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Category: Liberals suck

  • Wanna fix the economy without a bailout?

    I’m not a particularly smart man, but I have an over-abundance of common sense. It seems to me that if the government really wanted to fix the economy, the first thing they’d do is open up our off-shore oil fields and allow drilling in Alaska.

    In the short term, the government would get all sorts of royalties from the oil companies for their efforts, thousands of people would be employed to not only build the pipelines and the inherent infrastructure, but steel orders would rise to support the effort which would put steel workers back to their business, truckers would have jobs to haul the new material to the job sites. Not to mention all of the ancillary businesses that spring up to do laundry, sell groceries – and all the while the government is getting money from the oil companies to fund this ill-conceived TARP crap and they can put money into alternate energy programs so they can feel good about themselves.

    In the long term, when the oil is flowing, we’d get off of foreign oil, there’d probably be an alternative source of energy funded by oil company money (without the mess of windfall profits taxes). And those annual royalty payments would flowing into the Treasury.

    So, how come we’re not doing it?

  • The Salute to Heroes dust up [Jonn]

    For those of you who are still interested, the post I wrote the other day about the President skipping out on the historical Salute to Heroes Inaugural Banquet & Ball took on a life of it’s own. We got linked to more than 50 other blogs because of the single link I put on Little Green Football’s Link Viewer. Those 50 blogs were little ones and HUGE ones.

    The first guy to pick up on the post was Mr Wolf at Blackfive who also wrote about it at Pajama Media from there it took on a life of it’s own (about 300,000 hits here in two days). On a story I sat on for 18 hours while I decided whether to post it or not.

    Before I posted it, we were actually getting hits from search engines that were asking if President Obama had attended the Ball based on TSO’s first post of that day about his stalking of MOH recipients – so folks were wondering. Finally I decided to run with it.

    Immediately, the first wave of believers applauded, the second wave was the unbelievers. They fanned out across the internet and attacked the story wherever it popped up. Some leftist bloggers accused us of deleting comments (not realizing that I don’t sit here 24 hours every day monitoring the spam and spam-like comments) then the doubters did their superficial Google searches and determined 1) the ball was canceled so we were lying, or 2) the ball was merged with another one so we were lying, or 3) Obama did come to the ball so we were lying, or 4) so what?

    First thing Thursday morning, the American Legion put up an article about another ball. The VFW took down their article about the Ball. This only confounded me because I was trying to prove it actually happened the way I reported it. So my only alternative was to point people to the hotel to prove it had indeed happened. Unfortunately there are two hotels with the same name a few blocks apart and I pointed people to the wrong one – further confounding the process.

    In the interim, other bloggers were dealing with the unbelieving trolls. Finally, I got a frustrated email from Mr Wolf this morning. Eventually, he called the American Legion and he’s now updated his post at both Blackfive and Pajamas Media with what he gleaned from the good folks in the PR office at the Legion.

    Here on this blog, I finally got the right hotel and the right phone number at about the same time as a reader David Bell posted his own email from the Legion. The thread at Little Green Footballs grew to over a 1000 comments, and our thread is over 300 comments long. At PJM, someone even called us the “Scott Thomas Beauchamp of the Right”. Well, I don’t see any apologies from the doubters, so I won’t apologize for my missteps. In fact, the doubters have all fled.

    My regular readers know the extent I will go to for the truth, and newer visitors might not, so I forgive them for doubting me this time. There’s a real interesting story behind all of this confusion that I can’t relate right now. Maybe if you get me drunk at the April get-together.

    But, it demonstrates what we’re in for every time we post something that makes Obama look bad, even if it’s true. And as big a story as this was on the internet, the MSM still hasn’t picked it up. So we have the responsibility to post nothing but the truth and to have a defense lined up before we hit that “send” button.

  • New York elites disapprove of Paterson’s choice

    New York State’s Governor Paterson took my advice and named an Upstater to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. His choice, Ms. Gillibrand, is barely an Upstater but I suppose Albany is about as far Upstate as you can find a Democrat in New York. But just like the way they treated Sarah Palin, the New York City elites don’t approve of the mother of two who was supported in her campaign by the National Rifle Association and she doesn’t drink the Democrat koolaid as deeply as they’d like (New York Post);

    Sources said “at least five” members of the state’s Democratic congressional delegation called Paterson to protest the possibility of Gillibrand’s selection. One, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of Nassau County, even threatened a primary challenge. Gillibrand faces a special election in 2010.

    […]

    Liberal Democrats have been wary of her because she ran for re-election with the backing of the National Rifle Association, opposed the federal TARP program to rescue banks, and has been less than enthusiastic about gay marriage.

    I guess that’s the best my homies in Upstate New York can hope for – they might get better representation with this appointee than anyone they could get elected with those clowns in NYC controlling the entire State.

    Of course crackpot, single issue anti-gun zealot, Carolyn McCarthy, threatened to run against the newly-appointed Senator in 2010 (New York Times);

    Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a Long Island Democrat and ardent gun control activist, said Thursday that if Ms. Gillibrand got the job, she was prepared to run against her in a primary in 2010. Ms. McCarthy was elected to Congress after her husband was killed in a gunman’s rampage on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.

    Can’t let those minorities stray too far from the Democrat plantation, can we?

  • So this is how it’s gonna be, huh?

    In reference to the post I put up yesterday about the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball; are we going to have to listen for the next four years to these kind of excuses from the Left? “There was no such Ball and if there was, Obama was there, and if he wasn’t so what?” Multiple choice answers.

    Yeah, the American Legion isn’t helping by posting an article about the C-i-C Ball on their front page instead of the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball. I guess they figure they have to work with the new administration so why piss them off. I understand, but I don’t agree.

    Just so everyone knows, we sat on that story for eighteen hours. I typed it Tuesday night around 5:30 and it didn’t go public until just after noon on Wednesday. The main reason we went with it was because we were getting search queries in regards to the subject for hours before we posted it – people wanted to know the truth. Also, I left my usual comments out of the post – just the facts. If you think there’s something racist about posting inconvenient facts without commentary, you need to take a look at yourselves because it’s more of a reflection on you than on me.

    I’m no journalist, but I play one on the internet.

    But, the Left is acting like they did when we asked why Obama hadn’t gone to Iraq. They gave the same kinds of excuses for him when he didn’t go to the Landstuhl hospital. Campaign’s over, folks. He doesn’t have to do the right thing every time, but YOU don’t have to be dishonest/ignorant about what he does.

    Oh, and I want someone to tell me how pointing out that Obama didn’t go to the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball is racist? Is pointing out an inconvenient truth now racist? Like I said, the campaign’s over. Time for your guy to bat.

  • VFP Geezers and Code Pink at the Newseum

    Dave in Texas writes at Ace of Spades that Nancy Pelosi is considering pursuing the Bush Administration after they leave office for imagined war crimes.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Fox News Sunday says she’s open to the idea of prosecuting Bush administration officials.

    “I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said.

    The old coots of Veterans For Peace partnered with the hags of Code Pink yesterday at the Newseum in DC to point their arthritic and unclean fingers at the corporate media for being complicit in the Bush Administration’s imagined crimes. Their spokeman says that the Newseum is the “showpiece of the corporate media” and that’s why they chose it for their theater.

    This is a nine-minute video, you’ll want to scroll through the first 6 minutes to avoid listening to the guy with the horrible Philly accent and get to the part where the protesters begin violating everyone’s right to have a peaceful tour of the museum without screeching harpies mindlessly shrieking empty platitudes.

    So while everyone is looking to the future, Nancy Pelosi and the horse-blindered Left are still steeped in their Bush Derangement Syndrome. Actually, they’re afraid they’re going to lose all of the money they got from the BDS-sufferers to fund their lavish, work-free lifestyles what with The One being in office now. Remember the picture of the Vets For Peace member’s car I took a few months ago at the National Archives;

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    They still want to impeach President Nixon and thirty years from now they’ll still want to impeach President Bush

  • Playing with MovieMaker

    I was just sitting around reading a copy of a brand new book (yeah, publicity agents send me books to review these days) about Hugo Chavez and decided to make a video for you to watch and listen. It’s some of my favorite moonbat pictures of 2008 set to Santana and Steven Tyler’s version of “Just Feel Better”.

    Turn up the speakers and get a glass of rum and enjoy.

  • Broder on Bush’s “greatest moral failing”

    The Washington Post’s David Broder writes this morning on “The Call That Bush Didn’t Make“, a typically liberal whine that Bush failed in the war against terror. But Broder reaches for the far edge of the Bush Derangement Syndrome envelope;

    Iraq and Afghanistan are the main fronts in the fourth major war of my lifetime, following World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and the first in which nothing was asked of the civilian population — no higher taxes, nothing to disrupt the comfort of daily life.

    Yes, you read that correctly. We could’ve won the war against terror by now if only President Bush had raised our taxes. Let’s just set aside the fact that Korea and Vietnam were also wars that had little impact on the American homefront, and let’s look at the utter absurdity of the claim Broder makes.

    The comfort of my daily life has been disrupted by the media’s inability to accept even that terrorists can be called terrorists. The comfort of my daily life is disrupted by the fact that the Washington Post and the New York Times habitually leak classified information that puts me and my family in danger. But most of all, the comfort of my daily life is disrupted by dyed-in-the-wool liberal “journalists” who think that the only way the comfort of my daily life can be disrupted to an acceptable level is by raising my taxes.

    Broder continues;

    [T]he president who asked nothing of the country continued to squander the budget surpluses he inherited while pressing larger and larger tax cuts on the wealthiest of his constituents and supporters. Tax cuts became the sovereign remedy for everything in the Bush years, even, or especially, when it became clear that the budgets had turned to deficits and we were borrowing abroad to finance these revenue giveaways.

    Geez, how long are these goofballs going to carry on about the “budget surpluses”? They were year-over-year surpluses, not some fat pile of money sitting in the Treasury building that Bush raided daily for pizza money. And it looks like Obama thinks that tax cuts are a “sovereign remedy”, too. They weren’t “revenue giveaways”, they were allowing people to keep the money they EARNED, you doofus.

    The upside-down logic of borrowing in order to cut taxes pervaded the rest of our public and private economic decision making, feeding the speculative booms that fueled unsustainable “bubbles” in financial and housing markets.

    Now the inevitable crash has come, and the nation is facing a deficit of more than $1.2 trillion — an unimaginable sum — in the current year.

    See that? It wasn’t helping people to buy houses they couldn’t afford that caused the “housing bubble” to burst, it was George Bush’s determination that people should keep their money. Letting us keep our money fed “the speculative boom” meaning that we’re too irresponsible when we’re allowed to keep our own money. No where does Broder advocate cutting government spending in his illogical screed – only making Americans pay for the inefficiency and waste of government regulation financed by more and more of our earnings.

    David Broder should turn off his IBM Selectric typewriter and retire to some park where he can yell his dated and insane rantings at passing ducks. George Bush never made the ducks suffer discomfort over the war against terror either.

  • VFP begs for coward

    Remember Robin Long? Back in August he was sentenced by a military court to 15 months in jail for deserting and absconding to Canada. Long was the first deserter to be deported from Canada. In November, after the election, Long wrote a long, windy letter to Barack Obama asking for clemency and to avoid the remainder of his sentence, just like he avoided the service he committed himself to when he joined the Army.

    In his letter to the President-elect, he demonstrated his ignorance of laws, both domestic and international by claiming that the war in Iraq is illegal because we didn’t declare war on Iraq using some nebulous steps required by the Geneva Conventions. Typical shit-house lawyering we hear from the Left all of the time.

    A reader in Nevada sent us this opinion piece in the California-based North Country Times written by VFP member Dave Patterson entitled “Do The Right Thing; pardon vet”;

    I take umbrage at the fact that an absconder, out of cowardice, takes flight in the face of his duties, for which he volunteered, and gets to be called a veteran. There are millions more Americans who completed their terms of service without breaking their promises, laid their lives on the line without running to Canada who are REAL veterans.

    An organization that has the title “Veterans” as the first word should be able to understand that.

    Patterson begins the piece tugging at our parental heart strings;

    As parents, we all hope that our children will do the right thing and follow their conscience when the line between right and wrong invariably becomes blurry. We hope that they will have the courage to step away from the crowd, even if that means being ostracized, denounced or even imprisoned.

    Dave, also as parents, we hope our children “cowboy up” and accept responsibility for their actions and honor the commitments they make to society. Oh, and Long was a man when he decided he’d ignore his obligations, not a child. Although, his actions were those of a child.

    A jury of his peers found him guilty of violating laws, just because you don’t happen to like the law he violated, that doesn’t make the sentence any less valid. If President Obama were to give the pile of weeping dung the clemency he desires, the result would be disasterous for Obama and every president after him. Jimmy Carter was able to turn every American veteran against him the day after his term began with a grudge that lasts until today by giving amnesty to draft dodgers. I would hope that President Obama would have a bit more sense, even though his supporters don’t seem to have any sense.