For those of you who believe in bygone notions
like free speech rights and the ability to criticize
politicians when they do things like nationalize 1/5
of the U.S. economy, you better take advantage
of that while you can.
Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
has filed for cloture on the DISCLOSE Act,
S. 3628, which is intended to overturn the
Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United
and impose burdensome new disclosure
requirements.
The cloture vote will probably occur Tuesday
in a move that avoids committee hearings.
If Reid can get 60 votes,
then the Schumer/Van Hollen
Sedition Act of 2010 will proceed to a vote.
At that point,
he will only need 51 senators
who believe Congress has the ability
to circumvent and restrict the First Amendment.
Senator Schumer also introduced a new version
of S. 3628 which differs slightly from the version
passed in the House, H.R. 5175.
For example, it drops the ban on political speech
introduced by Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) by holders
of oil drilling leases on the Outer Continental Shelf,
which is a slight improvement over the House version.
But the differential treatment between corporations
and unions is still present in the new, refined, and
"improved" bill, as are all of the other worst
provisions of the original version
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/23/disclose-act-assault-on-first-amendment-continues/
The White House
has released its updated federal budget projections.
By releasing the report late on Friday afternoon-
a longtime Washington tradition for stories that politicians
want to bury-the Obama Administration is effectively
admitting that its budget numbers will not be well-received.
The "Mid-Session Budget Review"
projects that this year's budget deficit will reach
$1.471 trillion, or 10 percent of the economy.
In nominal dollars,
it's the largest deficit in American history.
As a percentage of the economy,
it's the largest deficit since World War II.
This will be the second consecutive year
of trillion-dollar deficits that approach
10 percent of the economy.
By comparison, the previous
post-World War II record was
6 percent of the economy in 1983.
Under President George W. Bush,
deficits typically ranged between $160 billion
and $400 billion (around 3 percent of the economy).
And the Obama Administration concedes
that these large deficits are here to stay.
It projects another $1.4 trillion deficit in 2011,
followed by sustained deficits that never fall
below $698 billion.
The national debt held by the public-
$5.8 trillion at the end of 2008-would soar
to $18.5 trillion by the end of this decade.
These future deficits are driven
almost exclusively by rising spending.
President Obama's budget would push
inflation-adjusted federal spending past
$36,000 per household by 2020-
$12,000 above the level that prevailed
under President Bush.
Even President Obama's enormous
and anti-growth $3 trillion tax increase
proposal won't stop this spending spree
from pushing the national debt to economically
dangerous levels
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/23/white-house-confirms-continued-trillion-dollar-budget-deficits/
The Commie Saboteurs Cloakroom
http://blog.heritage.org/tag/cloakroom/
The Commie Coups Against
Domestic Free Enterprise
http://blog.heritage.org/category/enterprise-and-free-markets/
The Communist Hell Care Coup
http://blog.heritage.org/category/health-care/
The Commie Energy and Environment Coup
http://blog.heritage.org/category/energy-and-environment/
Opposing The Commie
Coup Against The U.S.A.
http://blog.heritage.org/
Exposing The Enemies
Of Domestic Free Enterprise
http://thefreeenterpriser.blogspot.com/
Expose Oppose Protest Resist Defy & Defeat :
The Anti Constitutional
Anti Republic Anti Capitalistic
Unconstitutional Treasonous Criminal
Satanic Commie Fascist Open Borders, NAFTA,
NAU, Illegal Aliens, Trespassers, Censorship,
AIG, TARP, Shariah, Hell Care, Homo,
Smart Grid Whores & Satanic Globalist
Commie Liberal Progressive Stateist
Corporate Unionist Ponzi Schemes,
Lies, Liars, Frauds, Saboteurs
& Their Jesuit Masters
