10010903 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 3 – Hugh spends the hour discussing the inner workings of special interests and corrupt associates that surround the Obama administration with Culture Of Corruption author, Michelle Malkin.
10010902 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 2 – Hugh talks economics and business news with Chapman University president and economist Jim Doti, politics of the week with the Young Guns, a Congressional vacancy special election with GOP candidate David Harmer, and the good, the bad and the odd with humorist, columnist, author and blogger, James Lileks.
10010901 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 1 – Hugh talks all the news of the week with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn, then talks about the need to stand with Israel in this time of growing tumult in the Middle East with Roz Rothstein.
Any guesses on whether the New York Times article under this headline estimates the number killed by Mao during his long reign of terror?
Well, seniors stand to lose about $500 billion –that much we know for certain. Medicare benefits will be slashed and Medicare Advantage costs will skyrocket under all the versions of Obamacare. That’s why seniors have turned decisively against the plan and against its Democratic sponsors. An army of replacement knees and walkers is forming up now for the elections of 2010, and Congressional Democrats who don’t know that are truly lost in the Obamazone.
Other groups will turn even more decisively in the direction of the seniors and their opposition after the text of the final Senate bill is in. Senator Jon Kyl on yesterday’s program predicted it will take at least a couple of weeks more to get the whatever is the final version of the Senate Finance Committee’s Obamacare bill done and merged with the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee’s bill, and then the merged version has to be evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office. Only then will we know the extent of the brand new gaping fiscal hole being proposed by the Democrats.
At that point the Democrats will have to find 60 votes for cloture. Between then and now all Americans who want to preserve the American medical system as well as some form of Medicare as we know it have got to contact Senators and Congressmen again and again to demand this recklessness stop. Here’s the list of Senate Democrats up for re-election in 13 months as well as the list of Blue Dog Democrats in the House. Call all of them early and often, and tell them you will contribute to their opponents if they vote for Obamacare:
Key Democratic Senators:
Arkansas
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (18.70% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-4843
Local Phone: Dumas (870) 382-1023, Fayetteville (479) 251-1224, Little Rock (501) 375-2993, Jonesboro (870) 910-6896, Texarkana (870) 774-3106
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Sen. Mark Pryor (18.33% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-2353
Local Phone: Little Rock (501) 324-6336
Link to E-mail
Connecticut
Sen. Joe Lieberman (15.96% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-4041
Local Phone: (860) 549-8463
Link to E-mail
Florida
Sen. Bill Nelson (37.28% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-5274
Local Phone: Orlando (407) 872-7161, Miami-Dade (305) 536-5999, Tampa (813) 225-7040, West Palm Beach (561) 514-0189, Tallahassee (850) 942-8415, Jacksonville (904) 346-4500, Broward (954) 693-4851, Fort Meyers (239) 334-7760
Link to E-mail
Indiana
Sen. Evan Bayh (20.70% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-5623
Local Phone: Evansville (812) 465-6500, Fort Wayne (260) 426-3151, Hammond (219) 852-2763, Indianapolis (317) 554-0750, Jeffersonville (812) 218-2317, Southbend (574) 236-8302
Sen. Mary Landrieu (23.20% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-5824
Local Phone: Baton Rouge (225) 389-0395, Lake Charles (337) 436-6650, New Orleans (504) 589-2427, Shreveport (318) 676-3085
Link to E-mail
Montana
Sen. Jon Tester (16.00% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-2644
Local Phone: Billings (406) 252-0550, Bozeman (406) 586-4450, Butte (406) 723-3277, Glendive (406) 365-2391, Great Falls (406) 452-9585, Helena (406) 449-5401, Kalispell (406) 257-3360, Missoula (406) 728-3003
Link to E-mail
Nebraska
Sen. Ben Nelson (47.26% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-6551
Local Phone: Omaha (402) 391-3411, Lincoln (402) 441-4600, Scottsbluff (308) 631-7614, Kearney (308) 293-5818, South Sioux City (402) 209-3595
Link to E-mail
Nevada
Sen. Harry Reid (18.96% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-3542
Local Phone: Carson City 775-882-7343, Las Vegas (702) 388-5020, Reno (775) 686-5750
Link to E-mail
North Dakota
Sen. Kent Conrad (19.57% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-2043
Local Phone: Bismarck (701) 258-4648, Fargo (701) 232-8030, Grand Forks (701) 775-9601, Minot (701) 852-0703
Link to E-mail
Sen. Byron Dorgan (16.57% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-2551
Local Phone: Bismarck (701) 250-4618, Fargo (701) 239-5389, Minot (701) 852-0703, Grand Forks (701) 746-8972
Link to E-mail
South Dakota
Sen. Tim Johnson (18.36% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-5842
Local Phone: Aberdeen (605) 226-3440, Sioux Falls (605) 332-8896, Rapid City (605) 341-3990
Link to E-mail
West Virginia
Sen. Robert C. Byrd (28.26% Lifetime ACU rating)
DC Phone: (202) 224-3954
Local Phone: Charlestown (304) 342-5855, Eastern Panhandle (304) 264-4626
The “Blue Dog” House Democrats:
Alabama
Rep. Bobby Bright – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2901
District Phone: Dothan (334) 794-9680; Montgomery (334) 277-9113; Opp (334) 493-9253
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/bright/contact-form.shtml
Rep. Parker Griffith – 5th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4801
District Phone: Huntsville (256) 551-0190; Decatur (256) 355-9400; Shoals (256) 381-3450
Link to E-mail: http://griffith.house.gov/?sectionid=7§iontree=4,7
Arkansas
Rep. Marion Berry – 1st District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4076
District Phone: Jonesboro (870) 972-4600; Cabot (501) 843-4955; Mountain Home (870) 425-3510
Link to E-Mail: http://www.house.gov/berry/messageform.html
Rep. Mike Ross – 4th District
DC Phone: 1-800-223-2220
District Phone: El Dorado (870) 881-0681; Hot Springs (501) 520-5892; Pine Bluff (870) 536-3376; Prescott (870) 887-6787
Link to E-mail: http://ross.house.gov/?sectionid=77§iontree=76,77
Arizona
Rep. Harry Mitchell – 5th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2190
District Phone: (480) 946-2411
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/mitchell/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords – 8th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2542
District Phone: Tucson (520) 881-3588; Cochise (520) 459-3115
Link to E-mail: https://giffordsforms.house.gov/contact/email.shtml
California
Rep. Mike Thompson – 1st District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3311
District Phone: Napa (707) 226-9898; Humboldt (707) 269-9595; Mendocino (707) 962-0933; Yolo (530) 662-5272
Link to E-mail: http://mikethompson.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za.pl?/mthompson/contact/email_auth.txt&form=/mthompson/contact/email_form.shtml&pass
Rep. Dennis Cardoza – 18th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6131
District Phone: Merced (209) 383-4455; (209) 527-1914; Stockton (209) 946-0361
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep
Rep. Jim Costa – 20th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-9308
District Phone: Fresno (559) 495-1620; Bakersfield (661) 869-1620
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/formcosta/issue.htm
Rep. Loretta Sanchez – 29th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2965
District Phone: (714) 621-0102
Link to E-mail: http://www.lorettasanchez.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=17
Rep. Jane Harman – 36th District
DC Phone: (202) 225 8220
District Phone: El Segundo (310) 643 3636; Wilmington (310) 549 8282
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/harman/contact/email.shtml
Rep. Joe Baca – 43rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6161
District Phone: (909) 885-2222
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/baca/ht_zip_parms.txt&form=/baca/messageform.shtml
Colorado
Rep. John Salazar – 3rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4761
District Phone: Grand Junction (970) 245-7107; Pueblo (719) 543-8200; Durango (970) 259-1012; Alamosa (719) 587-5105
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/salazar/contact-zip.txt&form=/salazar/contact2.shtml
Florida
Rep. Allen Boyd – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5235
District Phone: Tallahassee (850) 561-3979; Panama City (850) 785-0812
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/boyd/zip_authen.txt&form=/boyd/contact_email.html&pass
Georgia
Rep. Sanford Bishop – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3631
District Phone: Albany (229) 439-8067; Colombus (706) 320-9477; Thomasville (229) 226-7789
Link to E-mail: http://bishop.house.gov/display.cfm?section_id=13
Rep. Jim Marshall – 3rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6531
District Phone: Macon (478) 464-0255; Dublin (478) 296-2023; Tifton (229) 556-7418
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep?HIP29329573301.1220.9427
Rep. John Barrow – 12th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2823
District Phone: Augusta (706) 722-4494; Sandersville (478) 553-9215; Savannah (912) 354-7282
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/barrow/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
Rep. David Scott– 13th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2939
District Phone: Jonesboro (770) 210-5073; Smyrna (770) 432-5405
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Iowa
Rep. Leonard Boswell – 3rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3806
District Phone: (515) 282-1909
Link to E-mail: http://boswell.house.gov/?sectionid=81§iontree=4,81
Idaho
Rep. Walt Minnick – 1st District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6611
District Phone: Meridian (208) 888-3188; Lewiston (208) 743-1388; Couer d’Alene (208) 667-0127
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/minnick/contact-form.shtml
Indiana
Rep. Joe Donnelly – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3915
District Phone: South Bend (574) 288-2780; Logansport (574) 753-2671; La Porte (219) 326-6808; Michigan City (219) 873-1403
Link to E-mail: http://donnelly.house.gov/contact/email.shtml
Rep. Brad Ellsworth – 8th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4636
District Phone: Evansville (812) 465-6484; Terre Haute (812) 232-0523
Link to E-mail: http://www.ellsworth.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325&Itemid=
Rep. Baron Hill (Co-Chair for Policy) – 9th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5315
District Phone: Jeffersonville (812) 288-3999; Bloomington (812)336-3000
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/baronhill/IMA/issue_subscribe_parm.txt&form=/baronhill/IMA/issue_subscribe_verify.shtml
Kansas
Rep. Dennis Moore – 3rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2865
District Phone: Overland Park (913) 383-2013; Kansas City (913) 621-0832; Lawrence (785) 842-9313
Link to E-mail: http://www.moore.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za.pl?/moore/contact/zip_authen.txt&form=/moore/contact/email.shtml
Kentucky
Rep. Ben Chandler – 6th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4706
District Phone: (859) 219-1366
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep?HIP29329573301.26817.5636
Louisiana
Rep. Charlie Melancon (Co-Chair for Communications) – 3rd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4031
District Phone: Houma (985) 876-3033; Chalmette (504) 271-1707; Gonzales (225) 621-8490; New Iberia (337) 367-8231
Link to E-mail: http://www.melancon.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205
Maryland
Rep. Frank Jr. Kratovil – 1st District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5311
District Phone: Centreville (443) 262 -9136
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/kratovil/contact-form.shtml
Maine
Rep. Mike Michaud – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2943
District Phone: Bangor (207) 942-6935; Lewiston (207) 782-3704; Presque Isle (207) 764-1036; Waterville (207) 873-5713
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/michaud/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
Minnesota
Rep. Collin Peterson – 7th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2165
District Phone: Detroit Lakes (218) 847-5056; Marshall (507) 537-2299; Montevideo (320) 235-1061; Red Lake Falls (218) 253-4356; Redwood Falls (507) 637-2270; Willmar (320) 235-1061
Link to E-mail: http://collinpeterson.house.gov/zipauth.htm
Mississippi
Rep. Travis Childers – 1st Districts
DC Phone: (202) 225-4306
District Phone: Tupelo (662) 841-8808; Hernando (662) 449-3090; Colombus (662) 327-0748
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/childers/webforms/contact_parm.txt&form=/childers/webforms/contact_form.htm
Rep. Gene Taylor – 4th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5772
District Phone: Bay St. Louis (228) 469-9235; Ocean Springs (228) 872-7950; Hattiesburg (601) 582-3246; Laurel (601) 425-3905
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/genetaylor/webforms/zipauth.htm
North Carolina
Rep. Mike McIntyre – 7th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2731
District Phone: Lumberton (910) 735-0610; Fayetteville (910) 323-0260; Wilmington (910) 815-4959; Bolivia (910)-253-0158
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/mcintyre/issue.shtml
Rep. Heath Shuler (Whip) – 11th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6401
District Phone: Asheville (828) 252-1651; Murphy (828) 835-4981; Sylva (828) 586-1962
Link to E-mail: http://shuler.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/shuler/ht_zip_parms.txt&form=shuler/messageform.htm
North Dakota
Rep. Earl Pomeroy
DC Phone: (202) 225-2611
District Phone: Bismarck (701) 224-0355; Fargo (701) 235-9760
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/formpomeroy/ht_zip_parms.txt&form=/formpomeroy/messageform.htm
New York
Rep. Mike Arcuri – 24th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3665
District Phone: Utica (315) 793-8146/8147; Auburn (315) 252-2777/2778; Cortland (607) 756-2470
Link to E-mail: http://arcuri.house.gov/IMA/issue_subscribe.htm
Ohio
Rep. Charles Wilson – 6th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5705
District Phone: Canfield (330) 533-7250; Marietta (740) 376-0868; Bridgeport (740) 633-5705; Ironton (740) 533-9423; Wellsville (330) 532-3740
Link to E-mail: http://www.charliewilson.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139
Rep. Zack Space – 18th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6265
District Phone: Dover (330) 364-4300; Zanesville (740) 452-6338; Chillicothe (740) 779-1636
Link to E-mail: http://space.house.gov/?sectionid=61§iontree=26,61
Oklahoma
Rep. Dan Boren – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2701
District Phone: Muskogee (918) 687-2533; Claremont (918) 341-9336; McAlester (918) 423-5951
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/boren/emailsignup.shtml
Pennsylvania
Rep. Jason Altmire – 4th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-2565
District Phone: Aliquippa (724) 378-0928; Natrona (724) 226-1304
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/altmire/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
Rep. Patrick Murphy – 8th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4276
District Phone: Bristol (215) 826-1963; Doylestown (215) 348-1194
Link to E-mail: http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/formpatrickmurphy/ht_zip_parms.txt&form=/formpatrickmurphy/messageform.shtml
Rep. Christopher Carney – 10th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3731
District Phone: Clarks Summit (570) 585-9988; Shamokin (570) 644-1682; Williamsport (570) 327-1902
Link to E-mail: http://www.carney.house.gov/contact.shtml#email
Rep. Tim Holden – 17th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-5546
District Phone: Berks (610) 921-3502; Dauphin/Perry (717) 234-5904; Lebanon (717) 270-1395; Schuylkill (570) 622-4212
Link to E-mail: http://holden.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/holden/email_zipauth.txt&form=messageform.shtml
Tennessee
Rep. Lincoln Davis – 4th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6831
District Phone: Columbia (931) 490-8699; Jamestown (931) 879-2361; McMinnville (931) 473-7259; Rockwood (865) 354-3323
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/htbin/wrep_const
Rep. Jim Cooper – 5th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4311
District Phone: Nashville (615) 736-5295
Link to E-mail: http://www.cooper.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=61
Rep. Bart Gordon – 6th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4231
District Phone: Murfreesboro (615) 896-1986; Cookeville (931) 528-5907; Gallatin (615) 451-5174
Link to E-mail: http://gordon.house.gov/contact/contact_form.shtml
Rep. John Tanner – 8th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4714
District Phone: Union City (731) 885-7070; Jackson (731) 423-4848; Millington (901) 873-5690
Link to E-mail: https://writerep.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep
Texas
Rep. Henry Cuellar – 28th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-1640
District Phone: Laredo (956) 725-0639; McAllen (956) 631-4826; Rio Grande City (956) 487-5603; San Antonio (210) 271-2851; Seguin (830) 401-0457
Link to E-mail: http://cuellar.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm
Utah
Rep. Jim Matheson – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-3011
District Phone: South Salt Lake (801) 486-1236; St. George (435) 627-0880;
Link to E-mail: https://forms.house.gov/matheson/contact.shtml
Virginia
Rep. Glenn Nye – 2nd District
DC Phone: (202) 225-4215
District Phone: Hampton (757) 326-6201; Eastern (757) 789-5092
Link to E-mail: http://nye.house.gov/?sectionid=7§iontree=4,7
What’s 1,200,000 years between primates?
The attempt to pit Lucy enthusiasts against the Ardi ardent is just the latest example of the new era of incivility.
With enormous majorities in the House and Senate and the most radical pro-abortion rights president in history in the White House, some in the pro-life movement despair of any progress for many years to come. But as Jill Hamers, writing in the June 2009 Boston University Law Review this past spring pointed out, there is reason to believe the Roberts Court will be much slower than in the past to block state statutes protecting the unborn. Her conclusion:
Over the past three-and-a-half decades, organizations such as Planned Parenthood played a major role in sustaining facial challenges to state abortion regulations before states even had a chance to implement them. Courts reliedheavily on the discretion of abortion doctors to determine what procedures were safest for women. Now, courts will entertain challenges to abortion regulations only in discrete cases. A doctor will have to show not just that a faction of the medical community believes one procedure is generally safer than another, but that in specific instances the existence a particular medical condition requires that the doctor perform a partial-birth abortion for a well defined class of women whose health is otherwise in danger. Without this showing, and in the face of scientific and medical uncertainty, state legislature will have discretion to regulate abortion procedures occurring at these late stages of pregnancy.
While future advances in scientific and medical technology will eventually shed more light on prenatal life and the effects of abortion on women, for now the Court must grapple with these issues in the dark. Under these circumstances, it “would indeed be undesirable for [the] Court to consider every conceivable situation which might possibly arise in the application of complex and comprehensive litigation.” The Gonzales Court is right to retreat from premature decisions of constitutional questions and instead exercise its limited jurisdictional power to “adjudge the legal rights of litigants in actual controversies.” Such are the demands of as-applied challenges:“the basic building blocks of constitutional adjudication.”
On yesterday’s show I interviewed Dean John Eastman of Chapman University School of Law and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California School of Law –the weekly “Smart Guys” segment.
In the course of the discussion, Dean Eastman told the audience that the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence which he leads at Chapman Law School hopes to file an amicus brief in favor of the vigorous protection of an individual’s Second Amendment rights.
Today marks the roll-out of the third version of this site. It is also the day that podcasts of the radio show become available only with a subscription to the Hughniverse. As always, your comments are welcome via hugh@hughhewitt.com.
Today’s program will also feature an hour with Michelle Malkin, whose Culture of Corruption has spent eight weeks already on the New York Times’ best seller list.
Also on today’s show: Mark Steyn and James Lileks.
James’ new column is also available at his Hughniverse blog, The Lileks Zone.