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Posted at 2:31pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Corrupt Democrat Watch, July 10 Edition, Part One

Crooks, Creeps, And Even A "Democrat Of The Year"

By Dan McLaughlin

Time once again for our roundup of corrupt and misbehaving Democrats around Washington and the country at large. Miss a week and they pile up on you. Dan Spencer has already covered Obama's mortgage deal, and you know all about Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad, but as usual, there's so much more. In fact, this installment is so big that we have to break it in two parts; we'll have a second piece later today or tomorrow just to update you on the sagas of the Democratic mayors of Detroit and Baltimore.

Also, I leave it to the reader to count how many of the news reports cited below fail to mention the party affiliations of the miscreants.

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Posted at 1:47pm on Jul. 8, 2008 Klaatu Baracka Nicked,Too!

By streetwise

Hi, I'm Klaatu. I'm from the Global Government, and I'm here to help!

Ah, the lefty pathway is never easy. For all their railing against George W. Bush and the GOP, when it comes to fielding a credible alternative, the Democratic party never fails to disappoint the lefties. They always feel betrayed, disillusioned, robbed – or as the Brits would put it, nicked. Gore would have won, except he was a bad candidate and the GOP stole Florida. Kerry would have won, except he was a bad candidate who allowed himself to be Swift-Boated and the GOP stole Ohio. (Do you sense a pattern of bad candidates here?)

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Posted at 8:42am on Jul. 3, 2008 Hunt Oil, Kurdistan, CBS, Waxman and State Dept.

By kowalski

This morning CBS/Politico are running a very tersely worded and rhetorically loaded little story [HT Drudge] about the oil deal between Hunt Oil and the Kurdistan Regional Government, consummated in 2007.

It look and reads like they're trying to use it to show the President was somehow negligent in his oversight of the deal, and then insinuate that it has caused problems in the Iraqi oil-sharing agreement process. Side note: they say that the deal "complicated negotiations" for an oil-sharing agreement. And...so what...does that mean? Anything can complicate the process of a negotiation as complex as the Iraqi oil-sharing agreement, but that doesn't necessarily mean those complications are intrinsically wrong, or undesirable. But I digress...

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Posted at 1:54am on Jul. 2, 2008 Newsom for CA Governor???

By dglenn

Potentially so, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. According to the article, Gavin Newsom, the Mayor of San Francisco (who doesn't require any introduction), has launched an exploratory committee to see if he could clinch the democratic party's nomination for the 2010 election. To get the nomination, he will get past a big field of other democrats, including former Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, and former Controller Steve Westly.

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Posted at 9:23pm on Jun. 29, 2008 Dems to America: 'No, you can't.'

By Josh Painter

Democrats are nothing if not ironic. Their presumptive predidential nominee has made "Yes, we can" the buzzwords of his campaign, but the message his party sends to Americans is, "No, you can't."

Recent polls from Gallup, Opinion Dynamics, Rasmussen and Zogby are clear evidence that a majority of Americans support increased domestic oil drilling and refining, yet the Democrats in Congress continue to block every proposed bill which would allow it. Democrat "leaders" from from Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid to Barack Obama and their supporters put their hands over their ears at the mere suggestion and repeat Talking Point #1: "We can't drill our way out of this." According to the Rasmussen survey referenced above, most Americans do not share this assessment.

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Posted at 9:13pm on Jun. 28, 2008 The Many Faces of Barack and the horrible contortion the left is in to protect their Messiah....

By Jaded

The esteemed Charles Krauthammer wrote an excellent article on the new FISA face of Barack Obama. He informs us that the the left side of Barack's face insisted that he would filibuster any FISA bill that included immunity for the telecoms...

"To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."

-- Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007 "

The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama

We this week have heard the left side of Barack Obama's face tell us that he will support the FISA bill that includes immunity for the telecoms. The two faced reponses from Obama are interesting in that the first reponse was to engage and get money from the netroots....having achieved that goal...the newest response is to not appear to be "weak" on National Security. The second response has been compelling to those of us who are watching the Media Wing of the Democrat contort their brains and bodies to protect their Messiah. The most obvious of all for the FISA bill would be one Keith Olbermann....this blight on the human race made quite a show of himself in laying on the grenade for Obama the other night...

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Posted at 5:12pm on Jun. 25, 2008 It Is No Longer Acceptable For You To Question My Environmentalism

By Dan McLaughlin

At least, if I've understood the way Democrats talk these days, that's the meaning of this from the Mayor of Denver (Mark Kilmer has more here):

Democrats say the point is to build habits that will endure long after the convention. To that end, the city has staged "greening workshops" attended by hundreds of caterers, restaurant owners and hotel managers. "It's the new patriotism," Mayor Hickenlooper says.

Either that, or they are just trying to avoid unpleasant questions about what they've done with the old patriotism. I understand it's biodegradable.

Posted at 4:11pm on Jun. 25, 2008 The Greenest political convention in the Whole Wide World!

Dems seek biodegradable fanny packs.

By Mark Kilmer

Rupert Murdoch, a devout greenie himself, owns the Wall Street Journal, which reports that it's not easy being green. The WSJ tells us those Dems planning the Denver mob event convention "are discovering the perils of trying to stage an event that's also politically and environmentally correct."

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: "That just doesn't exist."

Ditto for the baseball caps. "We have a union cap or an organic cap," Mr. DeMasse says. "But we don't have a union-organic offering."

They blame Denver's Dem Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is both named 'Hickenhooper' AND has challenged the Dems to organize "the greenest convention in the history of the planet." So the Dems hired an environmental activist to be their first-ever Director of Greening. I'm not making it up.

Now, she must pull it off.

To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.

Perhaps Ms. [Greening Director Andrea] Robinson's most audacious goal is to reuse, recycle or compost at least 85% of all waste generated during the convention.

How does one reuse… oh, never mind. These people are freaks.

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Posted at 4:52pm on Jun. 23, 2008 Things Obama Did Not Experience

By chip91