Dodo
The Republican Committee of Lower Merion Narberth, Tracey Specter, chair, risks becoming as irrelevant at the Dodo. One of the hottest races in the country is Republican Pat Toomey’s campaign for Senate against either Democrat Arlen Specter (as a tribute to the power of bipartisan pork, [...]
In politics, it is often those whom you rely on to protect you, to represent you, to care about you and your values, who betray your trust and your core values. “It wasn’t him, Charley, it was you.”
The General Assembly shameless uses The Forgotten Taxpayer’s money to build political organization to maintain power. Think of these as mini-Citizens’ Alliance that Vince Fumo built and misused. Please note: Dwight Evans is not under investigation by Federal or State Government.
Philadelphia Democrat House Appropriations Chair Dwight [...]
Fed’s Fiat created $2,000,000,000 new currency-and some benefitted more than others from the Federal Reserve, the central government’s central bank, controlling a cartel of banks, currency and credit and the means of financing the means of production.
In addition to Debts, Deficits, Spending and Taxes, there is [...]
Obama Pelosi Democrat John Murtha is not good for his district. Pennsylvania House 12
On climate control, the CBO tells us “industries that produce or use fossil fuels like coal ‘intensively’ could see their employment levels decline due to a cap on carbon.” The employment [...]
Roger Kimball of Pajamas Media comments on Anita Dunn, Maoist in the White House.
“N.B.: Anita Dunn is not just an Obama hanger-on. She is part of his inner circle, one of his top aides, along with David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, and Robert Gibbs. What does it [...]
This is on the lighter side and makes a point. If you like it, you might like the attached one minute video. This is the ethics of promoting government run HMO.
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. And bought [...]
Republican Bill Russell, who is challenging Democrat John Murtha US House-12, has raised more money than any other Pennsylvania Congressional candidate this quarter.
Patrick Murphy’s haul is not surprising when looking at all contributions in Bucks and Montgomery counties of $200 or more to federal candidates, parties [...]
I am being honored by the Zionist Organization of America on 13 December in Manhattan.
This honor is a humbling experience. I am overshadowed by Giants. Rabbi Boteach will give the d’Var Torah. Forty years ago Gary Erlbaum and I sat next to each other in law [...]
In my opinion, Scott Zelov is a Specter Republican, a DIABLO- Democrat in all but label only- and supported by RCLMN Old Guard Specter Republicans-DIABLOs who should follow their leader into the Democratic Party where they might do some good.
If Scott Zelov is the nominee, the Democrats [...]
None of us is an island. We are interconnected. What LMBOC does with budget and taxes is within the context of national policy which has its perils. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and growing America are what we need. Not growing government debt and deficit. The Forgotten Taxpayer [...]
From the Toomey Campaign:
What a week! With the help of Team Toomey and many people like you across the state, Judge Joan Orie Melvin and 5 other Republican statewide judicial candidates were elected to the Pennsylvania courts on Tuesday. One other race is in a [...]
First day for former Democratic House Member Sean Ramaley. The charge is that Sean Ramaley’s 2004 general election campaign was financed by government tax dollars and, in particularly, then Pennsylvania State employee, Stephen Webb, while on government payroll, worked full time on Sean Ramaley’s 2004 campaign. The [...]
The outcome of the challenge of fanatical Iranian Mullahs with nuclear weapons is not entirely within our control as we need to remind ourselves. Baruch HaShem.
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Political analyst Charlie Cook had rated Pennsylvania Leaning Democrat but changed his rating.
Polling indicates that Pat Toomey’s Reaganesque message can win if Pat Toomey can raise enough money to communicate that message to voters. The financial support from Senator Orin Hatch and from former Governor Romney [...]
Graph with chronological listing of polls through October 13th. Arlen Specter is a great politician whose time and style have passed. The [...]
The “invitation” to testify before the Grand Jury is usually a prelude to indictment. Todd Eachus is a majority leader and Bill DeWeese is majority whip and Steve Stetler is the Secretary of Revenue. Representative Eachus and Representative DeWeese are [...]
Consistently Centered on the Constitution Republican Pat Toomey Talks Health Care with Sean Hannity
Opportunistic Democrat Arlen Specter on Health Care – on this particular day
Committed Leftist Democrat Joe Sestak Debates Pat Toomey at Muhlenberg College
Rep. Joe Sestak’s extreme Leftist Big Government Break [...]
It appears that Attorney General Corbett is about to announce, maybe this week, the “stunning” indictments that he promised six months ago. Career state prosecutors Frank Fina and Anthony Krastek referenced in this article by Tribune Review’s Harrisburg reporter, Brad Bumsted. The questions are: Will AG [...]
Lower Merion commish considering 6th District GOP run
The Republican primary in the 6th Congressional District could soon go from crowded to absolutely jam-packed.
Lower Merion Township Commissioner V. Scott Zelov confirmed Friday evening that he is thinking about getting into the race. In a brief interview [...]
The best movie ever made. And all of these people are now dead. Casablanca – some background presented here. Who directed Casablanca?
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Here is the Toomey Campaign’s analysis of the significance of the Ned Lamont endorsement. Toomey Sestak, A Clear Choice November 2010
The Great Specter-Sestak Race to the Left:
Sestak Takes the Lead with Lamont Endorsement
Allentown, PA – While the pollsters frequently measure who is ahead in the [...]
Arlen Specter: Can He Be Trusted? Quote of the Day from WSJPoliticalDiary “[Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen] Specter, who faces a serious challenge from his left flank in the Democratic primary, has been even more of a party loyalist [since switching from the GOP last April]. . . [...]
The Toomey campaign put out the following post election analysis. The Republican “brand” is not completely lost but the TEA PARTY is very, very viable and volatile. It should be noted that preliminary numbers show that Judge Joan Orie Melvin was outspent by three to one [...]
If they are so smart, then… Barack Obama graduated Harvard Law School. These pseudo-intellectual, self-absorbed narcissistic Know It All elitist snobs seem to make some big mistakes. President Obama’s financial advisor, the expert economist Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, was president [...]
GOP Sets Sights on House Power Brokers for 2010. This tells me that the professional odds makers have done extensive polling in the district and find John Murtha vulnerable in 2010. Pat Toomey will [...]
Casablancapa has aggregated every news article and open source information on Bonusgate is an invaluable research resource on Bonusgate. Ugarte and Signor Ferrari inform. Some have said this site is run by former Democratic House Minority Leader Mike Veon and his top aide Brett Cott. Perhaps, [...]
Republican John Kennedy for Lt. Gov!
In my opinion, Pennsylvania needs someone making the case for the Tax Producers. The Tax Payers who build businesses, innovative businesses, people which employ and produce, particularly, small businesses.
The Lt. Gov. presides over the Senate and has an office, access to [...]
Terrific 2:49 minute video. If Arlen Specter were as independent as he says, he could have run as an Independent as did Senator Joe Lieberman. Instead he is running, opportunistically, for the sake of his own career as a registered Obama Democrat with the backing [...]
Josh Drobnyk
Representative Joe Sestak does not have to have more money than Senator Arlen Specter. Sestak needs to have enough money to get his message out. Sestak’s simple message is that he is a Principled Leftist and Arlen Specter has no principles other than to get re-elected. [...]
Representative Joe Sestak’s Position on Health Care is Too Liberal for Pennsylvania
To add to the Toomey Campaign’s point, how does bankrupting businesses, the tax producers, help workers find jobs? Only expanding market economy provides jobs, not government stimulus, the economy on ‘droids.
For immediate release—October 30, 2009 [...]
This is an astounding poll. Poll figures like this are very unusual. 94% do not consider the Obama Administration supportive of Israel. Note that 36% think the Obama Administration is neutral, 50%, think the Obama Administration is Pro-Palestinian and 69% oppose freezing ‘settlements’ in Judea and Samaria, that is, oppose [...]
From Publishers Weekly:”In France, this damning reckoning of communism’s worldwide legacy was a bestseller that sparked passionate arguments among intellectuals of the Left. [...]
Pat Toomey offers positive plan to counter the anti-growth, job destroying policies of the Obama Administration and Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their lockstep, groupthink Democratic caucus.
NOV 24th 2009 Rasmussen Generic Congressional Ballot When President Obama took office in January of [...]
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is commenting on Arlen Specter’s self-centered opportunism.
The “evolved” Arlen Specter. I think that it is significant that a national talk show host would comment on one politician . The Toomey Senate campaign will be a marquee race. It will be NY-23 amplified 20 [...]
We do know how Opportunistic Democrat Arlen Specter will vote and we know how Principled Leftist Democrat Joe Sestak will vote and we know that Pat Toomey is making the case for realistic, free market solutions to health care delivery and would be the “41st [...]
Many of these same ideas are presented by Michael Ledeen. Dr. Ledeen is a leading expert on Iran.
Jonah Goldberg makes the solid point that it nukes in the control of the radical, extremist, fanatical Mullahs that is the fear. Changes to regime to America Friendly and [...]
The bill is being sponsored by Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN), Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Kit Bond (R-MO), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Richard Burr (R-NC), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Susan Collins (R-ME), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), James Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Johanns (R-NE), [...]
Democratic candidate for Governor Tom Knox has a platform and, as an independent, self-financed outsider, he may be able to carry out his plan. As an inexperienced politician, he may have the knowledge and skills to carry this plan out. It takes more than an [...]
More Desperation from the Right from Robert Reich’s blog October 14, 2009
Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Rush, and the right-wing blogosphere seem interested in a talk I gave in September, 2007 to students in a political science class here at Berkeley, in which I played the [...]
Ideas and Ideals energize and unite. Pat Toomey makes the case that they win elections, too.
“Ideas matter in this election,” says Toomey. “These ideas are resonating. We’ve seen a huge lurch to the left by the Democrats in Washington. Republicans have become bystanders as the [...]
Please thank Representative Mark Kirk for his leadership on this issue. I am very scared. This is all going in the wrong direction and the Administration and the Leftist Democrats are blocking this important initiative.
From: Richard Goldberg <richardalister@gmail.com>
To: richardalister@gmail.com
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Now that fiscal conservatives have a majority for, at least, two years, at the West Chester Area School District, it is incumbent that they focus on student learning. PSSA curve is bending downward. The purpose of schools is to educate and they seem to be failing [...]
Screwed
Oddly, the contracts approved on November 18th for Ludington Renovation Expansion were not in 2009 budget or even, so far, the unapproved on 2010 budget. It does seem this expenditure, like the Ardmore Mini Mall expenditures, are wired. The government knows best LMBOC elitists with their enablers the Republican [...]
Robert Reich’s Berkeley, Calif., audience applauded the idea of taxing the young, killing the old, and stifling lifesaving innovations. One suspects that these ideas would not be greeted as warmly in most other American locales, which is why elected politicians who are actually trying to sell [...]
Simon Campbell and Kathleen Zawacki won 12 out of 12 precincts. We beat our opposition 60-40 including many precincts where Democrats have a voter registration advantage.
The taxpayers spoke.
Pennsbury School District SD Region 1:
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In my opinion, Representative Mark Kirk, a commissioned Naval Officer serving in US House of Representatives and candidate for US Senate from Illinois, has a sophisticated, realistic and nuanced view of the Middle East and its challenges and sees clearly the threat of Nuclear Weapons in the [...]
Real world real estate tax collections have increased from $18,090 ,000 in 2002 to $26, 862,000 in 2008 which is $8,772,000 increased revenue or a 48.50% increase in property tax revenues. I do not think many will say that they are getting 48.5% better government or [...]
Medicare Fraud – How you, too, can profit from government run health care. Risk Free This may be your only opportunity if the Obama Administration’s ideas for economic recovery don’t work out.
Obamanomics: Taking from the productive for the “general welfare” and for those connected to [...]
Susquehanna Polls October 14 and Rasmussen October 14. The trend is Pat Toomey up and Arlen Specter down. Pat Toomey can win if he can communicate his positive message of Free Markets for Free People to voters and to activists.
Below is an email from Lower Merion resident and taxpayer Stephen Gleason who makes some excellent points with regard to Lower Merion budget and, in particular, the $11 million dollar Ludington Library Renovation which is part of the $24 million dollar library renovation.
I would add to what [...]
Obamanomics taking from the productive for the “General Welfare” and to those connected to the elected.
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Ideas and Ideals Unite and Energize Free Markets for Free People
Republican Party of Pennsylvania – A RESOLUTION opposing CARD CHECK RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, do hereby strongly call upon the entire Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation to show their support [...]
AIPAC supports Iran Refined Petroluem Sanctions Act of 2009. Representative Mark Kirk of Illinois has been a leader on this and other foreign policy issues.
“The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (H.R. 2194 in the House and S. 908 in the Senate) could have a dramatic [...]
Real world real estate tax collections have increased from $18,090 ,000 in 2002 to $26, 862,000 in 2008 which is $8,772,000 increased revenue or a 48.50% increase in property tax revenues. I do not think many will say that they are getting 48.5% better government [...]
It would be interesting to know what other Organized Labor Organizers receive in compensation and perks not to mention the many perks and why not? Don’t they earn it in protecting their workers. Other workers may be worse off, but the Union Worker, with political muscle, [...]
Sneh
Former Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh to the Sunday Times in which he said that if Iran were not further sanctioned by this Christmas Israel would attack the country.
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Senartor Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Citizens Against Government Waste makes the case succinctly and with humor.
“Sen. Hutchison is repeating the same old insidious quackery about the earmarking process: that it can be made accountable and that it somehow levels the spending playing field,” [...]
Cave Lion
Lower Merion Republicans can avoid irrelevancy by taking a strong stand, along with Commissioners Brown and Rosenzweig, against increased Lower Merion Township spending and increased taxation. Pulling millions of tax dollars out of the Lower Merion community has a real world impact. It would [...]
Mort Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, speaks clearly to the facts that evidence the intentions and the strategies of Arabs. It is clear that the establishment of another Arab terrorist state in the Middle East will not reduce terrorism, violence or war in the [...]
California’s Democratic Representative Howard Berman introduced the Iran Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 in the House.
On Friday, this report suggested that the U.S. was about to get serious with Iran:
U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), speaking Thursday in Washington at the National Jewish Leadership Advocacy Day [...]
Perfectly Brilliant Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell has said it so perfectly brilliantly in Jewish World Review that there is nothing to add. Please read and send to your lists.
“How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets….”
“Whether enough people [...]
From: Republican Committee [mailto:info@lowermerionvote.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Republican Committee
Subject: Important Message From Tracey Specter
Dear Committee People, Ward Leaders and Office Holders:
I am stepping down as Chair of our Committee and, pursuant to our by-laws, Vice Chair Jim Clark will become chair and serve out [...]
Someone has to be produce before someone else can consume. Who is the producer?
Values Matter: Work Save Invest –old fashioned, bourgeois, common sense Values of the Tax Producers who supports the government and the tax consumers.
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Nobel Prize winner, President Barack Obama, has cut off aid to our ally Honduras and funds a billion dollars to Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Eatah in Judea Samaria even to the extent of training a terrorist army for Fatah. Starve our allies and feed our [...]
The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act is the most effective sanctions act although I am very afraid that sanctions will not work. Nevertheless, these sanctions are worth a try and by having bipartisan, deep and wide support, America sends a message to the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad that [...]
New York Times notices Pittsburgh’s Pension Problems which are a microcosm of Philadelphia’s Pension Problems, the School District’s Pension Problems, and Pennsylvania’s even more massive Pension Problems. We do not live in an insulated bubble, here, in the southeast, and like the Titanic Iceberg, the Pension [...]
This is a very important piece on Iran’s Nuclear Threat by Caroline Glick, a committed and insightful analyst. Note the reference to Electromagnetic Pulse attack. Caroline Glick is one of the most perceptive and articulate writers. Caroline Glick
US Representative Jack “If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district” Murtha is loved by voters who think they are getting something for nothing and they do not realize the cost to them in dignity. They are now dependent on Murtha, the government and [...]
The issue for Republicans and those advocating Constitutional Limited Government and Economic Freedom is what is the alternative positive plan. The opposition cannot be oppositional but needs to formulate a positive plans and candidates who can articulate them for the good of Pennsylvania. Positive and [...]
All polls for Pennsylvania. Excellent source of information. The Trend is Toomey
October 14, 2009 Specter Sees Rough Year for Incumbents
“In an interview this afternoon, Political Wire asked Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) about the Susquehanna poll released this morning [...]
Iran, technology, and revolution will Twitter and the Internet will be the 21st century version of the 19th century telegraph
Michael Rubin senior editor at the Middle East Forum offers some insights into the most formidable Iran.
Michael Rubin co-authored Eternal Iran with Patrick Clawson.
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The Republican Party is needed, more than ever, to stand for the ideas and ideals of Constitutional Limited Government, the Rule of Law, Economic Freedom. But it is failing its rank and file and it is failing the country because it refuses to stand for principle [...]
“Only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter should be re-elected, and 59 percent believe it’s time to give someone else a chance, a state poll released today shows…A Susquehanna Poll in February found 38 percent of Pennsylvanians believed Specter deserved to be [...]
Patrick Barron intuits a kind of FDR Keynesian influence in this WSJ article. I find Pat’s analysis to be original and stimulating and an antidote to mainstream media’s Big Government pseudo-Keynesian lockstep Group Think.
Drop in Natural Gas Prices Deflates South Texas (WSJ Online, 17Oct09)
Dear Sirs:
I certainly [...]
As many Americans reach 65 and are forced to go onto Medicare, a bankrupt system, they will experience dependency on government for their health care. I cannot think this will be a happy experience. These are people who have never been dependent on government and, in [...]
Predictably, Senator Arlen Specter and Representative Joe Sestak for Bigger Government vote to extend TARP, Troubled Asset Relief Program, costing a Trillion Dollars. This was the GW Bush Bailout Bill passed in September 2008.
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It costs billions to sustain this anti-American institution, the United Nations, and what American interest does it serve? In fact, what is its purpose at all? Isn’t this work done by American ambassadors, including American military, all over the world.
If not counterproductive and irrelevant, it seems redundant. [...]
As Pat Barron points out, this is very good news for consumers, both residential and commercial, individuals and businesses. Even the WSJ promotes protectionism. The goal is not to protect producers but to encourage lower prices for commodities and other goods and services. Lower real prices [...]
How many times do you, The Forgotten Taxpayer, think you will use the Allenton Ice Skating Rink. You are pleased to be an investor, are you not? As you are in “The Union” Soccer Stadium in City of Chester, one of Big Government Republican Senator Dominic [...]
Two postings from critics of 8th District US Representative Patrick Murphy Earmarks connected to Democratic Leftist John Murtha and is sleazy PMA network of lobbyists and Earmark Beneficiaries.
PMAEarmarks and Murphy #1 [www.patmurphywatch.com]
Second Murphy contributor who received large earmarks is a criminal. Pleads guilty to receiving [...]
It may be time for Specter Republicans to follow their leader into the Democratic Party. This may well energize the Democrats with a different but not hostile view to State control of the economy. The Republican Party will become the party of Constitutional Limited Government, [...]
Organized Labor’s Organizers have a coerced, monopoly control of labor increasing costs to The Forgotten Taxpayer, reducing incentives to hire, and reducing worker freedom. More Unions mean less work for productive workers and fewer goods and services and a lower standard of living. Free Markets for Free [...]
I am a conservative because I want to conserve Constitutional Limited Government centered on the Rule of Law, economic freedom, individual autonomy and individual accountability. I am as radical and extreme as the Founders of this country were radical and extreme.
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U.S. Reps. Patrick Murphy and Allyson Schwartz were among the first lawmakers in the country to say they would donate to charity $60,000 in campaign contributions related to the now defunct lobbying firm The PMA Group. By: JENNA PORTNOY Bucks County Courier Times April 12 2009
Reporter [...]
It seems that Arlen Specter, and I would think many of his supporters, have gotten rich from government. No wonder they want more of it.
The Republican-turned-Democrat disclosed assets worth between about $1.5 million and $5.9 million in 2008.The change in the senator’s net worth (between $2.8 [...]
Auditor General Jack Wagner called for Gov. Ed Rendell’s administration to change key procurement practices after a lengthy special audit of $592 million in contracts with accounting and auditing firm, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The Forgotten Taxpayer says “thank you, Auditor General Wagner.”
Wagner said problems with the contract [...]
Journalist Jenna Portnoy of the Bucks County Courier Times follows up on PMA contributions to Representative Allyson Schwartz and reports some discrepancies: Schwartz’s giving leaves unanswered questions about $14,500 in contributions.
“Two months after Congress members Patrick Murphy and Allyson Schwartz promised to donate charity campaign [...]
John Murtha’s Showcase for Commerce 10s of Millions of Taxpayer funded Government Contracts. One contract is for $16.4 billion and John Murtha takes credit for what The Forgotten Taxpayer pays for. The recipients of these contracts owe more to the ‘middleman’ John Murtha and that relationship than [...]
Opportunistic Democrat Arlen Specter advances Climate Change bill.
The argument that this bill will do anything but shackle growth of the US Economy is not an insignificant one and that debate will not happen. “Climate Change” is the religious dogma of the Left and Opportunistic Democrat [...]
