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"Budget spends Too Much, Taxes Too Much, Borrows Too Much"

The Republicans in Congress -- most of them anyway -- seem to singing off the same song-sheet regarding Barack Obama's beyond-this-world gargantuan 3.6 trillion dollar budget for next year. Their theme in describing Obama's budget, which Nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reid's left-wing Congress is expected to endorse (or even increase) is: "It spends too much; it taxes too much and it borrows too much."

Now if the Republican Party wants to duplicate its success when two other Democrat presidents governed from the left -- Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 and Bill Clinton in 1993 -- and the Republicans act like the small-government, low-taxing party it is supposed to be, it might have a chance to even take over one of the chambers of Congress next year (not the Senate of course.)

After Johnson and Clinton introduced extreme left-wing policies in the year following their elections, the American people were appalled and the Republicans gained huge numbers in Congress. Indeed, in 1994, the Republicans actually took over control of the House and the Senate. Even some Democrats in Congress from conservative states are blowing the whistle on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid budget, but will they be trampled all over by San Francisco Democrat Pelosi's legions of left-wingers.

Regarding the Obama budget spending too much, Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas says: "Unfortunately, the President's budget fails to fully address how we control spending while pursuing critical priorities, such as health care reform."

Obama's prevarications

Barack Obama made hundreds of promises during his presidential campaign including some really major ones. Many have said that he prevaricated on some of the major ones. The following are but a few of these "broken promises."

Obama ran as a centrist-liberal presidential candidate (emphasizing that 95% of Americans would get tax cuts, etc..)

Reality: Obama is governing as a left-wing (some say socialist) radical president. In less than 50 days, he and his Democrat Congress have spent an incredible $1.2 trillion in pork-filled spending. It will cost Americans $24 billion a day. And he recently proposed a whopping $3.6 trillion budget on top of that. Obama will incur -- while he is in office -- more debt than that incurred by all former presidents put together; from President George Washington to President George W Bush.

Obama said in his campaign that he would establish a post-partisan presidency. He said Americans are tired of partisan politics.

Reality: Obama has established one of the most partisan presidencies in American history. His partisan chief of staff goes on Sunday talk shows and blasts Republicans for listening to Rush Limbaugh. His equally partisan press secretary likewise bashes critics of Obama at CNBC.

Obama said in his campaign that he would oppose earmarks or what is commonly known as pork projects in spending bills coming out of Congress.

Hawaii Christian Coalition state chairman fighting for traditional marriage in Hawaii

Hawaii is embroiled in a heated debate regarding HB444; a bill designed to give Gays and Lesbians the same rights as Hetorosexual couples.

The Hawaii Christian Coalition believes this bill is a stepping stone to legalizing same sex marriage and same sex education in our school system. This bill easily passed through the House Judiciary Committee as it was sponsored by Gay Legislator Blake Oshiro and the public had only 2 days of notice before the hearing.

Outrage has filled the Christian community as well as the general populace who voted overwhelmingly by 70 to 30 % to deny same sex marrige in Hawaii. A rally in opposition to House Bill 444 was organized on a sunday at our State Capitol and 8,000 signatures were gathered in opposition with a crowd of 10,000 to 12,000 in attendance.

The opposition called for a rally in support the next day with approximately 50 in attendance. When the bill reached the Senate Judiciary a few days later the committee deadlocked 3-3.With the bill seemingly stalled in committee, the State Senate President,Colleen Hanabusa with the approval of House Judiciary Chair,Brian Taniguchi is threatening to pull it out of committee.

Total arrogance and indifference to public opposition and complete disregard for our Legislative process have these legislators elected by the people.

The Hawaii Christian Coalition is calling upon the general public to make your voices heard by calling or emailing your elected officials in your district.

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FOCA coming "sooner, rather than later" Democrat says

“Sooner, rather than later.”  That’s when a leading Democrat in Congress says they will introduce the radical pro-abortion “Freedom of Choice Act” – a bill which would overturn all current state and federal restrictions on abortion.  No more waiting periods.  No more parental consent.  No more ban on partial-birth abortions.

When President Obama was campaigning for President, he let it be known in no uncertain terms what his position was on abortion.  Within minutes of taking the Oath of Office, the official White House website was changed to add language supporting pro-abortion policies.  Obama has appointed numerous liberals from pro-abortion organizations like Emily’s List and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) to critical positions in the government.

Senators Alexander, Bond, Cochran, Murkowski, Shelby & Wicker Doom GOP to indefinite minority

When Senators Richard Shelby from arch-conservative Alabama and Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran from ultra-conservative Mississippi and Lamar Alexander from Tennessee and Kit Bond from Missouri and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska voted yesterday with almost all the left-wing Democrat Senators against Senator John McCain's amendment -- which would have held spending in Obama's FY09 Omnibus appropriations bill at last year's level -- these 6 Republicans doomed the Republican Party (the "Stupid Party" in common parlance) to indefinite minority.

Three of these Senators are from the very deep south states of Mississippi and Alabama! Only 32 Senators voted for the McCain amendment including 4 Democrats: Senators Evan Bayh (Indiana), Russ Feingold (Wisconsin), Claire McCaskill (Missouri) and surprisingly, Maria Cantwell (Washington);

Senators Alexander, Bond, Cochran, Murkowski, Shelby, and Wicker are 6 very key reasons why the Senate will remain in Democrat hands for years and years to come. Thad Cochran, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee responsible for appropriating tens of thousands of pork projects and countless billions of dollars, has to be one of the biggest pork-spending Republican Senators in the history of the Republican Party. Senators Richard Shelby, Kit Bond, Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski are also on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Talk about conflict of interest!

Obama's life-killing decision on stem cells not unifying

With the stroke of his pen this afternoon Barack Obama made his most devisive move since he became president as he signed an executive order allowing taxpayer funding for the immoral destruction of human embryonic stem cells. All during his 2-year presidential campaign, he promised that he would end the devisiveness in America. Yet, he is forcing American taxpayers in decision after decision since he became president in January to fund procedures which Americans believe are morally repulsive.

This afternoon, Obama issued an executive order, overturning President George W. Bush's policy of not funding human embryonic stem cell destruction research with taxpayers' dollars. Ironically, after spending billions of dollars -- including some $3 billion in California alone -- on this unethical research, there have been no successes in human embryonic stem cell research. Only adult stem cell research and other forms of non-embyronic stem cell research have yielded results in curing diseases.

The House Republican Whip, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor said following Obama's pandering to the radical pro-abortion fringe groups supporting the Democrat Party: “The President’s action today is not about whether or not to permit stem cell research, or even embryonic stem cell research in America. We already do each of those things. Today’s action is about forcing taxpayers to fund ethically troublesome – and unproven – research that destroys life."

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Barack Obama: most radical pro-abortion president in history

Opponents of Barack Obama during the presidential campaign warned the independents and other fence sitters that the administration of Obama would be the most radical in history, not only in the realm of economics, but possibly in the foreign policy area, and most definitely in the realm of social issues policy.

Barack Obama has fulfilled those predictions in the space of the first few weeks of his administration and has already become the most radical pro-abortion president in American history. The latest evidence of this occurred today when an amendment to the pork-filled nearly half trillion FY09 Omnibus bill -- which Obama promised to sign with close to 9,000 pork projects and which would protect the pro-life Kemp-Kasten Amendment, in place since 1985 -- failed in the Senate by a vote of 39-55.

Diversity as the "new" Fairness Doctrine?

It's become quite clear now what Obama and the Democrat's strategy was (and is) on the Fairness Doctrine - turn down the volume and deny that's what you really want, while you work to repackage it under a new name.

The "New" Fairness Doctrine?

So what name will the new version of "fairness" operate under?  Diversity.  Or "diversity of ownership", if you prefer.

Just last week, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by SC Senator Jim DeMint that would prohibit the FCC from reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine, while at the same time approving an amendment by IL Democrat Dick Durbin that would instruct the FCC to promote policies that foster more "minority ownership" in broadcasting.  (Of course the House hasn't weighed in on this yet)

Former Senator Rick Santorum speaks out on former GOP leadership

Former Pennsylvania US Senator Rick Santorum spoke out this past weekend about the failures of past Republican leadership.  Specifically, how they had failed conservatism, which then resulted in political defeat.

Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC, Santorum said that the losses at the ballot box came because the leadership lost sight of, or were unwilling to implement conservative principles.  He went on to say that it was “conservatives who failed conservatism and that failed America.” 

In regards to the current financial situation and recurring bailouts:

Santorum says he tried to convince his friends in the Bush White House that using billions in taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street banks in hopes of saving the credit markets was the wrong thing to do, but they did not listen to him and instead “opened up a door that the next president is driving a bulldozer through.”

And the next several generations of Americans will be paying for it.

The onset of Obama's socialized paradise, Part Three

Virtually every week since Barack Obama was sworn into office, the Obama stock market has crashed. It is now at an astounding 6,800 or so points (the Dow Jones Industrial Average [DJIA]), about 45% of what it was during President George W. Bush's presidency, specifically in the year 2007 (the DJIA went to around 14,300 points.) In fact, Obama's stock market crash is THE worst crash of any new president in about 100 years.

And is it any wonder with Obama proposing more spending than the spending of EVERY president from President George Washington to President George W, put together. Following the failed policies of Franklin Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter, Obama is increasing taxes by some $150 billion in 2011 alone. By 2018, according to the Joint Tax Committee, Obama's tax increases will amount to the largest in American history, some 2 trillion, with a t, dollars.

Obama's top 19 most popular programs which have been increased by Obama and his Pelosi/Reid Democrats in Congress, including almost all of the 45 or so so-called "Blue Dog" Democrats (supposedly moderate Democrats,) will cost American taxpayers a whopping 1.5 trillion (again with a "t") dollars according to the Republicans on the House Budget Committee.

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