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From: calgal	4/25/2012 7:21:12 PM
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Yet she is treated as though somehow she'd suddenly stop making her mortgage payments if the bank gave her a new loan at 3 or 4 percent. The schoolteacher is looked at by the bank as if she was a future criminal. I come from a generation where people were allowed to have a personal relationship with their bank. I used to be able to go down and talk to my local banker about a loan. I'd tell him what I wanted to do and how much money I needed. The banker would say, "Mike, I've known you for 30 years. I know you're good for it." Now there's no such thing as a personal relationship with your banker. The "local" bank is owned by a bunch of international mega-corporations and the management changes every 3 minutes. Dodd-Frank has created a situation where only the large banks will survive. Small banks are essentially being outlawed. That means our ability to ever have a personal relationship with a banker is also being outlawed. And one bad result of that will be to create more people who become upside-down on their mortgages

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To: calgal who wrote (50972)	4/25/2012 7:22:55 PM
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Or if it's Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd themselves. Or if it's just the big bankers. But the reality is, our banking system is completely screwed up when it comes to getting a home loan. The problem used to be that the banks, in collusion with a federal government, made bad loans to bad people. That's what helped bring us the housing bubble and the inevitable bust that followed. Today the problem is reversed. The banking system is so nuts it won't even allow banks to make good loans to good people. An example of our new backward banking system in action is what's happened to the daughter of a friend of mine. She's a 29-year-old schoolteacher. When she was 24 she went out and bought herself a townhome that a bank had ended up owning after a foreclosure. The bank was buried in the townhome for $560,000. The schoolteacher got the house for $360,000 and put $110,000 down. Her interest rate five years ago was 6Â¾ percent. Today the townhome is worth more than what the teacher paid for it and now she wants to refinance and get a low-interest loan. But she's just been told by Big Bank that she doesn't qualify for a 3 or 4 percent loan. They've even told her she shouldn't have been able to qualify for her original loan. Think about this: Here is a teacher who has never missed a house payment. She has her monthly mortgage payment taken out of her bank account automatically. She's never missed paying her taxes. She's never missed paying her homeowner's dues. Yet she is treated as though somehow she'd suddenly stop making her mortgage payments if the bank gave her a new loan at 3 or 4 percent. The schoolteacher is looked at by the bank as if she was a future criminal. I come from a generation where people were allowed to have a personal relationship with their bank. I used to be able to go down and talk to my local banker about a loan. I'd tell him what I wanted to do and how much money I needed. The banker would say, "Mike, I've known you for 30 years. I know you're good for it." Now there's no such thing as a personal relationship with your banker. The "local" bank is owned by a bunch of international mega-corporations and the management changes every 3 minutes. Dodd-Frank has created a situation where only the large banks will survive. Small banks are essentially being outlawed. That means our ability to ever have a personal relationship with a banker is also being outlawed. And one bad result of that will be to create more people who become upside-down on their mortgages.

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From: calgal	4/25/2012 7:24:26 PM
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Transparency: GOP Introduces 'Midnight Regulations' Ban in Congress Kate Hicks Web Editor, Townhall.com [iframe id="f255abf1e" name="f1f7ee472" scrolling="no" title="Like this content on Facebook." class="fb_ltr" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D5%23cb%3Df1366343c%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftownhall.com%252Ff31eba538c%26domain%3Dtownhall.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FTownhall-Tipsheet%2F221538901213751&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=90" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; height: 20px; width: 78px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "][/iframe] Apr 25, 2012 02:16 PM EST [iframe width="228" height="335" src="http://web.adblade.com/imps.php?app=5066&output=html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 228px; height: 335px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "][/iframe] Back in 2008, Candidate Obama ran for president on a platform of change, including promises of government transparency, the likes of which we'd never seen before. Of course, countless scandals -- from Solyndra to Fast and Furious -- prove that we're still not seeing that transparency. However, several Republican lawmakers are out to force the president to meet his own standards. They're introducing legislation that would bar the president from passing any "midnight resolutions," orders lame duck presidents issue in the last minutes of executive office. The Midnight Rule Relief Act, H.R. 4607, follows an April letter from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) that urged President Obama not to pass any "midnight regulations." "We believe that issuing a raft of midnight regulations would be inconsistent with your January 2009 commitment to transparency and accountability in the rulemaking process," they wrote. H.R. 4607 goes much further than a request, by preventing "significant" regulations from being promulgated from the day after the November election through Jan. 20, Obama's last day in office should he lose. Republican supporters of the bill said an outgoing president should not have the authority to issue these rules, which the bill defines as those having an impact on the economy of $100 million or more. Given President Obama's proclivity for dodging Congress when enacting his agenda -- think "recess" appointments and airstrikes on Libya -- the legislation addresses a legitimate concern. Should he lose his reelection bid this November, it's likely that he'll do all he can to fulfill his policy goals before leaving office. Hey, remember "We Can't Wait?" He's said he's willing to act unilaterally before: One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism. “We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything,” recalled William M. Daley, who was the White House chief of staff at the time. “The president expressed frustration, saying we have got to scour everything and push the envelope in finding things we can do on our own.” Mr. Obama has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers. When he announced a cut in refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages last month, for example, he said: “If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.” The lawmakers behind the bill -- Reid Ribble (R-WI) in the House and Ron Johnson (R-WI) in the Senate -- recognize the danger of a politician with lots of power and nothing to lose. Thus, they seek to nip in the bud any far-reaching regulations that Obama may wish to pass before he leaves office. "Significant regulatory actions should be proposed and put in place before Election Day," Johnson said. "Too often, Presidents wait until after the voters have spoken to impose new and costly rules — rules that the people ought to know about before going to the polls. "This bill ensures that except for some specific circumstance, new major regulations will not be imposed once a President has become a lame duck," he added. "This is a straightforward good-government reform," [fellow cosponsor Darrell] Issa said. "Any president who has lost his mandate to govern should not be permitted to hatch costly new regulatory schemes on his way out the door." Of course, it remains to be seen whether Democrats will be receptive to the bill -- and signs point to no -- but regardless, it's a good reform that tackles a controversial problem. Whether Republican or Democrat, presidents of every stripe have taken advantage of their last vestiges of power in ways controversial. A law like this would prevent any chief executive, from the right or the left, from abusing the last of their power. It's hard to argue that this is a hyperpartisan, straight-anti-Obama bill when the Democrats might consider the kinds of GOP midnight regulations it could prevent. [iframe id="f177f86d38" name="f2f9208a3c" scrolling="no" title="Like this content on Facebook." class="fb_ltr" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D5%23cb%3Df7993db4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftownhall.com%252Ff31eba538c%26domain%3Dtownhall.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fkatehicks%2F2012%2F04%2F25%2Ftransparency_gop_introduces_midnight_regulations_ban_in_congress&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=130" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; height: 20px; width: 112px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "][/iframe] Tags: Government Regulations , 2012 Election , Darrell Issa , Lame Duck , Ron Johnson , Congressional Republicans , Barack Obama , Reform Important Important3 Awesome1 Smart1 Insane Ridiculous Surprising Wow Kate HicksKate Hicks is one of Townhall.com's web editors. 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Of course, the GOP didn't want to do this when their man was in the White House. Since Jimmy Carter, every President has complained about midnight regulations and, four or eight years later, every President has issued them. On a percentage basis, George Bush senior holds the record: his Administration issued a greater proportion of its rules during the midnight period—generally defined as the last three months in office—than any other President’s. Clinton's not much better. And then, there's GWB. guardian.co.uk Login to Reply Flag as Offensive clarityseeker2 Wrote:24 minutes ago (6:59 PM) Obama----------the great, "BRIDGE BUILDER" extraordinaire.... He has every branch of government pitted against each other----CHAOS. He has RAILED against the Supreme Court. He has chastised and berated the House of Representatives. This guy, with the Cheshire grin is a Bully, an instigator, a RACE-BAITER, and the most ineffective leader this country has ever seen (including Carter, Johnson, Roosevelt, Wilson). Login to Reply Flag as Offensive clarityseeker2 Wrote:21 minutes ago (7:02 PM) HR 347 was passed this month under the veil of secrecy. Pathetic bill. And now, Schumer and Obama use threatening language against the SCOTUS in incredibly childish form. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive wiseone Wrote:17 minutes ago (7:06 PM) How is Schumer going to get a law through the GOP House that will stop AZ from enforcing its Immigration Law? What an @ss. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive binc Wrote:50 minutes ago (6:32 PM) As per the accompanying photo of Obama, there is a definite lower face abnormality going on there and his wife's is considerably worse. Who the hell are these people that deem them both attractive and "cool"? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Duke Nuk'em Wrote:40 minutes ago (6:43 PM) Died in the wool stuck on stupid tax takers! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Blunten_Sharpe Wrote:3 minutes ago (7:20 PM) That's "dyed" you analphabet. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All Steve1579 Wrote:56 minutes ago (6:27 PM) Too bad Congress can't act retroactively on the mess he has created with this nonsense..get rid of a few Czars,,Even the Dems are getting a bit tired of his end runs around their bailiwick of authority that is constitutionally given unto them... Login to Reply Flag as Offensive overyonder Wrote:1 hour ago (6:06 PM) Congress is ineffective. Our only hope is the Supreme Court, but we all know that hangs by a hair. God help us. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive T172 Wrote:54 minutes ago (6:29 PM) Really, the supreme court? Who just said we could be strip searched for something as minor as a traffic stop? Those guys? Really? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive overyonder Wrote:46 minutes ago (6:37 PM) Got a better option? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All Rob R Wrote:1 hour ago (5:42 PM) Obama, in his true African, muslim, Indonesian, anti American ways declared " real " America's ' War On Terror ' is over. Why would Barack Hussein Obama the ll do this, you ask. He is so frigging beside himself ( desperate ) that he and his butt-er half will be on the street, before he can say....help me A.C.O.R.N., he is taking the calculated risk ( with our children's lives ) that by doing this, all his muslim brothers from the hood...and beyond will vote for his sorry a$$ in November. This America/white folks hating ( except for our money ) POS has now left no special interest ( including terrorist ) groups balls ungiggled.......shamefully for nothing more than his & Michelle's own misguided personal gain,.....political expedi Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Ress Wrote:1 hour ago (5:30 PM) The Left freely changes the definitions of words whenever it suits them. "Transparency" in their book means "look past it -- nothing to see here." Login to Reply Flag as Offensive ca7 Wrote:1 hour ago (5:27 PM) While I partially agree with this proposal, the reality is that we elect our POTUS for 4 years, not 3 years and 10 months. When elected POTUS, one does have a mandate to govern for 4 whole years. And it works that way for both parties when in power. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Judith-BG Wrote:1 hour ago (5:35 PM) So how come this potus doesn't get to the meetings at the start of them? He himself has admitted and has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers. Why...because he is a spoiled brat that never intended to work with lawmakers! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive ca7 Wrote:1 hour ago (5:45 PM) Probably because the current legislators from both parties are a bunch of idiots that don't get anything done? Do you agree that the POTUS is elected for 4 years and not 3 years plus 10 months? Do you agree that Senators are elected for 6 years and not 5 years plus 10 months? How about Representatives? 2 years or just 1 year plus 10 months? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All Frank1802 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:21 PM) My understanding is that all spending bills must come from Congress. Therefore any of the measures Obama passes in this way must be funded, the answer then is surely NOT to pass the bill funding ANY of these things and they will die on the vine. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Judith-BG Wrote:2 hours ago (5:20 PM) oblama-man looks like a skulking child in that photo. Goes very well with the idea that he should act less like child that wants its own way and more like a public figure. I know, I know...he's the president. I just can't spit it out. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive tnmccoy Wrote:2 hours ago (5:18 PM) Even it the billed passed and was signed into law [for show], Obama would ignore it and do the best he could in his lame duck period to further destroy and harm the economy and the people. He wants us to be Third World and no longer a leader in anything but socialism and communism, with a tinge of Muslim. He can't be controlled by Congress. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive M.K. Wrote:2 hours ago (5:15 PM) It will pass in the House but Reid will block it in the Senate. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Dave M Wrote:2 hours ago (5:05 PM) A better solution would be for Congress to DO THEIR JOB IN THE FIRST PLACE and NOT FUND THESE AGENCIES!!!!!!!! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Andre34 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:51 PM) I thought Romney could just issue his own executive order to rescind the whole slew of executive orders Obama has and will spew out because he doesn't have the time or inclination to follow the legislative process as laid out in the constitution. I am also expecting to see Romney nullify the multitude of pre-emptive pardons Obama will surely issue for himself, Holder and other members of his criminal regime who will be deposed on Nov 06. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive olddog39 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:32 PM) This should go even further. No defeated congressperson should have a vote after the election either! No more lame duck congress esp. Senators! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Anne_1 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:12 PM) WAIT! I think I hear an Executive Order being drafted right now... Just in case H.R. 4607 gets passed, Obozo has to have Plan B ready to put into action. Can't have that damn Congress shoring up Obozo's POWER! And no doubt he'll actually sign it, you guessed it, at MIDNIGHT! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive JRG3 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:03 PM) Regretfully, Hicks only sees the rational, positive aspects of this bill that would protect the populace from the ruling class. Of course, the ruling class only cares about, as Obama typifies, continuing "to do everything in my power to act without them.” Working together to form concensus and when concensus isn't possible to not pursue a proposal never enters the minds of activists like Obama, who imagines himself empowered to solve all issues he wants to meddle in. He acts like an absolute ruler--Hello King George!!!--a truly disrespectful appraoch to the US Constitution. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Ann272 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:03 PM) After President Wilson had his stroke, Mrs. Wilson ran the White House for almost two years; President Roosevelt had 4 terms. The XXII Amendment states "No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice . . . " while the XXV Amendment states "whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President." Both Amendments had to be created to overcome just such problems. Remember Clinton's saxophone? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Scott4616 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:02 PM) Kate Hicks writes: “Of course, countless scandals -- from Solyndra to Fast and Furious -- prove that we're still not seeing that transparency.” That’s because dear leader is a pathological liar. He could fulfill his promise of “transparency” tomorrow by Executive Order if he wanted to, but he’s no different than every other corrupt politician who forgets his promises and the people who voted for him once he’s in office. Unless you’re one of his cronies or “bundlers”, of course. He takes good care of them. Just follow the money, and eventually you’ll find the snake. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive tc5bwe Wrote:2 hours ago (4:52 PM) Many people refer to the President and DWS as pathological liars but I don't think so. I think they're calculating and their lies are just that...calculations. They want a certain effect and the lies are to create the conditions that will bring their goals to a successful end. 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To: calgal who wrote (50974)

4/25/2012 7:25:16 PM

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The war is over?

By Cal Thomas

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "The war on terror is over," or so claims an unnamed seniorState Department official, as reported by National Journal's Michael Hirsh in his recent article "The Post al-Qaida Era."

Really? Well, if the war is over, I must have missed the peace treaty signing ceremony. I also haven't noticed a decline in incendiary rhetoric, or the disarmament -- or at least laying down of arms -- that usually accompanies the end of war. Does this mean we can do away with full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs?

Those who believe the war against radical Islamists is over never really believed we were fighting one. They have been in denial from the start. Each time they have been proven wrong -- the land for peace formula between Israel and her enemies is just one example among many -- they have simply moved on to the next level of denial. Now they have reached rock bottom with nowhere else to go and are telling us we can live with Islamism.

Hirsh references Reuel Marc Gerecht, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan institution focusing on national security and foreign policy, whom he calls one of the "smarter hardliners on the Right." Hirsh says Gerecht is among an emerging group of policymakers and analysts coming to realize that "the Arab world may find another route to democracy -- through Islamism."

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This is preposterous. It is like saying the route to women's rights is through patriarchy. War is peace. George Orwell lives! Radical Islamists have made it perfectly clear they have no interest in joining the democratic process. They are at war. They are at war with the West. No amount of "make-nice" will stop them from trying to destroy Western infidels, which they consider all proponents of democracy to be.

Gerecht's kind of thinking is beyond self-delusional. It is suicidal. Any hope that the Arab Spring and the Middle East elections that result will make any difference in the way radical Islamists deal with or perceive the West is misplaced. Elections are meaningless without a framework guaranteeing individual rights. History is full of examples where elections brought to power dictators who then either gamed the system so their re-election was guaranteed or made sure there were no more elections.

Closer to reality is a report in the April 15 London Sunday Times. Reporter Hala Jaber writes fromCairo about the forthcoming Egyptian elections: "Voters fear the imposition of the veil and a harsh penal code if radicals win the election."

Ask the radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada if he thinks the war against the West, which is the proper way of framing this conflict, is over. British Home Secretary Theresa May has possibly blown an opportunity to deport Qatada because of a bureaucratic snafu over a deadline for his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Now there is a good chance that Qataba, described by a judge in Spain as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, could be released from prison instead of being deported to Jordan as planned.

Just because the leadership of al-Qaida has been killed, imprisoned or forced to run, does not mean that the fighting stops. In fact, though the "war on terror" may be over as a concept, White Housespokesman Tommy Vietor assured Michael Hirsh, the war against al-Qaida rages on. But the war is much broader than al-Qaida. Terrorism flows from a belief system and worldview that will not be crushed because a few al-Qaida leaders are gone.

The secular left refuses to understand this. Terrorism is not the only tool in the arsenal of radical Islamists. Infiltration, Islamic schools, the building of mosques in the midst of the "Great Satan," the running of Muslim candidates for public office, the demands for more "rights" and civil liberties, while Islamists deny such things to the nations they dominate -- all of this and more proves the war by whatever name one wishes to call it is not over. In fact, it is just beginning.

Radical Islamists are attempting to unify the Muslim world under Sharia law and other dictates of the extremist wing of the religion. If they succeed, they will most assuredly redouble their efforts to eliminate Israel and come after America.

The war on terror continues. We need to fight it to win it

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To: calgal who wrote (50975)	4/25/2012 7:25:34 PM
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More DWS: Americans Really Don't Care About the Budget "Process" Guy Benson Political Editor, Townhall.com [iframe id="f34e6d8d18" name="f275ac2624" scrolling="no" title="Like this content on Facebook." class="fb_ltr" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D5%23cb%3Df1043fc84c%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftownhall.com%252Ff2073de824%26domain%3Dtownhall.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FTownhall-Tipsheet%2F221538901213751&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=90" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; height: 20px; width: 78px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "][/iframe] Apr 25, 2012 12:05 PM EST Our buddy Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on Fox News last night, an occasion that typically guarantees some sort of embarrassing meltdown. True to form, when anchor Bret Baier pressed the DNC chair on why Senate Democrats haven't produced a budget in nearly 1,100 days, Wasserman Schultz informed Baier that Americans aren't "interested in" these types of "process" questions (the key bit starts at the two minute mark): [iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="243" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qykK2jTQFUY" width="420"][/iframe] Baier does an admirable job of puncturing her dissembling, but I'd like to offer an even more comprehensive rebuttal: (1) Even if Americans don't care about "process" questions (and their general revulsion at the backroom Obamacare dealings suggest that they sometimes do), the law cares about process. And the law requires both houses of Congress to introduce and pass budgets every year. Senate Democrats have shirked this obligation for three consecutive budget cycles. (2) DWS says the "Romney-Ryan budget" -- see my post from yesterday -- "ends Medicare as we know it." For the umpteenth time, basic math ends Medicare as we know it. Just this week, the program's trustees put out a report confirming that Medicare's core fund will become insolvent in 2024. That's 12 years from today. If we do nothing. President Obama's non-solution is to set a government cap on Medicare spending, and enforce it through an unelected rationing panel of 15 government bureaucrats. (Although he's cynically backtracking on the first scheduled round of cuts, using a shameless maneuver to push the pain until after the upcoming election). The bipartisan Paul Ryan (R) -Ron Wyden (D) Medicare reform plan enshrined in the House-passed budget takes a patient-centered approach, premised on choice and competition. "Medicare as we know it" is changing. Period. The question is, how do we go about it. Republicans have a plan. Democrats openly admit they have no solutions to the long-term debt bomb they're refusing to defuse, but they're scrambling to assail the GOP alternative. Also, she keeps talking about the "pain" the Republican plan would inflict on Americans. You know what's painful? National insolvency. Just ask the Greeks choking on tear gas at their latest street riot. (3) Wasserman Schultz holds up the president's budget as a serious alternative to the House-passed blueprint. Is she aware that Obama's last two budgets have been defeated 511-0 in Congress, a number that includes scores of Democrat 'no' votes? So in what possible sense is Obama's surreally awful budget a viable plan? (4) As Breitbart's Joel Pollak pointed out on Twitter last night, DWS tries to have it both ways. When pressed on Senate Democrats' egregious and unlawful inaction, she says she's a member of the House and therefore doesn't represent Harry Reid. She's a House member, yes, but she's also the Democratic National Committee Chairwoman. She speaks for her entire party; that'sliterally (to borrow one of her favorite words) her job. (5) Her fanciful "solution" to this budget mess is for both parties to "work together." Baier astutely notes that a conference committee -- in which disparate bills from each chamber are merged into one -- would serve that purpose, but the lack of a Democrat budget makes such a task impossible. DWS blithely ignores this point, and claims that the GOP simply refuses to work with President Obama. Aside from this not being true, Democrats were the ones who excluded Republicans from the Stimulus discussion and from the drafting process of their exceedingly unpopular healthcare monstrosity. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is incapable of telling the truth because the truth reveals that her party to be an irresponsible failure. It's a tough job, I realize-- which renders me forever grateful that President Obama hand-selected such a capable and charming individual to apply lipstick to the Democrat policy pig. 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We just want up and down votes. Obama and the Democrats constantly tells us what we care about and what we don't. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive maverick13 Wrote:16 minutes ago (7:21 PM) Remember when Obama tried to tell us we don't care about the process. We just want up and down votes. Obama and the Democrats constantly tells us what we care about and what we don't. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Dramamama Wrote:17 minutes ago (7:20 PM) Keep talking Debbie-dufus! We love it when you and all your idiotic cohorts open your big mouths! You are complete and total idiots and have NO idea that we see through it!! Go ahead and and talk more......it is so working for us! ANYONE BUT OBAMA2012!!!! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive SalaciousCrumb Wrote:20 minutes ago (7:16 PM) You guys have been saying Medicare is dying for decades now. Just another scare tactic that won't go away. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Steve1579 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:30 PM) Is she same America that we live in? Where has she been living as of late? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive itsnotaboutyou Wrote:1 hour ago (6:28 PM) This woman has such a cold, empty look in her eyes. How does she know the American people don't care about the budget process??!! When it is our taxpayer dollars they are talking about, we had better care about what is being done with them. And government better be making wise decisions about the spending of the people's money. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive T172 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:31 PM) Nobody cares man. No one cares at all. Half of americans don't even vote. Look at this year, this presidential race will have on of the lowest turnouts in history, because everyones slowly realizing the democrats and republicans are the same. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive itsnotaboutyou Wrote:56 minutes ago (6:41 PM) Sorry T, but I'd still like to think that there are a few good people out there with a brain that care about the direction this country is going. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All Longplay Wrote:1 hour ago (6:22 PM) And yet a sizable section of the electorate will vote for idiots like DSW and BHO. Pathetic. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive T172 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:26 PM) Thats democracy for you. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Horribilus Wrote:1 hour ago (5:38 PM) It's not fair that anyone the beautiful can be that intelligent also. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive John in OK Wrote:1 hour ago (6:01 PM) Dear Lord, man, not this again! Hie thee to a psychiatrist as soon as possible! You need professional help. Or stronger glasses. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Horribilus Wrote:1 hour ago (6:15 PM) Don't let your rage blind you. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All Victor64 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:28 PM) And remember this is a Jew speaking and obviously a follower of Karl Marx and NOT our founding fathers! SURPRISE! Just saying... Login to Reply Flag as Offensive overyonder Wrote:1 hour ago (6:16 PM) Lots of Communists were/are Jews. Lenin had Jewish roots and was supported by Jewish intellectuals, so what else is new? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Fights4Freedom Wrote:2 hours ago (5:28 PM) This woman has no concept of shame at all, does she? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive D G Wrote:1 hour ago (5:53 PM) Yeah .... She probably is another who sleeps with Bill Clinton........ Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Whit Chambers Wrote:2 hours ago (5:26 PM) WasserPig is a liar and devoid of honor or integrity. This is true of all liberals and most all Dumbocrats. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Ress Wrote:2 hours ago (5:23 PM) As someone noted on another blog -- the difference between liberals and conservatives: Liberals want to silence conservatives from stating the truth. Conservatives want liberals to keep talking, so everyone can see how insane they are. Keep it up, Deb! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Tommy R. Wrote:2 hours ago (5:20 PM) Poor little girl - brain utterly rotted by years of MSG from all the Chinese take-out. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Frank1802 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:15 PM) Further proof that this woman, Obama and the Democrats are totally out of touch with the average American. All of America with the exception of those named above and a minority of ideologues recognise that no individual, business or country can live beyond their means. America is only too concerned about the budget process. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive LoneGunman2 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:14 PM) MAN, I've had Townhall.com as my home page for a while now but here lately all I see when I open my browser is this lying twit's ugly mug and I'm tired of it. HEY, QUIT GIVING THIS WASTE OF BREATHING AIR FACE TIME.................PLLLLELELEAAAASSSSEEEEE!!! IF I WANTED TO SEE THIS MUCH OF HER, I'D HAVE MARRIED HER! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Foxfire22 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:13 PM) Stop and think folks what makes a liberal Democrat. First, you spend 12 years in an educational institution that is run by socialists, then you spend 4 or more years in an institution of higher learning run by anti God, anti Constitution, anti American educators that teach you that life owes you. When you graduate, you have been brain washed to believe that trees have souls, animals are equal to people, there's no God, the government is your nanny. Democrats believe in the free lunch at someone else expense, their women don't believe in equality, they believe in superiority, they believe that mankind is advancing in the social order despite the evidence to the contrary. Is there hope for a liberal, not without at least an ounce of... Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Foxfire22 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:15 PM) humility. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:00 PM) The hallmark of Leftards is that everything is subject to "emotional validation." For instance, when the Democrats came up with the tin-foil-hat theory of the "October Surprise" at the beginning of the first Reagan term, where somehow (even though a Democrat was President) George H. W. Bush hopped an SR-71 and flew secretly to Iran to arrange for them to release the American hostages being held there, only AFTER Reagan's election, had to be investigated because "people are horrified that it might be true." Not "it might be true" but "people are AFRAID it might be true." George Zimmerman is in jail, primarily because people were "angry" that he was "getting away with murder," so a Democrat prosecutor figured out a way around that "equality Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:02 PM) under the law" B.S. And Obama says we don't DARE repeal Obamacare because "the American people will be so angry"...even if it is bad law, and unconstitutional to boot. So, that's what DWS is pulling here: "People don't care. People get bored. People roll their eyes. People get impatient. People get exasperated," so the Constitutional requirement that Congress submit a budget - which takes each house doing so, then reconciliation - can be overlooked because of the emotions of the people. Oh, and BTW: It doesn't work the other way. For instance, the TEA Party folks sure are fed up with the **** that's going on with this regime...but that doesn't count, because they're, you know, racist or something. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive 9MM Wrote:2 hours ago (4:53 PM) CrazyJoeA wrote "And you know that because you know so many food stamp recipients as a result of all the volunteer work you do." According to Politifactcheck.com "The number of SNAP beneficiaries is at a record level, and it has risen in most months of the Obama presidency." Sorry JoeA(hole) Login to Reply Flag as Offensive rauljg6 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:51 PM) Conservatives only care about the budget when democrats are in power... deficits and debt apparently were no big deal when Reagan and Bush both broke records during their respective administrations. Here I ill help you with the preemptive answers you knuckleheads will come up with. Yeah but Obama's record and numbers are way more now (plug in numbers), or here we go blaming Bush again. Doesn't take away from the fact that you did not give a rats a ss about it when the numbers for their time were astronomical. So feign your outrage now. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Marc_H Wrote:2 hours ago (4:59 PM) hey LAIR maybe if you said republicans, like McCain, Snow and other RINOs, maybe but you see skippy unlike people like YOU we Love America we Love the US Constitution, out Third Gift from God Life Jesus being the other 2. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive JustWondering Wrote:1 hour ago (5:43 PM) Hey, I thought I was skippy! You also need to know that Jesus loves all the skippys just as much as He loves you. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All rauljg6 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:46 PM) Guy's obsession with DWS continues! Not to mention all the misinformation. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive D G Wrote:2 hours ago (4:50 PM) What misinformation in the video? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Marc_H Wrote:2 hours ago (4:59 PM) didn't you know TH hires a DWS look-a-like OOHHHH...... yuck!!! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All M.K. Wrote:2 hours ago (4:46 PM) Well, Debs, the unwashed masses have to pinch their pennies. Why not the government? Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:10 PM) Channeling Rush Limbaugh: "EVERYONE has to cut back, do without, tighten the belt, but NOT GOVERNMENT! No, no, no, the GOVERNMENT can NEVER be made to make do with less! Unthinkable! Impossible!" Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Redneck48 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:39 PM) Debbie's goal here as with the Dems in the Senate is to get the American people to ignore the fact that there is not budget, has been no budget, won't be a budget and all they care about is unchecked spending. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive NW-Res Wrote:2 hours ago (4:42 PM) Yup. To a Democrat, no budget = unlimited spending. So, not passing a budget is preferable. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive tc5bwe Wrote:2 hours ago (4:38 PM) Just hearing her voice makes me want to hold my ears and scream. Then she spouts her sickening lies and want someone to stick a sock in her mouth. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Michael in the P/R of ATL Wrote:2 hours ago (5:09 PM) And seeing her appearance makes me want to stab out my eyes with ice-picks. She is truly hideous in every sense of the word. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:11 PM) Seems like she used to be at least attractive - so sticking a sock in her mouth would work from a weird, twisted BDSM point of view, I guess. But her looks have gone downhill FAST!!!! I swear, just one year ago she looked a hll of a lot better than this! Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Bob3705 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:34 PM) This freak wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit her in the behind. She's a pathological liar and can no longer separate fact from fiction. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Bitter Clinger in PA Wrote:3 hours ago (4:30 PM) I can't figure out who's hotter: DWS or Rachel Maddow........ Login to Reply Flag as Offensive Buck O'f Wrote:3 hours ago (4:33 PM) gag* Login to Reply Flag as Offensive NW-Res Wrote:2 hours ago (4:38 PM) LOL. But I believe Rachel wears "comfortable" shoes and I see a ring on DWS's finger (scary). You need to move on, dude. Login to Reply Flag as Offensive There are More Comments on this Thread. 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