10 House Republicans for arbitrary salary control; Minority Whip Cantor votes “present” (!)
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85 House Republicans, I shall remind you again, voted for the AIG/CYA confiscatory bonus tax.
Some of them have learned their lesson, but not all.
Today, 10 Republicans joined the Grabby Hands Democrats in passing the new “Pay for Performance Act” — to curb “excessive” employee pay at financial firms that receive government bailout funds, “a measure that could supplant [the] earlier effort to heavily tax executive bonuses.” The bill passed 247-171.
Here are the 10 House Republicans who think it is government’s job to determine what “excessive” pay is in every workplace except their own (full roll call vote here):
Bilirakis
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Cao
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Duncan
Jones
McHugh
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
At least this bonus-taxing bunch of appalling GOP turncoats is consistent in supporting radical government meddling.
Oh, and look who voted “present:”
Cantor
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As for those who had a change of heart: Sorry, you don’t deserve wine and roses for doing what you should have done in the first place. There’s no rational reason or fixed principle the rest of the class of 85 House Republicans who voted for the first bonus restrictions can give you for supporting that measure while opposing the new salary controls — harbingers of worse things to come. And they know it.
The 85 AIG bonus-taxing House Republicans, led by Minority Whip Eric Cantor, revealed their arbitrary and capricious commitment to fiscal conservatism. They can’t be trusted to stand for what’s right when the heat is on. And they shouldn’t be allowed to forget it.
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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who caused consternation in his party by voting in favor of taxing AIG executive bonuses, voted “present” Wednesday on a second bill aimed at tackling bonuses.
In a statement, Cantor said he voted present because his wife works for an institution that could be affected by the legislation. He also criticized the bill as a “misguided” intrusion by the federal government into the private sector.
“This misguided bill gives the federal government unprecedented new power to dictate compensation levels for private citizens employed by companies,” Cantor said in the statement.
“However, I believe that every Member of Congress must take all of their responsibilities seriously, and since this legislation may affect my spouse, in accordance with House rules and with an abundance of caution, I voted ‘present’ and submitted my rationale to the official Congressional record.”
So, he voted “present” because the bill might affect his wife’s bank. But he voted “yes” on the AIG bonus tax…which also may have affected his wife’s bank, and which, by the way, received bucket loads of TARP money. Hmmm:
The earlier measure that Cantor supported would impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses at firms that receive at least $5 billion in government aid. The measure, which is unlikely to be taken up by the Senate, would have applied to individual or family income exceeding $250,000. A spokesman for Cantor said the lawmaker’s spouse may not be affected by that bill.
Diana F. Cantor runs a Virginia-based subsidiary of New York Private Bank and Trust, according to ProPublica, a non-partisan investigative journalism organization. The New York bank received $267.2 million from the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program on Jan. 9.
Are you buying this (especially given his past weaseling on this issue)?
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Best reaction to Cantor on Twitter:
That’s weird – I was under the impression that the Whip was like a leadership position or something. Guess not!
I’d like to hear his rationale for why taxing bonuses at 90% is okay, but the PfPA is “misguided intrusion.” And I’d like that rationale to be something other than the fact that one doesn’t affect his wife and one does.
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More: GOP Rep. Bilirakis tries to explain his rationale for sponsoring the bill…
“I have opposed each of the bailouts that have passed through this body, and I am a believer in free markets. Under normal circumstances, I would argue that executive pay is best left to the company and its shareholders. However, when companies are receiving billions of dollars of taxpayer monies, full disclosure can help guide our future legislative decisions on the use of taxpayer money,” Bilirakis said. “Policy makers and those we represent should have the benefit of this information.”
In addition to the database, a Bilirakis amendment was adopted which clarifies that an institution which is not a TARP recipient will not be subject to the requirements of the bill as a result of doing business with a TARP recipient.
“As we work together to force TARP recipients that refuse to voluntarily change their excessive and unreasonable compensation practices, we must be careful not to overreach and inadvertently restrict compensation at firms that are not TARP recipients,” Bilirakis said. “This language gives assurance to non-TARP recipients that it is OK to do business with those firms on taxpayer life support.
GOP Rep. Dana Rohrbacher also echoed this rationale in an exchange we had on Twitter last night.
The problem is that this bill neglects the real-world consequences of its effect. This is paving the path for Barney Frank’s wider power grab. And no matter how the Republicans might try to insulate responsible businesses from those consequences, the Left’s desired government salary control is here. Yes, I believe that taxpayer money should come with strings attached. Go ahead: Force them to disclose how they spend the money. But dictating compensation for the sake of mollifying the mob? Is that fiscally conservative? What do “excessive” and “unreasonable” mean? Who defines it?
If you don’t want companies spending our money on “excessive” bonuses, do not give them the money in the first place. Period.
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Unbelieveable.
Three Cuban Americans and a Vietnamese American that left communism for freedom and capitalism in America, have voted for socialist, dictatorial government control.
What an embarrassment and shame. The Balart brothers and Ros-Leithen should read up on government controlling business in their native homeland. I am steaming as an American of Cuban descent.
A definite reason not to accept bailout money.
The ‘Welfare Queens’ and ‘Welfare Kings’ have to expect strings when they recieve Governemnt subsidies.
*Some of them can’t seem to figure out when to jump off the crazy train; And as for Eric Cantor and Ryan from Wisconsin, who both voted for the original sin bailout followed by more questionable votes, the GOP calls them rising stars, but I’ll go with death stars, because that’s where they’re taking the GOP.
Cao’s father spent seven years in a “re-education” camp. You’d think this guy might be wary of governments over-reaching…
Thank goodness Joe Barton found his Conservatism long enough to vote no on this populist schtick! I’m still going to give him hell on the AIG bonus vote.
GOP: the party that stands for nothing. In their world, “partly pregnant” makes sense. It’s found on the same list of virtues where you will also find “partly honest”.
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It is unfortunate that some Republicans like Eric Cantor, go caught up in the emotion of the AIG bonus thing. I am so glad my congresswomen, Michele Bachmann has consistently voted to up hold the constitution, and voted against both the AIG tax on bonuses, and on salary controls. I am saddened that both Duncan and Rohrabacher voted for it.
PAPA? Oh, brother! Or should I say, Big Brother?
I think it’s time to vote every single Republican out of the House and Senate. It’s time to start all over from the ground up. Really, is there anyone worth re-electing?
Palin is doing the right thing by not headlining the dinner for the NRCC and NRSC. These republicans are gutless, unprincipled jerks.
All my money is going to SarahPAC. The only conservative who gets it right.
yes, the ones that vote the old Repubilcan Party lines and conservative..there are some good ones there just not enough.
Everyone remember how these a$$hats in your district voted and in 2010 get rid of ‘em when you vote. That’s easier said than done thanks to the RNC, they’ll just find more go along to get along types.
jencab, I agree with you about Palin so far, I do want to see how she stands on illegal immigration tho. There is no more important issue. I haven’t seen anything about her position on it yet.
Bilirakis is my rep….he had previously gotten good emails from me regarding his stance on the issues. The email I am sending tonight – he is not going to like. Cause right now – I don’t like his votes.
At first I was thinking Cantor doesn’t care what such votes do to his national profile and an up-and-comer in the GOP. Then I remembered that it didn’t hamper a certain other freshman legislator from attaining his aspirations for the nation’s highest office.
Cantor had a good role model, it seems.
Cantor is WHIP for what reason? To get whipped by democrats?
Why is Michele Bachmann not in the leadership position? So many gutless wonders in the House and Senate.
Thank goodness for Bachmann, Pence in the House, and DeMint and Inhofe in the senate.
The Parliament of Whores. With a few exceptions. So far that is as polite as I can be on this new direction that these fools are steering US into. Color me Disgusted!
How much longer will we continue to be “surprised and disappointed” by Republicans? When will it become common knowledge that Repubicans (sic-intended) are tools of the game (a la “pressure from above – pressure from below”)???
If the taxpayers are footing the bill, I have no problem with limiting executive compensation. That’s the deal: you take money from the government, they get to run your business. It happens all the time in nonprofits that take public funds to serve their clients. The whole point of NOT taking government money is to avoid answering to Uncle Sam for your business decisions.
In the same way I get mad when the civil service employees (SEIU) get too much money, I don’t want some overpaid executive taking too much of my money. Once you work for the government, you answer to the taxpayers. That’s how it works.
It’s why, as a Capitalist, I was completely against the government taking over these businesses! The free market will recover so long as the government stays out of their business. Regulation? Some is OK. Bailing them out and taking them over? Worst idea EVER.
A government will always seek the limit of power that the people will give it. Unfortunately, today, many people allow the government to seek an ever changing level that grants it more and more power. The government explains to the public that there is a problem. The “instant gratification” society demands that it be fixed, regardless of circumstances down the road. The government gladly complies, being the “hero”, and moves on to a “new problem”. They may not be called “political commisars”, but they will be in our lives, nonetheless…our work, our homes, and our shopping.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the Democrat’s largely voted for all of this crap, whereas a handful of so-called Republican– yes, they’re tools–joined in. We do need to eat our own if they have it coming to them, but the Democrats that rarely get the criticism they deserve need to be hammered all the more when they regularly commit such sins with impunity.
I agree wholeheartedly except to ask, “Why in the world should our government be offering any money to private businesses at all?”
Textbook example of a slippery slope if ever I saw one.
We still seem to be wandering in the wilderness. Maybe the Republicans need to listen to audio books on Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, George Washington. Perhaps a “Daily Conservative Moment” to begin each day.
I’ll concede there may be 5 or 6 Republicans in the House and Senate that deserve re-election. The rest, particularly the so-called Republican leadership, have to go – now!
The collectivists have progressed unchecked in a takeover of the USA I never expected to see in my lifetime. The Republicans have done NOTHING! I know they are not in power, but they have been silent.
On March 19, Eric Cantor was on Morning Joe to discuss the bill that would tax 90% of AIG executive bonuses. Watch the video.
Don’t you mean Barney Frank’s ankle grab?
The constitution is shredded, there are legitimate questions concerning the citizenship of BHO, and congress is now enacting socialism/marxism on the United States. It was a good run till now.
Republicans no longer stand for conservatism. The ones in office are no different than their Dhimmi counterparts.
If you think this is bad, check up on this little tid bit. GMAC, which now is Government controlled, is going into the sub-prime lending business to sart selling GM Cars again. With this little action, a Government controlled company is going to go head to head with private enterprise. In this case it will be Ford Motor, because they took no bailout money. Now is this shades of FDR’S new deal rot or what.
I don’t believe that corporations should receive any money from the Government. However, if they do… I think they should feel as if they made a deal with the Devil himself.
Also, I think we should apply your suggestion to other welfare recipients. After all, we shouldn’t discriminate. All welfare recipients should work to pay for the money they receive… and there should be lots of strings attached…
What is wrong with letting the free market work? So, Congress got caught with their pants down, passing a bill without reading it, this is nothing new, and certainly our treasury secretary knew. Yes Mr. Obama the Americans are keeping score.
Watch Neil Cavuto absolutely shred congressman Grayson from FL over this very issue.
“What is excessive congressman?”
And in an uncharacteristic moment Neil lets fly with a few words normally reserved for adult company.
Cantor lacks the stones to be an effective Whip. But on second glance the Republicans in general have become lap dogs anyway.
Mach1Duck, I’m keeping score here and thus far it is Socialism 99 & Free Market Capitalism 0. And this is only the first inning.
expat is right. NONE of this is Constitutional. Why aren’t the Republicans shouting against this? Because they too do not follow our Constitution anymore, where powers of government are strictly enumerated and limited.
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . . . to be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.” – James Madison, Federalist 45
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but
an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James Madison, 1792
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1798
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison criticizing an attempt to grant public monies for charitable means, 1794
The mental midgets we have in office now think they are both wiser and smarter than the Founding Fathers. What a bunch of dangerous clowns.
Or any government assistance. Will people now understand that he who holds the purse strings calls the shots?
It’s not just businesses, but government aid programs (welfare, food stamps, etc.) and health care. The government pays…the government decides where to spend and how to spend and WHAT you can do with their aid.
I doubt Obama’s constituents realize that, or don’t care. Just so long as they get wealth redistributed from those “evil” rich.
Every time I start to think the Republicans are getting their act together, they go and do something stupid.
*Exasperated Sigh*
Eric Cantor is totally useless. I think it bears repeating constantly: these are a bunch of idiots who have helped to ruin the USA. God.Help.Us.
During this “off-year” voting, we need to spend as much time and money as it takes to get rid of these fools from Congress. If a congressman or senator will not stand for conservative principles, we need to get rid of them.
Eric Cantor and the rest, save a few, are complicitous in enabling the socialist power grab in this country. As stated above, we MUST vote these cowards out and vote real leadership in. If you haven’t read it yet, GET MARK LEVIN’S book LIBERTY & TYRANNY. It will explain so much in clear terms. I’d like to take that book and physically beat these peaple over the head with it.
I emailed Ginny Brown Waite and told her what I thought of her vote. Frankly, she surprised me on this one –usually we’re on the same page.
Rightisright — while on the campaign trail with McCain, she voiced the same garbage as him regarding illegals. I love Palin and was really disappointed when I heard her speaking McCain’s talking points on this issue.
Profile of courage.
Allow me a brief moment of depression. I see the destruction of the USA going on day after day. Obama and his minions are relentlessly destroying our freedoms and turning us into a collectivist state. There is no apparent opposition. Those of us that see this going on are screaming into the wind.
What will it take to stop this wave of servitude? I honestly don’t have any real ideas. I won’t stop fighting anyway I can, but, damn, it sure gets you down.
Phew! Got that off my chest. Now, back to fight the good fight.
Interesting double-meaning, “Pay for Performance Act.” If you perform, YOU WILL PAY!
We as a country are slouching towards socialism one step at a time, and the pace is quickening. Our representatives are not fighting back effectively but putting up only token resistance, it seems. What can we do to stop this, to sabotage this? I will not go down the path to socialism without a fight but as just an individual I feel powerless.
Where in the Constitution is this even a function of government? This is the reason we have bankrupcy courts.
But for me, it’s more than a brief moment of depression. Guess I’d better run over to the Gov. depression site.
I’ve been waiting with a fervor for the April 15th Tea Parties. Now I realize it won’t do any good. No one is listening. No one is representing us. I’m sick of both parties. When will we put Congress on the “Pay for Performance” scale?
My thoughts exactly. They also voted for the $6 billion Universal Servitude Act (a.k.a. the GIVE act) which I found shocking for the same reasons you state here.
Progressives rejoice.
Eric Cantor is dead to me.
Michelle is so right here. Never let them off the hook, they are weak and will return to what’s comfortable for them.
There are some lines in the 1994 movie Quiz Show where Ralph Fiennes (Chas. Van Doran) is being questioned by a Senate committee.
After Van Doran admits he was given the answers, some Senator commends him for telling the truth.
Another Senator states that there should be no commending as a person is supposed to tell the truth in the first place (or in today’s instance, doing what’s right). It should be expected as normal behavior.
Reminds me of what we should believe today…
The problem is, nearly every big bank is receiving TARP money. A friend who works for US Bank told me they got $4 billion (internet says $6.6 bil). An ordinary bank, not in any particular trouble. But once you accept TARP money, it’s like accepting a favor from the Godfather. It’s like getting in bed with the Mob, only it’s worse, it’s the Federal Govt, which is thousands of times bigger and more powerful than the mob. Then you have to dance to their tune, sung by the demagogic politicians trying to appease the populous passions of their mob of constituents. So it’s still the mob, a different kind of mob.
“populous passions” [sic], I guess that should be populist passions. Like limiting salaries, like lending to poor people who can’t pay back loans, like marching bankers in front of Congress to berate them.
Well let’s just say that this policy (taking of federal money implies the right of federal control over hiring/firing/pay scales/contracts) sets up a most interesting precedent. I look forward to the day when a conservative is once again in the White House and this precedent allows the President to look at some other sectors that receive federal funds and whose operations are either abysmal failures or engaged in questionable practices.
I look forward to the anguish and cries of “abuse of power” as that President fires a few hundred college presidents and school superintendents, abolishes tenure, retroactively forces the return of pay incentives, breaks union contracts, and otherwise “reforms” an education system that is unquestionably a failure.
Yes, I’m beginning to see the wisdom and the righteousness of this new policy.
katablog – See, you still have a sense of humor! You made me, and others, chuckle. Like I said, embrace life’s little pleasures. There are a lot of them! The Obamatrons haven’t figured out how to take over our minds, yet.
Excellent analysis. The gov’t forced WFB to take money, even though they didn’t need it, and they are trying to tell WFB how to run its biz.
I was involved in a development project two years ago and our local gov’t kept trying to make us take money from them, under the guise of “helping us”. We didn’t need their “help”, we rejected their “help”, then they tried to hold up our project unless we took their “help”, so we threatened to sue them and throw the elected officials out of office (very small community; local council elections are decided by one or two votes sometimes). Finally they capitulated.
“Help” my a**.
Amen to that.
Cantor has out-weaseled himself this time.
He has received his LAST vote from me.
GOP-RIP
Make the banks and automakers take the tax dollars and then tell them how to run their business. Like a high balance credit card, they will always be indebted to Uncle Sam barely able to pay just the interest. Pretty soon the smart ones leave and the government owns it. Next in line please!
GOP – Grand Old Party or Giving Out Propaganda. The sooner conservatives leave it the less painful it will be – sort of like removing a bandaid quickly.
We have a PRESIDENT and a CONGRESS that’s out of control, and we voted for them… Yes we, for good or bad they are all we have right now… PRESIDENTS firing CEOs, CONGRESS trying to put LIMITS on the pay of PRIVATE CITIZENS… RINOS voting with the MAJORITY… Soon dogs will be sleeping with cats… What happened to the LOYAL OPPOSITION??? I guess ELECTIONS do have CONSEQUENCES…
Yesterday I got yet ANOTHER letter from the RNC asking for money–in the form of a questionnaire. I am printing out this story and sending it instead of a check.
Hope more of you do the same.
Just a grunt #34
Great link to Neil. Grayson is an absolute IDIOT and proves it on national tv.
Neil should have countered at one point that the ones taking the most money from the taxpayers and wasting it are the congress, senate and the executive branch.
Longbow #36 nailed it. The idiots we elected to congress have no idea what is in the constitution and they cherry pick pieces to excuse their actions as constitutional.
What have we done America?!
Creeping fascism or fascist creeps? Or perhaps both?
Cantor is just qualifying himself for President.
This is not the first time in human history that a succesful society has self-destructed; and, unless The AlGore’s ominous melting ice caps first “save us” from ourselves, it won’t be the last.
Screw everyone, I’m goin’ to GuvMart to redeem my Free-Stuff Vouchers I got online from the Dept of Fulfilment.
Can you believe three of these things are needed now just to buy a box of pop tarts and a pair of Bart Simpson underwear?
We’d better raise taxes so these vouchers will buy me more goodies.
Maybe Oklahoma will cecede and those of us who understand the Constitution can all move there.
That state’s two senators, Tom Coburn & James Inhofe, are just about the only two people in Congress anymore who stand for anything decent.
is there something with hypenating names and being a RINO? 40% of the GOP that voted for it have them?
This is the standard email reply I received from Rep Lamar Smith (R-Tx) for everyone who wrote him about his yes vote on Tax Bonus Bill HR 1586:
He completely misses the point. Rather, he is in lockstep with the democrats that think it is a-ok to circumvent contractual agreements and jump on the populist rage bandwagon. Lamar Smith makes me want to puke. Stinking RINO.
OT, but at what point do we start realizing these “snafus” are intentional. Obama has such a twisted sense of humor, but he is just a man/child so what else can you expect:
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The phrase “enough is enough” is getting worn out, but I’m screaming it again!
I’m reading a lot of comments on the sites about what should come after the Tax Day Tea Parties. A massive gathering in D.C. on July 4th has been offered, but some feel that with the Congress on break, and the summer heat/humidity of D.C., that might not work. I humbly offer this:
Since most of the current travesties of govt. are due to the federal govt. operating outside of the Constitutional boundaries, and many state governments failing to demand adherence to the 9th and 10th amendments, why not assemble in the Capital on September 17th, the anniversary of the ratification of our Constitution? I think the Congress is in session, the weather would be more tolerable, and it would allow time for national coordination and planning.
Just a suggestion….
I’ve thought the pacing needs to be MUCH closer together. Tax day is a perfect day, no question about it, but the wait is excruciating while Obama has been slicing, dicing, and chopping free market capitalism full speed ahead. There hasn’t been anything to fill the gap after the initial round of tea parties to the big kahuna on 4/15. Way too much dead time. After tax day tea parties, the next event needs to be within 2 to 3 weeks. We’re giving the marxists far too much time. Actually, we may have given them all the time they needed already. But better late than never.
He’s pretty vetted now doncha think?
Oh, and, present!
Great idea, but hard to affect public opinion now, with an event so far in the future.
Here are their lifetime ACU ratings:
86.47 Bilirakis
84.58 Brown-Waite, Ginny
Cao (no rating)
72.06 Diaz-Balart, L.
75.94 Diaz-Balart, M.
87.03 Duncan
87.98 Jones
71.55 McHugh
94.76 Rohrabacher
73.45 Ros-Lehtinen
96.25 Cantor
ACU ratings should be weighted according to the importance conservatives hold any given issue, IMO. They could poll conservatives to calculate the weighting or create an interactive web page allowing us to customize it for ourselves.
Clearly the people listed above are grossly overrated. Those numbers don’t seem particularly useful. I’d like to know what the Michelle Malkin weighted ACU ratings for these people are.
No kidding. Who knew YesweCantor was a Barry protege?
Read Ann Coulter’s column this week, talk about who should be getting wage restrictions…across the board in government would be a great place to start.
When the government starts regulating execs pay I see that as the 1st step to regulating pay in America period. One more step closer to socialism or could it be Fascism? One in the same under Odopey.
I’m disappointed in Cao. I had high hopes for him when he took Dollar Bill’s seat.
What part of NO MORE BAILOUTS do these AZZhats not understand. There should be NO conditions on money given to the corps, there should be NO money given period. If the corp is in trouble file bankruptcy that is what it is for.
I don’t give a damn about what corps do I want to know what Congressional members are doing with MY money. What are THEY spending it on??? They gave themselves an automatic raise–I didn’t get one. I don’t want them spending one more minute on the problems in the free market system I want them the hell out. Hey–what about the border and the drug cartels taking over border cities??? Worry about the National overstuffed budget and get that under control WITHOUT RAISING IT ONE DOLLAR FROM LAST YEAR. There that should keep them busy and out of our hair for the rest of the year!!
I heard about this on Rush yesterday and my first thought was “Why is this okay, but if you’re a teacher, pay for performance is unacceptable?”
Oh, that’s right. Democrats and logic don’t mix.
Maybe this article by Henry Lamb will help some of you understand what is going on with Barry Soetoro aka Obama.
It is the exact same thing that started with Jimmy Carter and what I cannot not understand is why we allow The CFR/Trilateral Commission to control our Government. It seems to me that is treason:
Obama’s performance as POTUS is pretty convincing, if not Oscar-worthy. From the moment CNN called the election, Obama’s rehearsed swagger emerged. He won; he is entitled to gloat. What’s pitiful is that he really thinks he is in charge.
Well before Obama seriously considered a run for president, others evaluated his potential. Khalid Al-Mansour, associate of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men, helped get Obama into and through Harvard.
After Harvard, Chicago’s notorious political machine saw Obama’s potential to become the nation’s first black president. This view was shared by rich liberal power brokers, black liberation preachers and the un-scrubbed street gangs in desperate need of a new hero. This unlikely collection of political forces delivered a well-scrubbed performer to the national stage.
The Obama campaign promised “Hope” and “Change,” but delivered neither. Instead, the same, old socialist-Democrat agenda put on a new costume and a face. Eleven of the 12 members of Obama’s advisory board came from the Clinton administration, as did 31 of the 47 members of his transition team. Obama’s administration is almost a repeat of the Clinton team. And there’s a good reason.
A thorough analysis of Obama’s administration reveals that those recalled from the Clinton years have much in common: They share membership in the same organizations that have guided public policy since Roosevelt. The Council on Foreign Relations and, since 1973, the Trilateral Commission, have produced the people who have shaped public policy. These are the people who tell Obama’s teleprompter what to say.
Members of these organizations assemble at least annually with members of England’s Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs and affiliated organizations from around the world. It is not accurate to say that these organizations “run” the world’s governments. It is absolutely accurate to say that the people who do run the world’s governments are members of these organizations.
Attention is too often diverted from this reality by members of the media, who incidentally are also members of these same organizations. They quickly open the “conspiracy theory” bucket and paint with lavish strokes all who dare to focus the spotlight of truth on the real source of public policy initiatives.
There is nothing conspiratorial about it. These organizations have a common agenda – global governance. A solid history of the development of this agenda is available here. What is important now is the next step toward realization of this goal.
The next step is the April 2 meeting of the G20 in London. No one will be allowed to ask, but were it possible to identify the people in this meeting who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, or one of their international affiliated organizations, we’d find that the meeting is dominated by members of these groups. Perhaps after the meeting, a participants list can be secured to see exactly to what extent they dominated the meetings.
Another way to test this allegation is to compare the recommendations that come out of the meetings to the proposals that have been advanced by the various organizations whose members participate in the meetings.
The most important goal of the global governance advocates is an independent income stream for the United Nations. Another very important goal is to gain international control of the global economy through the regulation of capital flows, currency and trade. If the recommendations that come out of the G20 meetings move toward these goals, it will be a pretty good indication of who dominated the meetings.
By surrounding himself with advocates of global governance, his campaign speech in Berlin and with his public pronouncements, Obama has sent a strong signal to the world that he is ready to lead the United States into the United Nations’ slaughterhouse. The gateway will be the mechanism to control the global economy produced by the G20 meeting.
The recommendation to come out of this meeting will most likely call for a new mechanism to control the global economy and a mechanism for collecting taxes on fossil-fuel energy. It will not be a full-blown proposal. That’s not how the United Nations works. There will be a policy document agreed to by all that sets forth the goals to be achieved over a period of time. The document will also define the working group(s) that will be charged with producing the proposal for the final structure.
The people who populate the working groups will be workhorses of the organizations that designed the agenda in the first place. The news media will report a successful meeting. All parties will go home encouraged, and the members of the behind-the-scenes policymaking groups will continue to shape public policy, now with the approval of the G20.
And Obama will think he did something, while all along he is simply playing the role of president while others use him to advance their own agenda.
Big surprise.
This is what you get from the Republicans – Democrats with Rs after their names. It’s also reason number one I didn’t vote for John McCain.
Conservatives need to look elsewhere.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Here’s another reason why it might not matter how bad a job Democrats do in the next four years, Obama may be a lock for two terms.
Here’s Romney backing the bailouts, TARP and (here we go again) amnesty.
The entrenched criminal class of weasels in action again.
This reminds me a bit of the news that the case against Ted Stevens has been dropped.
My gut, about Stevens, if he had not had his problems, and his seat stayed Republican:
We had a Trio of Treason that killed the filibuster against Porkulus.
The 3 most obvious.
But if the GOP had one more seat, I suspect one of the RINOs, maybe Murkowski (she slips under the radar as a RINO because she was appointed to her seat by her Republican father), Voino, maybe even McCain, would have stepped up to be the fourth vote.
I figured before the elections the GOP needed to hold the Demonrats under 56 or 57 seats in the Senate to really be able to filibuster the worst Obama and Pelosi inspired crap.
I knew when it looked like the Dems had 58 seats it was probably over, no filibuster would stand.
The only possible difference, if the Dems had known they’d own 60 seats outright, plus the RINOs, they might have expelled Lieberman from the caucus and taken their chances.
Back to the House:
Cantor was supposed to be fresh blood, new leadership, a possible Speaker if the GOP ever got the House back.
Better look for different fresh blood, I guess.
OT:
The results of voting for Hillary during Operation Chaos (plus McCain had already wrapped up the nomination)
Yup, asking a voter to identify him/herself is a horrible violation apparently.
Anyway, I sympathize with the Third Party people over RINOs amuck in the GOP, but even an undiluted Republican Party will have a hard time defeating Democrat voter fraud, and if the votes are split, well, if Obama is dedicated to a one party totalitarian state, it won’t take too many electoral wins to achieve it, then it is game, set and match.
Iowahawk has been nationalized! It’s come to this:
That is teh funnay!
???
Doesn’t he know he is married to his WIFE? Does he think his WIFE would be offended at being referred to as his WIFE?
What a moron!
I haven’t seen a lot of bright side to much of anything lately, so I’m going to offer one now.
Go ahead. Let them pass the employee compensation controls. Let them fire CEOs at GM. But afterwards, when they try to bail out someone else, they’re not going to find many takers.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but perhaps Obama and Frank have found the solution to the endless bailout, however inadvertent it might be: a taste of strings to come.
I don’t trust any federal politician or bureaucrat these days. Too many of them have talked out of both sides of their mouth for too long. All most of them are after is a continuation of the cushy ride they get on the backs of the citizens they are supposed to be serving.
For those few that really do talk straight (not you, Juan McCain), I’m sorry, but they’re just going to get lumped in with the crapweasels because I don’t see a single person in the House, the Senate, the Obama administration or any federal bureaucracy that is a “must-have” to move this country in the direction I want to see it go in.
There are a million people in this country that could do these jobs better than any of the bozos that are in them now, but the government is so entrenched we are stuck with the crapweasels we have.
TERM LIMITS are the only thing that could save this country now and that won’t happen.
Want to see a power-grab?
How about the President wielding Power he doesn’t even legally have?
– MuscleDaddy
How are they going to enforced this act when the Fed refuses to disclose all the financial firms that got TARP money? Are they only going to target the companies they know about, or is Congress going to waterboard the Fed until they talk? I wonder who really has the most power – who would win in a fight between Congress and the Fed?
OT
House passes the pork-budget.
20 Dems voted no.
176 Repubs voted no. (i.e. all but 2).
2 Repubs did not vote. (Gary Miller & Westmoreland).
We are sooooo screwed.
I don’t think that what the Dems have done will ever be undone.
Senate is on it’s way to passing the same $3.6 trillion budget of the community organizer. We’re more than screwed. America is officially dead after today’s new world order, global economy, blah, blah blah.
Yet another reason to stop voting Republican across the board and actually vote for what you believe, regardless of party affiliation.