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Category: Politics

  • Oh, this is rich…

    The LA Times claims that there is a “crop” of Conservative Democrats running in 2006 mid-term election. Why are we suddenly hearing this now when Republicans are beginning to lead in the polls? Does the LA Times think that the rest of America believes that the LA Times knows what is Conservative?

    And they name four whole candidates who are Blue Dogs. Since when is four a crop? If my dairy farming grandfather had four of anything, he wouldn’t call that a successful harvest, I’ll tell ya. They’d have five names if they hadn’t thrown Lieberman out of the boat. 

    Oh they name all kinds of Old Guard Hard-Leftists like Pelosi, Waxman and Rangel, but where are the names of this “crop” of Conservative Democrats?

    Looks like the LA Times is telling us that if we’re feeling disaffected by the Republicans, there’s some leftists in wolf’s clothing we can vote for.

     

  • I’m shocked…shocked, I tell you

    This morning, the Washington Times is reporting that a Zogby International Poll has likely voters of Arab decent in Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania are trending Democrat in the 2006 election at a rate of 2-to-1.

    This probably ranks right up there with yesterday’s poll that reported that men constantly think about sex. Did anyone ever think otherwise?

  • Withdrawal from Iraq

    I’m reading that the US is expecting to hand over 100% of military and police ops to the Iraqis in 18 months. Although I don’t doubt it, I’m pretty sure that the Left, who is probably whooping and hollering that they’ve won isn’t going to like what has to happen in the next 18 months to secure Iraq’s peaceful transition. It’s going to take cross-border ops into Syria and Iran to stem the flow of incursions. Look for an expansion of the war in coming months.

    When President Bush says something will happen, it will happen (not like his predecesor who promised us an exit from Bosnia in 1996) and the only way I see it happening is ending the interference from those two rogue nations (not “Nations of Concern”, Ms. Albright).

  • Two entertainers in a slap fight

    So why is the news plastered with Rush Limbaugh vs. Michael J. Fox news? I like both of them. Fox entertained me through the 80s and Limbaugh entertained me through the 90s. Since I’ve changed careers twice since the 80s, I sadly, don’t have time for either anymore.

    Fox is doing what he does best – playing a convincing role, and Limbaugh is doing what he does best – causing controversy. But why is it news at all? Even my local news was devoting way more time than it deserved. It’s not like either is running for office – they’re both supporting their respective candidates, but so close to the election, shouldn’t we be focused on issues rather than a clash of entertainment personalities?

    But, I almost forgot – the Left doesn’t want us to look at issues, consequences and results. The intellectually vacant Left want us to focus on inconsequential minutae.  Minutae like two broadcast personalities arguing over the way one of them portrayed themself in a commercial.

    Sister Toldjah did a much better job at look at the controversy than I could have done so please see her blog from Monday if you’re at all interested in the backstory.

    But, I’d pay attention to this if there’s nothing else going on – kinda like if I ran across two transvestites having a slap fight on a street corner.

  • Reps lock up the ’06 election

    How do I know? Well, John Murtha, the bloated idiot from Pennsyvania claimed, this weekend, that “The House of Representatives is going to turn Democratic, big time“. Murtha hasn’t been right about anything this year, so how could he be right about that?

    And if he’s so confident in his own district, why won’t he debate his challenger Diana Irey? Could it be that he doesn’t want voters to see that he’s an intellectually vacant stumble bum on local issues (as well as National Security). The only public appearances Murtha has made in this campaign are on his turf, with his crowd, and it’s always a one-way conversation.

    Why not? He’s a one note Charlie on National Defense for the last 30 years. Cut-and-Run Murtha is nothing if not consistent. How this sorry excuse for a human being can call himself a Marine, I’ll never know.

  • Webb of deceit

    This morning’s Washington Times is running a commentary by Milton R. Copulos that tears apart a blurb in Jim Webb’s campaign biography that he claims

    In 1982 he first proposed, then led the fight for, including an African American soldier in the memorial statue that now graces the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the National Mall.

    Now, like Mr. plenty of fish site down Copulos, I think Webb’s resume` is impressive all by itself, but if Webb’s campaign felt they had to imbelish this one tiny part of his bio, how much of the rest is manufactured?

    This is especially painful to veterans who’ve had to listen to other pretenders magnify their careers with wild war stories about dropping out of SR-71s behind Soviet lines to poison Andropov in his sleep.

    Stolen Valor is full of stories about Viet Nam generation pretenders – and frankly we’re sick of them. It’s even worse when one of our own uses the bodies of our fallen brothers to climb over political obstacles and wave our bloody stumps – like Kerry, Murtha, and now, according to Mr Capulos,  Webb.

    Why would Virginia veterans want this duplicitous jackass representing them in the Senate?

  • Obama-gazims

    Everywhere I look in the last two days, all I can see is the “news” that Barack Obama may run for President in the next election. On the Chris Mathews show yesterday morning, Mathews was absolutely giddy that Obama might run in ’08 – a half hour before the Illinois Senator announced his intentions on the Russert’s Meet the Press love-fest thrown in Obama’s honor. I thought Katty Kay was going to have to take a cold shower mid-program to get back her British demeanor after talking about the young Senator for five minutes.

    Even local news programs are Obama-gazmic over the news. Local female news readers in DC have had to fan themselves on-air to cool off at the mention of Obama’s name. I guess we can expect two years of this unprofessional behavior leading up to the ’08 elections.

    And who is really surprised at Obama’s decision? Since his speech at the DNC convention in ’04, that’s all the media can talk about on Sundays when asked to speculate on Democrat candidates in ’08; Mathews in particular. Right after Hillary, Barak Obama’s name is second on the list.

    For the life of me, I can’t figure it out. What has Barack Obama done since he’s been in the Senate? What did he do before he was in the Senate? From the reaction of females, I guess he’s good looking. So that’s reason enough for Democrats? That’s the same reason they put that last idiot in office – panting and screaming and promising him oral sex if he’d only keep abortion legal.

    Given the performance of the last four Democrats in the Oval Office, I think they’d better come up with something more substantial.

  • “I know politics better than you do.”

    Yesterday, Maryland’s Republican Governor Robert Erlich campaigned with Baltimore Democrats who are discouraged with their own party’s candidate Martin O’Malley, an ineffective politician at the least. O’Malley has been through seven police chiefs in 7 years and has managed to double the murder rate as mayor of Baltimore. He’s fired everyone who ever made a difference in the inner-city school districts and run any effective bureaucrats out of the city making Baltimore his private fiefdom.

    Further on in the Washington Times story, the quotes from O’Malley supporters at another rally are staggering.

    Mrs. Gladden said she supports Mr. O’Malley’s bid for governor only because it would help his fellow Democrats regain power.
        “I have never voted for Martin O’Malley, never in my life, because I don’t care for him,” she said. “But you know what, I’m wearing his shirt, got his sign on the lawn, and quite frankly, I hope to God and I pray every day that O’Malley becomes our next governor.”

    That’s pretty bad. If I may paraphrase this moonbat’s quote; “Our guys an idiot and an incompetent moron for whom I’d never vote – except for purely political reasons. It doesn’t matter how much damage he does to the State, families or our children. He’s a Democrat so vote for him” But there’ s even more;

    “I know politics better than you do. Support O’Malley,” Mrs. Glenn, a candidate in District 45, told the audience packed into a storefront room.

    Another paraphrase, if I may; “All you stupid idiots just vote the way I tell you.” It keeps getting better;

    “Focus on the seat,” said Mr. Tarrant, who likely will represent District 40. “We need the right Democrat in the seat. He can make the right selections.”

    “The best guy we have is an idiot, but he can pick people who aren’t so much.”

    At least we’ve got the Democrats recorded as being Democrats. They’re not so worried about putting the right people in office as they are about putting Democrats in office – whether they think those Democrats can do those jobs or not. It makes you wonder about the other seats across the country doesn’t it?

    It seems that Democrats are just running photogenic candidates who can talk sweet and stroke the crowds. But then, that’s nothing new, is it? This inside look of what Democrats are telling their party-faithful should pretty much wake up those indecisive independents, and it should drive the Republican voters to the polls who’ve vowed to sit this one out.