Congressional Progressive Caucus

Watch for the Progressive (Socialist) side of anyone on this list:

Caucus Member List

Friday February 20, 2009 Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

I believe there are others in Congress that normally are on this list, but for obvious reasons it isn't to their political advantage at this time. But at least these admit it, today.

So This is the Change You Voted For!

Obama is Unifying the Nation Against Washington DC

By JB Williams Monday, March 9, 2009

From CanadaFreePress.com

According to Rasmussenreports.com only 16% of the nation strongly disapproved of Barack Hussein Obama on the day of his inauguration. That number has since become 32%, doubling during his first six weeks in office.

Not even all those who approved strongly on inauguration day, still approve today, that number dropping from 41% to 38%.

This most likely has a lot to do with the fact that Obama and Pelosi’s Obamanomics adventure into Marxism, has already cost average Americans nearly $3 Trillion in lost investments and savings, as the DOW lost another 30% of its values just since the day Obama was elected.

$4 Trillion in Marxist Social Engineering efforts, all at overtaxed taxpayer expense may have something to do with it too.

News Flash!

It took leftists seventy years of deficit spending to put the nation a trillion dollars in debt. It took Obama and Pelosi less than six weeks in power to quadruple that number while killing off any hope for a free market recovery of the economy.

Meanwhile, some of the most reliable employers in the nation are headed for bankruptcy court, unemployment has shot from the Bush high of 5% to over 8% and climbing, as the nation, the world braces for the worst economic storm on record. Now that’s making history the hard way!

Obama Chaos has only begun! It's not by accident, nor ignorance, but by plan. Say what peasants want to hear, create crisis, and install government fix.

The Fix Is In. By the time you believe it, it is too late.

Rick's Revolution

At least one in the Media has courage!

Beware of Dirt Digger. This administration does keep records and will get even:

Shauna Daly, a 29-year-old Democratic operative, was named last month to the new job of White House counsel research director. Though she is inside one of the most powerful legal offices in the land, Miss Daly holds no law degree and doesn't list any legal training on her resume.

Her sole experience has been as an opposition researcher for Democratic political campaigns: She helped dig up dirt on rivals, or on her own nominee to prepare for attacks.

Rick Santelli, Good Luck and Thanks,

God Bless America

Chasos of Any Kind!

The Obama rescue

Feb 12th 2009
From The Economist print edition

Toxic tantrums, contingent chaos

The fiscal stimulus plan has some obvious flaws. Too much of the boost to demand is backloaded to 2010 and beyond. The compromise bill is larded with spending determined more by Democrat lawmakers’ pet projects than by the efficiency with which the economy will be boosted. And it contains “Buy American” clauses that, even in their watered-down version, send the wrong signal to trading partners.

I'm not sure how much more we can stand of this "Administration, but I know some of you respect The Economist.

Doing To America What They Did to the Banks

How The Democrats Caused The Financial Crisis: Starring Bill Clinton's HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama; With Special guest Appearances By Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter

Watch the above video to see how it occurred. Then picture this as the groundwork for the Changed America--Obama Society.

Doctors for Obama?

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey
From Bloomberg Press

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

New Obama motto: "Now Government can do everything, I won."

Change to Ponder!

A lot of you didn't like it when we had a Compassionate Conservative President (moderate by some standards), a Liberal Controlled House, and a Liberal Controlled Senate. There was too much spending, too much waste, and too much debt for some of you. These are trademarks of the Liberals.

Well now that it's too late, you know the truth. The Compassionate Conservative President was the only "restraint" and bipartisanship we had. So if it was too much for you then, what do you think it's going to be like now? Are you getting the picture, even now?

Keep in mind that while the Bush Administration requested almost $1,000,000,000,000.00 Bailout Package, they only spent $350 Billion of it. $350 Billion seems low to bailout the Lib's policy that was ocassionaly checked by two handfulls of conservatives and a President with integrity. Not a bad cost to keep the country from failing because of Lib creations like Fannie and Freddie (Dodd and Frank) and Citybank (Rubin).

Does anyone remember that in addition to investing in some of the big banks and still having $350 Billion in bailout (being converted now to campaign reimbursement) that the Campaigner in Chief Administration is planning to spend (pay off more constituents) almost another $1,000,000,000,000.00 before having spent the first one.

Well thanks to many who wanted change without caring what kind of change, the ultra Libs now have complete control of the House, the Senate, and the newly selected Presidential office occupied by the Socialist Campaigner in Chief. You can forget about bipartisianship at this point in time, and it really doesn't matter. Damn the Torpedos Full Speed Ahead. Radical Socialism is what the people wanted and thats what they are going to get. Elections have consequences. The Socialist won.

While many of us look to history to predict the future, sometimes we fail to include the present circumstances in those predictions. While the past has brought us known cycles, the future, as we currently view it will not follow the current cycle based on our short history. This cycle will now move out of the American History Cycle, and into the Socialist Cycle which will look more like Rome, England, France, and Russia.

God Help Us!

Socialized Medicine Foundation--SCHIP/Stimulus

Democratic Stealth Care

With the nation preoccupied by the financial crisis, Democrats have been quietly working to nationalize health care.

• By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Some interesting points from the article you might not know:

Initially designed for children of working-poor families, this new Super-Schip will be double in size, and even kids whose parents make $65,000 a year will be eligible. The program will also now cover pregnant women and automatically enroll their new arrivals. The Congressional Budget Office estimates 2.4 million individuals will drop their private coverage for the public program.

Still, it's the "stimulus" that has proven the real gift horse -- a behemoth that has allowed Democrats to speed up the takeover of health care under cover of an economic crisis. They initially claimed, for instance, the "stimulus" would provide Medicaid money to states struggling to pay existing bills. What in fact it does is dramatically expand the number of Americans who qualify for Medicaid.

Under "stimulus," Medicaid is now on offer not to just poor Americans, but Americans who have lost their jobs. And not just Americans who have lost their jobs, but their spouses and their children. And not Americans who recently lost their jobs, but those who lost jobs, say, early last year. And not just Americans who already lost their jobs, but those who will lose their jobs up to 2011. The federal government is graciously footing the whole bill. The legislation also forbids states to apply income tests in most cases....

The "stimulus" also hijacks Cobra, a program that lets the unemployed retain access to their former company health benefits -- usually for about 18 months. The new stimulus permits any former employee over the age of 55 to keep using Cobra right up until they qualify for Medicare at age 65. And here's the kicker: Whereas employees were previously responsible for paying their health premiums while on Cobra, now the feds will pay 65%. CBO estimates? Seven million Americans will have the feds mostly pay their insurance bills in 2009.

Welcome to "stealth" socialized medicine. That's the good news, it's only going to get worse.

Tom Daschle, the tax cheat, is only a diversion tactic, just to keep the news off the real issue-Socialized Medicine:

Tax Cheat Daschle Favors “Federal Reserve for Health”

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 1, 2009

Obama Government Tax Cheats

Barney Frank--
Tom Daschle--$101,943
Chris Dodd--$75,000
Tim Geitner-- $48,268
Charlie Rangel--$10,000

Training: Democrat

Global Taxes and Global TV Now on the Agenda

Global Taxes and Global TV Now on the Agenda

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | January 26, 2009

President Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, is being urged to lay the foundation for “global governance” by considering “international taxation” measures to loot more money from U.S. taxpayers.

For any of you readers interested in the future of America and your independence please read this article. It might enlighten you about some of the propaganda in the Media.

Just click on Global Taxes and Global TV Now on the Agenda. Follow the links in the article for verification.

Explosive Video Reich, Obamas economic advisor no "White Male Construction Workers"

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY: HERE COMES SOCIALISM

By Dick Morris

01.21.2009

Published on TheHill.com on January 20, 2009

2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives. Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Obama. Simply put, we enter his administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire America. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

Full Story

More Socialism--Nationalize Banks

Volcker group has new plan to rethink global finances

Friday, January 16, 2009

By Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post

The plan -- which recommends limiting the size of banks, setting guidelines for executive pay and regulating hedge funds -- offers the first hint of the kind of changes to the financial system President-elect Barack Obama might push for in the coming weeks and months. Mr. Obama has pledged to present a comprehensive series of changes to prevent a repeat of the current financial crisis before world leaders gather in London for a major economic summit in April.

The report was issued by the Group of 30, an organization of international economists and policy makers. But the recommendations were immediately seen by observers as a building block to an Obama plan because the lead author is Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman during the Carter and Reagan administrations, who will serve as a special Obama White House adviser.

Part of Mr. Volcker's role is to help mastermind what could ultimately be the biggest overhaul of the U.S. financial system in decades. He said he would press the new administration to consider the measures, "but it's up to the administration to decide what they want to do."

The proposal offers 18 major recommendations that would insert government regulators into the board rooms of financial institutions as never before. The plan recommends vastly increased oversight of major banks, going as far as to recommend the end of an era of mega-banks, whose size makes their failure potentially catastrophic to the global financial system. To limit their size and scope, banks, the document states, should be prohibited from managing hedge funds or private equity funds.

If you want to know who is behind this program, take a look at the Group of 30.

Open Socialism is "The Change You Can Believe In."

Market Meltdown

Robert Rubin's Free Ride from Slate

How does Clinton's Treasury secretary escape blame for the market meltdown?

By Timothy Noah Posted Friday, January 9, 2009 - 5:26pm

Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, left his high-ranking position at Citigroup today dogged by criticism for his role in the bank’s ongoing financial trouble....

The stock market is at a five-year low. But amid the greatest financial panic since the Great Depression, the market for one asset stubbornly resists correction: the immaculate reputation of Robert Rubin, former Treasury secretary and pre-eminent economic wise man of the Democratic Party.

This is an informative piece that covers other players and enactments. It's just that Rubin hasn't been held responsible as have the other players.

Change you can believe in! More Transparency!

Obama Society Connection--Change.gov

Document drop: The story behind Change.gov

By Michelle Malkin • December 20, 2008 09:52 AM

1) It would be a a violation of the government’s naming conventions (too generic); and

2) using ‘change’ in the domain name would be political, since it was the trademark slogan of the Obama campaign.

Go to Document drop: to see original.

If the Constitution doesn't apply to the Obama Society, why should any other law?
More to come. You can count on that.

Obama Society Connection--Holder

Blago appointed Obama’s AG to probe corruption; probe found no corruption; Holder forgets the whole thing

By Michelle Malkin • December 17, 2008 11:33 AM

Ah, the Chicago way.

So: Governor Blago appoints Obama AG nominee Eric Holder to investigate corruption. Holder receives $300,000 for his legal services. Corruption probe finds no wrongdoing.

And, oops, Holder neglects to mention all this on his AG questionnaire. See the questionnaire for yourselves here.

Ooops: More Chicago Change you can believe in.

Obama Society Connection--Emil Jones

What Emil Jones' Move Means for Obama
The Huffington Post by Ben Calhoun on Aug 20, 2008.

It's now been a couple days since Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones announced his retirement. The same day he broke the news, Jones filed papers hoping to pull off an old distasteful trick of Illinois politics--to have Democratic Party bosses pass his political office to his child. Jones has been slammed in the press, but he's defended his choice publicly.

Still, the maneuver has started to raise questions about whether the controversy could be a potential problem for one of Jones' political mentees, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

The key question is, "Can Obama clean up the Illinois/Chicago Government corruption and survive at the same time, or will he just continue it in Washington"?

I'm betting on the latter because it's already entrenched in Washington since the 2006 Elections, as witnessed by Obama's selection as President in 2008.

The Chicago Mafia is back, if it was ever gone, but the Obama Mafia will nationalize it. Just imagine Chicago government on a national scale. Doesn't that give you confidence in our future?

A Resolution Hint for Fitzgerald: Start by wiring Rahm Emanuel if you want to get to the top of this corruption. (Over Fitzgerald's dead body will this ever happen.)

If you can't trust Obama Government and Obama Media now, who can you trust? Start with the Chicago Mafia.

Obama Senate Seat

Democratic Party Scandal: How High Will It Go?
By Rick Moran

The big news, of course, is the governor's attempt to sell the senate seat of Barack Obama. Incredibly, it appears that he tried to get the best deal by shopping the seat to as many as 7 potential candidates -- including, indirectly, Barack Obama.

ABC News: Sources Say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is 'Senate Candidate #5 '

By BRIAN ROSS

Dec. 10, 2008

Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., is the anonymous "Senate Candidate No. 5" whose emissaries Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly offered up to $1 million to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

Obama Senate Seat For Sale?
according to The Smoking Gun

In a November 11 conversation, Blagojevich remarked that he knew Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett, a longtime confidante, to succeed him, "but they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation....

Senate Candidate 1" is Jarrett. "Senate Candidate 2" is Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Emil Jones, an Illinois state legislator, is "Senate Candidate 5." And "Senate Candidate 6" appears to be J.P. Pritzker, a wealthy Chicago businessman. Additionally, Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, is referred to in the affidavit as "President-elect Advisor."
Rahm Emanuel had to stop this before it connected all of the Chicago/Obama Connection on record. Everyone knows what's going on, but who is too intimidated to expose it.

Even the Supreme Court has been challenged, but failed to stop the corruption.

It goes one, and on, and on.

This is the Change you can count on.

Obama Society Connection--Blagojevich

BarackBook-Blagojevich

"Rezko, Whose Prodigious Fundraising Helped To Bankroll The Campaigns Of Sen. Barack Obama And Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Was Convicted Of 18 Counts Of Fraud And Other Offenses Involving The Use Of Influence In State Government To Squeeze Companies Seeking To Do Business With The State For Kickbacks." (Mike Robinson, "Rezko Lawyers Want Wife To Keep Money," The Associated Press, 7/17/08)

Just the beginning--Obama Society Connection exposed.

Is this another "moment of truth" of what happens when you challenge Obama, or just the initial outing of Chicago/Obama corruption?