POLITICS/CORRUPTION Archives
July 17, 2007
Congressman Ron Paul has defined his Republican presidential candidacy with a staunchly critical stance on the Iraq war, saying during the June 5 debate in New Hampshire, for example, that it was a "mistake to go and a mistake to stay."
July 16, 2007
And all of Israel's money, and all of Israel's men, could not put John McCain back together again. - M. R.
July 15, 2007
A federal judge has ruled that President Clinton cannot use the power of his office to block prosecutors from questioning his senior aides, rejecting Clinton's assertion of executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, lawyers familiar with the decision said yesterday.
So, we have already been down this road of a President claiming Executive Privilege to block questioning of his aides and it has already been rejected by the court system.
Bush and Cheney don't have executive privilege to block a Congressional investigation.
Please repost this article on other blogs to get the word out. - M. R.
Forget the "Straight Talk Express." Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a Texas congressman, is the real deal when it comes to politics-be-damned bluntness.
July 14, 2007
It is becoming clear from the accumulating evidence that Bill Clinton resurrected Ronald Reagans Afghan strategy of using Islamist guerillas as his own covert foreign policy in Europe and other intransigent hot spots that seemed to be immune to normal diplomacy. Clintons foolish toying with Islamist killers is probably the spark that ignited the international jihad against America.
And don;t forget that phony "terror attack" that Clinton used to start the attack on our freedoms. - M. R.
July 13, 2007
Okay, after reading Gallup, check out the popularity of Rudy Giuliani's campaign website with that of
Ron Paul.
There is a major disconnect between the web traffic stats and Gallup, and I suspect that the problem is Gallup.
Do let them know. - M. R.
This might be a good time to recall the Nixon Watergate scandal, which was not just about the burglary but about sabotaging any and all candidates Nixon did not think he could beat.
Following on the video showing Hillary and Edwards teaming up together to block other Democrats from future debates, it appears we are heading into another season of "Segretti-esque" dirty tricks to try to leave Americans a choice between just which pro-war Israeli sock-puppet gets the White House.
I wish Ron Paul a lot of luck and a lot of Kevlar. It was the moment Robert Kennedy won the California Primary and became the unbeatable opponent to Nixon's first run at the White House that he got shot. And at least one of the 2008 candidates is in office because of a conveniently timed death. - M. R.
Vitter, who is married with four children, has been a vigorous advocate of family values, championing abstinence-only programs and calling for a ban on gay marriage. In a statement his office rushed out on Monday night--before he could be outed by Hustler magazine--Vitter said he had committed a "serious sin" and claimed that "several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling." I seem to recall that Bill Clinton took a similar stance after he acknowledged his affair with Monica Lewinsky. That, though, did not prevent Vitter from calling for Clinton's forcible removal from office.
Perhaps Vitter ought to revisit the issue of whether the absence of moral fitness is a firing offense for a public official. There is an important point here. A sex scandal DOES in fact affect the ability of an office holder. because if they are publicly espousing "family values" but privately playing around, they are open to blackmail. The article written by two law professors that Vitter rightly took issue with is incorrect in that it ignored the possibility of manipulation via blackmail.
That such sexual blackmail takes place to exert control over officials is an historical fact.
- M. R.
Apparently unaware that their microphones were still on following an NAACP Presidential Forum in Detroit on Thursday, Senator Hillary Clinton and former Senator John Edwards agreed to try to eliminate other Democratic Presidential candidates from future debates. - M. R.
July 12, 2007
Vitter has attacked any similarity of gay rights and campaigned on the sanctity of marriage, Flynt said. He co-authored the proposed federal constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage or civil unions nationally.
I dont want a man like that legislating for me, especially in the areas of morality, Flynt said. This is payback time. Payback is a bitch.
Vitter has taken $33,000 from pro-Israel lobbies. - M. R.
"The penalty for refusing to participate in politics is that you will be governed by bad men."
- Plato
July 11, 2007
U.S Soldiers Taking a Backseat to Hollywood and Profits
Vitter was really sewing his wild oats all over the place!
- M. R.
July 10, 2007
A Republican senator has apologised for "a very serious sin in my past" after his phone number was linked to an alleged Washington prostitution ring.
Deborah Palfrey will be our guest for this Saturday's What Really Happened radio show on GCNlive.com.
Tell your friends!
David Vitter's voting record would make it very worthwhile to find out just what that sin WAS, and if his constituents will also forgive him:
- Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's AMWR. (Nov 2005)
- Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)
- Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
- Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
- Voted YES on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy. (Jun 2004)
- Voted YES on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)
- Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for
alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
- Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
- Voted NO on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
- Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
- Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
- Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mothers life. (Oct 2003)
- Voted YES on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
- Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
- Voted YES on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
- Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
- Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
- Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a
pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Discontinue affirmative action programs. (Nov 2002)
- Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
- Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
- Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
- Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
- Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
- Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
- Rated 7% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
- M. R.
John McCain's campaign manager and chief strategist resigned Tuesday in a major staff shake-up for the struggling Republican presidential candidate who is all but broke and trails in opinion polls.
Rats leave the sinking ship. - M. R.
A man who changes his mind once can change it again. What America needs is a President who has openly opposed the wear all along, and certainly McCain's accepting of money from pro-Israel lobbies should further call into question whether he serves America or Israel. - M. R.
July 09, 2007
In an alarming display of fearmongering, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has suggested that a series of unfortunate events, namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizens perception of the war.
Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum also hyped the necessity of confronting Iran in the Middle East, and predicted that Giuliani, Romney and Tommy Thompson would be the three surviving Republican candidates who would go head to head in the race for the nomination.
Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said yesterday that she plans to run against Nancy Pelosi unless the House speaker introduces articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in the next two weeks.
Cindy gets my vote! - M. R.
More election-season posing.
We The People gave the Democrats control of the Congress with a clear and unmistakable mandate to END THE WAR AND PUNISH THOSE WHO LIED US INTO IT.
The Democrats have utterly failed to follow the will of the people and for that sin they will lose control of Congress in 2008.
Actions speak far louder than words, even when posing with daggers.
- M. R.
July 08, 2007
Can you remember the last candidate who generated this kind of spontaneous excitement in the public? - M. R.
There are two points to this story I wish to call your attention to. First off, while John McCain is included in this funding round-up, Ron Paul, who has more money than McCain, is never mentioned. Clearly, the mainstream media is still trying to pretend Paul does not exist. Why are they so afraid?
Second, take a look at the vast sums of money flowing to the favored candidates. Where does that come from? Not from ordinary Americans. There are limits on how much money we can donate to a candidate. So where are these big-bucks donations coming from? Drug runners? Organized crime? Are these vast sums of money coming from foreign governments?
And what will those big-money donors expect in return for their cash? The lives of your children spent in wars for that foreign government? Or maybe just turning a blind eye as drugs are sold to your children; no real efforts to stop the drugs other than some token and ineffectual TV commercials.
The truth is that under our current laws regarding campaign finance, having a lot of money does not mean the candidate has a lot of popular support. It means they have sold out to big money interests. Fred Thompson is a good example. Now he is pushing an anti-abortion agenda, but previously, for the right price, he lobbied in FAVOR of abortion.
Politicians get money because they are SELLING SOMETHING. Right now they sell you and your children to a warring foreign government. Or they sell you as customers to the drug criminals. Or some other "deal with the devil" that has yet to make itself known.
The bottom line, as we go into 2008, is that candidates with vast sums of cash should be viewed with a deep suspicion, because it is impossible to know where much of that money comes from, or what promises were made by the candidate to get it. We do know that AIPAC (accused of spying on the US for Israel) boasts of its ability to control the US Government, and they are among the richest of the donors out there.
So maybe the very best thing the voter can do this next election is steer clear of the candidates who seem to have all the money they need. Money at that scale is never free. It comes with strings. It comes with expectations. It comes with an awareness of debt; debts that are often hidden from the voting public and with good reason.
Personally, the fact that Giuliani has such vast sums of cash at his disposal is the primary reason I will never vote for him.
- M. R.
July 07, 2007
Get ready for massive vote fraud this campaign season. The establishment will do everything they can to stop the Ron Paul Revolution. - M. R.
Former Senator Fred D. Thompson, who has positioned himself as an opponent of abortion rights as he prepares to run for president, was hired as a lobbyist 16 years ago by a group on the other side of the issue, according to documents and people involved with his hiring.
So, for enough cash, ol' Fred will do as he is told. AIPAC will rejoice! - M. R.
July 06, 2007
A letter to GOP Sen. Norm Coleman from a former college friend asking why he supports brutal drug laws when he was an avid pot smoker as a young man.
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican frontrunner John McCain, who reported this week he has only $2 million in the bank.
This rejuvenated religion of Pagan earth worship took another blow from hard science just today, after it was revealed that the oldest plant DNA ever discovered showed that "the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed," again underscoring the fact that climate change is a routine and natural phenomenon that has occurred throughout earth's history.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the "cesspool" of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.
Two anti-pornography crusaders, as well as two conservative activists of the type Romney is courting, say the distribution of such graphic adult movies runs counter to the family image cultivated by Romney, the Marriotts and their shared Mormon faith.
Our roads crumble, our levees are still in need of repair, emergency rooms are closing, and our schools are unable to function for lack of funding. But Kennedy can grab a hundred million to make EXTRA engines for the newest warplane. - M. R.
In 2002, the Interior Department diverted water from the Klamath River Basin to farmers in Oregon, resulting in the death of 80,000 adult salmon. The Washington Post reports that Vice President Cheney called for the damaging water policy to secure the farmers votes, despite scientific evidence that it would endanger two federal protected species of fish, a violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Setting aside endangered species (and aren't we all, when you think about it), the loss of 80,000 (or 300,000 according to another report) salmon during spawning time means that the next generation of salmon is almost wiped out. This is the raw material for an entire industry, which looks to be facing hard times for years to come.
Yes, we are facing water shortages. But wise rulership would be looking to find more efficient ways of desalinization, deep aquifer drilling, any and all means to make sure there is plentiful water for everyone, and not just bartering what water there is for more power and wealth. - M. R.
July 05, 2007
Libby not yet pardoned but still spared from jail is part of a Zionist cabal that knows it can not get into trouble. The government tells them do whatever you like and break as many laws as you like because you will never go to jail.
On June 27, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), along with 35 California and Oregon members of Congress, called for congressional hearings on Vice President Dick Cheneys involvement in the political decision that killed 80,000 spawning salmon. They made this request to House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) after a Washington Post investigative report found that Cheney pressured mid-level bureaucrats in the Department of Interior to divert water from the Klamath River Basin for political gain.
This one stinks. I mean, with 80,000 dead Salmon, it REALLY stinks! The price of lox just went through the roof!
Seriously, it is not just that 80,000 salmon died, but they were spawning, which means the next generation of salmon just vanished. It will be years before the total population will recover from this mass die-off.
- M. R.
July 04, 2007
The first famous obstruction of justice in which Scooter Libby was involved came at the end of the Clinton presidency when Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the notorious international criminal who has made billions from illegal oil trading.
One can argue that Clinton pardoned Rich expecting some financial benefit, but it is quite likely that the pardon also protected Rich associates, probably including oil people. The pardon stopped Federal investigation and prosecution of Rich and so very likely benefited powerful people inside and outside the U.S.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist is being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a lawsuit that alleges he and his polling firm monitored the personal e-mails of a former associate who started a rival company.
July 02, 2007
According to eyewitnesses, the Ron Paul tax rally taking place next door to the Iowa Tax Forum - and competing with it - actually outdrew the official forum and its many GOP candidates.
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) had not been invited to the forum, according to sponsors because he was not a serious candidate with a serious, successful campaign, or an organization in Iowa.
Two reports - from the Des Moines Register and Iowapolitics.com - put Ron Pauls rally numbers around 600-800. But eyewitness attending the rally put the numbers at 1000-1200, or 200-600 more than the formal GOP forum.
July 01, 2007
Wait until they pan the audience. It looks like more than 600 to me. - M. R.
Congressman Paul, R-Texas, was not extended an invitation to speak at Saturday's Iowans for Tax Relief/Iowa Christian Alliance forum at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines. But, he spoke to more than 600 supporters less than 100 feet away from a forum that saw six of his fellow GOP candidates address more than 800 at the forum.
6 candidates draw 800, that works out to 133 supporters for each.
And Ron Paul drew 600 all by himself. - M. R.
June 30, 2007
June 29, 2007
With the sole exception of Pat Buchanan, every GOP candidate who wins New Hampshire has won their party nomination, and there is considerable evidence that Buchanan's later defeat resulted from vote rigging in the Iowa Caucuses.
So, Ron Paul supporters need to mobilize now to monitor the voting in their district. - M. R.
June 28, 2007
The First Amendment grants all citizens the right to petition the U.S. government, and this applies to AIPAC as much as anyone else. However, I oppose certain lobbying groups having more of an undue influence than others, and since one of the main purposes of AIPAC is to lobby for generous taxpayer subsidies to Israel, that portion of their influence would end under my administration.
Ooooh, the Israel-firsters gonna get rough on Ron now! - M. R.
They deserve pink slips. - M. R.
``Does he really have the passion, the energy, the fire in the belly to run?'' said former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who is advising his fellow Tennessean. ``I believe he does, but we will only know as he gets on the campaign trail.''
"Please, Fred, you're the only one that stands a chance against Ron Paul!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
June 27, 2007
Presidential candidate Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today called on the organizers of the Iowa presidential forum to allow the participation of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX).
June 26, 2007
The speculation, vigorously denied by McCains camp, is sweeping Republican circles after a disastrous few weeks in which the principled Arizona senator has clashed with the partys conservative base on immigration and also alienated independent voters by backing President George W Bushs troop surge in Iraq.
The hushed whispers are that McCain's sucking up to Israel has played a major factor in the erosion of his support. - M. R.
Something you won't see on ABCNNBBCBS. - M. R.
"We did the right thing today because we know the American people sent us here to act on our most urgent problems. We know they will not stand for small political factions getting in the way," Kennedy said in a statement.
Mr. Kennedy
We The People did indeed send you to Congress to act on our most urgent problems. The most urgent problems are a war in Iraq and a President who lied us into it.
Giving amnesty to illegal invaders of our country was not part of the bargain, nor was flooding our nation with cheap labor to destroy the middle class.
- M. R.
Barack Obama provides no alternative to Hillary Clinton, in terms of imperial-minded foreign policy. This is doubly regrettable since Clinton herself provides no substantive alternative to the neoconservative philosophy of the Bush administration.
June 25, 2007
Whatreallyhappened.com remains a website that does not endorse candidates, so please do not write in asking why I do not have this on my page. - M. R.
McCain has taken $162,000 from pro-Israel PACs. But it seems as if having Israeli money does not carry with it the election magic it once did.
2008 should be the year when supporting Israel and being supported BY Israel becomes the kiss of political death for American politicians. And it can be if you want to make it so.
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third. - M. R.
During his research, Bernstein made a number of discoveries that clashed with the New York senator's own account of her life. These include the fact that her father "humiliated and abused" his wife, that she kept failure in her bar exam secret for 30 years, and the extraordinary lengths she went to to suppress the details of her husband's infidelities, which repeatedly threatened to derail his political career. This she did not only by hiring private detectives to investigate his lovers, but also by obtaining signed legal statements from them saying that they had not had sex with her husband.
June 24, 2007
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will celebrate life and liberty at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, June 30th. Dr. Paul will share his message of freedom, peace and prosperity at the Hy-Vee Hall, Room C, Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines, Iowa. The rally will start immediately following the conclusion of the Presidential Candidates Forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance at approximately 4:30 p.m.
The public is invited. Food and beverage will be provided to the first 500 people who arrive. FYI: Hundreds and maybe thousands of supporters are meeting in Iowa on June 30 at the Ron Paul Rally after the ITR/ICA Forum. This event is right next door to the Iowans for Tax Reform debate that Ron Paul was pointedly excluded from. Thus, should more people show up at Paul's event, it will embarrass the debate's organizers. - M. R.
Clinton's participation in the planning of the event would make Paul's substantial contributions a direct donation to her Senate campaign rather than her joint fundraising committee, violating federal statutes that limit "hard money" contributions to a candidate to $2,000 per person. Knowingly accepting or soliciting $25,000 or more in a calendar year is a felony carrying a prison sentence of up to five years.
Paul's complaint charges President Clinton destroyed his entertainment company to get out of a $17 million deal in which Clinton promised to promote the firm in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to foot the bill for the Hollywood event.
To our shock, Mr. Failor told us Dr. Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain. The call ended.
June 23, 2007
Dr. Paul will share his message of freedom, peace and prosperity at the Hy-Vee Hall, Room C, Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines, Iowa. The rally will start immediately following the conclusion of the Presidential Candidates Forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance at approximately 4:30 p.m.
So ... if more people show up for Paul's rally than for the debate, the Iowans for Tax Relief are going to look pretty stupid for having excluded him. - M. R.
Judges want to know if Mr Chirac ordered a secret probe into Nicolas Sarkozy over corruption claims, before he succeeded him as president.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) had his son, former state Senate President Ben Stevens, head a board that distributed $12 million in federal grants to promote seafood companies that, at the same time, paid the younger Stevens upward of $775,000 in "consulting fees."
Something very fishy here. - M. R.
June 22, 2007
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed this morning by some attendees at the liberal Take Back America conference for blaming failure in Iraq on the Iraqi government.
During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.
1. Fred Thompson (R-TN) - 25.7%
2. Ron Paul (R-TX) - 16.7%
3. Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) - 12.5%
4. Mitt Romney (R-MA) - 9.0%
5. John McCain (R-AZ) - 5.6%
Anthony Menendez, who was Halliburton's director of technical accounting research and training, has accused the world's second-largest oilfield-services company of using so- called bill-and-hold accounting and other undisclosed practices to ``distort the timing of billions of dollars in revenue.'' In short, Menendez says this allowed Halliburton to book product sales improperly, before they occurred.
This sounds akin to the "Mark to Market" accounting method used by ENRON to claim billions on profits that did not actually exist. - M. R.
Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests.
Just imagine what a Giuliani Cabinet would be like! - M. R.
June 21, 2007
"Congressman Ron Paul isn't welcome at the Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance candidates forum. Oversight? Nope. Kent Snyder from Ron Paul's campaign and Ed Failor from ITR exchange words. Lotsa them." --
After receiving boos at the liberal Take Back America Conference over the Iraq war, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reaffirmed her pledge to end the war in Iraq, according to the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill.
We've HEARD pledges, for months now.
Actions speak louder than words and we have no ear for any more words.
We The People judge you on what you DO.
- M. R.
How did Sen. John McCain, the onetime front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, come to this?
John McCain took $162,500 from pro-Israel pacs.
We are starting to see the public reject politicians who appear to work for a foreign government.
No man can serve two masters, and America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third. - M. R.
June 20, 2007
It appears that Ed Failor Jr. is senior adviser on the McCain Campaign in Iowa! Talk about a conflict of interest, huh? This is another site that says he is with the McCain Campaign just in case they try to say it's not true. And why not another which is a press release from McCain's Campaign itself!
Not only is he an adviser, but he has donated $1250 to the McCain 2008 campaign on March 31, 2007. This information is confirmed here.
If you've never heard of Ron Paul, you probably have by now. This defender of American sovereignty and the Constitution is injecting his ideas into the Republican Presidential campaign and debates. The mainstream media have tried to ignore him, there have been threats to exclude him from the debates, and some have called him a nut. Nothing seems able to stop the Ron Paul revolution. His momentum is not manufactured and he has the most room to grow out of all the candidates. His appeal crosses all party lines and his message of non-intervention is such a contrast to the warmongering neo-cons. People are responding to his pledge for liberty and are sick of the government's lies and propaganda.
Most well-read Americans are aware at this point that corruption is rampant in the U.S. student loan system.
Some university officials receiving kickbacks from student loan companies have been steering their students toward these lenders. Some financial aid administrators were holding stock in these companies and going on expenses-paid luxury vacations to exotic locations offered by lenders.
Even U.S. Department of Education officials have held stock in the very same companies they were supposed to be overseeing.
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 133 plaintiffs have alleged that Robert Lichfield, co-chairman of Romneys Utah finance committee owned or operated residential boarding schools for troubled teenagers where students were subjected to physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.
The problem with power is that it attracts the very sort of people who should never be allowed to have it. - M. R.
In addition, he's a financial supporter of McCain:
Edward Failor Contribution List in 2008
Name & Location Employer/Occupation Dollar Amount Date Primary/General Contibuted To
Failor, Edward D Mr. Jr.
MUSCATINE, IA
52761 Iowans For Tax Relief/Executive Vic $250 03/31/2007 P JOHN
MCCAIN 2008 INC. - Republican
Failor, Edward D Mr. Jr.
MUSCATINE, IA
52761 Iowans For Tax Relief/Executive Vic $1,000 03/31/2007 P JOHN
MCCAIN 2008 INC. - Republican
- M. R.
The deposition looms as a potential headache for Mr. Bloomberg at a time when he is trying to separate himself from his duties running a global financial-news organization and manage the transition from private to public citizen. He now may be compelled to answer a range of questions about his company, whose inner workings he has scrupulously shielded from public view.
Hes done. The latest Iowa polls shows McCain polling 6%, the same as Sam Brownback. Thats right folks, the darling of the press, the maverick, the straight talkin man, is pulling the same numbers as Sam Science? I cant hear you! La la la la la la Brownback.
John McCain took $162,500 from pro-Israel lobbies.
all Israel's horses, and all Israel's men, could not put John McCain back together again.
I want to make 2008 the election in which Israeli PAC money is the kiss of political death for a US politician.
So far, so good. - M. R.
Walking into a small room, Nicole Derse from the political desk of the Obama NH campaign was busy meeting folks. As she turned to me she started to say hello, so I replied with a smile, "Hi, my names Jerid. I'm a blogger."
"Oooooooh, I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave," she shot back. "These events are closed to the press."
After our call, I got to thinking about this Failor character: what kind of person running a "tax relief" organization would exclude the presidential candidate with and this is no exaggeration possibly the best record on taxation in all of American history, someone who favors the abolition of the income tax and the drastic reduction or elimination of nearly all other federal taxes? Should this be the Iowans For a Little Tax Relief, But Not Too Much?
It is clear that the word has gone out through the GOP hinterlands to shut out Ron Paul. I smell Rove-poo on this one.
The only possible reaction to this force-feeding of candidates to the public is outrage by We The People. Please take a moment and express your outrage to ...
Edward Failor
Executive Vice President
Iowans for Tax Relief
563-288-3600 or 877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413
itr@taxrelief.org
Katie Koberg
Public Relations Director
Iowans for Tax Relief
515-875-4936
kkoberg@taxrelief.org
Steve Scheffler, President
Iowa Christian Alliance
515-225-1515
(If no luck, try 515-971-7363)
515-225-1826 (fax)
slscheffler@iowachristian.com - M. R.
In his latest ABC News podcast, former senator Fred Thompson suggests that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace last week to appeal to fringe anti-American elements who think the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.
Well Fred, you just lost the internet vote. And that is a bigger chunk of people than you are apparently aware of. - M. R.
June 19, 2007
As numerous polls have made clear, the voting public -- sick to death of this Administration's stupidity, incompetence, corruption and dangerous policy-making -- put the Dems back into power in Congress in November of 2006 precisely to take bold stands on the Iraq war, corruption, the shredding of Constitutional protections, etc.
But the Dems, seemingly confused and trapped by their elitist inside-the-beltway perspective, too often are behaving as if the midterm 2006 election never happened. No wonder public approval of the Democratic-led Congress has deteriorated so quickly.
Rudolph Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.
Michael R. Bloomberg, a longtime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City in 2001, announced this evening that he is changing his party status and registering as an independent.
The tape shows Clinton - currently the leading Democratic presidential contender - speaking in 2000 with Peter Paul, a Hollywood mogul, and comic book icon Stan Lee about a massive fundraising event for her 2000 Senate race. Paul spent about $2 million of his own money to produce the event. The legal contribution limit to a candidate then was $2,000.
Lew Moore, our campaign manager, called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us Dr. Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain.
Okay folks, the "Defy has been hurled".
Failor has decided that he will decide who is a real candidate and who is not. If you are okay with that, then sit still and do nothing, push the red button, and be happy with who you are told is your next leader.
But if you have had enough of other people telling you who is a candidate and who is not, then grab your phone and make as much noise as it takes.
It is time for an object lesson. - M. R.
Getting the message out! - M. R.
The jubilation may be premature. Voters will not soon forget how the Democrats reneged on their promises to end the war.
- M. R.
Public interest in Dr Paul, who is known as Dr No in Congress because he has rejected so many bills as unconstitutional, has grown after each live debate with other Republican contenders.
Chat on the internet is attracting larger numbers to his campaign appearances and his fund-raising is rising healthily thanks to contributions solicited by email - a device used by all candidates but which, because of its low cost, favours the minor players. Folks, this is a contest over whether the mainstream media will select the candidates, or whether YOU will.
Yes, the other candidates have vast sums of money to spend; money for ads, money to pay for vote fraud, money to pay for dirty tricks (which we are already seeing).
But consider this. The candidates who have all that cash didn't get it from ordinary citizens. They got it from corporations, the ultra-wealthy, and lobbying groups. And those donors will want something back for all that money. We have already seen these last 5 years how AIPAC's money has sent our young men and women to die in the Mideast. Haven't we had enough of the big-money candidates selling us out?
Maybe it is time to vote for the little-money candidates, who will owe more to the people than to their donors.
- M. R.
June 18, 2007
Dan Berman at Greenwire broke an important story yesterday regarding former Interior Department official Steven Griles, who plead guilty earlier this year in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Griles has asked the Judge (pdf) in his case that he be allowed to perform community service as a part of his sentence. The problem is, one of the two organizations with which he wants to do community service the American Recreation Coalition (ARC) -- is actually a heavy-hitter lobby organization which apparently benefited from Griles time at Interior.
The problem, says Rep. Albert R. Wynn, is that he believed Vice President Dick Cheney.
A well-connected Republican whose views have reached Bushs inner circle said that if Libby goes to prison, It would be seen by the religious and policy conservatives as the president abandoning his loyalty virtue for the hedonistic pleasure of political expediency.
This is a trial balloon to see if letting Mr. Liebowitz off the hook would create a major scandal ... which it SHOULD, but since we know that Scooter took the fall for other higher ups in the outing of Valerie Plame, it comes as no surprise that efforts to keep him out of jail continue to mount.
Take a moment to CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER and demand Libby go to jail, go DIRECTLY, to jail, do not pass "Go", do not collect a hundred thousand dollars. - M. R.
The line between lobbying the federal government and running it just got blurrier.
The presence of the obscure Republican congressman from Texas on a list that includes terms such as "Sopranos," "Paris Hilton" and "iPhone" is a sign of the online buzz building around the long-shot Republican presidential hopeful -- even as mainstream political pundits have written him off.
The mainstream is only going to marginalize themselves if they keep this up. - M. R.
Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives are picking up momentum. The American people are demanding action as the quagmire of Iraq deepens. Millions of them believe that Cheney lied the country into the Iraqi War and should be impeached.
Then tarred and feathered. Then sent to the Hague. - M. R.
The new Democratic-led Congress is drawing the ire of voters upset with its failure to quickly deliver on a promise to end the
Iraq war.
Last November I issued a warning to the new Congress that the names on their new office doors were written in erasable marker. But I guess they did not listen to me, or indeed to any other US citizen.
See WHO IS THE US CONGRESS
LISTENING TO? - M. R.
June 17, 2007
If Ron Paul were to win, it would destroy AIPAC's illusion of political invincibility. Indeed he only has to win some of the primaries to expose how weak AIPAC is becoming.
I want the 2008 election to be THE election where AIPAC money is the kiss of political death, where taking Israeli money costs more votes than it gains. No man can serve two masters. And America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third. - M. R.
I hope Ron has his Kevlar undies on. The last leader to take on the Federal Reserve was John F. Kennedy. - M. R.
June 16, 2007
New opinion polls released this week show mounting discontent within the American population over the war in Iraq and the policies of both political parties.
The problems the nation faces are bi-partisan ones, and will only be solved with bi-partisan ropes around bi-partisan necks, and arguing over which one deserves the tallest tree and the shortest rope is a waste of time. - M. R.
A January research study completed by the Pew Research Center (Election 2006 Online - Pew Research Study) suggests that more Americans are relying on the internet as a source of political news.
Ron and his wife Carol
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As such, the recent online success the Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has achieved should not be immediately discounted, as suggested by political pundits such as Rush Limbaugh.
There is another factor. The internet attracts people who are really thinking about the political future of the nation.
The people still stuck to their TVs aren't really paying that much attention and just memorize sound bytes.
But as we get closer to the real election, based on trends seen in 2000 and 2004, those TV people will turn to the Internet people for insights to the candidates.
This may well be the election which destroys the ability of the mainstream media to pre-screen candidates.
And if I have anything to say about it, this will be the election that makes AIPAC money the kiss of political death in American elections. - M. R.
Website of this morning's guest on the GCN/WRH radio show. - M. R.
An Also-Ran in the GOP Polls, Ron Paul Is Huge on the Web.
June 15, 2007
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have told the insurance industry that it was OK to load up damages on the taxpayer-funded flood program while shorting people on their wind damage payments.
June 14, 2007
The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to resign from the U.S. Senate following his remarks made Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding military action against Iran.
No man can serve two masters...
 - M. R.
June 12, 2007
June 11, 2007
- M. R.
June 10, 2007
Starting yesterday, the net and my email box has been hit with a flood of these posts and emails insisting that Ron Paul should "take a stand" with Ed Brown.
Someone is working very hard to create a linkage where there is none, and no doubt the intent is to create a situation where Ron Paul can be attacked by the mainstream media for any imagined support of Ed Brown's position.
Think back to the dirty tricks that Donald Segretti and his ilk pulled to help Nixon win his second term. This hard-sell to toss Ron Paul and Ed Brown together seems very reminiscent of those kind of tactics.
I think I smell Karl Rove somewhere nearby. - M. R.
June 09, 2007
I have received no less than four separate emails urging me to link Ron Paul and Ed Brown at my website.
Together with these other mentions on the web this is starting to look like a typical "dirty tricks" campaign such as we saw with Tricky Dick.
- M. R.
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
- Congressman Ron Paul
June 08, 2007
The GOP is searching to find a pro-war candidate who can run against Ron Paul. - M. R.
Congressman Ron Pauls donations have moved up - not by hundreds of thousands - but by millions as a result of his debate performances and groundswell of support on the Internet and in New Hampshire, observers close to the campaign say.
The move is especially impressive since as of March 31, 2007, he had perhaps $500,000 on hand (see candidate estimates below). ... and NONE of it from Israel! - M. R.
An Englewood political action committee has emerged as one of the most powerful advocates for Israel, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash for U.S. congressional candidates.
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.
Once again we see US politicians being bought into the service of a foreign government, with the result that our nation and our children are being sold out from under us.
It is because of PACs like this one, and AIPAC, that voters should go into this next election deeply suspicious of candidates with a lot of money. Because a surplus of cash i no longer a measure of popular support (no matter what the mainstream media says) but rather of how much they have sold out to special interests, corporations, and ISRAEL.
No man (or woman) can serve two masters. Vote for the servants who will serve YOU! - M. R.
June 07, 2007
Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, is being floated in Senate GOP leadership circles as a possible replacement for the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.), who died Monday night. Susan Thomas, the late senator's wife, has also been mentioned by Senate Republicans as a potential choice to take over for her husband, as well as former Justice Department official Tom Sansonetti.
June 06, 2007
Defending the Constitution is "Eccentric?" - M. R.
"In light of today's news, it is clear that the Ames Straw Poll will not be a meaningful test of the leading candidates' organizational abilities, so we have decided to forgo our participation in the event," McCain campaign manager Terry Nelson said.
Translation: "We don't dare take the chance of Ron Paul showing us up this early in the race." - M. R.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul drew less attention from journalists and professional debate-watchers Tuesday night than bigger-name candidates like Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney, but on the arena floor, he was the most popular guy in the house, according to his son, Rand Paul, a Bowling Green opthamologist.
WOW Ahead by about 4,000 votes! with more than half of the votes...And STILL, no one's gunna talk about him...Gotta love America.
It was all over after Q&A #1. What followed Wolf Blitzer's question about the advisability of a touch of thermonuclear destruction laid on Iran was a veritable geyser of mindless bellicosity. Excepting Ron Paul, the Republican candidates suited up in brownshirts and armbands and went to work on yet another preemptive catastrophe against hundreds of thousands of utterly innocent human beings.
Though the seating arrangements and even the number of questions addressed to "second tier" presidential candidates were designed to "showcase" so-called major candidates, the Ron Paul (R-Tex) Internet poll surge continues.
Ron Paul has three things going for him.
1. He admits the war in Iraq was a mistake and that we need to get our kids home. On that point alone he can win an honest election.
2. The mainstream media hates him. That tells me that corporations hate Ron Paul's guts right now.
3. Ron Paul is not an obvious Israel suck-up like the other candidates, and has accepted no money from pro-Israeli lobbyists. America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third, and Ron Paul and Mike Gravel are the only two candidates who meet that requirement.
- M. R.
Ron Paul is a longtime free-market thinker. His message stands in stark contrast to others at the GOP presidential debates. His points speak truth to power much as did Martin Luthers. The historical parallels are interesting and perhaps not coincidental.
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel is running for President in the Democratic primaries. At seventy-six, he has been out of politics for two and a half decades. Now he wants back in. And hes making his strong opposition to the Iraq War the centerpiece of his longshot effort to win the nomination.
June 05, 2007
Check out the pundit's "sales job", then check out how real people voted. - M. R.
When I linked this page earlier in the evening, it went to a list of comments about the GOP debate tonight (Tuesday night). The comments were overwhelmingly in favor of Ron Paul. It thus comes as no surprise that CNN has removed the comments about Ron Paul and re-directed the link to comments about Monday Night's debates.
Shame on CNN for trying yet again to "pre-screen" the candidates before the elections.
A copy of the comments about Ron Paul, presented in its entirety as they were before CNN pulled them, can be found HERE
It is time for the American voters to send a clear message that the mainstream media will NOT choose the President of the United States. That choice belongs to WE THE PEOPLE.
Shame on CNN for such underhanded chicanery!
- M. R.
Ron Paul sweeps the post-debate polling.
I hope he is wearing his Kevlar undies. - M. R.
Proloy explains that because Ron Paul's base is younger; they may not be correctly represented in the polls.
June 04, 2007
Congress, apparently content to explore ever-new depths in public disapproval, is on the verge of having a single member derail the most meaningful reform in years of the federal Freedom of Information Act.
June 03, 2007
Furious that congressional Democratic leaders did not fight harder to pass a supplemental spending bill with a timeline to end the war in Iraq and tougher benchmarks, liberal online activists have ripped party leaders and threatened to halt contributions to Democratic lawmakers.
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