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

Category: Liberals suck

  • The Palin investigation; stacking the deck

    Of course, the most viable charge against VP nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin seems to be what has been dubbed he “Troopergate”. Although Mata Harley at Flopping Aces has done a yeoman’s job of disputing the charges, the left is still clinging to the rumors like their last life raft. Mike’s America at Flopping Aces has also uncovered a photo of some of the so-called “investigators”;

    No bias there, huh? Read more at Flopping Aces.

    John Fund at the Wall Street Journal also reports that 30 Democrat operatives have been “airdropped” into Juneau and Wasilla to uncover other as-yet undiscovered scandals;

    It’s no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.

    The main area of interest to the Democratic SWAT team is Mrs. Palin’s dismissal in July of her public safety commissioner. Mrs. Palin says he was fired for cause. Her critics claim he was fired because he wouldn’t bend to pressure to get rid of a state trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a bitter divorce battle with Mrs. Palin’s sister.

    But this is change we’ve been hoping for, isn’t it? This isn’t politics as usual. No not much.

  • Biden tries his hand at miracles

    Found at The Weekly Standard Blog;

    “Stand up, Chuck” says Biden to the wheelchair bound Chuck Graham;

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    It just keeps getting better, doesn’t it? It’s a Dan Quayle moment, but who in the media will notice?

  • Democrats cave to drilling

    I saw it first at Baldilocks;

    One wonders whether the selection of McCain’s Alaskan pro-drilling running mate and the GOP’s humongous post VP selection, post-convention bounce had any thing to do with this decision.

    And then at Ace;

    Pelosi called the Democrats’ blockage of this bill vital — if we don’t stop this, she said, we may as well just go home.

    It was always bad politics (nevermind awful policy) to oppose this. And yet they thought they could nevertheless afford defying the public on such a key issue.

    Yeah, just imagine, the Democrats left town six weeks ago and and came back to a “suddenly” different debate about energy. No, not really…gas prices were about 15% higher than they are now. So Democrats just packed up and left secure that they had fooled Americans into believing that rising gas prices were the President’s fault. Just six weeks ago, Reid refused to bring an energy bill to the floor of the Senate (The Hill link);

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Monday that he would not allow a vote on an amendment giving states new authority to seek oil off their coasts when he brings a Democratic energy bill to the floor later this month.

    In a sign of escalating tensions, one senior GOP senator called Reid a “chicken” for deciding not to allow amendments on energy production, prompting a Reid spokesman to say that “name calling won’t lower the price of oil and gasoline.”

    Three days later, the International Herald Tribune wrote this;

    “The president of the United States, with gas at $4 a gallon because of his failed energy policies, is now trying to say that is because I couldn’t drill offshore,” Pelosi said in an interview. “That is not the cause, and I am not going to let him get away with it.”

    Her voice carries considerable weight since, as speaker, Pelosi is in a position to prevent a vote on expanded drilling from reaching the floor

    And she and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, appear intent on holding the line against calls to approve drilling in areas now off limits. They mount the counterargument that the oil and gas industry is not aggressively exploring large expanses it has already leased on land and offshore. They also have urged Bush to pour some fuel from national reserves into the commercial supply chain in an effort to lower prices.

    It seems according to today’s AP reports that Reid and Pelosi have come 180 degrees around;

    Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he is ready to take up two proposals that would allow limited oil and gas drilling 50 miles off Florida’s Gulf coast and in the Atlantic off four southeastern states as well as a broader Republican drilling bill.

    “We are offering Republicans multiple opportunities to vote for increased drilling,” declared Reid, addressing what has become the biggest energy issue in Congress as well as in the presidential campaign.

    So what could’ve changed in just six short weeks? Well, according to The Hill today;

    A leadership aide said last week that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) adoption of a pro-drilling position was a strategic one designed to bring the party in line with its presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), and give vulnerable caucus members political cover heading into the November elections.

    In other words “To Hell with the citizens of this country suffering through the summer with high gas prices…Democrats need votes now.” While Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were jetting around the country, Americans were paying for their arrogance at the pump. Time to make them pay at the polls in November.

    Crossposted at Eagles Up! Talon

  • Send in the girls

    Apparently, until last Friday, Obama hadn’t worried much about the female vote. He figured that forcing Clinton to make her “Unity” speech would be enough to earn him the loyalty of women voters. Well, then John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate, and now the Obama campaign isn’t so sure about their position among women. Time to send out the women to defend him (Washington Times/AP link);

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius all were scheduled to campaign for Obama in the coming weeks. Republicans say they hope Palin, who made her national debut with a feisty speech on Wednesday, could put some female voters in play.

    “We respect her. She’s a skilled politician, as she proved last night,” Obama strategist David Axelrod told reporters aboard the campaign plane Thursday. “She’s deft at going on the attack.”

    But it’s not clear exactly how Obama and his running mate Joe Biden should respond. They keenly remember how women rallied around one-time Democratic front runner Clinton when they perceived she was a victim of sexism. They don’t want to appear with a weak response, either, and certainly they also don’t want to send independent women flocking to the GOP.

    The solution, at least in the short term, will be have top-tier female supporters vouch for Obama to largely female audiences and keep the candidate himself away.

    Sebelius started on Thursday, linking Palin to the unpopular President Bush.

    Of course she did…the Democrats are more comfortable running against President Bush than they are running against someone actually being elected. After all, they’ve run against Bush in the last 4 elections…and they were successful only in the most recent. That strategy can’t backfire, can it?

    The Washington Post says that it may take more than a few battleaxes from the Democrats to bring Palin down;

    Palin’s turbulent introduction and a speech that electrified convention delegates on Wednesday produced an unexpected surge of energy and unity within the Republicans’ conservative base. If that holds up, it could narrow a sizable enthusiasm gap between the parties that has been seen as one of the Democrats’ most important advantages in the general election.

    One of my workmates, knowing my stance on politics, approached me yesterday morning and announced how energized he was after watching Ms. Palin Wednesday night. Another workmate, knowing my stance on politics announced he extreme dissatisfaction with the Palin choice and immediately began demeaning her as a woman in relation to her family. Now the first person was a borderline Republican who had moved to the DC area from Pittsburgh, the second was a lifetime resident of DC, a white elitist Liberal.

    This certainly isn’t a scientific poll, and I don’t mean to present it as such, but it illustrates what has  happened in this country since Friday, last. Republicans and Conservatives are coming back tot the party, and Liberals are mad about it…and for the first time they’re worried about Governor Palin’s effect on the race. They think that they deserve the reins of government after eight years and all of us bitter, God-clingers had better give it to them.

    So they send out the women that they should have named as VP picks to do their dirty work. Too little, too late. The Anchoress says Obama is “hiding” behind the women. John Hawkins at Right Wing News explains “Why Liberals Hate and Fear Successful Conservative Women“

  • Governor Palin’s speech at the RNC

    In case you missed it last night, here’s the whole thing. It’s 45 minutes long

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    An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;

    Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin’s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans. Person who gave her the credentials is probably Fort Wayne Realtor Ann Eckrich

    Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER….with extreme radical ties

    Jodie Evans, co-founder of the radical group Code Pink, rushed the stage while Sarah Palin was speaking.

    Code Pink has a Flickr account which includes this photo of Jodie being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag “Annie Eckrich, Indiana”

    Code Pink’s press release says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;

    Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them. (Read a Washington Post description of the incident).

    Ann Echrich is an alternate delegate and RNC contributor

    Of course, reaction to Palin’s speech must’ve been resounding because the Obama campaign (David Plouffe) immediately sent out this email;

    Friend —

    I wasn’t planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

    I saw John McCain’s attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

    But worst of all — and this deserves to be noted — they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

    You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Make a donation of $5 or more right now to remind them.

    Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

    Let’s clarify something for them right now.

    Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

    And it’s no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

    Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

    Meanwhile, we still haven’t gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

    Emphasis is mine, btw. If being a “community organizer” is so important, why isn’t Obama still a “community organizer” since he claims he’s doing all of this for us? I’d like intellectually vacant David Plouffe to explain what attacks were made last night.

    The only people who benefit from “community organizers” is community organizers – it’s an easy way to make a living without actually having to do any work. Let’s see something Obama actually accomplished while he was a community organizer since, apparently, Plouffe wants to credit him with women’s suffrage and a forty-hour work week.

    Added: The updated post is here.

  • Experience

    Barack Obama has already admitted that he’s less experienced than John McCain for President, that’s why he named Joe Biden his Vice President to overcome that shortfall. So when John McCain named Sarah Palin as his VP, Obama immediately decided he’d run against her instead of McCain by proclaming himself more experienced than Palin.

    The McCain campaign has struck back;

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    Ball’s in your court, Barry.

  • Rove must read This Ain’t Hell

    Think Progress and Huffington Post have their panties in a twist because of this from ABC News;

    From Minnesota, we hear from Politicker ME that Karl Rove told the Maine Republican delegation to the GOP Convention that Sen. Barack Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a “big, blowhard doofus.”

    “He’s a great American,” Biden responded with more than a hint of sarcasm when asked about Rove’s comments on a Monday evening flight from Scranton, PA, to Wilmington, DE.

    Now, I didn’t call Biden a blowhard doofus, but I did call him a blowhard in this post and a doofus in this post. But that’s the genious of Karl Rove, I suppose, putting them together like that.

  • Democrats and women

    I guess the activities of the Democrat sound machine should wake up most women to what Democrats really think of them. Heck, the sound machine of the last six months should have told them something. They’re political pawns in the game of the rich white dudes that run the party.

    As soon as Sarah Palin was named as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, she was referred to as a “pawn” in John McCain’s quest for power. She was attacked for being a mother, she was attacked for “choosing” to keep her Downs syndrome-afflicted child, she was accused of the wildest conspiracies ever, even her family was attacked for twenty-year-old DWI cases and for having a bit of belly fat.

    She couldn’t have been choosen for non-gender-related reasons, I suppose. Even though I thought she was an excellent choice as far back as April based solely on her politics – I mean after all that’s why we choose politicians, isn’t it?

    Alan Colmes blamed Palin for her child’s afliction, and this morning, I read Washington Post’s resident partisan hack Eugene Robinson‘s bit this morning indicating that Palin’s daughter should be forced to have an abortion (I had to screen capture it because they’ve moved it around so much, it’s hard to link to it);

    I think Robinson does all of his research exclusively on HuffPo and Daily Kos. I’ve never seen him depart from the party line on any issue. I suppose that makes him think he’s smart – but actually, he’s just a useful pawn. It also makes me think he’s the affirmative action columnist for the Post, seein’s how his only talent appears to be cutting and pasting from the moonbats.

    I’d like to know how Robinson knows that keeping the baby isn’t the “choice” of Bristol. But, then the Democrats have disposable principles and they don’t understand people who live out the principles they stand behind instead of just passing out advice for everyone else to follow – like Democrats.

    Ruth Marcus, in the Washington Post, excuses the media’s overblown coverage of the 17-year-old mother-to-be;

    And it will be that much more difficult in the media glare. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and (the father) Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palins said in their statement.

    As a parent, I sympathize. But as a parent in the media, I also know that the Palins assumed this risk. Anyone who watched coverage of the Bush twins’ barroom exploits knew that the avert-your-eyes stance toward candidates’ children has its limits.

    It’s naive to imagine, in the anything-goes Internet era, that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would go unremarked upon. It’s also mistaken, I think, to expect it. Like it or not, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is intertwined with an important public policy debate about which the two parties differ and on which Sarah Palin has been outspoken.

    I wonder if she was any more forgiving of the media during the Clinton years.

    I remember reading all of the venomous comments that continue to this day about Hillary Clinton from the Obamaniacs.

    Now, I’m not a woman, obviously, but I’m pretty sure if I were and I were to be a Democrat, I’d think long and hard about belonging to a political party that so willingly attacks any candidate based solely on their biological composition and uses the camoflage of a word like “choice” to dictate to candidates of a particular biological composition the future of their families. A party that hides behind a misnomer like “choice” to advocate for the cavalier termination of lives because of aesthetics and political convenience.

    When a woman makes a “choice” that doesn’t fit the narrative of Democrats, she’s shamed into thinking she’s done something wrong. Just like Hillary who decided to fight the campaign out to it’s conclusion was shamed for it. All for the rich white guys of the Democrat Party clinging to their sad little empires built on the backs of minorities and women.

    Heh! Someone just sent me an email warning me that Sarah Palin is a “redneck” whose husband works in the oil fields and races snowmobiles and she hunts beasts in Alaska. I guess because I live in the Metro DC area, this should scare me about our future VP/President. Actually, I envy them. Smoke that.

    Added: Contrast what the Washington Post said about moms in politics before Sarah Palin became the VP candidate at Michelle Malkin.