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- House to take up Patriot Act extension next week
- Tea Party Leads Blue Law Repeal? Alcohol Sales on Sunday in Georgia?
- Sarah Palin: America Needs to ‘Reconnect’ With Reagan’s Values
- Palin Says Reagan Would View Health-Care Law With ‘Outrage’
- Rick Scott to unveil state budget at tea party in rural Florida
- District Liked Its Earmarks, Then Elected Someone Who Didn’t
| House to take up Patriot Act extension next week Posted: 05 Feb 2011 11:12 AM PST
The House is poised to vote next week on legislation renewing key provisions of the counterterrorism surveillance law known as the Patriot Act that are set to expire this month. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) office announced Friday that the House will consider a bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) that would extend three provisions of the law enacted after the 9/11 terror attacks through Dec. 8, 2011. One of the provisions authorizes the FBI to continue using roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; the second allows the government to access “any tangible items,” such as library records, in the course of surveillance; and the third is a “lone wolf” provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act that allows for surveillance of targets who are not connected to an identified terrorist group. All three would expire on Monday, Feb. 28, unless Congress moves to extend them. Civil liberties advocates have contended that the Patriot Act gives the government too much latitude in conducting surveillance activities, intruding into the lives of private citizens. Proponents of the law argue that it is essential to national security in an era of evolving terrorist threats. To read more, visit: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/house-to-take-up-patriot-act-e.html |
| Tea Party Leads Blue Law Repeal? Alcohol Sales on Sunday in Georgia? Posted: 05 Feb 2011 11:04 AM PST
You just might see it — the actual sale of alcohol on Sunday in Georgia. At present, it is against the law for package beer, wine, and liquor to be sold on Sunday within the state. But a new bill being introduced in the Georgia legislature could change all that. And it appears that the reason for the passage of HB10 has a lot to do with members of the tea party. According to Jim Galloway at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the blue law is on the fast track to repeal. Once a standing unassailable political monolith and fought for by those attempting to preserve southern traditions and southern religious values, support for the blue law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday has slowly been losing support over the years. The most dominant argument for continuing the blue law has come from Christians and religious affiliated group whose goal is to maintain a “holy” and alcohol-free Sabbath (traditionally, a Sunday). But the bill has nothing to do with maintaining and keeping of Sabbath traditions, or so says Sen. John Bulloch, R-Ochlocknee. He is introducing the legislation, which just passed through the Senate committee unimpeded. He says that the bill is all about local control, a common mantra that resonates within the tea party members of the Republican Party. Galloway also mentions the new bill’s success is partially due as well to the absence of former governor Sonny Perdue and his “Southern Baptist, non-alcoholic persuasions.” That, and the near total absence of Christian anti-alcohol lobbying in the state capital. To read more, visit: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110205/tr_ac/7786516_tea_party_leads_blue_law_repeal_alcohol_sales_on_sunday_in_georgia |
| Sarah Palin: America Needs to ‘Reconnect’ With Reagan’s Values Posted: 05 Feb 2011 10:57 AM PST
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin said Friday night that the U.S. has veered too far from the values of President Ronald Reagan and warned that government overspending will lead to “decline and defeat.” Speaking at an event to celebrate Reagan’s 100th birthday, Palin launched a broad attack on big government and increased federal spending. “This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to national ruin,” Palin said at the event, which was sponsored by the conservative Young Americas Foundation in Santa Barbara. “American exceptionalism is not exceptionally big government.” Palin said she considered herself to be a “western conservative in the spirit of Ronald Reagan,” urged Americans to “reconnect” with the principles of limited government promoted by President Reagan. “Those values will lead us back to prosperity,” she said. To read more, visit: http://abcnews.go.com/US/sarah-palin-america-reconnect-reagans-values/story?id=12848357 |
| Palin Says Reagan Would View Health-Care Law With ‘Outrage’ Posted: 05 Feb 2011 10:49 AM PST
Sarah Palin, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, said the U.S. is at a "crisis point" as the Obama administration pursues policies that will lead to "decline and defeat." "If President Reagan were alive today" the hills in California "would echo with his outrage" over the enactment of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, she said last night at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. The 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former Alaska governor gave the keynote address at a Young America's Foundation tribute to the centennial of former President Ronald Reagan's birth on Feb. 6, 1911. Palin, 46, focused on a speech Reagan gave in 1964 on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, in which he discussed the dangers of high taxes and government regulations. "We face the same choices now as we did then, only now we are in even worse shape," she said. She called for cutting federal spending, overhauling entitlement programs for future recipients and reducing government regulation. "Government created the problem, now government presents itself as the solution trying to convince us that we can win the future," Palin said, referring to a theme of Obama's Jan. 25 State of the Union address. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-05/palin-says-reagan-would-view-health-care-law-with-outrage-.html |
| Rick Scott to unveil state budget at tea party in rural Florida Posted: 05 Feb 2011 10:44 AM PST
Rick Scott wants to throw himself a tea party over the Florida budget. The new Republican governor reached out to tea-party organizers to host a budget-roll out event next week in Eustis, a rural town about 190 miles from the state Capitol, where governors traditionally unveil their spending proposals. The event underscores Scott’s likely commitment to propose a budget with large cuts in spending, fees and taxes — which has been met with skepticism by legislators, who aren’t sure how to slash up to $2 billion in taxes and fees while the state faces a shortfall that could top $4 billion next budget year. But calling for less government spending and revenue is like serving sugar, milk and crumpets to the tea party, an amorphous conservative-leaning movement that fired up the Republican base in the last election. “The tea party isn’t a rubber stamp for anyone,” said Sullivan, adding that she’s “honored” Scott reached out to the movement so he could share his budget first with them. She said about 27 groups of roughly 50 have sent RSVPs for the event, which could draw thousands Monday to Eustis’ Ferran Park. Like his predecessor Charlie Crist, Scott has leaked small parts of his proposed budget to friendly media outlets and friendly crowds without being pressed for many details. To read more, visit: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/05/2052275/rick-scott-to-unveil-state-budget.html#ixzz1D6xbYrUn |
| District Liked Its Earmarks, Then Elected Someone Who Didn’t Posted: 05 Feb 2011 10:37 AM PST
In the villages, towns and cities of the 19th Congressional District north of New York City, the signs of federal largess are all over: money for a library in South Salem, road improvements in Peekskill, renovations on an aging bridge in Dover and a communications network for the Police Department in Tuxedo. The projects have drawn strong support from community activists, business leaders and local politicians of both major parties. But the stream of federal money that has long financed such projects, in this Hudson Valley district and elsewhere in the nation, is about to dry up. And some residents of the district may be surprised to learn who one of the main instigators is: Nan Hayworth, the district's new representative, who was swept into office last fall along with other Tea Party-backed candidates bent on changing Washington's ways. Congress, prodded by outspoken newcomers like Ms. Hayworth, this week essentially imposed a temporary ban on earmarks, money for projects that individual lawmakers slip into major Congressional budget bills to cater to local demands. The criticism that she and her colleagues level at earmarking is not new: that some of the projects are silly and the process is rife with waste and abuse, partly because lawmakers do not typically have to justify their requests in grant proposals, hearings and the like. But the moratorium about to take effect has transformed a largely abstract policy debate in Washington into something very tangible for people in Ms. Hayworth's district. Now, civic activists, local officials and residents are scratching their heads, unpersuaded about the soundness of scrapping a system that has provided the district with money for libraries, parks, roads, bridges and the like. Ken Schmitt, the Republican supervisor of Carmel, supported Ms. Hayworth in her campaign. But he is among many in the district who can point to benefits that earmarks provided his town: nearly $150,000 to buy high-technology cameras for police cruisers in 2009. "Do I support banning them completely? No, I don't," Mr. Schmitt said, adding that each project should be considered on its own merits. Steve Axinn, the president of Lake Oscawana Civic Association, agreed. "Not all earmarks are the same," he said. "There are some that are good and some that are clearly abusive. It is the responsibility of our elected representatives to know the difference." Mr. Axinn, a lawyer who is registered as a Democrat, knows a good bit about the subject. He was instrumental in persuading Ms. Hayworth's predecessor, John Hall, a Democrat, to deliver $400,000 in earmark financing to reduce the high levels of phosphorous in Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley. "This was a good thing that could not have been done without that grant," he said. Ms. Hayworth is unconvinced. "I am not questioning the worthiness of filtering Lake Oscawana," she said in a recent interview. But, she asked, "Is this a project to which federal tax dollars should be directed, or is this a project another authority should be responsible for?" To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/nyregion/05earmarks.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all |
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