112TH CONGRESS & SENATE PASSES HR514

The Senate on Tuesday voted 86-12 Tuesday to extend the Patriot Act for three months. The vote came one day after the House passed legislation extending the Patriot Act until Dec. 2011. Due to an amendment tacked on to the House bill by Senate leaders Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) earlier Tuesday the Senate version of the bill only extends the Patriot Act until May 27, 2011.

The bill is H.R. 514, which would let the government access business records, conduct roving wiretaps, and monitor individual terrorists until Dec. 8 of this year. 

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/144309-senate-to-take-up-three-month-patriot-act-extension

YEAs - 86


ONLY 12 NAYS
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Brown (D-OH)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murray (D-WA)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)


http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00019


275 ayes
144 Noes


144 voted for liberty:

Amash
Andrews
Baldwin
Bartlett
Becerra
Berman
Bishop (UT)
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Campbell
Capps
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Costello
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Fudge
Garamendi
Gibson
Gonzalez
Graves (GA)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Heller
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Hultgren
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Kildee
Kingston
Kucinich
Labrador
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Luján
Mack
Maloney
Marchant
Markey
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Meeks
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Rangel
Rehberg
Richardson
Richmond
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Roybal-Allard
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schilling
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Slaughter
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tonko
Towns
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Wu
Young (AK)





http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll036.xml

THE TSA IS SUCH A LOVELY BUNCH OF BOYS LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR INTEREST GOV STYLE

Two TSA agents were busted today at Kennedy Airport for stealing $160,000 in cash from bags, authorities said.
Davon Webb, 30, and Couman Perad, who turned 36 today, were arrested after admitting they had regularly stolen from checked bags, sources said.
In one instance, Perad, who joined the Transportation Security Administration in 2002, and Webb, who has been an agent since 2004, stole $39,000 on Jan. 30 from a bag at Terminal 8, sources said.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bags_tsa_agents_busted_checked_jfk_FRka1bq83wcuV1xwkEwUJK

HERE'S A NICE BUDGET BUSTING TOOL- MAKE YOUR OWN CUTS

On TV tonight, Glenn directed viewers to this  tool from The New York Times that lets you see the kinds of cuts that need to be made (but no one is making!) in the budget. Click here to use it along with Glenn.

To see what Glenn said earlier today about the budget, click here


http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/15/tv-make-your-own-budget-cuts/




Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.

Example:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html

DEFICIT SPENDING I GIVE UP

WITH THE NEW BUDGET OF 3.7 TRILLION AND AN INCOME OF 2.5 TRILLION WHO IS KIDDING WHO ON BALANCING THE BUDGET. CAN WE GET A 5th GRADER PLEASE TO EXPLAIN TO US HOW 3.7 TRILLION SPENDING IS BALANCING THE BUDGET WITH A 2.5 TRILLION INCOME.

IN 2009 DEFICIT - 1.3 TRILLION 

IN 2010 DEFICIT - 1.5 TRILLION

NOW 2011 later DEFICIT - 1.1 TRILLION

THE ADMINISTRATION WILL NEVER BREAK THE SPENDING HABIT ITS LIKE A DRUG HABIT IT CAN'T OVERCOME. IT'S TIME TO GET GOLD TURKEY.

SO THE EGYPT REVOLUTION WAS NOT AS PEACEFUL AS THE MEDIA CLAIMS

MORE ANTI AMERICAN RHETORIC IF YOU BELIEVE THE CAPITALIST AND IMPERIALIST POINT OF VIEW. I SUPPOSE IT'S EXPECTED TO BE ATTACKED FOR HOLDING SUCH A VIEW OR EVEN ASSUMED TO HAVE SUCH A VIEW. BUT THEN AGAIN THIS REVOLUTION WAS ALL ABOUT YOUTHFUL INDISCRETION FOR DEMOCRACY THE BYPRODUCT IS VIOLENCE.  BEHEADING ANYONE YET LIKE DANIEL PEARL. WAIT AND SEE I SUPPOSE.


On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.
In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.

THEBLAZE

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cbs-news-correspondent-subjected-to-brutal-and-sustained-sexual-assault-in-egypt/

IN THE DAYS OF OVERSPENDING AND DEBT EXPANSION OBAMA SAYS "LET THEM EAT MORE CAKE"

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases.
Obama's new budget projects that the deficit for the current year will surge to an all-time high of $1.65 trillion.

The president's projected $1.65 trillion deficit for the current year would be the highest dollar amount ever, surpassing the $1.41 trillion deficit hit in 2009. It would also represent 10.8 percent of the total economy, the highest level since the deficit stood at 21.5 percent of gross domestic product in 1945, reflecting heavy borrowing to fight World War II.

The president's 2012 budget projects that the deficits will total $7.21 trillion over the next decade with the imbalances never falling lower below $607 billion, a figure that would still exceed the previous deficit record before Obama took office of $458.6 billion in 2008, President George W. Bush's last year in office.

In the energy area, the budget would support Obama's goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015 and doubling the nation's share of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.
The budget proposes program terminations or spending reductions for more than 200 programs at an estimated savings of $33 billion in 2012. Programs targeted for large cuts included Community Development Block Grants, trimmed by $300 million, while a program that helps pay heating bills for low-income families would be cut in half for a savings of $2.5 billion while a program supporting environmental restoration of the Great Lakes would be reduced by one-fourth for $125 million in savings.


The administration will also propose saving $100 billion from Pell Grants

The budget will propose $1 billion in cuts in grants for large airports, almost $1 billion in reduced support to states for water treatment plants and other infrastructure

Another $62 billion in savings would be devoted to paying to prevent cuts in payments to doctors in the Medicare program

it did call for $78 billion in reductions to Pentagon spending

Obama's budget would also raise $46 billion over 10 years by eliminating various tax breaks to oil, gas and coal companies.

an estimated savings of $33 billion in 2012. Programs targeted for large cuts included Community Development Block Grants, trimmed by $300 million, while a program that helps pay heating bills for low-income families would be cut in half for a savings of $2.5 billion while a program supporting environmental restoration of the Great Lakes would be reduced by one-fourth for $125 million in savings.

THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS NO CLUE. CLUELESS WHEN THE DEBT COMMISSION IS EVEN IGNORED IN THIS BUDGET. THE SPEND AND TAX PRESIDENT LIVES ON. WITH THE CURRENT INCOME OF 2.5TRILLION HE PROPOSES A 3.7TRILLION SPENDING.


FIGURES HIS HEAD IS STILL IN THE SAND. COULD SOMEONE PULL IT OUT FOR HIM. HE LIKES IT THAT WAY.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/14/obama-sends-trillion-budget-congress/

2011 CONGRESSMEN NO ROOM AND BOARD HERE

You’ve just gotten a new job that pays $174,000 (plus amazing benefits, but that’s another story).  This job requires you to split time between your home in Whereverville and Washington, DC.

The new gig comes with a huge office that is effectively a three-room suite, (and if you are lucky it might also have a bathroom and small kitchen).  So instead of paying upwards of $2000/month for a one-room apartment, you decide to turn one of the three rooms in the office into living space.  Fold-out couch or inflatable mattress… BOOM!  You’re home.  The office also has a swell gym that is open 24/7 so showering is not a problem.

THEBLAZE

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ethics-group-knocks-thrifty-lawmakers-for-sleeping-in-their-capitol-hill-offices/

Below is a list of members that reside in their D.C. office:

Dan Boren (D-OK)
John Carney (D-DE)
Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Hansen Clarke (D-MI)
Sean Duffy (R-WI)
Stephen Fincher (R-TN)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Chris Gibson (R-NY)
Tim Griffin (R-AR
Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
Luis Guittierez (D-IL)
Richard Hanna (R-NY)
Joe Heck (R-NV)
Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
Bill Johnson (R-OH)
James Lankford (R-OK)
Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
Patrick Meehan (R-PA)
Ben Quayle (R-AZ)
Mike Quigley (D-IL)
Todd Rokita (R-IN)
Bobby Rush (D-IL)
Paul Ryan (R-WI)
David Schweikert (R-AZ)
Steve Stivers (R-OH)
John Sullivan (R-OK)
Tim Walberg (R-MI)
Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Todd Young (R-IN)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/crew-to-congressmen-get-a-room/#ixzz1DtpARkX8

THE GREAT CHICAGO CAPERS ARE FALLING APART

Obama is clueless.  Totally clueless.  I am not talking a little out of step here.  I am talking the man has no idea what is going on around him.  This is not coming from me.  I am relaying it from some still around him on a regular basis.


FYI there was a closed door meeting recently under the guise of discussions on Egypt.  That meeting did not involve Egypt much if at all.  This information is relayed second hand but I believe it to be completely reliable.  Source told that meeting was run by Jarrett from start to end.  Obama said very little.  Asked no questions.  The primary focus was how to protect Obamacare so it was not a “liability” in 2012 campaign.  White House already spending significant time/resources preparing legal argument for the Supreme Court case that is coming.  Second focus was apparently “birther” related.

People are discussing whether or not you are actually eligible to run for re-election in 2012 and you don’t say a word on the subject?  “He just sat there with a weird little smile and didn’t say anything.”  Go ahead and print that quote word for word.  Others are now willing to let their observations be more known.  Concern for the country is now winning over concern for their own political interests.  Finally.
As stated before, Geithner is leaving.  That was repeated to me again this past week.

http://newsflavor.com/politics/world-politics/white-house-insider-obama-is-clueless-totally-clueless/