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A typical example of this is Barack Obama and his team of environmental advisors. It is this group which championed the cap and trade legislation that will lead to higher energy prices for all Americans. (Yes… another “tax” that they aren’t calling a tax, but we covered that yesterday.) In a recent statement, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu likened the American people to teenagers who need the proper “adult” supervision when it comes to the environment. In other words, put your faith (and freedom) in government. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for September, 2009
Notes from the West Wing
By State Representative Garey Bies, Sep 24, 2009
Recognizing the importance of the Tourism Industry to Wisconsin’s economy and the challenges faced by Tourism businesses over the past two years due to both a natural disaster and an economic downturn, the Committee is seeking input about the status of the Tourism Industry in Wisconsin and advice about what the state could do to aid the Tourism Industry.
In legislative news, I have a couple of issues I would like to briefly talk about. First, my legislation to require utility companies that operate nuclear power plants to make payments to the communities they are located within if the company stores spent nuclear fuel on the premises in a dry cask storage facility, received a public hearing last week before the Assembly Utilities Committee. I authored and introduced this legislation at the request of the Town of Carlton where the Kewaunee Nuclear Plant is located. The energy company that operates the plant wants to store, for the foreseeable future, spent nuclear fuel on the property, a function that was never anticipated to occur. Read the rest of this entry »
The ‘Government’ is Smarter than You about the Environment
Posted by Bobby Eberle, September 23, 2009 at 7:08 am
We all know the mindset of the left-wing elite… put a few of the “chosen ones” together, and they will decide what is best for the rest of the country. They believe that Americans are idiots and it is up to them to save the country by having the government take over as much as possible.
Why am I a Republican?
Posted by Ron Heuer, September 21, 2009
The other night a few of us had a discussion about why there are so few people actively involved in the Republican Party of Kewaunee County (RPKC). I surmised that many people were totally frustrated with politicians in general and translate that to a valid reason not to get involved.
Personally, I rationalized it this way. I looked at what is going on in this country and said to myself, “I don’t like this, what can I do about it”? Ok, I am truly not a Democrat, they are way too liberal for my taste, and my beliefs are quite opposed to those of the Democratic Party. Could I become an “Independent”? Sure, but that will go nowhere, so why put my time and effort towards that. Read the rest of this entry »
Unreported Changes
Posted by State Representative Kevin Petersen
Last session, I co-sponsored a bill that would have given the appointment authority for the DNR Secretary to the DNR board in lieu of the governor. Also in conjunction with the bill was a complementary bill balancing representation on the DNR Board.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board sets policy for the Department of Natural Resources and exercises authority and responsibility in accordance with governing statutory provisions. Currently, the only requirement for serving on the Natural Resources Board is location. Read the rest of this entry »
GOP’s Steele calls co-ops ‘backdoor’ to public option
Posted by AP STAFF, Associated Press, September 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele says he fears the health insurance cooperatives envisioned in the bill the Senate Finance Committee is promoting amounts to a “back door to a public option.”
Interviewed Thursday on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Steele also said he doubts Republicans will embrace the legislation produced by committee Chairman Max Baucus and the “Gang of Six,” - Baucus, two other Democrats and three Republicans.
Steele said he believes that the “co-ops in this bill represent government control. The government is financing these co-ops. We need to watch this very carefully.” Steele also repeated an earlier assertion in which he disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter that racism has played a role in the at-times bitter opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul plans.
Please Tell Me What ‘Real News’ Is
Posted by Bobby Eberle, September 17, 2009 at 7:26 am
We continue to see a growing disconnect between what is going on in the country and what the media are covering. If we only had the so-called “main stream media,” would we know about the uproar at townhall meetings? Would we know about the tea party protests that draw tens of thousands to a single site? Would we know about all of Barack Obama’s czars or the endless corruption at ACORN? We all know the answers to those questions.
Fortunately, there is more that just “main stream media” to tell the story. Through networks like Fox News, conservative commentators, and organizations like GOPUSA, the “rest of the news” gets covered and explained. What we are seeing more and more is that these types of new media are pushing back against the agenda-driven, left wing press, and they are starting to make a difference. Read the rest of this entry »
ACORN Watch: A ‘Sting’-ing Indictment Of Media Hypocrisy
Posted by Michelle Malkin, September 16, 2009
Undercover journalism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda. That is the message from “professional” reporters and left-wing activists outraged about three successful video stings targeting President Obama’s old friends at the left-wing tax-subsidized outfit ACORN.
Conservative documentarian James O’Keefe and writer Hannah Giles, working for the BigGovernment.com website, posed as a pimp and prostitute during visits to ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn. ACORN housing officials and tax advisers offered them brazen suggestions on how to lie on their applications, disguise their income, obscure their child sex-ring business and hide cash from abusive johns. (”When you buy the house with the backyard, you get a tin,” an ACORN counselor in New York told Giles, “and you bury it down in there, cover it and put the grass over it.”) Read the rest of this entry »
America observes 911
Posted by SUZANNE MA, Associated Press, September 11, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Drawing on the spirit that spurred volunteers to rush to the burning World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans looked for ways to help each other on a day better known for mourning the thousands of people killed in the nation’s worst terrorist attack.
Teresa Mathai, whose husband, Joseph Mathai, died at the World Trade Center eight years ago Friday, planned to grieve at a morning wreath-laying ceremony in Boston and hear his name read out loud. Then she planned to install drywall at a low-income home in south Boston with Habitat for Humanity, one of thousands of volunteer efforts planned since Sept. 11 was declared a national day of service. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Be quiet America, Washington knows best.’
Posted by Bobby Eberle, September 10, 2009 at 7:08 am
Barack Obama went before Congress and the American people (again) on Wednesday night in an effort to push health care reform. He has bet the farm on passage of this legislation, and he can’t understand why the American people aren’t listening.
The problem with Obama is that he is driven by a left-wing ideology which is dead set against America’s capitalist roots. Rather than building an America that is self reliant, he wants to build a new wave of dependency by taking from some and giving to others… knowing that the “others” will then vote for him in the future. The problem is that Americans are seeing the arrogance and ideology at work, and are saying “No!” As Sen. Jim DeMint noted, on the other hand, what Barack Obama is saying is, “Be quiet America, Washington knows best.” Read the rest of this entry »
GOP: Obama still stuck on bad plan
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press, September 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s Republican adversaries remain ready to rumble in the aftermath of his impassioned push to reform America’s health care system.
There were the requisite calls for bipartisanship — public opinion polls show that voters by overwhelming margins want Republicans and Democrats to work in tandem. Read the rest of this entry »