HERE IS YOUR NEW OBAMA GOV-CARE!
THE BLUE DOGS CAVED IN AND NOW YOU WILL BE FACED WITH THE NIGHTMARE OF OBAMA DEATHCARE! Everyone, here's the whole list in one place, cleaned up and in numerical order: Obama POST OFFICE HEALTH Care Details HR 3200 currently in the House of Representatives: Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit the books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!! Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides... [read more]

Ignore Endorsements
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/408465_joel27.html Joel is right that one needs to look at the individual/organization making the endorsement, and Sandeep's "Stranger" relationship to Ron Sims, Greg Nickels, and Dow Constantine and the effect, if any, it has on Sandeep's endorsements on Publicola As always, the public comments are interesting. Apparently Joel misspelled a person's last name again... [read more]

How to appeal your property taxes!
I ran across this piece and it is a good one for those of us in Snohomish County whose property taxes are way out of line! TAX APPEAL LINK... [read more]

OBAMA'S DEATHCARE PACKAGE FOR SENIORS!
EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR THIS, CLICK ON THE LINK AND WAIT, THE INTERVIEW WILL COME UP: Click here: Fred Thompson: Interviews Congressional Hispanic Caucus want healthcare for illegals included in Obama Deathcare program. You know we are in trouble when the supporters of a massive taxpayer health benefit giveaway to illegal aliens say the current House plan is just right. The authoritative ROLL CALL publication says Hispanic Caucus Members told it confidentially that the Caucus told Speaker Pelosi not to change... [read more]

Spokane City Council Candidate Forum
Spokane Campaign for Liberty City Council Candidate Forum YOUR VOTE, YOUR CHOICE, YOUR SPOKANE! Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm Central United Methodist Church - downstairs Epworth Hall 3rd Ave and Howard St. Spokane, WA Email: m_cathcart@walkingrailroad.com The upcoming City Council election will play a pivotal role on the future direction of our great City of Spokane. The more informed the electorate, the greater probability the voters will elect the most qualified candidates to steer Spokane towards a brighter... [read more]

media bias rolls on.
I was not too interested in a corruption story from the opposite shore, but I decided to read it anyway, just to see how the identification of political affiliations was handled. The Seattle Times story is here Sure enough, party affiliation is not mentioned until the second-to-last paragraph, where four suspects are named. Three are Democrats; one is a Republican state legislator: "Most of those arrested were public officials and included Mayor Peter Cammarano, 32, of Hoboken, who took office... [read more]

Here's How Obama Plans To Destroy Private Health Insurance
hat tip to Michelle Malkin's blog for leading me to this bombshell info-- Well, well, well. Investor's Business Daily has discovered how Barack Obama and the beltway democrats plan to destroy private health insurance. It's on page 16 of the bill. Here's what IBD reports: "When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns... [read more]

Michael Steele and Sean Salazar share the same vision on the importance of diversity for the future of the GOP.
SEAN SALAZAR INDEPENDENT LEADERSHIP. REAL SOLUTIONS. I first met Sean about a year ago. He was my first introduction to the idea that "we must show up" in the poor communities, the minority communities and the inner cities. Sean Salazar is far from the typical media's image of a country club Republican. Sean is a son of a single mother with several siblings who grow up in government housing, moving from one poor inner city project to another. In fact... [read more]

PI - Mallahan: Nickels has 'turned his back' on Seattle seniors
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/173587.asp I was out of town Monday July 13th and missed the Seattle mayoral candidate debate at Spitfire in Belltown. If you read the above article and the comments to the PI article, there is debate about what the actual spending amount is, the actual rate, and whether Mallahan's report was released soley to pander to Senior voters. Nickel's Campaign Manager Sandeep "Stranger" Kaushik adds his own spin I view Mallahan's report as another example of Nicke;'s history of mismanagement... [read more]

What Next for the Tea Party Movement?
Saturday September 12 - National Tea Party Taxpayer March on Washington, D.C. For more information, go to: Tea Party Express http://www.teapartyexpress.org/ National Taxpayer Protest http://912dc.org/ Tea Party Patriots http://www.teapartypatriots.org STATEMENT BY STEVE BEREN, JULY 10, 2009 Video of Steve Beren speech to Seattle Tax Day Tea Party http://www.berenforcongress.com/teaparty.html FROM JULY 4 TO SEPTEMBER 12 The Independence Day Tea Party protest rallies held throughout the nation and throughout Washington State on the Fourth of July were an important and powerful expression... [read more]

Bellevue's Slaughterhouse: "All for the women"
My eyes were fixed on the doctor...as he systematically began to "inventory parts"... body parts... NO!... BABY PARTS!... One perfect little leg...snapped off at the hip... then the other... one perfect little arm...snapped off at the shoulder...then the other... I could not even speak... I almost fainted with what came next! The entire spine...all vertebrae in-tack with the spinal cord and little wire like nerves dangling from both ends... no skin in sight...just bloody parts torn out of the back of this little child! "Good!", he declared with great relief. "I have everything here but the head and the trunk!" [read more]

STAND TALL, WEAR RED! "STOP ENVISION SPOKANE" GRASSROOTS RALLY 7-13-09 5:00PM
STAND TALL, WEAR RED! "STOP ENVISION SPOKANE" GRASSROOTS RALLY Monday July 13, 2009 at 5:00 p.m., Spokane citizens will gather in front of Spokane City Hall for a grassroots rally in opposition to the proposed "Envision Spokane" charter amendment. For a united front, everyone is encouraged to wear red to the rally. We will have red ribbons for folks to wear as well. [read more]

SP needs comment moderation.
It's time for comment moderation at Sound Politics. Increasingly, comment threads denigrate to ad hominem attacks, off-topic rants, threats, and completely baseless assertions. All the while sprinkled with the random, thoughtless venom that only the cover of anonymity can provide. Jim Miller does moderate his comment threads somewhat. And often he turns off comments, which is welcome when he simply wants to make an announcement like "Happy 4th of July." This is a great start, and much needed for a... [read more]

Behind the Palin Resignation?
I will jettison this if a post appears on the main page, but since I am interested to hear opinions on her resignation, I go for it... If you read the comment threads of various local sites, you'll see the full panoply of Palin Derangement Syndrome. This one is fairly typical--a somewhat bizarre piece by Lance Dickie of the Seattle Times, who speculates that the "law doggies" were closing in, or that she desired a big payday after experiencing the... [read more]

Dave "Cap & Trade" MIA at parade
The Independence Day parade in Carnation was notable today for the absence of Congressman Dave Reichert. He has not missed this before. Maybe all of our emails concerning "cap and trade" have him a little embarrassed to smile and wave at the people who elected him, and who now feel betrayed. The democrat contingent was populated by the usual suspects, all overshadowed by Segway boy Oemig, some raggedy hippy hold overs and for some reason - a Darcy Burner for... [read more]