How Virginia's Congressmen Voted ON GIVING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES A 30 BILLION $$ RAISE

from Eric Cantors website..

As part of his FY 2011 Budget submission President proposed raising federal civilian pay by 1.4% beginning in January of next year. This will be on top of the 2.0% raise federal civilian employees received this past January, the 3.9% raise they received the previous January, and the 3.5% raise they received the January before that. Freezing federal civilian pay at the current level for one year would save approximately $2 billion next year and $30 billion over ten years.

The Up-Or-Down Vote On This Cut

Each week, the public votes on one of five wasteful spending items, then the House votes on the item chosen by the people. You told Washington where you stood, here is how your Representatives in Washington stood.


VOTED NO TO CUT
Rep. Rick Boucher
Virginia - 9

Rep. Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly (D)
Virginia - 11

Rep. Jim Moran (D)
Virginia - 8

Rep. Tom Perriello (D)
Virginia - 5

Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D)
Virginia - 3

Rep. Frank Wolf (R)
Virginia - 10


Why did frank wolf vote against his party to give federal employees a raise????

VOTED YES TO CUT

Rep. Rick Boucher
Virginia - 9

Rep. Eric Cantor
Virginia - 7

Rep. J. Randy Forbes
Virginia - 4

Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Virginia - 6

Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Virginia - 1

VIA GATEWAYPUNDIT..According to Cato Institute: In June 2009, total compensation per hour was $39.66 in the public sector, which was 45 percent greater than the average $27.42 per hour in the private sector. The public sector advantage in average wages was 34 percent, while the advantage in benefits was a huge 70 percent… Average compensation in the private sector was $59,909 in 2008, including $50,028 in wages and $9,881 in benefits. Average compensation in the public sector was $67,812, including $52,051 in wages and $15,761 in benefits.

Taking some Time Off

Summer is here and unless a Tea Party Rally is organized or needed I'll be taking some time off from blogging and politics. November is coming up and we all need to be refreshed and ready to roll!

Obama's approval numbers keep dropping and he and the socialists in his party have been somewhat neutered from advancing their agenda.

If you live in the 11th congressional district, please don't forget to vote in the Republican Primary on June 8th
I support Keith Fimian and believe he is the best candidate
Pat Herrity is running against Keith
Either of these candidates will be a huge improvement over that corrupt far left liberal Gerry Connolly.

I will be posting sporadically, so feel free to check in.

Cuccinelli subpoenas Ex UVA Professor

Former UVA professor Michael Mann had admitted in an email that he used a statistical "trick" in his research
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II is demanding that the University of Virginia turn over a broad range of documents from a former professor to determine whether he defrauded taxpayers as he sought grants for global warming research.

Go Get em Cuccinelli!

Does Obama want to Destroy America?

But in his mind he is not trying to destroy America simply because he wants utter destruction and devastation to be the only outcome. You see, mere destruction isn’t his end goal as those on the right fear. In his left-wing ideology, he thinks after America’s fall he and his left-wing comrades will be building a new and better U.S.A. Where real Americans see destruction and the end of everything, the leftists see a re-birth to a better and, in their eyes, more moral America. He and his left-wing friends see the U.S. as a Phoenix rising from the ashes of the bad old days..

read it all at BigGovernment

Webb Votes For VAT, Warner hides under desk

YES. HE. DID.
Jim Webb was one of the 13 senators who opposed this amendment, thus putting him on the record in support of a VAT tax on top of our income tax.
Mark Warner was one of the 2 senators who did not vote at all.

Here is a list of the other dirt bag Politicians who can't wait to take more of YOUR Money...
Via Tertium Quids
* Daniel Akaka, Hawaii
* Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico
* Sherrod Brown, Ohio
* Robert Byrd, West Virginia
* Ben Cardin, Maryland
* Byron Dorgan, North Dakota
* Ted Kaufman, Delaware
* Carl Levin, Michigan
* Jack Reed, Rhode Island
* Tom Udall, New Mexico
* George Voinovich, Ohio
* Jim Webb, Virginia
* Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island

Governor McDonnell's Budget Specifics

Details here...
I was not happy to read this....
McDonnell prevailed on a proposal that would prohibit local governments from cutting retirement benefits for state and local government employees.

We need to cut state employee salaries and benefits before Virginia is the next California..

Sorry about light Blogging

Been sick for the last week... beginning to feel better so things will pick up on Monday.

In the meantime.. have a good weekend !

These are the Kind of People Teaching Our Children

It's Time we Take Control of the Schools and Get rid of the Teacher Unions



HADDONFIELD, N.J. — They're the kind of obscenity-laced schoolyard taunts that could get a student suspended.
But the target of this tirade is New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie — and the perpetrators are the state's teachers, irate over his calls for salary freezes and funding cuts for schools.
In Facebook messages visible to the world — not to mention their students — the teachers have called Christie fat, compared him to a genocidal dictator and wished he was dead. The postings are often riddled with bad grammar and misspellings.
"Never trust a fat f...," read one profane post on the Facebook page, "New Jersey Teachers United Against Governor Chris Christie's Pay Freeze," which has some 69,000 fans, many of them teachers.
"How do you spell A-- hole? C-H-R-I-S C-H-R-I-S-T-I-E," read another.
The rhetoric has become ever more heated as residents of most of the state's school districts get ready to vote Tuesday on property tax levies that support district budgets. And while many of the postings are emotional, most aren't personal attacks.

Christie, a first-year Republican governor who inherited a state in dire financial straits, wants voters to reject the proposals in districts where educators won't agree to salary freezes for the coming school year.

The acrimony intensified last month when Christie proposed cutting state and federal aid to districts by 11 percent, calling it a way to share sacrifice as the state tries to rein in spending.
That's when the Facebook attacks really took off.
One educator, a librarian with a Master's degree, described the cuts as "rediculous."
Another pointed out that Christie's late mother was a member of the teachers union: "It's not right to bite the hand that feeds you. Oh I forgot it's Chirs Christie, He's so large I bet he'd bite anything that's put in front of his face!"
"Remember Pol Pot, dictator of Cambodia?" warned another. "He reigned in terror, his target was teachers and intellectuals. They were either killed or put into forced labor... King Kris Kristy is headed in this direction."

Christie's supporters have responded with a Facebook page of their own. "Teachers need to sit down and shut up. They live in a dream world where they work 180 days a year," it asserted. "Way overpaid to start with, they could never make it working in the real world."
Even in these tough economic times, teachers in most New Jersey districts have continued to get annual negotiated raises — often around 4 percent — and don't have to help pay for their health insurance.
So Christie has offered more money to districts that can get teachers unions to revise their contracts and freeze salaries for the upcoming school year — and agree to start paying 1.5 percent of their salaries toward their health insurance.
So far, teachers in only 20 of the state's 590 school districts have agreed to any concessions.
In 2006, the last year for which data was available, New Jersey teachers made an average of $58,000. The salary, in one of the highest cost-of-living states, was fourth in the nation.
Earlier this month, an opinion column in the Star-Ledger of Newark, the state's largest newspaper, took teachers to task for their attacks on the governor.
"Here are words to live by from a guy teaching you critical life tools," it said of one expletive-ridden post. "Write them down. There might be a quiz."
Some have cooled the rhetoric and even apologized.
After a New Jersey teacher's union wished Christie dead — like "my favorite singer, Michael Jackson" — the group's president, Joe Coppola of the Bergen County Education Association, called it a bad attempt at humor and apologized.
Christie's people weren't impressed. "The union is, has been, and probably always will be a bully," the governor's spokesman, Michael Drewniak, said in an interview last week.
It's Christie who's the real bully, asserted Marlene Brubaker, a Camden County Technical School science teacher who wrote the post comparing the governor to the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot.
"I'm not saying this guy is killing us physically," she said. "I would say he's trying to kill us spiritually," by disrespecting teachers and spreading the myth that they're overpaid.
Her salary, which public records show is a bit more than $50,000 a year, isn't enough to make ends meet, she added, so she also has to tutor and work as a home health aide.
The debate appears to be taking a slightly more civil course lately, especially after the founder of the anti-Christie page was shut out from posting on the site for about a week because of all the hateful comments.
"I have deleted and will continue to delete commets comparing Governor Christie to genocidal maniacs," read a recent post, complete with a typo. "He is not a genocidal maniac. He is a crappy governor."

Obama doesn't Appreciate Free Speech

you have to go to the 5 minute mark

Obama gets testy

Pictures from Tax Day Tea Party in DC

Go here for more

my favorite...

DEMS RAISE TAXES IN FAIRFAX

As the economy tanks and property values go down Democrats raise property taxes

The board, which had formally indicated it might raise property taxes as much as 12 cents, instead would raise taxes five cents to $1.09 per $100 of assessed value.

And homeowners will be paying more to register vehicles.

And other levies will rise.

A tax designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay by upgrading storm-water drainage systems will add an additional half a cent to property tax bills.

Sewer taxes would also rise 17 percent, costing the average homeowner about $90 more a year.


fyi... democrats have the majority on the board so they will always vote for higher taxes..

Tea Party Rap

FUN!

Time to Break the Teachers Unions

This isn't just New Jersey, this is happening all over the country. It's time to put an end to it.
Teachers Union Boss Behaves Like a UNION THUG

The childish behavior is only the latest in an ongoing NJEA public relations campaign against Christie because of his decision to cut education funding, including $819 million for next school year, to close the gap on a multi-billion dollar state budget deficit.
Christie cut the current year’s school aid by $415 million, but offered to restore some funding to schools where teachers agreed to wage freezes. Of course, NJEA leaders aren’t happy about the potential concessions, and local union leaders continue to mull the possibility, the Express-Times reports.
Their indecision has forced school administrators across the state to plan for the worse case – massive teacher layoffs, program cuts, and skyrocketing class sizes.
“What they could accomplish by (accepting some concessions) would be saving the jobs of colleagues and programs. This is not an unreasonable request,” Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak told the Express-Times.

There are numerous states including Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, California and others where teachers unions are facing the same situation. So far, most National Education Association affiliates have refused to help, and thousands of young, eager educators are filing into the unemployment office.
We remain amazed and baffled by the stubborn refusal of leaders of the NJEA and other state teachers unions who either don’t understand the gravity of the education funding crisis, or don’t care.
The solution, in their eyes, seems to hinge on more school funding through increased taxes at a time when the public cannot afford it. In most cases, school districts have instituted cuts in virtually every area of the school budget except teacher wages and benefits, which gobble up the vast majority of school funds.
All eyes are now on the teachers unions for help.
Unfortunately, union brass seem more concerned with petty personal attacks and distortion tactics designed to discredit state leaders focused on fiscal responsibility.
“We’re going to be working very hard to convince the legislature the governor’s priorities are the wrong priorities for New Jersey,” NJEA spokesman Steve Baker told the Express-Times.
We find it ironic that union officials like Mr. Baker continue to preach about priorities while racking in hundreds of millions of tax dollars from dues-paying members who are often forced from their jobs because of their union’s stubbornness.
It’s interesting that America’s teachers unions continue to rally on the steps of state capitals to demand more money for public education, while spending a fortune to lobby lawmakers on issues like abortion or gay rights, which have nothing to do with educating kids.

More on State Pensions at the Atlantic

Is the Tea Party Movement Getting too Big to Succeed?

Erick Erickson asks, answers and tells us what direction he's heading in...

a bunch of tea parties, or at least one saying it was doing it for more, put out a press release announcing the birth of the National Tea Party Federation, which is not an organization, not a structure, not a new set of leaders, but an evolution of alliances of 19 tea party organizations and a handful of other groups, except for the Tea Party Patriots, which has worked overtime to be simply a volunteer group of concerned activists who neither get paid nor make money. Yeah, I have a soft spot for Tea Party Patriots living up to their ideal.

I have always worked on behalf of Tea Party Patriots, I never collected dues, held meetings or had political ambitions.. The infighting and competition between some people operating under the Tea Party Label in Virginia turned me off and left me here to operate my little tea party group through this blog and email list. It was obvious to me after the 912 March that the Tea Party meme was being swallowed up by larger more politically savvy and ambitious people who had their own political agendas and wanted to bottle the energy of a true grassroots movement. I stay true and connected to Tea Party Patriots. And Eric Erickson has a great point, now is the time to put down the protest signs and get behind candidates we want to win in 2010 and 2012. The best way is to volunteer and raise money even if the candidate doesn't live in our district
I would love to know what your views are...

Update over at RedState Be sure to read the comments

Democrats Plan to Attack Supreme Court Judges who Follow the Constitution

Picking a Supreme Court Judge the Alinsky way
from Politico

Democrats hope to turn the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a referendum of sorts on controversial recent decisions by the Roberts court — portraying the conservative majority as a judicial Goliath trampling the rights of average Americans.

alinsky's rules for radicals here

The Heritage Foundation's New Advocacy Group

Heritage Action for America
Heritage Action for America will answer the growing demand to play a more active and effective role in national policy debates. We will ensure members of Congress hear directly from their constituents, including over 630,000 members of The Heritage Foundation and millions of others around the country who believe in our principles and share our vision of America's future.

Heritage Action for America will allow unprecedented coordination and communication with concerned citizens who want to be part of the national dialogue. Our country stands at a precipice. The size and scope of the federal government is growing at unprecedented rates. The American people are increasingly aware of this and looking for more opportunities to make their voices heard and impact the decisions of their elected representatives. Heritage Action for America will speak directly to the American people in order to break through the establishment in Washington.

Democrats Plan on Crashing Tea Parties with Racist Signs

http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/
via Instapundit and Tigerhawk
who owns the site HERE

Why Won't Gerry Connolly Come Clean About the terrorist-linked Dar Al-Hijrah Fundraiser?

BIGGOVERNMENT.COM is thankfully not going to let this story go away....

Congressman Jim Moran and Governor and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine confirmed they had not attended. Moran’s press secretary stated that he was abroad in Turkey over the weekend, while the DNC Press Secretary stated that Governor Kaine “didn’t receive an invitation and didn’t attend.” The other three – Gerry Connolly, Sharon Bulova and Penny Gross – refused to comment.
How long can Representative Gerry Connolly and supervisors Gross and Bulova cover up whether they attended? More importantly, is Connolly covering up the fact that he did attend, to hide his continuing radical connections from responsible citizens – including patriotic Muslims - in his own district? Or is he covering up the fact that he did not attend, so he doesn’t offend the Islamist allies whose support he has have counted on in the past?

Either way, it’s time to end the cover-up. It’s time for a clear-cut answer: “Yes” or “No.”

Congressman Gerry Connolly 202-225-1492

Chairwoman Sharon Bulova 703-324-2321

Supervisor Penny Gross 703-256-7717

Tea Party Rally Call

Here we go again.. President Putz doesn't have the votes

Unclear As Of Now if Senate Will Have Votes to Ratify New Disarmament Treaty

Wrote the Republican Senators: "As you know, it is highly unlikely that the Senate would ratify a treaty that includes such a linkage, including a treaty that includes unilateral declarations that the Russian Federation could use as leverage against you or your successors when U.S. missile defense decisions are made."

The McConnell/Kyl letter to the president noted that a December 15 letter to the President from 41 senators reminded him that section 1251 of last year's defense authorization act "required that the Administration submit a 10 year plan for the modernization of the U.S. nuclear deterrent at the same time it submits the follow-on to the 1991 START Agreement to the Senate for its advice and consent."

McConnell said that "the Obama administration will need to meet three requirements if it expects favorable consideration of the START follow on treaty. The Senate will assess whether or not the agreement is verifiable, whether it reduces our Nation’s ability to defend itself and our allies from the threat of nuclear armed missiles, and whether or not this administration is committed to preserving our own nuclear triad."