Quote of the Day

"I don’t know how many of you happened to tune in to Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, but it was a surreal event. President Obama was talking about the precarious position of the United States and the rest of the world as a result of the global economic crisis.

He was warning that we still faced the possibility of “an even more destructive recession or potentially a depression.” And through it all, the president just kept on laughing – as though he had forgotten that this was 60 Minutes and not Jay Leno.

The president’s odd demeanor got the attention of CBS’s veteran journalist Steve Kroft. At one point during the interview, Kroft asked the president of the United States:

“You’re sitting here. And you’re – you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money.’ …Are you punch-drunk?”

I don’t recall an interviewer ever having to ask President Bush if he was “punch-drunk.” But President Obama brushed it off with a laugh, saying, “No. No. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day.”

Maybe so. But I suspect, rather than “gallows humor,” most Americans would appreciate steady leadership that is focused on the crisis at hand. Instead, Obama is jumping from one massive Big Government initiative to the next, while admitting that the economy stands on the brink of “an even more destructive recession or potentially a depression.” Is he trying to push it over the edge?"

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Perhaps Obama is doing drugs, again.

Your Urgent Action Needed

Victoria Cobb, President of The Family Foundation of Virginia needs your responses on Life Issues

Contact Governor Tim Kaine and urge him to sign the Choose Life License Plate bill. Get information on the bill and learn how to contact him here:
www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1536.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering whether to retain conscience protections for pro-life medical professionals. The Bush Administration implemented them in December but the Obama Administration already is pushing their repeal. There are only a couple of weeks left for the public comment period so click here for an issue brief and to respond to HHS: www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1615.

Meanwhile, there are other items of more than passing interest to pro-family, traditional values voters:

President Obama put politics ahead of science in lifting the federal embryonic stem cell research funding ban: www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1486;

Speaking of wasted taxpayer spending, you’re invited to a Tea Party:
www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1634;

Democrat Party of Virginia Chairman Dick Cranwell’s decision to seek another term put him at odds with what he told us exclusively last year:
www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1554;

Electoral lessons for both parties: www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1575;

Brad Wilcox, a U.Va. professor and member of our Marriage Commission wrote a thought-provoking op-ed for the Wall Street Journal:
www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1585;

It’s bad enough William & Mary hosts a “sex workers show” but now it’s hosting what many believe to be a child pornographer: www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1578; and

Planned Parenthood is stung by undercover pro-lifers in Arizona!
www.familyfoundationblog.com/?p=1625.

Sign the Petition to Stop Forced Unionism

Mark Mix, President of The National Right to Work Committee, needs your help to stop big labor's forced unionism plan.

"This week, the CEOs of Costco, Whole Foods, and Starbucks plan to throw you and their employees "under the bus" to appease Big Labor, offering a so-called "compromise version" of Big Labor's top legislative priority: the "Card Check" Forced Unionism Bill.

It's vital you act right now to help fight back against their scheme -- which will leave workers vulnerable to union-boss intimidation and make you pay the price in higher costs.

With our economy already blasted with recession and nearly constant political agitation, attempts to "compromise" over forced unionism really could push our economy over the brink.

Let me explain.

Thanks to the 2.2 million members of National Right to Work Committee and a growing wave of other allies in this fight, I believe we are in a position to defeat the ugly forced-unionism power grab known as "Card Check" in the U.S. Senate.

But these three corporations -- working with former Bill Clinton top advisor Lanny Davis -- are now trying to broker a back-room deal that is harmful, and would result in more workers being corralled into forced unionism and under the thumb of the union bosses.

In fact, their scheme is no doubt a preemptive surrender to Big Labor.

And even worse, these foolish and destructive actions could end up helping pass the "Card Check" Forced Unionism Bill outright.

That's why it's vital you sign this petition to the CEOs of these three misguided companies -- TODAY. I'll make sure it is delivered directly to their office and that the press knows.

As you know, the "Card Check" Forced Unionism Bill denies workers a secret ballot when voting on whether or not they want to be part of a union. A firestorm of union intimidation would rain down upon literally millions of employees who would be shoved into union collectives and forced to pay union dues.

If passed, the Card Check Forced Unionism bill would vastly increase the forced-dues-funded power of the far left Big Labor bosses.

And giving union officials more coercive power over American workplaces and the economy is a prescription for economic disaster, just as it was near the beginning of the Great Depression. The inevitable results are skyrocketing unemployment, businesses destroyed, inflation, and worse.

But ending secret ballots is just the beginning of the evils of this legislation. Once workers are bullied into union ranks without even a secret ballot, union officials would make outrageous demands and -- a mere 90 days later -- Obama Administration bureaucrats will be empowered to step in and "solve the problem," ultimately imposing the terms and conditions of employment on the workers and companies.

With all that's at stake, it is inexcusable for these three large companies to try to placate the union bosses and sell out hundreds of thousands of smaller ones, to say nothing of the millions of workers that would be affected.

That's why it's extremely important that you tell Costco, Whole Foods, and Starbucks to scrap their disastrous plans to propose a "compromise" bill. There can be no compromise whatsoever on forced unionism.

Please sign this petition to send a message to Costco, Whole Foods, and Starbucks that YOU MEAN BUSINESS -- and that they will pay a terrible price for EVEN THINKING of caving in to the union bosses. Starbucks should be especially sensitive -- as this struggling company closes stores left and right and is already discredited in many eyes for mixing politics with its coffee."

Quote of the Day

"I doubt Obama could ever bring himself to say he respects conservatives or Wall Street or Rush Limbaugh, but he wants to build a relationship of mutual respect with a nuclear weapon-seeking, Holocaust denying, Shiite fundamentalist who is waiting for the reappearance of an Islamic messiah who will return to kill all the Jews and Christians.

The Iranian government-controlled media already refer to our president with vulgar terms comparing him to female genitals. I can only imagine the scorn this latest attempt at appeasement will be greeted with by the Islamofascists in Tehran."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Indentured Servants for Obama

Obama sets the stage for his national army. Paul Joseph Watson has the story...

House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

The House passed a bill [Wednesday] which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.

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Tell Obama Where You Stand

Sign the petition to protect Pro-Life Doctors. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice has the rest of the story...

President Obama said it. He wants to hear from you.

But he's given you a deadline: You've got two weeks to voice your concerns - to speak out for America's pro-life medical professionals ... and their moral conscience - before it's too late.

Right now, the Department of Health and Human Services is accepting public comment on this very critical issue - but the deadline is quickly approaching.

Stand for life and speak to the President on this serious issue! Add your name to our online PETITION TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE DOCTORS now!

Here's some background....

The Conscience Clause was implemented by former President George W. Bush to give physicians and nurses the choice to act according to their moral conscience - to not participate in abortion procedures if it conflicts with their personal convictions.

Now, President Obama wants to change that. He's angling to remove Conscience Clause protection for healthcare providers and force them into performing abortion procedures.

In other words, if you've got strong moral convictions - or pro-life Christian views - President Obama says they don't matter.

I'm urging every committed, pro-life member of the ACLJ to raise the volume on this critical issue. The President says he wants to hear from you ... so add your name to the online PETITION TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE DOCTORS now and speak out for life!

I cannot stress this strongly enough - this move by President Obama to remove Conscience Clause protection is nothing more than a ''piecemeal application'' of the deadly Freedom of Choice Act.

The Obama Administration is on the march against pro-life America. And they're moving fast. Piece by piece, one issue at a time, they're dismantling every advance for life that was made under the previous Administration.

So we can't wait. We must be vigilant and forceful on behalf of life. And we must let the President know exactly where we stand on this issue.

Voice your concerns NOW. Tell President Obama to respect the conscience rights of pro-life medical professionals by adding your name to our PETITION TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE DOCTORS immediately.

And be sure to use our online forward-to-friend tool to invite your friends, family, and colleagues to add their names as well!

We've got two weeks to make our voices heard. Please let me hear from you quickly!

Quote of the Day

"In PoMo America where bullcrap is alive and well, we’re going to be forced to exchange the worship of God for grass. In Bermuda We Trust. And if we don’t bow and kiss Pelosi and her tribe’s jade ring we could be used as human tiki torches to light her garden. Be afraid, plebeians. Be afraid."

Doug Giles

Democrats Play Bait-and-Switch

The National Center for Public Policy Research outline Democrat tyranny...

Congress Betrays Ideals of America's Founding

Washington, D.C. - Legislation to specifically target AIG employees with a 90 percent tax on retention bonuses directly conflicts with the founding principles of the United States, Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli charged today on the Fox News program "Strategy Room."

Saying Article I, Section 10 the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from passing laws "impairing the obligation of contracts," Borelli says the AIG bonus controversy is a creation of the lawmakers who rushed bailout legislation earlier this year without due consideration. These are the same lawmakers who now seek to hide their mistakes by pushing this new and selective tax.

"Politicians need to be reminded that we are a nation of laws. To impose a hastily-concocted tax as a means of rectifying a problem that the government itself created and mismanaged calls their ability to lead into question," says Borelli. "To suddenly enact a new tax to punish a few dozen people for something that was legal at the time is ludicrous, and it smacks of the British treatment of the colonists that provoked the revolt that created the United States. Have we come full circle already?"

Borelli says the selective and punitive tax proposed for these AIG executives harkens back to taxes imposed on the American colonies under British rule during the 1700s.

The Stamp Act of 1765 required all legal documents, newspapers and even playing cards to carry a tax stamp. The tax, levied to pay for British troops stationed in the colonies, brought about the argument of "taxation without representation" and led to the organization of resistance groups such as the Sons of Liberty.

Similar British taxes specifically targeting the colonies included the Townshend Act to tax import of glass, lead, paint, paper and tea and the Tea Act, which cut colonial tea merchants out of the market and led to the Boston Tea Party.

Borelli also noted on Fox News today that it was an amendment pushed by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT), apparently at the behest of the Obama White House, to February's rushed $787,000,000,000 "stimulus" bill that ultimately allowed the AIG retention bonuses to be paid.

"Americans have every right to be angry that their tax dollars are paying for these bonuses, but the blame should start with Congress," she said. "Retention bonuses such as AIG's are commonplace, and apply to more than just executives. Senator Dodd and the Obama Administration must have known this when they pushed the amendment that allowed the bonuses to be paid. Now, lawmakers including Dodd are trying to play a game of bait-and-switch. They are trying to draw attention away from themselves and onto AIG. AIG CEO Edward Liddy and others at the company were playing by the rules that were given to them by Washington. A special tax for these few, while possibly making people feel better, is akin to tyranny."

Borelli added: "If this government is unable to provide simple oversight on the bailouts they approved for a few banks, how can they effectively manage health care for hundreds of millions of Americans?"


Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992. For more information, contact David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or project21@nationalcenter.org, or visit Project 21's website at www.project21.org/P21Index.html.

Narcissist-In-Chief Debases the Oval Office in Tinseltown

"Last night, Barack Obama scored another “first” by becoming the first sitting president to sit down with a late-night talk show host, NBC’s Jay Leno. It was the second big event on what oddly looked like a campaign swing through California. But this headline from the New York Post no doubt sums up the feelings of many Americans, “O Yuks It Up On Leno As Economy Burns.”

And while unemployment is up, while millions of Americans are tightening their belts and while retirement accounts are being wiped out, the White House has been hosting regular Wednesday night parties serving up $100-a-pound Waygu beef.

The lack of seriousness at the White House is not going unnoticed. Columnist David Brooks – the New York Times’ token “conservative” – has a scathing column today thrashing the administration for “focusing on the dust bunnies under the bed” as “a tiger sinks its teeth into the world’s neck.”

That “tiger,” of course, is the global economic crisis. But Obama, as Brooks writes, “…has decided to address this crisis while simultaneously tackling the four most complicated problems facing the nation: health care, energy, immigration and education.”

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the president needed to focus his attention on the economy and, hopefully, come up with better ideas than taxing and spending us into oblivion, BEFORE attempting anything else. Given the way the Democrat Congress and the White House bungled the “stimulus” bill and the AIG bonuses, I think it’s time we pull the emergency brake on Obama’s runaway socialist agenda before America faces a major train wreck. "

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Beat Planned Parenthood and Defend Conscience Rights

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council Action urges you to defend conscience rights for health care workers.

President Barack Obama is proposing regulations to strike or weaken current regulations implemented by then-HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt that protect the conscience rights of health care workers. Congress has passed three laws (Church Amendments, Coats Amendment, and the Hyde/Weldon Amendment) over the past 35 years protecting such rights; however, no regulations had ever been implemented until January 20, 2009 when the former administration put into effect regulations to defend the conscience rights of healthcare workers.

Unfortunately, President Obama wants to rescind these regulations and may issue weaker ones in the future. The regulations President Obama is planning to rescind would ensure that programs that receive federal funds, including federal, state and local government programs, do not discriminate against health care workers who object to participating in such practices as abortion and sterilization.

We need you to submit comments to HHS in support of these regulations to enforce current law because groups like Planned Parenthood have supplied thousands of comments to HHS asking them to rescind these pro-conscience regulations. The deadline for submitting comments is April 9, 2009.

In submitting your comments, please provide information to HHS as to your awareness of the conscience protections contained in currently law. For instance, did you know that health care providers -- both persons and organizations -- have conscience protections under federal law? Do you know of a case or cases in which an organization with which you are or were affiliated did not know of these federal rights? Provide examples where a lack of knowledge of conscience rights led to coercion to a violation of conscience.

Describe fully any cases in which you have experienced discrimination against your conscience related to a health procedure, including but not limited to the performance of abortion. Describe fully any instances of which you have direct knowledge in which an organization has been discriminated against by the local, state, or federal government for its refusal to perform or not perform certain medical procedures. Similarly, were either you or your colleagues discriminated against because you were unwilling to perform, participate in, or refer a patient for an abortion?

Please indicate whether public outreach or education programs alone would have been sufficient to prevent the discriminatory behavior in your case. For example, would the organization or person who discriminated against you have complied with the law only if they had been threatened with sanctions?

If you follow the link below, we've provided a sample comment you may use or edit to include your own arguments and experiences.

Click Here to Take Action Now to Defend Conscience Rights for Health Care Workers

Obama Moves to Cover Up Union Boss Perks

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has a video everyone should watch.

As you know, Big Labor's allies in Congress reintroduced the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill last week.

The job-killing forced unionism power grab came up only days after top union brass spent a week at a luxurious beachfront resort in Miami -- cavorting and strategizing with top Obama Administration officials including Vice President Joe Biden and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

With union bosses living like kings at swanky $400-$1000/night hotels while unionized workers lose their jobs, it seems only fair that union members and nonmembers forced to pay dues get information about what they are paying for -- and why.

But the Obama Administration has recently moved to rescind simple disclosure guidelines that would help rank-and-file workers learn details about the extravagant union getaways they are funding.

For more, watch this special video report with National Right to Work Committee and Foundation president Mark Mix.

As always, remember to check back regularly at the Foundation's blog for all the latest updates from National Right to Work.

The National Right to Work Foundation provides free legal aid to employees so they can fight back against union coercion and abuse.

Quote of the Day

"This week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi promising to punish AIG for the bonuses. In his letter, Geithner wrote that AIG will have to pay back to the Treasury “the amount of the retention awards just paid.” And, “In addition, we will deduct from the $30 billion in assistance an amount equal to the amount of those payments.”

I hope you don’t miss what has happened here. This leftwing administration and its liberal allies in Congress approved of the AIG contracts, protected them legally in the “stimulus” bill and now they are going to “fine” AIG for obeying the law they wrote. That’s Washington at its worst!

But Obama and his liberal allies, rather than admit they caused the bonus problem, went back to the strategy that has worked so well so far – attack business, Wall Street, executives, and fan the flames of class warfare.

President Obama did his best imitation yesterday of a Latin American demagogue, telling a campaign rally (which campaign is this?) in California that families earning more than $250,000 a year “can afford” his tax hikes. “It’s not like suddenly they’re going to have to go to the poor house. But what that does is it allows us to pay for health care…” Translation: Anyone who fights against higher taxes doesn’t care about the sick and suffering.

For anyone falling for this, consider this fact. If you are a family of four living in New York, California or a lot of other high tax states and you earn $250,000, after state, local and federal income, sales and property taxes, you are fortunate to have $125,000 left BEFORE Obama raises your taxes. Does anyone think those “rich” people are why we are in trouble today?

The great British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once rightly observed, “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s one lesson Washington liberals refuse to learn and Barack Obama seems determined to test."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

The Israel Pledge

Sign The Israel Pledge online right now.

The Israel Pledge says that you believe the Jewish state has a right to exist and a right to self-defense, and that you will stand with Israel until the terrorist attacks stop.

If you agree with those statements, please

click here to stand with Israel!

Alert! Pelosi calling ICE Raids "un-American" and illegal aliens "very, very patriotic"

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has a Nancy Pelosi Alert...

Ratcheting up her open borders rhetoric a notch, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a rally in San Francisco that enforcement of immigration laws was "un-American." She also referred to illegal aliens as "very, very patriotic."

CAPS National Media Director Rick Oltman was there to film the event and capture her comments. This story encompassed the entire evening's news coverage last night on Fox News last night, including The O'Reilly Factor, The Laura Ingraham Show, and Hannity. This morning it was also featured on the front page of the DrudgeReport, and mentioned on The Rush Limbaugh Show, among others.

Click here to view the story

Click here to see the complete video and transcript

CLICK HERE to send a message to your Representative and to Nancy Pelosi condemning her comments.

Obama Adds Corruption to the Census

ACORN IS BACK!

They will serve as a "national partner" with the United States Census Bureau. ACORN's role will be to hire nearly 1.4 million workers to canvass for the 2010 census.

Why should we be alarmed?

ACORN has a long history of voter fraud charges and now they are going to be a part of the 2010 census! Republicans are already leading the fight against ACORN's illegitimate role in the census.

"ACORN has been accused of voter fraud, embezzlement, and more... and yet this is a group that the federal government wants helping with the census?" asks Bobby Eberle of GOPUSA.

"It's a concern, especially when you look at all the different charges of voter fraud. And it's not just the lawmakers' concern. It should be the concern of every citizen in the country," Rep.. Lynn A. Westmoreland, R-Ga., vice ranking member of the subcommittee for the U.S. Census, told FOXNews.com. "We want an enumeration. We don't want to have any false numbers."

Why should we be further alarmed?

The census count not only determines congressional allocation, but it also provides the raw data by which government allocates spending on everything from roads to schools. Fraudulent or invalid data could skew congressional redistricting and enable public policy decisions that would unfairly favor the Democratic Party.

Obama: Spending American into Bankruptcy

Even Democrats Criticize The Obama Budget!

See what they had to say.

Democrats Who Think Obama Is Spending Too Much

SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KENT CONRAD (D-ND): "More Discipline On The Spending Side Is Also Going To Be Required." ("Battle Lines Quickly Set Over Planned Policy Shifts," The Washington Post, 3/1/09)

SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN (D-AR): "Unfortunately, The President's Budget Fails To Fully Address How We Control Spending While Pursuing Critical Priorities, Such As Health Care Reform." (Sen. Lincoln, News Release, 03/04/09)

SEN. JON TESTER (D-MT): "At What Point Of Time Do You Say Enough Is Enough?" ("Moderates Uneasy With Obama Plan," Politico, 3/3/09)

SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-AK): "If It's [Spending] Coming And Staying, Then I Have A Problem." "Similarly, Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) said he wants to ensure that new spending in Obama's budget remains funded for only one year. 'If it's coming and staying, then I have a problem,' Begich said just before he headed off to the meeting with the moderate Democrats." ("Moderates Uneasy With Obama Plan," Politico, 3/3/09)

Democrats Who Think Obama Is Taxing Too Much SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KENT CONRAD (D-ND): "On The Issue Of Taxes, Some Critics Of The President's Plan Argues (Sic) It Represents A Tax Increase. And For Some, Clearly, It Does. That -- That Is Accurate." (Budget Committee, U.S. Senate, Hearing, 3/12/09)

SEN. BEN NELSON (D-NE): It "Doesn't Work To Be Raising Taxes In A Time When We Are Experiencing Major Adjustments In our Economy." ("Democrats Open Arms To Budget, With Caveats," The New York Times, 2/28/09)

SEN. EVAN BAYH (D-IN): "I Do Think That Before We Raise Revenue, We First Should Look To See If There Are Ways We Can Cut Back On Spending." ("Moderates Uneasy With Obama Plan," Politico, 3/3/09)

SEN. RON WYDEN (D-OR): "I Think We All Understand The Tax Code Is Going To Melt Down Next Year. There have been thousands and thousands of changes to the code in recent years. It comes now to three for every working day year in and year out. The administration has proposed more changes, particularly, in the areas of charity and mortgages." (Budget Committee, U.S. Senate, Hearing, 3/10/09)

Democrats Who Think Obama Is Borrowing Too Much

SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KENT CONRAD (D-ND): "When I Look At This Budget, I See The Debt Doubling Again. And That Gives Me Great Concern. ... I Believe That Buildup Of Debt Fundamentally Threatens The Economic Security Of This Country. I Believe It In My Bones." "... when I look at this budget, I see the debt doubling again. And that gives me great concern. Again based on testimony before this committee, the Democratic witnesses, Republican witnesses, some of the finest economic minds in this country and indeed the world, coming before this committee day after day after day warning us of the danger of a buildup of debt. And, I believe it. I want to make very clear - I believe that buildup of debt fundamentally threatens the economic security of this country. I believe it in my bones." (Budget Committee, U.S. Senate, Hearing, 3/12/09)

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-LA): "[W]e Do Have To Keep Our Eye On The Long Term, On Intermediate And Long-Term Fiscal Responsibility." ("Moderates Uneasy With Obama Plan," Politico, 3/3/09)

SEN. EVAN BAYH (D-IN): "But Again, Greta, The Day Of Reckoning Is Coming. ... I'm Talking About Something Truly Cataclysmic -- Our Currency Collapsing, Interest Rates Skyrocketing Because Of Our Unsustainable Deficits." "But again, Greta, the day of reckoning is coming. We can't run deficits like this forever. The markets will react and punish us if we don't and... I'm talking about something truly cataclysmic -- our currency collapsing, interest rates skyrocketing because of our unsustainable deficits. It's now at an unprecedented level -- well, except during the Second World War, perhaps, or the Civil War -- of 12 percent of GDP, and this is just not sustainable." (Fox News' "On The Record," 3/9/09)

Take Action

Call President Obama at 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414, and tell him that the budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much! And, that Democrats agree!

Source: www.mcconnell.senate.gov