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    Budget 'Deal' Approved: More Spending and Higher Taxes


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri Dec 13, 2013 at 09:20:44 AM EST
    Tags: Gary Peters, US Senate, Benishek, Camp, Huizenga, Miller, Rogers, Upton, Walberg, Endorsements, Pale Pastel, GOP Leadership, Same Snake Two Heads, Puppetry, Vote record, Trust but Verify, CD-1, Election year, #WAR, Patriots, Conservatives, Kerry Bentivolio, Mark Levin (all tags)

    Meet the Fockers.

    AYES: Benishek, Camp, Huizenga, Miller, Rogers, Upton, Walberg

    We've seen the movie before.  Spoiler alert: in this sequel, Paul Ryan and John Boehner lie, and the Marxstream Media prints the lie.  Once again, the Michigan GOP delegation majority has voted with Gary Peters, which is their ongoing endorsement of Gary Peters for U.S. Senate.

    I cannot do much in other congressional districts, however, I am aware of what I can effect in CD-1.

    Congressman Dan Benishek, go f#@% yourself.  With a chainsaw.

    Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, I thank you for voting NO, and voting on Principle.  To that extent, I acknowledge the no vote of this dubious character playing in the Yob-ite propaganda machine.  With same regard, I thank Reps. Conyers, and Levin, for their no votes too.

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    Elitist GOP Factions Shoot Both Feet


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 25, 2013 at 12:39:49 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Camp, Benishek, Rogers, Upton, GOP, Vichy Republicans, Elitists, Paul Welday, Greg McNeilly, David Trott, Aim Low, Obamacare, No Fight Worth Having, Ron Weiser, Dick DeVos, RTW, Rick Snyder, Cronyism, Tea Party, Consitutional, Conservatives, Wackos, Wacko Birds, Foot, Lead Poisoning (all tags)

    Its pretty bad when a KOS contributor decorates the wall of RightMichigan.com with an underlying truth.

    In the side twitter bar the question

    "What? After paying for #AFP/#RTW #Tentgate 2012 Dick DeVos' Greg McNeilly now anti-#MITeaParty?"

    appears.

    Having been a part of the RTW/FTW effort, I must say I was quite pleased with the impetus placed on FTW in Dec 2012 by Dick DeVos and Ron Weiser, without which, it might never have happened.  But it isn't a free pass for the abuses laid out by operatives of the GOP, and in particular the MiGOP club which doubled down on the national slaparound the tea folk have been getting from media and complicit (Vichy) Republicans.

    December 2012 WAS important though. Snyder at the time might have even overcome a bit of the reaction to the Prop 2 debacle by Michigan's labor unions, but a reminder that anything he had done good was outweighed by cronyism, unilateral international transactions, and the promise of tax increases that moved him.  Truthfully, if not for Weiser and DeVos RTW might never have come to be.  It never was a part of Rick Snyder's agenda, and never really will be heart-fought from ongoing union boss opposition.

    Remember that.

    Something those two saw that the governor could care less about, was the strength of the Tea party movement within the GOP construct.  There was a very real possibility that the governor, sans a significant policy delivery to the base, would face a primary challenge (perhaps by the sitting AG) thus creating a divide in the 'acceptable' GOP hierarchy.  The AG, already on record as opposing the Obamacare Exchanges, Medicaid Expansion, and showing significant support among the Tea types worried the power brokers.

    And those "wackos" were brought under control, right?

    Continued below the fold

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    That's why I Voted With Gary Peters to Fund Obamacare


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 25, 2013 at 11:26:11 AM EST
    Tags: BS Alert, US House of Representatives, Rogers, Benishek, Camp, Upton, Endorsements, Gary Peters, US Senate, Debt Increases, PPACA enablers, GOPe, Bobby ShowStak, Michigan Banana Republican Party, Snydercaid, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    Jeez Mike, you sure talk a good game when the camera is on but, your vote says you're lying.

    More mealy-mouthed enabling excuses below.

    (1 comment, 54 words in story) Full Story

    Michigan GOP Congressmen Endorse Gary Peters


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Oct 17, 2013 at 12:36:30 PM EST
    Tags: Congress, Gary Peters, Benishek, Camp, Rogers, Upton, Terri Lyn Land, US Senate, Endorsements (all tags)

    Terri Lyn Land, the presumed Michigan GOP offering for US Senate in 2014 has just seen four GOP congressmen in lockstep with her opponent on an issue of critical importance.

    As posited by Scales (a thoughtful and accurate analysis) in his comment:

    "Benishek, Camp, Rogers, and Upton just endorsed Gary Peters for US Senate!"
    Which is essentially true.

    On matters of amounts, levels of funding, and minor issues like renaming parks for your friends agreement across the aisle might not be such a big thing.  However in this issue of surrendering Principle and giving the worst president in the history of this nation a football spiking win and subsequent destruction of our healthcare?

    It must be intentional.  They mean it.  They agree with it.  They want it, and so does Gary Peters. The similarity of thought is amazing.

    I would be interested in Terri's thoughts on their support of her opponent.

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    The Whos Who Of Schizophrenia


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Jun 14, 2013 at 11:52:04 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Chains, ACA, Medicaid, Expansion Of Government, Federal Chains, Shackles, Contract, Dumb, Bolger, Callton, Crawford, Denby, Forlini, Foster, Gardon, Haveman, Hobbs, Jacobson, Kesto, Kowall, LaFontaine, Lori, Lyons, MacMaster, McCready, O'Brien, Pagel, Poleski, Price, Pscholka, Rogers, Schmidt, Shirkey, Stamas, Walsh, Yonker, Zorn (all tags)

    I am not going to get out of the fight, but damn, I sure have felt like it recently.

    The Democrat party has been lost for some time to the progressive freak show that carries a disconnect about its intent and actions.  While griping about money in elections by big corporations, it calls out for bigger government that attracts such mechanisms.  While it decries the high cost of insurance and medical care, it uses the tools of government to discourage entry into the field of medicine, thus raising the cost.  While promising no mouth goes unfed, it has provided a trough that keeps the hands associated with those mouths idle and unproductive so they cannot feed themselves. Constantly the 'civil rights' violations, through our social compacts, are heralded as wrong, yet murdering of those who can least defend themselves is their rallying action. And at the same time that its activists want us out of their bedrooms, they put their genitalia in our faces and into our school programming.

    Its a bizarro world.

    Its a strange place and time, and I don't recognize my country or state any longer.  When the lies become the truth, and the truth is decried as meaningless, and a (very unhealthy)gun is put to our heads, so that someone who has made poor choices with regard to their own health care might be made better.

    But it didn't hurt so much until the last 2 decades, and the damage was somewhat limited until the Republicans allowed it to become mainstream.

    More below the fold ~

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    Follow Up - Gary Peters


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Apr 30, 2013 at 11:05:17 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan, US Senate, Republicans, Democrats, Peters, Rogers, CISPA, NRSC (all tags)

    National Republican Senatorial Committee Communications Director, Brad Dayspring's statement on Rep. Peters reportedly entering the Senate race:
    "Gary Peters already lost a statewide campaign and that was before supporting a cap and trade energy tax policy that would effectively put Michigan out of business and ObamaCare which will raise health care costs. It takes a special kind of guy like Peters to ask for a promotion from the very same people that his policies would put out of work.

    "If Gary Peters is indeed the Democratic candidate in Michigan, Republicans have a great opportunity to pick up this seat and move closer to the taking majority in 2014."

    What he said.

    It should be noted however, that Peters enters with about $800k to start.  Sans a fight in the Democrat primaries, it is likely a sufficient start.  Presumed entrant Mike Rogers' reported $1.4 M would be spent down considerably in an expected multi-candidate contest by Republicans.

    Rogers seems to have some other baggage to climb over as well.

    Comments >>

    And in Other News


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2012 at 02:31:09 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Obamacare, Dingell, Upton, Rogers, Commerce, Death panels, Call Today (all tags)

    Fred Upton's Committee Voting Tomorrow to Kill Obamacare "Death Panels!"

    Everyone's attention is rightly focused on Michigan's big Presidential Primary today but I figured this would be as good a day as any to chime back in here at RightMichigan with some other important news that is flying way under the traditional media's radar.

    Time doesn't stand still during the primaries.

    See you below the fold ~

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    Rounding The Clubhouse Turn .. It's The Burger In Your Hand


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Wed Nov 30, 2011 at 11:11:47 AM EST
    Tags: Benishek, Camp, Clarke, Dingell, Kildee, Sander and Carl Levin, Peters, Rogers, Stabenow, Upton, Let the peons Eat Horse (all tags)

    Ain't this just grand?  Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry has approved use of our tax dollars for the purpose of horse consumption.

    An appropriations bill that does not specifically deny USDA funding to conduct inspections of horsemeat for human consumption could allow horse processing to resume in the U.S. The Fiscal Year 2012 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 2112), or the so-called "Mini-bus Bill," establishes 2012 budgets for the Department of Agriculture and several other federal departments through September 2012.

    Prior to 2005 USDA personnel carried out horsemeat food safety inspections at U.S. horse processing plants. In 2006 Congress voted to strip the USDA of funding for horsemeat inspections. USDA personnel continued to conduct those inspections on a fee-for-service basis until 2007 when a federal court judge ruled against the arrangement. The combination of the funding prohibition and the court decision resulted in the decline of the horse processing industry in the U.S.

    Language stripping the USDA of horsemeat inspection funding did not appear in the original fiscal 2012 House Agricultural Appropriations bill when it was introduced earlier this year. However, the House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment prohibiting the use of federal dollars to fund USDA horsemeat inspections. No such provision was contained in the Senate's version of the Appropriations bill.

    After passage in their respective legislative houses, both the House and Senate bills were referred to a conference committee. The resulting consolidated bill did not contain the defunding language. The committee recommended the bill for passage, then forwarded to the full House and Senate for vote. On Nov. 17 the full House passed H.R. 2112 by 298-121 vote. The Senate also passed the bill by a 70 to 30 vote. President Barak Obama signed the bill into law on Nov. 18. As a result, the USDA could conduct horsemeat inspections at least until September 2012.

    Michigan US Reps. Benishek, Camp, Clarke, Dingell, Kildee, Levin, Peters, Rogers, and Upton voted YES.  Both Michigan US Sens. Stabenow and Levin voted YES too.

    Thank you to Reps. Amash, Conyers, Huizenga, McCotter, Miller, and Walberg, who don't believe that eating Mr. Ed is a brilliant concept.

    (3 comments) Comments >>

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