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Iran Gas Embargo bill dies to save ObamaCare- the priorities of Obama exposed

Obama and congress choose government healthcare scheme over stopping Iran from getting the nuclear bomb

Iran Gas Emgargo languishes- A little more than one month ago, the US House of Representatives pass…

Iran Gas Emgargo languishes-

A little more than one month ago, the US House of Representatives passed legislation that would ban the exporting of refined gas to Iran in an effort to put pressure on the Iran regime to stop building a nuclear bomb. According to the National Iranian American Alliance, this bill passed with overwhelming support

http://www.niacouncil.org/index.phpContinue

 

Is Obama putting aside real pressing issues for the sake of his attempt to sieze power for him and his special interest buddies?  With overwhelming support, this bill to ban gas exports to Iran lays dormant in the Senate, taken up with nothing but ObamaCare.  This idea is supported not only by Americans, by their elected officials, but by the Iranian resistance itself.  Our Iranian brothers and sisters have tweeted us multiple times to demand our government puts this embargo forth.  It would cripple the regime.  It would allow the resistance to grow in power and support, hastening the inevitable demise of this discredited progressive regime.

 

Where is Obama?  Where is the press?

 

Read more here:

http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1593&Itemid=2

and here:

http://browncoalition.ning.com/profiles/blogs/iran-gas-emgargo-languishesa

and here:

http://blog.obamacare.tv/2010/01/25/obamacare-stop-iran-nuclear-bomb-or-get-forced-government-healthcare/
Amazing 14 year old- Jericho- So Amazing- youtube video phenom- judge for yourself-

Scott Brown smeared by Huffington Post- the dogged belief in Alinsky revealed

 Huffington Post isn’t done with Scott Brown.  A testimony to Scott Brown’s Palin-like appeal can be found in the pages of Huffington Post, which is now incorporating the same type of smear attacks on Brown and his family that they did on Palin and her family.  Witness just a few of their headlines found in google blog search:

Scott Brown’s Wife Music VIDEO: Gail Huff’s RACY ‘Girl With The 17 hours ago by The Huffington Post News Editors  
On Tuesday night, Scott Brown’s wife pleaded with her husband to stop advertising his “available” daughters, but a video we’ve dug up reveals that Gail Huff wasn’t always so prim and proper.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/ -

The link they show is to a music video Scott Brown’s wife was in.  She appeared, gasp, in a bikini and ‘took it off’ (no frontal nudity was shown).  It is always convenient when leftists suddenly find ‘morality’ and ‘decency’ to attack their political enemies, but it does not conceal their ‘by any means necessary’ tactic of using personal attacks to demonize and frighten their opponents.

Here, they show (and please, if you are a morally upright leftist,and what leftist isn’t, please look away, pictures of his daughter….

IN A BIKINI!  Gasp!

Jeff Danziger: Scott Brown, Barney Frank13 hours ago by Jeff Danziger  
Scott Brown, Barney Frank - The Huffington Post. Scott Brown Daughter Bikini PHOTO: Picture Of Ayla &… 1842 Comments. HuffingtonPost Reporters. RlIAefU%2BPQscGfYF7DTy7n%2FwcDbhzN6Y 6liTcYX2%2FNSva%2F61%2FZr253hA%2Bc3ZAXRA
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If Huffington Post ever wanted to be a credible news journal site, this reversion back to the politics of smear, demonize, isolate (the Alinsky model, which has now been completely discredited), they have lost that opportunity with these latest violations of true decency in news journalism, allowing their site to be, once again, dominated by little Goerings trying desperately to kill their opponent ‘by any means necessary’.  After all, the ends justify the means, as any good fascist would say.

1-22-10 Mccain Feingold- Is it dead or not?

Is this the death of Mccain-Feingold?  We believe that Mccain-Feingold, at leas the teeth of it, is dead, that the floodgates will now open up on the side that was hurt the most from this unconstitutional law, the conservatives, specifically the artificial limitations placed on non-profits to donate directly to candidates and parties of their choosing.  The ruling itself went beyond the issue of non-profits.  It encompassed even the corporate limitations that had been heretofore placed on their power to contribute directly to candidates and parties.

This ruling is both good and bad, good in the sense that the playing field will now be leveled.  Conservatives will now be able to compete with the billionaire progressives who pump untold millions into multiple hatchet organizations like moveon.org, the unions, and acorn.  Short term, this is good, as the left will now be brought out to light by the loyal opposition.  Long term, this raises the level of money that will go into campaigns, and risks making candidates beholden to…corporate campaign dollars.

All that’s left of Mccain Feingold is the provisions that require full disclosure.  What’s more, Mccain Feingold was going to be one of bedrocks the leftists were going to use to justify regulating bloggers online.  Now, that ship done sailed…

Here are a few excerpts from the blogosphere:

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the main opinion, which reads in part that there is “no basis for allowing the government to limit corporate independent expenditures.”

“There is no basis for the proposition that, in the political speech context, the government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers,” he wrote. “The government may regulate corporate speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether.”

Dissenters included Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

“The notion that the First Amendment dictated [today’s ruling] is, in my judgment, profoundly misguided,” Stevens wrote for the others.

“In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it,” he added.
From:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/21/supreme-court-decimates-mccain-feingold-campaign-finance-law/

John Mccain’s reaction reveals his true progressive nature:
McCain, whose party leaders praised the court decision, wasn’t as tough as Feingold. “I am disappointed by the decision of the Supreme Court and the lifting of the limits on corporate and union contributions,” he said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31810.html#ixzz0dLrUWd51

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority, which included the other 4 more conservative judges on the Court. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a 90-page dissent joined by the Court’s other 3 liberal justices.

The Court cited the First Amendment and an overbearing FEC as primary reasons for overturning the McCain-Feingold legislation.

The FEC’s “regulatory scheme may not be a prior restrain on speech in the strict sense of that term, for prospective speakers are not compelled by law to seek an advisory opinion from the FEC before the speech takes place,” Kennedy wrote. “As a practical matter, however, given the complex-ity of the regulations and the deference courts show toadministrative determinations, a speaker who wants toavoid threats of criminal liability and the heavy costs of defending against FEC enforcement must ask a govern-mental agency for prior permission to speak.”

“The FEC has created a regime that allows it to select what political speech is safe for public consumption by applying ambiguous tests. If parties want to avoid litigation and the possibility of civil and criminal penalties, theymust either refrain from speaking or ask the FEC to issue an advisory opinion approving of the political speech in question,” Kennedy continued. “Government officials pore over each word of a text to see if, in their judgment, it accords with the 11-factor test they have promulgated. This is an unprece-dented governmental intervention into the realm of speech.”

From: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/scotus_wipes_ou.php

Don’t take our word for it.  Read the entire ruling here:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf

1-22-10 Tea Party Nation fizzles- Palin still attending tea party convention?

An Article in Politico, titled Latest tea party target: Its own convention, suggests that the tea party movement is falling apart, as evidenced by ‘its own’ turning on what is billed as its own convention.

We don’t quite read it like that, rather, we see the way the tea party people have rallied in opposition to one man, Judson Phillips, attempting to take over the tea party movement by flashing big dollars around as a sign that the tea party movement is coming together under clearly defined principles, that, above all else, they WILL NOT allow the movement of the people, for the people, by the people, to be co-opted by the so-called professionals, the political class that has locked THE PEOPLE out of the public square for long enough.  Here are some excerpts from the article:

Billed as a pivot point to transition the tea party movement from a chaotic uprising to an organized and sustainable political force and featuring Sarah Palin as its star attraction, the first-ever convention in Nashville from Feb. 6 to Feb. 8 is insead shaping up as a reminder of the problems inherent in holding together a fractious coalition of local groups resistant to authority and pursuing often-conflicting agendas.

Red State blogger Erick Erickson made it clear recently what he thinks of the coming event — pronouncing that it “smells scammy” and is inconsistent with the grass-roots energy behind the tea party movement.

“I’m hoping for the best, but I’m prepared for the worst — that it descends into infighting and that the passionate activists who attend end up leaving disenchanted,” he told POLITICO.

Erickson worries that by associating herself [Palin] with Phillips and the convention, Palin “might be ruining herself unintentionally……

After she was criticized for the fee, Palin told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that she “will not financially be gaining anything from this.” Instead, she suggested she would “turn it right back around and contribute to campaigns, candidates and issues.”

But the only way she could do that under federal election law would be to make maximum contributions of $2,400 to candidates, $5,000 to political action committees or $30,400 to national party committees (she could make larger contributions to independent 527 groups, but those are barred from directly supporting or opposing candidacies).

01-21-10 McCain - Feingold link report

John McCain, Russ Feingold diverge on court ruling - Kasie Hunt 3 hours ago by Kasie Hunt  
The senators’ divergent reactions to the campaign finance ruling reflect impact of ruling on each party.
POLITICO Top Stories - http://www.politico.com/

Michelle Malkin » Supreme Court decimates McCain-Feingold campaign 5 hours ago by Michelle Malkin  
Supreme Court decimates McCain-Feingold campaign finance law; Update: Citizens United reacts to victory.
Michelle Malkin - http://michellemalkin.com/

McCain-Feingold, R.I.P. « Don Surber5 hours ago by Don Surber  
The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns. Advocates of strong campaign finance regulations have
Don Surber - http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/ - References

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Breaking: Supreme Court strikes down some 5 hours ago by Ed Morrissey  
Breaking: Supreme Court strikes down some McCain-Feingold provisions; Update: Opinion added.
Hot Air » Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/

SCOTUS Strikes Down Heart Of McCain-Feingold :: FITSNews4 hours ago by fitsnews  
Incidentally, two years ago the Court struck down another part of McCain-Feingold that prohibited groups from broadcasting ads that mention a candidate’s name in the weeks leading up to an election. “This is the most significant First
FITSNews - http://www.fitsnews.com/

Left Coast Rebel: McCain Feingold Overturned by Supreme Court5 hours ago by Left Coast Rebel  
As per BBCW, I saw the breaking news that the Supreme court has overturned the McCain Feingold campaign finance law. I’m reading now at the New York Times that the court ruled 5-4 today and specifically struck down provisions that
Left Coast Rebel - http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

JustOneMinute: A Body Blow To McCain-Feingold5 hours ago by Tom Maguire  
The Supreme Court finds, by a 5-4 vote, that corporations (and presumaby others, such as unions) can spend as much as they want advocating whatever and whomever they want whenever they want. Direct contributions to a campaign are still
JustOneMinute - http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/

Supreme Court rules against McCain-Feingold | Daily Loaf3 hours ago by Tom Bortnyk  
Tampa Creative Loafing, shelter from the mainstream for news, event listings, dining, movies and music.
Daily Loaf - http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/

Commentary » Blog Archive » Supreme Court Vindicates Political 4 hours ago by Jennifer Rubin  
FEC struck down major portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. The Court left in place the disclosure requirement for corporations and the disclaimer requirement that identifies whether an ad is not paid for by the campaign
Commentary - http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/

About That McCain-Feingold Bill… | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen3 hours ago by Mark Thompson  
Hopefully I’ll have more tonight or tomorrow on the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. But I am amazed at the hyperventilating response from.
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/

McCain-Feingold Gutted by Court: Big Business Elated : Veterans Today4 hours ago by Michael Leon  
McCain-Feingold Gutted by Court: Big Business Elated. January 21, 2010 by Michael Leon · Leave a Comment. The military-industrial complex and Big Pharma found a friend in the U.S. Supreme Court. In Citizens United v.
Veterans Today - http://www.veteranstoday.com/

McCain-Feingold Receives SCOTUS Smackdown | Liberally Conservative3 hours ago by Liberally Conservative  
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a central provision of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance act violated the First Amendment by restricting corporations from funding political messages in the
Liberally Conservative - http://www.liberallyconservative.com/

Another Black Conservative: SCOTUS knocks down parts of McCain 4 hours ago by Clifton B  
SCOTUS knocks down parts of McCain Feingold. In a 5-4 ruling the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that corporations (and that means Unions too) are free to spend whatever they want on campaign ads. The part of McCain Feingold
Another Black Conservative - http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/

Supreme Court Guts McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Laws5 hours ago by rob@sayanythingblog.com  
The case stemmed from a movie critical of then-pres. candidate Hillary Clinton, which the FEC said violated the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as McCain-Feingold. The FEC argued the movie violated section 203 of BCRA,
Say Anything - http://sayanythingblog.com/

Patterico’s Pontifications » Supreme Court Rules Portions of 6 hours ago by Patterico  
It seems that whether or not McCain-Feingold is constitutional depends solely as to what side he is on. Comment by Scott Jacobs — 1/21/2010 @ 7:25 am. IIRC, this applies to independent expenditures, meaning that coordinated stuff would
Patterico’s Pontifications - http://patterico.com/

Supreme Court Strikes Down McCain Feingold | American Conservative 4 hours ago by Cato Uticensis  
A striking victory today for the First Amendment! The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote threw out federal laws which limited campaign spending.
American Conservative Values Journal - http://american-conservativevalues.com/blog/

Weasel Zippers: Supreme Court Rules On McCain-Feingold5 hours ago by ZIP  
I don’t speak legalese so I’ll send you over to Ace’s place. AoSHQ: Supreme Court Overturns Ban On Corporate Political Speech And Part Of McCain-Feingold As Drew M. says: Expect more throughout the day but my initial take is regardless.
Weasel Zippers - http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/

The gutting of McCain-Feingold | Clive Crook’s blog | FT.com38 minutes ago by Clive Crook  
Clive Crook, Washington columnist for the Financial Times, blogs from the US on Obama, Congress, American healthcare reform, Congress and American politics and economics.
Clive Crook’s blog - http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/

McCain Feingold1 hour ago by Admin  
Russ Feingold is seething mad. John McCain is giving more of a disappointed shrug. The senators whose names were associated with the landmark campaign fina…
A Breaking News - http://www.abreakingnews.us/

Political Pistachio: McCain-Feingold Provisions Struck Down by 3 hours ago by Douglas V. Gibbs  
The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.” While a victory for free speech, some see this as
Political Pistachio - http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/

Supreme Court Drop-Kicks McCain/Feingold – Jim Report | VX50.com39 minutes ago
Fans of the First Amendment can rejoice. In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court today struck do …
VX50.com - http://www.vx50.com/