Thursday - October 21, 2010
droppin da bahm 3
Ok, I’ll play. Let’s all build a Giggle-JDAM to raise the hit ratio for these links. That means that they all float up higher on the Google search results, and on any other search engine as well.
So, what are they? A couple hundred articles and videos that are negative about various Democrat candidates. Assuming some undecided voter makes a small internet effort to find out about the people running in her district, she’ll enter the name in Giggle, and with any luck, these links will float up. Personally, I doubt if more than 1% of people who use Giggle for light research ever go past the 2nd page of results, so this might need to be a pretty big effort.
The thing is, this sorta has to be sub-rosa. Go ahead and copy the link list below the fold here, and post it 3 times. Check your post settings and back-date 2 of the copies. But don’t use the B-word. Or the G-word. That’s why when I wrote “Giggle-JDAM” I replaced “oog” with “igg”, “-bo” with “JD”, and “mb” with “AM”. Because we all know that a JDAM is one of those explosive devices dropped from airplanes.
John Hawkins at http://www.rightwingnews.com is behind this. He sent out a nice email with all the links, and a big FAQ. If you didn’t get one, just copy all the links and post them several times. Heck, you might want to even read a few of them, in case you needed a reminder of how much the D party sucks.
Besides, how often do you get to be a time traveler? I put this post up right now, on September 1 and August 23 and today. Makes me feel all paradoxical. And it makes me feel pretty juvenile, like sending on those chain letters. But I can live with that if it helps.
Post it thrice? Um, is there some of that subtle Heinlein “I tell you three times” influence here? Ooooooh, that makes uth all Gay Deceivers, doeshn’t it? 
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Permalink • Thursday - September 30, 2010
double mulligan?
“According to opinion polls at the time taken directly after Tet and a few weeks after Tet, the American people wanted to escalate the war,” Robbins says. “They understand that the enemy had suffered a terrible defeat, so there was an opportunity if we had taken concerted action to actually win this thing.”
In fact, a majority of those polled after Tet considered themselves “hawks,” Robbins found. He adds that in the summer of 1967, hawks outnumbered doves on college campuses. “The notion that young people were long-haired dope smoking draft resisters in 1967-68 is not true. The ‘Forrest Gump’ view of history is wrong.”
One of Tet’s flaws, Robbins says, was that the North Vietnamese believed that if they attacked countrywide in the south with their tripwire forces, the south would rise up in revolt against Saigon and join the communists.
“And the reason they believed that was because they were reading the New York Times,” Robbins says.
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To Robbins, the Vietnam narrative must be reclaimed from the “ruling class of hippies and leftists, who went from protests to the U.S. Senate in some cases” and those who “went from dope-smoking teach-ins to teaching from tenured positions on college campuses.”
Yes, there’s a whole book about it too.
h/t to Roger
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Permalink • Monday - September 20, 2010
British Tea Party launched by Conservative activists to challenge Coalition. Wish em much luck …
It’s gonna take a heck of a lot of luck and hard work to make this fly.
This sort of thing isn’t, I don’t believe, a natural part of the Brit make up. Maybe Lyndon and Chris will correct me on that, both of em being ex-pats. But Brits get angry and react in different ways. They don’t seem to organize things like Tea Parties.
I guess we’ll see and as usual ... Stay Tuned.
PS: Any Brits lurking out there who want to comment, you are more then welcome. My word alone on this topic is hardly sufficient. But I do find it interesting.
British Tea Party launched by Conservative activists to challenge CoalitionA British Tea Party campaign inspired by the electoral truimphs of the American movement is launching a series of challenges to the Coalition government.
By Jon Swaine
Activists are hold a rally at next month’s Conservative party conference in Birmingham at which criticism of Coalition policies will be aired.
A British division, launched last year by The Freedom Association, has held events including a “Boston tea party” in Boston, Lincs. ( Lincolnshire )
It has joined forces with the Taxpayers’ Alliance pressure group, which is being advised by Freedom Works, a large Washington-based political group that backs Tea Party candidates.
The organisers, who have already attracted thousands of disgruntled British conservatives, are being advised by the US low-tax, libertarian activists.
Raheem Kassam, one of the British tea party organisers, also held talks with US activists at the huge CPAC conference earlier this year.
“We want to counter what we believe is a Left-wing bias in our culture,” Mr Kassam said.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 16, 2010
Tea Party’ rebels score a stunning poll breakthrough ….
As the grassroots ‘Tea Party’ rebels score a stunning poll breakthrough, is this the start of the 2nd American Revolution?
By Tom Leonard
Last updated at 12:05 PM on 16th September 2010They want to purify their party and their country, returning America to the honest, founding traditions of thrift, small government and self-reliance from which, they say, it has strayed.
And, like the protesters from whom they take their name (the Bostonians who demonstrated against British taxation by dumping tea into the city’s harbour in 1773), the Tea Party rebels are - by their own account - as ‘mad as hell’.
But whether they are a bunch of dotty extremists or not, the Tea Party phenomenon suddenly poses a serious threat.
On Tuesday night, the upsurge in anger among grassroots American conservatives, with both Barack Obama and the Republican Party, made itself spectacularly felt in the tiny, affluent state of Delaware.
Enlarge Former Alaska Gov. Sarah PalinIn a move that has proved electorally successful across the U.S., Sarah Palin described Christine O’Donnell as one of her ‘mama grizzlies’ - a term she has coined to describe her uncompromising conservative allies
In one of the least expected results of the primary season - in which candidates are chosen for November’s mid-term elections - Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party-backed dissident Republican, beat a moderate and establishment favourite to win the party’s nomination for vice-president Joe Biden’s old seat in the U.S. Senate.
O’Donnell is a perennial candidate and former abstinence counsellor, who promotes complete celibacy before marriage and has a fierce stance on guns (pro), government spending (anti), abortion (anti) and masturbation (anti - it’s a sin, she says).
Her strong beliefs had prompted many - especially local Republican leaders - to write her off as unelectable.
Been reading just a little about this O’Donnell lady. New to me of course and probably to many of you too. Based on the little I read, I am wondering if she’s electable.
Here’s an excellent report from Toby Harnden in the Telegraph. These people do keep up with happenings in the USA. How they report what they see, well now .... that might make for an interesting study. I haven’t seen the Times of London today, and there’s no on line version for them anymore. Times tends toward the liberal pov, although they have been featuring a number of conservative opinions over the last year. I’m afraid to look at the Guardian. So far left I wonder why they don’t simply change their name to the Daily Worker or Pravda. Once in a while I do check and usually come away so damn angry I wanna shout at them. But hell. Who’d listen?
Tea Party trouble is brewing in Washington
It isn’t only Republicans who are threatened by Sarah Palin’s angry brigade, says Toby Harnden.
By Toby Harnden
Just what does the stunning victory of Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party darling and Sarah Palin protégée, mean for the Republican Party? That was the question being asked across official Washington yesterday, where many livelihoods depend on the answer. It was also entirely the wrong thing to focus on.
O’Donnell’s selection in a primary as the party’s candidate for Delaware – and the victories of six other Tea Partiers against the leadership’s candidates – is about much more than the battle for the Senate, or even who will be in the White House after 2012.
O’Donnell is a party apparatchik’s nightmare. Although attractive and personable – there is a physical as well as a political resemblance to Palin – she is a flawed candidate who will struggle against her Democratic opponent in November’s midterm elections.
A strong social conservative, she has campaigned not only for sexual abstinence but against masturbation. Although she promotes fiscal conservatism, she appears to have chaotic personal finances and once filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit claiming gender discrimination against a conservative group she had worked for. It was later dropped.
O’Donnell could grow as a candidate but thus far she has shown she is not ready for prime time. Her television appearances have been as painful as Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric in 2008, showing her to be ill-prepared and only vaguely familiar with key policy areas.
Yet the point to take from Delaware is that none of this really matters. To say that voters are angry is an understatement. They are furious, disgusted and resentful. They are fed up of being told by besuited party honchos and professional politicians whom they should vote for, and what they should think.
READ MORE HERE
And finally .... see what ya make of this. Clever. And no friend to us on the right. But still clever. And almost always amusing.
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Permalink • Friday - September 10, 2010
Nobody Will Hear You Tommy
Political Fables in today’s Town Hall
In case you don’t have it all memorized by now, Sowell points things out in today’s Town Hall online magazine, debunking a number of media myths and shooting a few sacred cows.
The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama “inherited” the big federal budget deficits and that he has to “clean up the mess” left in the economy by the Republicans. This may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under scrutiny.
No President of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress before Barack Obama became president. The deficit he inherited was created by the Congressional Democrats, including Senator Barack Obama, who did absolutely nothing to oppose the runaway spending. He was one of the biggest of the big spenders.
The last time the federal government had a budget surplus, Bill Clinton was president, so it was called “the Clinton surplus.” But Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, where all spending bills originate, for the first time in 40 years. It was also the first budget surplus in more than a quarter of a century.
The only direct power that any president has that can affect deficits and surpluses is the power to veto spending bills. President Bush did not veto enough spending bills but Senator Obama and his fellow Democrats in control of Congress were the ones who passed the spending bills.
He also reminds us that it was Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd behind the subprime mortgage fiasco. With the full support of the Witch’s Chorus.
Most of those who pushed the lowering of mortgage lending standards were Democrats-- notably Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd, though too many Republicans went along.
At the heart of these policies were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who bought huge amounts of risky mortgages, passing the risk on from the banks that lent the money (and made the profits) to the taxpayers who were not even aware that they would end up paying in the end.
When President Bush said in 2004 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be reined in, 76 members of the House of Representatives issued a statement to the contrary. These included Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel.
A fair amount of Republicans were part of this too, either supporting it wholeheartedly or by their silence.
Remember these names in NOvember.
If we are going to talk about “the policies that created this mess in the first place,” let’s at least get the facts straight and the names right.
The current policies of the Obama administration are a continuation of the same reckless policies that brought on the current economic problems-- all in the name of “change.” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still sacred cows in Washington, even though they have already required the biggest bailouts of all.
Why? Because they allow politicians to direct vast sums of money where it will do politicians the most good, either personally or in terms of buying votes in the next election.
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Permalink • Friday - August 27, 2010
You Lie, You Fry
NJ Governor Chris Christie fires education commissioner Brent Schundler
Yesterday, I mentioned in passing watching NJ Christie give it to DC for their asshatted douchebaggery. And here’s the video, in an article over at The Corner that asks just how vindictive the Oblahblah Regime really is. Answer: very. Very very.
But Christie was a little bit wrong. He was wrong in that he said that Schundler had given the correct information verbally at one of these Race To The Top education grant grillings. Because that’s what Schundler told him had happened.
It turns out that Schundler “mis-remembered”. As the unapologetic and still douchebaggy US Department of Education was quick to point out, by sending in the videotape, Schundler and his team actually muffed that question, and had no answer for the committee during that earlier Q&A session.
But the fact still remains that the federal form wanted 2008 vs 2009 data, on one page of the 1000+ page application, and Schundler’s people provided 2010 vs 2011 data. Clearly labeled as 2010 vs 2011 data. And nobody down at the DC DOE could be bothered to pick up a phone. Christie asked “Does anybody in Washington have a lick of common sense?” Answer: No. Mindless drones checking boxes. Zero effort towards their jobs.
New Jersey lost the competition to Ohio by 3 points. That one bit of bad data cost them 4.8 points. $400 million down the hole. What was that old line, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”? Bull. Shit.
So here’s your Conservative version of Nuance: In his conference at the first link above, Governor Christie said he wasn’t going to fire anybody over a simple but unfortunate clerical mistake like this. That’s class. But when he found out that Schundler had lied to him about providing the correct data verbally - and let’s face it, it was a lie; put yourself in his seat at that session. You’re getting grilled left and right, providing answers, solving issues, helping your state compete for this grant. And then you and your team totally blow one of the questions. Not only don’t you know the answer off the top of your head, you don’t even have it written down anywhere. Big time muff. Mortifying. You KNOW you are going to remember this moment. - so when Schundler was caught lying, Christie asked him to resign. But Schundler wouldn’t do as asked. He would not resign. So after a few hours waiting, the NJ Governor got tired of it, and canned him. Now that Schundler has lost his $141,000 job, he says he asked to get fired so he could collect unemployment. Currently NJ pays a maximum weekly unemployment benefit of $584 for 79 weeks, which is barely 21% of the $2711/wk he was bringing in. But maybe top government jobs are scarce these days for Republicans. So maybe he will need the cash.
Don’t mess with Christie.
Gov. Chris Christie fired state education commissioner Bret Schundler this morning after Schundler refused to resign in the wake of the controversy over the state’s loss of up to $400 million in federal school funding.
“I was extremely disappointed to learn that the videotape of the Race to the Top presentation was not consistent with the information provided to me,” Christie said in a press release. “As a result, I ordered an end to Bret Schundler’s service as New Jersey’s Education Commissioner and as a member of my administration.”
But after Christie and other top officials on Thursday watched the video of Schundler and other officials’ presentation to the U.S. Department of Education, and the video contradicted Schundler’s explanation, the governor said, “He can’t lie to me,” the source said.
He directed Bagger to ask for Schundler’s resignation Thursday afternoon, but it took several hours for Bagger to reach the commissioner.
Then, Schundler at first said if the governor wanted his resignation, he would give it, according to the source.
By this morning the resignation had not been received, and word started circulating in Trenton that Schundler was resisting. Christie grew tired of waiting, and ordered Schundler fired, the source said.
Schundler said today he asked to be fired rather than resign because he said he needed the unemployment benefits.
Schundler has been an effective Conservative, serving as mayor of Jersey City and even running for Governor a few years ago. But the current NJ Governor won’t put up with dishonesty of any kind, not even CYA bullshit from his top people. I’m beginning to wonder if he could fill bigger shoes than just NJ Governor.
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 25, 2010
Guess The Party, Round 28,112
Ten states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands are all seeking waivers exempting them from complying with the new law—the Move Act—that requires all states to mail absentee ballots to overseas military voters 45 days before Election Day.
The federal government felt the need for a national Act to nudge the states along so that their men and women in uniform serving overseas would have a chance to vote, and to have those votes counted.
“It’s been very clear that some of these states were not going to be in compliance with the Move Act a long time ago,” said Eric Eversole, executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project. “And the Department of Justice, each step of the way, has simply not taken the actions to ensure that the Move Act would be implemented in each of the 50 states.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who co-authored the Move Act, wrote Attorney General Eric Holder last month to complain that a top Justice Department official had called the law “fairly general” with some provisions “an open question.”
“If a state is not in compliance with the statute,” Cornyn wrote Holder, “there is little room for ‘dialogue’ or negotiation, and (the department’s) Voting (Rights) Section should take immediate steps to enforce the law.”
Fox has been following this story for some time now, but the best they can tell us about those states and areas is
The states are: Hawaii; New York; Delaware; Virgin Islands; Alaska; Washington; Maryland; Washington, D.C., Massachusetts; Wisconsin; Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Because, you know, Washington DC is a state, and so is the territory of the Virgin Islands. But leaving such nuanced journalism aside, what Fox has not told us is this:
[UPDATE: I fixed the Massachusetts data. html tables are a pain]
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State Name | Party
of Governor | House
Majority | Senate
Majority |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | Republican | Republican | Democrat | Senate coalition |
| Delaware | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Hawaii | Republican | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Maryland | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Massachusetts | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| New Hampshire | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| New York | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Rhode Island | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Virgin Islands | Democrat | Democrat | unicameral legislature | |
| Washinton | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat | |
| Washington DC | Democrat | Democrat | Mayor, and unicameral legislature | |
| Wisconsin | Democrat | Democrat | Democrat |
5 3 out of 34. Or 3 out or 33, because this Alaska coalition thing is hard for an outsider to understand. Even so ... sure seems like a whole lot of blue in there. And that’s not newsworthy.
(data source: Wikipedia)
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Permalink • Monday - August 16, 2010
OBAMA? KAPUT? ALREADY? We’ll see come elections …
No point in reprinting everything here so .... Read the whole thing here.
I can only hope that liberalism is actually growing weaker. You sure don’t see that in California, and I’m from a pretty conservative place there. I’ll believe liberalism is weaker when I see those 5th column SOBs like the aclu, the splc, amnasty (sent packing out of our country) and the like lose power and influence. Sadly, I do not see that in the future. Those bums will remain as they are now. A cancer on the body politic.
Anyway, this is worth a peek. Although I suppose it confirms what we’ve all known for awhile. So maybe there isn’t really anything new here.
Off topic ....
Thanks much Christopher for keeping us alive this wkend. I haven’t been up to much lately.
Barack Obama has made it clear that he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, and has made apologising for his country into an art form.
The stunning decline of Barack Obama:
10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown
By Nile Gardiner
The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant ground and is now a rising and powerful political force to be reckoned with, many of the president’s own supporters as well as independents are rapidly losing faith in Barack Obama, with open warfare breaking out between the White House and the left-wing of the Democratic Party. While conservatism in America grows stronger by the day, the forces of liberalism are growing increasingly weaker and divided.
I read something interesting re. elections and O. come 2012. Someone has suggested a good move to save his presidency in 2012, would be to dump Biden and get Hillary to run as VP. Say whatever we will about both, but that would make one interesting ticket. And a scary one too cos ya know, it just could work.
Never discount anything as not possible. Hey ... the sky could actually damn well fall. Just cos it hasn’t yet doesn’t mean ....
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Permalink • Friday - August 06, 2010
And Again!
Dear GOP
Would you PLEASE have some bigwig at the top of the heap make a clarifying statement about what Lindsey Graham, and now Chuck Grassley, “meant” by their statements the other day about the 14th Amendment?
We are being beaten to a pulp on this one. Strawmen are being erected and set on fire left, right, and lefter. It’s time to fight back. For ONCE, would you finally fight back? The right side of the blogosphere can’t do it alone, though God knows we try, day after day after day.
Simply put: there is nothing wrong with the 14th Amendment. It is fine as it is. Even Section 1. The problem is that people have misunderstood what it actually says. Graham and Grassely are only saying that the proper understanding of Section 1 needs to be made clear again. Well, tell people that’s what they’re saying. Please. Because if they really do believe that the amendment is out of date and poorly written, then they deserve a trip to the woodshed, or worse.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States …”
Does NOT mean that anyone born here is automatically a citizen. It never meant that, and it still does not. The misunderstanding comes from the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, which too many people think means something like “and subject to our rule of law while here”. It does not mean that. It means, just like what was written in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (another Republican accomplishment) “and not subject to any foreign power”.
People make a big issue out of original intent. Fine. Easy. Look up the Congressional Record of May 30, 1866 and read EXACTLY what Senator Jacob M. Howard (R-MI), the author of this part of the 14th meant, and what every other representative at the time fully and completely understood:
“The first amendment is to section one, declaring that “all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United State and the States wherein they reside.” I do not propose to say anything on the subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as to not need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment of which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard is the law of land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=11
Foreign nationals are NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. They are subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries. Plain and simple. Black and white. And yet a huge part of the citizenship does not understand this. Teach them. Make an effort. Try. Find some backbone. Stand up. Fight.
I can find 25 major web sites in a matter of seconds that are utterly trashing the GOP right now over this. To them, Graham’s statement means he wants to bring back slavery. And worse.
I’ve blogged about it multiple times, and so have many others on the right. We are happy to call ourselves the VRWC, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and we do our best to push Conservative and Republican views. Or what we feel ought to be Republican views.
Ann Coulter put up a post about it, and found that the “anchor baby” error may have snuck in in 1982 as part of an absurd footnote by Justice Brennan (progressive Democrat) in Plyler v. Doe. It is NOT law. It is not, should not, must not be official policy.
It’s an awful lot of extra work for us out here in the grassroots when representatives like Graham seem to insist on having foot in mouth disease, with hand grenades taped to their toenails. Help us help you. Please.
Andrew Pearce
Clinton NJ
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What we are up against, thanks to nitwit Graham? The GOP wants to end Due Process and bring back slavery!!!!!! The GOP is the party of Jefferson Davis! Dred Scott Republicans! RACIIIISTS!
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_08/025055.php
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40635.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008040031
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/4/890271/-Chuck-Grassley-joins-the-Dred-Scott-Republicans
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/grassley-agrees-with-having-hearings-on-ending-birthright-citizenship.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/04/AR2010080405453.html
Kick up a fuss folks. Email your reps, email Graham and Grassely. Email the talking heads at the news networks. Write letters to the editors. Et cetera. Put the word out. Never retreat, never surrender.
Always quote the above bit of Original Intent. That can not be argued with, even though “scholars have debated this for generations”. Horse shit. Left wing progressives have tried to change the meaning of the words for generations. Nothing scholarly there, and nothing debatable either. Just more lies and agitprop.
http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/jefferson-davis-was-a-democrat.html
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 04, 2010
Counting The Days
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Permalink • Monday - August 02, 2010
The TEA Party and the GOP
Wow! Not a single post on a Monday? I’ve got 1 hour and 49 minutes to correct that.
Here’s the deal: The MSM has been doing their evil best to tie the GOP to the TEA party activists. As if there’s anything wrong with that, but I digress.
The MSM seems to think that tying the GOP to the TEA party people would be good for their guys. You know, the socialist, anti-American party of OBowMao, aka, the First Mongrel™.
But Emperor Misha I cuts through the crap:
His Imperial Majesty has now been forced to listen to enough wimpy “conservatives” hyperventilating about the possible “dangers” of the GOP being associated with the Tea Parties and blah, blah, blech that he feels a need to set the record straight.
In view of the GOP’s historic, massive fail when it comes to acting and governing in a fashion that can be said to be even remotely conservative, witness the MediCare Free-For-All, Shamnesty and, of course, their grandest moment of fail, the McVain candidacy, just to name a few, we think it only fair to say that if there is anybody with a legitimate grievance regarding associating the Tea Party with the GOP, then it’s the Tea Party and their sympathizers.
We therefore say, firmly and with conviction: QUIT ASSOCIATING US WITH THE PARTY OF STUPID!
It is, by far, the most vile slander that has been thrown at the Tea Party, and it must stop now.
Thatisall.
Republicans, I’m thinking you need to give us a good reason to vote for you. I’m tired of voting GOP and finding I voted for Stupid. Grow some cojones, or at least a man-eating vagina like Palin, Bachman, Brewer, etc.
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Permalink • Friday - July 23, 2010
Homework
I can’t demand that any of my readers go and spend an hour reading this essay in American Spectator, but I certainly can recommend it. It’s a long read, and a somewhat academic one, and it puts into words written at a higher level the chalkboarding and emoting you catch on Glen Beck every day. But it really is worth it: if We The People are ever going to get our acts together and take back our nation, then this shared awareness is where we will have to start.
Ever since Oliver Wendell Holmes argued in 1920 (Missouri v. Holland) that presidents, Congresses, and judges could not be bound by the U.S. Constitution regarding matters that the people who wrote and ratified it could not have foreseen, it has become conventional wisdom among our ruling class that they may transcend the Constitution while pretending allegiance to it. They began by stretching such constitutional terms as “interstate commerce” and “due process,” then transmuting others, e.g., “search and seizure,” into “privacy.” Thus in 1973 the Supreme Court endowed its invention of “privacy” with a “penumbra” that it deemed “broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” The court gave no other constitutional reasoning, period.
When the government declares, and its associated press echoes that “scientists say” this or that, ordinary people—or for that matter scientists who “don’t say,” or are not part of the ruling class—lose any right to see the information that went into what “scientists say.” Thus when Virginia’s attorney general subpoenaed the data by which Professor Michael Mann had concluded, while paid by the state of Virginia, that the earth’s temperatures are rising “like a hockey stick” from millennial stability—a conclusion on which billions of dollars’ worth of decisions were made—to investigate the possibility of fraud, the University of Virginia’s faculty senate condemned any inquiry into “scientific endeavor that has satisfied peer review standards” claiming that demands for data “send a chilling message to scientists...and indeed scholars in any discipline.” The Washington Post editorialized that the attorney general’s demands for data amounted to “an assault on reason.”
By identifying science and reason with themselves, our rulers delegitimize opposition. Though they cannot prevent Americans from worshiping God, they can make it as socially disabling as smoking—to be done furtively and with a bad social conscience. Though they cannot make Americans wish they were Europeans, they continue to press upon this nation of refugees from the rest of the world the notion that Americans ought to live by “world standards.”
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The country class actually believes that America’s ways are superior to the rest of the world’s, and regards most of mankind as less free, less prosperous, and less virtuous. Thus while it delights in croissants and thinks Toyota’s factory methods are worth imitating, it dislikes the idea of adhering to “world standards.” This class also takes part in the U.S. armed forces body and soul: nearly all the enlisted, non-commissioned officers and officers under flag rank belong to this class in every measurable way. Few vote for the Democratic Party.
But the Republican Party does not live to represent the country class. For it to do so, it would have to become principles-based, as it has not been since the mid-1860s. The few who tried to make it so the party treated as rebels: Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. The party helped defeat Goldwater. When it failed to stop Reagan, it saddled his and subsequent Republican administrations with establishmentarians who, under the Bush family, repudiated Reagan’s principles as much as they could. Barack Obama exaggerated in charging that Republicans had driven the country “into the ditch” all alone. But they had a hand in it.
Because aggressive, intolerant secularism is the moral and intellectual basis of the ruling class’s claim to rule, resistance to that rule, whether to the immorality of economic subsidies and privileges, or to the violation of the principle of equal treatment under equal law, or to its seizure of children’s education, must deal with secularism’s intellectual and moral core. This lies beyond the boundaries of politics as the term is commonly understood.
Yes, that’s a lot of quotations, far more than I usually make. I did that so that you would see the very broad range of topics covered by this essay. It shows how just about everything has gone wrong, and why ... and the answer is Progressivism. We have 3 generations worth of corruption to undo, and that’s going to require far more than just a couple wins at the polls in 2010 and 2012.
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Duh. What else is new? Another tempest in a teapot, another waste of huge amounts of money, same result: another leftist lie falls by the wayside. Not that anyone is going to notice it at this point.
These attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. That’s it. Clinton fired 90 of them and it wasn’t even news. Bush fired 6 and it was the new apocalypse. What a load of nonsense. 10 seconds spent reading the rule book should have cleared up the whole matter back in 2006. But somehow it became a huge story ... JournoList agenda and bias? No kidding.
The Bush administration’s Justice Department’s actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.
The decision closes the books on one of the lingering political disputes of the Bush administration, one that Democrats said was evidence of GOP politics run amok and that Republicans have always said was a manufactured controversy.
Investigators looked into whether the Bush administration improperly dismissed nine U.S. attorneys, and in particular New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, as a way to influence criminal cases. The scandal added to mounting criticism that the administration had politicized the Justice Department, a charge that contributed to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
In 2008, the Justice Department assigned Nora Dannehy, a career prosecutor from Connecticut with a history of rooting out government wrongdoing, to investigate the firings.
“Evidence did not demonstrate that any prosecutable criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of David Iglesias,” the Justice Department said in a letter to lawmakers Wednesday. “The investigative team also determined that the evidence did not warrant expanding the scope of the investigation beyond the removal of Iglesias.”
Prosecutors also said there was insufficient evidence to charge someone with lying to Congress or investigators.
Gonzales’ lawyer, George Terwilliger, called the conclusion long overdue.
“Those who made unwarranted allegations to the contrary owe him an apology,” Terwilliger said. “After having spent months cooperating with inquiries that produced no evidence of his wrongdoing, Judge Gonzales is pleased to be free to resume a career marked to date by service to the public.”
Well I’m glad that’s all cleared up. Except for the sour grapes and those unwilling to accept the results ...
House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D) of Michigan said Dannehy’s decision is not an exoneration of Bush administration officials.
“There is no dispute that these firings were totally improper and that misleading testimony was given to Congress in an effort to cover them up,” Conyers said in a statement.
Go suck on a lemon Conyers. Your party threw the mud, and two years later, probably at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars, microscopic examination has shown that none of it stuck.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 15, 2010
Another Lost Post
Beats me what happened. I thought I put this up yesterday. So I’ll try again before I blame the government watchbirds.
Too true. I would have drawn the guy in the back to look a lot more like Eric Holder though.
The first time I did this post I put in a link to IBD’s From The Left column, written by D.J. Dionne, so you could all have a laugh at his expense. He wrote an essay supporting the NAACP’s accusation of racism in the Tea Party movement and calling for a purge from within that group. Pure projectionism and moonbattery. Perhaps suffering from his own form of White Guilt, Dionne agrees with everything that Jealous said the other day, takes Sarah Palin to task because she commiserated with the Tea Party folks because she herself has been the target of baseless accusations, and lashes out at Tom Tancredo because it was soooo racist of him to opine that BHO got elected because most Americans haven’t the slightest inkling of what Socialism, Communism, and Tyranny are all about. But let’s crucify Tancredo because he expressed that thought by brandishing the racial tar baby and calling such a lack a “civics literary test”. The irony was completely lost on Dionne. And the NAACP/NBPP I’m sure.
Ok, links restored. Let’s see if this iteration survives.
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