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Obama: Could you TRY and be civil, you filthy “teabaggers”?

Civility for thee, but not for me.  From ABC News:

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”

Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.

On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.”

Hypocrisy: the other white meat.

May 5, 2010 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, Tea Party | 4 Comments

MSNBC and NYC mayor Bloomberg: You mean the Times Square bomber WASN’T a rabid teabagger?

MSNBC and both of their viewers are bummed that the Times Square bomber is a bloodthirsty camelhumping jihadist instead of a frothing Tea Partier.  Mayor Bloomberg, elected shortly after jihadists brought down the Twin Towers in his city, doesn’t seem to recall that event, opining that he too thought it must have been Tea Partiers ticked off about ObamaCare.

The AP?  They just fall back into reflexive and lazy mode…blaming Bush.  Seriously.

D#mned liberals are intent on using political correctness to destroy this country!

May 4, 2010 Posted by | Bloomberg, moonbats, MSNBC, New York, political correctness, religion of peace, Tea Party | 2 Comments

Charlie Crist is both a liar and a fool

How is he a liar?  Voila:

On Fox News: 3/28/10

WALLACE: …have been persistent rumors in Florida that you are so far behind, at least currently, in the polls…that you may run instead as an independent. Here is your chance to dispel all the rumors. Are you willing to pledge right here, right now that you will run in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate and not run as an independent?

CRIST: I’m running as a Republican.

WALLACE: So are you ruling out that you will file as an independent by the April 30th deadline?

CRIST: That’s right. That’s right. I’m running as a Republican.

WALLACE: You will run not for a governor — you’ll run for Senate, and you will run as a — in the Republican primary.

CRIST: I’m running as a Republican.

WALLACE: Will you support the winner of the GOP primary, whether it’s you or Marco Rubio?

CRIST: Of course I will.

WALLACE: Well, I’m going to get — I’m going to — I’ll give you an opportunity for a final statement. I just want to say, though, you are saying you are going to run in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. You will not run on the no party affiliation line.

CRIST: That’s right. That’s right. That’s what I’m saying.

How is he a fool?  Voila:

Voters are strategic. Remember the New Jersey governor’s race? Independent Christopher Daggett was polling at 10%, but only got 5.8% on Election Day. There’s a reason for that. American elections are winner take all, which makes it very difficult for third parties to thrive. Once voters catch wind that a vote for a third party candidate is a waste, they’ll bail on that candidate. This suggests that Crist is going to have to “defeat” either Marco Rubio or Kendrick Meek prior to Election Day. Now, how do you suppose he’s going to do that? He hasn’t been able to defeat Rubio yet. That means he will have to nullify Meek. I’m skeptical he’ll be able to do that. As an African American, Meek can expect strong support from the roughly 14% of the electorate that is black. That’s one big problem. Another big problem is that Crist will first have to get the Democratic Party establishment to get behind him, and the White House is refusing to take his calls. With good reason. They’re banking that Crist will siphon off just enough votes from Rubio to elect Meek. And anyway, with Roland Burris leaving the upper chamber next year, there might not be a single African American Senator in the 112th Congress. Can the Democratic establishment really turn its back on Meek – for Charlie Crist of all people? No way!
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Ask people you know in life and they’ll complain about politicians who are only out for themselves, who aren’t looking out for the interests of the people. And now here comes good old Charlie Crist, who just a few weeks ago swore off an Independent run. This is a dishonest and nakedly self-interested move, and voters are fed up with this kind of behavior. The only compelling motivation that Charlie Crist has to run as an Independent is so that Charlie Crist can stay in elective office. That is not good enough in a year like 2010. Crist should take a lesson from Arlen Specter, a 30-year veteran of Pennsylvania statewide politics who pulled a similar stunt. He isn’t polling above 43% in the RCP average. That’s the kind of year this is.

…Instead, he is about to piss off every Republican in the country, and he’s not going to win over the affections of the Democrats, who clearly sense an opportunity to get one of their own into the seat.

More:

Crist has now been tempted into a desperation move. As Democratic consultant Steve Schale points out, Crist can win 25 percent of Republicans (highly improbable), 25 percent of Democrats (ditto) and 60 percent of independents (dream on), and still get only 31 percent of the vote, not enough to win. He’ll try to run against the system, a difficult trick when you occupy the governor’s mansion and your only objection to the system is that it no longer serves your purposes.

He saw an obscure poll that put him 2% ahead of Rubio in a three-way race, and it gave him the faintest glimmer of hope that his personal ambition could still be fulfilled.  But if he thinks he will get 1/4 of Democrats to abandon Obama’s lap dog Meek, and if he thinks the teachers union will support him over the Democrat, then that tanning bed has fried his gourd more than I thought.

Oh, well.  At least he’s got the Citrus-American voting bloc sewn up.

May 4, 2010 Posted by | Charlie Crist, Florida, Marco Rubio, shameful | Leave a Comment

Quote of the day, “Why illegal immigration ROCKS!” edition

Dingbat Eleanor Clift of Newsweek defines the invasion of criminal aliens pouring across the southern border thusly:

“It’s a happy invasion for most people in this country,” Clift proclaimed. “[W]e love the diversity of food.“

Right, because Taco Bell and any other Tex-Mex joint in America couldn’t exist without…um…illegal immigrants. Oooooooo-kay, then.

And if, by “most people”, she means the 70% of Arizonans who support the new state law cracking down on criminal immigration, then yeah…”most people”!

May 3, 2010 Posted by | illegal immigration, quote of the day | Leave a Comment

Obama administration’s response to oil spill was inept, claims right-wing newspaper

And, by right-wing newspaper, I’m obviously referring to…the New York Times?  OK, who spiked Sulzberger’s latté?

Excerpt:

Geoffrey S. Morrell, deputy assistant secretary of defense, said in a statement that the government would hold BP accountable for the cost of the department’s deployment, which as of Friday night included the Louisiana National Guard to help clean up coastal areas once the oil comes ashore.

BP officials said they did everything possible, and a review of the response suggests it may be too simplistic to place all the blame on the oil company. The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so while it waited for a resolution to the spreading spill from BP, which was leasing the drilling rig that exploded in flames on April 20 and sank two days later. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead.

The Department of Homeland Security waited until Thursday to declare that the incident was “a spill of national significance,” and then set up a second command center in Mobile. The actions came only after the estimate of the size of the spill was increased fivefold to 5,000 barrels a day.

You know, this sounds errily similar to another environmental disaster, about five years ago in a large Gulf coast area, whereby the president was roundly criticized by the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) for a lackluster response.  I look forward to their consistency in criticizing this president with the same zeal they exhibited last time.

Of course, to be fair, the Gulf coast oil spill isn’t the same situation as Hurricane Katrina.  It’s much different, and in a way that isn’t flattering for the administration.

See, in the case of Katrina, the state of Louisiana, as well as Mayor Nagin’s Chocolate City, had evacuation and contingency plans at the local level…plans they ignored.  Clearly, the onus was on the state to plan for and respond to the hurricane.

But in the case of the oil spill, the incident happened in the Gulf of Mexico and could impact multiple states.  Obviously, it would be the responsibility of the federal government to deal with that.  Right?  Right:

But it is still the government, in this case the Coast Guard, that has the final say. A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes the owner of a rig or vessel responsible for cleaning up a spill. But oversight of the cleanup is designated to the Coast Guard, with advice from other federal agencies.

As much as the big government lovers on the left henpecked Bush for an anemic response by state officials, you would think they would have been better prepared for something like this.

Instead, you get this “Brownie-like” response from Big Sis:

The delay meant that the Homeland Security Department waited until late this week to formally request a more robust response from the Department of Defense, with Ms. Napolitano acknowledging even as late as Thursday afternoon that she did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.

Heckuva job, Nappy.

May 3, 2010 Posted by | Louisiana, media bias, Obama, oil | 1 Comment

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