Today the Senate and House compromised on their bills and finally passed a voter ID bill that will be in effect for the November 2012 elections. It’s long overdue that this bill was passed but at least it finally has gotten done and with a veto-proof majority. Governor Lynch (D) was able to veto the last voter ID that was passed with a simple majority. Many states are passing voter ID. laws because the majority of voters want these laws in place. Fully 75% of voters or more want voter ID. – Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike. It seems that only the far, far left wing progressives are the ones who do not want voter id. From the Union Leader:
The House voted 255-103 for a compromise bill requiring photo identification for voters at the polls beginning with November’s general election.
The agreement reached by negotiators combines the Senate and House versions of the bill, with the more lenient Senate version serving as a 15-month transition period and the more restrictive House version in place after Sept. 1, 2013. Voters would be required to present a photo ID at the November general election or sign an affidavit.
Since Obama took office, 766,000 women have lost their jobs and are no longer in the workforce. Rather than focusing on jobs to put these women back to work, Obama is pushing his Paycheck Fairness Act. Even though there are already remedies for women regarding discrimination in pay, Obama and Democrats have decided that they need to clinch the ‘women’ vote so have brought an unnecessary bill into the limelight. If anything, the Paycheck Act will hurt women more. It opens up businesses for frivolous lawsuits and will make businesses think twice before hiring women.
Under the Equal Pay Act, women can bring charges against their employers if they feel they have been discriminated against in their pay due to gender. In 2008 .html there were only 954 cases of gender pay discrimination brought to the Equal Employment Opportunity Center – of those cases 56% were found to have “No Reasonable Cause” – in other words – the EEOC could not find evidence to back up the woman’s claims. Only 7.9% of the cases were found to have “Reasonable Cause”, in which case the EEOC will fight to remedy the situation for the complainant. Of the millions of women who are in the workforce a very miniscule number have actually filed complaints against their employers. Not because they can’t file the complaints but because they do not feel they are getting discriminated against in their pay.
In Part I of this series, several claims made by Elizabeth Warren were debunked but there were so many that Part II was written to continue shedding light on Warren’s pattern of lying. It’s true that people sometimes make mistakes or false claims but they usually admit to the facts or admit they made a mistake. Professor Warren does neither. She continually regurgitates the same lies over and over to further her political agenda. Since Warren is hell bent on raising taxes; demanding accountability in government and private business; and pointing out the ‘bad guys’, it’s interesting that she’s had a few problems in these areas herself. As with Part I, the question remains, how can voters believe anything Elizabeth Warren claims?
Professor Warren’s claims and the facts:
CLAIM: Professor Warren was part of a group from Harvard that did a study claiming that half of all bankruptcies were due to medical reasons. Note: Warren is for government run healthcare i.e., the single payer system.
FACT: There has been years of research that proves the exact opposite of what Professor Warren and her group claimed and Democrats continually used when pushing Obamacare. From the National Center for Policy Analysis:
The idea that half of all bankruptcies are caused by medical debt has become part of the common folklore. But where did the idea come from? What is the evidence for it? The claim, first made in a 2005 Health Affairsarticle, is at variance with four decades of economic research, including a finding that even large medical bills have no impact on family living standards.
CLAIM: Professor Warren wrote a book in 2003 called “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke.” In it she “…made the case that income stagnation — caused by failed pro-market policies — is killing the middle class, forcing them to take on ever greater amounts of debt to afford a traditional middle-class lifestyle.”
Has the middle class stagnated during the past 30 years? I’ve pointed to a pair of Fed studies that show middle-class wages and incomes rising since the 1970s. But CDO disqualify those studies mainly because liberal economist Jared Bernstein says they’re no good. If only there was some economist CDO respected who could back up my claims. Wait, Robert Gordon does! Here is a bit from an email Gordon sent me in 2007:
The correct statement is that correcting the upward bias of the official [consumer price index] adds more than 1 percent per year to official estimates of the growth in median and mean wages. Cumulatively since 1977, my best estimate of the upward bias in the CPI cumulates to 38 percent between 1977 and 2006. Thus if someone came along and said the male median wage adjusted for CPI inflation has been stagnant since 1977, I would translate this into a true 38 percent increase.
And don’t forget brand-new research from University of Chicago’s Bruce Meyer and Notre Dame’s James Sullivan who find that “median income and consumption both rose by more than 50 percent in real terms between 1980 and 2009.”
CLAIM: Elizabeth Warren not only helped to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Obama but has continually claimed she is about protecting consumers. She’s actually made quite a name for herself in this area.
FACT: Professor Warren consulted with an insurance company to suppress asbestos claims, hardly a trait of someone who claims to protect consumers. From The Washington Beacon:
Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren publicly supports a consumer protection platform, but records show she received more than $100,000 to help suppress personal injury lawsuits against an insurance company accused of misleading the public about the dangers of asbestos.
Warren wrote in a Supreme Court brief on behalf of Travelers that the asbestos victims’ lawsuits were part of a “global strategy developed by the asbestos plaintiffs’ bar.” Warren also criticized the victims’ “enterprising” lawyers. According to Warren:
After a full, contested evidentiary hearing, the bankruptcy court concluded that all of the pending direct action suits against Petitioners violated the 1986 confirmation order, finding as a matter of fact that these new claims were part of a global strategy developed by the asbestos plaintiffs’ bar to put Petitioners ‘in Manville’s chair’ and thereby collect on claims that had already been channeled to the Manville trust. …
And by effectively rewriting a long-final confirmation order (at precisely the time when its enforcement was necessary), the court of appeals gave enterprising plaintiffs’ lawyers an “end run” around a final federal court judgment.
Warren referred in her brief to the court’s responsibility to end “the asbestos litigation crisis.”
Elizabeth Warren is still being questioned about her Cherokee ‘minority status’ claims by reporters but a much bigger pattern of her ‘lies’ emerge when you look at the many things she has said or written even before becoming a Senatorial candidate. Most voters are unaware of Professor Warren’s continually debunked claims and outright lies because the media is not reporting them. For Warren to pretend that she wants more regulations and accountability in government, she sure has a lot of explaining to do regarding the false claims she has made and continues to make on a regular basis. How can voters trust anything Elizabeth Warren claims?
Professor Warren’s claims and the facts:
CLAIM: Based on family lore, Warren claimed she is part Cherokee. She ‘checked’ boxes claiming minority status throughout her career and Harvard listed her as being a ‘minority’ as well.
FACT: There’s no proof that Warren is part Cherokee. A genealogist did research and found the following interesting tidbit of information regarding Warren’s family:
… That in a follow up article about Warren’s ancestry he says that Smith Crawford’s husband, Jonathan Crawford, was a member of the Tennessee militia who rounded up Cherokees and herded them into government-built stockades in Ross’s Landing, which is now Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ross’s Landing was a point of origin for the Trail of Tears.
CLAIM: Professor Warren claims that she is not wealthy or not so wealthy that she has millions in investments.
FACT: Warren is a multi-millionaire who comfortably enjoys being in the top 1%. From Buzzfeed:
Hard to see how Warren wouldn’t be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she’s worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.
She also has a portfolio of investments in stocks and bonds worth as much as $8 million, according to the form, which lists value ranges for each investment.
What you have just read is a summary. I have lived this daily — literally daily — for almost a year. There are pieces of evidence I didn’t have room to include. There is so much evidence of harassment it would take you weeks to read about it.
What’s more, I know that this post is going to result in more harassment. I will almost certainly be sued, despite my careful efforts to stick to the facts. There will likely be more complaints to my workplace.
And I have a feeling they’ll find creative new ways to try to rip my life apart.
As an aside, I have listened to Brett Kimberlin in court audio, saying he meets with Congressmen on a regular basis. I want to make sure these Congressmen know what he’s doing.
I have appreciated the support I have felt in recent days, with people like Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, Stacy McCain, Ace, and many others stepping up and being willing to take on this topic.
It is my hope that the support of the blogosphere will not melt away after today. Because the harassment will almost certainly live on.
It’s an important battle to take on. And I want to stress that this should not be a partisan issue. I believe Brett Kimberlin uses lefty politics as a tool — but he doesn’t believe any of it in his heart. He is looking for a buck. I have been heartened to see left-leaning people of all stripes stand up to this guy in the past, from Mark Singer, the author of Citizen K; to Ken Ashford, who refused to give up Aaron Walker’s identity; to the left-leaning lawyer who represented Aaron pro bono.
It is my hope that left-leaning blogs will recognize that this is not a partisan issue. It is a free speech issue.
Remember how I said one of my commenters was outed? And this crew started talking about his parents? And his divorce records? For being a commenter of mine?
What happened to me could literally happen to anyone. It could happen to you.
If you take nothing else from this post, remember that. It could happen to you.
Kimberlin’s infamous criminal past could scarcely have been a secret to those who funded his organization. Kimberlin became a national political celebrity during the 1988 presidential campaign because of his claim, made while he was still serving time in federal prison, that he had once sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, who was then the Republican candidate for vice president.
Kimberlin offered no proof for that unsubstantiated allegation, but it drew the attention of award-winning journalist Mark Singer. A reporter for the New Yorker, Singer was initially sympathetic to Kimberlin, and the two men split an advance for a book deal to tell Kimberlin’s story. Singer ended the co-authorship deal after he became disillusioned by Kimberlin’s habitual dishonesty. In 1996, Singer published Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, which exposed Kimberlin as a “world-class liar” and “first-class con man.”
In fact, according to both Singer andIndianapolis Star reporter Joseph Gelarden, prosecutors suspected a particularly sinister motive for the Speedway Bomber’s terroristic rampage: To distract law enforcement officials who were investigating the July 29, 1978, murder of Julia Scyphers, the grandmother of a pre-teen girl toward whom, Gelarden wrote in 1981, Kimberlin had “strange affection . . . questionable relationship.”
Senator Shaheen is one of only 13 far left wing Democrats in the Senate to support the ‘It Gets Better’ Project led by the vile and despicable bully Dan Savage.
In June 2011, thirteen Democrat Senators embraced the “It Gets Better” Project, headed by radical homosexual agitator Dan Savage, also known as Keenan Hollahan. The list of elected co-conspirators reads like a leftist who’s who of the U.S. Senate:
This is just the latest bullying behavior from Savage there’s more from Mediate:
Real Time host Bill Maher thought he had a good soundbite when he compared Congressional Republicans to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but was quickly one-upped by “It gets better” LGBT activist Dan Savage, who said “Unfortunately not exactly like him. I wish they were all f**kin’ dead.”
Savage also posted the following disgusting diatribe to Herman Cain again from Mediate:
Dear Herman,
If being gay is a choice, show us the proof. Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself. Show America how that’s done, Herman, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick, Herman. Name the time and the place and I’ll bring my dick and a camera crew and you can suck me off and win the argument.
Very sincerely yours,
Dan Savage
This is the type of behavior and people that our elected officials back? It’s high time for some accountability from our representatives. Shaheen needs to be called out for her poor choices.
You can contact Senator Shaheen at the following:
Washington, DC 520 Hart SOB Washington, DC20510 Ph: (202) 224-2841 TTY: (202) 224-4049 Fax: (202) 228-3194
Manchester, NH 1589 Elm Street Suite 3 Manchester, NH03101 Ph: (603) 647-7500
Claremont, NH 50 Opera House Sq.Claremont, NH03743 Ph: (603) 542-4872
Nashua, NH 60 Main StreetNashua, NH03060 Ph: (603) 883-0196
Dover, NH 340 Central Avenue Suite 205Dover, NH03820 Ph: (603) 750-3004
Berlin, NH 961 Main St.Berlin, NH03570 Ph: (603) 752-6300
The New Hampshire Democrats hosted a fake “War on Women” rally in Concord yesterday. According to the site, paid for by the NH Democrats, www.nhwomenunited.org(if you look up the domain registration on whois it was purchased by NH Democrats ) it claims to: “Help defend women’s rights and pursuit of equality. Join Americans all across the United States on April 28th, 2012, as we come together as one to tell members of Congress in Washington DC and legislators in all 50 states, “Enough is enough!””
Interestingly the only issues their website discusses are abortion and forcing religious entities to pay for birth control. There is nothing about the extreme poverty rates that women are in under Obama’s economy nor is there anything about the massive numbers of women now unemployed under Obama’s economy. Of course the fact that this was all funded and created by the NH Democrats isn’t listed anywhere on the website (this is what Nancy Pelosi likes to call “astroturf”).
The rally was nothing more than a campaign push for Obama and other Democrats who have the same big government failed type policies. Apparently the NH Democrats don’t realize that when polled, the most important issues for women today are jobs and the economy . As a matter of fact, abortion and birth control are at the very bottom of the issues that are important to voters. Abortion isn’t going away and birth control is cheap to purchase. Planned Parenthood isn’t going away and they don’t need taxpayer money to survive.
In light of the recent scandalous and outrageous EBT fraudulent abuses in Boston and around the state, it’s high time Beacon Hill starts discussing the Democrats’ failed ‘War on Poverty’. In a welfare state such as Massachusetts, where even illegal aliens get free health insurance and housing courtesy of the taxpayers, it’s long overdue to question the feeble attempts by lawmakers to continue the abusive programs that are not helping people and are hurting taxpayers. The original intentions of ‘welfare’ were as a temporary ‘hand up’ to help those who were in desperate need due to circumstances out of their control. That is no longer the case in Boston or anywhere else in the country. Democrats have created an entire segment of society which consists of people (their voting base) who believe that they are entitled to housing, food, clothing and healthcare paid for through the taxes taken from others who actually work for a living. This failed ‘War on Poverty’ is really a War on Taxpayers.
It’s bad enough that some women actually believe the Democrat Party serves their best interest . It’s even worse that women buy into the Democrat lies about history – no it wasn’t the Democrat Party that fought for women’s right to vote – they fought against it. The only party to vote ‘NAY’ on the Equal Pay Act was the Democrat Party. It was the Democrat Party who put Affirmative Action into the Frank-Dodd Financial Reform bill because apparently in 2012 they believe women are too stupid to get jobs in the financial industry based on their own merit and experience.
What you have today is the Democrat Party doubling down on dumbing down women. They have got women actually believing that the Ledbetter Act is about equal pay. It isn’t. The Ledbetter Act is about lawsuits. It was a win for lawyers, not women. There were already laws in place for women to seek recourse if they were not getting equal pay for equal work. But to Democrat women, the Ledbetter Act is about equal pay and Obama is pro-women because he signed it into law. They couldn’t be more wrong.
If Obama is pro-equal pay for women why doesn’t he pay women in the White House equal pay to men? Obama was all about equal pay in his 2008 election campaign yet he didn’t pay women equally on his campaign staff . Who did? John McCain. So their big ‘champion’ of equal pay isn’t a champion at all, he’s a heel.
Democrat women have been angrier than hell over Rush Limbaugh calling fake plant activist Sandra Fluke a slut (he was wrong to do it) yet where were these same women when Bill Maher was calling Sarah Palin a c*nt and a dumb tw*t ?? They have been so dumbed down by the male-dominated Democrat Party they are nothing more than left wing puppets who will kick and scream when told you by their masters. They do it on cue even. As soon as any male on the right makes a dumb comment (they all do on both sides but interestingly only one side gets attacked by the shrill puppets), the talking points are sent out and the kicking and screaming begins.
This whole manufactured ‘GOP War on Women’ is another great example of the dumbing down of women by Democrats. Democrats believe that of the millions of women in this country abortion and birth control are the biggest issues for all of us. Are they really that stupid? Democrat women are apparently. Feel free to have all the sex you want – it is your responsibility. Have a good time and oh yeah, birth control is cheap, better yet make your partner pay for it. Democrat women don’t care that under Obama’s rule women in extreme poverty has risen to its highest level in HISTORY. Democrat women don’t care that more women are unemployed under Obama than in years. What these fools do not realize is that abortion isn’t going away. When Republicans had the White House, Congress and the SCOTUS, Roe v Wade wasn’t overturned. Ta da!
The number one issue for the majority of women in this country is the economy but to Democrat women it’s ‘hands off my uterus’ but um pay for my birth control. The Democrat Party has double downed on dumbing down women in the past few years and it’s an embarrassment. As a feminist (no not a femi-nazi, man hating beast – those women are not feminists), I’m appalled on how dumb women have become and that they’ve been led like little poodles on a leash by men. I have fought against stupid female stereotypes my entire life by working hard, studying hard and proving that I can do anything a man can do (okay really… I CAN change my oil but I’d rather not). It is 2012 and we have an entire portion of the female population who have taken feminism and thrown it in the garbage because they’d rather be puppets for men than BE the puppet masters.
UPDATE: Add Paycheck Fairness Act to this list. ANOTHER useless bill that is pandering to Democrat women for political purposes only further dumbing them down (if that’s possible). The bill again is about lawsuits and and doesn’t change the fact that we have Equal Pay laws already in place. Of course, left wing shills are screaming that anyone who is against it is against women. Are they really that dumb or are they just playing a political game being used as objects because Obama cannot run on his failed economic record?
Nothing new here. Union leaders have always ignored the law and committed crimes whenever they feel like it. Funny the first speaker talks about the right to ‘Freedom of Association’ except he is FOR FORCED UNIONISM which takes that ‘right’ AWAY. The hypocrisy and criminal element in the unions is despicable. Progressives are their ‘allies’? Guess what America – progressives are not PRO-Constitution which is why the Unions love them because neither are they.
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