SHOOTING STRAIGHT FROM THE HIP

Hero - Daniel Hannan a Conservative Member of the European Parliament did something that many of our leaders & members of the Mainstream Media here in the US have failed to do recently. He took to task Prime Minister Gordon Brown and lambasted him for basically running his country into the ground.

This is the sort of speech that has the Obama administration shaking in their boots. The sort of speech that has Pelosi & Friends pushing for the elimination of Conservative Talk Radio. This is the sort of straightforward no nonsense tongue lashing that Liberals would soon like to forget and Conservatives should embrace & practice more of.

Here is complete speech for your edification:

Thanks to Daniel Hannan for standing up for his beliefs and Conservative Principles.

Barney the Porker

BUM - The one thing that irks & irritates me the most about this ongoing AIG bonus fiasco isn't whether it was in the best interest of the company to issue these big bonuses to its employees after accepting TARP money or the fact that AIG had filed suit 3 weeks ago against the the very same Government that bailed them out to try and recoup over $300 million dollars in back taxes. We all have a sense that something is not right with all of this. Who would not sign up for a $1 million dollar bonus? I think all of us under similar circumstances would have accepted these bonus contracts. But when Congressman Barney Frank stands in front of the American people and feigns outrage and starts to point fingers in every direction but his, it just shows that Frank always puts his job ahead of country. He goes around beating the morally wrong drum without ever noticing the hypocrisy drooling out of both sides of his mouth. This is the same Congressman that Chairs the Financial Services Committee and was front and center in support of enactment of TARP, which at the time had no restrictions or strings attached to executive pay or bonuses.

This is the same Barney Frank that made sure OneUnited Bank in Boston received a $12 million dollar infusion of federal cash- a bank that had already been accused of ‘unsafe and unsound banking practices.’ A bank whose CEO was sharply criticized by regulators for excessive pay that included a Porsche. Frank knew that this bank was under scrutiny and yet he included specific provisions in TARP aimed at bailing out OneUnited and spoke directly to Treasury officials about it.
This is the same Barney Frank that irresponsibly defended the activities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the years, even when it became clear that executives at the two giant government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) had manipulated earnings statements and gifted themselves with huge bonuses based on the bogus numbers, misled regulators, and steered the companies into such shoddy condition that they posed a systemic risk to the entire financial system. Chairman Frank must regret his September 11, 2003 statement to The New York Times that Fannie and Freddie “are not facing any kind of financial crisis…[t]he more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” During a 2003 committee hearing related to establishing oversight over the GSEs, he casually announced that he didn’t want “the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.” We know how that worked out: the GSEs are now almost entirely owned by the taxpayers; Freddie Mac tapped the Treasury for $13.8 billion in 2008; and Fannie Mae is on deck to get $15.2 billion this year. Yet is advocating to cut our Military spending by 25%.

I can go on and and cite all the instances where Frank has been wrong and irresponsible. We all should know more about Congressman Franks morally correct take on all of this because he has been the Poster Boy for morals. Allowing your apartment to be used as a call boy headquarters by a male prostitute definitely pads that resume.

Well now Mr Frank can add one more nugget to his already undistiguished resume, Porker of the Month. At a time when all Americans are being asked to be thrifty and spend wisely, Mr Frank has gone the opposite way again. Thus garnering the Porker of the Month award given by Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog. Just one more trophy to add to his already extensive collection of incompetency awards.

If you are fed up with Phony Barney and all his hypocrisy, contact him and let him know that you are unto him and that he needs to lead or get out of the way.

Thanks to Leslie K Paige for information related to this story.For additional information contact Leslie 202-467-5334 or lpaige@cagw.org

A TRIBUTE TO OUR TROOPS

HEROES - A small tribute to the families of all the men & women defending our freedoms across the world & keeping us safe.

I salute & remember you.

Thank You.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAILS TO REPORT ALL THE FACTS

BIASED - I am sure by now that many Americans across the country have tuned into their favorite news channels and have heard all the reasons why AIG should return the $165 million in bonuses, why it is morally wrong in a time of financial & economic crisis, you have heard all the sound bites from pompous politicians puffing out their chests in disgust, you have heard the outrage from all circles including the President himself.

On the surface, you may say to yourself, how can AIG issue any bonuses at all after the company has under performed? After all, I have an 80% stake in AIG and I as a taxpayer am offended that they are receiving bonuses. Especially after receiving TARP funds. How can this be? This is an outrage..

If you sat in front of the TV channel surfing waiting to hear someone with an answer or explanation on the other side of the story, you would have been very disappointed...If you happen to come across Fox News Channel, you may have gotten a little more.

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Making up for Lost time..

PHONY - If you had never heard of NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo before this weeks AIG big bonus blowup, you would have thought he was a big fisted AG in the mold of Rudy Giuliani.

Unfortunately, Andrew Cuomo has been around the block for quite a long time. He has been involved in the New York State political scene for well over 20 years and if it were not for the name Cuomo, not too many people would care.

This week, AG Andy Cuomo decided to put on his Superman cape and go after a bunch of suit clad 9-5'Er's who happen to ply their trade in the Wall St. District for AIG. These greedy Capitalists must be stopped. How dare they have the nerve to earn bonuses. This is morally wrong..Obama says it is.. The world as we know it will change for the worse if these crooks are not stopped.

You see, this is what a typical bully would do. He targets a victim that has been ostracized or ridiculed by his peers and then unsuspectingly moves in and lands a blow to the gut knowing that they will not fight back. This is what Andy does, he picks on easy targets. He sees Wall Street as the bad guy, the culprit in this financial crisis, Obama said so. He is playing right into President Obama's rhetoric that wants to paint Capitalism and Wall Street as the primary transgressors in the current state of the economy.

Apparently there was either a shortage of phone booths or a cape malfunction when it came to swooping in on the bad guys from Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. As Secretary of HUD from 1997-2001, he did everything in his power to run the agency into the ground. Here is what the GAO had to say about the condition Cuomo left HUD in,"Significant weaknesses (internal controls, information and financial-management systems, organizational deficiencies and staffing programs) still persist in two of HUD's major program areas which remain at high-risk -- Single-Family Insurance and Rental Housing Assistance."
Under his same watch, there was the Audit catastrophe in 1999 where billions of dollars went unaccounted for and the agency's financial system was declared to be defective. These lapses no doubt led to the ability of Franklin Raines and his cronies at Fannie & Freddie to manipulate earnings, cook the books and in the process earn himself, Jamie Gorelick and others millions of dollars in bonuses.
So for Andy Cuomo to stand in front of America and state that he wants to come down hard on these suits from Wall St. is a laugh.

Why not call out Franklin Raines or Jamie Gorelick Mr. tough guy. You think they could return half of their $100 million in bonuses? The reason may lie in the fact that he has played a bigger part in this mess than most people would know. He is covering his tracks. He wants to be the Knight in shining armor.
He wants you to believe that capitalism is the enemy. He wants you to believe that government
big Bonus blow-up, you would think that he was an iron will save the day. He is a just another bully picking on an easy target.

DIVA PELOSI SAYS NO TO FLYING COACH

DIVA - Nancy "Botox" Pelosi has decided that somehow the US Air Force should be her personal airline. She wants to outdo her Hollywood type friends and be a jet setter. Apparently, Mrs. Pelosi has been creating a big stir with her outrageous requests for Military travel. All at the expense of taxpayers money.
Documents obtained by government watchdog, Judicial Watch, show requests for non-stop flights to San Francisco and last minute cancellations that are all adding up to big dollars. At a time when Americans are being asked to scale back and conserve,
Mrs. Pelosi seems to be taking the opposite approach. Just another example of a Big spending Limo Lib talking out of both sides of her mouth.
If you are upset about Mrs. Pelosi's ridiculous traveling demands and waste of your tax dollars, give her a call and let her know.
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CONSERVATIVES IDEAS PUT TO WORK

HERO - Short & concise profile of another Conservative Congressional lawmaker applying Conservative values to solve 21st century problems.I salute Mr. Smith for representing our country well.
Give him a call & let him know you appreciate his work..

NY STATE EMPLOYEES WHEELY BENEFITING FROM GOOD PERKS

BUM - David Patterson and host of NYC employees, mostly department heads & commissioners have been taking advantage of taxpayer money to the tune of $86 million just this fiscal year alone, which allows them to use free cars, Chauffeurs & in some instances gas cards to get to and from work.

At a time when everyone is being asked to conserve or cutback, deal with the rising cost and declining service from public transportation, it is acomplete embarrassment to the city to have these city employees shuttled around like Hollywood Moguls on their way to Oscar Night.

In some instances, some of the employees are mere blocks away from a train stations but yet choose to to driven to work anyway. With the State of NY facing a $14 Billion Budget shortfall, I think Mr David Patterson owes it to the taxpayers of New York to act a little more fiscally responsible and instead should revamp this little known perk. Maybe Skateboards or new Bicycles would not be a bad idea. If you think this is an outrage, please call your state & city officials and let them you are not happy...