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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Time to dust off the ol’ trench coat

    Why am I just hearing about this stimulus cash from the National Endowment for the Arts now? (Washington Examiner link)

    …CounterPULSE, which received $25,000 in stimulus funds, and which may be best known for its “Perverts Put Out,” a “long-running pansexual performance series.” The group urges guests, “Join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun.”

    Last Friday, the NEA defended this and numerous other small grants of extremely questionable merit in a letter to Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. “The NEA did not use [stimulus] dollars to fund any of the projects,” wrote Patrice Powell, the agency’s acting chairman. The grants, she wrote, “can only be used to provide salary support for staff positions or fees for previously-engaged artists and/or contractual personnel that are critical to an organization’s artistic mission and in jeopardy of being eliminated as a result of the current economic climate.” In other words, you’re not paying for “Perverts Put Out.” You’re paying to make sure that CounterPULSE has enough money to produce “Perverts Put Out.”

    Everyone knows how expensive it is for us pervs to maintain a staff, er, I mean keep our secretaries…er, uh….

    Yeah, $25k isn’t much, compared to the trillions the stimulus will cost, but still, “Perverts Put Out”…really?

  • Congress scraps plans for new jets

    Facing massive opposition on their healthcare plan, I suppose Congress doesn’t feel it can take too many more hits on their other irresponsible spending plans. According to Fox News, they’ve scrapped plans to force the Pentagon to buy four more jets to ferry them around in luxury;

    “If the Department of Defense does not want these aircraft, they will be eliminated from the bill,” said Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the panel that approved the additional spending.

    A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supported the decision, which was expected to face resistance in the Senate.

    So that’s one less aircraft that’ll land at the John Murtha International Airport to No-where, I suppose.

    Murtha denies that the money was added to give lawmakers a nicer ride when traveling with the military, as lawmakers often do to visit troops overseas or for security reasons. In a statement released Monday, Murtha said that the planes are primarily used by executive branch officials.

    Yuh-huh – that’s why the Pentagon was being forced to buy eight after they said they only needed four.

  • Falling poll numbers and corporate shills

    So the White House and the rubber stamp Congress are out this weekend trying to paint the whole tea party movement as some kind of insurance industry plot to undermine the post-racial presidency. But the Washington Times notes this morning that with falling poll numbers, that’s a harder case to make;

    For more than two weeks, polls have consistently shown growing resistance to President Obama’s reform proposals, largely because of concerns about the nation’s deficit and debt.

    “There are a number of statistically valid public opinion polls that show that there has been a dramatic increase in public concern about escalating deficits and debt levels and our nation’s increased reliance on foreign lenders,” said David Walker, the nation’s former comptroller general.

    Mr. Walker…said that the American people are “ahead of their elected officials” in understanding the need to rein in spending before expanding health care coverage.

    Yeah. it’s funny how the people who actually earn the money are more concerned about the way it’s spent than Congress seems.

    Andrew Breitbart describes how the Left is trying to marginalize the protesters using the traditional media;

    Stepping up the rhetoric from mockery to pure hatred, and absent any evidence, Mr. Olbermann has called the president’s public protesters “worse than racists.” Political activist and comedianJaneane Garofalo colored them “racist rednecks who hate blacks.” And at the somewhat higher end of the food chain, liberal economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times wrote last week that they were motivated by “cultural and racial fear.”

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is having a hard time these days explaining the president’s Israel policy to her Jewish constituents, blatantly lied and said that the protesters were wielding “swastikas and symbols like that.”

    See, making fun of the protesters and calling them racists would work on members of the Left they’d try to keep on the Democrat Plantation, so they figure that doing the same to people expressing their own opinions would work on the tea partiers, too. I think that will probably backfire.

    We’ve been called racists for so long about nearly everything we’ve done (including voting our minds), that it has the effect of water on a duck’s back now and it only encourages our side, these days. It’s almost a badge of honor to be called a racist for acts, words and deeds that have nothing to do with racism. The new American martyrs.

    Oh, and we have new call to arms, like the call from the Green Revolution in Iran who declared “I am Neda”, Brietbart declares “I am Kenneth Gladney”

  • VanHollen avoids the health care debate

    My uber-leftist congressman, Chris VanHollen has found a way to avoid hearing fishy information about the healthcare debate. Through Organizing for America, I’ve been provided an opportunity to talk to a member of his staff in his local office (which is the same distance from my house as his Washington Office, by the way);

    How many people who disagree with Obamacare are subscribed to Organizing for America, do you suppose? Of course, VanHollen is way too important to meet with me, so all I’m going to get is a member of the staff (they mention that might be just someone sitting at the receptionist desk – um, a receptionist?)

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    It’s probably so VanHollen can go on the floor of the House and make some grand speech about talking to his constituents and how they all supported the President’s health care plan. Well, I’m going to be there this week just to make him a liar.

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  • This really torqued me off

    Last night I got some emails about the Monster.com advertisement for Internment / Resettlement Specialists for the National Guard. The emailers were pushing the image of Americans being rounded up for their political ideology. Here’s the ad complete with a video and an exerpt;

    Some of your duties as an Internment / Resettlement Specialist may include:

    * Assisting with supervision and management of confinement and detention operations
    * Providing internal or external security to confinement/corrections facilities or detention/internment facilities
    * Providing custody, control, supervision and escort to all security levels of U.S. military prisoners or internees/detainees
    * Counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program
    * Preparing or reviewing reports and records of prisoners/internees and programs

    Ed Morrissey did a pretty good job of laying the whole conspiracy thing to rest. But there are some points I’d like to add.

    Do you honestly believe that kid who grew up next door to you, played with your kids, learned to ride his bike in your driveway and then joined the National Guard after high school would really stand by and watch as you got tossed in prison for your ideology? Are you folks starting to be like the Left and beginning to believe that our soldiers are raised in special camps like the Spartans and then just do the bidding of the President – whoever he is?

    We weren’t afraid of our troops during the Bush Adsministration, so why, suddenly, can’t we trust them now? The day after the election, I wrote that we needed to continue to support the troops, because I knew some folks would need a reminder.

    Those folks in uniform are thinking, rational human beings. To even suspect that they’d allow themselves to used to round up and intern Americans in prison camps is just goofy fucking bullshit. And it’s the kind of goofy bullshit I heard from the Left for eight years.

  • dicksmith is a’skeered of the boogeyman

    Our buddy dicksmith, the new senior editor of VetVoice, tells us how he’s been a’skeered of the boogeyman since George Bush was President. He begins his missive quoting John Brennan, Obama’s chief counter-terrorism advisor;

    “But describing our efforts as a ‘global war’ only plays into the warped narrative that Al-Qaeda propagates,” Brennan said in comments prepared for delivery to a think tank here.

    dicksmith applauds the Obama Administration’s name change;

    This is an extremely smart policy move. For eight years, we have sent our finest men and women to fight a war against an undefined enemy. Shifting a way from the “GWOT” nomenclature will give service members what they deserve: a defined mission with a defined enemy. No doubt, we’ll still see the “terrorism” boogey-man thrown into the debate, but at least now it won’t be official policy.

    An “extremely smart policy move”. Changing the name we call the war changes the whole mission, apparently. It gives us definition. Any of you guys fighting the old Global War On Terror remember needing the mission defined, or did you have any doubt who was the enemy? Well, dicksmith was a’skeered;

    For the record, I’m not saying terrorists and terrorism doesn’t exist. They are, however, extremely broad terms that have been used in the fear-mongering process of the past. Anything and everything we didn’t like was chalked up to “terrorists” or “terrorism”, but usually only when it applied to actions perpetrated by foreigners.

    Because we’re racists who only react negatively to terrorism committed by them ding-dang fur-ners. He’s upset that we didn’t call domestic crime “terrorism”. That’ll apparently all change now that we call it “The War Against Al Qaeda”.

    Now, hopefully, we can move away from the previously flawed practice of boogey-man fear mongering and set clear definitions for who our enemies are.

    Aside from the fact that the senior editor of VetsVoice ends his thought with a preposition, that sentence is the most bizarre that I’ve ever read. The Global War on Terror was supposed to be just that. It was a call to the world to pull together and stop the animals that were killing innocent people to make a political statement. We were fighting terrorists in the Middle East, Colombia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Africa, Europe – ya know – globally.

    Now we’ve put Al Qaeda on a pedestal and given them the recognition that they’ve wanted since the mid-nineties. During the Bush Administration we were fighting injustice everywhere, now we’re chasing some guys in manjammies around the mountains trying to kill them all.

    Not only is this a piss-poor policy decision, it’s playing right into the hands of Al Qaeda. So now we’re beefing up our forces in Colombia – do we have to give that war it’s own name, too? Fighting the Moros in the Phillipines will be a different war?

    The thought that dicksmith put into his little Obama tongue bath was pretty superficial. All he needed to hear was that it was not a Bush idea and he was all for it.

  • Do Democrats understand Veteran care

    1stCavRVN11B sent us a link from Red State (by way of Free Republic, by way of Freedom’s Lighthouse) of Congressman Kratovil of Maryland who gets a question from a boy who is worried about the veteran care his grandfather will receive under Obama care. Kratovil puts the boy’s fear at ease by telling him that he’s really concerned about veteran suicide rates.

    What? Gramp-gramp is gonna kill himself? Is that all Democrats know about veteran care – we’re a bunch of crack pots on the edge of killing ourselves and taking someone else with us? Good way to avoid answering the boy’s thoughtful question. Better way to tell us you don’t understand the question.

  • Beck on “fishy” information

    I’m not a Beck fan, but this was on last night as back ground noise and I happened to watch it, because I’d written about it the other day and I thought it was kinda funny ;

    Meanwhile, American Power Blog catches MSNBC spreading lies about public support for the “public option”. But when your guest is from FireDogLake, who can expect the truth?