The Daily Kaz

Cantor says reconciliation will lead to Democrats losing Congress

Kaz — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:36:45 +0000

Cantor also slams Pelosi over Rangel!

House Minority Whip, Eric Cantor (Va-7th), says Democrats are in danger of losing power on Capitol Hill should they choose the reconciliation option in passing the President’s revised heath care reform bill.

Speaking on ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday, Rep. Cantor discussed the bipartisan health care summit called by President Obama and held at the Blair House in Washington D.C. and the Senate and House votes needed to pass the legislation.

“I’ll tell you one thing. If Speaker Pelosi rams through this Bill, through the House, using the reconciliation process, they will lose their majority in Congress in November,” Cantor said.

Earlier in the week Republican Whip Cantor released a statement which his office says was offered “in light of Senator Reid’s support for changing the rules in the middle of the game by using reconciliation.”

“By using the reconciliation process, the Administration and Democrat leaders are sending a clear signal that they still refuse to listen to the American people and have no interest in bipartisanship. To be certain, by using the reconciliation process, the Administration makes clear that their promise of bipartisanship is dead.” Cantor said.

Cantor went on to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi…Read more…

Tough battle ahead for Virginia Democrats says Kaine

Kaz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:08:00 +0000

Former Virginia Governor and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Mr. Timothy M. Kaine has admitted Democratic candidates will face a ‘tough’ battle in this year’s mid-term congressional elections. This comes just a week after a stinging attack by a high profile Democratic colleague who said Kaine’s authority was a “detracting sideshow as to feckless party leadership”.

A CCN poll released yesterday shows that 63% of registered voters do not think members of Congress deserve re-election. Not good news for incumbents. Kaine said this is a sign of economic anxiety and that “of course folks are going to be mad and there’s a lot of volatility in the electorate”. This is in line with the Obama administration’s reasoning as to strong disapproval ratings throughout the nation just over a year after the Presidential election.

When asked by former Republican congressman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough how he would protect the four Members of the House of Representatives who could….CONTINUE

$65,000 for a slice of Palin Pie

Kaz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:33:12 +0000

A woman from Alabama paid over $65,000 for Dinner with Sarah Palin Read more…

Washington DC Tea Party 2009

Kaz — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:52:34 +0000

It was more than tens of thousands yesterday in Washington D.C. for the 9/12 Project Tea Party march and rally.

Joe from Milwaukee Wisconsin, Sarah from Grand Rapids Michigan, John from Austin Texas, Jan and Michael from Syracuse New York State, the McCafferty family from Palm Beach Florida and hundreds of thousands of people from all over America had one thing in common on Saturday 9/12; they came to their nation’s capital to peacefully protest the direction the nation is taking.

People gathered in Freedom Plaza near the White House to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol grounds. The march had been originally been scheduled to start around 11 am but got under way hours early due to the sheer number of people flooding out …Read more…

Six Figure Sarah? You Betcha!

Kaz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:06 +0000

Former Alaskan Governor and last year’s Republican candidate for Vice President,Sarah Palin, is not slipping quietly away as some would have hoped.
This week Palin will consider accepting and rejecting well over the 1,000 invitations she has received for speeches and political appearances both paid and unpaid since she left office in July this year. In fact it was reported in the Atlantic this morning; Palin will be traveling to Hong Kong for her first paid speaking engagement in late September.
More than twenty speakers’ bureaux have been reported as making offers to represent her but the former Governor has decided to sign with the Washington Speakers Bureau which has clients such as former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani who is on course to be the next Governor of New York, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Colin Powell, former British PM Tony Blair, formers Secretaries of State Condi Rice and Madeline Albright and high profile journalists Katie Couric and Bob Woodward to name but a few. The irony being represented by the same firm as Couric should not be lost given the Couric/Palin interview is still being dissected – not one of Palin’s greater moments during the Presidential campaign.
Palin has received more than 950 requests to speak with the paid ones expected to go for six figures a piece. Unpaid speeches will be for various political and charitable causes, including military families, Christian organizations and support groups for families with special needs children. She is uniquely qualified to speak on these matters given her familial circumstances with a young son serving in the military and her youngest born with Down syndrome in just the past year or so. She has strong and firm Christian beliefs which went a long way to solidifying the political and cultural base of the GOP during her candidacy last year. Read more…

Happy Birthday Mr President (wherever you were born)

Kaz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:23:35 +0000

Happy Birthday Mr. President.

Tomorrow, August 4, is President Barack Obama’s birthday.

Last week, the House of Representatives voting 378 to zero passed a measure marking August 21 2009 as the 50^th anniversary of Hawaii’s statehood. Rightly so.

The Bill also noted Barack Hussein Obama’s birth in Hawaii on August 4 1961 and a “yes” vote backed HR 593 which even actually drew support from Republicans who question the President’s citizenship.

This past week we have witnessed a phenomenon; that is The Birthers.

Given that tomorrow is the President’s birthday should we be questioning his constitutional right to be president as eligible under Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution to hold the office of President of the United States?

The President, who is well known for voting “present.” That’s not a ‘yes’ and it’s not a ‘no’. It’s a maybe; it’s non committal. Hillary brought this up in the debates but that’s ancient history.

So what to get the President who votes ‘present’ for his birthday present?

Are YOU stupid? The Left think you are…

Kaz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:51 +0000

Are YOU stupid?

‘Stupid’ seems to be the word of the week.

First, President Barack Obama during a prime time press conference, called the Cambridge (Mass.) Police force of “acting stupidly” in the arrest of esteemed Harvard professor Gates. (Glad the BeerFest sorted that out but I wonder how many Buds Biden had AND he wasn’t invited).

Then, we have comedian and talk show host Bill Maher calling Americans “stupid.”

Are these the same “stupid Americans” who voted for Barack Obama?

When asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether former Governor Sarah Palin had a future nationally as a presidential candidate Bill Maher responded “I don’t know about a presidential candidate but I would never put anything past this stupid country.

Blizter went on to ask “people are already complaining that you are calling the United States a stupid country and I’m giving you a chance to clarify that.”

Maher: “I don’t need to clarify; it is”.

TEA for over 2000 at Liberty 101: Richmond TEA Party

Kaz — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:36:19 +0000

Chesterfield County Fairground was the site for one of the growing numbers of ‘tea parties’ springing up across the nation.

Touted by organizers as a Festival of Freedom and Liberty, the event was hosted by WRVA’s own the affable Doc Thompson who told the assembled throng how his political views were formulated after reading Ayn Rand’s tome ‘Atlas Shrugged’ whilst in his twenties. Thompson then went on to introduce over ten speakers including renowned American author and essayist Edward Cline who spoke about the original Boston tea party and the currents and their parallels and differences.

Next up was Tito the Builder who rose to fame during last year’s presidential election. The Columbian immigrant told the crowd that the proudest day in his life was the day he… Read the rest of the article here.

Love Ya Joe

Kaz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:01:27 +0000

THE GREAT GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY?

You gotta love Vice President Joe Biden.

The former Senator from Delaware cannot quite work out who the governor of New Jersey is. Good ole Joe, well known for his gaffes (if you type in Biden gaffes into Google your computer is liable to explode) thinks the Chairman of his own Democratic National Committee, one Timothy Kaine from the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the Governor of New Jersey. Nope, he’s the Governor of Virginia and was a front runner for your job Joe.

Odd, given his State is kind of in the vicinity of both New Jersey and Virginia. Guess both the current President and Vice President didn’t pass geography class or happen to have a map handy (Obama claimed during the campaign he visited the 57 States of America with two left to go -oddly Hawaii where he claims to have been born and Alaska. Apparently his staff wouldn’t let him which is kind of weird when you are running for President and thereby Commander in Chief).

Biden introduced Kaine as “the great Governor of New Jersey” this past weekend at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. My first thought was that the teleprompter was AWOL. No, he was using one. Great staff work Joe but surely you should know despite a teleprompter malfunction that former Senator Corzine (a colleague of yours), and one of the biggest donors in Democratic history is the Governor of the great garden State of New Jersey.

It was not a total loss for the Democrats however. Chairman and part-time Virginia Governor Tim Kaine helped the DNC raise $1 million at the 10^th Annual LGBT Council Fundraiser. Good for them, they are going to need it.

Imagine if Governor Palin had made such a statement “ I can see Virginia from New Jersey” would be all over the news but Biden’s teleprompter misstatement has been largely ignored, of course except for bloggers and other non-mainstream media.

I love Joe Biden. He’s free entertainment. You’ve just got to look at his ‘performances’ on YouTube drunk as all hell. My personal favorite is him singing about The Villages down in Florida which I have had the good fortune to stay several times. Perhaps you have seen the ads on FNC…

Here’s Joe…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ

Yup, there’s our VP – a heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World.

The one good and ironic thing is that New Jersey and Virginia are the only two States in the Union to have Gubernatorial elections this coming November. One hopes that Joe will be out there campaigning for Kaine in New Jersey and Corzine in Virginia.

God Bless you Joe and keep up the good work.

A Broad Church?

Kaz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:04:51 +0000

Another new face in the Republican Party to watch out for. (And vote for).

Ernesto Sampson.

Remember that name. He’s going places and the first stop will be the Virginia House of Delegates as the next representative for the 69^th District this Novemeber.

I’m tired of the left wing media calling the GOP an organization of old white men. It is not. The Party is diverse and increasingly so. Heck to coin her trademark phrase we even had a woman run for Vice President. Just the wrong sort of woman apparently; not liberal enough for those folks.

At convention, Virginian Republicans had the pleasure of hearing one Adnan Barqawi speak towards the end to a hushed crowd. Kuwaiti born, he became a citizen of the US just this past April. Another guy out of the mold going places and ignored by mainstream media.

Which brings us to Ernesto. He grew up in a single parent family and served the nation in the United States Army and is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

According to Ernesto, his mother taught him the values of hard work, perseverance and integrity. Well, it certainly paid off. He also believes in education and is the product of public schools in Suffolk. Schools and jobs are his priorities and rightly so.

Ernesto‘s accomplishments and associations are too numerous to mention but suffice to say he has made his mark far and wide.

I had the good fortune to first meet him at his kick-off event two months ago. Didn‘t know anything about him and frankly just went to help a fellow Republican and it was only two blocks from my house. It was a Saturday morning and I expected about ten people. Couldn’t have been more wrong. The venue was packed and there were some pretty important people there. Ernesto spoke, initially rather nervously, but swung into his stride in less than a minute and blew the room away. People were looking at each going ‘who is this guy?’. “Wow!”.

Ran into him again last night and can safely say this is a young man to watch. I would not be surprised if we see Ernesto Sampson in the Governor’s Mansion. With his commitment to education, his decency and a lovely, strong wife by his side he would make an outstanding Gubernatorial candidate. If this sounds like a campaign ad, perhaps it is. It’s not often people impress me as I am that cynical but Ernesto is someone worth knocking on doors for and anyone who knows me knows I just don’t do that.