Within hours of the Oklahoma City bombing, then-President Bill Clinton laid the blame at the feet of what was then a new medium, talk radio. Sadly, it worked to a degree. His willing left-wing media conspirators followed his lead and, in an attempt to silence opposition voices, made a significant segment of the American public believe Rush Limbaugh somehow loaded up a truck with fertilizer and killed innocent men, women and children. It was an outrageous lie that served many leftist agendas.

The OKC bombing propaganda was straight out of the Left’s playbook, and had many historical precedents. Chief among them? Turning avowed Marxist and USSR-oriented killer Lee Harvey Oswald into a conservative.

So when a madman with no coherent political philosophy–more Left than Right but that is irrelevant–shot to death innocents and critically wounded a Democratic congresswoman, the left-wing media went back to the well. Blame was assigned to “overheated rhetoric,” which means opposition speech to the Left. A fascistic sheriff went on television and pretty well blamed the GOP. And, of course, Sarah Palin was held responsible.

We are angry. This is unfair. But there is a silver lining here.

It won’t work this time.

Already, we see the left-wing MSM furiously backpedaling even though they really, really want this narrative. Their primary motive was and is to shut down criticism of an incompetent and unqualified president they put into office, but also to hurt anyone who would oppose them. But there are too many alternative media outlets now, and the left-wing MSM’s spin has to be constantly adjusted as truth collides with their propaganda.

This morning on NBC, parent company of left-wing hate speech cable channel MSNBC, the morning fluff talk show had to use phrases like “no evidence” in connection with conservative media. The implication was there but tempered. Even the aforemention sheriff, accompanied by geriatric windbag Tom Brokaw, had to admit as much. This astute lawman even went so far as to admit there is free speech, damn it, in the United States. The former NBC anchorman wanted to blame the internet, but seeing how this has not really worked out, used the episode to pitch for gun control.

And so it has been across the left-wing media spectrum: a burning desire to shut down conservative voices has been diminshed by those same opposition outlets. Outright left-wing lies get answered very quickly now. Spurious causal links are dispatched immediately. And facts, stubborn things they are, get out. So…

Viva RedState. Viva the ‘Net. Viva FOX News. Viva Rush Limbaugh. As galling as the last 48 hours have been, times have changed. It isn’t 1961 or even 1994. This is a watershed moment in left-wing media bias, and it will be one in our favor.

You have to hand it to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She finally has made the Ground Zero mosque into an actual First Amendment issue.

For the vast majority of us, this never has been a question about whether our Muslim-American brothers and sisters have the First Amendment right to build a place of worship. They obviously do. Even the bothersome isssues of potential Wahhabi funding  and Imam Rauf’s past comments have taken a back seat to what is the real and obvious problem: propriety. Taste. Appropriateness.

Give it to Pelosi, though. She has made this controversy into a full-blown First Amendment issue. Monday night she told a radio station in her congressional district, “There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded ”

This is beyond psychotic.

A few questions for Madame Speaker.

1. Should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid be investigated?

2. Should President Obama’s walk back Saturday be investigated?

3. Do we need to start a massive public works program–hey, real shovel-ready stimulus projects–to build prisons to house the 210 million Americans, many Muslim themselves, who oppose this mosque?

4. Do you want Congress or federal law enforcement to conduct this investigation?

5. Will the family members of those who died in the September 11th attacks be given better accomodations if the answer to question 3 is “yes?”

We know how this will play out. The old media initially will ignore this story. Then it will ridicule it. And if and when that doesn’t work, Pelosi will claim she wanted a press investigation or make some other false claim.

Republicans have shown true decency since September 11th. President Bush went out of his way to defend the vast majority of American Muslims as the towers fell. Contrast that with Woodrow Wilson, who launched a pogrom on innocent German-Americans, and FDR, who rounded up innocent Japanese-Americans and placed them in concentration camps. Does anyone seriously believe a Democratic president would not have conducted polls to see how to treat Muslim Americans after September 11th and used similar tactics if the stats showed such to be popular? Also note Pelosi’s blatantly fascist kneejerk reaction to make political prisoners out of people who don’t agree with her.

Yesterday the Department of Justice dropped its six-year prosecution of former Rep. Tom Delay. The ex-congressman said Pelosi “was the swamp.” Sorry to differ, but Nancy Pelosi is a creature in the swamp, one of many Democrats who shame this nation daily. I look forward to seeing that cesspool drained come November.

UPDATED: Things have gone downhill for Pelosi today. She issued a “clarification” which was little more than the same call for investigations of opponents of this mosque. She did not call for investigations into its funding, saying only it deserved scrutinty. All of which is unfortunate, because ABC News just reported the mosque backers will accept Iranian and Saudi money and won’t go into too much detail about how much of the necessary fortune has been raised.

For weeks the Obama Administration has ominously threatened legal action against Arizona. Claims were made that Arizona had passed a law, Senate Bill 1070, that would result in racial profiling. The president himself claimed Hispanic citizens would be pulled out of ice cream parlors and hauled off to Star Chambers where they would be forced to prove their immigration status. Obama’s sycophants, none of whom had even bothered to read the legislation, claimed it to be racist, bigoted, xenophobic, bad policy. What they didn’t mention–perhaps because they hadn’t read the law–was that it mirrored federal statutes and allowed police to ask about immigration status only after a stop based on reasonable suspicion of another crime.

Details, details.

Today, United States Attorney General (and New Black Panther Party supporter) Eric Holder filed a complaint and application for injunction in United States District Court in Phoenix. The legal action asks the District Court to block Arizona’s implementation of this horrible law because it….might make the feds actually do their jobs. There is no mention of racial profiling or anything of that nature.

No, Holder and Company have invoked a twisted and expansive view of the pre-emption doctrine that even left-wing legal analysts find laughable. Pre-emption doctrine usually but not always involves a state trying to usurp federal powers authorized by law. As best as can divined from the filings, the Obama DOJ has claimed what appears to be “field pre-emption.” This occurs whenever a state attempts to intrude into federal operations and functions to such a degree the central government’s authority is undermined.

In the event the Obama Administration doesn’t know it, nothing of the kind took place in the Arizona bill. Yes, police can detain an illegal alien stopped for another crime, but they can’t force the federal government to deport the person. Reading between the lines of the complaint and application, the Obama Administration’s gripe seems to be that Arizona wants the federal government to enforce laws it doesn’t particularly like. And that makes Obama look bad to the vast majority of Americans.

Things get worse the more the complaint and application are analyzed. As could be expected from this cabal, there is a lot of fast and loose play with facts. The term “immigration” is used interchangably with “illegal immigration,” an old ploy by those who want to gut this nation’s laws. Unfortunately, it is done in such a way as to mislead the court. This isn’t a good thing to do. The Interstate Commerce Clause is one claim raised but only briefly primarily because the issue isn’t here. Apparently, the Left has distorted the ICC so much it feels the mere mention of it can sway a court. At one point, the DOJ claims the State of Arizona has interfered with foreign policy. Apparently immigration now is a State Department function rather than a set of laws passed by our national legislature. The filings admit the Obama Administration doesn’t particularly care for what Congress has deemed the laws of the land.

The complaint and application for an injunction don’t even pass the “straight face test.” That’s an old legal cliche that means if you can claim it with a straight face, it is worth the try.

It is apparent that this isn’t a matter of law and the Obama Administration likely knows it will lose. This is pure partisan politics on the eve on an election in which the president’s party stands to be slaughtered. It is a sop to illegal immigrant “rights” lobbies like La Raza mad at Obama because he has failed to deliver massive amnesty. What it isn’t is a valid legal claim.

This Administration is beneath contempt, and every day it proves itself unfit to lead. This November, we need to stand with the people of Arizona and support the Rule of Law. Democrats must be shown the door.

Imagine you are the governor of Arizona. You are sitting at your desk, and you are watching an interview conducted a continent away with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Your mouth drops open as you learn something from a television station down in Ecuador. Your state recently enacted a law that allows police officers to inquire about the immigration status of criminal suspects. The law is wildly popular in your state and throughout the nation but not, apparently, in the White House.

Now imagine you are the mayors of San Francisco or Albany or any other sanctuary city between them. You interfere with ICE and other federal, state and local law enforcement officers whenever they want to find out about someone’s status to be in the United States. You are a mayor whose city violates the law and interferes with enforcement officers and you laugh about it. Openly. You encourage illegal immigration and you are proud of it, by God.

Now which political entity would President Barack Hussein Obama choose to prosecute? Well, of course Arizona, you silly goose.

This is the nation Barack Obama wants to make permanent. A nation not of laws but of imperious, autocratic governance. A country where upholding the law isn’t valued but violating it is protected. A nation where corporations aren’t fined through civil courts but shaken down by the vice president of the United States. A nation where you act at will without regard to the United States Constitution let alone the laws enacted by our national legislature.

It was said Richard Nixon, during his first and partial second term of office, was a crook. As a matter of fact, he was. But Nixon, during his reign, didn’t shred the Constitution and violate the Rule of Law anywhere near as much as Obama has managed to do in a year and a half.

So as rogue mayors receive White House invitations because they had the wicked wisdom to enable criminality, a state that chose to honor the Rule of Law will be put in the docks. Even worse, its governor learned this little tidbit from a foreign television broadcast. The president didn’t even mention the pending witchhunt at a photo op he held with her. This should be the stuff of paranoid fiction, but in Barack Hussein Obama’s America it is reality.

November and then 2012 cannot come soon enough.

Attempts by Democrats and the left-wing media to drown out the voices of the vast majority of Americans who oppose Obama care are as hilarious as they are hypocritical. We can cite incident after incident where some left-wing loon, prodded by the media, conducted an act of political violence.

These are so numerous, and the media’s attempt to cover them up so largely successful, they tend to fall into the memory hole. Here is one that kind of has:

CNN) — A “suspicious” fire devastated the church attended by Alaska Gov. and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Friday night in her hometown of Wasilla, the church’s minister said.
“We have no idea what caused it,” the Rev. Larry Kroon of the Wasilla Bible Church said Saturday, adding that investigators were considering arson and other possible causes.
A ladies’ craft group was in the building when the fire broke out, but they got out safely, Kroon said.
“No one was hurt,” he said.
Central Mat-Su Fire Department Chief James Steele said the department was “treating it as suspicious and as potential arson at this point” but did not elaborate, The Anchorage Daily News reported.
The newspaper said Palin released a statement after the fire in which she said she stopped by the church Saturday morning and offered an apology to the assistant pastor “if the incident is in any way connected to the undeserved negative attention the church has received since she became a vice presidential candidate.”

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/13/palin.church/index.html

Please note the part in bold. Gov. Palin actually felt compelled to apologize for the fire because of the bad media attention that the church received after she had the audacity to hope she could be elected vice president of the United States.

Does anyone for a second doubt that a left-winger, likely a Democrat spurred on by the likes of Andrew Sullivan and Keith Olberman, set that fire? Does anyone doubt for a moment that the corrupt and politically motivated Eric Holder Department of Justice hasn’t lifted a finger to investigate this incident?

The answers are obvious. Unlike previous church burnings, this one didn’t fit the template of what spurs righteous media and Democratic indignation. This fire didn’t matter to them. In fact, it was the subject of more than a few jokes for television comedians.

The only violence Democrats actually fear is the actual political violence that will be inflicted on their party come November. They have earned every bit of it, and all the attempts at diversion and typical hypocrisy they and their media whores spew won’t prevent it.

“This is as major a public health accomplishment as reducing car wrecks or finding a cure for a dread disease. One of the lives saved could be yours.” That outright lie, or, to be kind, hyperbolic insanity, was how my former and recently adopted congressman, Democrat Jim Cooper, TN-5, described Obamacare last night. Cooper, who voted against Hillarycare because he claimed it to be fiscally reckless, is one of those creatures more rare than Bigfoot: the mythological moderate elected Democrat. Cooper hated Hillary Clinton and was a huge Barack Obama supporter. Nothing like partisan hackery to help a cost-prohibitive new entitlement go down.

As Erick asked us, I decided to adopt a congressman and chose Cooper. And what he told his local daily newspaper is beyond a good fisking but one will be given, completely needlessly:

“Cooper said thousands of lives “literally will be saved due to the greater affordability of health insurance.”

Translation: We are going to give healthcare to a substantial minority of you but ration the vast majority of you and then claim thousands of lives were saved. Prove it false, just like the jobs I claimed were saved under the failed stimulus bill I also supported along with Cap and Trade.

“”This is not a government takeover of those markets, but a way to encourage better private-market competition.”

Translation: This is the beginning of a total government takeover.

“Cooper noted that most Nashville-area hospitals, doctors and nurses, along with the AARP, favored the legislation. But he also complimented those who opposed the legislation.

“They actually help me make sure that more people in Congress do their homework and pay attention to America’s financial problems,” he said. “They are strengthening our democracy with their voices.”

Translation: I ignored about two-thirds of you but carried water for special interest groups. Never mind that the old will have Medicare benefits reduced or that the federal budget will be blown to smithereens. I play a fiscal conservative and a friend to the elderly on TV. My constituents are too stupid to understand what I just did.

But Cooper isn’t afraid:

“He said voting for the bill could be politically risky, “but I think most folks back home want me to do what is right, not just what’s temporarily popular.”

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100322/NEWS02/3220352

To translate the last: Even though I just said you all are stupid and I didn’t listen to you, please vote for me.

It it time for this man and scores like him to go.

Hypocrisy is not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, and you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as hypocrisy, from Al Gore’s gazillion-watt cooling system to limos belching smoke through the streets of Copenhagen, is an entitlement. It is an entitlement that has been bestowed upon the priesthood of whatever religion man has practiced since he stood upright. The faithful’s deprivation is required so the hierarchy can spread the word.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. Teach him about carbon credits and tell him to sin no more.

Deception is a not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, and you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as deception in East Anglia’s leaked emails is a sermon based on an allegory. Whether the Greeks actually believed Zeus threw lightning bolts to the ground is irrelevant. The culture was enriched through mythology and a higher cause was served. Literal truth had to be sacrificed for the greater good. So it is today.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. Suppress his speech and teachings until his errant thoughts also can be detected and cleansed. Keep him out of the journals until his mind is pure.

Totalitarianism is a not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, and you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as a naked power grab, from the EPA’s regulation of all aspects of your person to the foreign domination of your domestic politics, is a collective liberty. It requires a strong and firm hand to guide you through life, if not safely, correctly, so you do not infringe the rights of others and Mother Gaia. Slavery is indeed freedom when the planet is in peril. Do not question; only the priesthood needs fossil fuel to heat their homes and to fly to the far corners of the Earth to discuss how terrible cheap energy is.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. If he speaks such thoughts, go into his home, business, school, place of worship, and anywhere else he can be found and silence him.

Aggression is not a trait of Global Warming advocates, and you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as intimidation, coercion, and force actually is necessary proselytizing. It is better to suffer than to be unenlightened.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. If he resists, humiliate him, isolate him, silence him, and destroy him.

Mother Gaia will be pleased and the Gates of Copenhagen will be thrown open to you.

As a former Nashville resident, I recently adopted (co-, actually) Rep. Jim Cooper, who reputedly said something fiscally conservative at some point in his life. My bet is this so-called Blue Dog Democrat is about to cast his lot with President Barack Obama’s scheme to nationalize our medical care.

From a recent newspaper article emerges this profile in cowardice:

“Health-care reform opponents hoping to give Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper a piece of their mind at a town hall meeting Friday at West End Middle School may be in for a surprise.
“There is no town hall meeting, and one was never planned for the first day of school.
“Cooper was scheduled to address West End students on Friday, but he canceled his appearance after word spread, mistakenly, that he would be available at a public forum.
“The West End Middle School meeting was never a town hall,” Cooper said Tuesday. “We were invited by the principal to welcome students on the first day of class, so we have no idea how word spread that it was anything other than that. I was worried that students and parents might be alarmed by possible disruptions of the opening day of school. I thought better of it and asked the school to find some other speaker for the occasion.
“Cooper’s cancellation comes against the backdrop of town hall meetings across the country being disrupted by opponents of health-care reform. On Saturday, Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen hosted a town hall meeting in Memphis that drew about 500 people, many opposing health-care reform, and quickly turned into a shouting match. On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter faced one man who interrupted a meeting, shouting, “One day God will stand before you and judge you” before security guards approached and he left.
“For his part, Cooper said he does not have any town hall meetings planned…”

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090812/NEWS02/908120382/1009/NEWS0203

A couple of quick points. First, The Tennessean is a typical left-wing rag that has endorsed this career politician more times than it has printed objective stories, so take a lot of the above with a grain of salt. My brother, a nominal Democrat who continues to live in Middle Tennessee and was a Cooper supporter until the Cap and Trade insanity, told me that the congressman had in fact planned to answer questions at the school mentioned in the article and pulled out when that became widely known.

Now here’s the kicker. Cooper was a leading congressional voice against HillaryCare. As a result, Secretary Clinton and Rep. Cooper hate one another. But since Obama defeated Clinton with Cooper’s implicit support, the good congressman has decided to change his tune about socialized medicine, I think.

The heavily Democratic Fifth District Cooper has represented has never elected a Republican. But if there ever were a time, it appears ripe now. The question is whether a GOP challenger will step forward. Has the Republican National Congressional Committee even attempted to recruit a challenger here? I certainly hope so.

More on the good congressman whenever an update appears in order.

That district can do better.

Before heading back up the mountain, I promote this diary and challenge the rest of you to start adopting Democrats to track, follow, target for action, etc. And more than one of you can pick the same scoundrel. But do it! — Erick

once lived in Nashville, Tennessee, and many of my family members still do. It is a wonderful city with terrible politics. Among its politicians are reputed Blue Dog Congressman Jim Cooper. Among family members who continue to live there is my retired brother, who like me was outraged by Cap and Trade (hence, “CaT”). My brother was so torqued off, in fact, he wrote an angry letter to Cooper.

Tuesday he received a reply and emailed it to me. What follows is a fisking and my formal adoption of Cooper as a pet project, per Erick’s request. I’ll leave out any identifying information except to state my brother is a nominal Democrat. Or was. The only other bio is that my brother is retired from the energy business and knows CaT like the back of his hand. Nonetheless, the good congressman chose not only to condescend but to blatantly lie to someone who knew better…someone who has voted for him in the past.

Anyhow, here it is, with my asides in parenthesis:

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There is little doubt President Barack Obama gave a well-delivered speech to the Muslim world today. For that, he deserves credit. Where he ultimately failed was his avoidance of the tough issues.

While his lofty rhetoric touched on some of the bones I am about to pick, it wasn’t specific enough to make a difference. Here is where he fell down and fell short:

1. Religious tolerance. Jews are vilified and persecuted throughout the Muslim world. From outright murder to blood libel, many Islamic nations equate Judaism with evil. If you will recall, Egyptian television even made a mini-series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the tsarist libel of a people and a religion. That should have merited a mention.

What also should have received attention is the sad state of Coptic Christians. While they comprise ten percent of Egypt, a secular nation, they are the subjects of periodic perseuction both state-sponsored and, usually, private ventures on the part of extremist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

2. Holocaust equivalence. As Erick has pointed out, and related to the above, was the passage where Obama compared the plight of Jews at the hands of Nazis to the Palestinian issue. If there were any comparison at all, there would be no Palestinian issue because the Palestinians would have been murdered by the Israelis. I think that about sums it up, doesn’t it?

3. Iranian nuclear weapons and power. For the love of Pete, why in the hell does an oil-exporting nation need “peaceful nuclear power?” Let me submit for the same reason the North Koreans once claimed they did, Mr. President. Since you are so gung-ho that the petro-states get nuclear power, Mr. President, why do you oppose it in the United States? That contradiction is inexplicable unless you think the United States needs to be deprived of energy to level the economic playing field. And while we are at it, today would have been a nice time to emphasize Israel has the right to defend itself against Iranian nukes even if that means a first strike.

4. Torture. You apologized for American “torture” in Egypt, Mr. President. Do you know which nation continues to perfect torture? It ain’t America, sir. And the hypocrisy of Egyptians applauding your condemnation of waterboarding is beyond words.

You could have been a brave man today, Mr. President. Instead you went for the cheap applause lines and delivered an eloquent and ultimately empty speech.

Obama says Iran’s energy concerns legitimate
By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 9:24 AM

 

LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.

In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.

Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060200947_pf.html

 

 

Promoted from Diaries – Moe Lane.

This is priceless:

WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.

Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture. Among other things, the Bush administration memos revealed that two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to a form of near-drowning known as waterboarding a total of 266 times.

Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past,” he wrote, “but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.”

A spokeswoman for Admiral Blair said the lines were cut in the normal editing process of shortening an internal memo into a media statement emphasizing his concern that the public understand the context of the decisions made in the past and the fact that they followed legal orders….

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22blair.html?hp

Where to start? A little schadenfeude always is a great place to start.

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As mbecker and Gamecock pointed out yesterday, there is no such an animal as a centrist Democrat. We just witnessed this fact as alleged “moderate” Ben Nelson, Socialist-Nebraska, announced a “bipartisan” compromise on Obama’s pork-laded spending orgy, also known as the “stimulus bill.”

It was so bipartisan, in fact, that He Who Cannot Normally Be Mentioned, Joe Lieberman, Socialist-Connecticut, received a shout out from Nelson. Ol’ Joe’s support is on the same plane as dupe deluxes Susan Collins, Fool-Maine, and Arlen Specter, Idiot-TV Camera. So two persons whose only connection to the Republican Party is the “R” beside their names, along with Lieberman, make this bill “bipartisan”. Riiiight.

That dog won’t hunt.

This is a Democratic bill. The Democrats own it lock, stock, and barrell. To the tremendous credit of the Republican Party, only two members of Congress who claim to be affiliated with our party voted for it.

Every. Single. Democrat. In. The. Senate. Voted. For. It. Shout this from the rooftops.

This legislation will not stimulate the economy. In fact, it likely will make our economy worse. The Democrats knew it, and they tried desperately to get all the usual suspects to sign onto this monstrosity. As it stands, they failed miserably.

Regardless of what was said in the campaign, Barack Obama has been exposed as a faculty lounge socialist, which means he loves the theory of socialism although he refused to personally endure it. This puts him in the same league as every member of Congress and every Senator who voted for this betrayal of capitalism and democracy. We must work diligently to destroy–and I use that word deliberately– every person who allowed this horror to be strapped onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. We have in our camp roughly a dozen Democratis members of the House. They have in their orbit two nominal Republican senators. Let the battle join.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advertised Sunday for GOP senators to act as human shields for a trillion dollar ripoff, errr, economic stimulus package Democrats want to shove  down the throats of American taxpayers.

Reid assured Meet The Press host David Gregory that the Senate and House Republican leadership had asked to be “part” of the trillion dollar belated Christmas present for president-elect Barack Obama.

“This is something–as I’ve indicated earlier, David, Boehner and McConnell are saying, ‘Let us be involved.’ I’m not going to here dictate what’s going to happen,” Reid told Gregory.

Translation: this legislation sucks, the Repubicans don’t like it, the American taxpayers won’t like it, and Reid wants to make it appear “bipartisan.” Of course, Boehner and McConnell simply want to protect the Treasury.

Reid babbled further about how this trainwreck-in-waiting will have Republican fingerprints all over it.

“To do what is right for this country is going to take us working together, Democrats and Republicans, because, because the problem…the problems out there aren’t Democratic problems or Republican problems, they’re American problems.  We have to address them,” Reid explained.  What he didn’t explain was how many, if any, Republicans would sign on to what likely will be failed legislation that will further bankrupt the country. But Reid wants the country to know this absolutely will not be a Democratic bill. After all, even Reid faces re-election in 2010.

Apparerently the usual suspects won’t act as human shields on this one. Or they are preoccupied.

“John McCain–a day or two after the election, I called John. We’ve served–we came to Washington together in 1982.  We’ve been together in the House and we came to the Senate together.  And we talked about the campaign.  We had both said things about each other that probably we shouldn’t have, but we did.  He’s my friend.  He said, ‘Harry, I, I want to come back to the Senate.  We want to do some good things.  I want to work with you…

Never has so much been spent so foolishly on so little.

Barack Obama’s 30-minute mega television buy had been billed as his “closing argument.” Instead, what we just witnessed could have been a Saturday Night Live parody of a Feed the Children commercial. Unfortunately for Barack, he ain’t no Sally Struthers.

No, she can display actual emotion.

And not insult in the process.

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DUP PLZ DEL

I didn’t support you in the primary, Sen. McCain. As a matter of fact, you were probably my sixth choice. In no small part, this was because you had shown too much comity in the past toward people who hate my guts. You have only realized in recent days they hate you as well.

One thing I never doubted, though, was that you loved your country and have given much to protect her. The United States is threatened again. This time it isn’t by bombs, guns, or hijacked jetliners. No, the new threat is more of an attack on the political foundation that has kept our nation intact. People who hate us–that’s you and me as individuals for our political beliefs– are poised to seize the levers of power and take this country in a direction it has resisted for 200 years.

Your country has called on you again, sir. You simply cannot bobble this election in the name of a bipartisanship the former fringe does not share. Here are three easy things you can do, and you can start to lay the foundation tomorrow night, to make this election close and possibly win. I hope your campaign already has decided to do all three, but just in case…

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I have a confession to make.

I like Senator Joe Biden.

I disagree with his politics, of course, and find him a one-man circus. Yet there is something about his essential weirdness that makes me overlook Biden’s terrible policy positions and his inflated ego.

Therefore, I had to wince when a man who, despite himself, has a sense of honor (at times) agreed to run as Sen. Barack Obama’s vice president. Even Biden’s quirkiness never will overcome that stain.

Therefore, to watch Biden essentially implode as he tepidly defended Barack Obama last night was painful.

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Large, Stalinist portraits of their leader adorn political offices. Supporters cry and chant his name every time he graces them with a vacuous speech that inexplicably appeals to his minions.

He has neighborhood watch groups to hold the unfaithful in line. He wants these groups to “get in the faces” of those who do not appreciate his greatness.

Fidel Castro?

No, Barack Obama.

Behold:

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The Left’s unhinged attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin were to be expected. Perhaps this is the most vile assault ever to emanate from their fever swamps, but Justice Clarence Thomas and many others have tasted similar venom.

What differentiates the left-wing’s attempted rape of another fine public servant isn’t simply its impotence. Despite the fevered efforts of the mainstream media, mentally deranged bloggers, and Democratic back benchers, Gov. Palin has weathered the storm and watched the bodies of her detractors carried before her. She has the numbers to prove her triumph although evidence really isn’t required at this point.

This is different because in their efforts to destroy Palin, the Left has revealed how utterly banal Barack Obama and his candidacy are and, by extension, how shallow they were to promote it. They actually played the experience/resume card. The McCain camp couldn’t have bought enough air time between now and November to equal this particular gift.

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