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To The RNC: WAKE UP

I just received one of the famous “fundraising calls” from the RNC.

They were soliciting people to give them money (and tried for slightly over $3k!) to “stop Obama’s Health Care plan that will cost $1 trillion.”

I “explained” that:

  • $1 trillion is a lot of money.  $12 trillion is a lot more, and that’s how much the RNC has allowed to be pissed away backstopping and rewarding people who have stolen from the American people through bailouts and handouts, all of which have gone to the very people doing the stealing!
  • John McCain, to whom I gave a significant campaign donation, returned my favor by suspending his campaign to push through the EESA/TARP, a bill that by 300:1 margins the American People opposed.
  • If the Republicans are the party of the people why is it that they are allowing these bankers to steal over $30 billion dollars by re-ordering transactions to generate the MAXIMUM in overdraft fees?  That’s FRAUD and yet it was under a REPUBLICAN administration that this happened.
  • Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net
     

    The Republicans have for years presented themselves as “conservatives” and the party of “family values.”  Why is it that “conservative” doesn’t include calling for EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE SCAMMERS TO BE THROWN IN PRISON and WHY IS IT THAT I KEEP HEARING ABOUT SOME FLOOZY SCANDAL FROM THESE SO-CALLED “FAMILY VALUES” CHAMPIONS?


    • The ONLY difference between the RNC and DNC is that the DNC tells me up front that the Democrats intend to gang-rape me at the outset.  The Republicans claim to intend to protect me, but then after I lower my guard I am violated from behind without warning.  This is unacceptable but if I am forced to choose between being warned first and being lied to I’ll take the warning thank you very little.


    I made clear to THE RNC that if they want one thin dime from me they can call again when every Republican Senator and Representative masses together on the steps of the Capitol and states in one loud, clear voice for all in America and every TV Network:
    We will do no more work nor vote for any other action until each and every one of the banksters, scammers and frauds that destroyed our American economy is under indictment and facing charges for their criminal acts, and the improperly granted bailout funds - all of them - are CLAWED BACK from these frauds to the maximum possible extent.

    We will do no more work until the banks are required to process transactions in the order they come in and are PROHIBITED BY LAW from charging “overdraft fees” under any other than an existing, voluntarily-subscribed and OPTED IN overdraft LINE OF CREDIT.

    We will do no more work until the scammers currently dumping garbage into the FHA are STOPPED AND PROSECUTED and the FHA program is reworked to require 20% DOWN PAYMENTS, 36% DTI maximums and FULL UNDERWRITING with CRIMINAL PENALTIES for false submissions irrespective of who makes them.

    We will pledge to shut our pie holes about “family values” until each and every one of us can keep our penis in our pants, except when used to urinate or have sexual congress with our WIFE or SIGNIFICANT OTHER, and the HYPOCRITES in this regard have RESIGNED - all of them -  forthwith.

    I was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since I first gained the franchise in 1981.  I voted for Ronald Reagan, both Bushes and straight-ticket in state and local races for nearly 30 years.


    The Republican Party is supposed to be the party of fair dealing, capitalism, honesty and supporting the effort of individual Americans to get ahead through their own hard work, living within the rule of law.


    It has instead become the party of kleptocracy, the party of jackbooted corporatism abusing its power to stomp on the neck of the lower-income American, the party of fraud, the party of hypocrisy and the party of theft-at-gunpoint from every American in support of all of the above.


    None of this is acceptable; the RNC’s “core values” as practiced (as opposed to as-stated) read more like something out of Nazi Germany than anything I can reasonably associate with a legitimate political party in The United States.


    If the Republican National Committee wants one dollar or more importantly, one vote from here on, those are my terms and conditions, and due to the blatant lies from their mouths over the last decade I will no longer accept promises of future action - instead, I demand that I see the action from the RNC and the Republican Caucus FIRST.

    Energy and Environment: Around The Interwebs

    Amplifyd from thechillingeffect.org
  • Today’s NYT demand for overhaul: ‘The U.S. needs a climate bill that engages the whole economy and forces technological change”
  • Most important story from last week, courtesy of the New York Times: “Ten moderate Senate Democrats from states dependent on coal and manufacturing sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying they would not support any climate change bill that did not protect American industries from competition from countries that did not impose similar restraints on climate-altering gases.”
  • Lawmakers’ Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots
  • You know it’s bad when even a Reuters environment blog notices: “it does seem like an exquisite irony that, with the best of environmental intentions, the Obama team may have stomped all over the United States with a heavy-duty carbon footprint.”
  • NOAA Lowers Hurricane Season Outlook
  • … and How Sensitive is the Earth’s Climate?
  • Read more at thechillingeffect.org
     

    Sebelius calls her SEIU “brothers and sisters” to battle; Dennis Rivera decries “terrorist tactics”

    Amplifyd from michellemalkin.com

    HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a brief conference call with SEIU members this afternoon.

    She hailed them as her “brothers and sisters” and urged them to show up at town hall meetings.

    She gave the same stultifying mini-lecture about the sanctity of Medicare. “Change is not easy,” she droned. “We need to roll up our sleeves.”

    No mention of how SEIU thugs rolled up their sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis or ran interference in Tampa Bay.

    In an attempt to reassure SEIU members that senior citizens would not suffer under Obamacare, Sebelius said “Saving lives saves dollars.” Which might come as news to Zeke Emanuel.

    Sebelius thanked an SEIU member who showed up at the Tampa Bay melee and urged more to get involved. “Keep doing what you’re doing.”

    SEIU heavy Dennis Rivera then took over, taking calls from scripted SEIU members who read statements (one of which was painfully, barely coherent).

    Pot and kettle.

    Read more at michellemalkin.com
     

    Rivera closed by railing against the “radical fringe” of “right-wingers” and urged his “Purple Army” to fight “terrorist tactics.”

    Pot and kettle.

    Fun fact about Anna Burger’s staff from Culture of Corruption:

    Another Stern administration protégé, Annelle Grajeda, rose to power after the SEIU president installed her as president of the 80,000-member Local 721 in Los Angeles. She ascended to positions on the union’s state council and international executive board. Like Freeman and Jackson, Grajeda had been voted onto Stern’s official administration slate at the SEIU convention in 2008. The Times published damning details of how Grajeda’s ex-boyfriend, SEIU official Alejandro Stephens, collected multiple salaries and consultant fees from the union while also pocketing a salary as a Los Angeles County health services employee. Grajeda had arranged an eight-month leave of absence from the job on behalf of her ex-lover. He was fired after he refused to return to work. Grajeda quit her California posts after catching public flak and found a new job – as special assistant to SEIU secretary-treasurer Anna Burger in Washington, D.C.! Her former chapter heralded the move. Grajeda will now oversee efforts to “partner with the Obama administration” to secure more public funds for SEIU projects. What could go wrong?