This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Kokesh, the voice of America

    TSO wrote yesterday about Adam Kokesh‘s campaign. But the bigger story is his attempt to drag TAH into his campaign. Apparently, he thinks that any publicity is good publicity. He’s even sent his flyers to Chris Hill from GOE who sent me a link yesterday to Kokesh’s blog entry about Hill pointing out the addition of the parenthetical comment under the original title. Apparently, Kokesh is trying to soften his image in preparation for his run at a congressional seat in Santa Fe.
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    It may have backfired on Kokesh, though. Just last week, a Phoenix newspaper linked to This Ain’t Hell in regards to Kokesh’s candidacy. They used all of our posts about Kokesh over the last two years to warn voters away from him.

    Poor Adam is still mired in his past thinking it will win him an election. His latest rants are about Donald Rumsfeld owning stock in the company that makes Tamaflu. I’m sure that’s why Democrats spent that money on flu prevention – to fill Rummy’s pockets.

    But the most disturbing part of Kokesh’s new personae is that he’s doing interviews with Russia Today in which they describe him as an “expert”. Here’s a sample entitled “Obama’s foreign policy is more aggressive than Bush’s” – expert;


    Adam Kokesh, the Expert. The Voice of America to Russia. Sweet.

  • Spineless foreign policy

    So what happened this weekend? While the US was immersed in the useless-ass Michael Jackson news and doing their best to ignore the fact that we’ll all  be broke by the end of the year paying our new backdoor taxes on our energy needs, the rest of the world continued to turn.

    Did you hear that Iran had seized several British Embassy employees? No, of course not. I think it was nine that were detained by Iranian police for inciting the rallies against the government. Five were released yesterday and four more remain in custody according to CNN;

    British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday protested the arrests, calling them “harassment and intimidation of a kind which is quite unacceptable.”

    Iran’s intelligence minister has blamed Western powers for stirring up protests over its disputed presidential election, singling out Britain and saying the British Embassy in Tehran “played a heavy role in the recent disturbances.”

    North Korea seems to be upset that we’ve moved missile defense assets to Hawaii. They, somehow, think that we’re moving defense systems to attack North Korea – kinda like the Murtha plan to defend the Iraqi government from Guam, I suppose. This from Australian Associated Press;

    “Through the US forces’ clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the US attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact,” the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said on Monday.

    The paper also accused the US of deploying nuclear-powered aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula, saying the moves prove “the US pre-emptive nuclear war” on the North is imminent.

    The commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, said the North will bolster its nuclear arsenal in self-defence.

    I also wrote yesterday a few times about the removal of Leftist president Manuel Zelaya from his position in Honduras. He awoken early yesterday morning and sent to Costa Rica by the Honduran Army, apparently under the orders of the Honduran Congress and the Supreme Court. The Obama Administration called the act a “coup” while the Honduran Supreme Court claims it was completely legal since the Army was only defending their constitution from a domestic threat.

    Apparently the Obama administration had their fingers in several attempts to remove Zelaya in preceding weeks according to the Washington Times;

    The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, said the U.S. Embassy in Honduras was “consistently and almost constantly engaged in the last several weeks working with partners” and that U.S. officials were “in contact with all Honduran institutions, including the military.” However, the military stopped taking the embassy’s calls since the coup attempt, the official said.

    Hmmm, they stopped taking the Obama administration’s calls, huh? Probably because they weren’t being helpful. The OAS, the UN, Chavez’ ALBA members have all condemned the removal of Zelaya from office, but actually, two branches of the Honduran government, the Judicial and Legislative, both arrived at the conclusion that Zelaya was trying to change the government of Honduras, like Chavez changed the Venezuelan government to suit his own selfish purposes. It’s an internal issue.

    The rest of the world has decided that they’re going to let Iran kill it’s own citizens, let North Korea fire off missiles anywhere they want while imprisoning US citizens, but they’re not going to let the Honduran government come to conclusions about the way it’s governed?

    Oh, and Chavez said yesterday that he’s ready to return Zelaya to office with the use of the Venezuelan Army. And the world is hoping he will, apparently.

    I thought Obama was going to change the way the world looked at us. Apparently he did – the world thinks the West are a bunch of pussies now that American foreign policy doesn’t have room to defend the innocent now. This administration is too intent on grinding our economy into the dust to pay attention to the rest of the world.

  • Honduras ignites

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    The President of Honduras found himself on the way to Costa Rica this morning after being rousted from his presidential chambers in his pajamas by the army. In what the president later referred to as a “brutal kidnapping”, the army rolled tanks through the streets and put Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on the next plane for Costa Rica. If he could talk about it later, it doesn’t seem to have all that brutal, to me, remembering other coups in the area over the years.

    It seems the president got on the wrong side of everyone in the country by attempting a Chavez-inspired rewriting of the Constitution. According to the Baltimore Sun he was all by himself;

    Zelaya, a leftist allied with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was arrested shortly before polls were to open in a referendum on whether to change the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled the referendum illegal and everyone from Congress to members of his own party opposed it. Critics said Zelaya wanted to remove limits to his re-election.

    Of course, President Obama voted “not present” on the issue of a neighbor in our hemisphere;

    “I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” Obama said in a statement.

    “Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference.”

    Well, if you want to talk about democratic norms, the Honduran Supreme Court seems to come down on the Army’s side;

    The Supreme Court said it supported the military action, which it said was aimed at defending the constitution.

    Reuters reports that Chavez isn’t being as shy as Obama about this coup;

    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put his troops on alert over a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was attacked or kidnapped.

    Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, his close ally.

    Speaking on Venezuelan state television, Chavez said he would do everything necessary to “abort” the coup.

    The commie suck wads at Venezuelanalysis are claiming that Chavez said the US is behind the coup. And he ain’t being shy about what his reaction will be;

    The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, manifested his rejection, this Sunday, of the kidnapping of the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by that nation’s military, and said that North American imperialism and the extreme right are behind this act.

    “Soldier, empty out your riffle [sic] against the oligarchy and not against the people,” he said, adding, “These solders are going to know what the people are when the people start to go out into the streets.”

    Lemme see, now, that’s Iran, North Korea and Venezuela all accusing us of interfering in their business in the space of two weeks. North Korea is threatening Hawaii with missiles and Chavez is threatening the US and Honduras. Iran is just taking their belligerence out their own people for the time being. Until the concoct some reason to start a war with us, too.

    In the meantime, we can rest assured that our President is concerned about all of this.

    Added: El Universo writes that Chavez threatened the Honduran Army (in my Calle J translation);

    President Hugo Chavez said that he won’t recognize any president who takes an oath in Honduras instead of Manuel Zelaya, who was removed from the country Sunday by the military on the day that was going to realize a referendum on the possibility of the presidential re-election.

    “If they administer an oath to Micheletti (Roberto Micheletti, president of the Congress of Honduras), or to Peleletti or Gafetti or Goriletti we will overthrow, it. We will overthrow it, I say” , Chávez said, reported Reuters.

    “We will make all whole which is what we must do so that Manuel Zelaya is returned to his office”….

  • DCCC is messin’ with the wrong guy

    We’ve all seen what the Democrats are pulling against Republicans who voted against the larded up bill for funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’ve seen it right here where commenters who have the intellectual depth of a mud puddle claim that the Republicans voted against the troops instead of the truth that they voted against more wasteful spending.

    Well, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has started a campaign against seven Republicans in vulnerable districts who voted against the Defense Authorization Act.

    They may have bit off more than they can chew on at least one of them, though. Joe Wilson of South Carolina’s 2d District spent 31 years in the reserves and SC National Guard leaving the service as a Colonel. He also has four sons who are tied to the military.

    One is a reserve major who spent a year in Iraq, another is an Annapolis grad in med school, a third is a captain in the SC National Guard and the fourth is in the Clemson ROTC program and also in the SC Guard.

    The only transcript I can find of these ads is the one the DCCC is running against Lee Terry in Nebraska from Politico;

    Around here, we recognize Independence Day with parades … and picnics … maybe a few fireworks. But July Fourth is about more than that.

    It’s about remembering those who fought for our freedoms. And those still fighting today.

    Congressman Lee Terry used to understand that.

    When George Bush asked, Congressman Terry voted to fully fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    And, last year he said, quote, “We must give our military every resource it needs.”

    Seems like Congressman Terry is playing politics now …

    Last month Congressman Terry voted AGAINST funding for those same troops.

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee justifies it like this;

    “Republicans never hesitated to criticize those who voted against the previous supplemental bills that included funding for the troops, but now that they are trying to score political points, Republicans’ votes have conveniently changed,” said DCCC executive director Jon Vogel.

    Um, Republicans were trying to cut the useless pork out of the Defense Bill, Democrats were trying to purposely defund the war completely to make useless political points. See the difference, you clowns?

    No, this is strictly to make political hay and smear an entire military family to buy a few votes. And since my idiot Congressman, white bread, yuppie, pretty boy Chrissy Van Hollen is the chairman of the DCCC, he’s going to get an earful come Monday morning.

    Believe it or not, this was a tip sent to us by one of our liberal commenters, DC who thought we should address the hypocrisy.

  • Your tax dollars at work

    While the economy goes down the drain, while we’re at record unemployment rates, the press corps and the White House staff have a luau;

    Laughing and clapping like morons.

    The Washington Examiner writes;

    Straw huts, hula dancers and kids playing with hula hoops were all on display Thursday evening in the White House’s backyard — not the typical congressional picnic.

    President Barack Obama wanted it this way for the annual picnic for members of Congress and their families.

    “I just want to say to all the members of Congress, you’ve been working hard. I wish I could give you all trips to Hawaii,” Obama said in his brief remarks. “But I figured since, given our budget crunch we can’t do that, that we’d at least bring Hawaii to you.”

    A party for a planned 2500 people – on your tax dollars, on your hard earned money. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

    If this had been a Bush party, I’d be able to report how much it cost, but well…apparently that’s not news enough for this administration to make public or for the media to report.

  • Vote Vets: Peace at any cost

    The latest mind-drippings from Beaker Freidman at Vote Vets;

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    So what if everything we’ve paid for with with blood and treasure is in danger of being wasted? Well, if it is wasted, it’ll clearly be the fault of the anti-war crowd (that includes Mr. “The War I Always Wanted”). Iraq was in the win column until this crowd got their grubby mitts on it.

    A loss would also vindicate the Bush policy of not establishing an arbitrary date for withdrawal that would allow an enemy to plan to fill the vacuum of displaced US forces. But that fact completely escapes Beaker – just so long as he can pay homage to his MoveOn masters and George Soros.

    By the way, I have it on good authority that the Vote Vet clowns read every word on This Ain’t Hell, so feel free to unload on them. They have an awful persecution complex.

  • Down to the wire on Cap & Tax

    I wrote yesterday that the Democrats were trying to bypass committees and votes to get Cap and Tax passed today. They obviously didn’t think the Gigante Obama Show last night would help them much and according to Newsbusters‘ Warner Todd Huston, they were right;

    ABC’s Barackspactacular Healthcare Extravaganza (I think that was the official name of the show, wasn’t it?) went up against the NBC premiere of “The Philanthropist,” widely panned as disappointing, and a repeat of “CSI: NY” on CBS, widely seen as already once widely seen. Unfortunately for ABC, its prop”O”ganda special got a dismal 1.2 rating to the 2.0 and 1.8 ratings respectively for the entertainment competition.

    Apparently the TV show where he’s president but plays a doctor on TV didn’t go over well.

    So, the Democrats are panicky according to Erick Erickson at Redstate;

    There is only one thing you need to know: the Democrats had an emergency meeting last night and will be meeting again this morning because they have not yet rounded up all the votes to pass their anti-growth Cap and Trade legislation.

    They are very close.

    Erickson links to Democrats and Republicans that haven’t quite made up their minds and need some convincing from you guys – especially if you live in their districts.

  • Dems ram cap and trade to vote

    Congressman Spencer Bachus writes in his blog that the “House leadership bypassing key committees on cap and tax“;

    The Democrat leadership is preventing the public from learning important details about the cap and tax plan by bypassing several key committees. As a Ranking Member on the Financial Services Committee, I called for hearings on the bill’s creation of a massive trading scheme for carbon emissions.

    From Drudge a link to Politico which reports that Al gore isn’t coming to DC today as he had planned (probably so we don’t have record low temperatures);

    Former Vice President Al Gore canceled plans to fly to Washington for a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, and instead was working the phones from Tennessee to help push a landmark climate bill to passage.

    Apparently Democrats are getting antsy that the crown jewel of the their plans to rape the economy might go down to defeat if they didn’t circumvent the public. They don’t expect the Obama happy hour to do much for them. Even Democrat and Obama supporter Warren Buffet is opposed to cap and trade;

    Mike Pence pleaded from the floor of the House to call your congressman now if you oppose cap and tax.

    If you oppose the national energy tax, I say call your congressman. If you think the Democrat cap and trade bill will cap growth and trade jobs, call your congressman. If you believe the American people deserve an all-of-the-above energy strategy that will create jobs, achieve energy independence and a cleaner environment then endorse the Republican alternative, call your congressman.

    Back to Bachus;

    I am very disturbed by the repeated pattern of the House leadership in rushing expensive legislation like cap and tax, the so-called stimulus package, and appropriations bills to a vote without adequate review or debate. It’s irresponsible to fast-track legislation that puts taxpayers on the hook for literally trillions of dollars.