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Category: Liberals suck

  • This guy teaches law?

    The Huffington Post has an article up by Adam Winkler, supposedly a UCLA law professor (no, he didn’t play the Fonz on Happy Days). The article is entitled “The Courts, Not Congress, Are the Biggest Threat to Obama’s Agenda“. His point;

    Monday’s federal court decision declaring key provisions of the health care law unconstitutional was not just a major setback for President Obama’s signature piece of legislation. It was also a reminder that the courts are an even greater threat to his agenda than the new Republican majority in the House.

    Crucially, it was a wake-up call for the president to jump-start his stalled judicial nomination process.

    Now, I’m no lawyer, but wouldn’t it make more sense to write legislation that’s Constitutional? It seems to me that Winkler is telling Obama to appoint judges who don’t understand the law and that the law is a pliable entity which the President can bend and shape to his will, instead of the other way around.

    I dunno, if my kids were at UCLA Law School, I’d be jerking them out of there in a hurry if I found out that one of their professors is a peawit who thinks that the law is a political journey.

  • The Waddler fears GOP “gangsters”

    Jerry Nadler, known as “The Waddler” in some New York circles because of his grotesque girth, went on CBS’ “Face the Nation” (why is that show still on the air?) yesterday morning to summon the images of “Republicans as mafioso” in the minds of Americans (the two or three who still watch “Face the Nation”) qaccording to the Hill;

    …”nice middle class tax cut you have there, pity if something would happen to it unless you give millionaires and billionaries” a tax cut. “Unless you give the wealthier a tax cut we’re not permitting the middle class to get it.”

    Nadler expressed concern that Republicans will continue pressing Congress and President Obama for a permanent extension of those tax cuts and if we “succumb to blackmail” now why should there be any expectation that they will have the “political gumption in 2012 to not submit again.”

    Hey, Jerry, it’s not a tax cut…it’s maintaining the status quo. To be against the current tax rates, you’re for a tax hike in the middle of an economic downturn. All Americans are equal, all Americans deserve equal treatment under the tax code. The President said that he’s doing what’s best for Americans. If you oppose the President’s tax plan, you’re doing what’s worse for America, right?

    Howard Dean chimed in;

    Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, argued that the tax bill “is terrible for the country in the long term” because the $857 billion plan isn’t paid for and continuing the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts will represent 60 percent of the deficit by 2018.

    I’m lucky that my television has survived the last week or so the number of times I’ve yelled at it about putting those imbeciles in my house talking about “paying for” continuing our current tax policy. The American taxpayers have been “paying for” this shit all along so what are they talking about? I guess the Democrats in secure seats from New York and California haven’t been listening for the last eighteen months.

    But if you want real class envy, you have to listen to Bernie Sanders who took the opportunity last week to bark at the moon on the Senate floor over the death estate taxes. I’ll probably never pay a penny in death taxes, but the idea that money which a person earns is his/her lifetime and is already taxed by the state and federal governments, is taxed again just because a person dies is just ludicrous, it’s unAmerican, it’s socialist, it’s insane. (Washington Times link)

    Armed with giant charts and statistics galore, the Vermont independent argued that wealthy individuals, including the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, are in a better position financially to shoulder more of the national debt and for that reason the estate tax should return to 2009 levels, or higher.

    Firstly, Sanders isn’t “independent”, he’s a communist. And secondly, I doubt Sam Walton built his Wal-Mart empire so his kids could “shoulder more of the national debt”. If that had been in the front of his mind, I doubt the Wal-Mart stores would have ventured far out of Rogers, Arkansas.

  • Iranian minister gives Clinton cold shoulder

    So this is what it all comes down to, huh? All of that bullshit talk about how we’ll finally get the world’s respect after eight years of Bush if only we elect the mega-brilliant Obama Administration (Foreign Policy link;

    Clinton’s first attempt came just as the dinner ended. All the leaders sitting at the head table were shaking each other’s hands. Mottaki was shaking hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II when Clinton called out to him.

    “As I was leaving and they were telling me, ‘Hurry up, you have to get to the plane,’ I got up to leave and he was sitting several seats down from me and he was shaking people’s hands, and he saw me and he stopped and began to turn away,” Clinton told reporters on the plane ride home.

    “And I said, ‘Hello, minister!’ And he just turned away,” said Clinton, adding that Mottaki seemed to mutter something in Farsi but was clearly trying to avoid her.

    So our Secretary of State is now an eighteen-year-old drama queen yelling across the crowded room to the captain of the football team. We’ve been hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Plymouth Rock just fell on us. I suffered through a hundred lame jokes about Jimmy Carter and peanuts from Germans and Panamanians. Now, it’s begun all over again.

    The Obama Administration is big fucking joke. In a world that respects nothing but strength and marksmanship, we’re represented across the world by huge pussies and incompetent boobs. A lying backstabbing Secretary of State who makes up phony soldier stories (snipers and recruiters) and a half-wit boob Vice President they lock in the basement of the White House like the crazy uncle, backing up a stuck-up moron who would be a moron no matter what color his skin is.

    Thanks, Democrats. Got anybody else you want to put in the White House? Oh, shit, I’d better keep my mouth shut. Alvin Greene has his sights set on the White House.

  • The deceit of the DADT study

    We all heard Secretary Gates tell us that most of the troops don’t think that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell won’t affect the military’s readiness. So Organizing For America couldn’t wait to jump on that tiny fact;

    The Washington Times however sees it differently;

    The Pentagon survey of all troops, be they in desk jobs or in the field, found about 70 percent said open gays would have positive, mixed or no effect on unit cohesion.

    By contrast, combat troops, who live in intimate surroundings while deployed, overwhelming reported that open gays would undermine military readiness, or preparedness for combat.

    60% of the Army and Marines think that gays would have an effect on readiness. I wonder why factoring in the Air Force and Navy would dilute the opposition to repealing the policy. Hey! I’m just wondering. Don’t get your nose bent out of shape, there, fella.

    The Army is further diluted by it’s large number of REMFs – I heard the ratio of combat arms soldiers to REMFs is 1:7. I have no reference, but it sounds right.

    But this goes to my post yesterday – why do it now if it effects readiness and while we’re engaged in a war? The people who actually pull triggers disagree with the desk jockeys. In fact that’s what the whole study boils down to; people who don’t care about the military (OFA, Congress, the White House, VoteVets) and REMFs against the people who actually face the enemy.

    Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s only a matter of time that punk-asses like Dan Choi (who I would throat punch even if he was a breeder) get their way. I’m just questioning the timing.

  • DHS out of DC commo loop

    Shaun Waterman of The Washington Times writes that local and Federal law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia will be linked up by the new Integrated Wireless Network. Well, except the agencies that fall under the Homeland Security Department;

    “You need someone to be in charge and you need a place to put the money,” said the former official, “DHS had neither.”

    The component agencies within DHS, like the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), each have their own legacy communications systems, and there was no power center in the department that could force them to work together on modernization.

    See, I was confused. I thought that the Homeland Security Department was formed to solve the interoperability problems that plagued the law enforcement community before 9-11. I guess that I didn’t take into account that there were larger problems to be solved by HSD than homeland security. Problems like unharassed airline passengers and returning veterans becoming terrorists.

  • Hoyer: We should freeze military pay, too

    I mentioned earlier that the Obama Administration moved to freeze government employees’ pay today. Not to be outdone, Steny Hoyer, the soon-to-be minority whip from Maryland said that the president should also freeze military pay as well according to The Hill;

    Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said including the military would have increased savings and add “an element of fairness.” He made the comments in a statement about he president’s announcement of a two-year pay freeze.

    An added “element of fairness” would be to freeze Congressional pay including Congressional staff, wouldn’t it Steny? Ya dope. It’s funny because I got an email from a journalist this afternoon who told me that he couldn’t get a straight answer to his inquiries to the White House on the subject of the eventuality of a military pay freeze.

    The Maryland Democrat also urged the administration to back a more comprehensive program to reduce the nation’s soaring deficit, along the lines of proposals from the president’s fiscal commission and a separate debt panel.

    Yeah, after the Democrat Congress went on the largest spending spree in the history of the world, now all of a sudden Hoyer is Peter Pinchpenny. It sure is easy to be in the minority .

    Then Hoyer went on to demonstrate that he doesn’t understand this whole war thingie, he says;

    …with a strong exception for the members of our military and civilian employees risking their lives on our behalf in Afghanistan, Iraq, and anywhere else they are serving in harm’s way.”

    How would Hoyer freeze the pay of military members who are not in a shooting war and not freeze the pay of those involved in the war? Does he think that one group is perpetually at war while the other is perpetually not at war? I’d like to see his math on that one. Of course, he’s talking to a bunch of morons who don’t know any differently.

    Thanks to ROS and COB6 for the link.

  • Portland got reprieve they didn’t deserve

    Byron York of the Washington Examiner writes this morning that Portland, Oregon, the target of wannabe jihadist Mohamed Osman Mohamud this last week, rejected cooperation with the Bush Administration law enforcement and counter-terror entities;

    What is ironic is that the operation that found and stopped Mohamud is precisely the kind of law enforcement work that Portland’s leaders, working with the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected during the Bush years. In April 2005, the Portland city council voted 4 to 1 to withdraw Portland city police officers from participating in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Mayor Tom Potter said the FBI refused to give him a top-secret security clearance so he could make sure the officers weren’t violating state anti-discrimination laws that bar law enforcement from targeting suspects on the basis of their religious or political beliefs.

    Other city leaders agreed. “Here in Portland, we are not willing to give up individual liberties in order to have a perception of safety,” said city commissioner Randy Leonard. “It’s important for cities to know how their police officers are being used.”

    So, despite the best efforts of the Portland city fathers, federal law enforcement stopped an attack on some 25,000 of it’s citizens who attended that Christmas Tree lighting, or, if the Feds hadn’t found Mohamud first, “an operation here, you know, like something like Mumbai….”

    York reports that the Portland City government is considering a change to the Bush-era legislation “– because Barack Obama is in the White House”. It seems to me that they consider a lot of things in light of last week’s arrest. Like which side they want to be on in the war against terror.

  • Oh. Ya think?

    ROS sends us a link to an article from the Los Angeles Times that tells us that the California government has outlawed using Electronic Benefits Transfer cards (welfare debit cards) in casinos and on cruise ships outside of California;

    More than $69 million meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children was accessed in all 49 other states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, according to data obtained by The Times from the California Department of Social Services.

    The department instructed the vendor that administers the debit card program to make the changes Monday afternoon, in response to a report in The Times’ Monday edition.

    In June, California cut off similar card usage inside their state and it just came to them to cut the cards off outside of the state.

    It seems to me that they’d do a better job if they cut off all of those people who used their cards on cruises and casino from their taxpayer-funded benefits.