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Former Congressman of unknown party convicted for hiding bribe money in his freezer

It’s a good thing the MSM has those multiple layers of fact checkers at their disposal, layers that well-dressed mobsters like me do not have.  So when a party ID gets omitted from a huge news story like this, it must mean that the convict is nonpartisan or has hid his party ID so very well that those MSM sleuths can’t get to it.

As if to insist that the broadcast networks shouldn’t corner the market on “Name That Party” fun, CNN this morning joined in the fun when reporting on yesterday’s conviction of former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) on 11 corruption charges.

Yet when reporting the story shortly after 9:30 a.m. EDT today, “CNN Newsroom” anchor Heidi Collins neglected to mention Jefferson’s Democratic Party affiliation.

What’s more, ten minutes earlier, neither Collins nor CNN producer Mike Ahlers mentioned the party affiliation of another ethically compromised Democrat, admitted adulterer John Edwards. The former one-term senator is under investigation for payments made by his political action committee to a former mistress.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 7, 2009 Posted by | corruption, Louisiana, media bias | Leave a Comment

Eloquent, intelligent president botches basic math

Fuzzy math sure does kick Dubya’s behind, doesn’t it?

Did I say “Dubya”?  My bad:

The plan was divided into three parts. One-third of the money has gone to tax relief for families and small businesses. One-third of the money is cutting people’s taxes. For Americans struggling to pay rising bills with shrinking wages, we kept a campaign promise to put a middle-class tax cut in the pockets of 95 percent of working families — (applause) — a tax cut that began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago.

We also cut taxes for small businesses on the investments that they make. And more than 425 small businesses in Indiana have received SBA loans through the recovery package. So that’s — one-third of the money was tax cuts.

Another third of the money in the Recovery Act has been for emergency relief that is helping folks who’ve borne the brunt of this recession. For Americans who were laid off, we expanded unemployment benefits –- and that’s already made a difference for 12 million Americans, including 220,000 folks right here in Indiana. We’re making health insurance 65 percent cheaper for families relying on COBRA while looking for work. Some of you know people who lost their jobs, were worried about losing their health care, couldn’t afford COBRA — we were able to reduce their costs by 65 percent so they could keep their health care while they looking for jobs.

And for states facing historic budget shortfalls, we provided assistance that has saved the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and public — and police officers and other public servants so that you wouldn’t see the recession get even worse.

So that’s the second half. First half, tax relief. Second half, support for individuals, small businesses, and states that had fallen on hard times.

The last third of the Recovery Act — and that’s what we’re going to talk about here today — is for investments that are not only putting people back to work in the short term, but laying a new foundation for growth and prosperity in the long run.

Now I did go to FSU, so cut me a little slack here, but if my math skills acquired there haven’t failed me, then we’re talking about four-thirds and two halves.  Boy, it sure is a good thing we don’t have that idiot Bush in the White House to flub basic math, huh?

With these kind of math skills, it’s little wonder that B.O. doesn’t think his socialist policies will bankrupt America.

August 7, 2009 Posted by | humor, Obama | 3 Comments

Pots and kettles, “Godwin’s Law” edition

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Godwin’s Law, here’s a link that explains it.  All you really need to know is that if you have to trot out Hitler or Nazi references to smear your opponent, you have violated Godwin’s Law.

Yesterday, San Fran Nan accused ObamaCare opponents attending town hall meetings to express displeasure at the thought of socialized medicine as a bunch of swastika-toting racists.

Today, the DNCC is blasting Rush for…I swear, I couldn’t make this crap up if I tried…allegedly invoking Nazi references!

Pot, meet kettle.

August 6, 2009 Posted by | Godwin's Law, hypocrisy | Leave a Comment

Boxer: ObamaCare protestors too “well dressed” to be genuine

When she’s not busy being condescending to decorated military officers and black business leaders, Babs Boxer likes to pass the time demonstrating her San Fransicko elitism by insulting normal Americans (i.e. not Bay area denizens) and their dress habits.  Details:

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) appeared on Hardball last night in support of the Left’s attempt to discredit the people showing up to townhalls in protest of ObamaCare. Boxer says she can tell that they’re fakes, because they’re too well dressed.  How does she know that this is a problem?  Because well-dressed people apparently told her to get the hell out of Florida in the Bush-Gore recount, too.  (Um…WHAT? - Ed.)

You have got to go check out the video at the link.  MoonBabs is a walking talking GOP commercial!

Aside from the implication that only slobs or other poorly dressed individuals can have opinions on ObamaCare, these videos show something a tad bit different than what B.O.’s spokestool Robert Gibbs calls the “Brooks Brothers Brigade”: people wearing t-shirts, jeans, shorts, etc.  Not exactly the kind of clothes I wear to the country club when I bark orders to the cabana boy not to put that fruity little umbrella in my mai tai.  (For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm…I don’t drink mai tais!  :lol:   ).

Go ahead, though, liberals: Keep thinking that normal America isn’t diametrically opposed to your socialist takeover of our medicine.  Keep thinking that it couldn’t possibly be true that we will toss you out of office for your leftist overreaching.

August 6, 2009 Posted by | California, health care, shameful, socialism | 2 Comments

Obama recruiting government snitches to hunt ObamaCare opponents

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post with the video evidence of B.O.’s desire for socialized medicine, we now find out that The Supremely Thin-Skinned Leader is trying to snuff out opposition to his plan to eliminate private insurance.  How?  Well, here it is from the White House directly:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Mighty Orwellian of you, Chairman Zero!

The same guy who told his mob to “get in their faces” last year is now commanding his mob to rat out people like me who oppose ObamaCare.  Of course, his mobs are OK, but the people who are showing up to discourage their elected leaders from foisting his socialist piece of garbage on America are displaying a “mob mentality”.  One man’s “mob” is another man’s “civilian force”, I guess.

Hopenchange: Castro sytle.

August 5, 2009 Posted by | big government, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful, socialism | 8 Comments

Obama on tape: I would like to see a single-payer system; Team Obama: Where would you get THAT crazy idea, people?

By now, many of you have seen the video clip of B.O. back in the day saying that he wanted to see private insurance eliminated within the next 10 – 20 years.  He said he wanted to see a single-payer (i.e. government-run) health care system.  The video is making its way around Al Gore’s invention, and Team Zero has decided to address the matter.  Details:

The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”

The White House response features Linda Douglass, formerly an ABC News correspondent and now a White House official, showing Drudge’s homepage on the screen of her office computer.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, said: “We intend to use a lot of the grassroots viral Internet techniques from the campaign to beat back the campaign of misstatements and outright falsehoods about the president’s efforts to reform health insurance.”

The video begins: “Hi. I’m Linda Douglass. I’m the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, and one of my jobs is to keep track of all the disinformation that’s out there about health-insurance reform. And there are a lot of very deceiving headlines out there right now, such as this one — take a look at this one. This one says, ‘Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will Eliminate PRIVATE Insurance.’

 “Well, nothing can be farther from the truth. You know the people who always try to SCARE people whenever you try to bring them health-insurance reform are at it again. And they’re taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a VERY false impression. The truth is that the president has been talking to the American people a LOT about health-insurance reform and what is at stake for them.

“So what happens is that because he’s talking to the American people so much, there are people out there with a computer and a lot of free time, and they take a phrase here and there — they simply cherry-pick and put it together, and make it sound like he’s saying something that he didn’t really say.”

The video the White House seeks to rebut, labeled “SHOCK UNCOVERED,” was linked by Andrew Breitbart on his video site, Breitbart.tv, after a site called Naked Emperor News brought it to his attention.

The clip is labeled, “SEIU Health Care Forum 3/24/07,” and shows Obama saying: “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be, potentially, some transition process: I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out.”

If, by “scaring people”, you mean “Letting people see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears what B.O. really intends to do with the health care system”, then yeah…”scaring people.”  If you had any sense about socialized medicine’s evils, you’d be scared, too.

So who are you going to believe: The Obamessiah, or “I happen to be a proponent of single-payer, universal health care plans”…I mean, your lying eyes?

August 4, 2009 Posted by | health care, hypocrisy, Obama | 3 Comments

Another Obama campaign promise expires

Aren’t you feeling all Hopeychangey with Turbo Tax Timmeh running the show?

Obama’s already broken a ton of campaign promises, especially that “95% of Americans will get a tax cut” thingy that many naive Americans foolishly believed.  Well, here’s a question for you middle-class Americans who voted for The One because, in part, you actually believed that a Democrat (especially of the Marxist brand) who had never voted for a tax cut would finally do it: how does his butt taste now?

Details:

To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”

Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it.

“We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”

Heh…”95%”, huh?  Breaking a campaign promise in the first six months: brilliant!

BTW, isn’t it cute that ABC’s piece opens with the assumption (masquerading as fact) that increasing taxes leads to economic prosperity?  “To get the economy” corrected, B.O. may “have to” raise taxes?  I don’t know of a country that has ever taxed itself into prosperity.  After all, taxes are, by nature, disincentives to productivity.

August 3, 2009 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, taxes, Tim Geithner | 2 Comments

Dems skipping town halls with their constituents

Not content with letting John Conyers have all the fun neglecting his job duties, other Dems want to get in on the action of screwing the American people without looking them in the eyes.  Details:

Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.

On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.

“I had felt they would be pointless,” Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) told POLITICO, referring to his recent decision to temporarily suspend the events in his Long Island district. “There is no point in meeting with my constituents and [to] listen to them and have them listen to you if what is basically an unruly mob prevents you from having an intelligent conversation.”

Takeaway quote:

“I think it’s just the fact that we are dealing with some of the most important public policy issues in a generation,” said Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), who was confronted by a protester angry about his position on health care reform at a town hall event several weeks ago.

“I think in general what is going on is we are tackling issues that have been ignored for a long time, and I think that is disruptive to a lot of people,” said Bishop, a four-term congressman. “We are trying, one by one, to deal with a set of issues that can’t be ignored, and I think that’s unsettling to a lot of people.” 

No, what is “unsettling to a lot of people” is you trying to turn this nation into a socialist cesspool of dependent leeches! We tend to get “unsettled” by naked attempts at ramming Marxist policies down our throats.  We’re kinda funny that way.

Elections have consequences, people.

August 3, 2009 Posted by | corruption, shameful | 2 Comments

Speaker Botox Pelosi accepts money from “villains”

Remember when Madame Moonbat, aka San Fran Nan, went on a red-faced rant the other day on how dastardly and diabolical those “evil” insurance companies are?  She called them “villains” and “immoral”, right?

Well, that begs the question: What do you call someone who accepts campaign contributions from such wicked “villains”?  Details:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called health insurers “the villains” in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting up an anti-insurer theme trotted out by President Obama earlier this month and encouraged by other Democratic leaders in Congress.

“It is somewhat immoral what they are doing. Of course, they have been immoral all along how they have treated the people that they insure,” MSNBC’s Luke Russert quoted her as saying. “They are the villains in this.”

Pelosi, of course, has accepted campaign contributions from said villains this year and in the past, as have most of her Democratic colleagues. Pelosi’s campaign committee, for example, took $2,500 from AFLAC’s political action committee on April 13. But she’s not giving the money back just because she thinks the sources are immoral and villainous.

Exit question: Who is stupider, Peloco for looking like a Left Coast loony for trashing an industry that 80% of Americans are satisifed with and dissing such contributors, or the insurance companies for donating to a crazy Marxist wench (or whatever the PC term for “crazy Marxist wench” is) sworn to their destruction?

August 1, 2009 Posted by | corruption, health care, hypocrisy, Pelosi | 2 Comments

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