I recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss the Senate Conservatives Fund and its role in helping elect strong conservative leaders to the United States Senate this year.
I wanted to share this exclusive interview with you and thank you for everything you’ve done to make this a successful year for those candidates who will truly stand up and fight for the principles of freedom.
Please forward this story to your family and friends and encourage them to visit our TAKE AMERICA BACK website. We have a historic opportunity to create an earthquake election this year that will restore America’s greatness, but we need everyone to get involved.
Thank you again for your support and encouragement. You give me hope and inspire me to keep fighting. Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund
It’s whistleblower week. This morning, I wrote about SEIU workers coming forward to protest their open-borders bosses’ anti-Arizona electioneering. This afternoon, a journalist writes in to expose a cozy propaganda arrangement between the self-identified “progressive” Commonwealth Fund and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers:
I’m a reporter at a major newspaper, and quite conservative compared to the great majority of my colleagues…Anyway, here’s something that just turned up in my e-mail and has got me really annoyed:
SABEW awarded $15,000 grant for health-care reform education programs
PHOENIX – The Commonwealth Fund has awarded a $15,000 grant to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to conduct a series of education programs focusing on aspects of the nation’s new health-care reform law.
The programs will be onsite and online, said Warren Watson, executive director of SABEW, the nation’s largest and oldest organization of business and financial journalists.
It is the third such grant Commonwealth has awarded to SABEW, which has conducted seven workshops on the business of health care with Commonwealth Fund support since 2007, the most recent in April 2010.
SABEW will conduct webinars and two workshops at its national conferences under the grant. The first education session will be held in New York Oct. 1 at SABEW’s annual fall conference, to be held at City University of New York. The second onsite workshop will be at SABEW’s annual spring conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas April 7-9, 2011.
“We’re pleased and thankful that our partnership with The Commonwealth Fund will continue with this grant,” said Watson. “Journalists we reach will better understand the complexities of the health-care law.”
As essential as the omnipresent teleprompters, the canned audiences and the hard left rhetoric, the house of mirrors shows Obama in all his manifestations. Each a different portrait of a presidency that is illusory and fragmentary. Each a facet of what drives this determined Marxist ideologue.
Having sprung from hard left roots, he knows nothing else. Having come through Chicago’s Daley machine, he’s not at all adverse to strong-arming or intimidating those who do not fall in line behind his grand Keynesian redistribution schemes. We saw how great that works with the 800 billion dollar stimulus. The money went to all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons. It became a political crony slush fund, with major paybacks to the public sector unions that were so instrumental in his ascendancy to the presidency.
Eight weeks ago, British Petroleum experienced the worst well blowout in national history. It appears that Obama and most of his administration were just out of focus from the moment word got to them of the potential disaster. There are laws and response protocols in place that would have gotten the ball rolling in the right direction, but they were ignored.
There aren’t many saints in this tale. You can’t blame BP for wanting to minimize their exposure and that’s evidenced by early reports from BP, placing the volume of the leakage from the well at 5,000 gallons a day. They can be faulted if, as the subsequent investigation shows, they skipped a couple of (according to petroleum experts) safety procedures deemed expendable because of time and money pressures… this well was in the hole for millions of dollars when the explosion occurred.
Obama wants BP to place up to twenty billion dollars in an escrow account to be administered by an ‘independent’ auditor, no doubt to be appointed by Obama. Another DeMarxist slush fund. You can’t give alcohol to an alcoholic and expect him not to get drunk. Obama has every intention of strong-arming BP CEO Tony Hayward. Hayward doesn’t have to do what Obama wants, but BP has other business with the US and may not want to forfeit this. As a matter of fact, there’s some question of whether Obama’s ‘escrow account’ demand is legal at all.
Obama’s speech yesterday was singularly bland and uninspiring. There’s no way that Barack Hussein Obama is going to shake this loose by election time. Another thing Obama should consider is the health of BP. He is planning on fleecing them plenty. At some point in time it may behoove them to explore bankruptcy. Obama’s golden goose may escape. Understand… I’m not absolving BP of responsibility. Far from it. But Barack Obama should not be given another vast pool of money with which to pay off political cronies or supporters, in the guise of aid to the stricken gulf coast.
Although a majority of Americans supports Arizona’s common-sense immigration law, liberal politicians and mainstream media are determined to demonize the beleaguered border state. And for what? Why are they so critical of a state’s reasonable attempt to protect law-abiding taxpayers? Maddening.
Supporters (and protesters, I’m sure – ICE, you may want to stop by) will gather this Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. PST at the Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix to listen to men like former House members Tom Tancredo, a pro-enforcement American after my own heart, and J.D. Hayworth, author of Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, And the War on Terror. (I highly recommend his book, which I reviewed in 2006.)
By the way, if you haven’t read Arizona’s SB 1070 (PDF), you should, at least Article 8, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, which begins on the second page. There is nothing remotely unfair about it. I hope other states pass similar laws.
As you’ve read, our Department of Justice is considering filing a lawsuit against Arizona. Our government may sue a state for trying to alleviate the burden of illegal aliens, whose presence the federal government has ignored all these years. I’m sure the lawyers at DOJ know they’d have to sue California, too, as the state has a similar immigration law on the books.
Governor Jan Brewer has started a defense fund in anticipation of legal challenges. If you want to contribute, send your money to:
The facts on whether Democrat’s want to use taxpayer money to fund union pensions
A fiery debate erupted this week in Washington over whether Congress is about to slip a massive taxpayer-funded bailout for failing union pension plans, to the tune of $165 billion, into an already bloated emergency spending bill.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is sponsoring a bill that may end up using taxpayer money to support failing union pension funds.
What is certain is that no such move is imminent. Legislation sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democrat, and by Rep. Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota Democrat, is not attached to the bill moving through the House and to the Senate for a vote later this week.
But a close examination of the Casey/Pomeroy bill by The Daily Caller suggests that it does in fact create “the framework for a taxpayer funded bailout for failing pension plans,” as a letter from anti-tax and business groups that will be sent to Congressional leaders and the White House Thursday morning characterizes it.
Here are the facts:
The Casey and Pomeroy bills, say the two lawmakers and their staffs, are aimed at fixing a complicated problem. Many employers are withdrawing from pension funds as they face higher costs in paying for funds where mostly union beneficiaries outnumber payees and where the fund’s performance has been lackluster.
So, Democrats and some Republicans argue, businesses should not have to pay into a pension fund to support their own employees plus “orphan employees” of firms who have left the fund (the withdrawing firms do have to pay penalties and fees in order to exit a fund).
Corruption in government – it starts with the election process. Special interest groups, labor unions, big pharma, all making campaign contributions supporting the candidate that is going to give them the back room deals they are after. Why do you think this country is in this much trouble! They have all basically bought and paid for the candidate of choice, the one who is looking out for their special interests instead of the interests of the American people. The corruption needs to stop now, and reform needs to start with the funding of political campaigns.
The democrats seem to want to make everything equal – take from the rich and give to the poor. So let’s start with campaign funding. Let’s implement this equal for all system for the politicians, right from the start of the campaign process. It’s time for a radical campaign funding change.
Instead of companies and individuals supporting one candidate over another, campaign contributions would be made to a government fund for each elected position. There would be one fund for the president, one for each state senator race, one for each representative of the house race. All campaign monies would go into this fund and NO OTHER funding for campaigns would be permitted. The money from these funds would then be divided equally to all candidates running for that position, whether it be two or more. Everyone would have an equal opportunity in campaigning for the desired position.
How the campaign spends this money would be up to them, but they would have to limit spending to only the money received from the fund. It would be restricted, of course, to legal activities only. At the end of the campaign a full disclosure of the money would be required within a specific timeframe and an audit would be completed on the final campaign funds. Any money remaining from the election would be returned to the fund for the next elections. There could be no “outstanding balance due” at the end of the campaign.
A radical move, but the problems we see in the government today are because every special interest group and every company has their own agenda and they have all made deals with the politicians to get what they want. They donate and expect to receive benefits in return – and they don’t just mean a thank you letter. The government is no longer run by the people, for the people. It is being run by special interests and big business. This has got to stop! Start the reform where the corruption begins – the campaign funding. Equal opportunity for everyone.
Having sprung from hard left roots, he knows nothing else. Having come through Chicago’s Daley machine, he’s not at all adverse to strong-arming or intimidating those who do not fall in line behind his grand Keynesian redistribution schemes. We saw how great that works with the 800 billion dollar stimulus. The money went to all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons. It became a political crony slush fund, with major paybacks to the public sector unions that were so instrumental in his ascendancy to the presidency.
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