So, now that James O'Keefe has been arrested for entering a Federal Building for the purposes of committing a felony (which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years and a quarter million dollar fine) the Dog has a question for Rep. Doug Lamborn.
Rep. Lamborn, are you ready to repudiate your co-sponsorship of a Congressional Resolution praising Mr. O'Keefe?
Some would call them Terrorist Appeasers and complain they were dithering, but us being Democrats, we'll probably wait and let Republicans get the upper hand on national security again.
Lamborn also repeated the "death panels" phrase coined by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who falsely characterized the bill's coverage of end-of-life care consultations as deciding who will live and who will die.
Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible.It is a lie, plain and simple.
Now if the Gazette will confront Doug on his hideous language, I might take back everything I said about them..........
These separate PDF's contain an analysis of the improvements in health care coverage and how the lives of the citizens in each of Colorado's congressional districts will be improved by the pending House health care bill:
And if you're congresscritter still doesn't get it, make sure they see these one way or the other. How John Salazar's district will look below the fold:
From the Colorado's Island of Insanity CD-05, Doug Lamborn in typical Republican form, both degrades women and children and then claims to be helping them by taking money from services which benefit them.
You may ask yourself how does one accomplish such a small-minded feat??
Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) today offered an amendment (included in the Republican Motion to Recommit) to the Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations Act for 2010, HR 3293, to eliminate $541 million from the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
If you wanna cut funds to children's broadcasting, I suggest you watch this:
...and if you didn't cry, it's because you're dead inside and you should resign from whatever it is you do and go work at animal shelter or something.
Lamborn then continued on to beat the drum of hypocrasy by co-sponsoring an amendment to cut funding to Planned Parenthood who, he seems to believe, has magical powers of chicanerous influence on the lives of the millions of people they serve:
"We cannot seriously talk about wanting to reduce the number of abortions in this country and then in the very same breath give tax payer money to abortionists. I believe life begins at conception and I cannot, in good conscience, support a bill of this nature that squanders taxpayer money to destroy the lives of women and their children." - Doug Lamborn (CO-05)
Since when does taking the liberty to make a choice destroy someone's life? Doug Lamborn, I get the message that you don't think women can think for themselves and that you think Planned Parenthood has the power to force millions women into doing things they wouldn't do if they have a smart man like yourself to show them the way and the light. Doug Lamborn: you are deluded.
Cheers to every legislator that voted against this guy.
Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership's plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) circulated the letter, saying that the income surtax on the wealthy would place an undue burden on small businesses, some of which pay taxes in the same way as an individual. The letter had 22 signers, all freshmen except for Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.), who is in his second term.
Not that it's a surprise, but Rep Lamborn peddled the same crap in his weekend op ed in the Gazette. He sure got his erroneous talking points down just like Coffman on ACORN and the timing of the spending. He also takes pot shots at tiny portions of the package.
Weatherization for houses, for example, was increased from $300 million in committee 31 times and ended up at $6.2 billion. How do billions of dollars for weatherization create good paying jobs? I attempted to strike this provision and transfer the entire $6.2 billion to defense acquisition projects that are ready to go, such as air transport, fighter and Humvee production lines. Because this did not pass, the package now has almost nothing for the military and our nation's defense.
Yes, just how could weatherization create jobs? I can't image the companies that make those products would benefit. I can't image the contractors who install such products would benefit. Coming from the guy who's complaining about pork, you'd think he'd do a better job trying to pander to his district. While there is a huge military population in the 5th district, it's not like any of that military hardware is actually manufactured in district.
Other egregious examples include $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $335 million for sexually transmitted disease prevention, $200 million for spiffing up the National Mall, including sod, $650 million for digital TV coupons, $44 million for repairs to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters, $1.1 billion for Amtrak, $300 million for the AmeriCorps "volunteer" program, and $400 million for NASA to research climate change.
Whipping out my trusty calculator, the NEA amount comes to .006 percent of the total $819 Billion package. The others listed are as follows:
.041%
.024%
.08%
.005%
.13%
.036%
.049%
But, then he get's to an actual significant portion of the package.
About 30 percent of the bill, or $229 billion, is for Medicaid and education funding for the states, especially the most mismanaged states. This is a roundabout way of evading states' constitutional balanced budget limits at the expense of all Americans.
Yeah, that argument makes sense. I guess to Lamborn, the $4.1 Billion Colorado already gets from the federal government is against the state constitution too. He's not even accurate. Ritter's budget proposal cuts $1 Billion to balance the budget. No one is counting any EXTRA federal money before it shows up.
And, I just love how republicans are suddenly the fiscal hawks again. I don't recall him having any problem with spending for the Iraq war, which by every estimate is going to exceed the stimulus package.
Colorado Veterans Alliance, the state's largest post-9/11 veterans and military group today announced its support for Governor Ritter's suggestion to house the Guantanamo detainees at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, CO.
This is good for our troops and veterans in two ways.
First, it helps get rid of the largest motivation that draws foreign fighters and extremists to Iraq where they kill our troops, surely among them some of the 192 Fort Carson soldiers killed in Iraq and second, if the Supermax is the chosen site, federal money and jobs will flow to Florence Colorado, which is home to a high concentration of veterans who could work at the federal prison.
Every day Congressman Lamborn obstructs this process he is contributing to increased danger towards American troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Update 3: The stock market is only down 2.2% in the last 10 days. On Sept 18 it was at 10,609. Today it was 10,369. Bear markets are irradict. This one made even worse by not knowing what the gov't is gonna do multiplied exponentially by the fact that no one has any clue how much their paper is worth.
I'm not denying we have a problem. I just don't want something stupid to get pushed through. This is disaster capitalism at work.
by Aaron SilversteinUPDATE: A statement from Udall is in the comments.
(Washington, DC) - Today, Congressman Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which would have authorized the Treasury Department to spend up to $700 billion dollars of tax funds to buy "troubled assets" held by financial companies. The House of Representatives rejected the bill with 205 Members voting for it and 228 voting against it.
The developers of the Crystal Lake subdivision wanted a bit more of the land around the beautiful site, so they built 7 acres of their project on Federal forest lands. Musgrave's solution? Introduce a bill that redraws the protected forest and gives them the land for free.
With Lamborn as a co-sponsor, Musgrave's HR-3299 is on the floor today.
Apparently, with everything else in her district taken care of, Musgrave feels the most important business she has is slowly chipping away at National lands.
(b) Conveyance of Land Removed From National Forest- The Secretary of Agriculture shall use the authority provided by Public Law 97-465 (commonly known as the Small Tracts Act; 16 U.S.C. 521c-521i) to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt National Forest under subsection (a) to the landowners whose real property adjoins the excluded land and who, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, occupy the excluded land.
The House overwhelmingly voted (409 - 4) to renew a ban on funding an expansion of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.
The final bill, that will now be sent to the Senate, did not include an amendment that had been proposed and withdrawn by Rep. Doug Lamborn which would allow the Army to buy from "willing sellers."
Mack Louden of the group "Not 1 More Acre" was concerned that millitary officials would move forward with the expansion despite the ban on funding and issued a statement saying:
"The environmental consequences for this fragile ecosystem and the rare wildlife it supports would be catastrophic. Ranchers whose relationships with the native grasslands go back many generations would lose their lands and their livelihoods. The region's family ranching- and agriculture-based economy and the communities that depend upon it would be devastated. And a vast trove of historical, archaeological and paleontological treasures would be lost."
The House has just passed the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill Suspension and Consumer Protection Act, H.R. 6022 by a vote of 385-25. The measure suspends the fill of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the end of the year, as long as the price of crude oil remains above $75 per barrel. Last week, President Bush said he doesn’t “think it would affect price,” but in 2006, as he was about to stop the addition of 1.7 million barrels of royalty-in-kind (RIK) oil to the SPR to combat rising gas prices, President Bush said, “One way to ease price is to increase supply…. I’ve directed the Department of Energy to defer filling the reserve this summer. … So by deferring deposits until the fall, we’ll leave a little more oil on the market.” [President Bush at the Renewable Fuels Association, 4/25/06]
Doug doesn't know oil from a hole in the ground, and maybe Allard is showing that great independent streak the Post predicted, but I bet they'd say "let the free market work." Only problem is there is no free market when it comes to oil in this country. Big Oil Bob Schaffer made sure of that.
And Doug Lamborn and Wayne Allard will be on Exxon/Mobil's Christmas card list this winter as another record profit is posted and the "free market" has consumers paying ever-high prices for gas.
She hasn't co-sponsored the 2008 GI Bill that's been developed by Senator Jim Webb. Even the new and improved Marilyn Musgrave felt the need to co-sponsor the House version. What gives, Diana?
Total cuts for Colorado proposed by the Bush Administration and agreed to by only 62 legislators, including our two warm-hearted Christians Marilyn Musgrave and Doug Lamborn: $787 Million over five years.
Even conservative voters in these districts must wonder what happened to Doug and Marilyn as children....
This is still a tough district with many layers of voter ignorance to overcome. We have a historic slate of Dem candidates for almost all our local offices, the Barack Obama coattails, the convention, and many other factors that are pushing up Democratic participation. Will they outweigh Republican inertia?
Hal Bidlack also has great credentials: a PhD. in Political Science, he performs as Alexander Hamilton (something Republicans should love), and had a full career in the Air Force including duties as an ICBM launch officer (something else Republicans will love) - retiring as a Lt. Colonel. Of course 'round here those kind of creds aren't a guarantee. But they should be a factor.
Here's the official announcement - if anyone feels the urge to help, don't hesitate:
Jay Fawcett laid some serious groundwork for Democrats in the last elections for CD-5. He's in the DKosopedia, dammit! And even though Doug Lamborn won, he's proving to be as incompetent and inconsequential as we all predicted. His time in congress seems short.
Hardly a week goes by without a scathing letter to the Gazette editors about Dougie Boy's cluelessness. Here's another from last week's Indy:
I absolutely cannot understand why our congressman, Doug Lamborn, has chosen to spurn the flood of calls and letters from local individuals and groups regarding Browns Canyon. Literally thousands of messages have been sent to his attention on this subject. Sent and ignored, sent and not even acknowledged.
...snip...
Colorado's 5th District voters deserve better from their representative.
And on they go, week after week.
So we all know that Doug is going to be challenged again by Jeff Crank and The Air Force General who wants to Christianize Iraq - Bent Rayburn. (That should make John McCain's 100 year plan for Iraq fully functional.)
And now we know there's another AF Colonel who's ready to run on the Democratic side - Hal Bidlack. Here's some of Hal's story:
Wow, I don't know if there's a coordinated campaign or the Gazette is coming back from the precipice since Sean Paige left Op-Ed, but both Dougs (Lamborn and Bruce) are taking it on the chin in letters this week.
First up, Doug Bruce, who is striking fear into the hearts of his compatriots for what he'll do if he makes it to State:
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