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.

To make a dent in the national debt, an added-value tax would have to add 16-20% to every color TV, iPhone and automobile Americans buy.

That  would mean a $199 IPOD purchased for your teenager would actually cost you $240 PLUS local state sales tax. Of course, in California, that would mean the price tag with 10% sales tax would be $264.00 for a $199 IPOD. ALL TAX.

Somehow, Nancy Pelosi believes that out of patriotism American taxpayers will open their wallets even wider so that she can continue to travel by limo, special military jet, with personal protection (she needs it) and federal health and retirement benefits generously crafted just for her kind. A slightly different package for the 40 million Americans she wants to “gift” health care to.

No.  NO. NO.

I asked an obstetrician in Los Angeles who has such an admired record in the operating room that her malpractice insurance goes down EVERY year, what her solution would be to our health care crisis.

Her answer?

Everyone needs to . . . WORK!

The White House

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.

Representative Michele Bachmann

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.

This week Michele Bachman told Larry King that President Obama conveniently appointed the well-respected Scott Matheson, Jr. from Utah to the 10^th Circuit Appellate one day before inviting his brother, Congressman Jim Matheson to The White House for dinner. Congressman Matheson voted “no” on Obamacare, and the President thought dinner and a personal appointment might influence Matheson’s views. The Mathesons of Utah are a principled bunch however, and it will be a surprise if the President finds he can buy votes from that family. It is an expected tactic however, from the bag of tricks of Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff, who is taking no prisoners since being badly humiliated by the Scott Brown landing.

This is the world of Washington.

Meanwhile, those of us living IN the real world are counting pennies on our 1040 forms, praying that our 3^rd graders won’t have more than 30 children to one teacher, and holding our breath that our college grads can find jobs, are preparing to march to the polls.

Something is going to change in Washington this year, and it’s not just going to be the wind.

Democrat Jerry Brown

“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.

CA Governor Pat Brown

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. While his father is credited with creating a statewide water plan and developing a system of higher education in California, voters almost stomped their feet to retire Jerry Brown after eight years of his liberal agenda. His new campaign slogan claims, “An Insider With An Outsider’s Mind.” No truer word were ever spoken. Brown’s views on capital punishment, trade, taxes, and social reform are so outside, that he barely fits in California!

Attorney General Jerry Brown spent virtually his entire professional career either working in government or campaigning. He made three failed attempts to run for President of the United States in 1976, 1980 and 1992. He ran for the Senate and lost in 1982.  Settling for wins in statewide offices, Brown has been elected California Secretary of State, Governor, Attorney General, and even Mayor of Oakland.

California Democrats

The DNC’s backing of California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown should be a big, fat billboard to taxpayers that the Democratic National Committee has no intention of letting the state house of California slip away just before the 2012 presidential election. Barack Obama will need California. The unspoken fact is that in November, Jerry Brown will likely face Mitt Romney protégé Meg Whitman, former Ebay CEO. Not only has Whitman given every American a tiny piece of the economy through Ebay, but as Governor of California, she would be infinitely valuable to Mitt Romney in a run to unseat Barack Obama.

In politics, every 8×10 is usually really an 11×14.

Gang Of Three

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

The People Fight Back

Jerry Brown announces his intention to run for Governor of California today. All indications are that he will face EBAY CEO Meg Whitman who has already put 30-40 million into her campaign to get a head start on the clever and stubbornly-liberal campaigner. Does anyone realize that Jerry Brown is 72? That he refused to defend the vote of the people in California TWICE to defend marriage? That he has no skills to solve the severe economic woes of California? Why would anyone want him to return to the governorship? Whitman, though new to politics and a disappointment to many in her pro-choice position, at least can read a spreadsheet. As California goes, so goes the nation. I am taking a hard look at Meg Whitman because  through Ebay, she gave everyone in America a small piece of the economy. She is the only candidate that can stop Jerry Brown, and she is self-funding her campaign.

Please.......No

Whitman will be beholding….to no one. We’ll see.

Women will determine the outcome of all of these contests. Time to get to work.

“If you think they [the American people] want a government takeover of healthcare, I would respectfully, strongly disagree.” – Paul Ryan

There is still time to act, and you CAN have your voice heard. The Kitchen Cabinet has posted the contact information for those Democratic House members most likely to listen to reason, or rather most likely to listen to angry, determined voters intent on turning them out of office if they vote “YES” on this “Worst Bill Ever!” Get involved — truly your children and their children’s financial future depends upon stopping Obamacare. Then, maybe we can all work together to make the current, best-in-the-world health care even better!

In addition to rocking the cradles of the world, in the 21st Century, two-thirds of all homes in America now feature women as breadwinners or co-breadwinners. It is essential that these same concerned, thoughtful and committed women leave the sidelines and demand more responsibility from our government and elected leaders.

A steady drumbeat is growing among women who work inside and outside of the home, who see their paychecks shrinking, tax burdens increasing, long-cherished values constantly questioned, and the future of their children being squandered by career politicians.

The Kitchen Cabinet is designed to empower conservative women and give them the national voice they deserve. The time and resources of mothers, grandmothers, and women who work inside and outside of the home are sacred. The Kitchen Cabinet enables women everywhere to unite their efforts, their feelings, their votes, and their pocketbooks and increase their influence in state and national government.

Already, thousands of women have come to The Kitchen Cabinet. Over the coming months we will inform you where our small donations can do big things. We will ask you to unite your votes and help to elect men and women of character who have been successful inside and outside of government.

In the 1700’s in America, we packed bullets. In the 1800’s, we helped to open the Frontier. In the 1900’s we led the workforce in wartime and then in peace time as well. In this century the wisdom of women is desperately needed to defend the interests of our children, to stand for the traditions that make America strong, and to hold Washington accountable for the future of our country.

Please join us. Conservative women ARE the majority in America.  Let’s act like it.

Many, many thanks to all of the Kitchen Cabinet supporters who dialed in and participated in the Brown for Senate home-calling campaign.  Our thousands of phone calls in the last days of the campaign, helped produce one of the largest turn-outs in Massachusetts history!   Democrats are understandably experiencing shock and awe!
A new wave of Republicanism has been born and we will forever be grateful to the state of Massachusetts.  What better way to celebrate President Obama’s first year in office!

Let’s continue to unite to defend the paychecks of Americans, and stand up for the futures of our families.

SCOTT BROWN’s Election Can HALT Obama Health Care

The Kitchen Cabinet is creating a nationwide computerized phone bank today, which is simple and easy for any woman to join.  Our calls of support to Massachusetts voters can make the difference!  Share this opportunity with friends and LET’S FORM A LINE BEHIND SCOTT BROWN.

Go to http://www.brownforussenate.com/call-from-home-registration

You will be able to sign up to be a home-volunteer for Scott Brown.

Spend ONE HOUR Talking To Voters in Massachusetts encouraging them to protect the economy from Obama Care.  If elected, Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown will be the missing 41st vote needed for Republicans to BLOCK Obama care.

Time is short and Democrats are marshaling all of their machinery to stop the surging Brown candidacy.

The Kitchen Cabinet alone, could make 10,000 phone calls in the next 24 hours.

Conservative women and their families ARE the majority in this country.

Let’s Act Like It!

If you have been watching the national headlines, you know that traditional marriage is once again being attacked in the courts in San Francisco. Some of you may be aware that I was center stage during the hardest days of this fight, and have been subpoenaed in this federal lawsuit. This trial, no matter what the outcome, will end up in the United States Supreme Court. We will face whatever comes, and in the meantime, work harder than ever to unite the women in this country who do understand the importance of traditional marriage, and our other cherished American values.

To keep up on this important national issue, and to read about some of the behind the scenes gamesmanship you might check our news site, True North News and Commentary. (www.truenorthnewsandcommentary.com)

Replace Ted Kennedy with Republican SCOTT BROWN:

We can halt ObamaHealthcare by supporting Scott Brown for Ted Kennedy’s old seat in Massachusetts! The Kitchen Cabinet will make a donation to his campaign this week. Pitch in? It’s your only way to send a special Valentine to Nancy Pelosi. He is a fine and gifted public servant, supported by former Governor Mitt Romney and others. Toss in $25 or $50 now, or give Obama a hundred times that the rest of our lives.

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has begun pumping over half a million dollars into his opponents campaign, to go along with SEIU’s $685,000 to be spent on negative ads against Brown. The Democrats are scared, and realize that they’ve been asleep at the switch, not understanding the appeal of an anti-tax-&-spend candidate in this time of recession.

Sarah Palin talking back at FOX News:

Why shouldn’t she strike while the iron is hot? Palin began her career IN television and part of her attraction is that she feels right at home in front of the cameras. Tuesday, January 12th, she begins on the O’Reilly show. What could be more entertaining that watching this stalwart conservative dish her opponents while getting paid to do so?

Palin made her Fox debut yesterday on the O’Reilly Factor coming off as the London Times Online remarks, “[M]ore candidate than pundit”. She has become a favorite target for the Left, and this will be sure to drive the lunatic fringe even more over the edge.

Hillary Clinton A “Gatling Gun of Profanity”:

That’s what I heard Hugh Hewitt say this week. Go to www.hughhewitt.com and listen to the first hour of his January 11th broadcast.

In the new, hot, national bestseller, “Game Over”, political expert Mark Halpern exposes what everyone already suspected or knew as fact. Our current Secretary of State and former “First Lady” considers profanity to be a second language.