Update 4: Passes with 59 GOP votes against, including Dave Schweikert AZ-05, thank you Dave!!; Only $350 Million in actual cuts!?
Update 4: 4/14/10 2:23 pm: Crapulent deal passes 260-167 with 59 No votes from the GOP. Our wonderful new Critter, Dave Schweikert AZ-05 voted No.
Thank you Rep. Schweikert!!
Roll Call of vote here. Thank your Congressman (or un-thank them whatever the case may be!)
Update 2: Okay, your shout-out is retracted Speaker! What the hell is this?~- CBO says it is actually only $35oMillion, yes M, Million in actual cuts?? You are fxcking kidding right?
AP at HotAir has it:
So to sum up: In less than a week, we’ve gone from $61 billion in cuts to $38 billion in cuts to $15 billion in real cuts to $352 million in deficit reduction this year, which is less than one percent of the number agreed to in the budget deal. I can’t help but suspect that tea partiers might feel a tad … antsy about that trend….
I called Dave Schweikert AZ05 asked him to vote no and tell the leadership to Get Serious.
Welcome Speaker Boehner! Go Away Pelosi, far, far away…
Update: Boehner full speech and swearing in courtesy of theRightScoop.com
Jeebus I thought she would never shut up….
God Bless Speaker Boehner and the new Majority of the 112th Congress, may you have the courage of your convictions, and convictions that are unshakeable in the face of the D.C. Machine. Stick to the Constitution, it will never steer you wrong.
For those Critters about to rock, we salute you~
AZ Politics: Prop 203 ahead with <10k votes to be counted…
Like Lenny said, it aint over til it’s over~
Awesome GWTW Kravitz mashup by LittleMissVain
The lamestreams all reported this as failing to pass a week ago. They like to report AZ is too red to let Medical Marijuana pass, they ignore we passed it twice already. Cali shenanigans almost killed it this time ’round- keep fingers crossed, only a few thousand votes to be counted~
Arizona appears on the verge of finally getting a law that actually will allow patients to obtain marijuana legally.Figures released late Friday show Proposition 203 ahead by 4,421 votes out of more than 1.6 million cast.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, whose office has the last of the ballots to be counted, told Capitol Media Services she has only about 10,000 ballots yet to be tallied.
That includes about 2,000 provisional ballots, largely those that were cast by voters at the polls on election day by people who had previously requested and been mailed an early ballot. Purcell said her office needs to make sure they had not voted twice.
Purcell noted the trend in the provisional ballots has been running close to 2-to-1 in favor of the measure.
That leaves just 8,000 early ballots from voters who overinked their marks, resulting in a bleed-through to the other side of the paper.
Among early Maricopa voters, the measure is losing by a 48-to-52 percent margin. And County Elections Director Karen Osborne said the last of these early ballots being counted are running virtually the same as those already tallied.
If that pattern holds, there would be fewer than 4,200 additional votes against the measure and more than 3,800 in favor, making it virtually impossible to bridge that 4,421-vote edge, plus any others added to that from the remaining provisional ballots.
Among Maricopa County voters who went to the polls on election day as they had planned, the “no” votes exceeded those in favor. But all of those ballots already have been counted.
Proposition 203 actually won in only Pima, Coconino and Santa Cruz counties. But the big margin of victory in Pima — more than 43,000 votes out of nearly 306,000 cast — was enough to cancel out opposition elsewhere, especially with the measure losing overall in Maricopa County by fewer than 4,000 votes….
This is a classic example of where, with all respect, I think that Sen DeMint is wrongin his statement that we cannot be fiscally conservative and socially ‘liberal’. I consider myself moderate because I am both those things for the most part.
Libertarians that are fiscally conservative also fall into this group. People who have certain medical conditions should have access to a natural remedy for their condition, and no lobbying by Big Pharma (who are No 2 on my Teh Evil list behind certain Bankstas) should stop people from being free IMO.
Hang On Sloopy, we’re almost there~
Marco seals the deal: Marco Rubio explains family and loyalty to Charlie Crist
Marrrrcooo~ RUBIO!!! Orange Crush is finished.
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Updates: Be the Wave!! AZ-05 David Schweikert (R) – GOTV
SCHWEIKERT WINS!! WE DID IT~~~WOOT!!!
Everyone please GET OUT AND VOTE!!!
10/30 Phone Banking Report – Team Schweikert office was full so I was assigned to GOP Victory office around the corner and did calls to GOTV for the entire GOP Team. Did around 100 calls, many messages, wrong numbers, but 5 positives, with a Semper Fi! thrown in. 2 had mailed early ballots back already the other 3 were psyched to vote. Very few hangups, maybe 6, only 2 who seemed to be Dem votes.
David Schweikert Conservative for AZ - 05
AceofSpadesHQ and FreedomWorks have launched Be the Wave! A GOTV effort aimed at getting our feet on the ground to make calls and GOTV for our districts. Be the Wave!!
Here in AZ-05, David Schweikert is our guy. A conservative who has run against Harry Mitchell (D) before, and this year is our year.
Please contact the Schweikert Campaign Team and volunteer to make calls, donate, or help staff events.
http://www.david10.com/getinvolved
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Twofer Tuesday for Dem Congress ~ 19th Nervous Breakdown / Get Off of My Cloud – The Rolling Stones
Hope you have booked moving vans Democratic CongressCritters, there will be a supply/demand price increase NO DOUBT since SOOO MANY of you are getting a one way ticket home (not that any of you understand basic economic theory).
Maybe once you get home, you can try to GET A GRIP, BUY A FRAKKIN CLUE and GET TO KNOW YOUR CONSTITUENTS since you CLEARLY were NOT INTERESTED in what we thought, felt, wanted or needed while ramming through Obama legislation that has strangled our economy and our freedom~
PS Get the hexx off of our cloud!
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Calling All Angels ~ Freedom of Speech must not be a price paid for the Tucson Tragedy
Update: Sarah Palin has released a Facebook video addressing the attack and the reaction to it by the media. As usual, she has articulated what the majority of Americans are feeling (as evidenced by the CBS polling).
I have been waiting and praying and hoping the leadership of the country would not allow this tragedy to devolve into calls for ‘toned down’ free speech. If speech has to be measured by the standards of the MSM in the past few days, it most certainly will not be ‘free’.
The person who committed these crimes, which invoked terror in the community and the country, does not appear to be motivated by anyone or anything other than a severe illness.
If he had proclaimed a motive like those espoused by Charles Manson or the Son of Sam, a Beatles song and a dog being their ‘motives’, it still would not justify the limitation of free speech in this country.
Gabrielle Giffords read the First Amendment on the floor of the House days before the tragedy and the words of the founders will survive any assault, not matter how brutal or senseless.
Because it was senseless, the MSM and politicians, including the Sheriff of Tucson, should feel ashamed of the way they are responding to the attacks.
In the seconds and minutes, hours and days following the attacks, the people of Tucson, and Arizona and America are coming together in acts of heroism, and in prayer.
That is what our leaders should be doing as well.
God Bless the victims, their families and friends, and God Bless the country.
As Speaker Boehner said this morning, we will come through this, we always do and we always will.
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