The midterm elections of 2010 resulted in a historic win for the GOP in which they gained a majority in the House of Representatives.
The midterm elections of 2010 resulted in a historic win for the GOP in which they gained a majority in the House of Representatives.
The Republicans needed 39 seats to win back the House and pending any recount votes it appears they won 64 seats or more, with the count not complete 2-days after the election.
The GOP will reclaim their majority status when the new 112th United States Congress convenes in January 2011 following the 2010 midterm elections.
Note: not all historic gains resulted in a majority representation for that Party.
Most presidents lose seats during the midterms, but the Democrats lost the most seats ofany midterm since 1938 when the Republicans gained 81 seats in the House of Representatives; 72 seats from the Democrats and other seats from Progressive and Farmer-Labor Parties.
The U.S. House election of 1946, in the middle of Harry Truman's first term, resulted in a Republican majority, with the Republicans picking up 55 seats.
The U.S. House election of 1994, in the middle of Bill Clinton’s first term, resulted in a majority of seats for the Republicans for the first time since 1954, with the GOP winning 54 seats.
Prior to the ’94 election, the Democratic Party had run the House for all but six of the preceding 62 years. In 1994 the GOP united behind Newt Gingrich's Contract with America and took back the House.
In the middle of George Bush’s first term, during the House election of 2002, the GOP gained 8 seats maintaining their majority. Such gains only occurred three other times during midterm elections; in 1902, 1934, and in 1998, which was Bill Clinton’s second term and the gain did not result in a majority for the Democrats.
Following the 2006 elections, Democrats took control of the House as well as the Senate. In the 2008 elections, which coincided with Barack Obama's victory, Democrats increased their majorities in both chambers.
As we rapidly approach the midterm elections, what should be clear by now is the stark differences between Republican Michael Grimm and the Democrat Michael McMahon, both vying for the seat covering NY’s 13th district.
On all fronts, including character, Grimm has consistently risen above the classless tactics and failed policy decisions of the incumbent, Michael McMahon.
McMahon voted against Obamacare but gave a wink and nod to Pelosi’s shenanigans over the “Deem and Pass” maneuver intended to ram the bill down the throats of the American people.
Grimm is calling to repeal Obamacare while McMahon is not.
Still undecided if you should vote for Grimm or McMahon?
The choice is clear if you are concerned about the economy, healthcare, jobs and installing a trustworthy representative in Congress.
Have those New Yorkers, residents of one of the highest taxed states in the union, voting for Andrew Cuomo to be their next governor allowed their ideology to trump sound reasoning?
Andrew Cuomo took the reins and not only furthered Cisneros and Clinton’s policies but greatly expanded them.
Henry Cisneros moved the GSEs toward a requirement that 42 percent of their mortgages serve low and moderate income families. Andrew Cuomo raised that number to 50 percent and dramatically hiked GSE mandates to buy mortgages for the "very-low-income."
These bad loans were purchased and sold throughout the secondary market and the pyramid grew and the bottom collapsed resulting in the subprime crisis we are still reeling from today.
In 2006, during the Bush administration, Anwar Hajjaj asked U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks to appeal to Homeland Security (HLS) on his behalf regarding the scrutiny he was enduring at New York airports when he traveled to and from Saudi Arabia for the “pilgrimage to Mecca.”
Gregory Meeks, a Queens Democrat serving in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives covering NY’s 6th District ignored Hajjaj’s connections to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and complied with his request.
The NY Post via a FOIA request learned that in 2006 Meeks took then Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff to task over HLS officials questioning Hajjaj at JFK Airport and demanded to know why Hajjaj received "unwarranted scrutiny."
Who is Anwar Hajjaj?
Meeks described Hajjaj as “a pioneer in distance-based learning of Islam through the American Open University in Virginia.”
In addition to Meek’s letters, the Post uncovered plenty more.
Anwar Hajjaj and Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's nephew, founded the Taibah International Aid Association, a charity that has been accused of funding al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Hajjaj is also director of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth International (WAMY) a Virginia based group that was also founded by Abdullah bin Laden.
A WAMY publication lists people who have attacked Israelis as "heroes of Palestine" and referred to Jews as "humanity's enemies," according to a 2003 affidavit by a customs special agent.
Families of 9/11 victims have ongoing lawsuits against both organizations, citing the material support to Osama and al-Qaeda as grounds for the action. The lawsuit revealed that in 1996 the FBI listed WAMY as a suspected terror group.
U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels stated the allegations against the group are "sufficient to demonstrate that they are knowingly and intentionally providing material support to al-Qaeda."
Why would a U.S. Representative advocate on behalf of a bin Laden ally?
Hajjaj knew Meeks through the congressman’s chief of staff, Jameel Aalim-Johnson.
According to Congressman Meeks the letters he sent to HLS and other federal agencies was to “inquire about the treatment of two Muslim American citizens in particular that felt they were treated unfairly at U.S. ports of entry."
Before you ask are you freakin’ kidding me!? Yes, the Queens Democrat was indeed serious.
A quick recap:
U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks scolded HLS for questioning Hajjaj.
Hajjaj founded and directed two groups with the nephew of Osama bin Laden
The two groups, one of which is on a FBI suspected terror list, has a credible lawsuit against them by the families of the 9/11 victims for providing material support to al-Qaeda and bin Laden.
While the troops are actively engaged in armed combat with al-Qaeda and searching for Osama, U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks is advocating on behalf of a character such as Hajjaj; clearly Meeks is not representing American interests.
Hanoi Jane is mild compared to today’s useful idiots.
Note: Anwar Hajjaj was not arrested at the airports, only questioned about his dubious connections. In other words, U.S. Customs at NY airports were doing their jobs back in 2006.
Fast forward to today.
Anwar Hajj had this to say, "It was an awful experience under the Bush administration, now under Obama, I have no complaints."
U.S. House of Representative Peter King (R-NY) teamed up with Robert Zimmerman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to get the 9/11 health bill for Ground Zero civilian workers and first responders reintroduced by the House for a simple majority vote.
On July 29 the bill was voted down via ugly partisan posturing, which included a hissy fit by Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner:
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Do you still believe the differences are simply about Democrats vs. Republicans? Wake up! Barack Obama transcends partisan politics. He is not simply a Democratic president, he is possibly, no not possibly, with out a doubt he is a radical, anti-American president hiding within the Democratic Party.
Did I lose you yet? Too hysterical? Toughen up, people, and look at what is going on. Do not listen to me; listen to the POTUS and those he surrounds himself with.
Patriotic Democrats should be pissed off more than anyone; it is that Party that was successfully hijacked by the radicals. Patriotic Democrats, stop defending this man. There is absolutely zero justification for the crap he is pulling.
Walk with me:
First: Healthcare
In this rich industrialized nation where billions of dollars are sent overseas, every American should receive healthcare. Call it a right, call it morally just, however the hell you label it, it should be done. Obamacare exploits the void.
Barack Obama is using those not insured, some of them my loved ones, as an excuse to ram this Marxist behemoth bill down our throats. Obamacare will harm Americans, not help them.
Why is he doing this? The devil is in the details. Harm the economy, redistribute wealth, acquire more governmental power, healthcare be damned it is simply the vehicle. Obama is counting on the gullible and emotional side of you to buy into his plan and then allow him to rebuild our nation... in his image.
The first casualties are our (a) soldiers, (b) women, and (c) elderly.
(a) Barack Obama restored the end of life manual for soldiers returning emotionally and physically scarred from war. Former President Bush eliminated this morally bankrupt manual, Obama resuscitated it.
The manual is billed to provide choices for our defenders of Freedom; hogwash, the manual was provided by an organization promoting euthanasia. Why? Because it is cheaper to kill the wounded than to treat them.
(b) No sooner than Obamacare passed the House by five freakin' votes a U.S. government panel commissioned to research quality healthcare recommended that women delay getting regular mammograms until age 50. This is in opposition of the American Cancer Society.
Not only does the federal panel desire to stop providing preventative screening for breast cancer they urge women to STOP performing SELF breast exams at home.
It doesn't stop at breast cancer screenings, it continues with screenings for cervical cancer!
On the heels of the federal panel, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist (ACOG) says women in their 20s can have a pap smear every two years, instead of annually.
I will spare you my own heartbreaking stories regarding the women I love because I am sure you have your own stories and can recognize the DANGERS here.
Why is this happening? Because it is cheaper to diagnose the cancer in the later stages and euthanize the victims as opposed to treat the cancer with expensive surgery and chemo.
(c) Obamacare will cut millions in Medicare, eliminate Medicare Advantage and reduce reimbursements to physicians, which will cause rationing. Obama openly questioned the value of the hip replacement surgery his own terminally ill grandmother received.
Obama's alternative care for the elderly is a PC effort to treat our grandparents like Old Yeller. It is not hysteria when it is said people will die because of Obamacare.
Folks, stop allowing Obama to exploit those less fortunate than us. Reject this anti-American healthcare bill and demand ADEQUATE healthcare reform. The Republicans were too weak to get it done, that doesn't mean we must settle for crap.
Additionally, if you choose not to insure yourself, you will be criminally penalized. For the first time in American history, you will be FORCED to buy a federally promoted product. We are one goosestep closer to losing our Freedoms.
Second: Terror trials in NYC
Obama's decision to bring 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) who was captured ON THE BATTLEFIELD, to trial in NYC is simply a way to put us (America) on trial. It also gives a terrorist that wishes to destroy us a platform to spew his anti-American hate.
The Obamas and Wrights must be giddy that they are able to pull this off. Shameful! And shameful if the American people are still blind to Obama's antics.
Obama is breaking Patriotic & legal precedent to afford KSM with our Constitutional protection. Obama is doing so in the shadows of the WTC because Ground Zero is hallowed ground and this is how Obama can get away with spitting on it.
Just like Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, William Ayers and so many of his surroundings, Obama must have bought into the notion that we are to blame for 9/11 and that the terrorists were justified.
KSM proclaimed his guilt and was willing to accept his fate (death penalty) at a military tribunal. Obama rejected that and desires a circus in Manhattan. Why is Obama risking life in prison or worse acquittal for KSM? The answer is obvious; Obama's choice is the Wrightchoice!
Folks, this is an American problem. While the latest terrorist was gunning down women & children at Fort Hood he wasn‘t asking how we voted, he was screaming “Allah Akubar.”
These are the people (terrorists) your president is urging us to use restraint for, while not passing judgment. This is the same president and administration that simply called Nidal Malik Hasan a “gunman” but easily labeled YOU “extremist” for complaining about radical policies.
Are you going to allow your ideology or blind partisanship to trump your Patriotism and/or common sense?
Americans unite! There is an enemy within our midst and he cares not that you are Republican or Democrat only that you allow him to "fundamentally transform the United States of America."
One Republican voted with the Party that is destroying our republic. Congressman Ahn "Joseph" Cao (RINO-LA) was heavily recruited by Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, Cao sold his soul and voted with the Democrats. Final roll call vote is 220-215.
Cao cites the Stupak amendment to extend the ban on federal abortion subsidies as the clincher. Click here for the Stupak 240-194 roll call vote. Cao pathetically rolled over for the Obama administration and will now try and justify that by claiming a principled alignment with the GOP's stance against tax payer funded abortion.
Don't be fooled, Congressman Cao allowed his political weakness to trump his Patriotism and better sense.
Cao backed the S-CHIP expansion, the $108 billion IMF bailout, and the omni-waste spending bill. And he voted to rebuke GOP Rep. Joe Wilson for calling out President Obama on his health care lies.
Cao reveals the cheap price he received for his soul: a commitment from President Obama that he would work together to address the health care issues of Louisiana, including the FMAP crisis and community disaster loan forgiveness, as well as issues related to Charity and Methodist Hospitals. [end]
Can you imagine anyone believing in a "commitment" from This president? Only the willfully ignorant can feed on such grain.
Charles Rangel and Nancy Pelosi do not have the integrity or competence to successfully manage a grocery store trip... and yet they are trusted with the keys to the entire supermarket chain.
This health care take over accounts for about one-sixth of the entire economy, more than any other industry... That ladies and gentlemen is the reason why they (Obama admin) rammed it down America's throat, those that convincingly control the purse strings control the dole. We are goose-stepping closer and closer to socialism, welcome to an Obamanation.
In a revolting appearance in front of high school students, White House communications director Anita Dunn championed Chairman Mao. As Glenn Beck reminded us, this brutal Chinese revolutionary is responsible for causing the deaths of approximately 70-million people, during peacetime. This Communist leader is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler was.
Barack Obama's communication director, Anita Dunn, wants to silence FNC and champions the will of Chairman Mao. Interestingly, Dunn's husband is Robert Bauer. Bauer is Barack Obama's personal attorney and pressured DOJ to silence and/or prosecute an individual group for creating a Bill Ayers ad during the presidential campaign.
This is the same Robert Bauer that threatened, on behalf of the president, to go after a military veteran for formally inquiring if Obama is constitutionally sound to serve as commander in chief.
The video featuring Bill Ayers has been scrubbed from You Tube. Michelle Malkin has done a fantastic job in exposing Bauer's involvement in the attempt to silence the producers of the Ayers ad, more on that here. Additionally, you can view the letter sent to the veteran here.
What hasn't been scrubbed (yet) is the video of Anita Dunn in her own words boldly stating that Mao is one of her favorite philosophers. The other one? Mother Teresa.
With out further adieu here it is:
Say what you will about Glenn Beck, but kudos to him and his Patriotism for keeping up the good fight and exposing the radicals. Now, the White House quietly claimed Anita Dunn was joking about her Mao love.
Joking? Folks, the joke is on us. Obama, the radical-in-chief, has deployed his appointees against the American people to silence the opposition, threaten those with questions, and champion murderous communists to our youth.
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