AWESOME: Governor Christie Takes Down a Heckler

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Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) takes down a hecker at a Meg Whittman townhall event in California. One must admire how he jumped between a female candidate and a screaming male heckler. Any bets he was a union thug from SEIU?

Don’t Be Fooled: “Disclose Act” Designed to Skew Elections, Not Make Them Fair.

This is typical of the Democrat leaderships M.O..

When the Democrats wanted to take away the right of workers to have a secret vote when it comes to unions, the Democrats called that “The Employee Free Choice Act” (HR 800).

A similar game is going on with the so-called “Disclose Act” that passed the House and Republicans are trying to block in the Senate. The Democrats say:

We are just trying to keep the Chinese and others from having influence on our elections by using disclosure. You Republicans just want to take all sorts of secret illegal money and keep the people from finding out what billionaires are funding you.

This is textbook Orwellian doublespeak. 

The truth is that the Democrats get all sorts of secret money. The Tides Foundation does not disclose its super wealthy donors no matter where in the world they are from. Tides funds many of the Democrats pressure groups and 527’s.

The bill is designed to make SOME corporations and groups file a mountain of paperwork to run a political ad. Unions and other Democrat constituency groups are exempted. The NRA is exempted too only because the Democrats fear them. This is Chicago style politics once again.

David Patten:

The Disclose Act that House Democrats passed Thursday would “shred” the U.S. Constitution and represents a “blatant partisan maneuver to protect their incumbency,” according to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President R. Bruce Josten.

Josten says the Disclose Act, which passed by a 219 to 206 margin, reveals just how much Democrats fear the nation’s rising anti-incumbent fervor.

“I think it’s clear what’s going on here,” says Josten. “The House Democratic majority and the Senate Democratic majority in Congress are clearly trying to tilt the playing field in the middle of the game, racing and rushing to do it.”

Only two Republicans voted for the act: Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana and Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware.

Just last week it looked like the bill was in trouble due to a controversial “carve out,” or exception, granted to the National Rifle Association excluding it from the bill’s provisions. But the bill was resuscitated in part thanks to a strong endorsement from the White House.

The administration declared Monday that the Disclose Act “takes great strides to hold corporations who participate in the Nation’s elections accountable to the American people. As this is a matter of urgent importance, the administration urges prompt passage of the Disclose Act.”

But Josten says the act would heavily restrict the rights of more than 100,000 associations nationwide to run ads expressing their political views.

Groups opposing the measure span the political continuum, including the ACLU, the Sierra Club, PIRG (the federation of state public interest research groups), the chamber and many others.

The chamber recently called the bill a “desperate attempt” by Democrats to grab a political advantage in the midterm elections.

The act requires companies and associations to submit a mountain of paperwork to the Federal Election Commission if they want to run an ad. [IUSB Vision Editor’s note – most small business are members of associations to pool their resources. This bill is designed to freeze them out from political adverstising]

Some companies – those that receive substantial government contracts or took TARP bailouts – would be altogether banned from spending money on election advertising.

It also bans any company with more than 20 percent foreign ownership from advertising, which means international companies that employs tens of thousands of U.S. citizens, which also attract substantial foreign investment, could no longer pay for U.S. campaign-related advertising.

CEOs who are major donors would have to appear on in ads to notify the public of their involvement. The top donor to the advertising organization would be required to appear in the commercial to explain their role as well.

Finally, a TV ad would have to list the top five funders to the organization. The disclaimers alone would preclude the possibility of a 15-second advertisement.

Josten and other business leaders charge the act’s onerous provisions are obviously designed to dissuade the business community from exercising its First Amendment rights.

Another reason the bill’s intentions are suspect: Its principal author is Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

Van Hollen’s primary job, as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is to get Democrats elected to Congress.

“Organized labor, which notably was the single largest political spender in the 2008 election, some $420 million, who just in the past three weeks has announced their intention to spend $150 million minimally in this election to protect ‘incumbency,’ to quote them, they are carved out of the bill, no effect on them, no real disclosure, no real reporting requirements required of them,” he tells Newsmax.

[IUSB Vision Editor – This is where it gets really interesting.. they know it is unconstitutional so the bill is designed to take as long as possible to get through the courts in hopes to impact the next two elections]

According to Josten, every other bipartisan campaign reform dating back to 1943 has contained a provision requiring an expedited Supreme Court review, to ensure no infringement of the First Amendment. But not this one.

“This piece of legislation in fact precludes expedited Supreme Court review interestingly enough,” Josten tells Newsmax. “It forces any potential challenger to the litigation to go through a district court process to be heard. And then ultimately, maybe three or four years from today … you get your hearing before the Supreme Court. They are clearly trying to cut off any opportunity to raise the constitutional issues that this bill tampers with, and I say in fact begins to shred.”

Whether the act becomes law now depends on whether Democrats can muster enough votes to bring it to the floor of the Senate. So far, GOP sources tell Newsmax, the 41 Republican votes needed to block the bill are holding firm. But Democrats are expected to mount a serious effort to encourage a defection.

The Disclose Act stems from Citizens United vs. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down McCain-Feingold campaign-finance regulations that limited the rights of companies and associations to run political advertising.

The Supreme Court ruled such restrictions are an unconstitutional abridgment of the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech.

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You just gotta love CBS trying to spin this negative, Pence wasn’t having it.

Here is the entire pledge – http://www.gop.gov/resources/library/documents/solutions/a-pledge-to-america.pdf

Democrats Shut Down American Light Bulb Factories

General Electric is closing its last incandescent light bulb factory in the U.S. to comply with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Representative Joe Barton of Texas is pushing to repeal the act and says that the government is mandating consumer behavior since the bulbs will no longer be available for purchase by 2014.

The bulbs they are mandating are much more expensive and have so much murcury in them that they are a threat to pets and children. They are made in China etc now…

Some people in Congress had to get paid for this little provision….

DNC Chair: Donnelly Running Away From Who He Is

Amazing. Joe Donnelly voted for most of this nonsense and now he is acting like he was a crusader against Pelosi. Gimme a break. Hence why Tim Caine, the head of the Democrat National Committee, says that Joe is running away from who he is. UPDATE – AP: Vulnerable House Democrats work to hide party ties