Nancy Pelosi Thinks The First Amendment Covers Gun Ownership

Uh…  This is as big a blunder as John Boehner confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.  

And folks still wonder why Our government is so screwed up:

Nancy “The Wraith” Pelosi Blames Supreme Court for Congressional “Bay of Libs” Slaughter in 2010

Yeah, it couldn’t be that the American public finally woke up to Congress’s Progressive Libtard agenda once a full-blown communist took over the White House.  Nope, it had to be the Supreme Court—or pixies…or, something like that:

Pelosi: SCOTUS, superPACs lost Dems our majority
17 JAN 2012 – by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer – Washington Examiner

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that Democrats lost control of the House in 2010 because of superPACs, and by extension the Supreme Court, which caught Democrats by surprise when they started spending money in the 2010 cycle.

“Once those major special interests knew that they could contribute endlessly, secretly, without anybody knowing where the money came from, then the floodgates opened,” Pelosi said during the Politico Playbook breakfast. “May of last year — Easter, say, Passover of last year — not many people thought we would lose the house. By the time the [DISCLOSE campaign finance legislation] failed in the Senate, it was all over because it was going to be endless, endless money coming up on 9.5 percent unemployment.”

Pelosi explained that superPACs came about through a “miserable decision by the Supreme Court to allow any and all funding — secret, large, special interest contributions into campaign.” She dismissed the Supreme Court decision as “ridiculous.”

“What the court did is something so drastic,” Pelosi [said],  “it rolled back progress for 100 years.” She called for a “new politics, free of the special interest.”

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Barney “the Gay Dinosaur” Frank Drops Out of 2012 Re-Election Bid

Probably the only other thing he’s ever dropped is a bar of soap:

Rep. Frank won’t run for reelection

– The Hill

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will announce Monday that he is not seeking re-election, ending a 32-year career in the House.

Frank, 71, is the top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee and the architect, with former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), of the sweeping Wall Street regulatory reform law enacted in 2010.

He is scheduled to hold a press conference at 1 p.m. in his district, according to a spokesman, who said the congressman would announce at that time the reason for his decision. His retirement will deprive the House of one of its most colorful characters, a man known for his quick and often caustic wit.

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Nope.  The article doesn’t mention his pot smoking nor his homosexual lover at Fannie Mae, Herb Moses.  Instead, we are treated to this:

His legislative legacy is likely to be the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that passed in 2010 in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown that sent the economy into a tailspin in 2008. Hailed by the Obama administration, the law has drawn sharp criticism in the Republican presidential nomination fight, and one leading contender, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), even suggested that Frank be jailed, along with Dodd, for their support of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the lead-up to the financial crisis.

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And, which financial institutions responsible for the 2008 crash were exempted from Barney’s Dodd-Frank Financial Deform Legislation?  Fannie & Freddie, that’s who!

Barney ‘The Gay Dinosaur’ Frank Admits He Helped Fellow Butt Pirate Land Lucrative Position at Fannie Mae

The guy is a corrupt,  dope-smoking, unstable perv.  Yet, his constituents fatuously re-elect him over and over and over and over again.  Why?  Just because he’s gay?  Don’t want to be thought of as “insensitive” or something?  I think that says  alot about the voters in Massachusetts;  As long as you’re queer and a Democrat, it’s okay to be an oleaginous slime ball:

H/T – Martdod for helping me with the title.

Barney Frank knocked on his Fannie
Rep admits to helping lover land job at mortgage giant in ’91

Boston Herald

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

Yes, but:  1)  You’re NOT married to Herb Moses; and, 2) You didn’t disclose the fact that you were busy polishing Moses’ rod every other night!   Therefore, the Fannie Mae executive who asked Barney Frank about Herb Moses was kept in the dark about a possible conflict of interests.

Frank said he helped his former longtime companion, Herb Moses, land a job at Fannie Mae in 1991 after Moses graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from Dartmouth College. Frank said he was approached by a Fannie Mae executive and vouched for Moses, who formerly worked as an economist in the Department of Agriculture.

“(The executive) said, ‘Herb applied for a job,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I think he’d be great. He’s an economist and he’s got an MBA,’ ” Frank said, recounting the conversation. “He was hired to an entry-level position.”

Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

Congressional Republicans pounced on the embarrassing revelation.

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Exactly!

Moses, who lived with Frank in Washington at the time, worked for Fannie until 1998, when he left the mortgage behemoth. Moses, who could not be reached for comment, and Frank split up that year.

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Frank’s assistance in helping Moses land the job was first reported in a new book about the fiscal meltdown by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times [NYT] reporter Gretchen Morgensen.

In an interview Tuesday on WBUR’s “Fresh Air,” Morgensen said Frank “was very aggressive and really tough on those who were testifying in Congress about reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” during hearings after Moses was hired. She said Fannie Mae “rolled out the red carpet” for Moses as part of a strategy to curry favor with Frank and other members of the Financial Services Committee.

Morgensen also noted that members of the committee raked in tens of thousands in campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie execs, including Frank, who received $42,000 in contributions from 1989 through 2008.

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Pelosi Favors One World Government Style Tax System

You know, about 20 years ago, when I first started talking in earnest about a one-world government conspiracy,  even I thought that I might just be a little bit too paranoid.  Not anymore!  Read the following and then try to tell me there’s no drive for a one-world government:

P.S. – Get a GRIP on  your government and Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!

Pelosi Endorses ‘Global’ Tax on Stocks, Bonds, and other Financial Transactions
Monday, December 07, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the idea of a “global” tax on stock trades and other financial transactions, saying the estimated $150 billion in annual revenue from such a tax could be used to help fund more stimulus spending.

At her weekly press briefing on Thursday, Pelosi said the financial transactions tax (HR4191) currently before Congress would have to be made “global” to keep U.S. investors from taking their business overseas and out of taxable reach.

The House speaker said that a transaction tax could be imposed in conjunction with congressional efforts to divert funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), with funds from both going to fund a second stimulus spending package. (The first stimulus bill, $789-billion, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on Feb. 13, 2009.)

“I believe that the transaction tax still has a great deal of merit,” Pelosi told reporters. “The concern that many of us or others have had is that it will send, it will send transactions overseas.

“Well, let’s see, the fact is, what we are talking about is a global transaction [tax],” she said, “something that we would do in conjunction with other G nations, whether it is G8, G20, whatever the current G number is. Because it is really a source of revenue that has really minimal impact on the transaction, but a tremendous impact on helping us meet our needs.”

Pelosi said she thought the idea might have currency among a public eager to see Wall Street firms “pitching in” to help the government grow the economy.

“I think there would be a market for it among the American people to say that we are all participating in the economic prosperity of our country, and we are all pitching in to continue that prosperity,” said Pelosi.

The tax idea, the brainchild of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, would mean that all major financial centers – Asia, the EU, U.S., and U.K. – would all have to pass a similar transaction tax to avoid disadvantaging one country’s stock exchange. This would ensure that no matter where a person wanted to buy stock, they would have to pay the new tax.

Brown originally proposed the idea on Nov. 7 at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in St. Andrews, Scotland.

Sawing a Woman in Half

As Doug Henning would say, “It’s Maaagic!”

We Pay Them to Lie to Us
By John Stossel – Real Clear Politics

When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician.

President Obama insists that health care “reform” not “add a dime” to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow “$900 billion over 10 years” has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit.

It’s amazing how precise government gets when estimating the cost of 10 years of subsidized medical care. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill was scored not at $850 billion, but $849 billion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her bill would cost $871 billion.

How do they do that?

The key to magic is misdirection, fooling the audience into looking in the wrong direction.

The Vice Tightens on ACORN

This is definitely a step in the right direction on the part of the loyal opposition, and, by- the – way, Go Joe!

What we have is a Pink-O marble monument to waste and corruption.  We the People gave you, Our Representatives, the chisel. Now is the time to begin chipping away at the foundation, dare I say it, the pillars upon which this illegal regime  has been built.

Van Jones is gone (but not to be forgotten), ACORN is exposed; excellent.  Perhaps we can start working on the arm breakers in the SEIU, and challenging the legitimacy of the rest of these unelected czars. Make no mistake, this will be a death of a thousand cuts, so put on you work boots, wear your safety goggles and prepare for a lot of dust to be raised.

For all you elected officials, of every stripe, who have been lurking in the political woodworks, now is the time to stop sitting on the fence; take a stand and start doing your job, or God help you come the next midterm elections.

Pressure Builds for ‘Thorough’ Review of ACORN Activities, Grants
FOXNews.com
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pressure is building for a top-to-bottom review of ACORN in the wake of undercover videos showing the organization giving advice on how to skirt federal laws, with a top Senate Republican calling for a “thorough” investigation and other lawmakers proposing sanctions.

House Minority Leader John Boehner introduced legislation Tuesday that would break all federal government ties with ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

And Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation by the Justice Department. He cited reports that ACORN may “have been engaged in illegal activity” by aiding and abetting tax evasion, prostitution, human trafficking, fraud and conspiracy. The Justice Department did not immediately comment on Johanns’ letter.

And House Republicans wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to use his authority to end all federal funding for ACORN. The call for a congressional probe came from Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Shelby made the request in a letter to committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

Brian Kettenring, an ACORN spokesman, said Republicans were “playing politics” and trying to “stop ACORN’s good work fighting to stop the foreclosure crisis and to win quality, affordable health care for all Americans.”

The latest developments come after the Senate voted 83-7 Monday to cut off the group from Housing and Urban Development grants. The Census Bureau on Friday also severed ties with ACORN.

Nine lawmakers, eight of them Republican, did not vote on Monday. Sens. Roland Burris, D-Ill.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., voted against the Senate measure.

The vote followed the release of secretly recorded videotapes of group members offering assistance to an independent filmmaker and a young woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute. Those tapes surfaced on the heels of arrests in Florida of 11 ACORN workers accused of voter registration fraud.

“Last night’s vote served as a resounding rebuke on behalf of American taxpayers regarding the activities of ACORN,” Shelby said in a statement. “While this vote is important, it is limited in scope and we must know more. It is imperative that we proceed immediately to investigate what appears to be ACORN’s stunning disregard for the law and abuse of taxpayer funds.

“Such an investigation would serve as the basis for determining not only whether ACORN is worthy of receiving other federal funds this year, but ever again,” Shelby said. He wrote to the inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development as well.

Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., also wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a Department of Justice investigation.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer suggested Tuesday that he would consider taking the kind of action taken by the Senate.

“I want to look at that. The Senate responded overwhelmingly,” the Maryland Democrat said. He called the ACORN workers’ actions “despicable.”

House Republicans wrote in their letter to the president that he should “disclose and terminate” all federal funding to ACORN.

“It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law,” they wrote. “Immediate action is necessary to ensure that no additional tax dollars are directed to ACORN.”

Law enforcement sources confirm that the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has launched an investigation into the ACORN Brooklyn office — which was featured in the latest video released by filmmaker James O’Keefe.

As with the videos shot in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the ACORN workers in the Brooklyn video are shown offering the “pimp” and “prostitute” advice on how to avoid detection from officials weighing whether to give them loans on housing, which the duo said they wanted to use to run a brothel.

The workers in Baltimore and Washington have since been fired.

But the organization claims that O’Keefe tried the hidden-camera operation in a number of other ACORN offices with no luck.

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis said in a written statement that while she could not defend the actions of the terminated workers, O’Keefe may have committed a felony during the operation.

“It is clear that the videos are doctored, edited and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative, activist ‘filmmaker’ O’Keefe and his partner in crime,” Lewis said.

O’Keefe has demanded an apology for claiming he falsified the tapes.

Lewis also called the Senate decision on Monday evening “a rare and politically convenient step.”

Marine Corps Vet, David Hedrick, Blasts Congressman Brian Baird

The “must watch” video of the day!

Politicians Afraid of Town Hall Meetings!

Excellent news!  We’ve got the bastards cowering in fear.  That’s the way America is suppose to work!  The politicians should fear the people and not the other way around!  It’s high time get a G.R.I.P. on our Government!!!

Now, read the following article and note how out of touch the politicians are with Americans:

Town halls gone wild

Alex Isenstadt Alex Isenstadt   – Fri Jul 31, 2009 – Politico
via Yahoo News

Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.

On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.

“I had felt they would be pointless,” Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) told POLITICO, referring to his recent decision to suspend the events in his Long Island district. “There is no point in meeting with my constituents and [to] listen to them and have them listen to you if what is basically an unruly mob prevents you from having an intelligent conversation.”

[Hey, jerkwad!  It’s YOUR job to listen to your constituents, NOT the other way around!  We get enough of your socialist mouth every day on C-SPAN;  Heck, you’re on T.V. spouting YOUR communist BS so much that you’re almost a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild!  So, sit back and JUST LISTEN!  Oh, and by the way, just because your constituents aren’t licking your boots clean is no reason to call them an “unruly mob.”  Tell me, oh great asshat, when has ANY of these so called “unruly mob” Town Hall meetings turned into a real mob scene like you consistenty would see with the Libtards and Lefturds?  NEVER!  So, this is America telling you to SHUT UP AND START LISTENING TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS!!!!!]

In Bishop’s case, his decision came on the heels of a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.

Within an hour of the disruption, police were called in to escort the 59-year-old Democrat — who has held more than 100 town hall meetings since he was elected in 2002 — to his car safely.

[OMG!  For the first time in his commie life, his constituents had had enough of his BS and were voicing their displeasure with his failure to listen and represent them.  So, what does he do?  He runs off to the po-po, crying  like a little baby!  Waaah, waaaah, waaah!  Here’s some advice:  Suck it up, red-diaper-doper-baby!  WE ARE COMING!!!]

“I have no problem with someone disagreeing with positions I hold,” Bishop said, noting that, for the time being, he was using other platforms to communicate with his constituents. “But I also believe no one is served if you can’t talk through differences.”

[Yeah, we’ve heard that BS line before.  More boilerplate political rhetoric.   Hey, buddy, no one but yourself is served if you are NOT serving your constituents!!!  It doesn’t matter what YOU want or think, it matters what your constituents want and think!!!]

Bishop isn’t the only one confronted by boiling anger and rising incivility. At a health care town hall event in Syracuse, N.Y., earlier this month, police were called in to restore order, and at least one heckler was taken away by local police. Close to 100 sign-carrying protesters greeted Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) at a late June community college small-business development forum in Panama City, Fla. Last week, Danville, Va., anti-tax tea party activists claimed they were “refused an opportunity” to ask Rep. Thomas Perriello (D-Va.) a question at a town hall event and instructed by a plainclothes police officer to leave the property after they attempted to hold up protest signs.

[OMG!  They weren’t allowed an opportunity to speak at a freakin’ town hall meeting, so they held up protest signs!  How dare they!  Quick!  Arrest them for being unruly!]

The targets in most cases are House Democrats, who over the past few months have tackled controversial legislation including a $787 billion economic stimulus package, a landmark energy proposal and an overhaul of the nation’s health care system.

Democrats, acknowledging the increasing unruliness of the town-hall-style events, say the hot-button issues they are taking on have a lot to do with it.

“I think it’s just the fact that we are dealing with some of the most important public policy issues in a generation,” said Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), who was confronted by a protester angry about his position on health care reform at a town hall event several weeks ago.

“I think in general what is going on is we are tackling issues that have been ignored for a long time, and I think that is disruptive to a lot of people,” said Bishop, a four-term congressman. “We are trying, one by one, to deal with a set of issues that can’t be ignored, and I think that’s unsettling to a lot of people.”

[Hey, shit for brains, those “issues” were ignored for a long time because they are failed COMMUNIST policies!!!!  That is what is unsettling to a LOT of Americans.  That and your continual refusal to listen to your constituents who overwhelmingly told you VOTE NO, and you DID NOT LISTEN!!!   See?  You still don’t get it!]

Freshman Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.), whose event at a Syracuse middle school was disrupted, said that he still planned to hold additional town halls but that he was also thinking about other options.

“I think you’ve got to communicate through a variety of different ways. You should do the telephone town hall meetings. You should do the town hall meetings. You should do the smaller group meetings,” said Maffei. “It’s important to do things in a variety of ways, so you don’t have one mode of communication.”

“You’re going to have people of varying views, and in this case, you’ve got the two extremes who were the most vocal,” Maffei said of the flare-up at his July 12 event.

On Tuesday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who handles incumbent retention duties for House Democrats in addition to chairing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, met with freshman members to discuss their plans for the monthlong August recess. While the specific issue of town hall protesters never came up, according to sources familiar with the meeting, he urged them not to back away from opponents.

“He said, ‘Go on offense. Stay on the offense. It’s really important that your constituents hear directly from you. You shouldn’t let a day go by [that] your constituents don’t hear from you,’” said one House Democratic leadership aide familiar with the meeting.

Some members profess to enjoy the give-and-take of the town halls, even if lately it’s become more take than give.

“Town halls are a favorite part of my job,” said Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.), a third-term congressman from St. Louis who noted that a “handful” of disruptions had taken place at his meetings. “It’s what I do. It’s what I will continue to do.”

“People have gotten fired up and all that, but I think that’s what makes town halls fun,” said Perriello, a freshman who is among the most vulnerable Democrats in 2010. “I think that most of the time when we get out there, it’s a good chance for people to vent and offer their thoughts. It’s been good.”

“I enjoy it, and people have a chance to speak their mind,” he said.

[Now, THAT’S the right attitude!  Notice that he is a “freshman” in Congress.  He hasn’t yet been so jaded by the system that he thinks he is above the people who sent him to Washington!  So, get a G.R.I.P. on your Government and replace the incumbents with more freshmen!]

Both Carnahan and Perriello said they were plunging forward with plans to hold more town hall meetings.

Republicans, with an eye toward 2010, are keeping close track of the climate at Democratic events.

“We’ve seen Russ Carnahan, we’ve seen Tim Bishop, we’ve seen some other people face some very different crowds back home,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas). “The days of you having a town hall meeting where maybe 15 or 20 of your friends show up — they’re over. You’ve now got real people who are showing up — and that’s going to be a factor.”

Asked later how or whether the GOP would use the confrontations against Democrats, Sessions responded: “Wait till next year.”

But Democrats are quick to point out they’re not the only ones facing hostile audiences. They single out Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), who found himself in a confrontation earlier this month with a “birther” protester, and insist that Republicans face a backlash of their own if it appears the party is too closely aligned with tea party activists or other conservative-oriented protesters.

“It’s a risk that they align themselves with such a small minority in the party,” said Brian Smoot, who served as political director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the past election cycle. “They risk alienating moderates.”

[Small minority party???  WTF? Hey, Brian, take a look at the polls:  The conservatives are the largest idealogical group in America!!!  They are even larger than “moderates.”  So, what freakin’ “small minority” are you freakin’ talking about?  You freakin’ moron!  With  libtards and lefturds like you running the campaigns, is it any wonder that the politicians are so out of touch with America?   ]

Note to all politicians:  Align yourself with the Tea Party Conservatives and you will WIN BIG!!!!  You can thank me by making me your campaign manager.  I’m available.

Congressman Challenges Immigration Law

A picture is worth a thousand words and the anchor baby pictured explains why this change is needed.

26 May 2009, My FOX Atlanta
A Georgia congressman and candidate for governor is calling for a change in policy in what’s known as “birth right citizenship.” it automatically grants citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil.
-This change would not stop illegal’s from entering the US or slow legal immigration what it would do is eliminate anchor babies. It would also save the US hundreds of millions of dollars wasted each year on non-citizens.

Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal said automatically granting citizenship to babies born in U.S. to parents of illegal immigrants subverts the immigration system and causes more illegal immigration.
-He is right, I am pro immigration but anti illegal.

Opponents said Deal’s bill violates the American tradition of welcoming immigrants and would not solve the immigration problem.
-A stupid comment when our current system is a proven failure. The Congressman has a idea, study it before you condemn it.