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Halp us, Charlee Wrangle! We iz stuk N irak!

Not content to let Jean-Francois Heinz-Kerry (who is rumored to have served in Vietnam) have all the fun insulting the troops’ intelligence, the Harlem Harlot Charlie “Reinstitute the Draft” Rangel wasn’t going to let Lurch bogart the headlines in military slander.

Rangel responded thusly when asked if he believed the Heritage Foundation study that showed that the military is smarter than Sen. Ketchup said they were (via FNC):

Of course not. I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

There you have it. Joining the armed forces isn’t a “decent career”, my friends. At least, that what Dems like Kerry and Rangel are saying. When they’re not accused of being babykillers and “Jengiss Khan” and “Pol Pot”, they’re being called “idiots” by party heavyweights and “loathed” by a certain former fellated president.

But hey…they “support the troops”, right?

November 27, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Dems: "We won’t be liberal!"

Right…and Barney Frank will start digging chicks, too. From al-Reuters:

Three Democratic congressmen who are about to take important leadership posts said on Sunday they plan to pass popular legislation blocked by Republicans but would refrain from pushing some of the most controversial elements on the liberal agenda.

The three, appearing on Fox News Sunday, are among the most liberal Democrats who will take over key committee chairmanships when Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives in January.

In other words, the most liberal members will be chairmen (or, in the case of Frank, chairwomen) of committees and Speaker of the House…but no, nothing to worry about when it comes to the liberal agenda! Continuing:

Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who will take over the U.S. House of Representatives committee that covers banking and other financial institutions, mentioned raising the minimum wage, providing cheaper drug coverage for the elderly and providing more affordable housing and help with college tuition as the focus of Democratic legislation.

Expanding the size of the federal government further? Nope, that’s “moderate”, huh? In fairness, the GOP helped balloon the size of government over the last six years; however, continuing the increase is as “moderate” as Ted Kennedy’s drinking capacity.

Proving my frequent assertion that Dems can’t, as a whole, be open about their liberalism, they are at least paying lip service to not trying anything stupid(er):

Asked about his opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gay service men and women, Frank, one of the few openly gay members of the House, said he would fight discrimination but that issue was “not what we’re going to begin with.”

“Democrats like winning elections,” said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the longest serving member of the House.

“We want to win elections and we’re going to do our best to do so,” he said. “This doesn’t mean to get into any extreme positions on any matter. We’ll do what makes good sense.”

Extreme like, say, proposing a draft bill that failed 402-2 last year?

For those of you on the left who are delusional enough to think that the Dems won this year because of the electorate’s overnight embracing of leftist “values”, it must be annoying to see your party pledging to abandon said “values” for what they believe to be electoral expediency.

November 27, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Hurricane forecasts WAY off

I won’t beat this dead horse much longer, but…”Damn that global ‘warming’!” From TBO:

With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.

Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.

Prior to hurricane season this year, we were told by “experts” that last year’s 25+ named storms might actually get surpassed this year. At what point do we stop calling them “experts” and paying them for being horribly wrong?

November 27, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

"Fat studies"?

From La-La Land, Californiastan…where else? Via Human Events:

Here’s a ridiculous “academic” item for the holidays:

Fat studies.

“Graduate student” Stefanie Snider from the University of Southern California is doing her dissertation “on the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States in the 20th century.”

She’s not alone in the academic pursuit of fat. Across the nation issues related to “weightism” are being introduced into collegiate sociology, history, English and law classes.

Snider compares studying the overindulgent to the examination of “skin color or heritage or sexual orientation or ability, it ends up being similar in a lot of ways.”

(The article did not give an explanation of why she limited herself to the study of fat, gay people.)

I mean, how many different ways are there to examine the life of Rosie O’Donnell?

November 27, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment