Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) channeled his inner-maverick Friday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, repeatedly reminding the conservative network that the government shutdown was brought about by the quixotic effort to halt the Affordable Care Act.
When anchor Martha MacCallum asked him about the White House's handling of the suspension of death benefits to military families, McCain said that while the administration deserves blame it was a GOP-induced shutdown that caused the problem in the first place.
"Let's have a little straight talk, Martha," McCain said. "[The administration] wouldn't have had the opportunity to handle it that way if we had not shut down the government on a fool's errand that we were not going to accomplish. The whole premise of shutting down the government was the repeal of Obamacare. I fought against Obamacare harder than any of the people who wanted to shut down the government."
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
McCain the RINO
And to think, this sorry ass excuse for a senator could possibly have been president of this country. which in my opinion? Would have been worse than having Obama in there. What a sorry POS panty waste traitor to the principles of conservatives John McCain has been revealed to be.
Its in the mail
Just wanted to let everyone know - today I received my Fiscal
Cliff Survival Pack from the White House.
It contains a parachute, an ‘Obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker, a ‘Bush’s Fault’ yard sign, a ‘Blame Boehner’ poster, a 'Tax the Rich' banner, an application for unemployment, an application for food stamps, a prayer rug, a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren, and if that was not enough, there was a discount coupon for a machine that blows smoke up my ass. Everything was “Made in China" and all directions were in Spanish.
Keep an eye out. Yours should arrive soon.
It contains a parachute, an ‘Obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker, a ‘Bush’s Fault’ yard sign, a ‘Blame Boehner’ poster, a 'Tax the Rich' banner, an application for unemployment, an application for food stamps, a prayer rug, a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren, and if that was not enough, there was a discount coupon for a machine that blows smoke up my ass. Everything was “Made in China" and all directions were in Spanish.
Keep an eye out. Yours should arrive soon.
Saturday, October 05, 2013
An Open Letter to Barack Obama
In the history of this nation, there have been seventeen times the US government has been shut down by Washington's warring political factions. Twice in the past one hundred years, this nation, has been viciously and wantonly attacked by acts of war on our own soil. First by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, then by Islamic terrorists on 9/11.
During these government shutdowns and in the aftermath of these attacks and acts of war, the national monuments belonging to the American people were never closed. The national monuments of this nation were never barricaded and the American people were never prohibited from visiting their national monuments. Prior to the present illegal and absurd acts ordered by you to barricade and close our national monuments, these monuments have never been closed or barricaded even at night.
I say the monuments of the American people, because these monuments belong to the people of the United States of America, they do not belong to you. Neither do these monuments belong to Washington bureaucrats, partisan hack politicians or those who have demonstrated their purposeful dereliction of duty to the American people and the US Constitution, such as you have during your entire tenure as president.
There is no recognized law or constitutionally sanctioned authority that provides the power or authority for you or any president to arbitrarily close our national monuments, absent a demonstrable and imminent threat to the health, safety or welfare of the American people. No sir, the only power or authority that you possess to take such actions, is the power and authority of unbridled conceit and ambivalent arrogance toward the American people. The same unbridled conceit, ambivalence and arrogance toward this nation and its people that you have demonstrated since you first assumed the office of the presidency.
As a veteran who has served this nation in uniform and as a American who has spilled his blood to protect the rights and privileges of other Americans, I am ashamed to see what you have ordered done to this nation, her citizens and her honored veterans. Ordering the Parks Service to bar Honor Flight WWII veterans in their 80's and 90's from visiting their memorial monument in Washington, is nothing short of a glaring example of your conceited arrogance. Ordering Viet Nam veterans to leave their war memorial under threat of arrest this week is a furtherance of your demonstrated conceit and arrogance.
You give speeches where you speak of partisan politics and game playing by those in the republican party willing to oppose your arrogance, yet your own petulant acts stand as testament to where your true colors reside when it comes to the interests of the American people and your demonstrated vindictiveness to further your own political goals.
You sir are a sickening example of self serving, conceited and petulant arrogance and you disgust me.
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Purposely Inflicted Partisan Pain
As the government shutdown enters its 3rd day, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Obama administration is purposely set to inflict as much intentional pain on the American people as possible. The unnecessary closing of public parks, public land and public monuments is indicative of the purposely vindictive nature of the Obama administration and those appointed to manage federal agencies.
Military bases are closing grocery stores, yet the presidents federally managed golf course remains open. Mt. Vernon, a privately owned and operated property has been blockaded and barricaded by the bureaucratic goons of this administration. I sincerely hope the American people take note of these actions and remember who is responsible.
Military bases are closing grocery stores, yet the presidents federally managed golf course remains open. Mt. Vernon, a privately owned and operated property has been blockaded and barricaded by the bureaucratic goons of this administration. I sincerely hope the American people take note of these actions and remember who is responsible.
Barrycades: Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon
“Deliberate effort by Obama to hurt the public”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 3, 2013
The National Park Service erected barricades to shut down parking lots surrounding Mount Vernon despite the fact that the tourist destination is privately owned, another example of how the feds are deliberately worsening the government shut down.Mount Vernon is the former plantation of George Washington and is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which doesn’t receive any government funding. The attraction’s official website reads, “NO SHUTDOWN HERE – The Federal government may be shut down, but Washington’s home remains open. Mount Vernon has remained a private non-profit for more than 150 years.”However, a dispute began when the National Park Service began putting up barricades to block off the facility’s car park, blockading the entrance as well as a spot where tour buses turn around.The parking lots are co-owned by Mount Vernon and the NPS, but require no immediate maintenance at all, meaning the decision to close them down was completely unnecessary.The feds even blocked off a small area consisting of just three parking spaces.After blogger Stephen Gutowski exposed the situation, Newt Gingrich got in on the act, tweeting, “The tour bus turnaround at Mount Vernon has been closed by federal police. This is deliberate effort by Obama to hurt the public. Disgusting.”Numerous other sites around DC have been unnecessarily closed by the NPS and other federal agencies in what critics are labeling a cynical political stunt which only serves to punish the American people.In some cases, efforts to shut down these sites actually require more manpower and resources than if they had been left open, highlighting the fact that this is an act of partisan theater by the Obama administration to pin the blame for the government shutdown on Republicans and opponents of Obamacare.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Government shutdown day 2
This webpage will not be shut down due to the government shutdown. And neither should the majority of the pages the Obama administration has closed to be spiteful and to harm the American people. Make no mistake, this is vindictiveness because they cannot have their absolute way on all issues and because there are those in congress willing to stand up to this administration.
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
A Hiatus of Reason
I figure if everyone else can do it, so can I. So I have taken a hiatus from blogging recently. But here is a bit of my thinking on current events of late.
Sitting here reading the news this morning about the government shut down and I am amazed at the indoctrinated mindless opinions being displayed. There seems to be a few common threads emerging as to who and what are to blame for our maladies. The prominent accusation: "the Tea Party "terrorists" are to blame." Really? Since when does having an opposing opinion make anyone a terrorist? Oh! Now I remember. That's what the British would have called the patriots who stood up to taxation without representation. Just as many of those in the Tea Party are presently trying to do. So much for diversity and tolerance.
Since when does being a veteran make anyone a terrorist? Those who served, those who fought for this nation, those who spilled their blood to protect this nation are terrorists? I don't think so. No more than I believe that anyone expressing a heartfelt and sincere opinion in opposition to idiocy is a terrorist.
Since when does working for a living all of your life and earning your way make anyone a terrorist? Or are the only acceptable Americans those who are either on the public dole, or those engaged in raping the system that made this once the greatest nation on earth in the first place.
I am sorry, but the American people have been forced to live without non essentials for the past six years, yet suddenly if there won't be money for parks and recreation, or to pay for those who process all the claims for the largest entitlement society in the history of the world, then suddenly the world is ending and its all the fault of those who have worked the hardest to preserve our nation over the course of their lives. Tjhose who actually pay the taxes are the bad guys if i am reading all this correctly.
Once again, I am sorry, but I am not buying it. America hasn't had a budget since this president took office and since he as took office, he has increased the deficit by 8 trillion dollars in 5 years. His predecessor increased the deficit by 4 trillion in 8 years, while fighting two wars, yet when this president doubles that rate in four years, no one seems to notice and there are those who continue to want to blame everything on the former president. Fleeing from reality seems to be a reoccurring liberal trait.
I have noticed what has been happening and I know who is responsible. For the record, I have about as much use for the present republican leadership of this country, as I do for the present democrat leadership of this country. NONE! They are all a bunch of sorry lying partisan hacks who need to be flushed and replaced. I am not a Tea Party member or a Tea Party supporter, but one thing is for damn sure, I am not a supporter of either of the parties presently running this country either.
I don't know what will need to be done short of economic and societal collapse and a complete re-building of this nation, but I am pretty damn sure that what we are doing right now ain't working and it isn't going to work. As the saying goes, we are all riding in a hand basket to hell, on a greased rail, in the express lane. So if it takes a government shutdown to force people in this country to pull their heads out of their backsides and say enough is enough, then I say more power to them and let the revolution begin.
Maybe if the traitorous bastards we having occupying Washington are forced out due to the chaos they have created, then maybe just maybe this nation can be salvaged before it is too late. America has become nothing more than cesspool of individual and special interests centered around the lies of egalitarian socialism and anti Americanism and we are paying the price for our own craven desires. The great melting pot of America past is now nothing more than a bloated pool of egalitarian flotsam that created the illusion that everything should be free and now the true cost of that idiocy is coming due.
So....if you really want to be pissed at someone about what is happening in Washington and the causes behind the government shutting down? Then you should be pissed at yourself for sitting there like a knot on a log and allowing it to happen while you took advantage of the same things that are causing it. Whether is its government shutdown over partisan bickering today or a complete collapse of our economy under the weight of egalitarian socialist policy tomorrow, either way the collapse of America is going to happen and it is happening right now.
Sitting here reading the news this morning about the government shut down and I am amazed at the indoctrinated mindless opinions being displayed. There seems to be a few common threads emerging as to who and what are to blame for our maladies. The prominent accusation: "the Tea Party "terrorists" are to blame." Really? Since when does having an opposing opinion make anyone a terrorist? Oh! Now I remember. That's what the British would have called the patriots who stood up to taxation without representation. Just as many of those in the Tea Party are presently trying to do. So much for diversity and tolerance.
Since when does being a veteran make anyone a terrorist? Those who served, those who fought for this nation, those who spilled their blood to protect this nation are terrorists? I don't think so. No more than I believe that anyone expressing a heartfelt and sincere opinion in opposition to idiocy is a terrorist.
Since when does working for a living all of your life and earning your way make anyone a terrorist? Or are the only acceptable Americans those who are either on the public dole, or those engaged in raping the system that made this once the greatest nation on earth in the first place.
I am sorry, but the American people have been forced to live without non essentials for the past six years, yet suddenly if there won't be money for parks and recreation, or to pay for those who process all the claims for the largest entitlement society in the history of the world, then suddenly the world is ending and its all the fault of those who have worked the hardest to preserve our nation over the course of their lives. Tjhose who actually pay the taxes are the bad guys if i am reading all this correctly.
Once again, I am sorry, but I am not buying it. America hasn't had a budget since this president took office and since he as took office, he has increased the deficit by 8 trillion dollars in 5 years. His predecessor increased the deficit by 4 trillion in 8 years, while fighting two wars, yet when this president doubles that rate in four years, no one seems to notice and there are those who continue to want to blame everything on the former president. Fleeing from reality seems to be a reoccurring liberal trait.
I have noticed what has been happening and I know who is responsible. For the record, I have about as much use for the present republican leadership of this country, as I do for the present democrat leadership of this country. NONE! They are all a bunch of sorry lying partisan hacks who need to be flushed and replaced. I am not a Tea Party member or a Tea Party supporter, but one thing is for damn sure, I am not a supporter of either of the parties presently running this country either.
I don't know what will need to be done short of economic and societal collapse and a complete re-building of this nation, but I am pretty damn sure that what we are doing right now ain't working and it isn't going to work. As the saying goes, we are all riding in a hand basket to hell, on a greased rail, in the express lane. So if it takes a government shutdown to force people in this country to pull their heads out of their backsides and say enough is enough, then I say more power to them and let the revolution begin.
Maybe if the traitorous bastards we having occupying Washington are forced out due to the chaos they have created, then maybe just maybe this nation can be salvaged before it is too late. America has become nothing more than cesspool of individual and special interests centered around the lies of egalitarian socialism and anti Americanism and we are paying the price for our own craven desires. The great melting pot of America past is now nothing more than a bloated pool of egalitarian flotsam that created the illusion that everything should be free and now the true cost of that idiocy is coming due.
So....if you really want to be pissed at someone about what is happening in Washington and the causes behind the government shutting down? Then you should be pissed at yourself for sitting there like a knot on a log and allowing it to happen while you took advantage of the same things that are causing it. Whether is its government shutdown over partisan bickering today or a complete collapse of our economy under the weight of egalitarian socialist policy tomorrow, either way the collapse of America is going to happen and it is happening right now.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Abotion clinics closing and the wailing begins
A life time of watching those who support state sponsored murder and I am still amazed at the brash and unashamed positions that many so called pro choice advocates hold toward the lives of unborn children.
Abortion Clinics Closing at Record Rate
(UPDATED) Reasons vary, but the trend is clear.Tom Strode - Baptist Press[ posted 9/13/2013 11:47AM ]Courtesy of 40 Days for Life/Coalition for LifeAugust closing of Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas.
Update: The Huffington Post assessed the "dramatic toll" that recent pro-life laws have taken on abortion clinics, with Arizona leading the way. Meanwhile, the abortion battle has gone digital as more states ban abortions by telemedicine.CT has examined the new pro-life surge in-depth.-----(BP) For Abby Johnson, the closing of a single Planned Parenthood center demonstrated her dramatic reversal from abortion clinic director to leading pro-life advocate.But for pro-lifers throughout the United States, it marked another exhibit in a hopeful trend—abortion centers are shutting down at an unprecedented rate. The total so far this year is 44, according to a pro-life organization that tracks clinic operations.None was more telling for Johnson than the mid-July closing of the Planned Parenthood center in Bryan, Texas. It came less than four years after Johnson, burdened by her involvement with abortion, walked out of that clinic as its director and into the offices of the Coalition for Life."Knowing that the former abortion clinic I once ran is now closing is the biggest personal victory of my life," Johnson said in a written statement after the announcement of the shutdown. "From running that facility, to then advocating for its closure, and now celebrating that dream ... it shows that my life has indeed come full circle."Since her celebrated conversion from Planned Parenthood director, Johnson has started a ministry to help workers leave the abortion industry. She has pledged, as she said in July, to "fight until every abortion clinic in this country has shut its doors."This year, 42 clinics that provided surgical abortions have shut their doors, and two that offered chemical abortions by drugs also have closed, according to Operation Rescue, which monitors closings and health and safety violations by clinics nationwide. That number far surpasses the 25 surgical clinics shutdown last year and the 30 in 2011, by Operation Rescue's count. While others estimate a smaller number of closings, the pattern is clear.Some of the shutdowns have been of major clinics. For instance, Virginia's No. 1 abortion provider closed, The Washington Post reported in July. NOVA Women's Healthcare in Fairfax, Va., shut down after state and local governments enacted regulations the abortion provider appeared unable to meet. The northern Virginia clinic performed 3,066 abortions in 2012 and 3,567 in 2011.The reasons given for the upswing in closings are varied even among pro-lifers. They include:-- the increasing state regulation and oversight of clinics;-- a significant decline in the abortion rate.In some cases, clinics have shut down when abortion doctors retired or were no longer licensed.State legislatures enacted 69 pro-life laws this year, according to a report released Thursday (Sept. 5) by Americans United for Life. In all, 48 states considered about 360 such proposals in 2013, AUL reported.The legislative action this year continued a recent trend in states: 70 "life-affirming measures" became law in 2011 and 38 in 2012, according to AUL.Some measures have targeted making the procedure and clinics safer for women, and have helped escalate the number of clinic shutdowns. This year, states such as Alabama, North Carolina and Texas passed varied laws either requiring abortion clinics to meet the same health and safety standards as outpatient surgical centers, or authorizing the state to enforce such requirements. Also, in 2013, North Dakota and Wisconsin joined Alabama and Texas in mandating abortion doctors have admitting privileges at local hospitals.Editor's note: Read the full Baptist Press article here. CT has previously reported on abortion clinic restrictions and legislation restricting abortion. CT also covered pro-life groups exposing abortion practices and how pro-lifers are winning the abortion battle.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Ass Backwards Solutions in Syria.
John Kerry blunders into an alternative proposal for the Syrian crisis and in doing so, hobbles Barack Obama's desire to go full throttle with an attack. In the interim. Vladimir Putin sees the beauty of the dilemma for the Americans and immediately seizes upon the idea as something that Russia could support and sponsor.
Meanwhile, both Obama's State Department and Kerry spend the next 48 hours trying to "walk back" Kerry's UN-savvy mistake. All to no avail. Both the Russians and the Syrians seize upon the notion of a monitored surrender of WMD's. Both Putin and Asad know that by doing so, Obama is hamstrung in his desire to attack Syria and his unwavering support the Al Qaida backed rebels in Syria.
As for the WMD's? Oh yes.....those. Those are Saddam's old stockpiles. the same ones that everyone was saying were proven not to be in Iraq. Well hell no they weren't in Iraq. Not after we gave Saddam weeks to move them in advance of the America invasion. And guess what? While the world is pissing and poo pooing the wonders of the Russian agreement and Syria's compromise? they will move them again. My bet is they go to Iran this time. Some place that will really use them.
Maybe there is such a thing as divine intervention in the face of partisan, bureaucratic, novice bungling by the Obama white house. Anything that keeps American military forces out of Syria works for me. Even Obama's idiocy or John Kerry's mistakes.But in the long run, all that has occurred is time has been bought before the final conflagration. America will see these weapons again and next time they will be used on our troops.
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Meanwhile, both Obama's State Department and Kerry spend the next 48 hours trying to "walk back" Kerry's UN-savvy mistake. All to no avail. Both the Russians and the Syrians seize upon the notion of a monitored surrender of WMD's. Both Putin and Asad know that by doing so, Obama is hamstrung in his desire to attack Syria and his unwavering support the Al Qaida backed rebels in Syria.
As for the WMD's? Oh yes.....those. Those are Saddam's old stockpiles. the same ones that everyone was saying were proven not to be in Iraq. Well hell no they weren't in Iraq. Not after we gave Saddam weeks to move them in advance of the America invasion. And guess what? While the world is pissing and poo pooing the wonders of the Russian agreement and Syria's compromise? they will move them again. My bet is they go to Iran this time. Some place that will really use them.
Maybe there is such a thing as divine intervention in the face of partisan, bureaucratic, novice bungling by the Obama white house. Anything that keeps American military forces out of Syria works for me. Even Obama's idiocy or John Kerry's mistakes.But in the long run, all that has occurred is time has been bought before the final conflagration. America will see these weapons again and next time they will be used on our troops.
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Obama sees potential ‘breakthrough’ in Russia’s Syria proposal
By Anne Gearan, Karen DeYoung and Will Englund, Published: September 9
Russia and Syria embraced Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s suggestion Monday that the Syrian government could avert a U.S. attack by placing its chemical weapons under international control, upending the Obama administration’s efforts to sharpen its case for military action.
U.S. officials said Kerry’s comment, made in response to a question at a news conference in London, was not intended to be a diplomatic opening. But Kerry’s Russian and Syrian counterparts quickly followed up, and the idea drew immediate interest internationally and from top Democrats in Washington.
By the end of the day, President Obama conceded that the idea of monitoring and ultimately destroying Syria’s arsenal “could potentially be a significant breakthrough.” The Senate postponed a vote scheduled for Wednesday on whether to back a proposed punitive strike.
“I think you have to take it with a grain of salt, initially,” Obama said in an interview with NBC that was among several he gave Monday in pursuit of public backing for a military strike in response to an alleged Aug. 21 gas attack on Syrian civilians.
“We are going to run this to ground,” Obama said. “We’re going to make sure that we see how serious these proposals are.”
The president plans to address the nation Tuesday evening in a speech originally planned to be the capstone of a newly focused moral and political case to rally a skeptical public and reluctant lawmakers.
The timing of the new proposal was awkward and its apparent genesis perhaps more so.
It began when Kerry was asked early Monday whether Assad could avoid a U.S. attack.
“Sure. He could turn over every bit of his weapons to the international community within the next week, without delay,” Kerry responded with a shrug. “But he isn’t about to.”
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words
No matter how Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy spin it by touting overall crime being down in the city, the numbers for 2013 are still horrifying.
And this is a city with the most stringent gun control laws in America.
Friday, September 06, 2013
Iran threatens mass attacks and rape of Obama's daughters
Once again we have leaders of the religion of peace demonstrating precisely how they intend to follow the love and the teachings of their so called prophet.
Barack Obama may be about to release murder and mayhem on America and Americans with his foolish intent to attack Syria and when he does, I sincerely hope the American people remember who was responsible for what follows. There will be no retaliatory attacks against the Muslim world, because remember, America is not at war with Islam and regardless of what the media had done to obscure the truth, Barack Obama is a Muslim at heart.
Never mind that Islam is at war with America and has been for decades, Barack Obama will not extract revenge or retaliatory actions against Tran or anyone else who attacks Americans or America's interests and allies. If you are waiting to see what the response to Iran's threats and actions will be? Look not to the Red Sea and America's puny fleet of frigates, but look rather to Israel. Netanyahu will unleash hell on earth against the Iranians if they attack Israel. He has been begging America for ten years to look at what they were doing with their nuclear program and what their stated intent has been from the beginning. If America attacks Syria and Iran responds by attacking Israel, watch what the Israeli response will be. The middle east will be set aglow before the sun sets on the first day.
Cry havoc! Let loose the dogs of war!
I believe we are getting very close now to the end times spoken of in the book of Revelations
Barack Obama may be about to release murder and mayhem on America and Americans with his foolish intent to attack Syria and when he does, I sincerely hope the American people remember who was responsible for what follows. There will be no retaliatory attacks against the Muslim world, because remember, America is not at war with Islam and regardless of what the media had done to obscure the truth, Barack Obama is a Muslim at heart.
Never mind that Islam is at war with America and has been for decades, Barack Obama will not extract revenge or retaliatory actions against Tran or anyone else who attacks Americans or America's interests and allies. If you are waiting to see what the response to Iran's threats and actions will be? Look not to the Red Sea and America's puny fleet of frigates, but look rather to Israel. Netanyahu will unleash hell on earth against the Iranians if they attack Israel. He has been begging America for ten years to look at what they were doing with their nuclear program and what their stated intent has been from the beginning. If America attacks Syria and Iran responds by attacking Israel, watch what the Israeli response will be. The middle east will be set aglow before the sun sets on the first day.
Cry havoc! Let loose the dogs of war!
I believe we are getting very close now to the end times spoken of in the book of Revelations
As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”
And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama’s daughters should the United States attack Syria.
Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader’s camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime’s Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.
“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the … loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he threatened. “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world].”
Thursday, September 05, 2013
According to Vladamir Putin, John Kerry Lies
According to Vladamir Putin, John Kerry lies and he has been lying about the realities of the Syrian civil war. Kerry is doing his best to sell Barack Obama's need to attack Syria as a justified action supported by a democratic process struggling in its infancy in Syria.
Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports
John Kerry wouldn't lie would he?
Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.
At congressional hearings this week, while making the case for President Barack Obama's plan for limited military action in Syria, Kerry asserted that the armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution.
Hell yes he would. The man has been lying for over forty years to the public and now to the American people.
Have a look at the video of the rebels that John Kerry and Barack Obama want to support with American military air strikes.
Link to video of Rebel slaughter
Then tell me again how John Kerry isn't a liar.
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
America: Islam's Surrogate
Well there you have it folk. America has been told by Arab countries, just as long as we act as their surrogates? they will pay for "America's war against Syria." Americans should be screaming from the roof tops over this betrayal by Obama and his lap dog Kerry and the rest of his rogue administration.
Kerry: Arab countries offered to pay for invasion
Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.
“With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,” Kerry said. “They have. That offer is on the table.”
Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.
“In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost,” Kerry said. “That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done.
Justive served by the wrong hand.
This beast needed to be hung alright. He just shouldn't have been allowed to do it himself.
Justice Served
Justice Served
Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the decade-long kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive, was found hanged in his prison cell Tuesday night, an Ohio corrections official confirmed.
The former school bus driver, who was under protective custody and isolated from other inmates at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, was found dead at about 9:20 p.m. when prison staff were making their rounds, Rehabilitation and Correction Department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.
After prison medical personnel tried to resuscitate him, Castro, 53, was transferred to an area hospital and pronounced dead about 90 minutes later, she said.
Castro was sentenced on Aug. 1 to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole for abducting his three victims and keeping them imprisoned in the dungeon-like confines of his house, where they were starved, beaten and sexually assaulted for about a decade.
McCain needs a permanent loss
John McCain needs a permanent loss. Someone needs to replace this loser in the US senate.
America's Loss
America's Loss
Sometimes senators need a diversion from even the weightiest of topics. For Sen. John McCain during Tuesday's hearing on Syria, it was a game on his iPhone.
The Washington Post posted a picture taken during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing and reported that it shows the Arizona Republican playing poker on his phone. Only his hands and iPhone were visible.
Shortly afterward, McCain came clean in a sarcastic tweet posted on his Twitter account that began with the word, "Scandal!"
McCain wrote that he'd been caught playing on his phone during a hearing that, he quickly pointed out, exceeded three hours.
The senator added, "Worst of all, I lost!"
Monday, September 02, 2013
Where is John Kerry?
I noticed yesterday when John Kerry was making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows hyping Obama's justifications for attacking Syria that something just didn't look right. So I did a little comparison analysis via google image searches and this is what I found.
It sure looks to me like we have either had a ton of Botox and make up as of yesterday? Or someone is impersonating Mr. horse face of late. I suspect there are also some steroid medications that would cause puffiness like this, but other than those three explanations, I cannot fathom what has happened to Kerry's face in a little over one month.
Dinner with Adolph Hitler?
John Kerry is featured coddling those in 2009, that he has now compared to Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein. John Kerry has absolutely no credibility.
Cosy: This astonishing photograph shows the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife having an intimate dinner with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife in 2009
Cosy: This astonishing photograph shows the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife having an intimate dinner with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife in 2009
The picture is believed to have been taken in February 2009 in the Naranj restaurant in Damascus when Kerry led a delegation to Syria to discuss ideas and talk about the way forward for peace in the region.
Despite President Barack Obama taking a step back from his threat to launch an attack by putting a vote in Congress, his Secretary of State has been outspoken about the dangers posed by the Syrian regime.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408805/The-image-John-Kerry-WONT-want-U-S-Secretary-State-pictured-dining-Assad-wife-Damascus-restaurant-war-broke-Syria.html#ixzz2dkfIVc3j
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Sunday, September 01, 2013
Respect
Respect is earned not demanded. When you have repeatedly demonstrated no respect for others, you will soon find that others usually have no respect for you. Barack Obama has turned his back on and purposely insulted America's allies in Europe from the very first day of his presidency. Is it surprising that those who have been the brunt of his purposeful insults for the last five years feel little to no compunction to come to his aid with his trumped up Syrian problem.
The British and the Germans have each turned their cheeks to Obama's desires to form a coalition against Syria. Meanwhile, the Russians and the Chinese have made it imminently clear that America better not attack Syria. Syria already possesses the most sophisticated Russian anti aircraft defense systems available and if America attacks Syria, you can bet they will use them. Just as you can bet that Iran, bolstered by the support of China and Russia will attack Israel. On a good note, we do have the support of the French. Wow....I feel better already.
Meanwhile, the purposely weakened American military, the same military that Obama openly is condescending and demeaning to has admitted they are not prepared. The generals at the Pentagon have told the president that due to the censure of budgetary cuts? We simply cannot afford a war, we don't have the money. I wonder how that plays in the halls of power in Peking and Moscow? Does anyone think that America has finally been brought to its knees as a world power by this interloper in chief? I do. And if he does go ahead with his false flag attack against Syria, watch for the maelstrom that will be unleashed against Israel and ultimately America.
Meanwhile.............as it concerns lack of respect by this president?
GET YOUR FEET OFF MY DESK!
The British and the Germans have each turned their cheeks to Obama's desires to form a coalition against Syria. Meanwhile, the Russians and the Chinese have made it imminently clear that America better not attack Syria. Syria already possesses the most sophisticated Russian anti aircraft defense systems available and if America attacks Syria, you can bet they will use them. Just as you can bet that Iran, bolstered by the support of China and Russia will attack Israel. On a good note, we do have the support of the French. Wow....I feel better already.
Meanwhile, the purposely weakened American military, the same military that Obama openly is condescending and demeaning to has admitted they are not prepared. The generals at the Pentagon have told the president that due to the censure of budgetary cuts? We simply cannot afford a war, we don't have the money. I wonder how that plays in the halls of power in Peking and Moscow? Does anyone think that America has finally been brought to its knees as a world power by this interloper in chief? I do. And if he does go ahead with his false flag attack against Syria, watch for the maelstrom that will be unleashed against Israel and ultimately America.
Meanwhile.............as it concerns lack of respect by this president?
GET YOUR FEET OFF MY DESK!
Saturday, August 31, 2013
So much for fair and unbiased
if there has been any recent questions about the lean and tilt of the supreme court, then this is just one more example of the reality below the surface with at least one of the justices.
Justice Ginsburg to officiate at same-sex wedding
Justice Ginsburg to officiate at same-sex wedding
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate at a same-sex wedding this weekend in what is believed to be a first for a member of the nation's highest court.
Ginsburg will officiate Saturday at the marriage of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a government economist.
"Michael Kaiser is a friend and someone I much admire," Ginsburg said in a written statement Friday. "That is why I am officiating at his wedding."
The private ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a national memorial to President John F. Kennedy. The 80-year-old Ginsburg, an opera lover, is a frequent guest at the center.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Bring a baby.The new immigration dodge compliments of Obama
Just one more example of the reality behind the Obama rhetoric. This administration is systematically dismantling and weakening this nation to the point that by the time they are finished, there will be no saving it. We are already there in my opinion.
New Obama policy warns agents not to detain illegal immigrant parents
The Obama administration issued a new policy Friday that says immigration agents should try not to arrest and deport illegal immigrant parents of minor children. The move adds to the categories of people the administration is trying not to deport.
In a nine-page memo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents should use “prosecutorial discretion” to try to avoid detaining parents and, if parents are detained, agents should make sure they have the ability to visit with their children or participate in family court proceedings.
The move won praise from immigrant-rights groups who said it’s a step toward a less harsh detention policy. But a top Republican blasted the memo as another effort by the Obama administration to circumvent the law.
“President Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally refused to enforce our current immigration laws by directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to stop removing broad categories of unlawful immigrants,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, Virginia Republican.
You might be an extremist if......
Thirty years ago Americans would have scoffed at such things being published by their government. Not any more. The true extremists of egalitarianism have gained all but absolute control of government and media in America and in another generation, this nation will be no more than a bad memory to those who survive to serve the tyranny of social dictatorship that is approaching and already here.
DoD Training Manual: ‘Extremist’ Founding Fathers ‘Would Not Be Welcome In Today’s Military’
Manual lists people concerned with “individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place” as potential extremists
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
August 24, 2013
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor “states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists” who are likely to be members of “hate groups.”
Marked “for training purposes only,” the documents, obtained Thursday through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted in April, include PowerPoint slides and lesson plans, among which is a January 2013 Air Force “student guide” distributed by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute simply entitled “Extremism.”
Judicial Watch’s FOIA request asked for “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
As the group notes, “The document defines extremists as ‘a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.’”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently fight to defend.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism.
“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples,” according to the training guide.
In a section drawing inspiration from a 1992 book titled “Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America,” the manual also lists “Doomsday thinking” under “traits or behaviors that tend to represent the extremist style.”
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic consequences from a situation or from a failure to follow a specific course, and they tend to exhibit a kind of crisis-mindedness. It can be a Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods, or the wrath of God. Whatever it is, it is just around the corner unless we follow their program and listen to their special insight and wisdom, to which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any setback or defeat is the beginning of the end.“Nowadays,” the manual explains, “instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
Judicial Watch also acknowledges the Southern Poverty Law Center “is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide,” even though the group itself was directly responsible for a “hate crime” perpetrated on the Family Research Council after it was listed on the SPLC’s “hate map.”
Infowars readers will find much of the training guide’s contents unsurprising as they merely reinforce what we have exhaustively documented in the past.
In 2009, Infowars obtained the “law enforcement sensitive” contents of a Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” which listed supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as potential “militia” influenced terrorists.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Affordable Health care? More good news for America
When is America going to wake up to the lies of this president and those who support his socialist world view of destroying America piece by piece.
UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from insurance, cites Obamacare
Andrew Harrer / BloombergUnited Parcel Service Inc. plans to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The Atlanta-based logistics company points to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a big reason for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News.
- Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor
The decision comes as many analysts are downplaying the Affordable Care Act's effect on companies such as UPS, noting that the move reflects a long-term trend of shrinking corporate medical benefits, Kaiser Health News reports. But UPS repeatedly cites Obamacare to explain the decision, adding fuel to the debate over whether it erodes traditional employer coverage, Kaiser says.
Rising medical costs, “combined with the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost,” UPS said in a memo to employees.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
And this just in: From the religion of peace
I wish people would stop publishing these truthful representations of Islam and what is actually going on in the middle east. The truth so conflicts with the popularized egalitarian memes and the truth must so severely piss off the mainstream media.
In the familiar pattern, the Western media are focused on the military raids against Islamic supremacists in Egypt but ignoring the latter’s use of violence and of women and children as human shields. After all, the “protesters” say they are “peaceful.”
When not similarly ignored, Islamic supremacist aggression against Egypt’s Christians — which was a prominent feature of Muslim Brotherhood governance — is disingenuously reported. Take this AFP report of the fact that the Brotherhood and its allies are torching Coptic churches. The AFP endeavors to exculpate the Islamic supremacists by editorializing, in the report, that these were “reprisal” attacks. But the Brotherhood was not ousted by the minority Copts. To be sure, the Copts far prefer to take their chances with a largely secular, technocratic government backed by the armed forces than the rampant persecution they endured while the Brotherhood was running the show. But it is the army, not the Copts, who ejected Morsi. AFP tries to obscure this by recounting that “the Coptic church backed Morsi’s removal, with Patriarch [i.e., Pope] Tawadros II appearing alongside army chief General Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the military coup.” As I observed in writing about the coup in the August 5 edition of National Review, however, Pope Tawadros was hardly alone — General Sisi also gathered by his side significant Islamic supremacist leaders: Grand Mufti Ahmed al-Tayeb of al-Azhar University and leaders of the Salafist al-Nour party (in addition to prominent secularists).
The Brotherhood is not “retaliating” against Christians. Islamic supremacists are persecuting Christians . . . which is what they do in Muslim-majority countries.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
One way bull
Apparently when it comes to bull and the Obama, the bull only travels one way. Obama has been shoveling bull at the American people for five years, but heaven forbid if someone attempts to shovel any in his direction. The Daily Kos and the rest will have a conniption fit if anyone makes a joke about their messiah.
Fallout continued Monday over the performance of a rodeo clown who donned a mask resembling President Barack Obama during Saturday’s bull-riding competition at the Missouri State Fair.
The Missouri State Fair imposed a lifetime ban on the rodeo clown whose depiction of Obama getting charged by a bull was widely criticized by Democratic and Republican officials alike.
The rodeo clown won't be allowed to participate or perform at the fair again. Fair officials say they're also reviewing whether to take any action against the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor responsible for Saturday's event.
A tempest over the incident erupted after the Show Me Progress website reported a Facebook account of it.
“The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a bull,” the posting said. “The crowd went wild. He asked it again and again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather.”
Another clown then apparently joined the performance.
“One of the clowns ran up and started bobbling the lips on the mask and the people went crazy,” the posting said. “Finally a bull came close enough to him that he had to move so he jumped up and ran away to the delight of the onlookers hooting and hollering from the stands.”
Mark Ficken is the rodeo association president and was the rodeo announcer. His attorney, Albert S. Watkins, said Monday that the clown was acting unscripted. He said it was the clown, wearing a microphone, who made comments riling up the crowd, according to the Associated Press.
Watkins says Ficken’s only comment during the routine was, “Watch out for that bull, Obama!”
The account quickly migrated to the liberal Daily Kos website.
After hearing from reporters Sunday afternoon, fair organizers released a statement, which did not contest the details reported on social media.
“The performance by one of the rodeo clowns at Saturday’s event was inappropriate and disrespectful, and does not reflect the opinions or standards of the Missouri State Fair,” the statement read. “We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday’s rodeo badly missed that mark.”
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/11/4404230/clowns-obama-stunt-at-missouri.html#storylink=cpy
Sunday, August 11, 2013
An Osprey for a dog
Really? Are you freaking kidding me?
First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home
When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.
Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.Arriving in the idyllic coastal retreat of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Mr Obama left behind him in Washington DC high profile debates over the budget, government surveillance and his health care reforms. Instead, he will spend the next eight days playing golf, going to the beach, and buying books from the Bunch of Grapes bookstore.In the air he swapped his suit and tie for khakis and a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, while Mrs Obama wore a yellow-and-white summer dress.Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.It was the first time the Ospreys have been taken on holiday by a US president.
Friday, August 09, 2013
If Russia Doesn't have Gay Athletes
According to the president, "if Russia doesn't have gay and lesbian athletes? It will probably make their team weaker." Who knew? So that's how the Russians have done it all these years? Running sleeper homosexuals and lesbians into the arena to compete in the Olympics!
I always knew some of those Russian Women swimmers and power lifters were probably lesbians. I am still looking back to see if any of their men were homosexuals, but I am having a little more trouble with that historical demographic.
Either way, Ours and theirs will be going head to head once again in 2014. And the president is looking for them to bring home the Gold and Silver and Bronze. I remember Greg Louganis
in 1984 and 1988. He won gold medals in diving and no one ever knew that he was homosexual until his diving days were over. I imagine there are many like myself who could care less about it then or now. But it is bothersome to watch when athletes have to be hyphenated to become celebrities in the egalitarian world of the politically correct.
I always knew some of those Russian Women swimmers and power lifters were probably lesbians. I am still looking back to see if any of their men were homosexuals, but I am having a little more trouble with that historical demographic.
Either way, Ours and theirs will be going head to head once again in 2014. And the president is looking for them to bring home the Gold and Silver and Bronze. I remember Greg Louganis
in 1984 and 1988. He won gold medals in diving and no one ever knew that he was homosexual until his diving days were over. I imagine there are many like myself who could care less about it then or now. But it is bothersome to watch when athletes have to be hyphenated to become celebrities in the egalitarian world of the politically correct.
Oprah's Racist Encounter
Oprah Winfrey, beloved American icon and billionaire has been victimized by racism! In today's world! In today's America! How could this happen? How could this be? This will not be tolerated in America! Of all people to be subjected to such abject and vile racism! Besmirching the visage of Oprah Winfrey is a black mark (substitute bad mark) against all Americans!
Someone should call Barack Obama! Someone should contact Eric Holder and the justice department! There should be a full scale justice department civil rights investigation into this travesty! All present and former members of all white hate groups and Tea Party members should be immediately arrested and interred without bail.
Racism? Well wait a minute, that isn't what happened, at least not exactly. Maybe someone has jumped the gun screaming racism and insinuating that it happened here in the good old USA. It seems this horrible instance of reported racism against Oprah Winfrey didn't occur in America at all and in a late breaking news report, it has been verified that Paula Deen was no where in the vicinity when Oprah was racially besmirched.
This terrible transgression against one of America's most beloved icons occurred on foreign soil. In that country where everyone knows they are nothing but racist. Right? Switzerland!
I think having read Ms. Winfrey's recounting of the sordid event, it strikes me that she was more incensed by the fact that the clerk did not recognize her, than it having anything to do with the fact that she is black. There is no reference to her being treated disparagingly for being black. On the contrary, she was upset because her program is obviously not seen in Switzerland and she is not immediately recognized as "Oprah."
So there in lies the rub ladies and gentlemen. No racism at all. simply a glaring example of "you obviously don't know who I am!" Maybe the clerk sized her up (profiled her) seeing an over weight woman dressed in casual wear shopping in an upscale shop and asking to see extremely expensive hand bags. The fact that she was not recognized her judgement was questioned is what pissed her off and that is why she decided to drag the entire tale of her encounter out into public for the American audience to see and hear.
Oprah on Racism
Someone should call Barack Obama! Someone should contact Eric Holder and the justice department! There should be a full scale justice department civil rights investigation into this travesty! All present and former members of all white hate groups and Tea Party members should be immediately arrested and interred without bail.
Racism? Well wait a minute, that isn't what happened, at least not exactly. Maybe someone has jumped the gun screaming racism and insinuating that it happened here in the good old USA. It seems this horrible instance of reported racism against Oprah Winfrey didn't occur in America at all and in a late breaking news report, it has been verified that Paula Deen was no where in the vicinity when Oprah was racially besmirched.
This terrible transgression against one of America's most beloved icons occurred on foreign soil. In that country where everyone knows they are nothing but racist. Right? Switzerland!
I think having read Ms. Winfrey's recounting of the sordid event, it strikes me that she was more incensed by the fact that the clerk did not recognize her, than it having anything to do with the fact that she is black. There is no reference to her being treated disparagingly for being black. On the contrary, she was upset because her program is obviously not seen in Switzerland and she is not immediately recognized as "Oprah."
So there in lies the rub ladies and gentlemen. No racism at all. simply a glaring example of "you obviously don't know who I am!" Maybe the clerk sized her up (profiled her) seeing an over weight woman dressed in casual wear shopping in an upscale shop and asking to see extremely expensive hand bags. The fact that she was not recognized her judgement was questioned is what pissed her off and that is why she decided to drag the entire tale of her encounter out into public for the American audience to see and hear.
Oprah on Racism
Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight: "I was in Zurich the other day, in a store whose name I will not mention. I didn't have my eyelashes on, but I was in full Oprah Winfrey gear. I had my little Donna Karan skirt and my little sandals. But obviously The Oprah Winfrey Show is not shown in Zurich.”
"I go into a store and I say to the woman, 'Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?' and she says to me, 'No. It's too expensive.'"
When Winfrey insisted she did want to see the bag the shop assistant allegedly replied: "No, no you don’t want to see that one, you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that."
Winfrey, who is a billionaire, continued: "There's two different ways to handle it. I could've had the whole blow-up thing... but [racism] still exists, of course it does."
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Once again not knowing his ass from a hole in the ground
Savannah? Charleston? Jacksonville? None are on the gulf coast!
Once again Barack Obama demonstrates he doesn't now his ass from a hole in the ground and mainstream media allows him to continue to get away with it.
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
One issue voters
Nothing linked on this one, just my thoughts pure and simple.
If you really want to understand why the republican party is dying on the vine and why in all fair analysis, they do not have a snowball's prayer of winning the presidency again anytime in the next twenty five years, then look no further than the American voter base. Specifically, the one issue American voter base.
I have in recent times listened to all manner of conservative pundits while they railed against the conservative voter base and pondered how these voters could abandon their country's future by not showing up to the polls to vote against liberalism. These same pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Herman Cain and others like to make the points that the conservative base is often incapable of understanding the nuances of politics and the various factions of the conservative branches of the party. Specifically, the differences between the old guard blue blood republicans and the new upstart Tea Party conservatives.
In my opinion and observation of a lifetime of American politics, the real problem with the GOP is that they have completely lost understanding of their voter base and in doing so, they failed to see the disease that is eating away at conservatism in America.
The party elitists, the Karl Roves and the John McCains see their world through the rose colored glasses of party privilege and there perceived imperial right to choose for all of the rest of us. They fail to notice or even recognize the interests of their constituency and worse, they allow the opposition to seize upon the very issues that repel conservative voters, while galvanizing the base of the democratic party.
It's no more complicated than this. Liberals are just as mush one issue voters as conservatives. The difference is, once a liberal is assured that a candidate supports their single issue? They could care less what ever else he or she may support. If the candidate is pro choice? Then the fact that he is for raising taxes, reducing the military or reducing medicare and medicaid benefits means little. The same for the block of voters who's one single interest is the homosexual rights agenda.
By example, if the candidate is for homosexual same sex marriage, then whatever else he or she may or may not support becomes immaterial from that point forward, If a particular candidate supports the homosexual agenda, then that candidate has the homosexual vote. While on the other side of the political divide, the exact opposite is true when it comes to conservatives.
If a particular candidate is not pro choice? Then regardless of what their positions are on any other political or party issues, these conservatives won't vote fore that candidate. So what you end up with in the final analysis, is a conglomerate of voters who comprise the liberal left and a minority of voters who comprise the conservative right. As long as the equilibrium of balance remains in favor of the liberals, the republicans will never win the presidency again. Not ever.
Bill Clinton won election against George H.W. Bush not by majority, but by plurality of special interests. Clinton had the homosexual vote, minorities, feminists, labor and unions to name a few. Meanwhile, Ross Perot divided and split the remaining vote against Bush, Clinton breezed to a victory with 42% of the vote. The same math is what put Barack Obama in office both times and it is the same math that will put Hillary Clinton in the White House in 2016.
Unless and until the American conservatives opt to get rid of the republican old guard and get behind truly new and inspiring leadership and until American conservatives abandon the idiocy of single issue voting, look for a long dry period before a republican ever graces the halls of the White House again.
If you really want to understand why the republican party is dying on the vine and why in all fair analysis, they do not have a snowball's prayer of winning the presidency again anytime in the next twenty five years, then look no further than the American voter base. Specifically, the one issue American voter base.
I have in recent times listened to all manner of conservative pundits while they railed against the conservative voter base and pondered how these voters could abandon their country's future by not showing up to the polls to vote against liberalism. These same pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Herman Cain and others like to make the points that the conservative base is often incapable of understanding the nuances of politics and the various factions of the conservative branches of the party. Specifically, the differences between the old guard blue blood republicans and the new upstart Tea Party conservatives.
In my opinion and observation of a lifetime of American politics, the real problem with the GOP is that they have completely lost understanding of their voter base and in doing so, they failed to see the disease that is eating away at conservatism in America.
The party elitists, the Karl Roves and the John McCains see their world through the rose colored glasses of party privilege and there perceived imperial right to choose for all of the rest of us. They fail to notice or even recognize the interests of their constituency and worse, they allow the opposition to seize upon the very issues that repel conservative voters, while galvanizing the base of the democratic party.
It's no more complicated than this. Liberals are just as mush one issue voters as conservatives. The difference is, once a liberal is assured that a candidate supports their single issue? They could care less what ever else he or she may support. If the candidate is pro choice? Then the fact that he is for raising taxes, reducing the military or reducing medicare and medicaid benefits means little. The same for the block of voters who's one single interest is the homosexual rights agenda.
By example, if the candidate is for homosexual same sex marriage, then whatever else he or she may or may not support becomes immaterial from that point forward, If a particular candidate supports the homosexual agenda, then that candidate has the homosexual vote. While on the other side of the political divide, the exact opposite is true when it comes to conservatives.
If a particular candidate is not pro choice? Then regardless of what their positions are on any other political or party issues, these conservatives won't vote fore that candidate. So what you end up with in the final analysis, is a conglomerate of voters who comprise the liberal left and a minority of voters who comprise the conservative right. As long as the equilibrium of balance remains in favor of the liberals, the republicans will never win the presidency again. Not ever.
Bill Clinton won election against George H.W. Bush not by majority, but by plurality of special interests. Clinton had the homosexual vote, minorities, feminists, labor and unions to name a few. Meanwhile, Ross Perot divided and split the remaining vote against Bush, Clinton breezed to a victory with 42% of the vote. The same math is what put Barack Obama in office both times and it is the same math that will put Hillary Clinton in the White House in 2016.
Unless and until the American conservatives opt to get rid of the republican old guard and get behind truly new and inspiring leadership and until American conservatives abandon the idiocy of single issue voting, look for a long dry period before a republican ever graces the halls of the White House again.
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