"Some of us ride it. ALL of us pay for it."
***24th State blog (www.24thstate.com) just put out a great piece on more Metro propaganda that completely misleads the public…
The Lie That Is The Metro Tax Advertising
I’ve now heard radio commercials and seen television commercials for the Metro Tax increase we’re supposed to vote on in April, and can say with a straight face it’s not truthful.
Some of us ride it, All of us need it.
How very clever, but that’s not what we’re voting on in April.
No matter how the vote goes, we will still have Metro. People will still ride it to Cardinals games. Wash U students and Wash U faculty and staff will still get free passes, and those who use Metro to get around currently are still going to have the services.
The increase in funding is to be used for expansion. Note that nowhere in the advertising do they discuss extending the line. No one talks about the fact that Metro has been losing money for years, long before the economic crisis hit. Metro is a money-losing operation. If they wanted the money to shore up the program, they should say so.
But they don’t. They want to take money and expand it, leaving us even further in the red in the future. It’s like being underwater on a house, and then using a line of credit to add a garage. It’s insanity, and the purpose is to shovel more of our money to the people building the lines and those running the campaigns.
Who do you think pays for those commercials? Who is paying for the phone bank? Why is SEIU MO/KS State Council, the political arm of SEIU, in the Greater St Louis Transit Alliance?
It’s because this is about taking more of our money, and giving it to their pals.
If the Vote Yes on Proposition A people won’t even bother to tell you the truth about why they want the money, how can we trust them to take care of the money when they get it. The loss in Metro services that will occur when the stimulus funds runs out is still going to occur. This tax won’t fix it. It will instead be siphoned off for $150 million a mile expansion. That means they will have to come back to us in a few years, demanding more.
Educate yourself.
http://www.24thstate.com/2010/02/the-lie-that-is-the-metro-tax-advertising.html
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The radicals are going to ram it through…
Democrats called today to pass Obamacare and essentially nationalize one-sixth of the American economy with a simple up-or-down majority vote in the House and Senate.
The AP reported:
The White House called for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama’s chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.
In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama’s intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics.
Republicans unanimously oppose the Democratic proposals. Without GOP support, Obama’s only chance of emerging with a policy and political victory is to bypass the bipartisanship he promoted during his televised seven-hour health care summit Thursday.
“We’re not talking about changing any rules here,” DeParle said. “All the president’s talking about is: Do we need to address this problem and does it make sense to have a simple, up-or-down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?”
DeParle was optimistic that the president would have the votes to pass the massive bill. But none of legislation’s advocates who spoke on Sunday indicated that those votes were in hand.
Here is a website that lists the phone numbers of your Reps and Senators.
It’s time to act.
UPDATE: RedState offers a “reconciliation primer” on what we can expect on the Senate floor in the coming days.
Nancy Pelosi and her friend and colleague Democrat Charles Rangel. (Politico)
The House GOP Whip Eric Cantor today on “Meet the Press” announced that Speaker Pelosi is breaking her promise to have the most ethical Congress EVERY DAY.
The Hill reported:
House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was breaking the promise to have the most ethical Congress “every day.”
“Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history,” Cantor said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, “and what we’re seeing, she’s breaking that promise every day.”
Just two days earlier, Pelosi confirmed at a press conference that, even in the wake of the ethics admonishment of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), she believes that she is running the most ethical Congress in history…
Cantor reiterated his calls for Rangel to step down from his Ways and Means chairmanship…
…Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) intends to introduce a privileged resolution next week calling for a vote on removing Charles Rangel as head of the Ways and Means panel.
Rep. Joe Sestak’s admission that the White House tried to lure him out of a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter made Pennsylvania the fifth state this cycle in which the Obama administration has tried unsuccessfully to clear the field for Democratic senate candidates.Yeah, yeah. The "big takeway" was "ongoing questions about the potency of the Obama political operation." In the part of the country that's outside the beltway, I think the quid pro quo was the "big takeway". It's a tipoff from the political class that nothing's changed.
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The big takeaway for most from Sestak’s admission Thursday – he said the White House offered him a high-profile government appointment to move him out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary – was that it amplified ongoing questions about the potency of the Obama political operation.
(AP)
Racist Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan blasted the “white right” for causing problems radical far left President Barack Obama.
Jammie Wearing Fool reported this from the AP:
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan claims the “white right” is trying to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
The 76-year-old says the stalling of health care legislation is proof.
Farrakhan is addressing followers of the Chicago-based movement that has embraced black nationalism since its founding. Sunday’s keynote speech is before an estimated 20,000 people on the last day of the group’s Saviours Day convention.
Farrakhan has vigorously supported Obama.
Farrakhan also used the Chile earthquake to warn America about its own imminent disaster.
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In case you needed any more proof that Hollywood is out of touch with the majority of Americans…
Actor Matt Damon is disappointed in Barack Obama because he’s not ramming his far left policies down America’s throat fast enough.
Damon is starring in another fantasy anti-Bush, anti-American Iraq War movie “Green Zone.”
The Daily News reported:
It’s hard to think of a movie that’d play better in the Obama White House screening room than Matt Damon’s new Iraq War thriller, “Green Zone,” in which the Oscar-winner adroitly portrays a soldier fighting to expose the Bush administration’s weapons of mass destruction deception. Yet for all the ammo his movie may give Democrats, Damon admits he’s “disappointed” in the man who replaced George W. Bush.
“Politics is compromise,” says the actor, who campaigned hard for Barack Obama. But Damon feels his candidate has compromised too much. “I’m disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.”
Hey Matt. We won the war. Let it go.
Bittersweet.
I started in radio two years ago, an opportunity brought by my previous years blogging and freelancing in area publications. I’ve loved Sunday nights and it’s showed: the show went from #28 in its debut to #1 in recent books and the flow and the freedom the slot has afforded was a wonderful place for me to sharpen my skill. Broadcasting is an art; I never before thought of it that way until I became a broadcaster, but it is and I’ve much respect for those who make it look so effortless.
But, it’s time to move on. Tomorrow starts my new 2-4 p.m. central time slot. I’m happy that the change gives me more time during the week with my family, a full weekend, and dinners home, whereas before I was working three shows at times scattered around the clock. I’m looking forward to it becoming a more normal schedule and obviously, a longer show in a prime time daypart.
I will miss though, the nighttime. The relaxed nature of the show. No more cocoon.
Tonight the Sunday night torch passes to Marc Cox, who will join me in studio. His new show will debut in this time slot on March 14th.
Thanks for all the support these past two years, for the ears, emails, and calls. Onward and upward.
On deck for tonight:
- President Obama signs the extension of the Patriot Act
- Does Pelosi have enough votes for the nuke option? Not yet …
- The first anniversary of the tea party movement
- Cool Points
8pm central.
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Big Journalism
February 28, 2010
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood represents the Illinois Combine in Obama’s Cabinet. His history in Illinois politics is that of a Republican chameleon. So it’s no surprise he gets high marks from MSM pundits.
For example, as LaHood prepared to retire from the House, Mark Shields gushed over him,
After 14 admirable years of representing Peoria and central Illinois in the U.S. House, Republican Ray LaHood has made the House a more civil, more decent and more personal place…Listen to the testimony of U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Democrat who is so tough he’s widely rumored to eat nails and spit rust: “I’ll miss him dearly.”…As somebody who clashed often with his own hyper-partisan GOP leadership in the House, [LaHood] admits: “I survived Gingrich, Armey and DeLay. I’m still here. They’re all gone.”
In December 2008, David Broder described LaHood as:
…a leader in the uphill struggle for comity between the parties; and a throwback to the days of his old boss Bob Michel, the minority leader who resisted the scorched-earth tactics of Newt Gingrich…his accepting Obama’s offer goes beyond the signal it sends of the new president’s seriousness about outreach to moderate Republicans. As transportation secretary, LaHood will be at the center of the road and bridge construction projects Obama plans to make the highlight of his almost trillion-dollar stimulus program… LaHood, who witnessed but did not welcome the Gingrich “revolution” in the House, has watched with growing alarm the decimation of the GOP in Illinois and surrounding states.The MSM loves LaHood because he’s a Bob Michel Republican. LaHood was an aide to Michel, former House Republican Minority Leader, and was elected to his seat after Michel retired. Bob went along to get along. Ray followed suit.
LaHood has long been an Illinois Combine Republican. For example, in 2004 he didn’t support the reelection of Illinois Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald.
In 2004, Fitzgerald beat Democrat incumbent Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Braun and Obama both worked at Allison Davis’s Chicago law firm that provided services to slum landlords, like Tony Rezko. Fitzgerald bucked the Combine on a couple of big-ticket federally-funded Illinois projects, one involving a $13 billion expansion of O’Hare Airport.
Fitzgerald sponsored the assignment of Patrick Fitzgerald (no relation) as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Fitzgerald put Republican Governor George Ryan in jail, and has indicted former Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich, along with other Combine operatives. Illinois’ independent-thinking Republican senator was a threat to the Combine. He had to go.
As far back as 2002, LaHood was working to oust his fellow Republican from the U.S. Senate. In late 2002, Rep. LaHood told the Chicago Sun-Times:
I’m thinking about trying to make sure Peter has an opponent” in the 2004 Republican primary. “I think we can do better than him.” Soon thereafter, Illinois Republican leaders made it clear Fitzgerald would have trouble raising money for reelection and would have to spend several million from his personal fortune. Sen. Fitzgerald decided to retire and return to banking.In 2004, State Senator Barack Obama was running against Republican Jack Ryan for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Fitzgerald when Ryan’s campaign mysteriously blew up. A California court opened his previously sealed divorce records wherein Ryan’s ex-wife, Jeri, alleged strange sexual tastes on Ryan’s part. (Some suggest that former Chicago Tribune political reporter, David Axelrod, helped persuade the Tribune to pressure its sister paper, the Los Angeles Times, to pressure the California Judge Robert Schnider to open the Ryan divorce records, although both Ryans opposed the move.)
CNN reported LaHood’s reaction to Ryan’s situation:
…the Illinois congressional delegation had been largely silent about Ryan, leaving him to fend for himself. One Republican, Rep. Ray LaHood, had even called for Ryan to withdraw from the race.As the Ryan controversy built, the Chicago Tribune reported:
The political impact of the revelations on Jack Ryan’s candidacy will play out over the next several days. One prominent Illinois Republican, U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood of Peoria, said he was “shocked” that Ryan would run for public office carrying such baggage and called on him to get out of the race.Ryan eventually withdrew from the race. Barack Obama handily beat his replacement, Alan Keyes.
Back on January 29, 2010, when President Obama spoke before GOP House members at the Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, LaHood and Obama struck a pose of LaHood blocking for Obama in the presence of Republicans.
So what’s new? LaHood has been blocking for Obama for years.
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