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Category: Liberals suck

  • The new Hawk party

    Of course, I remember when the Democrats were the Hawks in Congress back in the mid-60s trying to overcome the Republican charge that they’d “lost China” to the communists in 1948. That’s why Johnson was eager to jump into Vietnam with both feet using the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse. But according to NewsBusters, even Howard Dean has jumped on the “Rush-to-War-In-Libya Bus”;

    DEAN: I don’t think you stay out of these things. You can’t if you’re the most powerful country in the world . . . You have to take chances.

    KLEIN: That’s not what you were saying in 2003!

    DEAN: That’s because we were lied to about what we were doing . . . we were lied to about the WMD.

    KLEIN: We had the same situation as we do now, which is insufficent information.

    I wonder if Dean will tell us he was “lied to” when our involvement in Libya goes beyond what the President called “a few days”. It’s already been “a few days” and we’ve already lost an aircraft (to malfunction…ya know, like in Desert One).

    That pesky dust up in Libya has caused the President to cancel the rest of his South of the Border vacation.

    Probably because he remembered that Joe Biden said during the campaign that he’d lead the impeachment proceedings if Obama went to war without Congressional approval. Ya never know…that might be the one thing Bite Me promised that he’d actually attempt. He’s been trying to be President for decades…this is his best shot since no one is stupid enough to elect him.

  • Some Leftist hypocrisy for Tuesday

    Two articles on the front page of Fox News this morning just to demonstrate a little Leftist hypocrisy. First is Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a “dumb twat” and the silence of the National Organization for [Liberal] Women;

    The National Organization for Women (NOW) refused to comment on Maher’s use of the derogatory term. A rep told FOXNews.com it is a “known fact” that NOW does not correspond with FOX News.

    Yeah, because so few women watch Fox News. And there are so few women working at Fox. I can’t think of anything more childish.

    Second up is Senator Claire McCaskill and her taxes;

    “I have discovered that the…personal property taxes on the plane have not been paid,” McCaskill told a small number of reporters on a conference call Monday. “There should have been a reporting to the county of the existence of this airplane…There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. As (a former) auditor, I know I should have checked for myself. I take full responsibility for the mistake.”

    Yeah, she “discovered” after four years of not paying the taxes for her plane that she had an extra $300k in her purse. Friggen chump change. I’m excited when I find a $5 bill in my jacket pocket. That’s discovering something. Discovering an extra 300 grand would make me explode.

    But you know it’s hard to keep track of what you spend on your jet when you’re one of America’s political elite.

    You and I would be standing at the door “in the position” waiting for the IRS to show up, but not Lady McCaskill;

    The senator had used the plane for political purposes paying for the travel with taxpayer money from her Senate office, a “mistake,” the senator said, for which she reimbursed the government nearly $89,000. “All of the money has been repaid for the public funds,” McCaskill said Monday.

    Oh, well, that’s OK. Let’s give her another six years.

  • CA to become “shall issue” state – for politicians

    The Washington Times has an editorial in today’s edition about two Democrat legislators in California who’ve introduced legislation to “shall issue” concealed weapon permits for California legislators;

    Ordinary Californians who want a concealed carry permit need to apply to the local sheriff. In practice – outside of conservative, rural counties – only celebrities and the well-connected end up obtaining the coveted document. In a state of nearly 37 million, about 40,000 permits were issued in 2007. The proposal being offered by a pair of pro-gun state Senate Democrats would automatically define as eligible for a permit “any applicant who is a member of Congress, a statewide elected official or a Member of the Legislature.” These could carry a gun “for purposes of protection or self-defense.” Coddled lawmakers living in gated communities may think they face heightened risk, but it’s unlikely poor residents in sketchy urban neighborhoods have any less of a need.

    One more example of the growing chasm between the governed and their representatives. Going back to the bit I wrote last night about Americans being disillusioned with our system of government, it’s not the system that’s failing us, it’s the arrogant knuckleheads we keep sending to elected offices.

  • Imagine that. Americans think their government doesn’t work.

    It seems that recent polling has determined that Americans are disappointed that government can’t do the myriad things that they promised they could do, but had no intention of ever accomplishing. From ABC News;

    Only 26 percent of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they’re optimistic about “our system of government and how well it works,” down 7 points since October to the fewest in surveys dating to 1974. Almost as many, 23 percent, are pessimistic, the closest these measures ever have come. The rest, a record high, are “uncertain” about the system.

    The causes are many. Despite a significant advance, more than half still say the economy has not yet begun to recover. And there’s trouble at the pump: Seventy-one percent in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, report financial hardship as a result of rising gas prices. Forty-four percent call it a “serious” hardship.

    No, it’s not because the system of our government doesn’t work…the things that we’ve come to expect from government are unreasonable. Instead of being the body that protects us from outsiders, manages trade between the States and insures that we’re treated with a measure of justice, it has become the pompous and arrogant body that manages our entire lives right down to the dimensions of our theater seats. Poorly.

    Why do people laugh when someone describes their half-ass craftsmanship “Good enough for government work” and then expect their mail on time?

    And of course, you know what the left is saying about this poll.

    It would seem that now would be a good time for the progressive community to start thinking about previously seemingly impossible big structural changes they want.

    Yeah, we need “big structural changes” meaning more government, higher expectations from government and more bumbling bureaucrats. The answer couldn’t be lowering expectations and tailoring the government to those expectations could it?

  • Looking for a fight in the new climate of civility

    Old Trooper sends us a link to an article in the Columbus Dispatch which describes how police responded to a shoving match in a restaurant where GOP State Senators were eating between the restaurant staff and SEIU union thugs;

    LaRose said it didn’t take special intelligence training to notice that while the lawmakers were eating, a woman walked past the window several times, poked her head in the door and got on her cell phone.

    “It was planned,” LaRose said. “They gathered as a group and waited until they had about 10 people before they caused a disturbance.”

    When the group burst into the restaurant, the woman, Monica Moran, deputy director of public affairs for SEIU District 1199, raised her hands in the air, yelled “Can I have your attention?” and then shouted “something nasty,” LaRose said. Soon after, the rest of the group of men and women joined in with a chant.

    “They stormed through my dining room,” said George Stefanidis, owner of the Easy Street Cafe. “I told them they had to leave, and they wouldn’t.”

    Stefanidis said he called 911 when the protesters refused to leave.

    So the police intervened, but no arrests were made.

    So, if you can’t defeat an opponent with your brains, or the lack of brains, resort to thuggery and obnoxious behavior, because no one is allowed to have a personal life as long as you’re disgruntled. I’m sure the other patrons and the restaurant staff who were not Senators, or had a dog in the fight, enjoyed having their evening disrupted by these thuggish brutes.

  • Manning faces 22 more charges

    Rurik sends us this MSNBC link which announces that the Army has charged Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old former Private First Class with 22 more crimes.

    The charges filed Wednesday include 16 specifications of wrongfully causing classified material to be published on the Internet and knowing that the information would be accessed by the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information and computer fraud.

    He was also charged with “information assurance” and “security program” violations.

    “The new charges more accurately reflect the broad scope of the crimes that Pvt. 1st Class Manning is accused of committing,” said Capt. John Haberland, a legal spokesman for the Military District of Washington.

    While conviction on the charge of “aiding the enemy” could result in the death penalty, military prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on that charge alone.

    I love the smell of frying bacon in the morning.

    Of course, MSNBC can’t report on Manning without stirring up some sympathy for the little traitorous turd;

    Coombs, Manning’s lawyer, has complained that his confinement conditions — in maximum custody under a “prevention of injury” watch — are unduly harsh and undermine his right to a fair trial. Manning has been confined in a 6-by-12-foot cell with a bed, a drinking fountain and a toilet for about 23 hours a day, Coombs has said.

    Anti-war groups, a psychologist group as well as filmmaker Michael Moore and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg have called for Bradley to be released from detention. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have condemned the Obama administration’s imprisonment conditions.

    Dude. He has a bed, a drinking fountain and a toilet? When I did my time in prison in Panama, my bed was a newspaper spread out on the concrete floor, my toilet was a one-quart milk carton, and the only time I got to drink water was at meal time. He’s got it sweet.

    And I’m sure that the Army will release him to Amnesty International and Michael Moore. Ten seconds after he is released, they’ll smuggle him to some sympathetic country in the folds of Moore’s belly fat. Since the charge of “aiding the enemy” could bring the death penalty, they ought to keep his little monkey ass in the lock up.

  • “You’re f***ing dead” is the new “Hi. Nice shoes.”

    Cortillaen and Old Trooper sent links from HotAir and Newsbusters to the report of a Wisconsin assemblyman turning to his female counterpart and telling her “You’re f***ing dead”

    “After the vote to engross, he turns to a female conservative Republican, who is also from the Oshkosh area, looks at her and says, ‘You are f—ing dead,’” Sykes said. “He didn’t say ‘f—ing,’ he said the whole thing. He says to a female colleague, ‘You are f—ing dead.’”

    No one actually heard him say it, but he did apologize for it, so it stands to reason. Of course, Gordon Hintz, the pussy who threatened his female colleague, Michelle Litjens, is under a lot of pressure since he was arrested the previous day for patronizing a “happy ending” massage parlor.

    And of course, the drive-by media completely ignores the incident in the post-Gabrielle Gifford new climate of civility. Well, you can’t really blame them what with Lindsey Lohan facing jail time and Charlie Sheen’s rants on Alex Jones’ show. I mean, it’s all so distracting for the serious media.

  • Irony in Wisconsin

    The Blaze puts up a video of a little fat man with a funny who ridicules Glenn Beck for pointing out that there are socialists involved in the Wisconsin protests.

    If he’d taken a breath and looked to his right or left, the little fat man with a funny hat would have nticed that there were actual socialists marching all around him complete with their socialist banners and socialist signs;

    You can taste the irony.