Bid to 'reform' filibuster is dangerous

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Brian Darling  "The Senate, we should remember, was created to be an institution far different from the House of Representatives. The House was to be the voice of the people, with representatives elected every two years, while the Senate would represent the interests of the states, with senators elected every six years.
"According to the Senate's official history, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison saw the upper chamber as a "great 'anchor' of the government" that would calm the passions of the House. "George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the framers had created the Senate to 'cool' House legislation just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea.""

The Daily Show Mocks San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban

Heritage   "Last year, war was declared on McDonald’s Happy Meals and their toys. These meals are so dangerous and exploitative of children we were told that government simply must get involved. Nowhere was this nanny state silliness more on display than in San Francisco, where that city’s activist board of supervisors banned Happy Meals and other kids meals."....
"But we simply can’t do a better job at pointing out the absurdities of this misguided crusade than Aasif Mandvi did in this excerpt from a recent episode of The Daily Show"

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Repeal Doesn’t Increase the Deficit

Heritage  "When now-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ... was sworn in as Speaker on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8.67 trillion. By the time Pelosi surrendered the gavel to Speaker John Boehner ... yesterday, the national debt stood at $14.01 trillion. At $5.34 trillion, that means Speaker Pelosi added more than $1 trillion in debt per year during her tenure as Speaker. And yet she has the audacity to tell reporters Tuesday: “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”

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Ann Coulter  "Over and over again, Republicans tried to rein in the politically correct policies being foisted on mortgage lenders by Fannie Mae, only to be met by a Praetorian Guard of Democrats howling that Republicans hated the poor.'
"In 2003, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee wrote a bill to tighten the lending regulation of Fannie and Freddie. Every single Democrat on the committee voted against it.
"In the House, Barney Frank angrily proclaimed that Fannie Mae was "just fine.""....
"As Peter Schweizer points out in his magnificent book "Architects of Ruin," which everyone should read, Enron's accounting fraud was a paltry $567 million -- and it didn't bring down the entire financial system. Those involved in the Enron manipulations went to prison. Raines and Gorelick not only didn't go to jail, they walked away with multimillion-dollar payouts, courtesy of the taxpayer."

The liberals own words on this

Barney Frank in 2005: What Housing Bubble?

Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown

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Rich Terrell: GOP freshmen climb aboard

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Tea Party Congress Returns to Constitution  "Shortly after noon today, all 435 Members of the House of Representatives will raise their right hands and take the following oath:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

"Saving" the Housing Market

Thomas Sowell  "Sometimes we are more concerned about some people because they are especially deserving. But this cannot be said about those who borrowed money to buy homes that they could not afford, or who borrowed against the equity in their homes, and now find that what they owe is more than the home is worth.

"If anyone is especially deserving, it is those who had the common sense to avoid taking on bigger financial obligations than they could handle, but who are now expected to pay as taxpayers for other people's irresponsibility."

(Updated) New Edition of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Gets PC N-Word Scrubbing, ‘Entertainment Weekly’ Okay With That

Big Hollywood  "What’s next? Blazing Saddles? Rap albums?

"You don’t update and whitewash Mark Twain, you teach Mark Twain. You have your students read the novel and then teach them the context of the times and the context of the words. Twain was no racist and the words he used were deliberate. But again, what’s most troubling isn’t one idiot publisher making a moronic decision, it’s that those like EW who should be at the head of the line protesting this are instead the primary PC Palace Guards defending it."

Reporter Trial Set For Use of “N Word” and Double Standard  "Reporter Tom Burlington files suit against the station that fired him, because, he alleges, it was acceptable for a black person to use the “n word” but not him. When illustrating the discrepancy in a staff meeting, he says in his suit, he used the word and was fired for it."

What Will the PC-Police Do When the ‘Narnia’ Films Confront Islam?  "The works of C.S. Lewis have been demonized in the past by the usual suspects on the cultural left. One of his biggest detractors is Phillip Pullman, a bitter atheist, whose books are less successful than Lewis’s, and the film based on his novel “The Golden Compass” was a box office bust here in the States. Pullman has described Lewis’s work as “racist and sexist”. While most readers in the United States are barely aware of this guy, his opinion is in line with the sort of people who run the film industry. Because of that fact alone, the producers of the Narnia films will undoubtedly face some world class peer pressure to “soften” the story when it comes time to bring the film adaptations of The Horse and his Boy (as well as the last book in the series, The Last Battle ) to life."

Pat Oliphant, whose work we sometimes appreciate.

Obama on the debt ceiling; then and now

Ethel C. Fenig  "Busy campaigning for the presidency in 2007 and 2008 and involved with other personal matters not related to his senatorial duties, Obama didn't even bother voting when the issue came up in each of these years. Indeed, he didn't vote on many other issues during his overlapping later senatorial career/presidential campaign time."

 Do Americans really want to 'tax the rich' to curb the deficit?  "The poll results of a bunch of liberals hardly represent "most Americans." And given the poll choices what should we expect?
"The 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll is the same source that claims most Americans (63%) have no problem with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being tried in NYC. "Most Americans" chose the loaded answer, "New York is a target anyway."" Monte Kuligowski

More Confirmation of Obama's Socialism  "... the war for the nation's heart and soul is now commencing in earnest. Beginning tomorrow, Speaker-presumptive John Boehner and the House Republican majority will be the frontlines in the fight to stop, then rollback, Mr. Obama's and the left's attempt to radically transform an unwilling nation. The coming fight will take enormous courage and resolve; there can be no wavering in Republicans' commitment to principles. Conservatives need to furnish the backbone."
J. Robert Smith is a public affairs consultant with a practice in Alexandria, Virginia.

Gas Prices Back Above $3, Networks Don't Question Obama Policies

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Wall Street Journal  "The Heritage Foundation noted on Dec. 29 that the press pestered Bush about gas costs and the political consequences of high pump prices, but have yet to ask Obama the question. CBS suggested on April 26, 2006, that President Bush needed to "do something" about gas prices.
"A few months later, on Aug. 21, 2006, Bush was asked at a press conference: "What do you say to people who are losing patience with gas prices at $3 a gallon? And how much of a political price do you think you're paying for that, right now?"....
"How does Obama plan to raise prices? With further EPA regulations of power plants and oil refineries, and more rules for natural resources on government properties and the 'de facto moratorium' on oil drilling.
"Not one of the December 2010 network stories mentioning gas prices questioned the role of the Obama White House."

Pentagon cuts to reflect Gates, White House tussle

Reuters   "Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been successfully pushing back against White House attempts to more severely cut into weapons program funding than what the Pentagon had been bracing for, an analyst and defense company source said on Tuesday."

Mike Ramirez Cartoon

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