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Category: Liberals suck

  • Org Wars

    We here at This Ain’t Hell, because we’re a military blog of sorts, tend to focus on the disingenuous organizations like IAVA and VoteVets and their slavish adherence to Democrat policy. Well it seems that some of the other organizations of the Left are beginning to notice that their fellow orgs are suffering the same malady;

    I guess these guys are beginning to believe that they’ve been manipulated by MoveOn. Of course, they might have noticed how the Democrats didn’t bother to end the war when they took office after the 2006 midterms. Or how they didn’t bother to impeach President Bush – that the anti-war crowd were just held at arm’s length. They were even convinced to stop their public antics during the electoral process.

    I’d add here that VoteVets falls under the direction of MoveOn.org. John Bruhn, the former Army sergeant turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets a few years back because they seemed to be more pro-Democrat than they were anti-war. I’m just sayin’.

    This David Swanson who wrote the above piece, is a pretty radically Left guy;

    Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace, a convenor of the legislative working group of United for Peace and Justice, and chair of the accountability and prosecution working group of United for Peace and Justice.

    I guess he’s just plain fed up with watching donor money going down the tubes at MoveOn and merely supporting a Democrat continuation of Republican foreign policy.

    Swanson was also an advisor for the Kucinich campaign in 2004. And do you remember the proposal for a Department of Peace? Well, Kucinich has submitted a bill (HR 808) to force Obama to create the depatment. You can find the text of the proposed bill at Thomas.LOC.gov, but here’s some pretty wild stuff;
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  • Pentagon: Ban on Press at Dover ends Monday

    Here comes that Hope and Change and the Obama Administration making friends with veterans, the troops and their families (Stars and Stripes);

    For the first time in nearly 20 years, members of the news media will be allowed starting Monday to cover the solemn arrivals of American flag-draped coffins holding the remains of U.S. troops at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued an instruction last week to reverse the two decadeslong ban on media coverage, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, noting that a written memo is expected later this week.

    I hope that Gates and his staff have planned for the elephant parade and the clown car antics of the media when they get to the Air Force Base. Remember that when you let them in, you’re a slave to their self-important behavior – having been shoved aside myself a few times by anxious media types more worried about getting the picture than any semblance of decorum.

    What is the Pentagon going to do the first time a young spouse of a fallen service member finds out about the death of their loved one from some media clod calling them to get permission to snap pictures of the body coming off the aircraft in Dover?

    Gates BOFOs and military families are burdened with the responsibility of a decision that the Pentagon gracefully accepted years ago. Now the buck stops over there.

  • Conyers to investigate ACORN?

    The Washington Times reporter S.A. Miller writes this morning that far-Left Congressman John Conyers is contemplating investigating charges that “community activist group” ACORN engaged in voter fraud in the last election;

    Opponents of the liberal activist group ACORN have found an unlikely champion in House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., who is clashing with his own party to pursue hearings on accusations that the group has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.

    “I still want to do it and I probably will,” Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, told The Washington Times on Tuesday.

    He dismissed the argument made by fellow Democrats that accusations of voter fraud and other crimes should be explored by prosecutors and decided in court, not by lawmakers in Congress.

    “That’s our jurisdiction, the Department of Justice,” Mr. Conyers said. “That’s what we handle – voter fraud. Unless that’s been taken out of my jurisdiction and I didn’t know it.”

    Of course, this is the same John Conyers who promised his far-Left constituency that he’d pursue impeachment charges against George Bush and strung them along for more than two years.

    Jerrold Nadler, often referred to here often as The Waddler, is against any probe, but says he’ll go along with Conyers;

    “It’s not our business to say ACORN is terrible or ACORN is wonderful. That’s not a congressional job,” Mr. Nadler said. “The evidence – I’ve listened to it – I think most of it is nonsense. If it’s true, it’s a law enforcement matter.”

    Of course, I think this is just Conyer’s way of burying the truth and preventing a Justice Department investigation. It’s also pretty odd that when a Republican wins an election, there are charges and investigation of electoral fraud, but when Democrats win, suddenly the process is fair and equitable. I wonder why it always turns out that way?

  • Levin: Expect painful defense cuts

    To go along with all of my other warnings of cuts in Defense spending (here, here, here and here), TSO sends the latest;

    It happens every time the Democrats get control of Congress and the White House. They take money from defense and put it into social patronage programs. They win elections without the military vote, so what can it hurt them? Then when a Republican gets into office and tries to fix defense, they (and the media) scream to High Heaven about their spending. Reagan had to fix Carter’s neglect of the military, Bush had to repair the damage done by the Clinton years. Think there were shortages during the Bush years, you just watch – the difference now is that our troops are under fire (despite their best attempts to change the language so it doesn’t seem so). What happens when there’s no ammunition for training now? What happens when there are no more cruise missiles this time?

    And you have to ask yourself why Levin isn’t being specific about the cuts. More than likely it’s because there’ll be some major cuts in personnel expenses. Things like pay, bonuses, recruiting, retention and training. That will place a drag on manpower needs. Lucky for Obama, Jimmy Carter brought back draft registration after Nixon ended it. Then watch the cuts to veterans’ benefits. BOFO.

  • Terrorists threaten man-created disaster

    See how easily I adapt to the new administration’s lexicon? The Associated Press reports that they got a phone call the other day to warn us that we’re going to be in the midst of a man-created disaster (you can call them terrorist attacks if you want to be a gun-clinging wingnut. Me? I’m enlightened);

    Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S., said Monday’s attack outside the eastern city of Lahore was in retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against militants along the Afghan border.

    “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world,” Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone. He provided no details.

    I don’t understand how this can happen. The North Koreans are getting ready to launch rockets, the Mahdi army and al Qaeda in Iraq are staging a comeback, Hugo Chavez is trying to undermine the dollar with a proposal for an oil-based currency and calls Obama an ignoramus. We’re still trying to figure out how to fight piracy. Russia is planning on stationing bombers in Cuba and Venezuela.And, oh, did I mention that Iran thinks it has a role in determining our troops strength in Afghanistan? British police arrested five under the Terrorist Act.

    Shouldn’t all of this stuff ended on Inauguration Day? Or is it just beginning now that we’ve had a change in the government that indicates to all of the thugs that we’re soft and weak? And where’s my damn unicorn?

  • Global War on Terror ends

    I wrote last week that the Obama Administration intended on dropping the “Global War on Terror” label in it’s efforts to keep us safe from the language. The Pentagon denied that there was any conscious effort to avoid the term, while admitting there was a conscious effort to avoid the term.

    Well, Hillary the Clinton confirms that there is indeed a conscious effort to avoid using the Global War on Terrorism term to describe the global war on terror;

    “The (Obama) administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself. Obviously,” Clinton told reporters traveling with her to The Hague for a conference on Afghanistan, which Bush called part of his “global war on terror.”

    Obviously? What is so obvious about it?

    Why change the term? Well, because George Bush called the Global War on Terror a global war on terror – that’s their only reason. In a childish shift, reminiscent of Eric Shinseki issuing black berets to improve the Army’s combat readiness, the Obama Administration has decided to change the name.

    So let me get this straight – Obama’s Hope and Change in the war on terror means to do everything that Bush was doing, just change the name of it? That’s why the hippies and ne’er-do-wells voted for him?

    I feel safer – how about you?

  • AIG pressured to donate to Dodd

    Jennifer Haberkorn and Jerry Seper of The Washington Times write this morning that after the 2006, AIG execs were influenced by their chiefs to donate heavily to Senator Chris Dodd;

    The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable: Mr. Dodd was “next in line” to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry, and he would “have the opportunity to set the committee’s agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry.

    “Given his seniority in the Senate, he will also play a key role in the Democratic Majority’s leadership,” Mr. Cassano wrote in the message, obtained by The Washington Times.

    Mr. Dodd’s campaign quickly hit pay dirt, collecting more than $160,000 from employees and their spouses at the AIG Financial Products division (AIG-FP) in Wilton, Conn., in the days before he took over as the committee chairman in January 2007. Months later, the senator transferred the donations to jump-start his 2008 presidential bid, which later failed.

    Now, if the same type of message had been found among the emails of Enron in regards to a Republican candidate, can you imagine the outcry? So why, exactly, aren’t Democrats calling for Dodd to resign, or at least step down from his influential position among the decision makers in Congress involved in AIG at this point?

    If the reason that the media chases down Republicans for sex scandals is because of a supposed hypocrisy between their message and their personal behavior, why isn’t the media attacking the Democrats for their blatant hypocrisy in regards to dealing with lobbyists and donors (not to mention not paying their taxes)?

    Speaking of hypocrisy (as we often do here) if this had been the Bush girls, it would have been splashed across front page as a conclusion, not as “purports”.

  • What the Hell…?

    The Washington Post and the Washington Times are both reporting that the Obama Administration used federal bailout money to coherce the CEO of General Motors to resign. First the Post;

    The Obama administration has forced the longtime head of General Motors to resign and said yesterday that it would withhold additional federal aid to the auto industry unless the ailing companies undertake changes they so far have been unwilling or unable to make.

    The administration effectively rejected as untenable the business plans that GM and Chrysler had submitted to restructure their companies, saying that neither had fulfilled the terms of the federal loans the companies received in December.

    The president is expected to announce today that both companies may still win additional federal aid but under stricter terms.

    And the Times;

    The Obama administration has determined that neither Chrysler LLC nor General Motors Corp. can survive without dramatic changes in their businesses, and given them only weeks to completely restructure on a fast schedule that could involve a quick “dip” into bankruptcy, senior administration officials said Sunday.

    The restructuring began right away Sunday, the eve of Mr. Obama’s public layout of his plan for the U.S. auto industry, with the White House asking longtime GM Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner to step down and be replaced by Fritz Henderson, GM’s current chief operating officer.

    While Mr. Obama’s team has judged that GM could become viable with major sacrifices, it decided that Chrysler cannot survive as a stand-alone company, a senior administration official said.

    And the Administration arrived at these decisions how? From the same people who’ve brought us the US Postal Service – arguably a business run by the government that is currently hemorrhaging cash? How many people in the administration have even a modicum of experience running a car company? How many union bosses are they going to force from their positions for corruption and poor judgement?

    I’ll tell ya, if you weren’t worried about this administration before, ya hafta be worried now.