According to this article Harry Reid has been pressuring NV Energy to purchase more green energy over the years in spite of the fact the company has already exceeded its green energy quota.
While George W Bush was president Harry Reid stopped a plan to build coal powered plants in Nevada because he said NV Energy didn’t do enough in the field of renewable energy:
Reid blocked plans to build coal-fired power plants in Nevada. He said in April on the “Nevada Newsmakers” show, “I don’t think NV Energy has done enough to allow renewable energy to thrive.”
This was an apparent attempt at forcing NV Energy to purchase green energy by limiting the company’s options. (More on that later) As I alluded to above, NV Energy had already surpassed its green energy quota and it appears as if the company has a legitimate reason for not wanting to provide more green energy–it is simply too expensive and the added costs would be passed on to the consumers. Read more…
Harry Reid refuses to back down from his claim that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years
Earlier this week Harry Reid made a claim, based on no evidence and with only some anonymous source, that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years. He was asked if he wanted to walk back this baseless claim and not only did he refuse to do so, he actually doubled down on the accusation.
I am not basing this on some figment of my imagination,” Reid said in a telephone call with Nevada reporters. “I have had a number of people tell me that”
When asked to reveal these phantom whistleblowers Harry Reid refused to do so and then he said something that I found most interesting:
“I don’t think the burden should be on me,” Reid said. “The burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid any taxes. Why didn’t he release his tax returns?”
Harry Reid believes that just because he accused somebody of doing–or in this case, not doing–something, without any proof, that is now up to the accused to prove what he said is false, if he does not answer the question it must be an admission of guilt. Yet Harry Reid doesn’t believe he needs to offer any proof to back up what he is saying, in fact he seemed a little indignant that he would be asked to prove what he is claiming is the truth. What I said in my previous post on this issue is true, in today’s political world a person is guilty until proven innocent and not the other way around as it is supposed to be.
Gunrunner: ATF official resigns after being named in Darrell Issa’s Congressional report on Fast and Furious
Earlier this week Darrell Issa released his Congressional report which named five people who were responsible for the Fast and Furious debacle and today we learned that an ATF official named in that report, William Hoover, has resigned. The remaining four should follow his lead and resign as well. When that happens it will be a good start, but it should only be the beginning.
When Barack Obama declared executive privilege and sealed the documents Darrell Issa has been requesting for over a year –which most likely indict Eric Holder and possibly Barack Obama–for all intents and purposes the path to Eric Holder was blocked for good. However, now that five officials have been named there is still a glimmer of hope because as these rats desert the ship maybe one of them will decide it is time to protect himself so the possibility remains that one of them will not be willing to take the fall for Eric Holder.
At this point our only hope is that one of these lawless individuals, either guided by conscience or a desire to protect himself, will flip on Eric Holder and tell Darrell Issa what is contained in those documents. It is now time for Darrell Issa to threaten these five individuals with civil lawsuits if they do not cooperate and I hope that just one of them will do the right thing and partially right a grievous wrong, anything less will be a miscarriage of justice.
The Obama campaign sues to stifle the military vote in Ohio
According to this article Barack Obama’s campaign is trying to sue the state of Ohio in order to stifle the military vote in that state. Ohio law allows residents to vote early up until the Friday before an election, but military personnel are allowed to vote early for an additional three days before an election. The Obama for America Campaign, the DNC, and the Ohio Democratic Party feel these extra three days are “arbitrary” and have “no discernible rational basis,” so they are suing to take these three additional days away from the military voters.
The National Defense Committee is not happy:
[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote.
Over the last three years it has been reported that the reason why many military people are not able to vote is because some of them simply do not have enough time, so it would seem that these additional three days do have a “discernible rational basis” and it is not an “arbitrary” law at all. Having seen this report Barack Obama’s reelection campaign decided to act by giving Ohio’s military people even less time to vote.
That should tell us something, after all Ohio is a swing state this year and the last poll of military personnel showed Romney leading Obama nationally by a margin of 58% to 34%. It seems to me that Barack Obama has a vested interest in stopping as many military personnel from voting as possible in a state as vital as Ohio, what other reason could the Obama campaign have for making this move? He will stop at nothing to win relection.
Barack Obama promised he would run the most open and transparent administration in history, and he has repeatedly made the claim that he has put in place the toughest transparency rules in history. There is only one problem with that claim; he forgets to mention that he has found a way around the laws he has created regarding transparency by holding secret meetings off White House grounds.
Here is the latest RNC ad:
Under the FAA Reauthorization Act the United States government has authorized the use of 30,000 drones to start flying over all major cities, spying on the American people, by the year 2020. Representative Ted Poe rightfully sees this as a violation of the fourth amendment and warns us that the drones are coming in this letter:
But whether we like it or not, the drones are coming.
Who will operate these drones, and what will be their mission? Could it be a suspicious government agent who thinks someone looks kind of funny? The EPA bureaucrat who wants to snoop on somebody’s farm and watch Bessie the cow graze in the pasture? Or a nosy neighbor who wants to make sure someone’s shutters are pretty and the flowers don’t violate the homeowners’ association rules? This is the kind of world that Americans could face as we enter this uncharted and unprecedented world of drone technology. Just because Big Brother can look into someone’s back yard with a drone doesn’t mean they should. That’s why we have the Fourth Amendment. Congress has the legal obligation to ensure that the Fourth Amendment rights of private citizens are protected in this new “drone world
Like Ted Poe, I feel the fourth amendment should protect us from such an assault on our rights, but sadly the fourth amendment isn’t enough to stop an overreaching federal government so he has introduced a bill called the Preserving American Privacy Act which would stop the FAA from flying the drones without a warrant.
With the increased technology of surveillance, Congress must be proactive in protecting civilians from drone surveillance by law enforcement and other private citizens. This bill will ensure the privacy of Americans is protected by establishing guidelines about when and for what purpose law enforcement agencies, private citizens, and businesses can use drones
I would normally write that I believe this is great news but there is one small problem with this bill; Ted Poe will be asking the same people who voted to authorize the use of drones in the first place to admit they made a mistake and restrict their usage and I simply don’t see that happening.
Even if the Tea Party led House moves to rectify their mistake there is no way this bill will pass the Democrat controlled Senate–Ted Poe is right, the drones are coming.
Harry Reid claims Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years
There seems to be a sense of desperation setting in on the left as they realize Mitt Romney has a decent chance to beat Barack Obama in November. You can see the desperation in their actions–from calling Mitt Romney a felon without proof to claiming that Mitt Romney’s Poland trip was racially motivated to appeal to white voters–and as they continue to get more desperate there is no telling how low they will stoop.
As if calling Mitt Romney a felon with no evidence to back it up wasn’t low enough, Harry Reid has lowered the bar yet again in this little game of political limbo by claiming he heard a rumor that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years.
Surely if Harry Reid is going to put Mitt Romney in the class of Timothy Geithner and call the man a tax cheat he must have proof. Right? Read more…
Gunrunner: Darrell Issa set to release the first of three Congressional reports on Fast and Furious
Darrell Issa is preparing the release the first of three reports on the deadly scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious shortly. This report will name five people in the Department of Injustice’s ATF who are directly responsible for the operation. According to this story they are:
- William Newell, the special agent in charge of the phoenix field division
- William McMahon, Newell’s boss who was ATF’s deputy assistant director for field operations
- Mark Chait, McMahon’s boss who was ATF’s assistant director for field operations
- William Hoover, ATF’s former deputy director
- Kenneth Melson, former acting ATF director
Notably missing from this list is Eric Holder and when I read the story my first thought was that the Republicans caved once again because they don’t have the courage to pursue the matter to its logical conclusion, but as I thought about it I realized it was something else the Republicans were lacking if they were to implicate the beleaguered Attorney General. And that something is the documents which in all likelihood tie Eric Holder to the scandal. (And possibly even Barack Obama, remember Bill Newell was leaking Fast and Furious information to a top White House advisor.)
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick refuses to sign repeat offender bill, why the rest of America should care
Back in 1999, 27 year old Melissa Gosule was raped and murdered by a man who had 27 convictions under his belt yet served only two years in jail. Melissa’s father has made it his mission to ensure that what happened to his daughter would not happen to another person in Massachusetts; for twelve years he fought for passage of what has been dubbed Melissa’s bill, which is basically a three strikes you’re out law. If you are convicted of three violent crimes you are sent to jail for life with no chance for parole. Finally last week the Massachusetts legislature voted to pass Melissa’s bill and it was sent to Governor Deval Patrick’s desk for his approval.
Deval Patrick sat on this bill until Sunday when he amended it and sent it back to the legislature; his amendment allowed for judicial discretion when considering parole for violent criminals, thereby gutting the entire intent of the law. There is a reason why he sat on the bill for so long before making his decision and I will get to that in a moment.
Illegal immigrants don’t have to prove they qualify for DREAM Act protections if they are arrested
Back in June Barack Obama issued an Executive Order which changed United States immigration policy and implemented a policy which both Republican and Democrat presidents were unable to get through the Congress–the DREAM Act. What the DREAM Act basically says is this; if you were brought into the United States illegally as a child and you have graduated highschool, are going to college, or served in the military you can stay in this country without fear of deportation. Amnesty was granted to a certain group of illegal aliens.
But according to the top union officials representing ICE agents there has been no clear policy handed down from the White House since the proclamation was issued, so without proper direction any illegal alien who has been arrested simply because his or her immigration status is in doubt is let go if that person claims to be protected under Barack Obama’s new DREAM Act. Read more…
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