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Category: Liberals suck

  • Maddow blames “right wing” for Peters

    Rachel Maddow, whose show on MSNBC is viewed by fewer people than live in my house, took the time the other day to blame LTC Ralph Peters’s stupid rant on Fox News on Sunday over imprisoned Bowe Berdahl’s video on the entire right. IAVA’s Paul Reickhoff is interviewed and, to his credit, doesn’t engage in the partisan hackery of Maddow;

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    Maddow takes the time to quote Michelle Malkin and disparages her for describing Peter’s rant as “tough words” – somehow that’s evidence of a broader conspiracy against our troops. Actually, I think Ms. Malkin was showing uncharacteristic restraint.

    I wonder where Maddow was when the famous left-wing blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga commented on American contractors who were killed in Iraq aqnd their bodies hung from a bridge with his famous “F*** ’em“.

    In fact, some of us saw evidence of Maddow having an effect on the nutroots yesterday when a Left wing blogger accused the milblogs of supporting Peters’ statement. The truth is that the milblogs have been mostly silent on it, there is no support for Peters among the milblogs or even the Right blogs.

    Maddow, true to her character, makes a mountain out of a mole hill. The left would be wise to do their research before they go off half-cocked.

  • Obama; healthcare isn’t about me

    Yesterday, Obama told a crowd of supporters that Republicans are picking on the poor baby. he got all whiny when he told the story of Jim DeMint, as recounted by the AFP;

    Last week, South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint predicted the Obama plan would not pass Congress, and said such a failure could be Obama’s “Waterloo,” referring to the battle that effectively ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s military career.

    “It will break him,” DeMint said,

    In response, Obama sniveled;

    “This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses, and breaking America’s economy,” Obama said on a visit to a Washington hospital.

    Well, that’s the first time it hasn’t been about Obama, then. We’ve heard how if we don’t support Obama’s candidacy or his policies we’re racists. How that not personal?

    And DeMint is trying to defeat Obama politically because Obama’s policies are damaging to our future. Isn’t that what a political party is supposed to do – protect the country politically? A national health care plan is not feasible – it has nothing to do with Obama.

    It’s funny that the Obama crowd wants to do away with our missile defense system because it doesn’t work perfectly yet, but he wants to implement a plan for health care that every expert in the country says won’t work.

  • Sheehan to America “You suck,too”

    With George Bush gone, Cindy Sheehan has turned her sights on the rest of us with her new book “Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution!”. I haven’t read the book because it’s not in Kindle.

    Apparently Sheehan self-published the book because it’s only available at her website and I don’t think I want to put money in her pocket. I’d rather she starve to death, actually. I don’t mean to be cruel, but apparently, from what I heard a few years ago, starving to death is the most humane way to be euthanized. And I’d like Sheehan to be out of her misery.

    But you really don’t need to read the whole book when she makes the 10 myths available without context;
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  • Boxer accused of being racist

    “Call Me Senator” Barbara Boxer tried to get Harry C. Alford the President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce back on the plantation by telling him he’s out of step with other Black organizations. Mr Alford took offense and told Boxer that she was being condescending and racist. Somehow, Boxer thinks the fact that her husband is a veteran is germane to the discussion. It’s a six minute video, but worth every minute.

    That’s Boxer’s problem, along with the rest of Left. She thinks of “groups” as homogeneous voting blocs. After she uses a resolution by the NAACP to convince Alford he needs to get on board with Black people, she mentions her husband’s veteran status as proof that Alford should agree with her.

    Good on Mr. Alford. Piss on Boxer.

  • Health care in trouble

    Conservative Democrat Mike Ross warns today that there will have to be significant changes to the Obama health plan before it’ll get out of his committee, according to Fox News;

    Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who chairs the Blue Dogs’ health care task force, said the group would need to see significant changes to protect small businesses and rural providers and contain costs before it could sign on. “We cannot support the current bill,” he said. The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Blue Dogs met Wednesday to consider what amendments they would offer, and the panel scheduled vote sessions daily through next Wednesday in what promised to be an arduous process to reach consensus.

    The key to defeating this whole plan doesn’t pivot on the Republicans, it rests on how painful it’ll be next year for Democrats in their own districts. The Republicans have made themselves irrelevant to the politics of this thing, so it’s up to people in Democrat-held districts to phone and mail.

    Of course, if we’re going to continue to be bogged down in ancillary BS….

  • More Carter Culture in the White House

    This morning the Washington Post, eager to rewrite history and trumpet Our Lord, Barack Obama in article they titled “In West Wing: Grueling Schedules, Bleary Eyes“, all they did for me was recall the Carter years;

    All West Wings face fatigue at some point, but the Obama team has had a particularly frenetic start, the result of inheriting the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression and the team’s own seemingly chaotic drive to push an agenda that includes the creation of a new health insurance system, auto bailouts, Middle East peace, nuclear nonproliferation, two wars and education reform.

    Political Washington has long fostered a workaholic culture, the expectation that the rewards of service on the big stage of national government come with 18-hour, on-call days. But even the most hardy of Obama’s staff members are beginning to recognize the toll that the pace is taking.

    We heard the same stories from the Carter Administration. Jimmy Carter and his staff worked endless hours spinning their wheels and coming up with idiot speeches and proposals that they never implemented. I guess it’s hard work trying to change our political system into something it wasn’t designed to be – a support group for morons.

    I also like how the Post blames the Bush Administration for Obama’s dilemma. We’ll probably hear that right up until the 2012 election – that’s why the Justice Department will be focusing on phony torture orders and phony “secret programs” just to keep the Evil Bush Administration (TM) in our collective consciousness as the culprit of all of our woes.

    See, here’s some advice for the Obama Administration if they want to get some rest – stop what you’re doing. You’re working too hard AGAINST the American people which is why you’re meeting stiff resistance for your idiot proposals. Try focusing on ONE thing at a time instead of trying to cram 100 years of European-style liberalism down our throats in one big gulp.

    Oh, and Washington Post, we’re on to you – you stop, too.

  • “Secret program” will disappoint BDS crowd

    The media and the Democrat Congress is having conniption fits because they think that the Evil Bush Administration (TM) had a secret program to kill terrorist leaders and they didn’t bother to tell Congress about it. The Wall Street Journal this morning will be disappointing the Bush Derangement Syndrome crowd with their article “CIA had secret Al Qaeda Plan“;

    Republicans on the panel say that the CIA effort didn’t advance to a point where Congress clearly should have been notified.

    So all it was is a plan – an idea. It was an attempt to comply with the president’s finding that we needed to take the war to the leaders of Al Qaeda.

    The official noted that Congress had long been briefed on the finding, and that the CIA effort wasn’t so much a program as “many ideas suggested over the course of years.” It hadn’t come close to fruition, he added.

    Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said little had been spent on the efforts — closer to $1 million than $50 million. “The idea for this kind of program was tossed around in fits and starts,” he said.

    Senior CIA leaders were briefed two or three times on the most recent iteration of the initiative, the last time in the spring of 2008. At that time, CIA brass said that the effort should be narrowed and that Congress should be briefed if the preparations reached a critical stage, a former senior intelligence official said.

    So part of the planning included briefing Congress when it came to the point that the plan was going to be implemented.

    Some officials who advocated the approach were seeking to build teams of CIA and military Special Forces commandos to emulate what the Israelis did after the Munich Olympics terrorist attacks, said another former intelligence official.

    “It was straight out of the movies,” one of the former intelligence officials said. “It was like: Let’s kill them all.”

    Movies? Isn’t life exactly like movies? What should be the message we send to terrorists who murder innocent people? “Let’s tickle them all?”

    The former official said he had been told that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney didn’t support such an operation. The effort appeared to die out after about six months, he said.

    Oh, no! Bush and Cheney didn’t support the operation? But that doesn’t fit the narrative! Look, fellas, if we’re going to have an evil plot against Congress, we’re going to need Bush and Cheney involved, otherwise, how will we ever be able to impeach them? Um, retroactively?

    If I was going to have an operation against the nation’s enemies and I needed to keep it secret, I wouldn’t tell the drama queen, leaky Democrats until the last possible moment either.

  • Political campaigns as foreign policy

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    Well, I feel better, don’t you? The guy who makes weekly pronouncements about how he “created or saved” hundreds of thousands of jobs while the unemployment rate increases by hundreds of thousands of jobs lost reassures the world. And then he impores the other leaders of the world to follow his plan (AP Link);

    Obama urged national leaders to unite behind a global recovery plan that includes stricter financial regulation and sustained stimulus spending.

    The short version; more regulation, more government spending, more taxes.

    The president rejected suggestions that the summit fell short of expectations by failing to call for tough new sanctions on Iran for its crackdown on democracy advocates after its disputed presidential election.

    “What we wanted is exactly what we got — a statement of unity and strong condemnation,” Obama said. He said the leaders’ declaration was even more significant because it included Russia, “which doesn’t make statements like that lightly.”

    How many statements of unity and strong condemnations have there been in the last few years? Did human history begin on January 20th, 2009? All history before that date doesn’t count? North Korea is launching missiles like bottle rockets, the Islamic Republic’s police are beating the snot out of everyone on the street (when they’re not shooting them or hanging them). And that “Russia doesn’t make statements like that lightly” line should have been made on his knees with his face buried in Putin’s shorts.

    Is he saying the whole rest of the world DOES make statements lightly? Thanks, allies, now get behind Russia – everyone who does things to the detriment of the US and our security seems to get a seat in front. Screw the rest of them.

    Just like Obama’s political campaigns. Blacks, Hispanics, unions, gays, the traditional Democrat voters – get tossed aside so he can woo the folks who don’t want to vote for him. When Obama goes overseas, American interests and those of our allies get tossed aside so he can woo the thugs. Remind you of anyone?

    Read my post at my Latin American politics blog, Tall & Rich, for another example of our current poor foreign policy.