Karen Kwiatkowski: No whining, Mr. Goodlatte!
Good people across the country and in the Sixth Congressional District recently handed Bob Goodlatte a major defeat.
Goodlatte had drafted, introduced, and co-sponsored the now infamous SOPA “Internet blacklist” bill. This lousy legislation contained assaults on the First, Fourth and 14th amendments – and Bob, who read the Constitution as recently as last January on the floor of the House, should have known that.
Instead, members of Congress (mostly Democrats, and Bob), who had accepted millions from Hollywood, the pharmaceutical industry, and the auto parts industry, did what they were paid to do. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Blackout? Internet blacklist? Blame Bob Goodlatte
SOPA is extremely bad legislation, and it was written and introduced by Bob Goodlatte, in his role as Chairman of the Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee, late last year. SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has taken much of the criticism. But the bill is Bob’s baby.
Bob’s bad bill creates blacklisting, increases bureaucratic power over Internet providers and users, and is technologically misaligned with – and even destructive of – the architecture of the Internet. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Agenda 21 is not conservative – will Rep. Goodlatte take note?
On Jan. 14, 2012, the Republican National Committee unanimously voted to expose and condemn the United Nations Agenda 21. This may be a shock to many GOP incumbents in Congress who receive campaign donations, pre-drafted legislation, and “expert” advice from Agenda 21-inspired advocates of centralized and global human management.
The RNC resolution explains Agenda 21 as “a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering and global political control, that was initiated at the [1992] United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED);….” The plan was signed by President George H.W. Bush, and has been supported actively by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Agenda 21 has never been endorsed by the U.S. Senate, and is not U.S. law. Read more
Andy Schmookler: People Power
One of my campaign slogans is “Let’s show how People Power can defeat the Money Power.” The issue of money in politics was the topic of the first piece I wrote that appeared in national media. This was back in the 1970s.
There is hardly a policy issue more central to defining what America will be.
Will we be true to the democratic vision, in which every citizen is entitled to an equal say in determining our destiny as a nation? Or will the inequalities of wealth our economy produces be allowed to corrode that democratic sense of justice, and effectively put our government up for auction? Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: What does Bob Goodlatte have against the Internet?
While we don’t believe 10-term congressman Goodlatte speaks Mandarin, he has a lot in common with the Communists in Beijing, at least when it comes to regulating and controlling the Internet.
Goodlatte is the author of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, a costly regulatory attack on the Internet. It is supposed to reduce copyright infringement – a problem already on the wane due to new software business models, encryption and other technological breakthroughs that America used to be known for.
In reality, SOPA will cause rapid and unnecessary government shutdowns of websites, and drive rights-holders and Internet service providers to do the same, all without due process. If Sixth District voters want a law that violates the First and Fourth Amendments, crushes free speech and small businesses, we should support Bob’s SOPA. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: America First? Not for Mr. Goodlatte!
On Dec. 31st, the U.S. federal debt reached an all time record of $15,222,940,045,451.09. The U.S. debt is now at a Greece-busting 100.3 percent of GDP. $15.2 trillion is more than the annual value of the entire U.S. economy.
Sixth District Virginians can thank Bob Goodlatte for this situation, created by the idiotically titled Budget Control Act of 2011. He voted for it, even as the majority of Americans were adamantly opposed to more unnecessary borrowing. We can also thank Mr. Goodlatte for his lack of interest in serious spending cuts since then.
Bob’s vote to borrow $2.4 trillion more in July created a surprising new process for future debt ceiling increases. Here’s how it works.
The federal debt ceiling may now be raised if one of three things happens: (1) Congress votes but doesn’t adopt a resolution of disapproval, (2) Congress fails to override a veto of a resolution of disapproval, or (3) Congress doesn’t consider a resolution of disapproval within the 15-day window provided in the Budget Control Act. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Does Bob Goodlatte regret voting to fund Obamacare?
Posted by afp on February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Dahlkemper is Roman Catholic, and she says she didn’t realize that Obamacare would force “all private insurers, including Catholic charities and hospitals, to provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and the “week-after” pill.”
Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte, seeking his 11th term, voted several times to fund Obamacare, most recently last spring. Perhaps, like Democratic Congresswoman Dahlkemper, he didn’t read the bill he was voting to fund. Read more
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