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Another License Office Goes to a Nixon Crony

One week ago, The Source began making predictions about which Democrat would win lucrative contracts for fee offices. The theme was simple: Nixon's supposedly 'reformed' bidding process is a facade for political patronage.

Today's announcement was a resounding confirmation of that argument. Democrat Party hack James Ryan Williams was awarded the Liberty fee office, bringing his total winning bids up to two.

Figuring out exactly who will receive what office was an uncertain process - Democrats, sensing blood in the water, launched as many bids as possible - and in James Ryan William's case, made several bids in which it was less than obvious who the involved parties were.

Nevertheless, the results send a clear message to Missouri voters: the success of Democrat donors is no 'happy coincidence' or 'mysterious anomaly'. It is the product of deliberate action, a pattern of behavior that is evident in past results and can be confirmed through predictions.

The bidding process has been criticized by both sides of the aisle and members of the media, but Nixon continues to soak up praise from a number of uncritical outlets. The only question remaining is how long it will take for them to catch on, and whether they'll decide to hold Nixon accountable or assume the guise of willful ignorance.

Where In the World is Robin Carnahan?

Posted on RedState.com this morning:

You’d think after the Mark Sanford fiasco, politicians would know not to disappear, but Robin Carnahan has disappeared, just like Carmen Sandiego. Well, the article notes:

Carnahan couldn’t be reached for comment because she was on vacation last week. But her spokesman, Tony Wyche, disputed Blunt’s characterization.

Except that’s not quite the case according to a number of reporters trying to get in touch with Carnahan. Reporters are whispering that Carnahan is gone and her staff does not know how to contact her.

Is she is South America? Well, her husband is Columbian. I’m sure it is innocent, but can the Secretary of State of Missouri, who is also a Senate candidate, really get away with disappearing for over a week without a way for staff to reach her?

And isn’t it odd for a Senate candidate to pull a disappearing act on the 4th of July?

http://www.redstate.com/blog/2009/07/07/where-in-the-world-is-robin-carnahan/

Where was Robin Carnahan?

The Fourth of July: it is a time for family, friends, barbecue, baseball and fireworks; it is a time to celebrate our nation’s birth by remembering our Founders and all those who sacrificed so much to give us what we have today.

Political leaders from around the country, such as Missouri’s Roy Blunt, attended parades and picnics to celebrate the Fourth. As is appropriate for our elected leaders, Blunt took it upon himself to set an example for the youth of our nation about the importance of remembering our Founders and our history.

One politician who failed to set a similar example was Robin Carnahan. She was M.I.A. from all public events commemorating this date.

At a time when our elected officials should be leading our nation in the remembrance of our history, where was Robin Carnahan? She was on “vacation” at an undisclosed location.

Healthcare (Part 2 of 4): Employers/Employees

If Obama’s healthcare plan becomes law, employers, both large and small, will have to make difficult decisions and drastic changes. The across the board transformation suggested by Obama’s administration will have an effect on every industry in the country. This, in turn, will eventually have an impact every working citizen and family in the country.

Obama’s Vows:

If you are happy with your healthcare provider and doctor, you will not have to change; he will not punish small businesses and employers; he does not want to tax your coverage.

Realities of his plan:

Obama wants to create a system where employers are forced to provide some form of healthcare coverage for their employees. Most major employers provide coverage for most of their employees, but this is something that most small business cannot afford. The costs of a healthcare plan would likely put many small employers out of business.

While Obama argues that he will protect small business from having to provide healthcare, what will he consider a small business? Where is the cut-off between large and small business owners?

His plan is unclear on how it can sufficiently protect small businesses, but it similarly creates enormous difficulties for large businesses. His plan will penalize large employers who do not provide coverage, a de facto tax on businesses. As it is mostly the low-income workers who do not receive coverage, some business owners argue that they will simply no longer hire full-time, low-income employees. Thus, not only will these low-income workers still need healthcare, but they will also be losing portions of their salary.

Those already covered by their employers also face a great dilemma. Obama promises that those who are happy with their healthcare coverage and provider will not be forced to change. What he fails to mention is that 3/5 of the US population under 65 is covered by employee provided health insurance. Obama has no provision if employers decide to change their providers, which would change the satisfactory coverage that many citizens already receive. Moreover, the stipulations and demands of Obama’s suggested legislation make it more likely that employers would change to a cheaper plan, such as government coverage.

Obama has made enticing promises regarding his healthcare plan, but few of them are truly feasible under his current plan.

Don't Forget What this Holiday is About

When most people think of the 4th of July, they think of barbeques, vacations and fireworks, but it is a far more momentous occasion than that. On this day, we celebrate our nation’s birth, the day our Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, the day our nation severed its ties with Britain and the day that marked the beginning of the greatest nation on earth.

On July 4th, 1776, our Founders stunned England when they declared:

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Although the seeds of revolution were sewn before this Declaration, the words in this document represented the hearts and minds of the brave men and women who challenged tyranny in the face of death. The freedoms and opportunities we have today are the direct result of the burden our Founders carried and the sacrifices they made.

This weekend, we need to remember why they fought oppression. We need to continue to protect the principles they gained for us all those years ago. We need to protect our choices, our freedoms, our property, and our democracy.

Because of our Founders, we have the privilege of living in the greatest country on earth. Let’s not let anything ever change that.

Want to know who will land which lucrative fee office? Why wait? All you have to do is follow the money…

Harvesters (St. Charles County)–
Put everything you have on Mark Miles getting this fee office. Miles lists his occupation as an assembler for Ford Motor Company, but has a history of operating Democrat money-laundering committees out of a dock in St. Charles.

Altogether he’s funneled almost $250,000 to Nixon and over $400,000 to other Democrats. Committees like his allow objectionable political donations to be concealed and otherwise to bypass contribution limits. Miles’ six competitors have donated less than $200 between them, making Miles the clear favorite.

South County, St. Louis- The South County St. Louis race isn’t quite as cut and dry – Brian H. May has donated over $10,000 to Democrats which would normally be a slam dunk for this office. But May has applied for so many bidding offices there’s no way to tell which one will actually be his reward. If it’s not May, look for Thomas J. Springer (just under $2500 donated to Nixon) to get the nod.

North Kansas City-
The top contender is James Ryan Williams, who has contributed over $2,000 to Nixon and $6,000 to other Democrats.

Williams has also put in bids for the Gladstone and Liberty offices, and that’s not all. He teamed up with fellow Democrat James Montee to make bids under Montee’s name. They’ve already been awarded the Lee’s Summit contract and are under consideration for St. Joseph. Williams is poised to be the biggest winner in the fee office sweepstakes.

Liberty-
We expect that Ed and Jane Quick, along with Lloyd Glover will get at least one fee office and our money is on Liberty. Ed, of course, is the Presiding Commissioner of Clay County and a long-time state Senator from Liberty.

Gladstone-
While it’s possible the Quicks could get this lucrative fee office, we believe it will be Don Dagenais of the Peironnet Company. Why? He made very generous donations totaling $15,000 to Democrats.

The bottom line is this- top donors to Jay Nixon and Democrats are mysteriously being tapped to run fee office after fee office throughout the state. It’s just more double talk from Jay Nixon who promised to reform bidding for fee offices.

From a Missouri Farmer...

A Soldier’s Duty

“I swear by almighty God this sacred oath: ‘I will render unconditional obedience to the Fuhrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, and as a brave soldier I will be ready at any time to stake my life for this oath’.”

This oath was installed by Hitler in 1934 to replace the oath that was recited by soldiers loyal to the Weimar Republic. To freedom-loving people, this oath takes on an ominous tone, with loyalty sworn to the named leader rather than to the nation. This is a popular method of insuring the loyalty of the armed forces in nations sporting one-man-rule.

The United States soldier swears to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This is a common format among nations with democratic rule.

Honduras has a democratic government with a constitution. President Manuel Zelaya violated the terms of this Honduran document and was arrested and escorted out of the country by soldiers who had sworn to defend their constitution.

Zelaya was required by the constitution to leave the Presidency after this November’s election, but instead tried to hold a referendum that would allow him to remain in office. This too, was in violation of the law that stated only the Honduran Congress could call for constitutional change. The Honduran Supreme Court would not allow the referendum.

Zelaya promptly complained to his friend and mentor, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who eagerly supplied him with ballots for a referendum. The army refused to distribute them, which was their normal duty, because they were ordered by the courts to stand down. The President, urged on by Chavez, led a mob to raid a military facility where the ballots were stored, seized them, and began distributing them.

Zelaya, who had forced radio and television stations to broadcast two hours of his own propaganda each day, and who had alienated the Catholic Church, as well as several evangelistic church leaders, soon found himself without many friends. His own party complained that he was no longer in his right mind just weeks before he was arrested.

The Congress and Supreme Court ordered the Army to take him into custody in order to preserve the constitutional law, and with guns drawn, they performed their duty. An interim President was selected from Congress, Roberto Micheletti, who is a member of Zelaya’s own Liberal Party, and he reassured the Honduran people that elections would be held in November and that he would step down in favor of the new President. This was definitely an action designed to preserve the law.

Chavez immediately threatened to invade the small Central American nation. Castro, Daniel Ortega, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Bolivia’s Evo Morales (all left-leaning Latin leaders) also rallied to Zelaya’s defense, calling the action a military coup. Chavez, Correa and Morales had all used similar referendums to remain in power.

The most surprising response came from our President Obama, who quickly described the action as a “coup,” stating he was “deeply concerned,” “that it was “illegal,” and “it set a terrible precedent.” This is the same guy who swore to refrain from meddling in Iran’s so-called tainted election when thousands of young Iranians were being murdered and jailed for exercising what we cherish as our rights of expression and assembly.

Nobody expected the President to invade Iran, but would it have been so hard for this “thoughtful” man to just expound on the rights we believe are inalienable, or could it be that he doesn’t feel the same about the Constitution as most Americans? If you remember, Obama stated that he believed the Constitution spent too much effort outlining what the government “can’t do to you,” and not enough on what it “must do on your behalf.” Do his beliefs sound like the Founding Fathers who valued individual liberties?

The President has never shied away from meddling in Israel’s affairs, but that is not surprising from the Islamophile Obama. However, to once again stand toe to toe with Chavez and Castro against a young Honduran Democracy that is fighting to not be swallowed up by the Chavez cabal, is disgusting and an abomination to free people.

What is Obama going to do next? Is he going to join Chavez and his buddies in an invasion to set President-for-Life-wanna-be Zelaya back on his throne? Will he want to expand his own term limits? Will the name President Barrack Hussein Obama become part of our soldiers’ oath?

America used to stand for democracy; we even supported the election victory of Hamas in Gaza. But this is a new day, and our President is resolved not to meddle in the affairs of foreign nations unless they are democratic, and then they had better watch their step!

Congratulations to the Honduran people; maybe your courage will remind Americans on this Independence Day of how fragile democracy can be and how vigilant we must remain in order to protect what we take for granted.