Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The 9th Circuit Court should be called The 9th Circus Court



The 9th Circus Court Says Cabinet Members have Dictatorial Powers
The 9th Circuit’s ruling basically declares that all of Obama’s Cabinet members can make any arbitrary decision they want, even ones that counter acts of Congress and there is nothing the courts will do to stop them.   This is very dangerous grounds.   It’s bad enough having a president and attorney general who assume dictatorial powers but now to realize that Obama’s entire Cabinet has them too is really scary and extremely dangerous.

WHO WILL REPLACE SENATOR COBURN?



Senator Coburn is stepping down, presumable because of his bout with cancer.   The big question now is “who will replace him”.
The other day, Congressman James Lankford announced his candidacy to replace Senator Coburn.  When Lankford first took office as my representative, I was delighted because I honestly believed he was a true conservative.  I was wrong.  He is a moderate at best.

Lankford has gone along with the establishment leadership in the House on a number of critical votes and I have come to believe he would do the same in the Senate.   I think we should all take a good long look at Congressman Jim Bridenstine fill Coburn’s Senate seat.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bridenstine

Here is what Lankford told a reporter from “The Hill”.  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/195934-lankford-slams-conservative-groups-as-part-of-the-problem

It is very frustrating to me when Republicans who want to project the image of a conservative at home right before a campaign, but throw in with the status quo establishment in Washington the rest of their term.

But Lankford’s defense of his budget deal vote is just bizarre.  He defends his support for the December Ryan-Murray deal as a vote “in favor of strong national defense.”  Presumably, he means that the deal reinstated some of the defense spending by partially repealing the sequester.   Here’s the problem: all the spending offsets in the deal were notional or intangible – except for the cuts to military pensions for those already serving!  So he defends a vote for increased spending and funding Obamacare as a vote for national defense when the only real spending cut in the bill hurt veterans.

Fast-forward to last week and Lankford voted against the omnibus bill.  The omnibus was merely the long-form budget laid out under the blueprint of Ryan-Murray, which he supported.  You can’t complain about some of the spending increases which busted the budget caps because that was already set in motion by the December agreement, which, again, Lankford deemed worthy because of the sequester repeal.

Moreover, on some level, at least the omnibus repealed some of the military pension cuts.  That’s why some members who opposed Ryan-Murray felt compelled to support the bill.  Most other conservatives didn’t fall for the trap and voted no on both.  But Lankford voted for Ryan-Murray, supposedly because of better defense spending, yet voted against its blood child bill, which reinstated some of the military pension cuts in the original bill.

If this was such a wondrous bipartisan budget deal opposed only by the “absolutist” conservative groups why did Lankford vote against the omnibus – especially after he supported the FY 2012 omnibus?

The only coherent reason that can be offered is that he wasn’t about to saddle himself with a bad vote a week before his planned Senate announcement.

Yes, my friends, that’s “the Washington, D.C. game.”  And despite only being in politics for three years, he has learned to play quite naturally.

When Coburn ran for the Senate in 2004, the establishment rallied behind his opponent in the primary.  Coburn was the outsider.  But conservatives united behind him, rallied, and won. I think we should do the same for Jim Bridenstine.

I have not met Mr. Bridenstine, but I know he’s a veteran and a solid conservative whom I believe would continue Senator Coburn’s commitment to rooting out government waste, fraud, and abuse.  I also believe he will stand with Senators Cruz and Lee to fight the fight that must be fought even against his own side over the size and scope of the federal government.

I haven’t been pleased with EVERY vote made by Senator Coburn, but overall he has done a very good job.  I was pleased to hear the he is endorsing Jim Bridenstine./
Here is the video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_ovjgSLKk&feature=youtu.be

That’s my thoughts.  What do you think?

HERE's a last minute update;


Though only in his first term, Bridenstine has established himself as a principled legislator. He was among the group of House conservatives who fought to defund Obamacare last fall, joining with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who had encourage them to stand their ground on the issue.
 
The Oklahoma Republican has introduced legislation to repeal the 16th Amendment. He has also been a strong critic President Barack Obama’s abuse of executive power.
 
Bridenstine’s fiscal conservative credentials are bolstered by his 95% rating from FreedomWorks and 90% score from Americans for Prosperity. He also has a 90% score on The New American’s Freedom Index, which measures votes based on the Constitution.


 
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A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN THE COST OF ELECTRICITY IS COMING.



Obama Regulations To Shut Down 40 Percent Of Nation’s Electricity


We’re talking about dramatically increasing the cost of electricity all to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD OBAMA.
Did you read my recent post about impeaching Obama?
Have you taken any action yet?
Just thought I’d ask…

I guess there's nothing to worry about.    We can just all go on welfare.

What a clever fraud by our own government.



Holder Shakes Down 'Racist' Banks For Nearly $1 Billion
An Editorial from INVESTORS.com
Posted 01/15/2014 06:40 PM ET

War On Banks: Attorney General Eric Holder has opened up a new front against car lenders and has forged an alliance with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to frame them for racism, too.
We don't use the term "frame" capriciously, certainly not like Holder uses the charge of racism.
His department and the president's new consumer credit watchdog agency, CFPB, have announced a new settlement with Ally Bank for nearly $100 million.

It's the largest fair lending deal against the auto industry and the third-largest ever to resolve charges of lending discrimination.

Throw in four new mortgage-lender settlements over equally groundless allegations — including last month's $35 million joint Justice Department-CFPB hit on Cleveland-based National City Bank — and the total financial industry shakedown by this administration now stands at an eye-popping $810 million.

In its complaint against Ally, Justice alleged that the bank "charged African-American borrowers more than white borrowers in interest-rate markups not based on creditworthiness or other objective criteria related to borrower risk."

It says a statistical analysis of loans conducted by CFPB researchers found a "disparity" of 29 basis points compared with rates charged "similarly situated" white borrowers.

The surcharge is so "statistically significant," it contends, it can't be a function of anything but racism.

Let's unpack that statement, because it contains a big load of rubbish.

For starters, Justice had to guess the race of Ally's black customers from Census data for black neighborhoods. The auto-finance industry does not report the race of borrowers like the mortgage industry.

"Ethnicity data is not available," the department confesses later in the complaint.

So "victims" were never actually identified. That's why the complaint has to estimate that Ally discriminated against "approximately" 100,000 African-American borrowers.

More shocking, civil-rights prosecutors never actually checked the creditworthiness of those borrowers. That's right, they never looked at credit scores, down payments, debt or other key risk-related factors banks consider to set interest rates. Not for blacks, or for supposedly "similarly situated" whites.

So how in the world can Justice claim "Ally's specific policy and practice are not justified by a legitimate business need?"

It really can't. That's why it relies on statistics to "prove" such policies had a "disparate impact" on minorities, while arbitrarily finding those disparities so "significant" they can't be explained by chance.

Arbitrary, because neither Justice nor CFPB will reveal its threshold for "significant," despite repeated bipartisan requests from Congress.

What a clever fraud by your own government.

Ally says it's guilty of nothing more than pricing for risk, a legitimate business practice common in the industry for centuries.

"Ally has treated all of its customers fairly and without regard to race or national origin," the Detroit-based financial institution asserted in a statement.

So why did it roll over?

The same reason the other 30 banks targeted by Holder have played dead: to avoid a protracted legal battle with the federal government and protect their all-important corporate brand.

Their names would have been dragged through the liberal media mud, as they publicly fended off charges of racism and boycotts by Rev. Al Sharpton and other racial arsonists working in concert with Holder.

"Ally enters this settlement for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with the Department of Justice and to instead devote its resources to serving its customers," the company said. It's not admitting anything.

Ally is a victim of the same "disparate impact" witch hunt that has targeted mortgage lenders, a scurrilous and systematic demonization of corporate America that's only growing in scope and intensity in President Obama's second term.


NO SECURITY ON OBAMACARE RECORDS.



Security Expert Claims To Gain Info On 70-K ObamaCare Records in 4 Minutes


I was asked recently why I post so many news articles that can already be found on the internet.   Well, the answer is quite simple.
Most people don’t search the internet for breaking news.  They just watch the mainstream media.
News articles like the one in the link above (not favorable to the liberal cause) link are rarely picked up buy the mainstream media.
 Some people never watch the FOX news network, if you can believe that.
.Some people can’t even get FOX because they don’t have cable or satilite.