here?

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This should be a very interesting development insofar that the MSM, and liberal establishment jumped all over the 2007 N.I.E. report to call President Bush a “war monger”, etc., embarrass him, and otherwise make it impossible for him to take military action against Iran.   Now, although no actual new evidence has been put forth, those same people, now working under the Obama administration, are very quickly backing away from the 2007 report.  At best, it was a mistake; at worst they put the entire security and safety of the United States at risk, and played nuclear Russian roulette just to score political points.

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