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Reid questions Obama’s blackness. Liberals blow a gasket in outrage.

I totally made up the latter statement, and shame on you if you fell for it!  :lol:   The former, however, is true.  But if not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

Anywho, details about Reid’s racial remarks:

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect.” Obama is the nation’s first African-American president.

2008?  Why is this just now coming to light?

Reid’s comments are included in a book set to be published on Monday. “Game Change” was written by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann; the pair describe the book in interviews during Sunday’s “60 Minutes” on CBS.

Reid, facing a tough 2010 re-election bid, needs the White House’s help if he wants to keep his seat. Obama’s administration has dispatched officials on dozens of trip to buoy his bid and Obama has raised money for his campaign.

As if Reid’s numbers in NV weren’t pitiful enough as it were.

By the way, to his credit, Obama said that the Senate Majority Leader needs to be “driven out” for such racial insensitivity.

Oh yes he did say it…except that it was in 2002, when the soon-to-be-Senate Majority Leader was Trent Lott.  Lott, as sheer luck would have it, just so happens to be a Republican…which I’m sure is a total coinkidink and has jack squat to do with B.O.’s outrage back then which is conspicuously absent now.  As Cuffy points out, B.O. reacted to Reid’s racial remark a helluva lot quicker than he reacted to the Underwear Bomber.  Priorities, priorities, right?

So, to recap:  Reid makes a racially insensitive comment that would have branded any Republican as a racist.

B.O.’s one-sided forgiveness?  Check.

Sharpton’s one-sided forgiveness?  Check.

Joe Biden’s “Barry’s a clean articulate brutha” statement?  Lands him on said brutha’s ticket as VP.

The left’s favorite Klansman, Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd (D-WV), was unavailable for comment.

January 11, 2010 Posted by | Al Sharpton, bigotry, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful | 6 Comments

Do you get the feeling that Obama is either not serious about, or incompetent in dealing with, terrorism?

So do I.

January 8, 2010 Posted by | Obama, religion of peace | 5 Comments

End of days: CNN’s Jack Cafferty accuses Obama and the Dems of being…gasp!…liars!

No way!

Way.

How dare they? President Obama, Democratic leaders have decided to bypass a formal House and Senate conference committee in order to reconcile those two health care bills. Instead, White House and Democratic leaders will hold informal — that’s another word for secret — negotiations, meant to shut Republicans and the public out of the process.

What a far cry from the election, when then candidate Obama pledged to — quote — “broadcast health care negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are” — unquote.

President Obama hasn’t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected. …

…The Democrats insist this is all on the up-and-up, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying — quote — “There’s never been a more open process for any legislation.” — unquote.

Really? This is the same Nancy Pelosi who you may recall, after becoming speaker in 2006, promised the Democrats would have — quote — “the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history” — unquote.

Here’s hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the midterm elections roll around later this year.

Those geniuses (genii?) at CNN sure have a nose for the obvious, don’t they?  That journalism school edyookashun really paid off, huh?

In related news, Hell freezes over.

Global warming grips Florida

Snow in Florida this weekend and Cafferty shaking off the B.O. Kool Aid?  Strange days, indeed.  I blame global warming.

January 8, 2010 Posted by | CNN, corruption, media bias, Obama, Pelosi | 1 Comment

USA’s strained relationship with UK

Darn that George W. Bush!  It’s a good thing we have the postracial Uniter of All as our king president, right?

Oh, wait.

After initially denying that they had received British intelligence, senior American sources confirmed last night that they were “reviewing” what British information had been received on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The admission is embarrassing for the White House and threatens to provoke a rift with Gordon Brown. The conflicting briefing over the shared intelligence also suggests that the transatlantic relationship may have weakened in recent months.

I’m thoroughly confused.  Didn’t the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) tell us all throughout 2008 and even into 2009 that only The One could heal the international wounds inflicted by Dubya the Terrible?  Why, just a touch of His robe (or a big ol’ collective group hug…tomato, to-mah-to) would send a message to the world that all was well and peace in our time had finally arrived!

Funny, that.

January 7, 2010 Posted by | Euros, Obama | Leave a Comment

Quote of the day, “Ben Nelson’s projection” edition

Project much, Ben?

Sen. Ben Nelson, the Nebraska Democrat who played a pivotal role in helping the Senate pass its version of health care reform right before Christmas, said this week that the Obama administration should have delayed taking up the issue to spend more time tackling economic problems.

“I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy,” Nelson told the Fremont Tribune.

“I would have preferred not to be dealing with health care in the midst of everything else, and I think working on the economy would have been a wiser move,” he told the newspaper.

Yeah, I bet you think it’s a mistake and I bet you “would have preferred not to be dealing with” it!  It’s a mistake, though, that you didn’t have to be complicit in, and you will rightly suffer for it in 2012.

January 7, 2010 Posted by | health care, Obama | Leave a Comment

Pelosi: Of course Obama was lying during the campaign! He had to get elected, didn’t he?

Speaker Botox LOLing about what a shameless liar B.O. was during the campaign:

Or is it Pelosi having the gall to dismiss The One’s C-SPAN campaign promise with a blithe, chuckling, “There are a number of things he was for during the campaign!” Don’t blink or you’ll miss it, but it’s there. The Democratic Speaker of the House, laughing out loud — at a press conference — at what a shameless liar Bambi had to be to get elected. There’s a Change moment if ever there was one.

The Clinton years proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Dems are totally content with pathological liars in their party, so long as the agenda is advanced.  Dishonor is cool, kids, and don’tcha forget it!

January 6, 2010 Posted by | corruption, Obama, Pelosi | Leave a Comment

Dodd, Dorgan retire rather than face certain electoral defeat

Details:

Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home in Connecticut Wednesday at which he is expected to announce he will not seek re-election, according to sources familiar with his plans.Dodd’s retirement comes after months of speculation about his political future, and amid faltering polling numbers and a growing sense among the Democratic establishment that he could not win a sixth term. It also comes less than 24 hours after Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announced he would not seek re-election.

This is your classic “good news/bad news” deal.  Good news: Dorgan’s seat will likely result in a GOP pickup in cherry-red ND, especially if their popular governor decides to run.  Bad news: Dodd’s retirement means that the once-certain prospect of a GOP pickup in a blue state has dimmed considerably, since there are more popular Dems in CT who will now want to run.

Exit prediction of the “not going out on a limb with this pick, am I?” variety: Dorgan will feel totally empowered to vote for ObamaCare, knowing that his constituents can do jack squat to him next year.

January 6, 2010 Posted by | health care | 3 Comments

Night and Day, “Harry Reid on the importance of House-Senate conferences” edition

Reid and his leftist cohorts in 2006:

The conference process in the 108th Congress is a case study in how the Republican leadership abused the Rules of the House to block Members, both Republicans and Democrats, from legislating in an informed and thoughtful manner. House-Senate conferences are a critical part of the deliberative process because they produce the final legislative product that will become the law of the land.

Reid and his leftist cohorts today:

According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each chamber, House and Senate Democrats are “almost certain” to negotiate informally rather than convene a formal conference committee. Doing so would allow Democrats to avoid a series of procedural steps–not least among them, a series of special motions in the Senate, each requiring a vote with full debate–that Republicans could use to stall deliberations, just as they did in November and December.

“There will almost certainly be full negotiations but no formal conference,” the House staffer says. “There are too many procedural hurdles to go the formal conference route in the Senate.”

Video link here.

Hypocrisy: It’s what’s for dinner.

January 5, 2010 Posted by | corruption, hypocrisy, Night and Day, Reid | Leave a Comment

Mayo Clinic in AZ no longer accepting Medicare patients

Huh.  Who’d have thunk it?  Excerpt:

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care (how’s that for irony, huh? – Ed.), will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” Mayo’s move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview yesterday.

“Many physicians have said, ‘I simply cannot afford to keep taking care of Medicare patients,’” said Heim, a family doctor who practices in Laurinburg, North Carolina. “If you truly know your business costs and you are losing money, it doesn’t make sense to do more of it.”

It only makes more sense if you’re a Democrat.

Hey, I’ve got a super awesome idea: How’s about we expand Medicare and let more people sign up for it?  I mean, in addition to speeding up Medicare’s insolvency, we can also speed up the rate at which doctors don’t accept new patients!

January 4, 2010 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, health care | 5 Comments

Democrats: Rasmussen’s poll, and not our socialist agenda, is why we’re losing right now

Way to shoot the messenger, guys.  But hey, if that’s what makes you feel better about the impending whitewash you’re gonna get at the polls this year, then so be it.  Excerpt:

Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.

The pointed attacks reflect a hardening conventional wisdom among prominent liberal bloggers and many Democrats that Rasmussen Reports polls are, at best, the result of a flawed polling model and, at worst, designed to undermine Democratic politicians and the party’s national agenda. …

While Scott Rasmussen, the firm’s president, contends that he has no ax to grind — his bio notes that he has been “an independent pollster for more than a decade” and “has never been a campaign pollster or consultant for candidates seeking office” — his opponents on the left insist he is the hand that feeds conservative talkers a daily trove of negative numbers that provides grist for attacks on Obama and the Democratic Party.

Don Quixote just called to say what a stupid idea this is.

Considering how accurate Rasmussen’s polls turn out to be when election time rolls around, and considering that the MSM’s polls oversample Democrats by double-digits and even those polls show the Dems’ support plunging, I can certainly understand why the left is worried.  However, their ire is a tad bit “misdirected”, to say the very least.

Exit question: Considering how well the White House’s war on Fox News went (and by “well”, I mean “horribly badly”), why does the Democrat Party really want to go down this road?

January 4, 2010 Posted by | polls, socialism | 2 Comments

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