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 [...]
Democratic Leftist and Pelosi ally John Murtha cosponsors it and then won’t support it! And even more significant is that it is undeniable that John Murtha is a close ally of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ally who not only votes for Speaker Pelosi’s Leftist, [...]
Kuchera Defense Systems is part of Democratic Leftist John Murtha’s PMA Earmarking Network. Note that Kuchera Defense Industries was, subsequently, re-instated.
Journalist Gary Weckselblatt of Bucks County Courier Times reports June 13, 2009:
“The owners of a major defense contractor who donated money to Congressman Patrick Murphy have [...]
Republican Pat Toomey presents his ideas in the liberal Pittsburgh Post-Gazette but not to Tracey Specter’s Republican Committee of Lower Merion Narberth.
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Note that five health care entities will benefit from these Earmarks. John Murtha is the chair of the very [...]
Kathy Dalkemper
Democratic Speaker Pelosi and Democratic US Representative Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Erie Penna.) advocate using The Forgotten Taxpayer’s money to give something for nothing to young adults, 19 to 26. It would be more beneficial to all to cut the pay roll taxes which would [...]
Liberal are like slinkies…they’re really good for nothing …But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
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Kickback charges against a Coherent Systems International Corp. defense contractor are putting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee under pressure to return $17,000 in campaign donations. (July 8 2009 The Hill). All are connected to Democratic Leftist John Murtha, chair of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee. Note [...]
An excerpt from Glenn Beck’s faux interview with an “evolved” Arlen Specter (October 29, 2009)
So Arlen Specter 1.0 is 59% with Democrats. Then 2.0, the conservative version, was 16% with the Democrats. 3.0? Back up to 69% with the Democrats. Then Joe Sestak comes in, okay? [...]
I take what I want, who is going to stop me?
How does taking money from The Forgotten Taxpayer and giving to favored business as a subsidy increase productivity or increase the net worth of the common [...]
Rachel Manzo in handcuffs
Casablancapa makes the Bonusgate case against Democratic House Majority Leader Todd Eachus. Unfortunately, the absence of a plea agreement indicates that “little fish” Rachel Manzo will not have to tell what she knows about her former supervisor’s involvement in the [...]
Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Patrick Murphy vote to refund John Murtha’s Johnstown/Cambria County Airport to Nowhere. Note that Republican Bill Shuster voted with the Democrats on this pork bill as did mid state Republican Glenn Thompson. Only Republicans Jim Gerlach and Joe Pitts voted against this pork [...]
From PA2010 and the Washington Times:
“There was similar criticism in party ranks when Mr. Cornyn did not endorse conservative anti-tax advocate Pat Toomey, a former congressman who will be the likely Republican nominee in Pennsylvania after Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to defect to the Democrats. [...]
How is this fair? And how will it work if those tax consumers bankrupt tax producers with taxes and regulation?
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I hope that Tracey Specter’s Republican Committee of Lower Merion Narberth will give Howard Cohen, who, in my opinion, will bring a level of sophisticaed economic discourse we can proud of and that will be instructive. He will focus on facts and ideas. Howard Cohen, not only has professional background [...]
Bonusgate may be the biggest political corruption scandal in Pennsylvania’s history. The Southeast media has done a disgracefully inadequate job of reporting and commenting on this. The investigation has already impacted Harrisburg behavior below the radar. The testimony in the upcoming trials may completely alter the [...]
US Representative from Pennsylvania’s 13th and US Representative Patrick Murphy from Pennsylvania’s 8th acknowledge that Leftist Democrat John Murtha PMA contributions are tainted and have promised to clean them by contributing to a charity of their choice, beneficiaries who will be grateful and we expect supportive [...]
Thomas More from John Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons The Law is perverted and nullified when it is used for utilitarian ends
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Republicans are not making the Democratic Bonusgate corruption a high profile issue as one would think. Sherlock Holmes instructs us. To be blunt, some think that Republicans, particularly, House and Senate Republican leadership were doing what the House Democrats have been in [...]
Like King Louis XVI, John Murtha disperses pork to his the Dukes and Duchesses of the Murtha Court. Jenna Portnoy of the Bucks County Courier Times has done a nice job of reporting a story of Earmarks and Pork and John Murtha’s long reach to Representatives [...]
Dr. Patrick Burke, Executive Director of the Wynnewood Institute, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, makes a concise distinction between traditional, personal justice and collectivist social justice.
Notes from Wynnewood October 12, 2009 Mr. Obama’s Nobel Prize
A distinctive feature of the ideology of “social justice” is that it eliminates desert. Unlike [...]
Romneycare has not worked well for the frugal, “work, save and invest” middle class taxpayer in Massachusetts. Pat Toomey’s solutions to paying for health care are free market solutions as he sets forth in his book, Road To Prosperity.
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Righteous Liberals are those liberals whose policies I disagree with and yet are intellectually honest as, for example, this author in The New Republic.
The very liberal New Republic exposes the Pork and excess of John Murtha’ arrogance. The New Republic has a very detailed and compelling [...]
The Republican Jewish Coalition supported Arlen Specter for many years because he was a Republican. Now he is not a Republican so there is no reason that RJC should support Senator Specter over the Republican challengers. Pat Toomey or Peg Luksik, neither have presented to RJC. [...]
Our political royalty deserves nothing but the best. Gulfstream jets for summer overseas travel seems to be the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would have approved. But the Pentagon disapproves of “additives”.
US Representative John Murtha and the Congressional Gulfstream [...]
John Perzel
Dennis Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette delivers more details on John Perzel’s very likely Bonusgate indictment and the basis for the indictment. The multi-million dollar GCR phony “constituent service” computer contract that was used for private, partisan political campaign to maintain and enhance [...]
State Representative Michael O’Brien’s WAM for political nonprofit, “Sons of Citizens’ Alliance” as Karen Heller names it. WAMs (like Federal Earmarks) are the gateway drug to Bigger Government bigger spending. More money for politicians; less money for citizens and business that employ people and produce things. [...]
Paul Scolforo of Harrisburg AP breaks this story: High level Harrisburg Establishment Insider Republican Brett Feese resigns after receiving invitation to appear at Bonusgate Grand Jury as does Al Bowman, a high level and powerful Republican House staffer. The rumors are strong that former Speaker [...]
How is this happening in the town that Murtha built. With the billions that John Murtha has brought to Murthaville, one wonders how the city of Johnstown is facing a $600,000 deficit, distressed status and an impending vacancy in its city manager job.
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Is the really a necessary expenditure of The Forgotten Taxpayer’s money? Two floating docks for private boats in a water park. This is an excellent example of the perfidy of Earmarks. Where does the Constitution of Limited Government authorize this expenditure? What is the evidence that [...]
Districts that McCain won in 2008 that Kerry won in 2004: 1 (John Murtha’s PA-12). Murtha is vulnerable. He is a [...]
The National Republican Campaign Committee is making an issue of Democratic corruption and pork. One must note that this is the pot calling the kettle black and the Republicans perfected the Earmark for Votes process and the Democrats have taken Republican policies and enhanced them.
If [...]
CREW appears to be what I call Righteous Liberals who are interested in good government and what is of interest to all of us. They have, I would think, much different policy solutions but they try. The data is solid and reliable and, therefore, useful to The Forgotten Taxpayer. [...]
Pat Toomey keynoted at this year’s Montgomery County Dinner. Pat Toomey outlined where we are and our choices: between a radical, (at the root), Leftist, Bismarkean, Big Government European Welfare State or a Limited Government of enumerated powers, a representative Republic, centered on the written Constitution, of economic freedom, [...]
The liberal good government CREW Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have this most detailed and useful website focusing, on among others, this very powerful Pelosi Leftist Democrat. This Interactive graphic Web site with John Murtha’s interconnected associations gives us an idea of the complexity [...]
This very professional 3:40 minute video will give confidence that these are the people to meet the economic and educational challenges of West Chester School Board. This is not a simple task; it is a task for well qualified people of diverse backgrounds able to work [...]
Check out the November Edition of The Conservative Reformer. Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday!
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