With a week to go and while processing all the information of the last 18 months I have come up with a list of Democrats that most need to go on November 2nd. These all have a varying degree of possibility but with the final stretch coming, visit the sites of their opponents and Tweet, Facebook or whatever you like to do to promote them. Feel free to add to the list or discuss:
10. Ron Klein (FL-22) - Admittedly he isn't one of the biggest libs in the Congress, National Journal has him at 58% on the liberal side. He is solely on this list for the despicable pathetic campaign he is running against the guy he beat in 2008, Allen West. Lt. Col. West is an articulate conservative voice that is emphasizing America's exceptionalism and a coherent policy on Israel/Palestine. Ron Klein even shipped in the über liberal Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for a recent protest outside of West's office. Lame.
9. Mike McMahon (NY-13) - This is a district that contains all of Staten Island, the only borough of the city that is reliably Republican. McMahon took advantage of Vito Fossella's problems in 2008 to win but he has a real battle on his hands with former FBI agent, former U.S. Marine Michael Grimm. New York would be lucky to have a guy like this in their delegation considering the sad state of politics occurring all around them.
8. Phil Hare (IL-17) - This one is simple, watch here. We need more people who actually understand the document they swore to uphold. So here the choice is easy, Bobby Schilling.
7. Rush Holt (NJ-12) - The race here is much closer than most people think and will be Rush's toughest defense yet. This is personal since this is the district I actually live in and have supported Scott Sipprelle from the outset. Monmouth University polling (which is notoriously inaccurate but the only non-partisan polling available) has this race close to the margin of error, with Rush up by 5. The district went 58-41 for Obama in 2008, so it would be a major upset if Scott somehow pulls this off.
6. Raul Grijalva (AZ-7) – Raul is the representative who suggested businesses boycott his own state. In the current economic environment to actually advocate for business going ELSEWHERE is just ignorant. He just figured the heavy Democratic demographic would insulate him. He just didn’t bank on Ruth McClung, a rocket scientist….no really she is.
5. Frank Pallone (NJ-6) – Another NJ Democrat who has been safe for decades is finally getting a run for his money. His open support and campaigning for the healthcare legislation has made him relatively vulnerable. This is a guy who usually wins with around 70% of the vote but is barely cracking 50 in all of the polling. Vulnerable for sure and Anna Little is running an active campaign, but I think the demographics will win out and Pallone is back. This is the district I used to live in, so again it’s personal.
4. John Dingell (MI-15) – A Dingell has held this seat since 1933, yep you read that right. His dad held it from 33-55 and John has been there since. It contains the very liberal area of Ann Arbor so for this seat to be competitive at all is surprising but there are some signs that it is. Dingell is actually campaigning and running ads, something he probably hasn’t had to do in 50 years. The fact that he is still there after all this time reflects how robotic this district has voted for him, will the Republican wave be enough to propel Dr. Rob Steele? Let’s hope so.
3. Barney Frank (MA-4) – Now we get to the real dirtbags. Tough to summarize the negatives on Frank, they are myriad. Another Rep who has been serving way too long. This is his first real challenge and the strain is showing. Sean Bielat is an ex-Marine who has campaigned strong and debated Frank capably so let’s see where this goes. Hopefully Barney’s days are numbered. If around 9pm next Tuesday this seat flips to Republicans it could be a VERY long night for Democrats.
2. Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) – As one of the Stupak Democrats who held out for the phony assurance that abortions would not be federally funded in ObamaCare, she has shown herself as the worst kind of politician...pandering. This district is nominally Republican (went for Bush twice and McCain in 2008), so what has she done? But predictably vote against her own district time and time again to be one of Pelosi’s lap dogs. These are the types of Democrats that will find themselves extinct come November 3rd. Mike Kelly looks to take this handily and let’s hope he does.
1. Alan Grayson (FL-8) – Here is the king of all scum progressives here. The fact that he is lionized by the left as some sort of principled crusader says so much about the current state of debate on the Left. Daniel Webster is poised to crush this little angry man out of Congress and sending him to a host chair on MSNBC. I have pointed out the questionable tactics and his over the top rhetoric as good enough reason to never have to hear him debate on the floor of the House, ever again.
So there’s my list, will follow up on November 3rd.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Left In Trouble
The Left is losing credibility every day with the average American. True, the Left will always succeed with sucking in the people who live in echo chambers, L.A.,S.F and New York specifically. What is becoming apparent is that by hijacking certain media outlets with their orthodoxy they have created centers of intolerance, not necessarily to people but to ideas. If you don't share the idea you are out. This is what has happened to Juan Williams over at NPR. What other reason can you cite to fire someone, a journalist no doubt, who you pay for their opinions? Especially when what he said was cautioning about painting with a broad brush and using his own visceral experience to illustrate it...but I doubt any of these idiots listened to the whole 6 minute segment on O'Reilly. This is not to say there aren't fireable offenses when you make opinions, if they are offensive or say maybe directed at your bosses on air then yeah you probably should have thought before you spoke. I think most level headed people would after hearing all of Juan's comments would not think he was offensive.
At the end of the day the reason NPR gave was in not so many words "Hey Juan, we don't like that you go on Fox News". The current leadership at NPR (a federally funded disaster masquerading as serious news gathering increasingly being influenced by the irrational Soros left and whose money was used to employ about 100 or so "reporters") was growing uncomfortable with a man appearing with the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on a network they hate. Look I dislike MSNBC's lineup of half wits (Ed Schultz anyone?) but I certainly do not deny their right to talk and give opinion...switch the channel if you don't like it, which by the looks of their ratings it seems most people do exactly that, but I digress. What they would see, if any of these leftists actually watched Juan's appearances, was that he was there to challenge a lot of their views. Especially with Hannity, he was there as a foil most times. Anyone who has listened to Juan or read any of Juan's excellent books would realize he is a man of the left and certainly not a bigot. Granted he's not one of these Soros funded, Kos loving rejects on the hard left....but one of level headed thought and opinion. God knows listening to him sometimes (especially in defense of some of the more liberal aspects of the current administration) made this conservative guy cringe BUT always he was classy and articulate with his opinions. In the end he was spreading those views on a network, where let's face it, most of the audience is not liberal. Isn't that what news opinion is all about? Exposing yourself to someone who doesn't think like you and one that does so without ad hominem B.S. like Olbermann and Schultz? A-ha but that is exactly what gets him fired, exposing himself to the much hated Fox News. He didn't think like the Soros, MoveOn.org,DailyKos, and Media Matters intellectual midgets so he must be kicked out of the clubhouse.
He made an astute observation in his interview today with George Stephanopolous, he said that growing up in New York and being a man of the left, he "always thought it was the right-wing that was inflexible and intolerant" and how this episode has made him re-think that position in regards to the type of leftists controlling NPR. He notes the ad hominem attack, which is the favorite tactic of the intellectually dishonest. I mean look at all those who stood up for him, all on the right and some on the left. Coincidentally it is many of the same people on the right who called out the administration for firing Shirley Sherrod this summer without having the whole picture, um why did the left direct their outrage at the media outlet for leaking the speech (breitbart) and not the government for the knee-jerk reaction? Two words: partisan hackery.
It is clear that the American public have a distaste for political correctness but even more so if their media outlets display it. They feel that commonsense has left the building and that many times they are being talked down to (that's because we are) by their traditional media outlets. In many cases they are correct, the Juan Willams situation only reaffirms that we have a long way to go to marginalize this type of 1st Amendment application by convenience. The establishment clause guarantees that we have a right to a free press and free speech, not sure if MediaMatters or NPR got the memo. One called for his firing and the other actually did it, pathetic. Their continuing position is one of pettiness and now they are upset that people on the right are defending him? Laughable stuff here. Hate to break it to the irrational left, the sales pitch of your ideology to the American public (outside of your usual precincts) is becoming stale. Americans thankfully are smart enough to see knee jerk hypocrisy when it occurs. Talk to me on November 3rd...
UPDATE: Suggested reading: Is Nina Totenberg Next? or Is Mara Liasson Next? That last piece from Mediaite points out that Boehlert of MediaMatters has already contacted NPR about Mara. That's where it all started with Juan. I sometimes wonder if the progressives thought 1984 by Orwell was a playbook and not the cautionary tale it was supposed to be. These are just more examples of, if you don't employ "goodthink" you are out of the left...you just aren't liberal.
At the end of the day the reason NPR gave was in not so many words "Hey Juan, we don't like that you go on Fox News". The current leadership at NPR (a federally funded disaster masquerading as serious news gathering increasingly being influenced by the irrational Soros left and whose money was used to employ about 100 or so "reporters") was growing uncomfortable with a man appearing with the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on a network they hate. Look I dislike MSNBC's lineup of half wits (Ed Schultz anyone?) but I certainly do not deny their right to talk and give opinion...switch the channel if you don't like it, which by the looks of their ratings it seems most people do exactly that, but I digress. What they would see, if any of these leftists actually watched Juan's appearances, was that he was there to challenge a lot of their views. Especially with Hannity, he was there as a foil most times. Anyone who has listened to Juan or read any of Juan's excellent books would realize he is a man of the left and certainly not a bigot. Granted he's not one of these Soros funded, Kos loving rejects on the hard left....but one of level headed thought and opinion. God knows listening to him sometimes (especially in defense of some of the more liberal aspects of the current administration) made this conservative guy cringe BUT always he was classy and articulate with his opinions. In the end he was spreading those views on a network, where let's face it, most of the audience is not liberal. Isn't that what news opinion is all about? Exposing yourself to someone who doesn't think like you and one that does so without ad hominem B.S. like Olbermann and Schultz? A-ha but that is exactly what gets him fired, exposing himself to the much hated Fox News. He didn't think like the Soros, MoveOn.org,DailyKos, and Media Matters intellectual midgets so he must be kicked out of the clubhouse.
He made an astute observation in his interview today with George Stephanopolous, he said that growing up in New York and being a man of the left, he "always thought it was the right-wing that was inflexible and intolerant" and how this episode has made him re-think that position in regards to the type of leftists controlling NPR. He notes the ad hominem attack, which is the favorite tactic of the intellectually dishonest. I mean look at all those who stood up for him, all on the right and some on the left. Coincidentally it is many of the same people on the right who called out the administration for firing Shirley Sherrod this summer without having the whole picture, um why did the left direct their outrage at the media outlet for leaking the speech (breitbart) and not the government for the knee-jerk reaction? Two words: partisan hackery.
It is clear that the American public have a distaste for political correctness but even more so if their media outlets display it. They feel that commonsense has left the building and that many times they are being talked down to (that's because we are) by their traditional media outlets. In many cases they are correct, the Juan Willams situation only reaffirms that we have a long way to go to marginalize this type of 1st Amendment application by convenience. The establishment clause guarantees that we have a right to a free press and free speech, not sure if MediaMatters or NPR got the memo. One called for his firing and the other actually did it, pathetic. Their continuing position is one of pettiness and now they are upset that people on the right are defending him? Laughable stuff here. Hate to break it to the irrational left, the sales pitch of your ideology to the American public (outside of your usual precincts) is becoming stale. Americans thankfully are smart enough to see knee jerk hypocrisy when it occurs. Talk to me on November 3rd...
UPDATE: Suggested reading: Is Nina Totenberg Next? or Is Mara Liasson Next? That last piece from Mediaite points out that Boehlert of MediaMatters has already contacted NPR about Mara. That's where it all started with Juan. I sometimes wonder if the progressives thought 1984 by Orwell was a playbook and not the cautionary tale it was supposed to be. These are just more examples of, if you don't employ "goodthink" you are out of the left...you just aren't liberal.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
12 Days Left....
I am not usually one for hyperbole on this blog or in my personal life. Sometimes in my rhetoric I get heated and passionate but I try not venture into the realm of partisan hackery and the illogical. I support conservative and libertarian principles, and those on either side of the aisle that just don't get it will have me looking askance at them. That being said this is the most important election in our lifetime. I know that the phrase gets thrown around every four years like clockwork for the Presidential elections, but this time I actually agree with it. Why is it that important?
In the last two short years (and to a greater extent the last 4) we have seen a fundamental shift in the way America conducts itself here at home and abroad. We have for the first time since Woodrow Wilson, a man in the White House combined with both houses of Congress so married to the Progressive agenda. I say Wilson and not FDR because in Wilson's day both parties were progressive, it wasn't until the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1920's and 1930's did Conservatives (classical liberals) start to take root in American politics (Calvin Coolidge being elected is the prime example). They did so out of response to the obvious similarities between the Progressive agenda and what was happening in Italy, the Soviet Union and to an extent Nazi Germany (minus the part about rounding up Jews). Having all those progressives so entrenched in everyday legislation brought on policies that ran so far afoul of the Constitution. Some of the highlights of the Wilson era: Federal Reserve Bank, Revenue Act (our lovely progressive income tax established), Lever Act (our first real agribusiness subsidies), and of course his love of nation building (which is a true progressive infatuation). Won't even mention many of the civil right crushing initiatives during WW1. He was the stereotypical elite technocrat, believing our society was best run by people like himself....former president of Princeton, published author,etc.
So why on earth do I invoke Wilson in my call for electoral upheaval on November 2nd? We currently have a ruling class in Washington that believes very much like those turn of the 20th Century progressives. The technocrats and bureaucrats have a better understanding of how this country should be run is their line of thought. They know better than our Founding Fathers and documents, that is the crux of their argument and why they desire power. I along with millions of others in the majority soundly reject this viewpoint. This election will be about America's exceptionalism, whether we want to be grounded in the founding documents that created the world's greatest human experiment or, whether we want to continue down the road of progressivism and the failing road that Europe has so expertly laid out for us. The choice is clear, the modern Democratic party has no place for believers of individual liberty and the free market system. This video here sums up the choice (H/T Red State and Ben Howe)
In the last two short years (and to a greater extent the last 4) we have seen a fundamental shift in the way America conducts itself here at home and abroad. We have for the first time since Woodrow Wilson, a man in the White House combined with both houses of Congress so married to the Progressive agenda. I say Wilson and not FDR because in Wilson's day both parties were progressive, it wasn't until the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1920's and 1930's did Conservatives (classical liberals) start to take root in American politics (Calvin Coolidge being elected is the prime example). They did so out of response to the obvious similarities between the Progressive agenda and what was happening in Italy, the Soviet Union and to an extent Nazi Germany (minus the part about rounding up Jews). Having all those progressives so entrenched in everyday legislation brought on policies that ran so far afoul of the Constitution. Some of the highlights of the Wilson era: Federal Reserve Bank, Revenue Act (our lovely progressive income tax established), Lever Act (our first real agribusiness subsidies), and of course his love of nation building (which is a true progressive infatuation). Won't even mention many of the civil right crushing initiatives during WW1. He was the stereotypical elite technocrat, believing our society was best run by people like himself....former president of Princeton, published author,etc.
So why on earth do I invoke Wilson in my call for electoral upheaval on November 2nd? We currently have a ruling class in Washington that believes very much like those turn of the 20th Century progressives. The technocrats and bureaucrats have a better understanding of how this country should be run is their line of thought. They know better than our Founding Fathers and documents, that is the crux of their argument and why they desire power. I along with millions of others in the majority soundly reject this viewpoint. This election will be about America's exceptionalism, whether we want to be grounded in the founding documents that created the world's greatest human experiment or, whether we want to continue down the road of progressivism and the failing road that Europe has so expertly laid out for us. The choice is clear, the modern Democratic party has no place for believers of individual liberty and the free market system. This video here sums up the choice (H/T Red State and Ben Howe)
NPR...Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work
Will someone please tell me where in today's society we need National Public Radio. They are a worthless cash drain on the American taxpayer, granted it isn't much but anything more than $1 is a waste. Now they have collapsed to the political correctness lynch mob known as thinkprogress.org (not linking to that den of dirtbags) and the HuffPo. The late breaking story tonight is Juan Williams getting fired over at NPR for making some comments on O'Reilly's show the other night. I actually happened to catch it and he really wasn't saying anything off the wall that in post 9/11 America we all haven't thought ourselves. But then again our employer isn't NPR and most of us don't have to answer to the irrational Leftist bloggers.
Here are a couple of the stories linked here:
Screw Free Speech-Big Journalism
Firing Offense - Michelle Malkin
Here are a couple of the stories linked here:
Screw Free Speech-Big Journalism
Firing Offense - Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Narratives In Chief
Yesterday two stories went kind of viral but with exactly the same theme. Regardless of facts or history the Left's narrative in the media always triumphs.
First the O'Donnell supposed gaffe in her debate with Chris Coons. In case you have been under a rock or really do not pay attention to the news the last two days, Christine O'Donnell gave this "ridiculous" answer in her debate in response to a question regarding local school boards teaching intelligent design and separation of church and state:
O'Donnell: "Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?"
Crowd of ignorant Widener Law students: audible laughing
As I have had many discussions with my liberal friends over the years, they too believe this is in the Establishment Clause. You know what, I used to think that as well because that is what school taught me. That the 1st Amendment creates a wall between church and state, even though it does not expressly say so. The liberals that run the media and your schooling have been peddling this bull since the 1940's in an attempt to marginalize any religious person running for office. This phantom separation was first spit out in a landmark 1878 Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States. It had to do with the Mormons in Utah or something to that effect (I'm not the legal scholar....yet). In the decision they contort Thomas Jefferson's writing to a Baptist convention in 1802. Ever since then and after another decision in 1947 (Everson v. Board of Education) we are taught that there is separation of church and state and it is guaranteed by the Constitution. We are somehow made to believe that a nation founded on religious freedom has no place for a congressman or woman to hold personal religious faith and have it guide their morality. Well that is exactly what the Progressives have in mind, it is to strike religion out of the heart of the people by marginalizing it. Making it seem "wacky" or un-scientific. Ann Althouse breaks down the exchange as such:
The second story is more of the typical Palin idiocy from the Left. She has been living in their heads rent-free for a few years now. They just can't take it, and it's funny to watch. It stems from a recent speech she made and telling her largely tea party flavored crowd to not "party like it's 1773" and to make sure to get out and vote. Holy cow the immediate outrage from the online Lefties was great and classic. Cuffy Meigs over at Perfunction blog broke it and catalogued all the stupidity on Twitter:
Historic Illiteracy
Well if that doesn't sum up the Left's problem in a nutshell I don't know what does. Before those people could think about what she actually said they jumped all over it as a supposed gaffe. Because once again the narrative is Sarah Palin = idiot. Therefore anything she says or does is idiotic. The Left's reliance on the ad hominem instead of fact bites them in the ass this time. I admit I am painting with a broad stroke as it was mostly the online Left, Daily Kos, etc. but Gwen Ifill? Really? Once again Moe Lane taking the words out of my mouth:
First the O'Donnell supposed gaffe in her debate with Chris Coons. In case you have been under a rock or really do not pay attention to the news the last two days, Christine O'Donnell gave this "ridiculous" answer in her debate in response to a question regarding local school boards teaching intelligent design and separation of church and state:
O'Donnell: "Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?"
Crowd of ignorant Widener Law students: audible laughing
As I have had many discussions with my liberal friends over the years, they too believe this is in the Establishment Clause. You know what, I used to think that as well because that is what school taught me. That the 1st Amendment creates a wall between church and state, even though it does not expressly say so. The liberals that run the media and your schooling have been peddling this bull since the 1940's in an attempt to marginalize any religious person running for office. This phantom separation was first spit out in a landmark 1878 Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States. It had to do with the Mormons in Utah or something to that effect (I'm not the legal scholar....yet). In the decision they contort Thomas Jefferson's writing to a Baptist convention in 1802. Ever since then and after another decision in 1947 (Everson v. Board of Education) we are taught that there is separation of church and state and it is guaranteed by the Constitution. We are somehow made to believe that a nation founded on religious freedom has no place for a congressman or woman to hold personal religious faith and have it guide their morality. Well that is exactly what the Progressives have in mind, it is to strike religion out of the heart of the people by marginalizing it. Making it seem "wacky" or un-scientific. Ann Althouse breaks down the exchange as such:
Plainly, the Constitution does not say "separation of church and state," so there's nothing stupid there. It's provocative, because many people like that gloss on the text.So as I said earlier what's so ridiculous about her answer? It's a stupid answer to them because it fits the preconceived notions that a)she's an idiot and b)she's a Conservative...usually in the media those go hand in hand. When in actuality she gives a perfectly nuanced answer showing her understanding of the history and the facts. Then she asks him what are the five guaranteed rights in the Establishment Clause and he can't name them...he went to Yale Law. Why does the media not jump on him? Oh yeah it doesn't fit their narrative.
Coons responded that O'Donnell's question "reveals her fundamental misunderstanding of what our Constitution is. ... The First Amendment establishes a separation."
He's talking about interpretations of the text, and she was talking about the text. What we're hearing is 2 individuals talking past each other.
She interrupted to say, "The First Amendment does? ... So you're telling me that the separation of church and state, the phrase 'separation of church and state,' is in the First Amendment?"
She's telling him to pay attention to her limited point about the text.
The second story is more of the typical Palin idiocy from the Left. She has been living in their heads rent-free for a few years now. They just can't take it, and it's funny to watch. It stems from a recent speech she made and telling her largely tea party flavored crowd to not "party like it's 1773" and to make sure to get out and vote. Holy cow the immediate outrage from the online Lefties was great and classic. Cuffy Meigs over at Perfunction blog broke it and catalogued all the stupidity on Twitter:
Historic Illiteracy
Well if that doesn't sum up the Left's problem in a nutshell I don't know what does. Before those people could think about what she actually said they jumped all over it as a supposed gaffe. Because once again the narrative is Sarah Palin = idiot. Therefore anything she says or does is idiotic. The Left's reliance on the ad hominem instead of fact bites them in the ass this time. I admit I am painting with a broad stroke as it was mostly the online Left, Daily Kos, etc. but Gwen Ifill? Really? Once again Moe Lane taking the words out of my mouth:
While I understand and expect that your average online progressive blogger has about much awareness of American history as, say . . . Oh, this is awkward. An online progressive blogger would be the actual yardstick for 'abysmally ignorant about American history.' Nonetheless, while I understand that the Online Left is dumb . . . really, Gwen Ifill. You're supposed to be one of the bright talking heads.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Empire Strikes Back
RealClearPolitics - Video - Obama On GOP: "The Empire Is Striking Back"
Seriously? Talk about desperation, cue the music...
Seriously? Talk about desperation, cue the music...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Latest Doom Scenarios (see map below)
More polling results are becoming available in House races across the country, and that is significant. As Election Day nears pollsters move to their "likely voter" methodology, and also start polling districts that were considered lost causes to one party or the other. The shocking results that seats in solid blue territory are in play or the incumbent is under that 50% threshold in those districts is very bad news for Dems. A quick look at the RCP averages for the House races shows that 212 are firmly Republican, lean R, or likely R, it is astonishing considering they only hold 178 currently. Then you start to add in the toss ups, which RCP has at around 39. If this is truly a wave election, anywhere from 60-70% of those should fall in line with the Republicans. All spelling out DOOM and a fairly significant R pickup ranging up to around 52-53 seats (1994 territory)
There is plenty of time though for some of the most disenchanted of Democrat voters to come home by election day and save some of these seats. Is that possible? Yes. Is it likely? No. The latest Gallup numbers here also had to drive a stake through any hopes of saving the House for Democrats. In the higher and lower turnout models, the preference for the Republican candidate is significant. Combine that with news like this and this and November 2nd is shaping up to be a fun night for Republicans across the country.
There is plenty of time though for some of the most disenchanted of Democrat voters to come home by election day and save some of these seats. Is that possible? Yes. Is it likely? No. The latest Gallup numbers here also had to drive a stake through any hopes of saving the House for Democrats. In the higher and lower turnout models, the preference for the Republican candidate is significant. Combine that with news like this and this and November 2nd is shaping up to be a fun night for Republicans across the country.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The View (Well Unless You Disagree)
This morning on The View, those paragons of intellectual debate and integrity Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg stormed off the set of their own pathetic TV show. It was all because Bill O'Reilly mentioned truth and fact. I understand why Bill does this show every now and then...although I am not sure why anyone still watches it. He does it to push product and actually voice a contrarian opinion in an articulate manner (unlike Elisabeth Hasselbeck who allows herself to get abused and offers her insipid response here as usual). Now he does condescend at one point to Joy but anyone that watches him knows that's his "brand", and he probably shouldn't have and on his show tonight he did regret that. Well here is the video:
He points out a CNN poll that did reflect that those of us who oppose the GZ Mosque are on the 70 percent side of this 70/30 argument. True. He points out the problem Obama stepped in when he commented on the obvious (their Constitutional right) and avoided the true bone of contention (the wisdom of actually building it). Truth. Muslims in the name of their religion attacked us on 9/11 and have invoked Islam in thousands of attacks since then. True. I invite you to go ahead and click the button on the right side of this blog and visit the Religion of Peace website or Jihad Watch. More truth.
He was asked a simple question of where the disconnect was with Obama and the American public. He points out his "View" and all heck breaks loose because he offended the liberal sensibility, the liberal love with political correctness. Their constant need to break down your speech. Their love affair with not offending Muslims. After nine years have we not figured out the difference between regular peace loving Muslims and these radicals. I refuse to use the word extremist, their tactics are extreme but there is plenty of evidence to back the fact that their narrative of Muslims being persecuted by the West is actually quite common and accepted in the Arab world. If it wasn't for Dr. Zuhdi Jasser I would be of the opinion that there are NO public Muslim voices denouncing the atrocities committed by Sharia loving Muslims worldwide.
Let me address Whoopi's particular sense of what is good taste. Isn't she the one who has defended Mel Gibson time and again, after his wife beating and his anti-Semitic rant? Didn't her mis-understanding of our legal system let her opine that Roman Polanski didn't commit "rape rape", whatever the hell that means. Interesting that she was offended by Bill's word choice when everyone in that freaking room knew exactly what he meant. Another typical liberal trope that she spouts is this line of reasoning that "Ooooh McVeigh was a right wing extremist why aren't we identifying white people in this manner?"...Holy crap where to start with this incomprehensible line of logic. First to equate a one off wacko like Tim McVeigh with a worldwide jihad is asinine. No doubt domestic terror is a problem but larger than Islamic terror? Really? If you want to make that argument please do so in the comments below, would love to hear them. Lastly, he was no right winger, if anything he was an anarchist with a Nazi bent. If you have read anything (read that book and it will open your mind on the conventional wisdom) about the rise of socialism, Fascism (big F is Mussolini's version) and Nazism you would understand that it is not easily characterized as "right wing". Those philosophies are more closely related with Progressivism than any sort of right wing thought.
As for Joy, I really do not have much to say that she hasn't already said herself. You can see it here, here, here, here and here. Once again I have no problem with these yentas jabbering on this show talking up their views, good for them. The problem here is the overt hypocrisy, and then stomping off like children. I mean the cracks on the liberal facade of Hope And Change® are showing daily, and I understand that they just don't get it. They can't possibly understand why the majority of American people have had it with profligate spending, out of control government overreach and a President who is so coolly out of touch with American sensibility. It's the same thing over and over again for the big government lovers, how are the rest of us so stupid that we just don't see what's good for us. Don't you rubes know that the Constitution is flawed and we the technocrats and bureaucrats will fix it for you. Ok I am tired so I finish here, besides listening to Behar speak on those videos has made my ears bleed...
He points out a CNN poll that did reflect that those of us who oppose the GZ Mosque are on the 70 percent side of this 70/30 argument. True. He points out the problem Obama stepped in when he commented on the obvious (their Constitutional right) and avoided the true bone of contention (the wisdom of actually building it). Truth. Muslims in the name of their religion attacked us on 9/11 and have invoked Islam in thousands of attacks since then. True. I invite you to go ahead and click the button on the right side of this blog and visit the Religion of Peace website or Jihad Watch. More truth.
He was asked a simple question of where the disconnect was with Obama and the American public. He points out his "View" and all heck breaks loose because he offended the liberal sensibility, the liberal love with political correctness. Their constant need to break down your speech. Their love affair with not offending Muslims. After nine years have we not figured out the difference between regular peace loving Muslims and these radicals. I refuse to use the word extremist, their tactics are extreme but there is plenty of evidence to back the fact that their narrative of Muslims being persecuted by the West is actually quite common and accepted in the Arab world. If it wasn't for Dr. Zuhdi Jasser I would be of the opinion that there are NO public Muslim voices denouncing the atrocities committed by Sharia loving Muslims worldwide.
Let me address Whoopi's particular sense of what is good taste. Isn't she the one who has defended Mel Gibson time and again, after his wife beating and his anti-Semitic rant? Didn't her mis-understanding of our legal system let her opine that Roman Polanski didn't commit "rape rape", whatever the hell that means. Interesting that she was offended by Bill's word choice when everyone in that freaking room knew exactly what he meant. Another typical liberal trope that she spouts is this line of reasoning that "Ooooh McVeigh was a right wing extremist why aren't we identifying white people in this manner?"...Holy crap where to start with this incomprehensible line of logic. First to equate a one off wacko like Tim McVeigh with a worldwide jihad is asinine. No doubt domestic terror is a problem but larger than Islamic terror? Really? If you want to make that argument please do so in the comments below, would love to hear them. Lastly, he was no right winger, if anything he was an anarchist with a Nazi bent. If you have read anything (read that book and it will open your mind on the conventional wisdom) about the rise of socialism, Fascism (big F is Mussolini's version) and Nazism you would understand that it is not easily characterized as "right wing". Those philosophies are more closely related with Progressivism than any sort of right wing thought.
As for Joy, I really do not have much to say that she hasn't already said herself. You can see it here, here, here, here and here. Once again I have no problem with these yentas jabbering on this show talking up their views, good for them. The problem here is the overt hypocrisy, and then stomping off like children. I mean the cracks on the liberal facade of Hope And Change® are showing daily, and I understand that they just don't get it. They can't possibly understand why the majority of American people have had it with profligate spending, out of control government overreach and a President who is so coolly out of touch with American sensibility. It's the same thing over and over again for the big government lovers, how are the rest of us so stupid that we just don't see what's good for us. Don't you rubes know that the Constitution is flawed and we the technocrats and bureaucrats will fix it for you. Ok I am tired so I finish here, besides listening to Behar speak on those videos has made my ears bleed...
Al Green Dishing Out The Smooth Tunes
Nope not that Al Green, this Al Green (D-SC) candidate for Senate:
But somehow I am supposed to be convinced by the MSM that Christine O'Donnell is not fit for a Senate seat? I applaud Alvin for even showing up to these interviews. I wonder if he sees just how bad he comes off, poor bastard.
But somehow I am supposed to be convinced by the MSM that Christine O'Donnell is not fit for a Senate seat? I applaud Alvin for even showing up to these interviews. I wonder if he sees just how bad he comes off, poor bastard.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Would You Have Seen This In '08
Four years ago and then again two short years ago the Democrat tidal wave was sweeping in all sorts of characters (Eric Massa or Alan Grayson anyone?) on the guise of draining the swamp (2006) or Hope and Change® (2008). Along with that came the pundits screaming from all angles that the Republican party was dead and anyone associated with it would have electoral troubles in the future. Well I agree that the version of the Republican party that had been parading around Washington in the last half of the Bush administration was essentially 'Democrat-Lite'. This was a large factor in the wave elections of '06 and '08. No one could reasonably figure out which party was NOT big government. With that being said who would have thought that only after two short years you would have a Democrat running an ad touting his voting record in this manner:
Friday, October 8, 2010
Home Run
Could there be a more effective ad in addressing the subject that many voters will have on their minds on November 2nd...jobs. Considering today's once again disastrous number that was released by the Labor Department, this is highly relevant. Former WWE head honcho Linda McMahon strikes a blow from the top rope on this one...call it the "people's elbow" if you like
Desperation Sets In
This story below from Right Klik illustrates the continuing liberal despair. They see the only opportunity they have had since the New Deal to transform this country slipping away. The Progressive agenda is headed for a historic rebuke on November 2nd and these people just can't handle it. When your philosophy is tightly related to nihilism and fascism, you know no other way than to act in this manner. When morality does not inherently exist it is not a stretch to say to yourself, "Ahhh screw it I can get away with saying whatever I want as long as it disparages my opponent".
Between the Brown aide suggesting the campaign call Meg Whitman a "whore", to President Obama recently saying that Republicans in Congress would result in hand to hand combat, the unraveling is on full display. Keep the pressure on and with the 24/7 media this stuff will finally come out from behind the curtain.
Extreme Predatory Harassment From Online Dems
Between the Brown aide suggesting the campaign call Meg Whitman a "whore", to President Obama recently saying that Republicans in Congress would result in hand to hand combat, the unraveling is on full display. Keep the pressure on and with the 24/7 media this stuff will finally come out from behind the curtain.
Extreme Predatory Harassment From Online Dems
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Dialing Up The Rhetoric
President Obama has resigned himself to the fact that he has lost independents and is concentrating solely on riling up the base for the midterm. There is no other reason for the type of rhetoric he has been engaging in. Nevermind the fact that it is beneath his office to go toe to toe with specific lawmakers, it is the tone that is disappointing. As polls show, the gap in enthusiasm is huge between Republican and Democrat voters. Look I understand that as President you are the leader of your political party and it is your job to be a cheerleader. The problem is, with no discernible accomplishments that the public approves of he is reduced to this or this.
The best hope this President has of saving his term is to have a complete overhaul of the House with the hope some of these jittery companies get off the sidelines and into the game because of it. His agenda has done nothing but engender fear and uncertainty of economic viability for large companies let alone small businesses. This type of news that is all too common the last two years has to stop or he is one and done.
If you look at the very first graph in that last link from Gallup, you'll notice a disturbing trend in this "recovery". Technically we are in recovery as far as GDP growth, it is at an anemic annual rate of around 2% but it is there. The big problem is that graph. After topping out at 10.9% according to Gallup (it is not seasonally adjusted as the official government numbers but those have always been sketchy because of their propensity to be ever adjusted retroactively) we saw it trend back to a shade under 9% in July of this year, BUT it now finds itself creeping back over 10%. I am sure the Labor Dept. numbers that come out tomorrow will show the same trend up. How is this possible if we are in recovery? Theories abound but the most solid theory for this chronic underemployment is what I alluded to above.
Companies right now are sitting on record amounts of cash assets they are presently unwilling to part with. Think about it, if you are unsure what your future liabilities are as an individual do you not hoard a little more cash yourself? You don't go out and buy that new car, or make those home improvements. It is exactly what the business world does, especially smaller business people. In my regular nine to five life, these are the people I speak with and have spoken to over the last two years. Small businesses are unsure about everything from healthcare benefits to sales, therefore they must cut hours to present employees and not hire any new ones. When you see private sector jobs dwindling and public sector jobs increasing you start to wonder if this country has it all backwards and if our government forgot about those private enterprises. You know, the ones that actually fund all the public sector jobs.
When you see the ravages this economy has done to usually prosperous cities like New York you start to think, 'When will the downturn end?'. Unfortunately the message out of Washington is not restraint, and certainly is not centered on rebuilding the private sector. It is centered on the liberal grab bag of waste via stimulus, sweetheart deals to our public service unions, and a leviathan government looking to stick its hands in all parts of your life it doesn't belong. These are not reassurances that the people in Washington get "it", that's why you have so much shifting within the Right and the Left. People have had enough and they are ready to hold them accountable. And in the end it is why he has to resort to the inflamed rhetoric, he does not have a choice if he wants to continue on his path to "remaking America". His constituents need to hear that kind of talk or they will lose all Hope®.
The best hope this President has of saving his term is to have a complete overhaul of the House with the hope some of these jittery companies get off the sidelines and into the game because of it. His agenda has done nothing but engender fear and uncertainty of economic viability for large companies let alone small businesses. This type of news that is all too common the last two years has to stop or he is one and done.
If you look at the very first graph in that last link from Gallup, you'll notice a disturbing trend in this "recovery". Technically we are in recovery as far as GDP growth, it is at an anemic annual rate of around 2% but it is there. The big problem is that graph. After topping out at 10.9% according to Gallup (it is not seasonally adjusted as the official government numbers but those have always been sketchy because of their propensity to be ever adjusted retroactively) we saw it trend back to a shade under 9% in July of this year, BUT it now finds itself creeping back over 10%. I am sure the Labor Dept. numbers that come out tomorrow will show the same trend up. How is this possible if we are in recovery? Theories abound but the most solid theory for this chronic underemployment is what I alluded to above.
Companies right now are sitting on record amounts of cash assets they are presently unwilling to part with. Think about it, if you are unsure what your future liabilities are as an individual do you not hoard a little more cash yourself? You don't go out and buy that new car, or make those home improvements. It is exactly what the business world does, especially smaller business people. In my regular nine to five life, these are the people I speak with and have spoken to over the last two years. Small businesses are unsure about everything from healthcare benefits to sales, therefore they must cut hours to present employees and not hire any new ones. When you see private sector jobs dwindling and public sector jobs increasing you start to wonder if this country has it all backwards and if our government forgot about those private enterprises. You know, the ones that actually fund all the public sector jobs.
When you see the ravages this economy has done to usually prosperous cities like New York you start to think, 'When will the downturn end?'. Unfortunately the message out of Washington is not restraint, and certainly is not centered on rebuilding the private sector. It is centered on the liberal grab bag of waste via stimulus, sweetheart deals to our public service unions, and a leviathan government looking to stick its hands in all parts of your life it doesn't belong. These are not reassurances that the people in Washington get "it", that's why you have so much shifting within the Right and the Left. People have had enough and they are ready to hold them accountable. And in the end it is why he has to resort to the inflamed rhetoric, he does not have a choice if he wants to continue on his path to "remaking America". His constituents need to hear that kind of talk or they will lose all Hope®.
Are You An Out Of Work Actor?
And you just happen to be in the D.C. area October 14th. Open casting call! I wonder if SAG scale is being offered...
A ‘Casting Call’ for Obama’s MTV/BET/CMT Town Hall Meeting - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
A ‘Casting Call’ for Obama’s MTV/BET/CMT Town Hall Meeting - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
Recurring Nightmare
No it's not the one you have where Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid control the legislative agenda. It's the one these Democrats must be having after all the promises of the Obamacare are falling by the wayside. I am not sure where or what the wayside is but I think it hurts when you fall by it. All joking aside, news story after news story illustrates that the Democrats were lying with a straight face for months. Hey Pelosi how about those 400,000 jobs that were supposed to be created "almost immediately" after the law was passed? Was there a statement uttered by a politician that garnered a quicker call of "BS" than that one in recent memory? When even a quarter of your Democratic voters favor a repeal of the law you know it's a P.R. disaster. Maybe that's why they brought in Mark Penn to poll this recently.
Democrats running for Congress are also running from Obamacare, Pelosi and other portions of the Obama agenda that the majority of the country is opposed to. And certain portions of the hard Left are none too happy about going out to vote feeling that Obama has watered down their Progressive agenda. He shouldn't antagonize the whiners, they pull the strings of the modern Democratic party. Not exactly a surprise really, George McGovern in 1972 is the one who pulled this party so far to the Left. It is no coincidence that it took a perceived centrist Bill Clinton to have multiple national electoral successes as a Democrat. If I have said it once I will say it a thousand times, America has a whole rejects Progressivism. The country may embrace certain ideas of it but, this midterm election and 2012 will bury huge portions of big government love (nationalized healthcare,extreme environmentalism) for good if the elected Republicans do the job people send them there to do. If you show yourself as an unabashed big government liberal you will lose nationally, oh you'll win your congressional districts in Manhattan, Detroit, and Los Angeles but the rest of the country doesn't drink Kool-Aid. See the year I mentioned above.
At the end of the day November 2nd is shaping up to be a rejection of statism, not Obama's personality or race. It will be a rejection of policies and a hope that a new Congress will be able to stem the tide of encroaching government on every aspect of your life. So Democrats need to understand it as such so we can actually have discussions regarding the merits of their policies as opposed to the usual ad hominem they deal in (i.e. O'Donnell, Angle,Whitman,etc.). Well you and I know that will never happen, since any real discussion of Progressivism leads to rejection by the majority.
Democrats running for Congress are also running from Obamacare, Pelosi and other portions of the Obama agenda that the majority of the country is opposed to. And certain portions of the hard Left are none too happy about going out to vote feeling that Obama has watered down their Progressive agenda. He shouldn't antagonize the whiners, they pull the strings of the modern Democratic party. Not exactly a surprise really, George McGovern in 1972 is the one who pulled this party so far to the Left. It is no coincidence that it took a perceived centrist Bill Clinton to have multiple national electoral successes as a Democrat. If I have said it once I will say it a thousand times, America has a whole rejects Progressivism. The country may embrace certain ideas of it but, this midterm election and 2012 will bury huge portions of big government love (nationalized healthcare,extreme environmentalism) for good if the elected Republicans do the job people send them there to do. If you show yourself as an unabashed big government liberal you will lose nationally, oh you'll win your congressional districts in Manhattan, Detroit, and Los Angeles but the rest of the country doesn't drink Kool-Aid. See the year I mentioned above.
At the end of the day November 2nd is shaping up to be a rejection of statism, not Obama's personality or race. It will be a rejection of policies and a hope that a new Congress will be able to stem the tide of encroaching government on every aspect of your life. So Democrats need to understand it as such so we can actually have discussions regarding the merits of their policies as opposed to the usual ad hominem they deal in (i.e. O'Donnell, Angle,Whitman,etc.). Well you and I know that will never happen, since any real discussion of Progressivism leads to rejection by the majority.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dayyyyyy-O
Harry Belafonte, the godfather of American calypso music and all around Communist good guy showed his true colors once again, this time at the One Nation Rally. You know, the rally of union workers, socialists, Marxists and other assorted Americans who inherently dislike their country and its values...
They billed it as the answer to the Beck 8/28 rally. Harry mentions the Tea Party as did other speakers. Tellingly the Beck event was not political (more like a religious revival camp) much to people's surprise and much to the Left's chagrin. As you watched that clip notice all the diversity in the crowd...all the red, green, or purple shirts representing all the unions. The Commie rally over the weekend though was anything but civil as was plainly reflected by the key speakers and with this not so shocking video:
As offensive as all of this imagery is to most Americans, this is the apparatus of which the Democrats will rely upon to maintain legislative control. We must be very aware of their usual tactics and know that they are serious in their objectives. They will be busing people to the polls as they were busing people to the National Mall on Saturday. We have to continue to speak about the Obama agenda, and the continuing creep of Leftism's influence at the highest levels through their usual apparatus, the labor unions. The House is not won yet nor is the Senate, so get out to vote on November 2. Tabitha Hale over at RedState has some first person reporting from the One Nation rally here.
They billed it as the answer to the Beck 8/28 rally. Harry mentions the Tea Party as did other speakers. Tellingly the Beck event was not political (more like a religious revival camp) much to people's surprise and much to the Left's chagrin. As you watched that clip notice all the diversity in the crowd...all the red, green, or purple shirts representing all the unions. The Commie rally over the weekend though was anything but civil as was plainly reflected by the key speakers and with this not so shocking video:
As offensive as all of this imagery is to most Americans, this is the apparatus of which the Democrats will rely upon to maintain legislative control. We must be very aware of their usual tactics and know that they are serious in their objectives. They will be busing people to the polls as they were busing people to the National Mall on Saturday. We have to continue to speak about the Obama agenda, and the continuing creep of Leftism's influence at the highest levels through their usual apparatus, the labor unions. The House is not won yet nor is the Senate, so get out to vote on November 2. Tabitha Hale over at RedState has some first person reporting from the One Nation rally here.
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