Congress likely to give shutdown workers back pay - COLLECTIVE CHAOS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial government shutdown enters its fifth day, with Congress convening for a session that promises no progress in breaking the impasse but will at least offer back pay to furloughed federal workers.

The GOP House is scheduled Saturday to vote on legislation backed by the White House and congressional Democrats that would make sure the 800,000 sidelined government employees would get their pay when the shutdown ends. The Senate is expected to clear it later, even as early as Saturday, for President Barack Obama's signature.

Lawmakers keep replaying the same script on Capitol Hill: House Republicans pass piecemeal bills to reopen popular and politically sensitive programs — on Friday, disaster relief and food aid for the poor — while Democrats insist that the House vote on a straightforward Senate-passed measure to reopen all of government.

"But the far right of the Republican Party won't let Speaker John Boehner give that bill a yes-or-no vote," Obama said in his Saturday radio and Internet address. "Take that vote. Stop this farce. End this shutdown now."

There seemed little chance of that. For one thing, flinching by either side on the shutdown might be seen as weakening one's hand in an even more important fight looming just over the horizon as the combatants in Washington increasingly shifted their focus to a mid month deadline for averting a first-ever default.

"This isn't some damn game," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said as the White House and Democrats held to their position of agreeing to negotiate only after the government is reopened and the $16.7 trillion debt limit raised. Republicans pointed to a quote in The Wall Street Journal from an anonymous White House official that "we are winning ... It doesn't really matter to us" how long the shutdown lasts.

O'brien to Ryan to Goldburg

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bush pushed the idea in 2005.

In his 2010 "Road Map for America's Future," the Wisconsin congressman proposed a plan to allow younger workers to divert more than one-third of their Social Security taxes into personal accounts that they would own and could will to their heirs.

Ryan wrote that the accounts would provide workers an opportunity "to build a significant nest egg for retirement that far exceeds what the current program can provide." Workers 55 and older would stay in the current system.

Romney hasn't embraced the proposal and Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, didn't include it in either of the federal budgets passed by House Republicans the past two years. But now that Ryan is running for vice president, Democrats hope to capitalize on the issue.

For those who say there is no CHOICE

The following individuals have formally announced that they are running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012 and/or have filed as a candidate for such with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

President Barack Obama
John Wolfe, Jr.
Darcy Richardson
Randall Terry
Bob Ely
Keith Russell Judd
Jim Rogers
Vermin Supreme
Ed Cowan
John D. Haywood
Craig Freis
Cornelius Edward O'Connor
Edward T. O'Donnel
Bob Greene
Robert B. Jordan
Aldous C. Tyler
Ed Cowan
John D. Haywood
Edward T. O'Donnell
Bob Greene

An explanation of the "Debt Ceiling"

Democrats don't understand THE DEBT CEILING

Republicans don't understand THE DEBT CEILING

Liberals don't understand THE DEBT CEILING

Conservatives don't understand THE DEBT CEILING

NO ONE understands THE DEBT CEILING

SO - Allow me to explain . . .

Let's say you come home from work and find there

has been a Sewer backup in your Neighborhood.

Your Home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do ?

Raise the ceilings or pump out the crap ?

Your choice is coming this November.

Don't miss the opportunity !

How ironic....In Michigan state Democrats are holding 

their party delegate caucuses this weekend.

The party that staunchly opposes a requirement of  photo ID's for voters 

won't let anyone into their own meeting without photo ID!!!!!!!!!!!

Keystone oil pipeline bill fails in Senate - WHY?

By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in a vote that will give Republicans more ammunition to criticize President Barack Obama's energy policies on the campaign trail.

Republicans argue the pipeline, which would ship oil from Canada and northern states to Texas, would create jobs and improve energy security at a time of surging gasoline prices.

Obama put TransCanada's $7 billion project on hold earlier this year pending further environmental review. He took the unusual step of calling some senators personally ahead of the vote, asking them to reject the proposal.


"He understood that a majority of the American public, a majority at least in the Senate, are strongly in favor of this project," said Senator Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, who sponsored the bill to take control of the pipeline decision away from Obama.

I wonder why, I think that this is playing politics at its worst. Almost like taking food away from a starving people. I'm sure he has a reason, just can't imagine what it is.

I remember .................

Do you remember when Obamacare was finally passed? 

It was a group of Democrats, led by Michigan's Bart Stupak, who held out

 because they objected to taxpayer funded abortion.

Obama won the vote with an executive order promising that wouldn't happen.

Now we've got him ordering dispersal, at no cost, of morning after abortion pills!

Revolt! Now Democrats want Obama off ballot

The newest poll about the 2012 presidential election says one-third of Democrats and independents who lean to the left side of the field are unhappy with Barack Obama as the party’s standard-bearer and are looking for some new faces to enter the race

The startling results are from the newest WND/Wenzel Poll conducted by Wenzel Strategies. The telephone survey was conducted Oct. 22-25 and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

Responding to a question about how satisfied they are with Obama as the nominee, only 55 percent said they were very satisfied. Another 24 percent said they were somewhat satisfied, but that group apparently started falling away quickly, because fully one-third (35 percent) said that would “prefer that someone else enter the race” for the nomination.

History Lesson on Social Security

Thanks to my Cousin Merrill for this email .... interesting,  just passing the information along to all...
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!!

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed.[9]

An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,
Now 7.65% on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the Iindependent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put
away' -- you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the USÂ

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.

Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people read this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully
sure of what isn't so.

But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU forward this blog to?

Einstein said it best .............. Insanity

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.


Think about that statement by Albert Einstein

Is it not insane to keep sending POLITICIANS back to Washington, regardless of their affiliations. We sent Republicans then sent Democrats, then Republicans and then Democrats, and look where we are.

Is that not insanity?

AND, we keep expecting different results, and they never happen.

INSANITY: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Think about that .................

Is the DOOR OPEN for a THIRD PARTY?

I may be wrong, but ...........

Well, it's happening. apparent voter FRAUD in Nevada, Reid will win that race out there. Not because he WINS, they just won't let him loose. That is scary. Why have the campaign and do the voting. Save all that money. Find out who THEY want to win, go that way and get it over with. Don't go through the farce of a FREE election.

We are no different than some of those little dictatorship countries where they have a rigged election for show, but control the outcome.

The winners in the election tomorrow will be those who THEY want to win. I have been preaching this now for months, but no one listened. Instead, the overconfident Republicans just sent out funny pictures of Obama. They had Tea Parties. I still think the Tea Party movement was secretly formed by the Liberals, knowing that it would split some voting, to the Liberal advantage.

I think that Kasich will lose in the Governor's race in Ohio. The Democrats want the state too bad. What not long ago was a Kasich landslide is now neck and neck, that to me means a Democratic Victory.

I can picture many solemn victory celebrations tomorrow night with a lot of people sitting around saying, "What happened?"

Then, on Wednesday morning they will be chanting, "Wait till 2012."

I've Wondered

Have you ever wondered if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?


Have you ever wondered if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

More from the same source ......

Have you ever wondered if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

What Next?

From: Rob Jessmer

This week, Democrats showed the lengths they are willing to go to in order to pass their big government, big spending agenda. The Democrat-controlled Massachusetts legislature, pressured by the Obama White House, passed a measure allowing the Democrat Governor to appoint a Senator rather than wait for the people to elect a Senator for a vacant seat - which was the existing law.

The Democrats' power play in Massachusetts has nothing to do with principle, and everything to do with politics. With their unpopular government-run health care bill on the brink of failure, Democrats in Washington desperately need another vote in the U.S. Senate, and it is clear that this Administration will stop at nothing to ram it through the Congress.