Bush's Legacy - More Homeless Families

How many people are homeless? The best approximation is from a study in 2007 done by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty which states that approximately 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year. The study suggest that the United States generates homelessness at a much higher rate than previously thought due to severe economic reversals and large-scale job losses. Almost 10 million homeowners are upside down or just about upside down on their mortgage & that is a conservative estimate.
That's ten million potentially more homeless families in the most powerful & richest country in the world. Will this be part of the Bush legacy? It should be the most prominent one along with the ill-fated Iraq war. Will this fact be displayed in the Bush Presidential Library? No way or if it is included it will be someone else’s fault most likely Clinton or the Congress.
Texas alone has 2.7 million or 16% of home owners caught in this trap & that number is growing every day. Why then would Texan continue to support the failed policies of deregulation & continue to vote against their own self interest by voting for anyone connected with this catastrophe? That is why this election is so critical. Think before you vote. Vote for change up and down the ballot.

IN WITH BUSH OUT WITH BUSH PART 2

Senator John Cornyn another politician that came into office with George W. More than any member of Congress, the former state Supreme Court justice and attorney general has tied his political fortunes to his fellow Texan at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Last year, he voted with Bush 90.5 percent of the time, more than any other U.S. senator, according to Congressional Quarterly. And their personal ties stretch back to Texas, to a shared culture and history, long before Bush set his eyes upon the White House.
Cornyn’s voting record indicates that he has not representing the people of Texas. Cornyn is rated 100% by the US Chamber of Commerce, proving a pro-business voting record. He rated 27% by the National Education Association, indicating anti-public education votes.
Despite being in the Senate only one term, Cornyn is the fifth highest recipient of oil money. Cornyn has taken $830,725 from big oil & he has taken $1,144,035 in donations from the energy industry as a whole. Cornyn voted against repealing taxpayer funded giveaways to oil companies.
He voted against a much needed new GI Bill to expand education for veterans. The Bill passed anyway. Cornyn voted against an amendment that would provide a permanent expansion of education benefits for post-Sept. 11 veterans, temporarily extend unemployment insurance benefits, and place a moratorium through March 2009 on seven Medicaid regulations proposed by the administration.
He came in with Bush vote him out with Bush.

IN WITH BUSH OUT WITH BUSH!!

Ralph Hall will only hinder any effort to change the way Congress operates. He is a Congressman who promotes the status quo and not likely to support change of any kind unless it benefits Ralph Hall. Nearly a year before the election in 2004, Ralph Hall forsake the Democratic Party & switched to the Republican Party. Showing his disloyalty to the members of the Democratic Party who worked tirelessly to elect him to congress for nearly a quarter-century Hall said "I think I can get re-elected much easier if I run as a Republican.” Hall closely aligned himself with George Bush saying "I'm not comfortable in the caucus with them running down a president that I've known since he was 11." & "I've known (President Bush) since he was a young boy. He's a Texan and he was the governor and he's our friend." As part of the deal to switch, the Republican Party allowed Hall to keep his seniority & he became chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Confirming the relationship President Bush said "I welcome Congressman Ralph Hall to the Republican Party," Bush said. "Ralph is a close friend of the Bush family."

Hall's constituents in the Texas 4th congressional district would like to know the answers to the following questions:
What did he mean when he said “I’m not in big oils pocket but I am by their side”?
Why he voted against the new GI Bill?
How he escaped being linked to the Abramoff scandal after being his go to guy in
Congress?
Why he keeps taking oil money over $400,000 so far?
Is that why Hall said "I would drill on my grandfather’s grave if it could give us a little more energy” in a recent TV news report?
Why did he support the torture of water boarding as an interrogation tool?
How he could support the suspension of due process or habeas corpus?
Why he did not stop the assault on the 4th amendment which ensures that we the people shall be free from unreasonable search and seizure without due process of law?
Why he is against any minimum wage law?
When is he going to represent you instead of wealthy corporate interests?

IN WITH BUSH OUT WITH BUSH."

Elect Glenn Melancon for The Texas 4th Congressional District.

Jim Adolf Sent Us This Gem

October 21, 2008
Obama's endorsements


Barack Obama has been racking up an amazing array of endorsements from directions that normally lean conservative; in fact, the Chicago Tribune has never endorsed a Democrat for president in its history. Nationwide, he is leading in newspaper endorsements by 112 to 39 at this writing, probably unprecedented considering the general conservative leaning of the American press (big-city East Coast dailies notwithstanding).

Remember When the Senate Issued an Apology for Failure on Lynching Law?

There have been 4,742 recorded lynchings in American history half or more were African Americans, Historians suspect that many more went undocumented. Although the House passed anti-lynching legislation three times in the first half of the 20th century, the Senate, controlled by Southern conservatives, repeatedly refused to do so.
Of the 100 senators, 80 were co-sponsors of the resolution, and because it passed by voice vote, senators escaped putting themselves on record. 20 of the 100 senators had not signed a statement of support of it shortly before a vote was taken on a nearly empty Senate floor.
Here are the 20 Senators who refused to co-sponsor the anti-lynching resolution that passed, and refused a roll-call vote so they'd have to put their name on the resolution.

A Wall of Shame: 19 Republicans and 1 Democrat

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

Murvin R. Auzenne said it best in his letter to Cornyn.

Senator Cornyn:

The historic resolution apologizing for the historic evil of lynching passed without your signature or apparent support. Why?

I am angry, I am embarrassed. This was not a hard call. This was not a controversial or ideological issue. It was a gesture of simple justice, a gesture of healing for a litany of wrongs of which lynching was simply the most blatant and obviously evil.

You sir, have shown yourself in this matter to be either without ethical compass or crassly in love with power. So much so, that you won't support a simple gesture of justice for fear of losing votes.

You should ashamed