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		<title>The Speaker of the House going off on &#8220;The Word&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.&#8221;
iVoteAmerica has left no doubt about our belief that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is one tick removed from midnight on the insanity clock.  This diatribe should dispel all doubt that within her head there resides [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>iVoteAmerica has left no doubt about our belief that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is one tick removed from midnight on the insanity clock.  This diatribe should dispel all doubt that within her head there resides a world undecipherable to sane people.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not entirely certain whether the Speaker&#8217;s intention was to give a policy speach or a sermon. Nonetheless, listen here to the most powerful woman in America as she gushes forth a litinany of spiritual babble in a manner that makes the BP oil spill look like a dribble.</p>
<p>At least we all understand what we are up against with respect to the BP oil spill. In this case, only God and a few highly trained psychiatrists can shed light on just how mental Nancy Pelosi really is.</p>
<p>Our prayer is &#8220;Holy God, save us from both our sins and the insanity of our leaders&#8230;amen.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Tax Cheats Rewarded with Obama Cabinet Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Daschle is no new-comer to Washington, DC. He served multiple terms as a Senator and as Senate Majority Leader. It&#8217;s difficult to believe he is naive when it comes to the game of politics, having engaged in some gamesmanship himself a time or two.
Somehow Tom Daschle has managed to find his way to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/daschle_150_styled_framed.jpg"><img src="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/daschle_150_styled_framed.jpg" alt="" title="daschle_150_styled_framed" width="150" height="204" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1396" /></a>Tom Daschle is no new-comer to Washington, DC. He served multiple terms as a Senator and as Senate Majority Leader. It&#8217;s difficult to believe he is naive when it comes to the game of politics, having engaged in some gamesmanship himself a time or two.</p>
<p>Somehow Tom Daschle has managed to find his way to the nomination as head of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama cabinet.  Daschle is the second tax cheat (Tim Geithner, being the first) to be rewarded with a major post in the administration.</p>
<p>Our new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former head of the International Monetary Fund, had to cough up more than $34,000 in back taxes that came to light during his confirmation process.  Geithner&#8217;s story was something like, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I needed to pay the taxes because I earned the money as a result of overseas employment.&#8221; Is that sort of like corporations that ship jobs overseas to avoid taxes?</p>
<p>Apparently, somehow Daschle failed to report a mere $300,000 in taxable income. Ouch! Tommy was quick to amend his tax returns AFTER being caught. He had allegedly cheated on 2005, 2006 and 2007 returns.</p>
<h4>Imagine a Different Kind of Headline</h4>
<p>Imagine the media&#8217;s response if the following headline hit the cover of the New York Times during the Bush Administration:</p>
<p>&#8220;Cheney Fails to Report $300,000 in Income.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, all is well with the mainstream, liberal media calling Daschle&#8217;s problem a &#8220;flap&#8221; (we don&#8217;t know what that is!).  Apparently, Daschle&#8217;s punishment is to quickly clean up the mess by paying the taxes and then by simply penning the all-too-common, after-the-the-fact regret by letter stating, &#8220;I apologize for the errors and profoundly regret that you have had to devote time to them&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>What was that, Tom?  You regret that the committee had to &#8220;devote time&#8230;?&#8221; What about, &#8220;I am sorry for what I have done to the American people and I am not above the law?&#8221;</p>
<p>Apparently, tax cheaters are above the law, at least in the Obama Administration and with the ever giggly mainstream media as it continues to wallow in Obamamania.</p>
<p>iVoteAmerica is now left wondering about all the pontificating President Obama did during the campaign as he railed against government corruption, insider politics and lack of accountability. Oh well, after all, he&#8217;s President now!</p>
<h4>If the Cheaters were Joe and Jane Six-Pack</h4>
<p>What if you and your neighbor had committed the same acts?  What if the average American small business owner had cheated the Country out of taxes on $300,000 income?  What could you expect if the IRS knocked on your door and said, &#8220;you&#8217;ve been cheating us, three years running?&#8221;</p>
<p>Transparency in the Obama administration means something a little different than we first thought. Transparency ala-Obama means, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to tell you who the cheaters are, make them say they are sorry and then forgive them so they can help me&#8230;total transparency&#8230;you will always know who the the liars are in my administration.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, one final thought.  Wasn&#8217;t it Vice President Joe Biden who quipped that paying taxes was &#8220;patriotic?&#8221; </p>
<p>Well, it looks like we are going to have a long four years!</p>
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		<title>ACORN: Isn&#8217;t that Some Sort of Nut?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A.C.O.R.N. is much more than a nut. ACORN is an organization that is identified by the following acronym:

A = Association of
C = Community
O = Organizations for
R = Reform
N = Now, Inc.

ACORN has its organizational hands in foreclosures, gulf coast recovery causes, campaigns to raise the minimum wage (they call this &#8220;Living Wage&#8221;) and paid sick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/acorn_150_framed.jpg"><img src="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/acorn_150_framed.jpg" alt="" title="acorn_150_framed" width="150" height="41" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1149" style="float:left;" /></a>A.C.O.R.N. is much more than a nut. ACORN is an organization that is identified by the following acronym:</p>
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<li><strong>A </strong>= Association of</li>
<li><strong>C </strong>= Community</li>
<li><strong>O </strong>= Organizations for</li>
<li><strong>R </strong>= Reform</li>
<li><strong>N </strong>= Now, Inc.</li>
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<p>ACORN has its organizational hands in foreclosures, gulf coast recovery causes, campaigns to raise the minimum wage (they call this &#8220;Living Wage&#8221;) and paid sick days as a mandated government requirement, preditory lending, utility costs, immigration issues and voter registration (&#8221;Voter Engagement&#8221;).</p>
<p>But, is ACORN nutty?  And if so, how so?</p>
<p><span id="more-1148"></span></p>
<p>On its website <a href="http://acorn.org" target="_blank">ACORN</a> bills itself as &#8220;&#8230;<em>a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization</em>.&#8221;  So, let&#8217;s focus on that phrase &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; for a bit.</p>
<h4>Mickey Mouse is Finally Registered to Vote as a Democrat</h4>
<p>ACORN is the organization behind the voter registration of some of the Dallas Cowboy football team in Nevada and the registration of Mickey Mouse in Florida. Don&#8217;t laugh, it&#8217;s true!  Referring to Mickey&#8217;s voter registration card, Brian Kettenring, ACORN&#8217;s head organizer in Florida, told the St. Petersburg Times, &#8220;We don&#8217;t think this card came through our system.&#8221;</p>
<p>ACORN employees have been compensated by productivity payments based upon how many voter registrations they secure.  ACORN claims to have signed up to 1.3 million poor and working-class voters this year in a mass registration drive in 18 states.</p>
<p>Of late, some of ACORN&#8217;s registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in several key swing states that could determine the outcome of the Presidential election in Ohio, Nevada, Connecticut, New Mexico, Missouri, and other states&#8230;nearly a dozen at last count.</p>
<p>ACORN is a 501(c)3 organization, meaning it is tax exempt and therefore, it is supposed to be unbiased in the work it performs. Yet, nearly all of its voter registrations are Democrats.</p>
<p>ACORN is clearly NOT a non-partisan organization as required under IRS rules for organization that apply for and receive the benefits of a 501(c)3 status.</p>
<h4>The Rumored Obama/ACORN Connection to Sub Prime Lending</h4>
<p>Enter Barack Obama, who advised ACORN in how to get banks to engage in sub prime loans to lower income individuals and families.  Barack Obama conducted training for ACORN&#8217;s leadership with respect to how they might intimidate banks under the guise of the &#8220;Community Reinvestment Act&#8221; to pressure executives to engage in high risk lending to predominately lower income families. </p>
<p>Just so we are not accused of being biased, here&#8217;s a report from CNN about ACORN voter registration fraud:</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a shocker for our iVoteAmerica readers. In one of the versions of the $700 billion government bail out legislation, ACORN was actually slated to receive funds as a part of the bail out.</p>
<p>Final video for your consideration:</p>
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<p>iVoteAmerica thinks this election will be one of the most turbulent ever with many lawsuits and counter-lawsuits filed by both Republicans and Democrats over the issue of voter registration.</p>
<p>Buckle your seat belt. This is going to be a wild ride.</p>
<p>When it comes to ACORN, maybe we are the nuts?</p>
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		<title>Too Little Too Late?  Can McCain Compete?</title>
		<link>http://ivoteamerica.com/2008/10/13/too-little-too-late-can-mccain-compete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently said, &#8220;If the stock market can climb 800 point for 5 days before the election and if Osama Bin Laden is captured John McCain might have a chance to be elected President of the United States.&#8221;
iVoteAmerica agrees. Although, recent calls for a shake up in the McCain campaign would also help, together with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/johnmccainofficial_150_styled_framed.jpg"><img src="http://ivoteamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/johnmccainofficial_150_styled_framed.jpg" alt="" title="johnmccainofficial_150_styled_framed" width="150" height="202" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1118" style="float:left;" /></a>Someone recently said, &#8220;If the stock market can climb 800 point for 5 days before the election and if Osama Bin Laden is captured John McCain might have a chance to be elected President of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>iVoteAmerica agrees. Although, recent calls for a shake up in the McCain campaign would also help, together with a strong showing in the next debate.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get real, however. The Barack Obama train has implemented the most sophisticated election strategy in history.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s skillful use of the Internet, early focus on caucuses, new registrations, younger voters, smaller contributions, rejection of public funding, carefully targeted advertisement and his self-styled low-keyed, reasoned persona has truly transformed election strategies of the future.</p>
<p>McCain&#8217;s bulky, old-line approach leaves him with a serious image issue. He looks old, he sounds old and he debates with an old line style.  If it walks like a duck&#8230;well, you get it.</p>
<p>McCain still has time to win but it will require him and his staff to walk, error free, on the razor&#8217;s edge for another 22 days.</p>
<p>It may be too little, too late for John McCain. </p>
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