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Category: Liberals suck

  • Dems ram cap and trade to vote

    Congressman Spencer Bachus writes in his blog that the “House leadership bypassing key committees on cap and tax“;

    The Democrat leadership is preventing the public from learning important details about the cap and tax plan by bypassing several key committees. As a Ranking Member on the Financial Services Committee, I called for hearings on the bill’s creation of a massive trading scheme for carbon emissions.

    From Drudge a link to Politico which reports that Al gore isn’t coming to DC today as he had planned (probably so we don’t have record low temperatures);

    Former Vice President Al Gore canceled plans to fly to Washington for a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, and instead was working the phones from Tennessee to help push a landmark climate bill to passage.

    Apparently Democrats are getting antsy that the crown jewel of the their plans to rape the economy might go down to defeat if they didn’t circumvent the public. They don’t expect the Obama happy hour to do much for them. Even Democrat and Obama supporter Warren Buffet is opposed to cap and trade;

    Mike Pence pleaded from the floor of the House to call your congressman now if you oppose cap and tax.

    If you oppose the national energy tax, I say call your congressman. If you think the Democrat cap and trade bill will cap growth and trade jobs, call your congressman. If you believe the American people deserve an all-of-the-above energy strategy that will create jobs, achieve energy independence and a cleaner environment then endorse the Republican alternative, call your congressman.

    Back to Bachus;

    I am very disturbed by the repeated pattern of the House leadership in rushing expensive legislation like cap and tax, the so-called stimulus package, and appropriations bills to a vote without adequate review or debate. It’s irresponsible to fast-track legislation that puts taxpayers on the hook for literally trillions of dollars.

  • Democrats’ glee

    The Washington Post was obviously relieved that Mark Sanford was caught yesterday returning from an extra-marital affair in Argentina. The front web page of the Post this morning looked like this;

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    In the “news” article, they gleefully predict the death of the Republican Party because of the Sanford admission;

    Coming a week after Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted to an extramarital affair, the scandal will impact the Republicans in several ways. First, it further damages the GOP brand, potentially driving away more voters or at least making it more difficult to win back some of those who abandoned the party in the past two elections. Second, it could disillusion social and religious conservatives — a critically important part of the Republican coalition — who may now wonder whether those who share the Republican label truly share their values. Third, the Sanford saga removes one more new-generation GOP leader from the field of prospective 2012 candidates, adding to doubts about the strength of the party’s bench.

    How many Republicans are there in the country? Two people admit to affairs and that’s the end of the party? Funny that they didn’t predict the end of the Democrat Party when John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer was busted.

    As our reader, that Disgruntled former IVAW Member said, Democrats don’t expect their politicians to be the least bit moral – doesn’t that say something about their party right there? No, obviously not. They use the excuse that “Well, the Republicans are the family values party.” When was the last time a Republican candidate mentioned family values?

    While it’s true that I won’t vote for any candidate of any party who cheats on their families, it’s not because I’m a “family values” voter – if a man’s wife can’t trust him to come home every night and fill his shoes as a father and husband, why should I trust him to do what he says he’ll do in elected office?

    It’s too bad that all voters don’t hold their candidates to a standard of truth and faith. Maybe politics would change if we tolerated a little less of the lying and cheating. But, since Democrats expect their politicians to be corrupt, there won’t be much chance of that.

  • Left doesn’t even want protesters to protect themselves

    At Weasel Zippers and Flopping Aces, they document that the Left, in the form of Raw Story, takes offense at Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers cheering on the protesters in a video who beat the snot out of a Basij militia thug. The video here:

    Of course, the guy getting beat had just been running people down with his motorcycle, pounding on them with a baton, or shooting them. Whoever it was that wrote the Raw Story piece concluded with;

    Personally speaking, I’m appalled that anyone could cheer a mob kicking a guy on the ground, but I guess that’s why I’m just a silly liberal who admires the kind of non-violent protests practiced by Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi.

    Yeah, King and Gandhi weren’t facing bloodthirsty thugs like the militia in Tehran. Things in the US south were pretty bad in 60s, but they weren’t as bad as they are right now in Iran. It’s amazing to me how the Left seem to be the arbiters of how much pain other people should withstand.

    It was Noreiga’s militia that beat with two-by-fours the legally-elected President of Panama, Guillermo Ford, in broad daylight, in front of CNN cameras because he wasn’t Noriega’s choice. It was Chavez’ militia that shot scores of Venezuelans a few years back because they opposed Chavez’ proposed reforms.

    Even some of the commenters at the Raw Story article disagree with Raw Story’s naive view of the world;

    Eric

    I’m all for peaceful protest, which is exactly what these people were TRYING to do before the Basij thugs started running at them on motorcycles wielding batons (and worse) on cowardly hit-and-run missions.

    Sorry that I can’t share in your angst over the Basiji’s fate, and yes, I’ll cheer them on, too.

    SarahW

    Why should they chase down thugs attacking peaceful protestors. So wrong. They should just stand there and let girls like Neda get shot in the heart.

    Natasha

    Oh, absolutely! Those vicious, evil Iranian citizens! They’re attacked and slaughtered for conducting peaceful protests, but that doesn’t give them the right to now defend themselves. They shouldn’t lash out at the murderous basij. They should hold hands with them and sing Kumbaya.
    /sarcasm off

    At least they’re not all brainless clods.

  • Democrat “leadership”

    I was held hostage today at a Walter Reed waiting room for about an hour (I got the cast off, by the way, if anyone is interested) and was forced to listen to CNN while reading my Kindle. As much as I hate Fox, I hate CNN even more. I burst out laughing at one point when they were talking about the Iran protests and Obama’s interview on CBS this morning.

    The news reader at one point reported, deadpan serious, that some Republicans supported Obama’s wishy-washy speech last Saturday. i waited with bated breath to see which Republicans made such a thought public. Ready? OK:

    Henry Kissinger and Pat Buchanan.

    C’mon, admit it, you chuckled, too.

    Henry Kissinger is a Republican in the narrowest definition of the word. He’s famous for detente with the Soviet Union – and arming Jimmy Carter with that massive failure.

    Can anyone tell me the last time Pat Buchanan supported any Republican foreign policy? He’s a cro-magnon-conservative – his brand of Republicanism goes back to the isolationists of World War Two. He criticized both Presidents Bush, so of course he’s going to support a policy that keeps us from being engaged in events in Iran. Hell, Buchanan thinks we should withdraw from Europe and Japan, too.

    Then CNN backed up their new buddies Kissinger and Buchanan with Diane Feinstein making her typical intellectually vacant comments;

    “I think the president has it correct. … It is very crucial as I see it that we not have our fingerprints on this. That this really be truly inspired by the Iranian people. We don’t know where this goes. And I sure wouldn’t want to be responsible for thousands of people being killed, which is a distinct possibility.”

    Ya know what – that’s the same kind of shit that kept us racing troops back to Kuwait every time Hussein farted through the 90s. It’s the same kind of empty thought that allowed the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. It’s the same pretty words that Jimmy Carter thought during the first Iranian Revolution that lost democracy in Iran in 1979. It’s the same empty intellect that tried to force us out of Iraq in 2006-2008. It’s the same idiot ideology that has caused every problem we’ve had in the last fifty years. So let’s do it all again.

    “We don’t know where this goes”. Did George HW Bush know we’d cake walk through Kuwait to the gates of Baghdad? Did Ronald Reagan know for a fact that the Soviet Union would collapse in his lifetime? Did FDR know he’d defeat the both the Nazis and the Japanese in less than four years.

    Feinstein said she didn’t want to be responsible for thousands of deaths – um, she wouldn’t be responsible. It looks like thousands of Iranians are willing to die for their freedom. Don’t we owe it to them to help them try to cast off the chains of the mullahs? The same mullahs who financed the killing of US troops in Iraq and, lately, Afghanistan? Don’t we have a dog in this fight, too?

    It’s no wonder the world is falling down around our ears, if this is how the Democrats plan on “leading” this country for the next four years.

    And ya wanna know why? It’s so the Democrats can buy patronage with their domestic problems and not be distracted by the flames creeping closer to our shores.

    Do they think by keeping out of Iran, that’ll stop terrorism? The mullahs are already blaming us whether we’re involved or not – if we’re going to do the time, we might as well do the crime.

  • ACORN by any other name….

    So what if your company was involved in scandals and took a huge hit reputation-wise, do you think you could fix things just by changing it’s name? Well, ACORN thinks it’s their silver bullet cure for their piss-poor reputation according to Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner;

    “We’ve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired,” Reid said. “The name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply can’t go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.”

    In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”

    Reid also said ACORN is in the process of dismantling Citizen’s Consulting Inc. (CCI), a New-Orleans based non-profit, which has been used to maintain centralized financial control, ACORN 8 activists claim. Tax records show that CCI is interlinked with several ACORN affiliates.

    So that ought to clear their name, huh? I mean the same corrupt boards, the same corrupt members and the same corrupt ideology, but the gilded turd will certainly smell better…right?

  • Generals and pricks

    Yesterday at a Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee hearing, Brigadier General Michael Walsh was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Here’s the General’s Biography;

    bg-walsh-bio

    The General was testifying to Barbara Boxer, the junior senator from California. Here’s Barbara Boxer’s bio from her website;

    boxer-bio

    Before the General got more than few words into the testimony, the junior senator from California interrupted him;

    If she was a man, I’d call Boxer a prick, but she’s not a man and I can’t call her what we call a prick that is a woman. But my point is; the general worked a damn sight harder to get where he is – I mean look at that bio – than some woman prick who has been in Congress and then the Senate. Some prick woman who has been an “advocate” all of her life – advocating for her ego. While this general is saving the world so people like Boxer can be pricks to him.

    Now look at the general’s chest (I searched for a picture of him in his greens, but I couldn’t find one…sorry it’s so fuzzy);

    walsh-screen-cap

    That’s General Walsh’s experience on his chest while that Boxer woman is sitting on her experience. Just for the record, I think generals are included in that “we support the troops” thing I hear all of the time.

    This post was done on the request of our favorite fan at the Pentagon.

  • GAO enters gun debate

    The Wall Street Journal‘s Evan Perez reports this morning that the Government Accountability Office announced that “most” of the guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States;

    Drug-related murders have more than doubled in number to 6,200 last year from 2,700 in 2007, according to the GAO study, a draft of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The study is set to be released Thursday.

    Mexican officials have pushed for the U.S. to enact tougher gun laws and to help restrict arms smuggling as Mexico attempts to battle drug cartels on its territory.

    “The availability of firearms illegally flowing from the United States into Mexico has armed and emboldened a dangerous criminal element in Mexico, and it has made the job of drug cartels easier,” said Rep. Eliot L. Engel, (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere….

    Ya know what’s funny (not funny, ha-ha) – we’ve been asking Mexico to tighten up their side of the border and help stem the flow of people and drugs for decades. Now that the Mexicans are reaping what they’ve sown along the border, they expect us to change our Constitution to help them. And of course, the Democrats are willing to bow and scrape to them.

    I own several weapons that Democrats would classify as “assault weapons”. Some I’ve owned for decades. I’ve never committed a crime with them, and the rifles were never even pointed at another human. I suspect most gun owners can claim the same responsible ownership.

    So why are we the ones who have to relinquish our rights? Just like those of us who’ve always provided health care for our families are now being told to pay for the irresponsible. Funny how law abiding people are always the ones who have to abide by more and more laws.

  • Embracing the Phony and the Farcical: The VoteVets story

    If you have not read Part I of my VoteVets series which covers Jon Soltz, you should do so before reading this.

    As my esteemed coblogger is oft to say, VoteVets is not a veterans organization. For every 20 members they have, even VoteVets admits that only 1 is a veteran of OEF/OIF. While they masquarade as veterans advocates, the issues they champion rarely even deal with veteran or military issues, unless it happens to coincide with their actual mission of shilling for Democratic candidates.

    And a compliant media has allowed them to be fairly successful at it. My first run in with this band of degenerates was from the 2006 Virginia Senatorial campaign when they ran this disengenuous commercial against George Allen:
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