Democrats, who controlled the Congress unabated for fifty years are suddenly remembering how difficult it is to herd their own party after a ten-year hiatus (Wall Street Journal)
Category: Politics
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Kissinger: Misreading the Iran report
In this morning’s Washington Post is a must-read opinion piece by Henry Kissinger on last week’s release of the now-infamous NIE report;
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Hey, O’Malley! I found your budget shortfall.
The Washington Time’s Tony Lobianco reports that an audit found $488 million in welfare payments to 52,000 Marylanders who either didn’t supply Social Security numbers or supplied false Social Security numbers; (more…)
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Democrat strategy; I get it now
Something has always seemed weird to me about the candidates the Democrats elect for their Presidential candidates. They never seem to pick a candidate that Democrats should be picking. It finally hit me while I was reading this post from Ace of Spades and this one from Dan Riehl based on this post from the Washington Post;
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Killing Two Birds with One Stone
You have to hand it to the Democrats. By co-opting the media so long ago, their influence is massive, subtle for it’s size and amazing to behold.
As I mentioned previously, Mike Huckabee won’t be our next president because the Christian haters in the Democratic party and elsewhere will make him look like a crackpot for having beliefs. Not “flexible” beliefs as Lawrence O’donnell tells us are allowed but, those nefarious “Strongly held beliefs”. Who was it the US Senate slapped around with that term during confirmation hearings?
The NY Post has a story, doubtless carried far and wide by dint of it’s somewhat fantastic sounding title:“Huckabee: Mormons Think Jesus, Devil Are Brothers”
Huckabee does not help himself by being quoted in Sunday’s NY Times as asking “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” Questioning the Mormon belief that we are all God’s spiritual children and thus, brothers and sisters. Well, gee, that is a twofer isn’t it. It manages to slam Huckabee as the big I “Intolerant” and also casts a specter of implied kookiness on Mitt Romney i.e.,”Holy crap! They believe THAT?!”Romney didn’t help himself any by giving his “Religion Speech” and only uttering the word Mormon once. He really should have at least pointed out that like him, Harry Reid is a Mormon too. But, out of what I can only assume was a decision to not drag other people into questions about him, which, while it is indeed honorable and respectable, it didn’t have the desired effect.
If anything his silence on Mormon doctrine fuels the curiosity of those who don’t know anything about the LDS church. Many of those will doubtless take their curiosity to the internet, where if one is not careful and savvy it is easy to be misled. The aforementioned headline is a prime example of misleading,and deceptive information. The headline makes it look like Huckabee made a statement, when he asked a question, there is a difference. -
The ‘O’ and ‘The One’
The Washington Examiner today features an article written by Susan Ferrechio, entitled “The O Factor; Turning Oprah’s fans into voters“; (more…)
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Code Pink seeks Democrat regime change
Code Pink has decided that Democrats don’t represent them anymore according to S.A. Miller at the Washington Times; (more…)
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A Few Words on Mitt and Mormons and Huckabee and Dems UPDATE
While Mitt Romney is running for president, there is a Mormon in Congress whose job is far more influential than a former governor. Who could it be? Its Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. But, while Romney is expected to give a dissertation on the differences between Mormons and everyone else, Reid is spared this incessant questioning.
Why? Because he is an elected Democrat, and no one expects them to actually hold to the tenets of their religion(s). For proof of the preceding statement see; Clinton, Bill, Kennedy, Ted, and Kerry, John. Ted and John claim to be Catholic and yet run afoul of many of the tenets of the Catholic Church (Multiple divorces anyone? Support for abortion, etc)This is another time around on the old double standard, Democrats can claim affiliation with any religious group and give campaign speeches from pulpits, but, the instant Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, runs for office we see articles like this from the Politico about how the IRS is investigating Huckabee’s campaign. Isn’t holding one side to a different standard of belief, or faith, or at the very least faithfulness, than the other on religion bias? Aren’t we exhorted to accept every religion? Or, are we supposed to accept their religions only if they don’t follow the tenets of their religion? That really doesn’t make sense…
Mike Huckabee won’t be our next president for a variety of reasons, but, that he is a Southern Baptist is the one that will be attacked with the most vigor. Wait and watch as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have what will amount to almost a competition to see which of them can speak from behind more pulpits between now and the Democratic Convention. My money is on Hillary by close to two to one, most of them will be black churches too…
Why the truly religious get bashed for their views and the purportedly religious get a pass isn’t too hard to figure out, if you think about it.
Hugh Hewitt interviewed Lawrence O’Donnell about religion.
The one thing scripture isn’t is “Flexible”.