Archive for August 8th, 2008

It’s a great thing to have a local radio show host who’s as hard hitting as some of the top conservative talkers on the nationwide radio dial. Peter Heck, who’s based in Kokomo, Indiana, has been using his radio show to call out Joe Donnelly for his failed energy policy of votes against domestic drilling. Yesterday Heck did a great job of expounding on some of Donnelly’s votes against domestic drilling and expanded refinery capacity.

Apparently Donnelly, who’s been on the show once, isn’t interested in explaining his votes to constituents because he’s refusing to come back on the show to explain what’s he’s been up too. So much fore the “independent voice” idea; you can’t be a “voice” when you are silent.

Standing as a stark alternative to Joe Donnelly is Luke Puckett. Luke’s message is this simple: I am going to Washington to fight out-of-touch politicians who are doing nothing to lower your gas prices.

Listen to Peter Heck’s segment on Joe Donnelly below.

 

 Peter Heck Calling out Congressman Joe Donnelly: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Congressman Baron Hill was a guest on AM 1370’s Afternoon Edition today, so I called in and brought up that Hill endorsed Barack Obama in the state’s Democratic Party primary over Hillary Clinton. I brought up that while Clinton voted for the Born Alive Infants Protection Act at the federal level, Obama opposed the law while in the Illinois state legislature. (The Born Alive Infants Protection Act makes it illegal to kill a baby that survives an abortion and is born.) I asked Hill a very simple question. “Why did you endorse a candidate who defends infanticide?” Baron Hill’s immediate response was:

“I take exception to what you just said.”

I kid you not. That is a direct quote.

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Gabrielle Campo will kickoff her 2008 Indiana 7th Congressional District campaign on Saturday, August 9th at 9:00 AM. Location is 1109 N Shadeland Ave, Indianapolis.

Here’s an interview she recently recorded with the staff of Hoosier Access Radio

 

 Gabrielle Campo [12:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Yesterday I drove to Seymour, Indiana for a town hall meeting by 9th district Congressman Dumbocrat Baron Hill at the Seymour City Hall. Scott Fluhr, the Harrison County Republican Chair was also in attendance. The crowd was overwhelming, as you can see below.

From Scott’s blog at Hoosier Pundit:

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House Republicans have been going strong all week long continuing to poor on the pressure to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring back congress and allow an up or down vote on drilling.

Today, Hoosier Congressmen, Mike Pence and Dan Burton, are front and center in the call to allow a vote. Congressman Burton was on the floor a few moments ago and had this to say:

“We have probably 50 Democrats who will vote with the Republicans to pass energy legislation. Nancy Pelosi is the only person who won’t allow it to come to a vote. That’s just wrong.” “We could stop $700 billion from going over seas to hostile nations and tin horn dictators and we could add 100,000 energy jobs if we pass an energy bill and gain our energy independence.”

While Congressman Pence summed up the effect a single call from a congressional Democrat to Pelosi could have on the debate:

“One call from a House Democrat member to Pelosi would be worth 1,000 calls from citizens.”

(H/T - House Republican Policy Committee and Robert Bluey’s twitter feed)

Democrats seem eager for Nels Ackerson to debate Steve Buyer in every county in the 4th District.

They don’t seem so eager for Baron Hill to debate Mike Sodrel in every county in the 9th District.

I can’t help but wonder the reason for the inconsistency.

(And, for the record, I think that Buyer should debate his opponent; Ackerson is a liberal beltway carpetbagger, and Buyer would own him in a debate.)

“America is… uh… is no longer, uh… what it could be, what it once was.”

So the Obamassiah wants to be President of the United States because the country sucks, and its best days are behind it?

That message, appalling as it is, doesn’t jive with what his wife has been saying.

She was never even proud of America until her husband was running to be president:

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As the Olympics start today, Congressman Pence’s statement regarding forced abortions and other human rights violations in China should give us a stark reminder of what really is going on there even when the games are taking place.

PENCE CALLS FOR END TO CHINA’S FORCED ABORTION POLICY
“China is a Police State”

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Congressman Mike Pence gave the following speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today (Thursday, July, 30th), speaking out against Beijing, China as the site for the 2008 Olympic Games and citing China’s official policy of forced abortion as going against the very ideals of the Games:

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and thank him for his strong moral leadership on this issue. I want to commend the Ranking Member and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee for having the moral courage to bring this resolution to the House before Congress adjourns.

“It is important that we speak truth to power. And with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing about to begin, it is important that the people of the United States be heard on our ideals as athletes from around the world and global media descend on China.

“It is important that we say as the late Tom Lantos, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a hearing last year, a few months before his death: ‘China is a police state.’

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