The Kitchen Cabinet .US

Fiercely-disenchanted by the unprecedented and embarrassing gamesmanship on Capitol Hill this past week, women who see the future of their families and their children being squandered by our detached Democratic leadership, are organizing. Make no mistake, this is not a protest. It is a movement.

In the past few days, virtually every national leader of conservative women’s groups in the country, representing millions of women across the nation, have gathered and met electronically to unite their numbers, their leadership, and their vision for the country. These are not only leaders of the most talented and passionate and connected women in the U.S., but the most respected for their service and their patriotism. Forming a national “Kitchen Cabinet”, we are charting a course to reverse and reject the trillions of dollars in debt that Democratic leaders have bullied through and rested on the weary backs of taxpaying families. Women especially, who now are recognized as breadwinners in two/thirds of all U.S. homes, must demand that Congress respect their hard-earned paychecks.

The Kitchen Cabinet is rippling through every hometown and every metropolis as ordinary women awaken to the possibility of linking arms to change the course of the country. This Spring, political strategists and hopeful candidates should look up from their polling data and pause. In America’s most recent elections, women have out-voted men 54%-46%. On values issues, in California, Arizona, Florida and other states, women from all ethnic communities have dropped their tasks and marched to the polls. As cameras pan the outraged Tea Party groups across the country, those counting heads have discovered that 55% of the protesters are women.

No wonder. Women are already holding the country together with their bare hands. We are dipping into our purses to buy dry erase markers for elementary school teachers who have no supplies, we are sitting in Pediatrician’s offices all across the nation and know exactly what’s happening in health care, we are desperately trying to stretch our family paychecks each month to keep up with the rising cost of auto fuel.

Enough is enough. We are forming a line and we welcome every conservative woman with like concerns and regardless of party affiliation to join us. Hard-working, conservative women are the majority in this country, we simply need to act like it. We are uniting our grocery money, our numbers, our organizations and our faithful, honest, leaders to immediately begin to seek and support new men and women of strong character who can fill the U.S. Congress and the Senate.

It is time for the silent majority, the women who do the work of the world each and every day, to be heard.

The Kitchen Cabinet

Sonja Eddings Brown

Mary Belle Snow

Susan Allen, President, Republican Women’s Federal Forum

Sue Lynch, President, National Federation of Republican Women

Lynn Bradshaw, American Conservative Union

Carol Taber, Family Security Matters.org

Michelle Bernard Independent Women’s Forum

Kimberly Fletcher, Homemakers of America

Lori Parker, As A Mom, org

Meg Waters, California Women’s Leadership Association

Mrs. Nancy Schulze, wife of former U.S. Congressman Richard Schulze

Mrs. Vicki Tiahrt, wife of Congressman Todd Tiahrt

Vellie Deitrich Hall

JOIN US.

They’re only ONE VOTE SHORT!

Democrats will demonstrate the elimination of their last shred of character this weekend, by preparing to vote on the health care bill IN THE DARK, late into the night when no one is watching CNN. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to bring the Reconciliation Bill to the floor at midnight Saturday to prevent any of her wavering congressmen from getting away, going home to their Districts for Spring Break, and being talked out of breaking the treasury.

Change the world! Let’s mobilize The Kitchen Cabinet and share it the following list of numbers with friends. We need to call the following Democrats Friday and up until the vote to let them know they have targets on their backs if they abandon taxpayers and vote to break the treasury by supporting Obamacare:

Rep. Bob Etheridge
D.C. Office: (202) 225-4531
Raleigh: 1-888-262-6202 (BOB-NC02)

Jason Altmire:
D.C.: 202-225-2565
Aliquippa: 724-378-0928
Natrona Heights: 724-226-1304
Opponent: Mary Beth Buchanan

Rep. John Boccieri
D.C. Phone: (202) 225-3876
Canton: (330) 489-4414
(800)826-9015
E-mail
Opponent: Jim Renacci

Rep. Dennis Cardoza
D.C. Phone: (202) 225-6131; 800-356-6424
Merced: (209) 383-4455
Stockton: (209) 946-0361
Modesto: (209) 527-1914
Opponent: Mike Berryhill

Rep. Jim Costa
D.C. Phone: 202-225-3341
Bakersfield: 661-869-1620
Fresno: 559-495-1620
Opponent: Andy Vidak

Rep. Zack Space
DC Phone: (202) 225-6265
Dover (330) 364-4300;
Zanesville (740) 452-6338;
Chillicothe (740) 779-1636
Link to E-mail

Rep. John Barrow:
D.C. (202) 225-2823
Augusta: (706)722-4494
Savannah: (912) 354-7282

Rep. John Adler
D.C.: (202) 225-4765
Toms River: (732) 608-7235

Rep. Dan Maffei:
D.C.: (202) 225-3701
Syracuse: (315) 423-5657

Rep. Michael Arcuri:
D.C.: 202-225-3665
Utica: 315-793-8146/8147

Michael McMahon:
D.C.: (202) 225-3371
Staten Island: (718) 351-1062
Brooklyn: (718) 630-5277
E-mail (Use zip code 10306).

Today, one seasoned Washington pundit called Pelosi and Obama’s health care bill the longest suicide note in history.

Democratic members of the House of Representatives must feel like they’re being inched with a pointed sword to the end of the plank. Their only choice is to jump and end their congressional careers or try to scurry back from the edge and meet Nancy Pelosi instead. Now you know why they’re willing to face the sharks.

You might think that California’s Barbara Boxer is not your problem, but she is.

For instance, do you think Harry Reid has had to romance Senator Boxer to secure her vote on perilously–expensive health care? No.

Are you aware that Senator Boxer is partly responsible for the higher prices on produce at the grocery store? Yes she is.

As the Chair of the Senate Environment Committee, Barbara Boxer could, with the swipe of her pen, relieve water shortages for California farmers and irrigate the state’s fertile Central Valley which provides produce for much of the United States.  Instead, she’s letting it dry up. Senator Boxer won’t help California’s farmers or farm workers, even though over 50,000 are presently out of work because she is “protecting the environment.” Which is to say, that she is putting the best interests of a fingernail-sized fish first, and the jobs and families of Californians, far second.

The Smelt Fish species isn’t even indigenous to California!

Water is the lifeblood of the state, and remarkably Barbara Boxer refuses to remove the regulatory handcuffs which restrict water from flowing freely throughout California. She would rather protect the Smelt Fish from becoming: extinct.

What about jobs becoming extinct?

So, ask yourself, who do you know who lives and votes in California? Tell them to take a hard look at the three candidates running in the June 8 Primary for the right to unseat Barbara Boxer. There are two well-intentioned state officials who would quickly be turned into a chopped conservative salad by Senator Boxer, as she has done in three previous elections with male challengers in the liberal state.

Then take a look at former Hewlett Packard chairman, Carly Fiorina, the first conservative woman to ever challenge the not-very-popular-anywhere Senator. Watch her convention highlights here.

You’ll get the picture.

For Californians who could face dry lawns, fire conditions, and short showers this summer, giving Barbara Boxer a healthy “kick” out of the U.S. Senate requires no thought at all.

For those of you safely living in other states, defeating Barbara Boxer would also be a grand present. Imagine, being relieved once and for all, of a deeply-entrenched, non-productive U.S. Senator, who has been as hard to take as . . . fingernails dragging on a chalkboard.

I am getting a touch concerned about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health. On PBS’ Charlie Rose program the other night she didn’t seem or look herself. There was no swagger. In photographs on Capitol Hill today she seemed a little frayed around the edges.

Perhaps forcing bad medicine down the throats of the American people is a bit wearing?

She doesn’t have the votes. The pressure must be unbearable. Pelosi even admitted to Charlie Rose that she doesn’t KNOW if she has the votes to pass healthcare. Her colleagues ducking her in Capitol hallways, eating alone in their offices, and declining CNN interviews, should be a tip off.

We should take a poll. Why do YOU think the democratic leadership won’t accept defeat on this most unpopular idea since Hillary Clinton’s declaration for the presidency?

I think it is because President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi all see their faces on statues. In Washington. In a public park. Otherwise, why would these democratic leaders put targets on the backs of every Democrat running for re-election in 2010? An even more obvious reason is that if Pelosi, Reid and President Obama don’t have healthcare, the only thing in their column will be utter defeat. They’ve got too much skin in the game to give up. Their donors, their far-left, ultra-liberal supporters, will consider them failures.

And then 2012 really will be a lonely election year.

This is why Nancy Pelosi shut down ALL other committee meetings and assignments today on Capitol Hill. She was hunting down her colleagues, locking them in a room together, trying to scare some courage back into them.

The smell of defeat is all over the Hill.

Believe it or not, this spells victory for taxpayers. Instead of over 16 trillion dollars in debt by the end of the year, we will only be 12 .5 trillion dollars in debt!

The outcome of a week in Washington? The Kitchen Cabinet has been invited to be part of a joint event with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.

This coming April 7^th, Sarah Palin will come to Minnesota for a special event supporting the re-election of Pelosi-target, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Palin is stumping for exactly ONE U.S. Congressman this year…and that’s Bachmann. The wagons are circling for Michele because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pledged to sink unprecedented dollars into opposition candidates to remove Bachmann from Capitol Hill. It seems some politicians don’t like conservative women who read the small print……

Congresswoman Bachmann caught the vision and the value of creating a coalition of conservative women across the nation, and generously invited The Kitchen Cabinet to capitalize on the Palin visit, especially because Sean Hannity has announced that he will broadcast live from Minnesota when the two conservative stars join forces in April.

Mark your calendars! Leaders of all of the major U.S. conservative women’s organizations are being invited to attend what is rapidly becoming a creation of a 2010 Summit for Conservative Women and the formation of the first women’s Kitchen Cabinet.

In this critical election year, could there be anything more valuable than to unite all of the concerned women throughout the country, organize their votes and their pocketbooks and increase their influence?

Stay Tuned.

Every generation of Americans tries to leave its children a little better off than the last. I look into the faces of my college-aged sons and my 12 -year old daughter, and at present, I can’t keep that promise.

Thus, The Kitchen Cabinet.

My generation, the present stewards of the 21^st Century, are looking at leaving our own children buried in excesses, fraud, and mismanagement unless we screech this locomotive to a halt in 2010.

Flying home from Washington Friday, I have to be honest; I am leaving with deeper concerns than ever. The Democrats are exploiting their leadership on Capitol Hill and manipulating the rules of Congress, no question about that. Worse, our own Republican leadership isn’t inspiring much confidence either. I repeat the honest questions of Michele Bachmann from Minnesota: “Where is a Republican plan?” 

Instead of eating up airtime on FOX and CNN and replaying the mistakes and the shocking selfishness of the Democrats, why don’t we hear House Minority Leader John Boehner and Eric Cantor spelling out ALTERNATIVES to Pelosi’s bulldozer? Or a response? Put in the mail if you can’t get a spot on CNN. It could accompany the five donation requests that you do send…..

According to business experts guesting on CNBC’s The Kudlow Report today, the only way to possibly balance the Obama budget now would be to raise taxes between 60% and 80%. I’ve heard Mitt Romney offer the same figures.

Who’s going to be able to make their house payment? That’s the question I would like someone to put to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Another Obama administration solution for cleaning up the national debt is to start a brand new additional tax on shoppers. They call it an “added value tax”, a fee quietly built into the selling price of every purchase Americans make.

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Washington -  The winds blowing on Capitol Hill are cold and contentious, and some of the chilliest ones are coming from inside the Capitol. The Obama health care battle is becoming almost a covert operation run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. My visits with Michele Bachmann this week brought the underhanded warfare clearly into focus. The amazing election of Scott Brown evaporated a sure Senate victory on health care. Since then,  if and when a Republican shakes hands with a Democrat, only asbestos gloves will do in this unprecedented and fiery congressional environment.

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Among the tailored and self-serving suits which seem to dot every Capitol Hill corner, every office and every lounge, Michele Bachmann’s team is different. Still a newcomer on the Hill, Bachmann’s packed congressional office sits in the basement of the Cannon building with other new representatives. The hallways are elegant, but the well-worn Bachmann office is all sweat and noise. Other congressmen might be envious of the constant traffic, media requests, and opportunities that flood in for the congresswoman. She is a straight talker. She is also a clear thinker, though the media would like you to think otherwise. When the door is shut, it is clear that her keen intellect and natural communication skills make her a handful for men used to a mutually-beneficial understandings and back-slapping.

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“Radical” is not a word that I use often, but it seems the perfect definition for the desperate and reckless strategy driving the Democratic Party. The Democratic National Committee put on its blinders again yesterday by throwing its weight behind 72-year old retread Jerry Brown for California governor. You might remember that Jerry Brown took a stab at the U.S. Presidency three different times and lost. This year, the DNC plans to put at least $40 million behind Brown’s candidacy, and has also convinced upstart San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to bow out of the race so that Brown, an almost infamous 70’s free-thinker, is uncontested.

Last evening on CNN’s Larry King, Brown seemed old, out of touch, and ineffective in explaining why California would benefit by having TWELVE years of his leadership. He solution to the state’s near financial collapse is to put over a hundred legislators in the same room and hammer out change, instead of working only with the leadership. Brown opened his appearance by telling Larry King that the next governor of California would need to be someone with both “knowledge AND know-how.”  He really seems to have his arms around the job.

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Jerry Brown followed in his father’s footsteps by winning the governorship of California in 1975 and serving two terms.  Edmund G. (Pat) Brown served from 1959-1967.

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From Washington D.C. In the nation’s capitol to meet with congressional leaders and share The Kitchen Cabinet with national women’s organizations. Major hotels in Washington are hosting one “health care summit” after another with leading medical associations, health care providers, law firms and think tanks. It seems everyone is scrambling in fear of The White House and Reid and Pelosi forcing passage of Obamacare. Obvious in its absence however, is any popular support whatsoever among these care providers, businesses and advisers. While The White House and the Democratic leadership feel they can still bully national health care through, congressmen and senators are dropping like flies and so is their support. Five Democratic Senators alone, are fleeing the senate this year, disinterested in facing campaigns for re-election with targets on their backs.

This week on MSNBC, which I was watching by accident, showed polling figures that suggest Senator Harry Reid might be able to hang onto his Nevada senate seat because Tea Party groups are likely to divide Republican and Independent votes. Rasmussen Polling found Democrats attracting 35% of the vote, Tea Party candiates picking up 23% and Republicans finishing at 18%. Another 22% polled as undecided.  Wishful thinking by Democrats, but it doesn’t hurt conservatives to think clearly about how to spend their votes, especially in upcoming

[caption id="attachment_986" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The People Fight Back"][/caption]June Primaries. The Democratic National Committee would love nothing better than to have Republicans so fractured in their voting that the weakest candidates end up on November’s ballot against must-defeats like Reid, Barbara Boxer and others.