CA SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE *DEAD*...for now (Updated)

Victory for the taxpayers of California!!!

Just getting word from other tea party organizers that the California State Senate failed to bring SB810 to the floor for a vote today...killing the Universal Healthcare law for another legislative season.

THANK YOU to every single one of you who made calls and emails!!!

* UPDATE * Looks like the supporters of outlawing private healthcare are vowing to regroup and try this again as soon as possible. Just a reminder that we can't let our guard down for one moment.

** CATTY UPDATE ** Was just looking over the local coordinator conference call agenda for Tea Party Patriots, and gosh, big surprise...California and SB810 was no where to be seen on the schedule of important issues or legislative updates. Whole lot about Jenny Beth Martin selling her new book...and TPP getting a booth at CPAC she and The Board (no Debbie Doolie, I still haven't forgotten all of you want credit for bad ideas!) can waste donor money rubbing elbows with the power elite (instead of running commercials for local issues or busing activists to state capitals to knock on doors, etc.). In other words, we just had a MAJOR taxpayer/Tea Party victory here in Blue California...and Tea Party Patriots gets ZERO credit. Meow.

CA SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE - Vote this week!!!

Even in California it’s hard to believe that with our budget black hole the state Senate is about to vote on SB 810 force everyone into “Universal Healthcare.” Temple of Mut has full details HERE.

CALL * CALL * CALL

The following Senators have been identified for contact, in order to urge a “NO” Vote –

Christine Kehoe (Chair) DEM 916-651-4039
916-327-2188
senator.kehoe@sen.ca.gov

Mimi Walters (CoChair) REP 916-651-4033
916-445-9754
senator.walters@senate.ca.gov

Elaine Alquist DEM 916-651-4013
916-324-0283
senator.alquist@senate.ca.gov

Bill Emmerson REP 916-651-4037
916-327-2187
senator.emmerson@senate.ca.gov

Ted Lieu DEM 916-651-4028
916-323-6056
senator.lieu@senate.ca.gov

Fran Pavley DEM 916-651-4023
916-324-4823
senator.pavley@senate.ca.gov

Curren Price DEM 916-651-4026
916-445-8899
senator.price@senate.ca.gov

Sharon Runner REP 916-651-4017
916-445-4662
senator.runner@senate.ca.gov

Darrell Steinberg DEM 916-651-4006
916-323-2263
senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov

Senator Michael Rubio (Fresno/Bakersfield area)
Email: Michael.Rubio@sen.ca.gov
Phone: (916) 651-4016

Senator Alex Padilla (Pacoima/LA area)
Email: Senator.Padilla@sen.ca.gov
Phone: (916) 651-4020

Senator Juan Vargas (San Diego area)
Email: Juan.Vargas@sen.ca.gov
Phone: (916) 651-4040

Senator Rod Wright (Los Angeles area)
Email: Senator.Wright@sen.ca.gov
Phone: (916) 651-4025

Fear Not the SOTU

Just in case anyone though the president’s State of the Union was even slightly effective Tuesday, just take a look at what Obama supporter and celebrity pop-culture uber-pundit, Perez Hilton, had to say about the showing...

Really, what did they expect? No one wants to listen to the same speech for the fourth time.

TPP’s Jenny Beth Martin Crowns Herself Queen and Chooses Newt

Yep. First she (and The Board...don’t worry Debbie Dooley, I haven’t forgotten that you want credit for bad ideas too) spends God-knows-how-much Tea Party Patriots donor money to co-sponsor a debate with a bunch of Republicans.

Now she has the gaul to say...”Newt win is a win for the Tea Party”

WHO’S TEA PARTY?!!!!

Just watch for yourself, if you can stand it...



Hear that? That’s the sound of Libertarian brains exploding all over the fruited plain.

Yo, Jenny...your roll is to promote the core PRINCIPLES of pro-taxpayer, pro-freedom, pro-constitutional ideals, not prop up candidates...especially ones who loooooooooved TARP. All our choices suck and the tea party is divided, do your job and stay on message.

God help us.

Tea Party Girl Goes Solar?

“The polar bears can suck-it!”

Yep. That’s what I had to tell most of the solar vendors visiting our home. It’s not that I actually have anything against polar bears, they’re pretty efficient seal hunters. But I was shopping for cheaper fixed-priced energy. Period. I still think the concept of man-made global warming is a bunch of fabricated junk-science cr*#. I found that trying to ask a bunch washed out mortgage brokers re-trained as solar salesmen to fast forward past the green B.S. is like asking an overseas customer service rep to think for themselves.

Thankfully we found a vendor that was NOT a washed out mortgage broker, that actually ‘got’ us: San Diego County's own Cosmic Solar. Family run, knowledgable without the hard sale, tons of references, etc. Thumbs up.

After torturing the guys at Cosmic Solar for MONTHS we finally signed a VERY sweet lease deal via Sun Power. About $70 /month lower than our average electric bill, fixed payment, no $ down, no escalator purchase option, etc.*

And don't they look pretty?

So, why is the deal sooooooo good? Our friend over at Beers with Demo might have stumbled on the answer.

Will I burn in hell for sucking off highly tax payer subsidized energy products? Maybe. ok, Probably. But Cap-N-Trade just kicked in here in California and I’m not above selling my soul to survive it and everything else being shoved down our throats. And unlike most of America’s entitlement class, I promise to say to all of you who helped us pay for this, “thank you.” You’re all invited to watch my meter turn backwards.

P.S. If you talk to Pey over at Cosmic Solar, tell him Sarah & Craig sent you...that’s my soulless play for a referral bonus. Now that I’m a shameless whore, I’m going for broke.



*note: we signed this deal months ago, so similar options may no longer be available, especially since commercial depreciation (including residential leases) changes this year.

The Beautiful Etta James

Presenting the one and only American icon and treasure, Etta James.



1938-2012

The REAL Problem with Newt’s Infidelity

*For the record, I don’t like any of our choices in the GOP primary, so I’m not doing this to help any of the others. We’re screwed no matter what. Yes, I’m Polly Sunshine.

While I do feel badly for Newt’s first wife, Jackie Battley, and daughters, when it comes to elections, I don’t really care about Newt’s affairs. I figure anyone sociopathic enough to want to be president is unlikely to be a faithful spouse. The pool we have to choose from generally sucks.

And I don’t feel the least bit sorry for Marianne Ginther with her sob story about how Newt cheated on her and left her eight months after being diagnosed with MS. She was the tramp he was sleeping with when he left his first wife...who was fighting cancer at the time. Sorta just sounds like Karma to me. (meow)

The REAL ick factor in all this is wife #3, Callista Bisek Gingrich, mistress during marriage #2 and potential First Lady of the United States. Just let that sink in for a minute.

I hold women to a higher standard then men. I’m hardly a prude, and stuff happens in marriages that is just between spouses. But the simple truth is, we are the gate keepers to societal standards around here...and I’m not interested in having to call some home wrecking hussy “First Lady.” She’s no lady and I don’t want her in my White House.