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Category: Liberals suck

  • IVAW’s Marlissa Grogan perpetuating the lie

    Toni at Bear Creek Ledger emailed me this morning about perpetual traitor Jane Fonda’s new blog and Fonda’s new BFF, former Marine captain Marlissa Grogan. I think this is Grogan in her uniform marching at the DNC Convention in Denver (photo from People’s Press Collective) wearing her ribbons improperly;

    Here’s her profile at IVAW;

    At Fonda’s blog, she perpetuates the lie that many military recruits have to choose between the military and jail time;

    She talked about the similarities that exist between today’s military and those of the Vietnam era but also pointed out the profound differences, citing in particular, the fact that so many recruits are confronted with the choice between jail or military. For many it’s a much needed job. Look how young she is, yet so wise and committed. “We can’t just rely on the hope that Obama has brought us,” she told the audience. “We have to get off our asses and make sure we organize and speak out for what we feel is right.”

    Fonda appears to have learned her lesson from Vietnam and seems to support the troops, but allowing knucklehead liars like Grogan to have a launching pad so they can call the troops hopelessly retarded criminals is just as bad as spitting on them. I’d like to see Grogan’s research on exactly how many troops are given the military as their only escape from prison. She ought to spend some time recruiting.

    I also found this quote from the “wise and committed” Grogan who charges our troops with violating their oaths and being enemies of the Constitution;

    “I look at it in a really concrete way. As an officer, as well as enlisted Marines, we are always charged with the promise to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and right now we’re violating that Constitution, and that’s my main concern,” she said. “We’re going against something that we promised: We’re going against our oath. We’re contradicting the Constitution in a way.”

    I’d like to see her legal brief on that charge.

    Here’s a picture of Grogan hanging out with David Zeiger, the producer of Fonda’s “FTA” Vietnam-era anti-war “documentary” of Fonda and Donald Southerland’s attempts to end that war (I wrote about the movie and the attempts by IVAW to use it as a fundraiser last month);

    I guess this is how Fonda atones for her sins of the Vietnam era – by letting other people spit on the troops for her.

  • Obama limits tax cheats in cabinet to one

    Yeah, everyone knows now that Daschle withdrew his name from nomination. I first heard of it from my cousin Scott in an email. He wonders who’ll replace Daschle. My guess is someone more Leftist – Obama thinks he was sunk by Republican reluctance to put a lying cheater in the Obama cabinet, so he’ll teach them to question The One.

    Hot Air says Daschle was sunk by the New York Times. I think he was sunk by The One. Michelle Malkin quotes the Obama official statement expressing “sadness and regret” at Daschle’s voluntary withdrawal but Michelle reads it differently;

    Regret that Daschle’s serial evasions caught up with him. Sadness that he didn’t get the Geithner treatment. DLTDHYOTWO!

    Drew M writes at Ace of Spades;

    Related: Timothy Geithner released a statement:

    All I can say is I’m very happy to have been confirmed before Tom’s problems became public. Now, as the man in charge of the IRS I will be personally auditing Tom’s tax returns to see if we can get anymore money out of him.

    I may have made that last bit up. It’s hard to tell these days.

    From the Gateway Pundit;

    We’re going to miss those sporty red glasses.

    My first thought of a replacement for Daschle was Chuck Rangel, but then, he has a tax cheat problem, too. So Obama will grabs some unknown professor with an ideological streak a mile wide, a hardcore commie who hasn’t made enough money in a year to cheat on taxes, can’t afford an illegal alien housekeeper and doesn’t flinch at the thought of taking down the economy in one fell swoop. That’s probably why the New York Times didn’t mind taking swipes at Daschle – they wanted a cold-blooded Che Guevara-type that would hustle us towards communism in the next two years.

    Of course, I may be wrong, but Obama will be out for blood after suffering this defeat a few short weeks after the Inauguration.

  • Daschle’s tax evasion woes

    One year I took a few thousand dollars out of my savings in Muni bonds to pay off bills and I forgot about it at tax time. A year later, the IRS sent me a bill for $4000 and threatened to begin collection action against me until I proved that it was from my savings and that I’d made about $200 on the sale of the bonds which didn’t affect the taxes I owed that on iota. It took me three months to straighten it all out. A few years before, the DC government had done the same thing until I proved that they owed me money instead. Of course it took me months to get the check for the few dollars they owed me.

    Now, Tom Daschle missed paying about $150,000 and an apology gets him off. It kind of makes me wonder WTF? Emily Yoffe in the Washington Post writes that maybe the IRS should make everyone cabinet appointees;

    …maybe the IRS, in an effort to find scofflaws, should have every American nominated to a Cabinet post, given the salutary effect it seems to have on one’s memory of taxes unpaid — witness the taxable-income confession of our new Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner.

    So what’s the difference between me and Tom Daschle? Washington Post’s Ceci Connelly explains;

    Over three decades on Capitol Hill, including 10 years as the Senate Democratic leader, Daschle has nurtured one of the largest, most experienced talent pools in the city. His charges guided Barack Obama from his first days in the Senate, through the presidential race and into the White House. Daschle’s tentacles, moreover, stretch far beyond the agency Obama picked him to lead, reaching across the entire administration from the upper echelons of the White House to mid-level departmental positions to Obama’s kitchen cabinet.

    The network is being tapped this week as Daschle and his allies scramble to explain why he did not pay more than $100,000 in back taxes, primarily for the use of a car and driver for three years. After a 75-minute closed-door meeting yesterday with the Senate Finance Committee, he emerged ashen-faced and apologetic.

    So basically, they’re going to make him stew in own juices for a whole week and then confirm him when Americans have pretty much forgot that they’re going to have real life tax cheats doing the people’s business – pretty much like they’ve forgotten that Joe Biden’s much-vaunted high college grades were the product of his cheating in college.

    These are the people that are going to “change” Washington. They’re the ones who are going to fight for us. Even though we can’t trust them to do the things we do everyday in our own lives, somehow it’s OK when a Democrat does it.

    More on Daschle’s serial tax evasion at the home of Ms. Malkin.

    UPDATE: Drudge and Breitbart report that another Obama tax cheat has withdrawn her name from consideration for the cabinet.

  • Where’s the “split” really?

    Monday afternoon, I made mention that a the Republican Governor of Vermont was making nice to Obama (remember it was Republican Senator James Jeffords of Vermont who defected to the Democrat caucus to take away the Republicans’ majority in the Senate).

    Well since I only have that useless-ass CNN International in my hotel, I had to watch Wolf Blitzer cover the story. He began by hinting that the Republican party was fracturing, he said that “Republicans are beginning to split from the Congressional GOP…” on the stimulus package – then he jumped into the story about the Vermont governor siding with Obama. How is that a split? A governor has no say in how in how the Republicans vote in Congress.

    But if Blitzer wanted a real report about a split in Congress he could have followed this story on Fox News Channel‘s web site;

    A key Democratic senator told FOX News on Monday that he wants to strip “tens of billions” of dollars from the economic stimulus proposal, rejecting the White House claim that senators are complaining about just a tiny fraction of the package.

    Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Republicans and Democrats alike want to gut the nearly $900 billion program of items that he says will not stimulate job growth.

    President Obama and his aides have downplayed disagreements over the package as it comes before the Senate for debate.

    I guess if it’s not Republicans saying something about disagreeing with their party, it’s not newsworthy at the Barack Obama News Network.

    Speaking of Barack Obama, is anyone going to mention that his “relaxed” dress code at the White House harkens back to the Jimmy Carter years? Carter always looked so casual while he was trying to figure out how to un-fk the world. All. Day. All. Night.

    When is Obama going to go full-Jimmy and give the deserters and resisters amnesty?

  • Chiroux’ date to answer for his childishness

    An eagle-eyed reader (I only have his real name and I’m not sure he wants me to use it) emailed within an hour after it was posted that Matthis Chiroux, our favorite crybaby from the IVAW says he has a date to answer to the Army for his childish refusal to report for duty;

    March 12, I’ll attend a board hearing in St. Louis, Missouri, to determine what the nature of my discharge from the Individual Ready Reserve will be. The Army has alleged “misconduct” and they’re shooting for a “general discharge,” but I’m pushing for “honorable,” as my refusal to deploy was not an act of misconduct.

    Well, if that’s his defense, that not doing what he’s contractually obligated to do is not misconduct, I hope his mommy gets him plenty of soap-on-a-rope.

    I will be working closely with Iraq Veterans Against the War to plan what we hope will reflect a Winter Soldier event in the form of our members testifying under oath to the military about their experiences in the Global War on Terror.

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure the Army will allow the whole membership of IVAW turn an administrative hearing into a clown show of malcontented buffoons. Maybe Geoff Millard can wear his 3 MSMs and impress the board with his chair and microphone arrangement skills. Or TSO’s favorite droning Powerpoint Ranger, Luis Montalvan, can put the board into a deep and deadly sleep.

    Chiroux looks forward to the opportunity to beclown himself and the members of IVAW;

    The Army in no way has forced this hearing upon me. I demanded this hearing from them to oppose the General Discharge, and I thank them for providing me due process.

    Of course, when the Army doesn’t let them parade the Ship of Fools before the board, there’ll be an outcry of unfairness. And there is no shortage of support from the Democrats in Congress for Chiroux, he claims;

    As I write this, they are penning another letter of support which will be more widely circulated in Congress than the first to be sent to President Obama before my hearing. As well, several Members have expressed interest in appearing in person to voice support for me and troops like me in March.

    Chiroux claims his supporters are from the group who signed a letter of support for him at the height of the BDS outbreak in July. Of course, he claims that the reason Obama hasn’t heard them yet is because of Joe the Plumber;

    We tried to bring this message to President Obama at the final presidential debate. Tragically, Joe the plumber took precedence that evening….

    Damn working American…who the Hell does he think he is letting people talk about him?

    Like anything else, Matthis’ prestige comes with a price;

    We are continuing to gather funds needed to cover travel expenses and accommodation for those who will be testifying. I hope anywhere from fifteen to thirty veterans, military family members, Iraqi civilians and constitutional experts will appear before my board.

    Yeah, send him some money for thirty lay-abouts to get shut out of an Army administrative board, which has no responsibility to hear any testimony from anyone. If this does happen at all (and I have my doubts), the Army is not in the habit of turning their official business into a minor theater performance complete with the bearded lady and lobster boy.

    You can see the fingerprints of civilians all over this thing – those World Can’t Wait Maoists, most likely. I can hear them snickering about him letting them waterboard him and now they double-dog-dared him to act like a pompous jerk in front of some Army officers.

  • GOP promotes their own stimulous plan

    According to the Washington Times, the Congressional Republicans have decided to act like participants in the process rather than just an ideological barricade to the Democrats’ massive implementation of their their socialist programs;

    House Republicans, leery of being labeled naysayers after rejecting the $819 billion economic rescue bill, are launching a district-by-district message campaign to promote their own stimulus bill and highlight the huge taxpayer debt amassed by the Democrats’ spending plan.

    The data, including a calculation of the debt load that the House-passed plan would heap on each congressional district, is being disseminated by the Republican National Campaign Committee (NRCC) through blogs, talk radio and local media in the districts of vulnerable Democrats.

    “We plan to make the case on a micro level that targeted tax relief and eliminating wasteful spending in any stimulus bill is the right way forward for America,” said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican.

    That’s how they’ll bring me back to the party – actually provide an opposing plan to give Americans a choice between parties. It’s an especially effective plan when the Democrats are sending gumballs like this to get their particular message out (found at Ace of Spades);
    (more…)

  • Dems’ double standard

    One of my favorite writers is Wesley Pruden, the editor emeritus of the Washington Times. This morning he demonstrates why he’s been my daily read since I moved to this town nearly 10 years ago in a piece on the Obama Administration getting smacked in the head with reality;

    Gone are his airy assurances that the rough places of the planet can be sanded smooth with a soaring speech, that an enemy’s guns are no match for warm and fuzzy language. Maybe mere eloquence can’t shame the troublemakers to silence after all. Neither will several verses of “Kumbaya.” Maybe the world wants more than a Coke.

    His briskly executed executive order to close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demonstrated that he’s absolutely, positively, unequivocally serious about keeping his endlessly repeated vow to shut down the prison. Some day, but not today. Within a year, unless it takes longer than that. Or possibly never. He, along with a growing number of his enablers, has discovered evil in the world.

    Yeah, I’ve been smacked in the head with another type of reality. Last month, it was chic to be a dissenter against the government. Every little thing that happened to the Bush Administration was a jolly good laugh or proof that they were corrupt and evil. For seven years we had to listen to the “dumb Bush” stories because he choked on a pretzel.

    But suddenly, we’re supposed to excuse Obama’s behavior. One commenter told us that if we can’t say anything good about the president, we shouldn’t say anything at all. Can you imagine if I’d said that during the Bush Administration or if I’d deleted every comment critical of the President? Hell, the most repeated phrase of the Left for eight years was that “dissent is patriotic”. Suddenly not so much.

    Back in November, I wrote right after the election how Lou Schrader of Las Cruces, NM was criticized by his Democrat neighbors for flying his flag upside down and accused of being unpatriotic while for years, it was merely patriotic dissent to do it while the Bush Administration was in office.

    Where’s Obama’s illegal alien aunt? It took me hundreds of dollars and months to straighten out my wife’s, step daughter’s and grand daughter’s immigrant status when my wife lost her green card a few years back. But this particular illegal alien gets a complete pass.

    And what about this goon who’s about to be our Treasury Secretary who skipped out on paying his taxes? Michelle Malkin has much more on him and the vote confirming him last night. Can you imagine the storm of criticism if Bush had nominated someone with a similar history?

    Yet they’re still pursuing Karl Rove on the J-Department’s firing of Democrat lawyers – even though there are lawyers awaiting their pink slips at DOJ from the new administration. Is the Washington Post concerned about them? Not that I can tell.

    Or if there was a CIA director running that agency with the serious experience deficiency of Leon Panetta when 9-11 happened? Or a chief-of-staff with connections to a crooked governor – or a president with connections to a corrupt governor.

    Leftists have fanned out across the internet to stifle any criticism of The One – I’ve been getting email from other bloggers mentioning this phenomenon all week – and the over 400 comments on our blurb about the Salute to Heroes Ball last week. All we did was mention that he wasn’t there and they descended in a swarm not unlike dung beetles.

    Let me explain to any trolls who might be tempted to tell me to be nice or shut up; legitimate criticism is patriotic. But you clowns used made up shit like his military record, Valerie Plame, cocaine abuse, closet drinking, illegal war, waterboarding and pretzel-choking (how many other s can you name?). You grow up, for Pete’s sake.

  • Jimmy Carter; still clueless after all these years

    Curt at Flopping Aces has a video of perennial dipshit Jimmy Carter on the Today Show this morning. Just when you think the branch this fruit is hanging from can’t droop any lower, down he goes;

    I draw your attention to this exchange;

    VIEIRA: Do you believe that Hamas can be trusted?

    CARTER: Yes, I do. I think they can, because of their own self- interest, not because they’re benevolent, or kind, or that sort of thing. But yes, I do. I think they can. And they’ve never betrayed any commitment that they’ve made to me, or publicly, as a matter of fact. …

    VIEIRA: But Hamas has said its goal is to destroy Israel. How can you involve them in a peace process when they said their goal is to destroy Israel? They don’t recognize Israel.

    CARTER: I’m not here to defend Hamas….

    Then what the hell is he doing? He claims there was “no serious rocket fire” during the 2008 cease fire – well, unless you count those three thousand rockets they fired into Irsael. Just because Hamas haven’t fired any rockets at Jimmy Carter personally, I guess he feels that makes them trustworthy.

    I’m glad to see that Carter is willing to goof up any Presidential administration, that he’s a nonpartisan fly in everyone’s ointment. I wonder how he explains away his one term presidency to himself.