• Tim Mahoney

    Say Good Bye To Democrat Representative Tim Mahoney – The Reprise

    From the Florida GOP

    Well, it didn’t take long for the GOP to go after Florida Democrat Representative Tim Mahoney, now did it?

    The Cook Political Report has moved Florida’s 16th Congressional District (Mahoney’s) from lean Democrat to lean Republican.

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  • Rush Limbaugh,  Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin: “I’ve Got Nothing to Lose in This….”

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    Rush Limbaugh and Alaska Governor and GOP Vice President nominee Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin was interviewed by Rush today and produced some interesting quotes.

    A full transcript is here.

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    RUSH:  Well, now, as I listen to your campaign appearances and Senator McCain’s, it seems that you are the more forceful in speaking out against Obama and his campaign ideas.  Are they giving you pretty much free rein to attack this campaign as you wish?

    GOVERNOR PALIN:  Well, you know, there just aren’t enough hours in the day I think to get out there and (cell garbled).  Rush, I’ve got nothing to lose in this, and I think America has everything to gain by understanding the differences, the contrasts here between Obama and McCain. So, you know, I’m going out there and I’m just simply speaking. So be it that I’m a simple talker, but I’m just going out there and letting people know the differences and how absolutely paramount it is that voters are paying attention and that voters are understanding candidates’ records, their associations, their plans for the future; instead of being kind of wrapped up into all this rhetoric of Obama’s and buying into it and not holding him accountable for the things that he’s done, the things that he’s said, his associates, and where he wants to take America.

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    RUSH: This is an attempt by the media to make you stop being who you are.  What it means is, they’re really worried about the effectiveness that you have.

    GOVERNOR PALIN:  Well, yeah, I guess that message is they do want me to sit down and shut up.  But that’s not going to happen.  I care too much about this great country.  Now, yes, speaking of some of those associations — and you’re right; mainstream media is not holding Barack Obama accountable — let’s talk quickly about ACORN and the unconscionable situation that we’re facing right now with voter fraud. And given the ties between Obama and ACORN and the money that his campaign has sent them and the job that he had with them in the past, Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN and prove that he’s willing to fight voter fraud. We called him on it.

    RUSH:  He’s not going to do that.  He’s been paying for them.

    GOVERNOR PALIN: (laughing) Yeah. Right.

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    RUSH: So, therefore, have you even thought about a political future beyond this campaign?

    GOVERNOR PALIN:  That’s a good question. (laughing) No, because I’m thinking about November 4th, and I am just so absolutely passionate about the job that we have in front of us from now ’til November 4th, getting people to understand how important paying attention is.

    El Rushbo is definitley paving the way for a Sarah Palin run in four to eight years should the McCain-Palin either win or lose.

    Sarah Palin will have an ally in Rush Limbaugh, the most popular conservative radio talk show host – more than John McCain EVER has.


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  • Tim Mahoney

    Shocker: Rep. Tim Mahoney Asks for His Own Ethics Investigation

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    On Monday Oct. 13, 2008 Representative Tim Mahoney, D-Florida called for an ethics investigation of himself amid reports that he had an affair and then paid the woman to keep her quiet.

    Remember the story from yesterday.

    Remember Florida GOP Representative Mark Foley?

    Now, his HYPOCRITE Democrat Congressional successor is  embroiled in his own sex scandal albeit a non-homosexual one.

    West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved Mahoney and his campaign committee.

    Mahoney, who is married, also promised the woman, Patricia Allen, a $50,000 a year job for two years at the agency that handles his campaign advertising, the staffers said.

    A Mahoney spokesperson would not answer questions about the alleged affair or the settlement, but said Allen resigned of her own accord and “has not received any special payment from campaign funds.”

    Senior Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, including Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the chair of the Democratic Caucus, have been working with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign, the Mahoney staffers said.

    Now, Representative Mahoney has called for HIS OWN ethics investigation.

    Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.) requested an ethics investigation of himself yesterday after ABC News reported that he paid hush money to a former mistress who once worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him.

    According to ABC News’s Web site, which cited anonymous sources, Mahoney, 52, paid $121,000 to former staffer Patricia Allen and arranged a $50,000-a-year job for her at a Nashville-based public relations agency. Mahoney won the seat in 2006 after GOP Rep. Mark Foley resigned amid reports that he sent sexually themed electronic messages to male former congressional pages.

    “While these allegations are based on hearsay, I believe that my constituents need a full accounting,” Mahoney, who is married, said in a statement yesterday that did not address whether the allegations were true. “As such, I have requested the House Ethics Committee to review these allegations. I am confident that when the facts are presented that I will be vindicated.”

    Say what?

    This MORON cannot remember HIS OWN AFFAIR? Or COVER-UP?

    Geraghty ridicules Mahoney.

    Florida voters will DO more by voting Mahoney out of office.

    Likely GOP pick-up.

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  • Medicine,  Socialized Medicine

    NHS Spends £12,000 on Private Medical Care for Hospital Staff

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    The government run National Health Service in Britain is now sending its own hospital staff for private medical care. (Via Ed Morrissey)

    The money was used to bring in physiotherapists to help workers recover from muscular-skeletal injuries at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

    Bosses said it prevented them from leapfrogging NHS patients and enabled them to return to work more quickly.

    However, the private treatment, which amounted to £12,116 for 271 appointments over the past year, was described by critics as “shocking”.

    Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Their staff should have to wait like everybody else.

    Well, the hospital staff are NOT stupid. They desired timely care which with the NHS and all socialized medicine schemes does NOT happen.

    Britain has been struggling with their National Health Service for years and dentistry is slowly evolving into a private system.

    America’s private health care system has plenty of detractors but send Americans to Canada or Britain for a while and they will see a stark contrast between accessible care and rationed care.


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  • ACORN,  Barack Obama

    ACORN Tries to Register Mickey Mouse in Florida

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    The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) attempted to register Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse to vote in Florida this summer.

    This year, ACORN signed up 1.3-million voters nationwide and about 152,000 in Florida, mostly in Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. ACORN estimates it flagged 2 percent of its Florida registrations as problematic because they were incomplete, duplicates or just plain bogus.

    That’s enough to give headaches to election officials and to provide ammunition to Republican activists.

    Brevard County elections officials have turned over 23 suspect registrations from ACORN to prosecutors. The state Division of Elections has received two ACORN-related complaints, in Orange and Broward counties.

    ACORN wasn’t active in the Tampa Bay area. Last week, however, Pinellas County elections officials gave local prosecutors 35 questionable registrations from another group, Work for Progress.

    The GOP accuses ACORN of registration fraud all over the country. In Las Vegas, authorities said the group’s petitions included the names of the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

    “This is part of a widespread and systemic effort … to undermine the election process,” says Republican National Committee chief counsel Sean Cairncross, who describes ACORN as a “quasicriminal organization.”

    And, how much did the Barack Obama campaign contribute to ACORN this year?

    Over 1 $ million, you don’t say?

    Mickey Mouse voter registration

    Now, the state of North Carolina is investigating suspicious voter registration forms submitted by ACORN. Also, in Ohio, Nevada and Michigan – other battleground states. Here is a case in Indiana.

    The Wall Street Journal this morning has a piece about the Obama-ACORN relationship.

    The Bush Justice Department and FBI need to treat these fraudulent activities of ACORN as serious matters and not random local irregularities of voter fraud.

    The integrity of our election laws demand no less.


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  • Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir October 14, 2008 – Talk to the Hand

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Sam, don’t worry about Barack Obama. Look at the Bill O’Reilly-Obama interviews – just from rants from Bill O and the same old platitudes from Barry.

    There is “NO BEEF” in the words of Barack Obama – no substance. The details of his administration will be completed by the Labor Unions, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and George Soros after the election.

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    links for 2008-10-14

    • "The Kremlin staged this showy … PR campaign to distract public attention from the financial crisis and tell the people, 'Look, we still have achievements in the military sector'," said Belkovsky, head of the National Strategy Institute think tank.
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      And, will Barack Obama and the congressional Dems now dismantle strategic missile defense?

      Russian stocks recorded their worst weekly performance for a decade last week and are now down 66 percent from their peak in May. The impact is slowly starting to filter through to the real economy, with some firms announcing lay-offs.

    • One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
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      A clever pitch which spells tax increasefor many more…..
    • But is it over? With 23 days, one presidential debate, and countless advertisements, speeches and attacks and counterattacks left to go, could this hugely anticipated race for the White House really be over?
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      Not over until the votes are counted…..
    • This is becoming a very strange campaign.

      On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the "old" noble McCain is gone-and a "new" nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops.

      Recently Christopher Buckley endorsed Obama, likewise lamenting the loss of the old noble McCain. New York Times columnist David Brooks dubbed Palin a "cancer," and he suggested that Obama's instant recall of Niehbuhr sent a tingle up his leg as Obama once did to Chris Matthews as well.
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      Fair weather conservatives, no?

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    • This is what a rapid financial meltdown can do.

      The government seizes banks, leaving shareholders luckless and foreign depositors unable to touch their money. The stock market is shut down. The currency is in free fall, leaving mortgage holders who took out loans in foreign currency paying double. Prices on imported goods are on the rise.

      This is the situation in Iceland, where a small, struggling government is even turning to the Kremlin to prevent bankruptcy after it became the first country to succumb to the global financial meltdown in a matter of days last week.

      "No Western country has crashed in peacetime as quickly and as badly," says Jon Danielsson, an associate professor of finance at the London School of Economics. "This shows the degree of problems facing the global financial systems and how governments must do all they can to stabilize them."

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