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Category: Liberals suck

  • Democrat corporate shills? Unpossible!

    I remember that during the Bush Administration, because VP Cheney once worked at Haliburton, somehow it proved that Bush and Cheney were working to make that company profitable so Cheney could get some sort of remuneration from the relationship. It’s difficult to find a newspaper article that doesn’t mention Cheney and Haliburton in the same line at least once.

    Well, I started reading Michelle Malkin’s latest book Culture of Corruption this week – mostly because I’m the only person who wasn’t reading it (it’s Number 1 on Amazon for nonfiction US politics and number 8 of all of their books) – so this morning, it looks like she’s working on a new chapter.

    It appears that David Axelrod maintains a relationship with his former employer, who owes him money and continues to employ his son. That’s a closer relationship than Cheney had with Haliburton, isn’t it? Well, not in the world of the well-intentioned Liberals;

    White House flack Gibbs called any suggestion that Axelrod benefits from the relationship “ridiculous.” Retorted Gibbs: “David has left his firm to join public service.” So when Republicans trade power and access, Team Obama calls that being “in cahoots” with business. But when noble servants like Axelrod do it, it’s called “public service.”

    Ms. Malkin explains Axelrod’s ties on Hannity the other night;

    Five Feet of Fury writes;

    Malkin and Hannity savored the irony: that the same White House insiders and Democrat operatives eager to smear town hall protesters as “Astroturfers” funded by “big corporations” are themselves funded by… big corporations. Adding insult to irony, these are the very same “big corporations,” Malkin noted, that liberals like Obama and his supporters supposedly believe are so “evil.”

    I guess today is Hypocrisy Day at TAH.

  • ACLU outing CIA agents to terrorists

    The Washington Post‘s Peter Finn writes this morning about some lawyers investigating detainee abuse at Guantanamo who showed their clients pictures of CIA agents in an attempt to ID perpetrators of the alleged abuse. Some agents were pictured outside of their homes.

    The photos were taken by researchers hired by the John Adams Project, a joint effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to support military counsel at Guantanamo Bay, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry. It was unclear whether the Justice Department is also examining those organizations.

    Both groups have long said that they will zealously investigate the CIA’s interrogation program at “black sites” worldwide as part of the defense of their clients.

    That’s kind of odd, because the ACLU was pretty upset at the supposed “outing” of Valerie Plame by the Bush Administration.

    The ACLU/SC board urges the House of Representatives to investigate impeachable offenses by the President and Vice President, including:

    • Manipulating intelligence before the Iraq War and deceiving the American people about imminent threats they faced. • Authorizing the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other military prisons and handing over suspects to other nations who tortured them (a practice known as “extraordinary rendition”). • Authorizing the firing of federal prosecutors for political reasons and obstructing justice by defying Congressional subpoenas investigating the firing. • Authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without warrants and in violation of the Constitution, and concealing the program from Congress and the public. • Conspiring to disclose the name of Valerie Plame, a covert agent in the Central Intelligence Agency. This action risked her life and the lives of her intelligence contacts.

    Now they’re showing CIA agents’ pictures in front of their homes to honest-to-goodness terrorists? Why, that seems a bit hypocritical doesn’t it?

  • Who will get the oil in the Gulf?

    The Washington Examiner editorial board writes this morning that it’s going to get a little crowded off our shores in the Gulf of Mexico with oil platforms – unfortunately, none of those platforms will be American;

    Brazil, China, India, Norway, Spain and Russia have all signed agreements with Cuba and the Bahamas to initiate exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico within the next two years. So the prospect of seeing Russian oil rigs 45 miles off the Florida Keys — where American oil companies are now forbidden to drill — is a very real possibility.

    The other day I wrote about the Obama Administration underwriting Brazilian oil drilling off of their coast and ours. Now we face the prospect of watching the money and jobs that could be part of our economy floating a few miles off our own shores – financed by our own government (read that: our own earnings confiscated by the government).

    As I wrote the other day, there’s a very strong possibility that developing our own natural resources could be the engine that provides the jobs as well as making us energy independent for the next few decades. There hasn’t been a refinery built in the last 30 years (30 years ago last month, Jimmy Carter promised that we’d build a refinery and a pipeline every time we needed one). Decades worth of oil and jobs lay fallow in Alaska.

    And who do you have more confidence in to drill clean and protect the environment – China, Russia, Cuba or the US? Apparently, someone is going to drill no matter what we do – shouldn’t it be us?

  • Robert Novak passes

    The best quote I’ve read from the late conservative columnist comes from the Washington Times;

    Look, I’m not David Broder, Mr. Novak told the Washington Monthly in a 2004 profile. I’m not one of the real good guys. They try to make things nicer. That’s not my deal.

    Mr. Novak contended that he began his career as a moderate, becoming more conservative only because of the impact of his reporting on his political ideas.

    I suppose he’d take some measure of joy from the fact that the Democratic Underground warned their denizens to “stay classy” when they announced his death;

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  • Elitist arrogance in the flesh

    Back in my home state, in my home congressional district, they’ve elected a Democrat to Congress for the first time in my memory. His name is Eric Massa. Here’s a screen shot from his website;
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    See that line in his welcome letter? The one that says “…my #1 priority is serving you. This is your Congressional Office and your Congressional staff and your opinion on the critical issues facing Western New York matters.” Looks and sounds nice, doesn’t it? Well, his tone in person seems a little different.

    During a discussion with a constituent, he was quoted by a Rochester, NY TV station;

    MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful. I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.

    Monday night, Massa spoke one-on-one with News 10NBC and residents in Honeoye Falls. We asked the Congressman if he would have made those statements in his own district.

    “Absolutely,” he replied. “I’m saying it here now. I stand by my comments. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. Being independent sometimes means not being popular.”

    ‘If I THINK what I’m doing…”, “…if I actually BELIEVE…” I think “being independent” means being independent of your party, not independent of the people what brung ya.

    I hope they play that quote over and over during the next campaign.

  • James Branum; lawyer to malcontents

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    You’ve probably been wondering who is defending these “resisters” who are being prosecuted by the military during their court cases. For Victor Agosto, Travis Bishop, Robin Long, Cliff Cornell, and pot smoking deserter Ryan Jackson, it’s been James M. Branum, who calls himself the GI Rights Lawyer. He’s also a co-chair of the Military Law Task Force branch of the communist National Lawyer’s Guild.

    So who is James Branum? In his own words;

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  • We owe Ralph Nader an apology

    CRaisi sent me a link from Truthdig in which they lament not listening to the brilliance and intellectual depth of such thinkers as Ralph (Unsafe at any Age) Nader and Cynthia (Does my hair make me look insane) McKinney;

    They were right. If a few million of us had had the temerity to stand behind our ideals rather than our illusions and the empty slogans peddled by the Obama campaign, we would have a platform. We forgot that social reform never comes from accommodating the power structure but from frightening it. The Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists who battled for women’s rights, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement knew that the question was not how do we get good people to rule—those attracted to power tend to be venal mediocrities—but how do we limit the damage the powerful do to us.

    Of course, all it’s really just a way to absolve themselves of the shit-stain that is the Obama Administration;

    The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of citizens. It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street or end our relationship with private contractors that provide mercenary armies to fight our imperial wars and produce useless and costly weapons systems.

    They act surprised. The far-Left lives in a fantasy world where the laws of nature and economics don’t apply. Every Left administration that gets in office gets gob-smacked by reality when they discover that their campaign rhetoric would probably drive the nation right into the ocean if applied in the copious amounts that they’ve promised.

    At least the partisan Democrats don’t just crouch down and cry in the middle of the street like the hippies do.

  • Think Congress isn’t listening?

    Sheila Jackson Lee told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that she’s not avoiding her constitutents’ concerns;

    Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee assured a sometimes raucous crowd at a town hall forum Tuesday that she is listening to their concerns about health care reform legislation. At the same time, the Houston Democrat denied she had attempted to dodge opponents by giving short notice and not widely publicizing her town hall meeting after other Democrats in Congress confronted angry crowds at similar gatherings with constituents across the country.

    And to prove it, here she is yesterday seriously listening to the folks that vote for her;

    Even though I see the denizens of DC use that little ploy everyday to avoid confrontations over their ill behavior, I’m pretty sure that Representative Lee has more respect than that for the folks she serves. I’m sure it was an important call. Probably her hair dresser telling her that her new hair will be ready for pick up at four.

    Ace of Spades and Gateway Pundit point to Patterico who discovered an astroturfing “doctor” who supported the healthcare plan – but it turns out the “doctor” is nothing but a grad student of Lee’s husband and an Obama donor. But there are no plants at these events, are there?