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President Obama's 'Save the Planet Slush Fund' Exposed

Posted by Christine Lakatos on December 16, 2013 at 11:30am

"Hope & Change"…and Saving the Planet 4063792327?profile=original

Barack Obama's original 2008 presidential campaign of “Hope and Change,” masterminded by campaign manager David Plouffe and chief strategist David Axelrod, was a triumph messaging, which quickly gathered immense attraction across our nation and abroad.

Part of Obama’s change crusade included slamming Wall Street at every turn, especially during his first term, labeling them as “fat-cat bankers,” who don’t follow the rules. In fact, President Obama proclaimed in a December 13, 2009 60-Minutes interview, "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street…" 


While the majority of Americans were mesmerized by his messaging, along with the left-wing media's "thrill up their leg" –– glorifying him to sainthood even –– by late 2009, Matt Taibbi, liberal writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, laid out a compelling case on how Obama sold out to Wall Street: "Obama's Big Sellout." "Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008." The Obama inspiration came from the "sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, and they were voting for 'change,'” were some of the words Taibbi penned regarding then-Senator Barack Obama’s rise to power.

Needless to say, Taibbi seemed shocked, documenting that it all began after Obama was elected in 2008: "What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history." Later Taibbi asks the question, "How did we get here?" He then answers, "It started just moments after the election –– and nobody noticed." 



Outsider? 



Quite the contrary, because Obama arrived on the scene with his fair share of Wall Street buddies, which in fact helped ensure his presidential victory in 2008 –– with many again in 2012 –– poring millions of dollars into his campaign coffers, making their mark as TOP campaign donors, with even Wall Street executives bundling huge sums of money for Obama. There were many of the too-big-to-fail banks (you know the ones that we, the taxpayer, bailed out) that made this special donor list: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley. Further down the line you'll find Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch –– the latter two indirectly, and so on. Meanwhile, many of the executives running these enormous failures, were not only handed big bonuses, but Obama  rewarded them and his big bundlers with "jobs, commissions, stimulus money, government contracts, and more"  –– with Wall Street given key positions inside the White House and also tapping into the "green" funds.

Wall Street was not the only big backer of Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential bids. Besides having the usual (and expected) environmentalists and left-wing organizations in his back pocket, there were Big Venture Capitalists, Big Left-wing Money, Big Energy, and Big Oil, all bundling for, and donating to his campaign  –– with each snagging their fare share of money from President Obama's “save the planet slush fund.”

Save the Planet Slush Fund

"America, this is our moment…the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," candidate Obama declared in a June 8, 2008 speech.

Furthermore, not only did the "candidate of hope and change" pledge to do the miraculous, Senator Obama, during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, vowed to save the planet: 


 Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stopgap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close. As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll help our auto companies retool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of bio-fuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.

Shortly after President Obama began his reign as our 44th president, in February 2009, he signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This was a massive economic stimulus bill –– among the biggest in history and the number one lobbied piece of legislation since 2005 –– that was sold to the American people as a means save our economy from the brink of disaster and create American jobs.

By the beginning of 2012, revelations revealed the real intent behind Obama's trillion-dollar spending spree ("walking around money"): it was “a key tool for advancing the Obama administration’s clean-energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments.” In fact, the 2009-Stimulus package was jammed-packed full of clean-energy provisions, of which about 10 percent of the monies were earmarked for renewable energy.

It's important to point out that the $100 billion in stimulus funds is not the only money being used to fuel the Obama administration's efforts to save the planet; it's closer to $150 billion and counting, because they continue to dole out more –– and all at at time when we are drowning in debt. A March 2012 report by the Brookings Institute places the Obama administrations' "total government spending (both stimulus and non-stimulus) on green initiatives at $150 billion through 2014." And what did we, the taxpayer, get out of the deal? Billions wasted, increased debt, outsourcing clean-energy money and green jobs to other countries, as well as massive amounts of corporate welfare, cronyism, and corruption.

The most controversial has been the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program, which comprises of Section 1703, Section 1705, and Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM). While both Section 1703 and the ATVM programs were established during the Bush administration, Section 1705 was created by the 2009-Recovery Act that included $16 billion in lending power. Thus far the DOE has guaranteed $34.7 billion of taxpayer money, and even though the 1705 has expired, there are reports that “the department still has about $50 billion left that could be lent, with a large chunk earmarked for nuclear projects.”

This is the same Energy Department program which the Green Corruption Files has exposed over and over how at least 90 percent of the loan winners have meaningful politically connections to the president and other high-ranking Democrats –– in many cases to both, with Majority Leader Harry Reid tied to five (a bombshell report we released last month). It also brought you the big alternative energy losers such as Solyndra, Beacon Power, Abound Solar, Fisker Automotive, and Vehicle Production Group, flushing millions of tax dollars down the eco-toilet. With SoloPower, Nevada Geothermal and others in the shadows, and quite a few DOE clean-energy projects at risk –– AREVA and its $2 billion, Georgia Power Company and its $8.33 billion –– there are billions more still hanging on the edge.

Also, many of these same companies that were funded with DOE loans, also won free taxpayer cash from one of the biggest stimulus scams: the 1603 Treasury Program, which has to date given out $19,349,675,402. This is another part of the scandal that we've been tracking that also includes numerous favored clean-energy projects. The real shock came at the end of 2102 when we learned from the Energy and Commerce Committee's “in-depth report on its ongoing investigation into the implementation of President Obama’s green energy stimulus spending,” which exposed the fact that “foreign corporations have received approximately one-quarter of $16 billion spent on 'Section 1603' renewable energy stimulus program.”

Last fall, and since, we've debunked the president's 5 million green jobs campaign promise. Worse, the Obama administration has shipped green jobs overseas, and from the beginning, the Department of Energy has exaggerated and/or manipulated the number of green jobs created, calculating saved, indirect, direct, and "touching lives" in the mix –– along with the Obama administration’s labor department counting oil lobbyists, sanitation engineers, school bus drivers, bicycle repair shop clerks, and so on, as as green jobs.


In May 8, 2013, a report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) gave us insight into the DOE's dismal reality on green jobs: "the Department of Energy has spent nearly $26 billion since 2009 on its Section 1703 and 1705 loan programs. However, these two programs only yielded 2,308 permanent jobs — meaning the cost to taxpayers was $11.25 million per job," recorded the Daily Caller.

As you will discover throughout our work, the DOE loan program is not the only vehicle used to transport taxpayer funds toward alternative energy. There are numerous ways, which includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Biorefinery Assistance Program that along with the DOE, used billions of taxpayer money to fund risky biofuel projects that were "not so shovel-ready" –– yet as usual, the majority had significant political connections. There are smaller grant programs like the ARPA-E and the SunShot Initiative. Throw in the Clean Energy R&D, where "$2.5 billion went for applied research, development, demonstration and deployment activities at the Energy Department’s Office of EERE," of which a huge chunk was designated for biomass energy projects and geothermal projects.

There were additional stimulus funds that were appropriated to the Energy Department, which includes $11 billion for Grid Modernization; the $5 billion Home Weatherization Program; the $6 billion Nuclear Waste Clean Up as well as $3.4 billion for carbon capture and sequestration demonstration projects; $2 billion for research into batteries for electric cars; $500 million for Green Jobs Training; and funds that went to various state energy programs.

Did you know that there is a "Green War" being waged? Yep, the Department of Defense has launched more green energy initiatives than any other federal agency and many are duplicative and wasteful," as reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

Another means where huge corporations and Obama's green buddies get taxpayer money is through the taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), who "has a Congressional mandate to support renewable energy and has been directed that 10% of its authorizations should be dedicated to renewable energy and environmentally beneficial transactions."

Clean Energy; Dirty Money 

What happened during President Obama’s first term –– and is continuing into his second –– is the focus of Clean Energy; Dirty Money: How the Obama administration hijacked our environment and doled out tens of billions of our tax dollars to payback his political cronies –– "green" bundlers, top donors, financiers, and allies –– catapulting crony capitalism to a staggering level, while fueling corporate welfare and corruption.


 Hope and change were still alive in 2012, but this time in the president’s “forward” message, fear was added as its running mate. The president described 2012 as a "make-or-break moment for America's middle class," before incorporating the theme of moving "forward." 

"We've got to move forward, to the future that we imagined in 2008. We've got to move forward to that future where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules," President Obama hyped. 


Again, during his re-election bid, President Obama had promised that climate change would be a priority in his second term –– a term he began with more scare tactics, proclaiming that the failure to tackle climate change, “would betray our children and future generations.”

But it wasn't until June of 2013 that the president unleashed his new climate agenda; however, prior to and since that time, his administration has continually fired up new climate legislation, regulations and mandates, which benefits special interest groups while adversely affecting American families. And, like the Affordable Care Act taking over our entire health care industry, will in essence, under the guise of "saving the planet," dominate our most valuable resource –– energy. The National Review took notice of "Obama's radical climate agenda," which by the way circumvents Congress, alarming that "the president announced that, on behalf of 'all of humankind,' he is in effect directing the EPA to take over the American economy." Reason.com, too, sees the dire reality here: "Obama’s plan ambitiously seeks to control nearly every aspect of how Americans produce and consume energy."

Last but not least, the president's Climate Action Plan calls for releasing more taxpayer money –– thus once again funding the Green Bank of Obama. “This time, though, the [DOE loan] program would devote as much as $8 billion to helping industries like coal and oil make cleaner energy,” wrote the New York Times. The Institute for Energy Research (IER) took aim at this part of the plan: "This proposal is nothing but window dressing to make it appear that the administration isn’t completely anti-coal. The new proposal would throw good money after bad."

As I was preparing this post, Energy Secretary Moniz via the Energy Department "released [that] $8 billion solicitation for advanced fossil energy projects."  They expect to receive the initial applications by the end of February 2014.


 This month, the Energy Department, through the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit program (48C Program), which is also part of the president's Climate Action Plan, announced "$150 million in clean-energy tax credits to build U.S. capabilities in clean energy manufacturing. The credits will go towards investments in domestic manufacturing equipment by 12 businesses."

Last August, it was reported that "Senior officials from the Department of Energy have signaled the Obama administration is ready to restart" the ATVM program (explained earlier). This is part   the Energy Department's loan power, of which if we go back in time, around June 2009, we find that the DOE starting funding electric cars. Needless to say, this program drew over 100 applicants, but only the "FAVORED FIVE" were granted ATVM loans, totaling $8.4 billion –– igniting red flags, spurring on lawsuits, bursting with electric issues, and thus far two have slipped into the abyss: Fisker Automotive ($529 million) and Vehicle Production Group ($50 million). Yet the Energy Department deems the ATVM loan program a success, however, others, in analyzing the facts, see that Obama's electric vehicle loan program as a "failure."

Follow the Money 

Since late 2009, we've been following the "green" money and connecting the dots –– money that not only led to plenty of fraud, waste, and mismanagement, but also abuse, cronyism, corruption, and failure. Today's post will provide you with a breakdown of where we started, how far we've come, and what's left to expose. The Green Corruption Files has unleashed a treasure trove of evidence that stems from over three years of extensive research; House Oversight reports, hearings and internal emails; Inspector General reports, whistle-blower Intel; as well as Peter Schweizer's bombshell bestseller, Throw Them All Out and various publications covering the topic –– proving that cronyism and corruption are the driving forces behind the Obama administration's clean-energy (climate change) agenda.

Green Corruption began in 2010 at Blogcritics Magazine 

  1. Obama’s Political Payback: Green Corruption, Part One first published @ Blogcritics Magazine July 19, 2010; then posted @ The Green Corruption Files April 28, 2012) 
  2. Obama’s Political Payback: Green Corruption, Part Two (first published @ Blogcritics Magazine July 20, 2010; then posted @ The Green Corruption Files April 28, 2012)
  3. Green Corruption: The Plot Thickens (first published @ Blogcritics Magazine August 7, 2010; then posted at @ the The Green Corruption Files April 28, 2012) 


The Green Corruption Files: 2012 with 23 Posts

  1. Green Corruption: Department of Energy “Junk Loans” and Cronyism (first published @ Blogcritics Magazine on April 17, 2012, then posted Saturday, April 28, 2012 –– also at EPA Abuse on May 1, 2012, California Political News and Views on May 5, 2012, and many other Conservative sites) 
  2.  BREAKING: BrightSource Energy Political Influence and Their $1.6 Billion DOE Loan (posted Wednesday, May 16, 2012)
  3.  BREAKING: NRG Energy on the DOE Cronyism Hot Seat, Also Tied to George Soros (posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
  4. Lou Dobbs "Shocks" Bill O'Reilly on the Severity of Obama DOE Crony Capitalism (posted Friday, May 25, 2012) 
  5. Obama-Tied Troubled First Solar $3 Billion DOE Loans Produce Majority of Jobs Oversees, CEO Sold His Own Stock; Plus More "Clean-Energy Dirt" Exposed (posted Monday, June 11, 2012) 
  6. Obama’s Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption Story; Special Seven, Part 1 Expanded Version (posted Saturday, June 30, 2012)
  7. Shining the Light on BrightSource Energy's $1.6 Billion Shady DOE Deal: Special Seven, Part Two (posted Friday, July 6, 2012)
  8. General Electric Making “Bank” off Obama's “Green” Stimulus Money; Over $3 Billion and Counting (posted Thursday, July 12, 2012)
  9. Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Crony-Corruption, Part Three of The Special Seven (posted Sunday, July 15, 2012)
  10. The First Solar Three Billion Dollar Swindle (posted Wednesday, July 25, 2012)
  11. Recent Oversight Hearing Reveals Shady Email Practices by Former DOE Loan Advisor Jonathan Silver; Abound Solar Blames China for its Demise (posted Thursday, July 26, 2012)
  12. How Democrats Say "Crony Corruption" in Spanish: Abengoa UPDATED VERSION (posted Wednesday, August 8, 2012) 
  13. Beacon Bust Tied to Obama Bundler and VP Hunter, the Infamous Washington Fixture, James A. Johnson (posted Wednesday, August 15, 2012)
  14. NextEra Energy: Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of DOE Risky Loans; CEO Sits on President Obama's Jobs Council (posted Saturday, August 18, 2012)
  15. Obama’s Green Cronies Made DNC Cameo: Bundlers and Big Donors Tied to Billions of Stimulus Funds (posted Friday, September 21, 2012)
  16. Special Report Part One: Obama, the Green Loser; Cronyism Inc. (posted Monday, October 15, 2012)
  17. Special Report Part Two: Obama, the Green Loser; Cronyism Inc. (posted Monday, October 15, 2012) 
  18. Where are the 5 Million Green Jobs Candidate Obama Promised? (posted Monday, October 15, 2012)
  19. Green Alert: Tracking President Obama's Green Energy Failures (posted Saturday, October 20, 2012)
  20. BREAKING: Newly Released House Oversight Emails Incriminate White House in Green-Energy Loan Lies (posted Thursday, November 1, 2012)
  21. Busting Open Obama Energy Department's Den of Deception (posted Monday, November 5, 2012)
  22. DEVELOPING: Department of Energy Facing "Corruption" Lawsuit, Shocking DOE Emails, and the $8.4 Billion ATVM Program's "Favored Five" (posted Friday, November 23, 2012)
  23. The Green Five: Spreading the Wealth to Obama’s Ultra-Rich Jobs Council Members; Part One, 10/31/12 DOE Emails Prove White House Pressure on $1.3 Billion Loan to General Electric Wind Project (posted Sunday, December 23, 2012)

 

The Green Corruption Files: 2013 with 22 posts 

  1. Tuesday, January 8, 2013 –– Bank of Obama: John Doerr and Al Gore of Kleiner Perkins, The Mother of All Green Energy Stimulus Money Winners
  2. Monday, January 21, 2013 –– Climate Hawk Senator John Kerry and His Green Inside Deals
  3. Tuesday, January 22, 2013 –– Big Wind Energy Subsidies: A Hurricane of Carnage, Cronyism and Corruption
  4. Thursday, February 7, 2013 –– Obama's Jobs Council Closed: Mega-Rich Member Penny Pritzker "Rumored" for Commerce Job, “Related” to Two Large Green Corruption Stories 
  5. Friday, February 22, 2013 –– Citigroup’s Massive 'Green' Money Machine 
  6. Thursday, February 28, 2013 –– Wall Street Walks all over the Obama White House 
  7. Friday, March 22, 2013 –– Left-wing Billionaire George Soros: Obama’s "Agent of Green"
  8. Monday, April 1, 2013 –– SoloPower: Another Department of Energy “Junk Loan” Teetering with Over $250 Million of Taxpayer Money
  9. Thursday, April 11, 2013 –– Newly Bankrupt Chinese Solar Producer Suntech, Stimulus Tax Credit Winner and Contractor to Energy Department’s $337 million Junk Loan: a Tiny Fraction of Obama’s “Green Outsourcing"
  10. Wednesday, April 24, 2013 –– Failing Fisker Auto Finally Faces House Oversight Hearing: Chairman Jordan Exposes Another DOE Junk Loan, Declares, "Fisker should have never received taxpayer money”
  11. Thursday, May 9, 2013 –– Americans Bothered By the Way our Government Spends Taxes: Billions Burned on Obama's Green Energy 
  12. Wednesday, May 29, 2013 –– Smart Gird, Dirty Devices: With "friends" in the White House, Silver Spring Networks linked to at least $1.3 billion of smart-grid stimulus grants 
  13. Monday, June 10, 2013 –– Transparency Alert: HHS, DOL, and EPA NOT the Only Agencies Where Top Obama Appointees are Using “Secret Emails” to Conduct Govt Business… What a bout the Energy Department?
  14. Saturday, June 15, 2013 –– The Green Corruption Files Snags Special Gig on AACONS' Radio Broadcast
  15. June 30, 2013 –– Nuclear Crimes and Misdemeanors
  16. Saturday, July 13, 2013 –– Nuclear Disaster: $10.33 billion in energy loans pressured by the White House and POTUS approved, now at risk
  17. Wednesday, July 24, 2013 –– Subsidizing Obama’s Algae: Its advisors and allies 
  18. Monday, August 19, 2013 –– Billions of Obama biofuel bucks funded "not so shovel-ready" risky projects, fueled by more green corruption
  19. Friday, September 13, 2013 –– Top D.C. Lobbyist McBee Strategic Consulting “opened the spigot of green corporate welfare;” then billions of stimulus cash flooded the firm’s energy clients
  20. Saturday, September 28, 2013 –– Virginia Governor Dem Candidate Terry McAuliffe’s GreenTech Auto: small eco-car, big green scam?
  21. Tuesday, October 15, 2013 –– The RAT in the Recovery and the Gang of Ten 
  22. Saturday, November 16, 2013 –– Underneath Senator Harry Reid’s Clean-Energy Dirt: Career politician directly linked to over $3 billion in green energy stimulus loans

Marita Noon 21 Columns on the Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Scandal, which began in June 2012

  1. Crony Capitalism and President Obama: How the System Really Works (originally published: 6/10/2012)
  2. Obama’s Green-Energy Crony-Corruption (originally published: 6/29/2012)
  3. More Obama Green Energy Corruption (originally published: 7/6/2012)
  4. Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Crony-Corruption (originally published: 7/14/2012)
  5. The First Solar Swindle (originally published: 7/21/2012)
  6. How Democrats Say “Crony Corruption” in Spanish: Abengoa (originally published: 8/4/2012)
  7. Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of Risky Loans (originally published: 8/17/2012)
  8. Obama Never Admits Green Energy Failures (originally published: 9/30/2012)
  9. Romney to Obama: “You Pick the Losers” (originally published: 10/7/2012)
  10. Obama’s Green Energy Jobs Promise: 355 Jobs and Counting (originally published: 10/14/2012)
  11. Emails Catch White House Lie on Green-Energy Loans (originally published: 11/1/2012)
  12. Busting Open Energy’s Den of Deception (originally published: 11/4/2012)
  13. Exclusive: DOE Corruption—Appointed and Elected Officials Should Face Prison Time (originally published: 11/25/2012)
  14. Inside Deals Mar John Kerry for State (originally published: 1/21/2013)
  15. Wall Street Walks on The White House (originally published: 2/24/2013)  
  16. Obama Creates More Wealth for Green Crony Soros (originally published: 3/31/13)
  17. On Earth Day, Let’s Waste More Money (originally published 4/22/13)
  18. Fisker: a free ride to make flashy cars in Finland (originally published 4/28/13)
  19. A six-pack of scandals (originally published 5/19/13)
  20. The dirty politics of “clean” energy (originally published 7/28/2013)
  21. The Macker—deal maker, not a car maker (or even a job creator) (originally published 9/29/13)
  22. Harry Reid's Personal Green Goldmine (originally published 12/9/13)

 

About Us

Christine Lakatos

I'm the mother of two terrific daughters; an ACE Certified Fitness Trainer with over 30-years experience in the health and fitness industry; diet book author; and retired bodybuilder with many titles under my belt, including an American Gladiators contestant back in 1990.

The Green Corruption Files began as a result of my research that was prompted in 2009, and ultimately marked me as a contributor to the political book, Killing Wealth, Freeing Wealth How to Save America’s Economy and Your Own –– Authors; Lee Troxler and Floyd Brown, and released May 2010. Two months later, I coined the phrase in my three-part series entitled, "Obama’s Political Payback: Green Corruption," which was first published at Blogcritics Magazine. 

Since 2011, I proceeded with my political research, specifically in this area, for Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily senior staff reporter and as well as Peter Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), whose work has been featured on 60-Minutes, and just about everywhere that counts –– both are New York Times bestselling authors of numerous books.

Just last month, Dr. Corsi, in his article, "U.N. milks 'warming' claim to spend half-trillion-plus: Despite evidence of bad science, failure of 'green' energy,'" cited my work...

Researcher Christine Lakatos has created a website, GreenCorruption.blogspot.com, dedicated to exposing Obama administration corruption in funding $150 billion in green initiatives from 2009 through 2014. The funding included both stimulus funds and non-stimulus funds, promoting ultimately failed green energy projects that were tied to prominent Democratic Party politicians and contributors.

My short stint with Schweizer began after the release of his bombshell book, Throw Them All Out, which devoted an entire chapter to this green energy scam: Chapter 5, "Spreading the Wealth...to Billionaires."

By the end of 2011, it became clear that green corruption was a massive scandal on many fronts: "the largest, most expensive and deceptive case of crony capitalism in American History." However, it wasn't until April 2012 that I launched my blog in order to unleash the entire scoop, which was  prompted by the March 2012 House Oversight report titled, The Department of Energy’s Disastrous Management of Loan Guarantee Programs –– "a devastating indictment of the Obama administration’s 'green' energy cronyism." This not only validated my 2010 theory of corruption on the clean-energy front, it was the beginning of the realization of a  much broader scandal. So, with my subsequent research, I then went into high gear and released my first file entitled, Green Corruption: Department of Energy “Junk Loans” and Cronyism.

Just this month, the Reason Foundation released a study by Victor Nava and Julian Morris, "detailing the role political connections and lobbying played in securing [the DOE 1705 ] loans." Their Policy Brief, entitled "Stimulating Green Electric Dreams – Lobbying, Cronyism and Section 1705 Loan Guarantees," demonstrated that "the Department of Energy’s stimulus loans went to 'junk' grade investments and firms that spent the most lobbying."

While Reason's analysis focused on the lobbying efforts behind these loans (my 2012 examination was solely on the cronyism), "the report also highlights taxpayer-backed loans given to companies with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former Vice President Al Gore, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and a company founded by former Maine Gov. Angus King, who is now a U.S. Senator," which included using our July 2012 work as a source –– only in two places, but it's still a big deal for us.  

“Ideally, the government would get out of the business of funding speculative energy projects like Solyndra,” said Victor Nava, co-author of the report and policy analyst at Reason Foundation.

Still, when the Solyndra bankruptcy story broke in September 2011 –– FBI raids, bundlers, DOE Advisors, "Fifth Amendment," and all –– most of the media ran with it, which carried on for a while. In fact, green energy cronyism was a hot topic during the 2012 election, even for the GOP, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and many others, including conservative leaning commentators like Sean Hannity, who championed exposing this scandal.

Since the 2012 election has come and gone, most have dropped the ball on this important issue that impacts every American taxpayer and our energy uses. Not to mention that the president's clean-energy agenda has been used to fuel cronyism, corruption, and corporate welfare, while demonstrating how our government is run by Wall Street, special interests, Big Money, and in this particular case, Big Energy and Big Venture Capitalists –– all with friends in high places –– rather than what's good for our country.

The lack of attention to this green energy scam could be due to the fact that more gripping and deadly scandals have since emerged –– and even though they have swarmed the Obama White House for some time, most of them didn't heat up until 2013. Those include the Benghazi cover-up; the IRS profiling; the Department of Justice "secret surveillance" of reporters; and as of late, the lies behind ObamaCare.

Nevertheless, as fate would have it, in June 2012, Marita Noon, energy expert and columnist at Towhall.com, took the plunge. We immediately began our collaboration, which enabled my work to explode. What started as a regular American citizen expressing concern over how "green stimulus money was being used and abused," has turned into a mission: To expose one chunk of this Green Corruption scandal at a time.

In just a year's time, The Green Corruption Files went from a few hundred hits a month to 400 a day, to 4000 a month. Nineteen months later, we hit over 100,000 page views, and now we are well over 103,000. Today will be my 49th post, meanwhile, Marita has tackled 22 columns on this scandal, which is a direct result of my research, yet with a special touch and an occasional twist –– plus a much more diverse and expansive platform. 

Marita Noon is the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). Together they work to educate the public and influence policy makers regarding energy, its role in freedom, and the American way of life. Combining energy, news, politics, and the environment through public events, speaking engagements, and media, the organizations’ combined efforts have made Marita “America’s voice for energy.” Marita is also a columnist for Townhall.com and a regular contributor to The Heartland Institute, The Energy Tribune, Conservative Action Alerts, and EPAAbuse.com. Additionally her writing can be found in numerous newspapers and websites.

Here's how Marita explains it...

Our partnership with researcher Christine Lakatos has been one of our most popular initiatives. Together we’ve done the most thorough expose on the Obama Administration’s green-energy crony-corruption scandal. Marita has written eighteen specific columns based on Lakatos’ research as presented on her blog entitle The Green Corruption Files — which is funded as a project of CARE. Our cooperative efforts have drawn the attention of Rush Limbaugh. His 2012 December Limbaugh Letter cited our list of failed green-energy companies and linked to The Green Corruption Files.

Besides Marita's extremely valuable and far-reaching exposure, The Green Corruption Files has been featured or cited at The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, GOP USA, Hawaii Free Press, Frontpage.com, Institute for Energy Research, Real Clear Energy, California Political News and Views, Blogcritics Magazine as well as USAActionNews.com. While we've gained traction across the Internet –– even places and publications you'd least expect –– Green Corruption has also been featured at organizations like the Patriot Action Network, Tea Party.org, and American c2c. (NOTE: most of these can be found on the side panel here on my blog site.)

Our collaboration has prompted quite a few high-profiled interviews which include The Daily Caller (March 31, 2012), The American Free Press (May 25, 2013), The Rodger Hedgecock Show (May 28, 2013, Marita live in the studio, but on Rodgers several times), and African American Conservatives (June 11, 2013).

Check out Marita's June 2013 Newsletter to learn more, and her list of audio recordings on the Green Corruption scandal as well as her expertise on energy issues in general. You can also find us both tweeting at @energyrabbit and @calfit32, as well as sharing on Facebook.

Two women –– a citizen & an energy columnist –– join forces on one mission: to expose one chunk of the Green Corruption Scandal at a time.

Our deepest appreciation goes out to the support of buddies like Bamboo Bob, our families' encouragement (even the liberal ones), and others that have helped this cause either by listening to my ranting, or visiting, reading, sharing, publishing, and financing our work.

Moreover, due to the financial support of Marita Noon's organization C.A.R.E. and a few direct donors, we were able to embark on this important work; however, we are still seeking donors, because there is much more to unleash, including updating the long list of clean-energy failures. At the end of 2012, I calculated that as many as 50 Obama-backed green energy companies were bankrupt or troubled, but I have since tracked more.

We also have yet to unleash the Department of Energy's Dirt Dozen; additional junk loans and cronyism; the SolarCity scam; revisiting the auto loans; lack of DOE accountability and transparency, and more. Furthermore, with the Green Bank of Obama ready to dole out more taxpayer money, we're ready to track and report on which companies or projects are chosen as winners.


 Final thoughts....

Alarmingly, our environment has been hijacked by uber-rich individuals, crooked politicians, and an assortment of left wing extremists who are fueled by greed and power attached to a radical agenda to bring about “global governance,” “redistribute the wealth,” and put the progressive movement –– big government, social justice and the death of capitalism –– on the fast track. Under the guise of “saving the planet,” these players, who are all interconnected in a variety of ways, are transforming our climate into something more sinister –– a scam of epic proportions.

Wake up America; we've been robbed!

What's most frustrating –– downright outrageous ––  is that the "green corruption" suspects (and this entire money laundering scam) have escaped any repercussions, so we can anticipate that  clean-energy dirt will continue to surface. And, we must endure in our efforts to expose the eco-radicals, hypocrites, corrupt politicians, special interest groups, lobbyists, as well as the ultra-wealthy that enjoy special political access and influence, and all those behind (and whom financially benefit from) the Obama administration's massive, deceptive and expensive green energy agenda.

SPECIAL NOTE: This was first published on December 15, 2013 as Green Corruption in Review: Clean energy, dirty money. And without funding (or commitments) by the end of December, sadly, this will be final post.

Thanks, -c

 

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DEMS Clinging to Sinking Ship

Posted by Marcia Wood on December 16, 2013 at 6:56am

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The Democrats ushered an unknown into their party in 2009 – they were so smug and thrilled to put the first African American into the President’s shoes.  They gloated, bragged and helped him spend 787 billion dollars that belonged to the American people with the promise of the most transparent Government in our history, smaller Government, secured borders and jobs, jobs and more jobs.

None of the above happened, but the real albatross around their party’s neck is ACA (aka Obamacare.)  In order to get this monstrosity passed Obama and Pelosi coerced many Democrats into voting for this new healthcare law.  The bill Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

DEMS along with the Liberal News media joined Obama and marched to his drum proclaiming healthcare for all, lower premiums, keep your Insurer and your doc.  They glazed over the taxes stashed in Obamacare, the death panel and wasted 3 years selling a snake oil salesman’s sleazy product. 

Their problem goes much deeper than a dilapidated ill functioning website – the real problem is their honesty and credibility.  As Sebelious, Obama and Jarrett keep adding a new band aid each day to ACA - the healthcare problems keep intensifying.  Democrats are responsible for allowing Obama to continue this political non-sense and as each day passes the real problems are starting to show their fangs.

The Medical field is stepping up to the plate and telling Americans that doctors are leaving the medical field due to Obamacare, that healthcare will be limited for consumer and some will not be able to receive the care and drugs that they need.  In fact some Americans who have terminal illnesses have lost their physicians, their hospital and their insurance.  This is more than a small glitch – this is a train wreck that’s happening as we speak.

The consumers are angry losing their Insurer, doc and they’re irate that during this severe recession they now owe higher co pays and deductibles. The young people that Obama, Sebelious and Jarrett were counting on aren’t stupid.

Many of them are college graduates without employment and the others are relatively healthy and basically take the stance that they’ve had enough burdens placed on their shoulders with runaway Government spending and mismanagement. 

They know that all of the current problems will trickle down to them - they will be the ones in the end that are left to pick up the pieces.  Why should they along with healthcare insurers be the ones to take the hit for Obama’s lies and lousy healthcare laws?

In 2014 businesses aren’t going to sit around and wait for the 2014 Elections – they will be downsizing, many refusing to pay insurance for employees and thousands of full time employees will have their hours slashed to part-time. 

So to those Democrats still trying to sell Obamacare to Americans, they’re about to get the shock of their life. Barack Obama used and abused his party – now they’re between a rock and a hard place.  If they stop Obamacare the Democrats will take a major hit.  If they continue trying to force Obamacare down Americans throat it’s likely that the Democratic Party will be dissolved before 2016 rolls around.

Obama care is up close and personal and will affect all Americans.  Obamacare isn’t a train wreck about to happen it’s a sinking ship that keeps sinking deeper into the abyss. 

As Always,

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grimes and 2nd amendment

Posted by james c. cochran on December 16, 2013 at 6:39am

Kentucky Democrat Alison Grimes Not as Gun Friendly as She'd ...

Kentucky Democrat Alison Grimes is hoping to beat out Republican Senator Mitch McConnell next year for a place in the U.S. Senate. Three weeks ago, Grimes posted a photo of herself on Twitter shooting (without eye and ear protection, two big gun safety don'ts ) and invited McConnell ...
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ky 2014 senate race

Posted by james c. cochran on December 16, 2013 at 6:31am

Movie Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Million for Mitch McConnell's Democratic Foe

—By Andy Kroll
| Mon Sep. 30, 2013 6:17 AM GMT

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Hollywood is betting big on Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the movie mogul and Democratic kingmaker, raised more than $1 million for Grimes at a recent fundraiser at the Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Katzenberg, who marshaled more than $30 million to reelect President Obama, has trained his sights on the McConnell-Grimes race for 2014 election season.

In an email to potential donors sent earlier this month, Katzenberg said of the Kentucky Senate race, "There is no more important election being held next year in this country." Katzenberg wrote that he sees McConnell as an obstructionist who has crippled the US Senate and hurt the democratic process in Congress. "Alison is the antidote to McConnell and all he represents," Katzenberg wrote. "She can win, and she will win if she gets the support she needs."

Here's more on Katzenberg's fundraiser from the Hollywood Reporter:

As the event concluded shortly before 8 p.m. and the room emptied out, the studio head and his political adviser, Andy Spahn, lingered at a table chatting with the candidate. As Grimes made her own exit, she paused to thank lingering campaign staff members, who laughingly told her the effort “came from the top down,” a reference to the intense hands-on role Katzenberg took in orchestrating the visit.

Asked for names of donors, Katzenberg simply responded, "Everybody."

The total was particularly impressive since individual donors can contribute only $5,200 to a candidate for federal office.

One of the Hollywood insiders who sized Grimes up during the whirlwind visit told THR that—while there are no formal records kept–the $1 million total is thought to be a record for a single visit by a senatorial candidate raising money in the L.A. entertainment industry.

A knowledgeable source also told THR that Katzenberg is preparing to renew his strong support for Democratic Super PACs as a way to level the electoral playing field in Kentucky, where Republican independent expenditure committees are expected to spend major cash to secure McConnell’s reelection.

Grimes herself made a strong impression at the luncheon, cocktail event and private meetings she attended during a visit that began Wednesday and wrapped up Thursday night. "I spent some time talking with her," said one Hollywood supporter. "She's very smart, very attractive, very poised. She has a good story about her Kentucky roots and her life there. She is very serious. She really wants to win this.

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The War on Rich White Men

Posted by Lloyd Marcus on December 16, 2013 at 3:33am

4063791846?profile=originalI heard a knock on the door of my hotel room. It was Donald. “Turn on Megyn Kelly. She is reporting about an MSNBC commentator’s claim that using the term “Obamacare” is the same as calling him the N word.”

MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry's accusation is absurd. It is an obvious weak attempt to distance the president from Obamacare which is wreaking havoc in the lives of millions of Americans who are losing their health care.

What I found most disturbing and what I wish to focus on is Perry's evil attempt to gin up hate against “wealthy white men” who she claims created the term “Obamacare” to demean and undermine the black president.

Due to the Obama Administration playing the race card to win every argument and silence opposition, America is polarized along racial lines. Perry's false accusation is like throwing gasoline on the flames of national racial tensions; as irresponsible and cruel as screaming fire in a crowded auditorium.

Perry's specific use of the term “wealthy white men” was insidiously strategic. Low info blacks in my family along with blacks across America will believe Perry's nonsense to be the gospel truth. With the wave of black flash mob violence and the rising incidents of the racially motivated knockout game, the last thing we need as a nation is another black TV celeb promoting a racially charged false narrative.

Democrats and liberals like Perry have been promoting the same irresponsible, divisive and racist false narrative for decades. They claim that all evil in the world is the fault of racist, greedy, sexist and evil wealthy white men usually identified as conservative Republicans.

Perry's rant is simply the latest blow to the chin of America's white males by a liberal. Flash back to New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd's 2009 article titled, “White Man's Last Stand.” Dowd's article excoriated white men. http://bit.ly/1bsYmc5

Obama and company's reelection strategy was centered around a shock-and-awe media blitz branding the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney as an evil super-wealthy racist white guy. http://bit.ly/1cz7noO

So, we get it. While political correctness is the unwritten law of the land, it is open season on trashing and targeting the American rich white male for destruction; even deemed morally correct and patriotic.

Who is out there giving rich white men props for their many positive contributions to society? Where are their advocates? I am sure with me being an American black man, liberals think it unconscionable that I would suggest such a thing; elevating me to “super” Uncle Tom status.

In 1895, Booker T. Washington formed a coalition of black leaders, politicians and white philanthropists (rich white guys), with a long-term goal to build the black community's economic strength and pride by focusing on self-help, education and entrepreneurship.

Perry's ridiculous claim that the term “Obamacare” is the new N word is laughable. The N word is defined as a contemptuous term for a black or dark-skinned person. Sadly, American rich white men are viewed with a similar contemptuousness; despised, kicked around and unfairly mistreated.

Bottom line, Ms Perry and the whole liberal machine pushing the war on rich white men should be ashamed of themselves. The left's hate speech is ripe with negative consequences for the lives of real people; decent folks who simply worked hard, made good choices and achieved their American Dream.

Why should they be demonized in such a way as to inspire violence against them? It simply is not right.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman: Conservative Campaign Committee
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TRACKING EVIL!

Posted by Art Phillips Texas Director on December 15, 2013 at 3:43pm
TRACKING THEIR EVIL!

Yesterday I posted what you see below. Next I ask that you consider and research the following. There is a very large company, unknown to most people, based in the United Kingdom known as Serco Ltd and Serco Global Services. This organization will be handling all information gathered concerning all Americans health and personal information. This includes almost all person...al information from health to financial and background. Not only does this organization compile information it has been given control of Great Britain's nuclear weapons. Yes, you read that right, a private company is in control of a nation's Atomic Weapons. I add this so those who really care can research this organization along with the indications such research may turn up. I have no doubt that there is much I have missed here and may have gotten wrong, I welcome correction. However, what I do know is, this organization is poised to be the backbone of any World Order trying to gain control over every human being's lives on earth. This "Serco Ltd" is a massive organization and yet few people know of its existence.
Elevengun
I AM PATRIOT

EQUAL TYRANNY TWO FACES OF EVIL!

In the past six years Federal agencies have undergone changes not seen since the rise of the Third Reich in Germany. For instance, the Department Of Homeland Security, originally created to combat terrorism within the continental US, has unequally divided into two separate organizations. The smaller of these two entities maintains its original purpose and functions as a front for its counterpart presenting the DHS brand as a legitimate force for good, thus blinding other law enforcement and the public to its greater agenda. The "greater agenda" of the larger division of DHS is not unlike a gorilla task force dedicated to the protection of a rogue government and those manipulating our laws, courts and representatives. Not only does it protect those who's agenda is to control our nation and abolish our Constitution it targets anyone believed to be a threat to the treason and tyranny being carried out by its masters.
Early in the 1960ies the United Nations developed a plan to bring the world under control of a select few who comprised an organization, at that time known as the Tri Lateral Commission. One of their greatest problems was the United States of America and its greatest achievement, the US Constitution. They had to come up with a plan that would bring the United States to its knees and make its people believe it was all happening because of Capitalism and their Constitution. They designated their plan as Agenda 21. To achieve their goals they had to have control of the US presidency as well as one of its political parties. Fast forward to 2008, they finally achieved their operational goals by grooming Barry Soetoro, aka: Barak Obama. Due to the takeover of the Democrat party by Liberals they also had a willing gallery of Socialists who would jump on their band wagon of immorality and treason. They now stand at the threshold of their victory, the complete and utter destruction of the United States of America and world domination.
It remains to be seen though, will Americans simply comply with the devils commands or will they stand for their Liberty and Freedom as their forefathers and fight to the death against this evil? Have no doubt, we will soon see!
Elevengun
I AM PATRIOT!.....................................are you?
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Matthew 1:21-23

Posted by Kristi Mod on December 15, 2013 at 12:50pm

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Matthew 1:21-23

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

( Matthew 1:21-23 KJV 1611 AV )

Emmanuel God With us through Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior!!  Jesus Christ is God’s Son!! Jesus Christ is KING of kings, LORD or lords, He is the ALPHA and OMEGA, the FIRST and the LAST!!! Jesus Christ is the REASON for the SEASON!!

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Love Always, YSIC \o/

Kristi Ann

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Troubleshooting a problem....

Posted by Daniel Detwiler on December 15, 2013 at 3:43am

And yet again we have another school shooting. Already the liberals are lining up and demanding guns be taken away. Those of us capable of sane thoughts must ask ourselves, how is it the guns fault? How can something that is incapable of thought, unable to have feeling, devoid of the ability of movement be the guilty party to all the school shootings and other violence thats attributed to guns. Obviously to a sane person, the guns are not the problem. Yet if guns are not the problem, then what is we might ask. I am an aircraft mechanic by trade and as a mechanic I have to be able to effectively troubleshoot problems. If something blows a fuse, I can replace the fuse and then a day or two later its blown again and I can change it again, or I can ask myself “what changed to make the fuse blow. What causes this problem?” The same thought process can be applied here. Twenty, thirty forty or more years ago school shootings was unheard of and unthinkable, yet is becoming common now. What has changed to make this happen? Thirty years ago when I was in school it was comon to be able to walk through the school parking lot and see a bunch of trucks with shotguns and rifles in the back windows. It was the norm. Yet never once was there a school shooting. Kids played cops and robbers, cowboys and indians. They had cap guns and BB guns and toy bows and arrows yet none of them went to school and killed a bunch of their fellow classmates. Yet now none of that is allowed and school killings have happened more than a few times. Why we must ask. Deeper we must dig. When I was in school the mention of God was not taboo. In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled on ENGEL v. VITALE. The case was about a school requiring students to participate in prayers. The first part of the courts decision I agree with. To force a child to pray is unconstitutional. Yet the court in the infinite wisdom went way beyond the call of the ruling and decided that God has no place in school period. This part of the ruling is unconstitutional in itself for it should be up to the community, not the Supreme Court or the Federal Government to decided if the school has open prayer or not. As long as any child is not required to participate in the prayer then no constitutional violations have occurred. The second part of the ruling of this case not only made a law respecting a religion, for atheism is a religion of itself, yet it also made a law prohibiting the free practice of religion. It took to the late seventies to early eighties before God was totally removed from all schools. So we can deduce that the liberals banning God from school is one thing that has changed since when we never could imagine a school shooting to today, yet is that all that has changed? Sadly thats not all the liberals been up to these last few decades. In the late seventies the liberal rallying cry was child abuse. Now I agree anyone who abuses a child deserves every kind of hell there is. But the liberals true to form went way overboard. Now a days parents are scared to spank a child. If a parent lightly slaps a childs hand in public the parent can and many cases shows that they have been put in jail for this as well as had their children taken away. Back when I was in school, if someone did something really wrong, what was the common thing said? Usually it was “my dad is gonna kill me” or “my parents are gonna tear my butt up for that” or something along those lines. And the kids would go home, usually get their rear ends tanned and that was it. Lesson learned. Now a days that is considered child abuse. An old saying of spare the rod and spoil the child is very true, yet this day and age liberals refuse to let you have a rod. So we look at it. Since the days when it was unthinkable for a kid to go to school and kill other kids compared to today we see that liberals have removed God from schools as well as removed a parents ability to discipline a child. Is that all or is there anything else we can add to our troubleshooting tree? The liberals have decided that no kid is special for they all are special, they all deserve the prize, they all get equal trophy's. The kids who worked hard, put in the effort are no better than the kids who didnt care, didnt try. What does that do to a childs self esteem to know no matter how hard they try they will never be any better than those who didnt try. Why should kids even care when the liberals take away all competition, all reasons to strive to be better. In the end we can all jump on the band wagon of guns are evil, guns need to be banned, yadda yadda petuh or we can be logical about this. If we compare from a time when kids killing kids was unheard of and unimaginable to today we can see the major changes between then and now are all liberal changes. With that in mind it is very easy to deduce that the real reason children are killing children is because of liberalism and as such liberalism needs to be outlawed and banned. Makes a lot more sense then blaming an inanimate object like a gun for the problem.

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Fax Blast

Posted by Rex Basham on December 15, 2013 at 3:00am

PLEASE flood me with your fax blast messages!  I can afford to send multiple faxes based on your low cost structure.  I can do emails, phone calls and now the fax blast.  Thanks.

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Six Year-old Boy Suspended For Kissing Girl’s Cheek – Sexual Harassment or Innocent Peck?

Posted by Kevin Fobbs on December 14, 2013 at 8:49pm

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           photo credit -   www.cute-pictures.blogspot

A kiss is just a kiss unless you are a six-year-old in first grade in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  If a six year old boy is caught kissing a six-year old girl then being suspended from school can be the least of the child and his parents’ worries.

This is exactly what happened to six year old Hunter Yelton, who according to Fox News was given a two-day suspension from his Lincoln School of Science and Technology for placing a kiss on a young girl’s hand and another on her cheek. One of the very real concerns that his parents have to be truly worried about is if this will be filed in his permanent school record as a sexual harassment punishment.

The political correctness police have to be frothing at the mouth on this one, because the innocence of childhood has somehow been buried and replaced with school officials who have to monitor every single little display of affection by a child despite the innocence of the act.  So just where is the line between childhood innocence and a negative reactionary permanent record?

A child clinical psychologist at UCCS told KRDO-TV News channel 13 that the behavior of six year olds kissing a little girl on the cheek, “would be normal behavior.”  Sandy Wurtele who is an expert on childhood sexual development as well as the prevention of childhood sexual abuse was surprised that the school actually suspended Hunter.

What is happening to children in Hunter’s case and others across the nation is troubling because on one hand you have Hollywood movies and cartoon characters that display all sorts of mixed messages about what was once inappropriate behavior but not considered normal.  Movies and television shows which embrace gay parenting and gay relationships as acceptable are becoming the norm.  Even school curriculum subjects are adopting gay parenting in their curriculum not as an option but as a mandatory requirement.

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Of Men, Boys And Single Mothers

Posted by Rev. Paul P Waldmiller on December 14, 2013 at 6:41pm

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Of Men, Boys And Single Mothers

I don't expect this to be my most popular article ever written, but I'll share it anyway. There is an increasing and equally very damaging war occurring in our nation and world right now. The fact is, this particular war has been raging since the days of World War II. No, the Nazi's nor the Imperial Japanese Armies are still active. I am speaking however in regards to the gender war that has been in effect for quite some time now. For those who find themselves completely lost as to what I am referring to here, I am sharing about the war between men and women, “the battle between the sexes.” Much has happened in the early days just around the time of the Second World War between the sexes but sadly, as many of you will probably agree, the greatest casualty in this war as it is in every war, are the children. When it comes to the gender war, a child's viewpoint is sadly the last anyone ever takes time to think about. I hope by the time you completely have read this article, it will have made a profound impact upon your need to to look outside your “self” world-view and you place your heart in right-position with God and His plan for us all, including and especially that of children..

Here in America, there has been a very long and dragged out divide between “the sexes.“ A radical movement for so-called “woman’s rights” that is clearly outside of what the Bible teaches has been engaged in, has been active in every segment and context of American Society for decades. In fact, it is not unusual these days to hear conversations between women on how they “control their men” or how to make false claims of abuse allegations in order to get a divorce with maximum financial benefit and hurting their ex-husband with the most devastating damage to him as possible. On the other side of the coin so to speak, are also men who are very willing to give up their Biblical responsibilities(lazy) so as to cause women to “become equal.” We also see in the USA, many men who simply relinquish their God given responsibilities to teach and interact with their family/children. Many homes in America find men sitting in front of the “boob-tube” watching sports and drinking beer instead of having constructive time with family. These aforementioned variances from God's best and indeed, social experiments, are all ideas far removed from God's plans and probably the largest factors and contributors to the gender war and negative consequences(in children shooting, suicide and other negative behaviours) we see from it in our societies today. So pervasive, engrained in and so devastating(to) are these long held and unbiblical belief systems in our culture, that we have come to accept as a way of escape from our marriage husbands and wives actually killing one another and or causing suicide to take place http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/20309562/paul-brian-edward-connelly-guilty-of-trying-to-kill-young-sons-in-car-fire/. In fact, regarding murder, it was just days ago that a newlywed wife, just plead guilty for pushing her husband over a cliff to his death ttp://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/justice/montana-newlywed-death-trial/. For the one and only positive out of this true and recent story of the wife killing her husband, was that the couple had no children and thus, there was (thankfully) no need to go through a hearing within an all to familiar corrupted Family Court system to determine who would get custody of their children.

The word “divorce”, had at one point in our nation and world was considered a very dirty and shameful word. In fact, “until death do us part” was actually meant until natural death, not when one spouse beat the crap out of the other or hired a hitman to kill their spouse. The very notion and shame of mentioning a divorce in America at least, is long since gone in America. Children have little to no say when parents get a divorce. Couple such ungodly acts of divorce with the sinful issues of acceptance of homosexuals marrying, folks marrying “threesomes”, marrying animals and or even inanimate objects... is it any wonder many children and adult-children days are so confused, screwed up in their thinking and don't know how to act in a relationship ? This is really the major point of the article, many children and adult children here in America and the Industrialized parts of the world have had little to no real and Godly role models in their life. In fact, I can tell you that from the many years of counseling couples and families, it is the current sufferings of the father-daughter and mother-son relationships that are the results of so many plaguing problems in many areas of society today. If the father and or mother is missing and or has little positive interaction with not only their children but also the biological mother/father of their children, their(own)children will be damaged emotionally and most will drift further into chaos, even unto implosion and extinction.

How many of you, your friends, or others you know grew up with a single-mom and with little to no contact with your biological father due to a divorce or break-up ? If you could answer me, you'd probably tell me either “most” or “all.” Growing up in the Industrialized world today without your biological father has become a norm, especially here in America. I know politicians love to point to the “needs of single mothers” to gain votes, but many single-mothers(not all, but most) chose to leave their relationship with the child's father and often, “abuse” was never a factual basis for that separation as many women from Feminist ideologies lay claim(There are real victims of Domestic Violence, both men and women but DV is often used as a claim for a divorce but not proven). The consequence however of growing up without your daddy is as I indicated early on in my article, part of the casualties of the gender war. In fact, the presumption by most of your Government officials is that you, yes...man or woman, you will become married and divorced at least once during your lifetime. There is no doubt that your Government has become so well prepared for you marriage and eventual break-up, that is has passed thousands and thousands of Family Court rules and laws to guide how and what the family will look like when you two(husband and wife) have spent thousands of dollars on attorneys. The Courts you will attend all have ensured that many Government agents and their sponsored agencies can and will control your lives and your children from that point on. As you may already be aware, those “agencies” are highly prioritized over your personal belief systems so as to ensure that they get their piece of the Government tax payer paid financial revenues for their services provided. There is a purposeful Government and many Government sponsored agency's incentive to drive a stake through the heart of your marriage for financial gain. Through the Government courts and services, you quickly learn that your children will be force-indoctrinated and taught that all men are potential rapists or abusers, homosexuality is an accepted lifestyle, religion is bad, the government is good, premarital sex is fine, use a condom, however, if you get pregnant, don't tell your parents, tell the school nurse or a teacher that you can trust so you can get an abortion without informing your parents. Indeed, desire for a divorce puts your children at high risk of death and or dying and you wonder why so many of our children and also adult-children are in the news killing one another either as young children or adult-children.

As I eluded in part in my last paragraph regarding the Government agencies including that of schools to the problem of harming our children, I cannot help but bring up all the Feminist and Liberal garbage that is interlaced and taught throughout many of our public school systems and throughout the USA today. For years, many(not all, but many)school teachers, counselors and their psychiatrists have attempted to emasculate and make boys more like girls their thinking and in their behaviour as well. After failing to diagnose the majority of young school age boys as either with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder so as to make all boys “more docile”, it appears that these Liberal and Feminist demagogues have instead, found their nitch in destroying boys by making it immoral and non politically correct to make hand gestures as guns or that even of bows and arrows http://lastresistance.com/3949/boy-suspended-possession-imaginary-bow-arrow/. It has come to a place in the US, that boys are no longer allowed to be boys in a school's social context. To make matters even more bizarre, Feminists and their Liberal counterparts apparently even suspend boys as young as 6 years old and label them as a “sexual predator” when they kiss a little girls hand in school as well http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/boy-suspended-kissing-girl-hand-21174282. Our schools have become breeding grounds for stupid ideas, leaving the core context of what God has ordained as “right” and “good” as something less than desirable. In fact the vast majority of our schools here in the US teach our kids to hate God, hate Jesus Christ as well as ignore the Bible's positive messages...and folks wonder why we have all these school shootings ? http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/us/colorado-school-shooting/.

Ah, the good ol' days, I miss them, when folks revered Godly principles as well as when boys were boys, girls were girls men were men and women, were women. Those days along with accepting God's providence in our lives are long gone I guess. No one knows how to act anymore, that's for sure. The talking heads on the CNN and the “Catholic Lawyer Channel”(Fox News Channel) keep telling us the “family is broken” while they at the same time, have all those wacko psychologists, so called “journalists”, and others on-air as guests who keep giving us their version of the need for more social experiments as the answer to the broken family dilemma, but we all know that crap doesn't work. Every day, and increasingly so, folks just walk around in chaos and confusion as the families and the world disintegrate and rapidly deteriorate all around them. So many folks today are so blinded by their own hands of wrong doing, they refuse to see the mess they made out of all our children, grandchildren and families. Sadly, they won't look at all that is occurring to them and their children/family is all a result of their own bloody choices in ignoring what God instructs all of us, including that of families, men,women and children alike http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/13/video-prompts-georgia-to-investigate-brawl-in-baby-room-daycare/?intcmp=latestnews.

The world is very sick, twisted, dark and evil. Few living in this world know who God of the Bible is any longer. False and fake christ's and religions rule and reign in ever town and with all of it, more and more willingly lap up all the sick behaviour like a dog to it's vomit. God never designed men and women to go to war against one another. Equally, He did not devise the mess that men and women have made with the way relationships go on most of the time here. No, He intended men and women to get along and made each gender to help support the other. In Marriages(despite the lies that Liberals, Governments, Feminists and Machoists tell you), men have the great responsibility to not only love but take care of and protect their family. Wives, are designed to care for and love their husband and children. Children, were designed primarily to have two parents who are united in flesh and spirit for life. Feminists, lazy men and Liberals don't like those Godly principles. The devil cannot be blamed for most or even in part of this gender war including that of the gross issues of single mothers, broken families and Government's destroying families. Nope, it is the hearts of those who drift from God's perfect plan for all that have directly contributed to the destruction you see all about you, including what horrible things that have happened to our kids.

You have a choice. You've always had that choice. You can quit the “gender war”, quit blaming your “ex”, your family, your friends or others and get back on God's track, that is if you want to rescue your children and grandchildren and what's left of this nation and world. If you are not interested in changing for the better as I have indicated(Biblical God's way only), if you really don't care, you wish to stay self-centered and are apathetic and just don't give a crap--- then, stay the course, but remember this... there are always consequences for your choices, now and forever.

Rev. Paul P. Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor

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Time to "Take Back Our Country America"

Posted by Marcia Wood on December 14, 2013 at 2:25pm

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

 I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Let’s quit talking and become aggressive and active – let’s take back our Country. First we have to do some homework, but the good thing is you can do it in the comfort of your home without NSA snooping.

In ten minutes I located some website that we can all use, but first let’s coordinate and get a great message ready before we start this job.  Who is holding up there hand out there????  We need to locate every Obama website, every Democrat and Republican website and form a list for all tea party members Nation wide.  The worst thing can happen is they remove us from their email list but the comments on facebook and twitter could drive them  crazy if we all started using their sites.

PS> The Fight to take back our Country is just beginning.  Need to contact Rush, Mark, Hannity, Greta, Kelly, even old O’Reilly and get them to work with us by posting our messages alive on National TV

Let’s start with encouraging the Senate not to pass the budget!  We have two days to work on this one if everyone will take time to do it and ask other tea parties to participate.

https://www.healthcare.gov/connect/#twitter    twitter site for ACA

https://www.facebook.com/Healthcare.gov   Facebook Website

https://www.facebook.com/Obamacare     Another Facebook website

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create  CREATE  A PETITION TO THE White House to defund Obamacare -  need som eon e  to create the petition and than we can go on from there…  We can all sign this petition once it’s created.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/engage  at the bottom you will see guide to emails, phone and place for feedback.gov  Very important to start using this daily if possible.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/contact/   go to contact and use Keith Koffler’s snail mail

For those who use Facebook go here and give them a serious nudge.  https://www.facebook.com/OpinionatedDemocrat  

Another Facebook site for Liberal Democrats – go for it.

https://www.facebook.com/libdems

TRY THIS FACEBOOK SITE FOR SIZE ON PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS  https://www.facebook.com/PDAmerica

For those that use Twitter – have at it            https://twitter.com/TheDemocrat

https://twitter.com/SenateDems  Try the Senate Democrats on Twitter (enjoy)

As Always,

Little Tboca

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Newtown Anniversary of Sandy Hook Massacre Guided by a Child’s Focus on Love and Kindness

Posted by Kevin Fobbs on December 14, 2013 at 10:30am

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As the morning chill of December crept across the Newtown, Conn. landscape 26 families had their lives and their town torn apart by gun fire targeted at innocent elementary school children and staff.  The Anniversary of that horrific day when Adam Lanza stalked and murdered 26,  six and seven year old children and adult staff at Sandy Hook Elementary school has left an indelible imprint upon the survivor parents, and family members.

Now a year later the murderous mark of the psychologically deranged young man can still be felt on a town that is still working to heal.  America itself is making that same attempt to again come to grips with how precious little children can have their lives literally torn from them and why this madman did this.

The words are hard to come by as some of the parents gathered on Monday to talk about what the town and the nation could do to help honor the memory of their lost.  The creation of a website called http://mysandyhookfamily.org/  which depicts the photographs as well as some of the memories is but one way they are honoring the victims.  They are also requesting that the focus of the Anniversary should be on acts of kindness is the better legacy that Americans should share, according to Reuters.

One of the parents described her tragic loss to Fox News of her six-year-old son Jesse Lewis.  Looking at a literal shrine of paintings and photographs, Scarlett Lewis said, “He’s missed every day.”

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One Vital Question Needed When Buying A Weapon.....Are You A Liberal?

Posted by Mike Irby` on December 14, 2013 at 7:43am

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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/12/13/Harry-Reid-Those-Trying-To-Stop-Gun-Control-Should-Be-Embarrassed-And-Ashamed-of-Themselves

Liberals are wanting gun control for everyone when they seem to be the biggest violators. And, 30,000 gun deaths each year???? How many were homicides? How many gun homicides were in Democratic controlled urban cities? How many gun homicides occurred in gun control cities like Chicago?

The key facts are (the guardian.com):

• The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people
• But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people
• Puerto Rico tops the world's table for firearms murders as a percentage of all homicides - 94.8%. It's followed by Sierra Leone in Africa and Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean

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Republican support is deteriorating, as we speak.

Posted by Oscar Y. Harward on December 14, 2013 at 1:39am

 

As I communicate with so many Americans across our great nation on a daily basis, Republicans on a local, state, and national basis are saying they ‘will not support’ Republicans in 2014 and/or 2016 on a broad basis.  These all across the region are saying they probably will vote, but not for these spenders; however, they may stay at home.  Many are saying that they are ‘done’ with this spending.

 

Our Capitol Hill Republican leaders and the RNC leadership are joining in with more additional deficit spending of our National debt; many Republicans are separating themselves from any additional support of GOP candidates who continue joining in with this insanity.

 

Many Republicans are going to become disappointed as many voters refuse to support many Republican candidates for re-election.  If you don’t believe it, just wait and watch it happen.

 

As different as it may seem, it appears many Capitol Hill ‘RINO’ Republicans are joining forces in support of the ‘fiscal’ policies of President Obama and Capitol Hill ‘Liberal’ Democrat Party of tax-and-spend.

 

While Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may be suggesting their political decisions are a ‘strategy’, Americans continue to ‘scream’ as TEA Party Conservative Republicans are ‘demanding’ to ‘stop-the-spending’.

 

GOP leaders, your polling numbers and my polling results are with different numbers.

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Obama Attacks Our DOCS

Posted by Marcia Wood on December 13, 2013 at 7:57pm

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Ben Carson: If we don’t stop Obamacare, we’ll end up with a single-payer system.  Dr. Carson goes one step further and compares Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) to slavery saying, “It’s the worst thing since slavery.  Dr. Carson says that Obamacare is just paving the pathway allowing our Government to take over American Healthcare. 

Obama started Obamacare with the idea of attacking Insurers, Physicians, Surgeons and the entire medical field.  His strategy was to place Americans in such a comprising position that they had to depend on the Government. This is happening already as the few that are signing up for the healthcare program find themselves totally dependent on the Government.  

Jane Orient, a physician in Tucson, Ariz., is executive director of American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is profoundly against the Obamacare albatross.  She says,
“"Coercion, central planning, socialism if you will does not work. It kills the incentive to work.”

“It misallocates all of the resources so that everybody is worse off than they would have been if they had just allowed free men and women to make their own decisions," she said. "The remedy is for patients and physicians to decline to participate in the system, go for a true free-market alternative."

She said, “that the federal government could eventually "outlaw private practice, just like they did in Canada." Those are the stakes in the eyes of AAPS.“  Many more physicians are closing their doors and discontinuing their practice due to Obamacare. TPM DC – Dylan Scott,  Dec. 6, 2013

Remember Obama is a strategist and expected many professionals in the medical field to drop out of healthcare – that just puts him one step closer to a Government controlled healthcare system, which goes arm in arm with rationing the next step that is surely coming and or the “Death Panel” that Sarah Palin referred when she discussed the problems with Obamacare.

Here’s some statistics we need to address before Obamacare destroys more jobs, sabotages, our economy, medical field and our seniors or those with pre-existing illnesses. California’s largest medical association found in a recent survey that some 7 out of 10 doctors in California had decided not to participate in the state’s Obamacare exchange.

Many of the top hospitals are rebelling and refusing to participate with the Obamacare exchange. It is estimated that about 70 per cent of the doctors in the USA aren’t going to participate with this Government controlled healthcare program that is being imposed on patients, physicians, clinics and hospitals.

Steven Hayward a Forbes contributor predicts that way before the 2014 elections, Obamacare will be repealed probably from the endangered Democrats. He stated in an article that even if the Obamacare website receives the necessary band aids to fix it temporarily it only delays the inevitable.

It’s obvious that Obama, Democrats and the Liberal News Media know by now that Obamacare is doomed and beyond salvaging. Their strategy is to continue this fiasco – they want to turn our healthcare into a single payer system?  

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In the meantime, Obama and the Democrats are destroying our economy and weakening our Nation. Don’t forget that Obama has a slush fund that allows him to spend whatever he wants as long it’s under the Obamacare guise. This slush fund is good thru 2014 and ends in 2015. 

Ask your Senators to tell you daily how much is being spent on the promotion of Obama care and repair of a faulty website.  I’ll bet there’s not one Republican or Democrat that can give you accurate figures – that should tell you something. 

As Always,

Little Tboca

 

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US Congress - Vote on 2 Yr. Bipartisan Budget Proposal - December 12, 2013

Posted by Oscar Y. Harward on December 13, 2013 at 7:25pm

 

How did your Representative vote? 

 

The ‘highlighted' Republican House Representatives who voted ‘AYES’ on the 2 Year Bipartisan Budget Proposal that included an additional $1Trillion of deficit spending for Fiscal Year 2014. 

 

The ‘highlighted' Democrat House Representatives who voted ‘NOES’ on the 2 Year Bipartisan Budget Proposal that included an additional $1Trillion of deficit spending for Fiscal Year 2014.

  

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 640

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll640.xml


      H J RES 59      RECORDED VOTE      12-Dec-2013      6:25 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Recede and Concur in the Senate Amendment with Amendment
      BILL TITLE: Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes                           2 Yr. Bipartisan Budget Proposal

Ayes

Noes

PRES

NV

Republican

169

62

 

1

Democratic

163

32

 

6

Independent

 

 

 

 

TOTALS

332

94

 

7

 

 

---- AYES    332 ---

 

Aderholt
Amodei
Andrews
 Bachus
Barber
 Barletta
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Beatty
Becerra
 Benishek
Bera (CA)
 Bilirakis
Bishop (NY)
 Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
 Boehner
Bonamici
 Boustany
Brady (PA)
 Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
 Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
 Buchanan
Bucshon
Bustos
Butterfield
 Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
 Carter
Cartwright
 Cassidy
Castor (FL)
 Chaffetz
Clark (MA)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
 Coble
Cohen
 Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Connolly
 Cook
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
 Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
 Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
 Davis, Rodney
DeGette
Delaney
DelBene
 Denham
Dent
Deutch
 Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
 Duffy
Edwards
 Ellmers
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
 Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
 Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
 Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia
 Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson

Green, Al
Green, Gene
 Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Gutiérrez
Hahn
 Hanna
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
 Hastings (WA)
Heck (WA)
 Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Horsford
 Hudson
Huffman
 Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Israel
 Issa
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
 Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
 Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
 Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
 King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
 Kline
Kuster
 LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
 Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
 Latham
Latta
Lewis
Lipinski
 LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
 Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
 Marino
Matheson
Matsui
 McAllister
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
 McHenry
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
 Meehan
Meeks
Meng
 Messer
Mica
Michaud
 Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (FL)
 Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
 Noem
Nolan
 Nunes
Nunnelee
O'Rourke
Owens
 Palazzo
Pascrell

Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
 Perry
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
 Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Polis
 Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
 Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Roybal-Allard
 Royce
Ruiz
 Runyan
Ruppersberger
 Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sarbanes
Schiff
Schneider
 Schock
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
 Scott, Austin
Scott, David
 Sensenbrenner
Serrano
 Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
 Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
 Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
 Southerland
Speier
 Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
 Terry
Thompson (CA)
 Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
 Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
 Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
 Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waxman
Welch
 Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (FL)
 Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
 Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)

 

---- NOES    94 ---

 

Amash
Bachmann
Barton
Bass
Bentivolio
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Broun (GA)
Burgess
Chabot
 Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (NY)
Coffman
 Conyers
Cotton
Crawford
Daines
 DeFazio
DeLauro
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
 Ellison
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
 Fudge
Gardner
Garrett
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert

Gosar
Gowdy
Grijalva
Hall
 Hanabusa
Harris
Heck (NV)
Holding
 Holt
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
King (IA)
Kingston
Labrador
 Lee (CA)
Levin
Long
Lummis
Marchant
Massie
McClintock
 McIntyre
McKinley
Meadows
Mullin
Mulvaney
 Negrete McLeod
Neugebauer
Nugent

Olson
Pallone
Pearce
 Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
 Richmond
Rohrabacher
Salmon
 Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Scalise
 Schakowsky
Schrader
Schweikert
 Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Stockman
 Thompson (MS)
Velázquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watt
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup

 

---- NOT VOTING    7 ---

 

Bishop (GA)
Brown (FL)
Castro (TX)

Davis, Danny
McCarthy (NY)
Radel

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US Congress - Vote on 2 Yr. Bipartisan Budget Proposal - December 12, 2013

Posted by Oscar Y. Harward on December 13, 2013 at 7:25pm

 

How did your Representative vote? 

 

The ‘highlighted' Republican House Representatives who voted ‘AYES’ on the 2 Year Bipartisan Budget Proposal that included an additional $1Trillion of deficit spending for Fiscal Year 2014. 

 

The ‘highlighted' Democrat House Representatives who voted ‘NOES’ on the 2 Year Bipartisan Budget Proposal that included an additional $1Trillion of deficit spending for Fiscal Year 2014.

  

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 640

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll640.xml


      H J RES 59      RECORDED VOTE      12-Dec-2013      6:25 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Recede and Concur in the Senate Amendment with Amendment
      BILL TITLE: Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes                           2 Yr. Bipartisan Budget Proposal

Ayes

Noes

PRES

NV

Republican

169

62

 

1

Democratic

163

32

 

6

Independent

 

 

 

 

TOTALS

332

94

 

7

 

 

---- AYES    332 ---

 

Aderholt
Amodei
Andrews
 Bachus
Barber
 Barletta
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Beatty
Becerra
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Amash
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Wenstrup

 

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Bishop (GA)
Brown (FL)
Castro (TX)

Davis, Danny
McCarthy (NY)
Radel

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