My Latest Message to Congress and the U.S. Senate

Here's a message I sent to House and Senate members today:

Please stick to your principles on the stimulus package and EVERY OTHER ISSUE you address this year no matter what the cost. Perhaps it would be encouraging for you to go back to look at what the political map looked like the morning after a TRUE CONSERVATIVE -- Ronald Reagan -- ran for U.S. President.

He did NOT cave in to the LEFT. Instead, he carried the message to Americans that what they REALLY believe in and WANT is an America that lives by CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES.

Make citizens aware of the DANGERS of the LEFT-WING IDEOLOGIES and the majority WILL stand behind you.

P.S.: Don't cave into the Republican governors either -- including Governors Palen and Pawlenty. Let them face their own music. You are NOT responsible for their plight. They signed the legislation in their own states and spent the money through their own administrations. They can get their own houses in order.

What are YOU going to tell them?

Obama moves to sieze control of the U.S. census

Obama shifts Census oversight, triggering angry protest by Republicans

By Carrie Dann CongressDaily February 6, 2009

President Obama has decided to bring the U.S. Census Bureau under White House jurisdiction, a move that incensed House Republicans, who fired off a blistering letter to him Thursday, calling it "outrageous and unprecedented" and a "blatant partisan and political maneuver."

The move would shift the chain of command with the bureau and the Commerce Department, where the bureau currently resides. It comes after the Congressional Black Caucus, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and other groups expressed displeasure with Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

Gregg, the groups said this week, opposed efforts to secure emergency funding for the 2000 Census, which they asserted exposes a potential lack of commitment to ensuring that hard-to-reach minority populations are properly accounted for in the 2010 census.

A White House spokesman confirmed Thursday that Obama plans to work closely with the bureau, which will remain within the Commerce Department.

"From the first days of the transition the census has been a priority for the president, and a process he wanted to re-evaluate," the spokesman said in a prepared statement.

"There is historic precedent for the director of the census, who works for the Commerce secretary and the president, to work closely with White House senior management -- given the number of decisions that will have to be put before the president," he said. "We plan to return to that model in this administration."

House Republicans reacted quickly. House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Oversight and Government Reform Census Subcommittee ranking member Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., seized on speculation that the move would place the yet-unnamed Census Bureau director under the watchful eye of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, instead of leaving Gregg in charge.

They suggested the move could improperly influence legislative redistricting, which is shaped by Census counts.

"By circumventing the secretary of Commerce's oversight of the Census Bureau and handing it directly to a political operative such as Mr. Emanuel, you are severely jeopardizing the fairness and accuracy of the 2010 Census," Issa and McHenry wrote Obama.

Details of the day-to-day relationship between the White House and the Census Bureau seem hazy.

Aides speculated Thursday that the bureau's budget and public-affairs functions may be routed through OMB, an arrangement that would assuage the fears expressed by advocates concerned that the Census director's public statements and congressional testimony would be subject to censorship by less-than-supportive leadership at Commerce.

Sources on both sides of the issue said black lawmakers and others interested in securing more funding for the 2010 Census had been hoping for assurances of support from Obama as soon as they learned about Gregg's possible selection to Commerce post.

One Democratic aide close to the matter called the administration's decision a direct response to the grievances of minority groups upset with Gregg's appointment.

"People started yelling at them," said the aide, who added that the details of how the White House's interactions with the Census director remain woefully undefined.

"Their answer was 'OK, fine, [Gregg] won't be in charge,'" the aide said. "It wasn't a plan. It was a reaction."

The administration's idea to shift jurisdiction over the Census Bureau was not entirely new.

In September, congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., proposed legislation to make the bureau an independent federal agency. Such agencies report directly to the president, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency did before it became part of the Homeland Security Department.

A Census Bureau spokeswoman declined to comment on any organizational changes until a director is in place.

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Here's what I wrote to many leaders and others in the U.S. House of Representatives:

Please stand up in public and take a strong stand against President Obama's unprecedented move to give the White House direct control over the upcoming 2010 census in the U.S. This is dangerous! Please inform the public at large how radical this action is and the danger it portends for any remaining fairness or equity in our two-party political system.

These are the actions of a political schemer that heretofore would be considered anathema to the American way. The public must be informed that this is not just an innocuous "administrative" move.

I urge you to also take a stand. Here is a link to contacts in Congress.

A Porn Lawyer for Deputy Attorney General?

Here's a letter I sent to many Senate leaders today:

Mr. Ogden has built a career on representing views and companies that most Americans find repulsive. In his career he has argued AGAINST parents being notified that their 14-year old girl had an abortion, saying that "there is no qualitative . . . difference between minors . . . and adults." Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Mr. Ogden has argued that women who have had abortions suffer no detrimental consequences and instead feel "relief and happiness" after aborting their children.

Mr. Ogden has also PROFITED FROM REPRESENTING PORNOGRAPHERS and IN ATTACKING LEGISLATION INTENDED TO BAN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. The Department of Justice should not have A PORN LAWYER as its Deputy Attorney General, a position tasked with making the most important decisions of the department.

WHAT HOPE HAVE WE THAT OGDEN WILL NOW HELP ENFORCE THE LAWS HE HAS SPENT HIS CAREER ATTACKING?

IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE SENATE AND THE HONOR OF THE UNITED STATES TO CONFIRM THIS MAN TO SUCH A POSITION.

What are YOU going to tell them?

The Current State of "Honesty" in Our Congress!

Here's an open letter I sent to many in the Senate today:

"And when [Tom Daschle] ended up losing an election, he didn't cash in and leave. He lost an election ending his public career. His net worth was less than a million dollars at that point. And here he went out in the private sector, and now he's found himself having made a mistake and admitted to it. He took the steps necessary to start paying the taxes, make sure they're paid. Now, that's the right thing to do. I believe Tom Daschle's one of the most honest people I've ever known or worked with in public life." --Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

If Tom Daschle "one of the most honest people [Senator Durbin has] ever known or worked with in public life," that does not bode well for the condition of our Senate and House of Representatives. Here's why:

TOM DASCHLE IS AN OPEN ADVOCATE OF DEFRAUDING THE U.S. CITIZENRY BY SUGGESTING THAT THE WAY TO GET QUESTIONABLE LEGISLATION -- LEGISLATION TO WHICH THE GENERAL POPULOUS MAY OBJECT -- THROUGH CONGRESS IS TO "ACT FAST" (IN ORDER TO AVOID PUBLIC COMMENT AND DISSENT) AND "WRITE AS VAGUELY AS POSSIBLE" (IN ORDER TO OBSCURE FROM THE CITIZENS THE TRUE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATION).

NO WONDER THERE IS SO GREAT A DISTRUST OF CONGRESS IN THESE DAYS! AS A GROUP, THE ENTIRE CONGRESS OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF SUCH A POSITION AND INTENTION.

What will YOU tell them?

False Hopes of Economic Stimulus

From Mises.org

Open Letter to Senators

Message I sent to a bunch of Senators today:

From the latest news:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's choice to oversee budget and spending reform, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her nomination on Tuesday because of tax reasons, according to a letter released by the White House.

"I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your Chief Performance Officer are urgent," Killefer wrote in the letter to the president, asking for her nomination to be withdrawn.

"I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. Unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid."


APPARENTLY, THE REASON THE DEMOCRATS DON'T MIND RAISING TAXES ON THE REST OF US IS BECAUSE THEY DON'T PAY THEM THEMSELVES. HOW MANY DEMOCRATS PRESENTLY IN CONGRESS OR OTHER APPOINTED POSITIONS ARE IN THIS SAME CLASS OF 'TAX CHEATS'?

THIS DESERVES AN INVESTIGATION AND I HOPE YOU WILL PUSH FOR ONE!

What are YOU going to say to them?

Austrians Have A Better Idea

After a good Austrian bashing of the latest call to steal taxpayer money and waste it on something that will make a given problem worse, the stumped critics will often shout, "Oh yeah? Well do you guys have a better idea?" Even though "nothing" would be much, much better than all of the alleged remedies being bandied about, the Austrians actually do have concrete proposals for President Obama.

Read the whole article here.