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<title>80% of ‘Green Energy’ Loans Went to Obama’s Top Donors</title>
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<dc:creator>Wynton Hall</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[With Energy Secretary Steven Chu set to testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the government’s $573 million loan to failed solar panel maker Solyndra, an explosive new list of energy loan amounts to President Obama’s top fundraisers, bundlers, and supporters has been released by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, author of Throw [...]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Energy Secretary Steven Chu set to testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the government’s $573 million loan to failed solar panel maker Solyndra, an explosive new list of energy loan amounts to President Obama’s top fundraisers, bundlers, and supporters has been released by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Throw-Them-All-Peter-Schweizer/dp/0547573146">Throw Them All Out</a>.</p>
<p>As the list reveals, 80 percent of all $20.5 billion in Department of Energy loans went to President Obama’s top donors. Furthermore, some of those dwarf in size those given to Obama bundler George Kaiser, owner of the now defunct Solyndra.</p>
<p>The list—which features the likes of Google owners Larry Page and Sergey Brinn, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ted Turner, John Doerr, and Al Gore—raises new questions about the procedures used to administer the now-controversial DOE loans.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/103459442/Obama-Bundlers_-Large-Donors_-and-Supporters-fixed-pdf">Obama Bundlers_ Large Donors_ and Supporters fixed pdf</a></span><br />
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<p>Schweizer’s list stands in sharp contrast to President Obama’s promise that the allocation of all federal “stimulus” monies would be nonpartisan and fair: “Let me repeat that: Decisions about how Recovery money will be spent will be based on the merits. They will not be made as a way of doing favors for lobbyists,” <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/03/20/bringing-outside">Obama said in 2009</a>.</p>
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<p>But as Schweizer’s charges in his book, Throw Them All Out, [link] the Obama Administration may be guilty of “the greatest—and most expensive—example of crony capitalism in American history.”</p>
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<title>Ron Paul Joins Call for Congressional Insider Trading to be Punished; Lieberman to Hold Senate Hearings</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are uniting to put a stop to insider trading in Congress.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who is rising in Republican presidential polls this week, told Fox News&#8217; Megyn Kelly that insider trading must be punished:
Meanwhile, from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs:
LIEBERMAN, COLLINS TO HOLD HEARING ON INSIDER TRADING [...]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are uniting to put a stop to insider trading in Congress.</p>
<p>Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who is rising in Republican presidential polls this week, told Fox News&#8217; Megyn Kelly that insider trading must be punished:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwxAk61pmEs#t=200s"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/bwxAk61pmEs#t=200s/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Meanwhile, from the <a href="http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Press.MajorityNews&amp;ContentRecord_id=adf9db18-5056-8059-76c0-6b5fdc6ee4ba" target="_blank">Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs</a>:</p>
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<h1>LIEBERMAN, COLLINS TO HOLD HEARING ON INSIDER TRADING LAWS AND CONGRESS</h1>
<h2>60 Minutes Story Sparks Examination</h2>
<p>WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Wednesday they would hold a hearing to examine how insider trading laws apply to Congress.</p>
<p>The hearing, requested by Committee Member Scott Brown, R-Mass., and sparked by a 60 Minutes report, is intended to clarify the laws and rules that govern members of Congress who may profit personally from non-public information they learn in the course of their work.</p>
<p>“Insider trading by members of Congress – if it occurs &#8212; is a serious breach of the public trust,” said <strong>Lieberman</strong>. “No one in Congress should be enriching themselves based on information to which the general public has no access. Our hearing will set the record straight about how existing laws and ethics rules apply to Congress and whether they are sufficient to prevent unethical market trading.”<span id="more-377124"></span></p>
<p><strong>Collins</strong> said: “Elected office is a place for public service, not personal gain. We have a duty to examine and address practices that can create the appearance of wrongdoing or undermine the public’s confidence in decisions made by Congress.</p>
<p>“I appreciate Senator Scott Brown’s leadership on this important issue. We need to assure the American people that the decisions we make are decisions of integrity, in which their interests are put first.”</p>
<p>Senator Brown has introduced legislation intended to prevent members of Congress from profiting on information to which only they are privy. That bill has been referred to HSGAC. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., will introduce similar legislation soon. House members have introduced similar bills.</p></blockquote>
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<title>Union Thug Leo Gerard Calls for a ‘Resistance’ Movement</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthew Vadum</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Steelworkers (USW) Marxist president Leo Gerard believes if Big Labor can’t get what it wants through the ballot box it’s time to start cracking skulls.
The Canadian-born Gerard loves a brawl. In 1999 he helped the violent anarchists protesting in Seattle block access to the World Trade Organization meetings. USW sent 1,400 goons to [...]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United Steelworkers (USW) Marxist president Leo Gerard believes if Big Labor can’t get what it wants through the ballot box it’s time to start cracking skulls.</p>
<p>The Canadian-born Gerard loves a brawl. In 1999 he helped the violent anarchists protesting in Seattle block access to the World Trade Organization meetings. USW sent 1,400 goons to shut the talks down. Gerard’s agitation helped to push Algoma Steel of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, into bankruptcy in the 1990s.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://cloud.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/leo-w-gerard.gif" alt="" width="375" height="251" /></p>
<p>As the USW president since 2001, Gerard wholeheartedly supports the labor-backed Occupy Wall Street movement and wants it to become even more violent.</p>
<p>“You’re damn right Wall Street occupiers speak for us,” <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2011/11/02/union-chief-leo-gerard-resistance-movement-needed-seize-bridges-banks-">he recently told</a> left-wing radio host Ed Schultz. “They do in Pittsburgh, they do in Chicago, they do in Oakland, they do in San Francisco, they do all across the country. And I think what we need is, we need more militancy.”</p>
<p>But occupying cities isn’t enough in the view of this man who began his career in labor activism at age 11 by handing out leaflets before a strike.</p>
<p>Gerard explained that the left needs to start a “resistance” movement. “If Wall Street occupation doesn’t get the message, I think we’ve got to start blocking bridges and doing that kind of stuff,” he said.</p>
<p>“And no wonder people are occupying. We ought to be doing more than occupying parks. We ought to start occupying bridges. We ought to start occupying the banks, places themselves.”</p>
<p>Gerard is a member of the AFL-CIO’s executive committee and chairman of its public policy committee.</p>
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<p>He takes pride in the fact that the <em>New York Times</em> called him the “No. 1 scourge of free traders.” No wonder: A few days after Gerard visited President George W. Bush’s cabinet in 2001 the Bush administration slapped tariffs on imported steel. To help advance the protectionist agenda, President Obama named Gerard to the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.</p>
<p>Like Karl Marx, Gerard has an interest in economics. He had planned to become an economics professor before taking a job in the labor movement. But interest doesn’t imply aptitude, and like Marx, he apparently has little understanding of economics.</p>
<p>In an economically illiterate <a href="http://beavercountyblue.org/2011/01/28/pa-progressives-plan-for-new-battles/">screed,</a> Gerard proclaimed that America, with its $15 trillion in national debt and untold trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, doesn’t “have a deficit crisis; we have a jobs crisis.”</p>
<p>He complained that the economic policies of the Obama administration aren’t statist enough. “In my own naiveté I was dumb enough to assume that a Democratic Congress and a Democrat in the White House would put us on a different path,” he said, arguing that massive government spending on the twin fantasies of clean energy and green technology would magically reduce unemployment.</p>
<p>If Obama won’t move forward with big new spending plans then it’s time to bring out the baseball bats, Gerard said. “We better face up to the fact that we have to hit the streets, kick some ass, and mobilize to do something about it,” he said.</p>
<blockquote><p>I’m sick and tired of us whining about what the Democrats didn’t do. The tougher question is what are we doing, and do we have what it takes. Don’t worry about attacking Obama; attack the money! It’s Wall Street and the banks blocking a recovery and shipping our manufacturing abroad.</p></blockquote>
<p>To Gerard, it is not radical leftist agitation that leads to violence but capitalism itself. Economic “inequality,” he says, “leads to instability and violence.”</p>
<p>And unions are on a holy mission to combat the evils of the market, he <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7067/people_are_pissed_off_an_interview_with_leo_gerard/">argues</a>. “Unions are instruments of social and economic justice, and they’re instruments of democracy.”</p>
<p>Gerard has close ties to the neo-communist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and to Canada’s socialist party, the New Democratic Party (NDP).</p>
<p>In 2007 the Chicago branch of DSA bestowed the Eugene Debs Award on Gerard. The honor is named after the five-time presidential candidate and labor organizer who founded the Socialist Party of America.</p>
<p>Other radical labor leaders and community organizers to receive the award are AFSCME Council 31 political director John D. Cameron (2011), SEIU executive vice president Eliseo Medina (2004), AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka (1994), Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth (1987), and United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta (1976).</p>
<p>It’s just a matter of time before President Obama gives Gerard the Presidential Medal of Freedom.</p>
<p>(This article was originally published by <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/11/union-gangsters-leo-gerard/">Front Page Magazine</a>.)</p>
<p><em><strong>Matthew Vadum</strong> is a senior editor at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum’s book on ACORN and its infiltration of the Obama administration was published in May 2011 by WND Books. The book is </em><a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><strong>Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers</strong></a><em>. Vadum is a nationally recognized expert on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and has written hundreds of articles on the group and hundreds of blog posts. His groundbreaking research on the organized crime syndicate was praised and cited by <strong>Michelle Malkin</strong> in her </em>New York Times<em> bestseller, </em>Culture of Corruption<em>. </em><em>Malkin credits Vadum with being one of two people in the nation with the “foresight and insight in reporting on the [ACORN] story when no one else would.” Vadum’s work is also cited in <strong>David Freddoso</strong>’s </em>New York Times<em> bestseller </em>The Case Against Barack Obama<em>, <strong>Arianna Huffington</strong>’s </em>Third World America<em>, <strong>John Fund</strong>’s </em>Stealing Elections<em> (revised edition), and <strong>Peter Schweizer</strong>’s </em>Architects of Ruin.</p>
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<title>#OccupyFail: Why a ‘Kent State Moment’ Can’t Happen Today</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Derek Hunter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, MSNBC hack and noted anti-hispanic racist Donny Deutsch said what the Occupy Wall Street mutants (what I affectionately call them) needed is a “Kent State moment.” That is a reference to the shooting deaths of 4 Kent State students in Ohio at an anti-war riot by the National Guard on May [...]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a month ago, MSNBC hack and noted <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/02/23/cnbcs-donny-deutsch-slams-marco-rubio-racially-charged-attack-hes-co" target="_blank">anti-hispanic racist</a> Donny Deutsch said what the Occupy Wall Street mutants (what I affectionately call them) needed is a “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCoQFjAB&amp;url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/14/donny_deutsch_occupy_wall_street_needs_a_kent_state_moment.html&amp;ei=KgvETs3EMOPr0gHlycHoDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmbZ6ZRjBkMMb_h0au0SoLs5gwLg" target="_blank">Kent State moment</a>.” That is a reference to the shooting deaths of 4 Kent State students in Ohio at an anti-war riot by the National Guard on May 4th, 1970. The photo of a screaming woman standing over one of the bodies became one of the iconic moments of the time and helped turn public sentiment to the side of the protesters.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/kent-state.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-376932" title="kent-state" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/kent-state.jpg" alt="" width="378" height="280" /></a></p>
<p>It led to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_&amp;_Young_song)" target="_blank">popular song by Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young</a> and all manner of public outrage.</p>
<p>These “Occupy” mutants would like nothing more than to repeat that, especially now that the liberal Public Policy Polling firm <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-favor-fading.html" target="_blank">found their movement to be less popular</a> than the <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/11/08/gross_hair_and_body_lice_outbreak_at_occupy_portland" target="_blank">body lice with which they are infested</a>.</p>
<p>But in the age of the Internet and camera phones, that’s just not possible.</p>
<p>In 1970 there were just 3 television networks, filming events was rare, grainy and encumbered by bulky, expensive equipment. A photograph, like one iconic one from Kent State, had no context beyond what a writer gave it. That’s no longer the case.</p>
<p>Everyone has a camera, video is not in short supply, context can no longer be given extemporaneously. If and when violence breaks out from the “Occupiers,” who’ve pledged to shut down parts of major cities around the country tomorrow, they won’t be able to spin the context of their actions beyond what is already on the public record.</p>
<p>When a protester says “You’re going to see what a Molotov Cocktail can do to Macy’s” on camera, their intentions are clear. The continual flow of threats of violence, and acts of violence, from these mutants is well documented online. They’re proud of it. That wasn’t the case in 1970.</p>
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<p>While the threats and actions were there, President Obama’s good friend Bill Ayers and his Weather Underground terrorists were just one of many groups engaging in terrorists attacks against the United States, the all important look inside the mind of those people wasn’t.</p>
<p>Radicals back then were paranoid, refusing to speak their intentions freely in front of anyone but their most trusted inner circle. Their public pronouncements were more measured and filled with what they determined to be digestible, acceptable statements. They were crazy, but they weren’t stupid. They knew the American people would never support their radical agenda, so they hid it. That is not the case today.</p>
<p>The narcissism of today’s radicals doesn’t afford them the consciousness of the unpopularity of their agenda. This comes from the radicals in academia who present only one side of issues and pop culture that relentlessly reinforces the lies they’ve been told. For those who’ve never questioned what they were told, accepted it whole-cloth, never stepping outside the liberal bubble, seeing what they were told reinforced everywhere they looked gave them an arrogance of false righteousness their forefathers didn’t have.</p>
<p>That’s why they live stream their meetings nightly. That’s why the gleefully embrace the “human microphone,” not thinking the stripping of individuality would be disconcerting to a nation founded on rugged individualism.</p>
<p>Yes, their fellow travelers in the mainstream media have done their best to conceal their violence, their threats and their general creepiness, but they’ve bypassed the traditional media because they arrogantly assumed “We the People” were on their side. But the more we saw, the more disgusted we became.</p>
<p>The Internet and the camera phone, the very devices they thought would be their most valuable tool in spreading their message to the masses, is their ultimate downfall.</p>
<p>No one will have sympathy for anyone killed or injured by police in a riot if there is video of people calling for violence and riots against police beforehand. If there is video of people making threats, engaging in violence, calling the police “pigs!” That doesn’t fly in the modern age.</p>
<p>So by the time the “<a href="http://occupywallst.org/article/poster-n17-mass-direct-action-print-and-post-freel/" target="_blank">National Day of Action</a>” starts tomorrow, this minority of mutants has already damaged their “brand” beyond repair. The iconic image of the “Occupy” movement will never be a screaming woman over a dead body, it will forever be a man <a href="http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-man-pooping-on-police-car-oct-2011.jpg" target="_blank">defecating on a police car</a>, <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2011/11/03/more-ugly-occupy-oakland-pictures-that-wont-make-msm-front-pages/" target="_blank">windows of businesses being broken</a> or <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/" target="_blank">any number of other offensive things</a> willingly and deliberately done and said on camera for the world to see.</p>
<p>In the end, the worst enemy of the “Occupy” mutants was not the establishment, it wasn’t Wall Street, it wasn’t Fox News, it wasn’t Republicans, it was they, themselves.</p>
<p>In 1971, John Kerry famously asked “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Similarly, how can these “occupiers” ask, no hope, someone is the first to die for their’s?</p>
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<title>LIVE: Lee Stranahan at #OccupySF Protest UPDATE: “Police Hospitality of the Worst Kind!”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lee Stranahan is literally on the front lines of clashes between police and Occupy San Francisco activists.
Watch live:
Occupy San Francisco activists have been joined by recently-evicted Occupy Oakland activists.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lee Stranahan is literally on the front lines of clashes between police and Occupy San Francisco activists.</p>
<p>Watch live:</p>
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<p>Occupy San Francisco activists have been joined by recently-evicted Occupy Oakland activists.<br />
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Developing&#8230;</p>
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<title>Local Reaction to Congressman Spencer Bachus: Respond, Reform, or Resign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a forgiving nature in the Southerner that surprises the occasional Yankee visitor. Doors are opened, ladies are escorted off of curbs, and conversation is edifying. There is a sharp but tailored critique of wrongdoing, and forgiveness comes as easy as the gentle southern gulf breeze—but only once. Part [...]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a forgiving nature in the Southerner that surprises the occasional Yankee visitor. Doors are opened, ladies are escorted off of curbs, and conversation is edifying. There is a sharp but tailored critique of wrongdoing, and forgiveness comes as easy as the gentle southern gulf breeze—but only once. Part of the charm of the south is the genteel way they approach human interaction&#8211;until, that is, you cross them. Expect decisive correction. I have come to know that this is how the south “weeds” out its own bad, so that the genteel southern tradition continues.</p>
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<p>The southern tradition of civility is deeply rooted. That is why the short selling of the American economy by <a href="http://www.bachus.house.gov/">Alabama Congressman Bachus</a>, as described on <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/">60 Minutes</a> last Sunday, and his pursuant refusal to explain, apologize, or make reparations to his constituents strikes them as so abhorrent. Alabamians are asking for the honorable removal of the Congressman who did the dishonorable.</p>
<p>The following is a letter sent Monday to his office, after one sent Sunday evening went unanswered:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Staley:</p>
<p>This is my second attempt at communication to you and your Congressman&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>I am looking to give you and/or Congressman Bachus an opportunity to speak in his defense to his constituents before they organize an all out protest of his non-response on what appears to be a horrible injustice against the citizens of Alabama, and the American economy. He is welcome on my show today any time between 4 and 7 pm.</p>
<p>I will be diplomatic to my guests, Mr. Staley, but non-response from an elected public servant and his staff is wholly unacceptable and will result in a relentless pursuit of the same.</p>
<p>I am not only an engaged Republican, Tea Partier, and show host, I am his constituent.</p>
<p>Please respond to my Producer, Jason (cc&#8217;d), ASAP.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.drginaloudon.com/about/">Dr. Gina Loudon</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The congressman’s office sent a written statement in response to the interview request as follows (edited for brevity):<span id="more-375992"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>…Congressman Bachus is not available for an interview for the show, but we did want to send along the <a href="http://bit.ly/tkwbKs">statement given to 60 Minutes</a> and to others in the media who have asked about this.</p>
<p>Congressman Bachus makes sure to comply with the law and House Ethics rules, and his financial transactions are publicly disclosed. Chairman Bachus does not trade in financial sector companies over which the Financial Services Committee has jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Tim Johnson</p>
<p>Press Secretary</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Rep. Spencer Bachus (AL-6)</p></blockquote>
<p>The office offered nothing in terms of a personal apology, restoration to American taxpayers, commitment to reform, or other “non-canned” answers for his constituents. A follow up letter with suggestions as to the former is drafted, and the Congressman’s response will be reported here, as well.</p>
<p>Local Alabama reaction has been starkly consistent in terms of a call for him to respond, or in some way even acknowledge that his voters are angry. Michael Hart, Talk Show Host on popular FM station <a href="http://www.101wyde.com/">WYDE</a> said:</p>
<blockquote><p>While investing in a company a Congressmen maintains oversight on is not illegal, the practice does raise several serious issues… since US Congress members are briefed by their staffs on most issues they vote on, these staffers are often privy to the same information… they… are not forbidden from taking advantage of this information. Each new person added to this ‘group of insiders&#8217; becomes another potential conduit for sensitive information to leak out and could even encourage lobbying of Congressional Staffers by investors seeking to exploit what they know.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Another potential problem is the possibility that a Congressman may be motivated to vote on policy or regulations that might not best serve the interest of the country or his constituents if there is a direct financial benefit for voting another way.</p></blockquote>
<p>Local Tea Party activists are already planning a <a href="http://drginaloudon.com/general/rally-at-the-office-of-rep-spencer-bachus/">protest of his office</a> this week to ask for his response to the accusations.</p>
<p>Zan Green, President of the largest <a href="http://www.rainydaypatriots.org/">Tea Party</a> in Congressman Bachus’ district said, “while not illegal… according to the Congressional Standards (specifically), this practice shows how far DC has gone from being a place that works for the US citizens and the Country as a whole, to a place to enrich one’s self.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/">Andrew Breitbart</a> has called for the Congressman’s resignation, as has <a href="http://bit.ly/s3IRPY">Investor’s Business Daily</a>, and others including myself (if Bachus doesn’t acknowledge his constituents). Alabamians are willing to clean house when it comes to corruption, and most are focused on restoring the credibility of conservatives after they perceive that some have used their offices inappropriately and dishonored conservatives as a whole. The title given Congressmen is “honorable.” Alabamians expect the “honorable” to act honorably.</p>
<p>He needs to:</p>
<p>1. Admit it was wrong (even if not technically illegal), and/or<br />
2. Send the money to charity, or the American taxpayers, and/or<br />
3. Step down from the Financial Services Committee, and/or<br />
4. Commit to real ethics reform.</p>
<p>The reality is that no one truly expects this Congressman to do the right thing. Listeners to <a href="http://www.101wyde.com/">The Dr. Gina show</a> described a town hall meeting where people were asking some tough questions and Bachus angrily stomped off stage, saying, “I don’t need this.” I am told this happened more than once. The question then becomes if he refuses to answer to his district and the country as a whole, what happens next?</p>
<p>The Congressman has no choice but to resign or face a constant firestorm from Tea Party and other GOP activists who are working hard on self-policing the standards of behavior for their membership as they look ahead to the 2012 elections. And if this Congressman has seen the tenacity of those in the Tea Party who believe they are fighting for the life of this country, he would be wise to respond.</p>
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<title>Union Wants Money Earmarked for Students</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While the teacher unions of Oakland, California are enjoying the Occupy protests, just down the road in the Alameda school district, the teachers union has been busy working on behalf of its top priority.
Surprise, surprise &#8211; students are not at the top of the union concern list.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While the teacher unions of Oakland, California are enjoying the Occupy protests, just down the road in the <strong>Alameda </strong>school district, the teachers union has been busy working on behalf of its top priority.</p>
<p>Surprise, surprise &#8211; students are not at the top of the union concern list.</p>
<p>It seems the district was in the rare position of having $1.1 million left over from last year&#8217;s budget.</p>
<p>Alameda school board members, being the student advocates they are, voted 4-1 on Oct. 25 to use the money to purchase textbooks, fund programs aimed at boosting math, reading and writing skills, pay for after-school programs at two underperforming schools and establish a program designed to encourage parents to be more involved in their kids&#8217; education.</p>
<p>That certainly sounds like a reasonable use of school funds, particularly during a period of economic distress and lackluster student performance.</p>
<p>But the <strong>Alameda Education Association</strong>, the district&#8217;s teachers union, objects to that plan. Union leaders want the money spent on bonuses for teachers.</p>
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<p>School board members say they will take care of the teachers in the next round of contract negotiations, which are scheduled to begin in January. But that&#8217;s not good enough for the union.</p>
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<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little bit insulting, and I think teachers &#8211; that&#8217;s how we&#8217;re feeling,&#8221; union president <strong>Gary Harris</strong> told <strong><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/alameda-county/ci_19257612" target="_blank">MercuryNews.com</a></strong>. &#8220;We want this to be, we&#8217;re all on the same side working together. They&#8217;re creating two sides here, and that&#8217;s unfortunate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hold on. This is a public school, operated for the benefit of students, right? Student needs should be the first priority, right? Shouldn&#8217;t everyone in education be on the students&#8217; side?</p>
<p>Oh, that&#8217;s right. We&#8217;re dealing with teachers unions here. Let us never forget the famous quote from <strong>Albert Shanker</strong>, former president of the <strong>American Federation of Teachers</strong>, who candidly said, &#8220;When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shanker is dead, but his philosophy is obviously alive and well within the teachers union movement.</p>
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