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Category: Liberals suck

  • Coast Guard Chief wants to slash Homeland Security role

    Remember when they moved the Coast Guard to the Homeland Security Department from the Transportation Department to more accurately reflect their role in the war against terror and bring them under the control of a central authority that could utilize them properly? Well, Obama’s pick to lead the Coast Guard wants to slash funding for incidentals like Guarding Our Coast and Training to Guard Our Coast, according to a memo the Associated Press got in their grubby little hands.

    An internal memo from Vice Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., Obama’s nominee to become Coast Guard commandant, says that starting in 2012, he would slash funding for programs in the agency’s homeland security plan, including patrols and training exercises.

    The memo, marked “sensitive – for internal Coast Guard use only,” was obtained by The Associated Press.

    Papp’s outline is significant because it could mean major changes for the more than 200-year-old agency that took on substantial homeland security duties after Sept. 11, 2001. Obama’s 2011 proposed budget cuts for the Coast Guard have already caused outrage from some lawmakers.

    According to Papp’s memo, he would scale back the Coast Guard’s counterterrorism priorities in favor of running traditional search-and-rescue operations that save people in imminent danger on the water and maintaining the maritime transportation system.

    So I’m guessing the War on Terror has ended and no one told us.

  • Jimmy Carter once again

    Over the past few years, several bloggers have made the comparison between President Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, and every time Obama has lived up to our comparisons. Well, here we go again. In today’s Washington Times, Joseph Weber writes that Obama is backing the first nuclear power plant construction in decades.

    President Obama on Tuesday announced roughly $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades.

    The president said the initiative was part of his administration’s ongoing effort to develop “safe, clean” energy and reduce the country’s dependency on foreign oil.

    However, he also used the announcement to issue stern warnings about the United States falling behind others countries and about how upgrading the domestic power grid and making high-tech batteries in U.S. factories through the American Recovery Act is not enough.

    Ya know what else happened three decades ago besides the fact that we stopped building power plants? Jimmy Carter, in his “malaise speech”, sensing that he was in political trouble if he didn’t do something about the energy crunch, said this;

    To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the red tape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects.

    We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.

    Yeah, not one more refinery has been built since the day Carter gave that speech. Our domestic resources remain unused and undeveloped.

    I do not promise a quick way out of our nation’s problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act.

    Yeah, he acted by forming the Energy Department, and then nothing. Democrats have thwarted our energy independence ever since they promised to solve it. What makes this Democrat any different?

  • REMFs for Peace

    This came up while I was trolling around the Left side of the internet today about a guy named Richard Hendrick, a member of the Veterans for Peace, as an introduction to his past in anticipation of his talk at some private hippie high school in New Hampshire;

    I was drafted at the end of my sophomore year because of an administrative error on the part of Princeton, where I was an undergraduate in Politics. Because my brother was in Vietnam at the time, I was not sent there, but rather to Germany, where I worked in a Corps headquarters. This army experience tended to radicalize me politically and when I returned to Princeton three years later, I participated in many anti-war demonstrations, including those which culminated in shutting the university down for the rest of the year in April of 1970.

    Yes, his experience in a Corps Headquarters in Germany radicalized him. Probably from testing all of those microphones, sharpening pencils and running the mimeograph machines. Those three-day weekends in Bavaria and touring the wine fests would drive anyone to radicalism. Poor, dirty little hippie.

    I’m sure the “administrative error” at Princeton had something to with his failing grades and the loss of his student deferment. If he’d been drafted, why was gone from Princeton for three years, since the draft only required two years of service.

    And, oh, yeah, Princeton students went on strike May 1st, 1970, not April, so the school shut down two weeks early for summer break. Big whoop. Big, tough hippie standing up to the Man.

    I guess the worst thing about him is that someone thinks he has something of value to tell high school students.

  • Good Riddance

    A big news story today is the announcement by Patrick Kennedy, son of Ted Kennedy, that he will not seek reelection to Congress from Rhode Island. He claims his life has “taken a new direction”.  I cannot think of a finer example of the type of human garbage that inhabits the halls of Congress than Patrick Kennedy. Here is a guy that has been elected official since the age of 21 and in his own words has “never worked a fucking day in my life” (which was uttered after he said he didn’t need the Bush tax cuts).  Almost every year, there is some new scandal with Patrick involving drugs, women, DUIs (plural), and dealings with fugitive Democratic fundraisers. Patrick also like to manufacture controversy, most recently when he claimed that he was asked not to recieve communion  by the archbishop of Rhode Island due to his support of abortion, but failed to mention that the archbishop made this request two years before Patrick’s public announcement.  Its no secret that daddy Teddy covered for little Patrick  and was able to insure all his scandals were cleaned up nicely by the media and other Democrats in Congress. Patrick also played the  “I’m depressed and bi-polar” card multiple times and used his mental illness as an excuse for his outrageous behavior. Even though we all struggle with personal demons, someone who admits to having serious mental health issues should not be continually elected to Congress but I guess thats okay if you are a Kennedy.

    However, now that Teddy is no longer around to pull strings and with polls showing his support tanking in Rhode Island, Patrick has decided to call it quits after 16 years in Congress (yeah, thats right 16 years…). It is a testament to the power that the Kennedys possessed in the Northeast that this scumbag was able to win EIGHT elections. Not only that, he was considered a serious contender to replace RINO Senator Lincoln Chafee. His announcement also reveals another new reality about American politics. Without a Kennedy holding a powerful politicial office, it shows that the era of Kennedy influence in American politics has ended. And for that, I thank God. The Kennedy family is nothing but of bunch entitled, arrogant, and corrupt trust fund babies that think we owe them because they are related JFK, America’s most beautiful (and overrated) President. What has this family really done for America? The Peace Corps? The Special Olympics? [sarcasm] Oh wow, those things have really change the course of human events. [/sarcasm]

    Good riddance Patrick, I hope we never see you or anybody else from your family in a position of power ever again.

  • Do they even put locks on nursing home doors these days?

    Someone sent me this video of a protest at one of General Petraeus’ speeches. Apparently the only people they can get to go to these protests anymore are nursing home refugees. Most don’t even look like they know where they are, but that lends itself to type of protest – they merely stand and turn their backs on the speaker. No real skill involved.

    I expected one of them to start shaking their fist at Petraeus and shout “You young whipper-snapper! Get out of my flower bed!”

  • Sorry, I didn’t watch

    I got through the first few minutes of President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night and I got the feeling that I was being scolded. Yeah, well, I’m 54 years old and I have great grandchildren, so I really don’t need that. Especially from some clown who talks with his nose in the air.

    This morning, however, I watched him scold the Supreme Court for not seeing things the way his young, stupid ass, sees things. I’m pretty sure some of them felt like walking out, too.

    The truth is; I’ve watched him almost everyday with that condescending scolding voice for more than a year and I’m sick of it. I’d rather watch South Park. So there’s my summation of his remarks last night.

    But you can feel free to comment on the speech – the one-way conversation Obama had with America last night.

  • OFA: Keep elections fair (for us)

    Organizing For America, the DNC’s front group for Obamabots, sent another BFF email to me this morning warning that corporations now have a free-for-all opportunity to pour their money into elections;

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    Of course, they fail to mention that the Supreme Court also freed up contribution limits to campaigns from individuals and unions in addition to corporations. Chuckie Schumer blames the Court’s decision for the losses the Democrats expect at the polls in November, instead of their own incompetence;

    “The bottom line is, the Supreme Court has just predetermined the winners of next November’s election. It won’t be the Republican or the Democrats and it won’t be the American people; it will be corporate America,” Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said.

    That’s why Schumer thinks that a Congressional investigation of the Court’s decision doesn’t violate the separation of powers of the three branches of the federal government. Buncha idiot drama queens.

  • Fear-mongering in Massachusetts

    Editor’s note: I wrote this like eight hours ago so it’s stale old crap. But, I wrote it damn it, you’re readin’ it.

    Massachusetts’ Senator John Kerry is doing his best to get the crowds charged up against Scott Brown’s supporters, according to Boston.com;

    “I’m no stranger to hard fought campaigns, but what we’ve seen in the past few days is way over the line and reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin’s 2008 campaign rallies. This is not how democracy works in Massachusetts,” Kerry said this afternoon in a statement.

    “Scott Brown needs to speak up and get his out of state tea party supporters under control. In Massachusetts, we fight hard and win elections on the issues and on our differences, not with bullying and threats,” Kerry said.

    Brown campaign spokesman Felix Browne said, “People are tired of John Kerry’s partisan politics. His baseless accusations reflect the desperate last gasps of a flailing campaign.”

    Daniel Foster at NRO recalls Kerry’s fear-mongering in Colorado during the 2004 Presidential campaign;

    “If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a ‘pre-emptive strike’ (particularly well-suited to states in which there techniques have been tried in the past).

    —Issue a press release

    i. Reviewing Republican tactic used in the past in your area or state

    ii. Quoting party/minority/civil rights leadership as denouncing tactics that discourage people from voting

    —Prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points

    —Place stories in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics

    —Warn local newspapers not to accept advertising that is not properly disclaimed or that contains false warnings about voting requirements and/or about what will happen at the polls”

    Johnny Dollar, the only guy still keeping an eye on Olbermann watched him call Brown “a homophobic racist;

    Joe Scarborough wasted no time blasting back at Olbermann.

    Mean time, the President is promising to be combative if Brown wins according to Hot Air;

    But the president’s advisers plan to spin [Brown’s win] as a validation of the underdog arguments that fueled Obama’s insurgent candidacy.

    “The painstaking campaign for change over two years in 2007 and 2008 has become a painstaking effort in the White House, too,” the official said. “The old habits of Washington aren’t going away easy.”

    Indeed.