Americans are in Great Financial Shape
Apr 1, 2007 Political
The first fund raising reports are in for the overly extended presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton has a slight lead over her nearest rival though you would not know it from the press reports. Clinton raised 26 million dollars and that total was bumped up to 36 million when she added her own Senate money into the mix. Barack Obama raised 22 million dollars but you would never know he was that close by all the America loves Hillary reports that are out there.
One thing the candidates try to do is downplay any ideas that their money came from rich people. They show all these reports and make a big deal about how many 100 dollar grass roots money they get but the fact is they get money from fund raisers where people pay thousands of dollars to get in. But since the candidates want to stress just how much money they have received from Joe Six Pack I thought it would be a good idea to examine what this means.
If record numbers of average, that is middle class, people are giving loads of money then we are in really good shape in this country. If Americans can give 48 million dollars in a three month period then there are really no problems with the economy and a lot of people are working (which has been the case all along). Since this is true we do not need the Democrats trying to enact more entitlement programs and we do not need to raise taxes. The country is doing well as evidenced by the huge sums of money people are throwing at political candidates. When all the candidate’s numbers are totaled the figure will be huge and provide even more evidence that Americans are doing well.
Every time we have an election there are untold millions of dollars spent so that some jackass can get a few more years in office and live a lucrative life thereafter. Meanwhile, these very same jackasses run around telling us how terrible the poor are doing and that we need to have more programs. I think that we should make people spend their own money to run for office and use the donations to pay for social programs. Let’s see how many people pony up then. Until that time, I do not want to hear any more whining about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and how we need to provide more government services.
Remember, Hillary might have set a record for amount of money raised in a quarter by a Democrat but she has name recognition and the former pervert in chief to help raise money. Obama is the new kid in town and he is not that far behind and that has to give Hillary nightmares. Perhaps that is why she added the extra 10 million, so it would look even bigger. She was probably worried that Obama would raise more than she so she added the extra money as a buffer. I can’t figure out if that ploy was designed to psyche out her opponents or to psyche her into feeling better about herself.
I truly hope she does not win the primary so we can be rid of her and that pervert to whom she is married. Plus, it would be fun to watch the mental meltdown.
Source:
Drudge
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House Silent on Brit’s Plight
Apr 1, 2007 Political
The US Senate, before it adjourned on a one week break (these weasels get more breaks than union employees), passed a resolution condemning the Iranians for taking 15 British warriors hostage by violating Iraqi territorial waters. The resolution calls for the immediate, safe and unconditional release of the Brits. The House, on the other hand, has been silent on the plight of our allies’ war fighters.
Nancy Pelosi has been too busy taking a vacation to Israel on taxpayer money under the guise of a fact finding mission to address the issue. How many trips do members of Congress need to take to Israel to gather facts? How many more facts can there be to gather? Regardless, Pelosi is over there being shown around instead of over here doing her job. I guess it would not matter since the House is on a two week break. So much for fewer breaks and longer work weeks.
Several Republicans have expressed concern over the silence of the shams on the left. The Congressional leadership (now there is a misnomer) decided not to get involved:
“The leadership discussed it and agreed that inserting Congress into an international crisis while ongoing would not be helpful,” Daly said. Breitbart
Leave it to a bunch of lefties not to have the balls to insert itself in the name of our friends. I guess they are waiting to see which way this turns out before they pick a side. It is painfully obvious that Iran violated Iraqi territory and abducted 15 British war fighters. It is also obvious that Iran is forcing these same warriors to say they were wrong and that they are being treated well. The damned Democrats are too spineless to even use words to condemn this so you know they will be spineless when it comes time to act. They are cowardly and they make me sick and this should be a clear message to our troops; if faced with the same situation fight, fight, fight or you will be held hostage for a long time. It is the Carter way of the Democratic Party.
To paraphrase George Patton, I would rather have a battalion of terrorists in front of me than the Democrats in Congress behind me.
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Who Would Believe That Garbage?
Mar 31, 2007 Political
Geraldine Ferraro was the vice presidential candidate about 23 years ago and she, at 71, is vowing to have Hillary Clinton’s back in this race. Ferraro claims that the only way Hillary can lose is if Republicans resort to dirty tricks. It is always amazing to me to listen to supposedly intelligent people spew stuff like this and expect that people are going to believe that only Republicans are dirty and that their candidate deserves to win and would have were it not for those dirty Republicans. I am further amazed that there are people who vote and who actually fall for this crap.
Ferraro is starting early in an attempt to soften the blows that will surely come should Hillary get the Democratic nod. Those blows will certainly be well deserved and will not be dirty tricks in any way. Hillary Clinton has lived her life in the public eye and that means that everything she has done is open to scrutiny. Her health care fiasco, what she knew and when in Monicagate, her law firm billing records, and her distrust of the military will all be open for the pickings. Ferraro is mentioning dirty tricks now so as to cast doubt on future accusations and she is doing so because Hillary has a lot to answer for. Ferraro mentioned the dirty tricks with regard to Kerry’s failed campaign as if to give credibility to position:
“We’ve learned our lessons from 2004,” she told The Sunday Telegraph, referring to the so-called Swift Boat campaign when some former Vietnam veterans who served with John Kerry, the Democrats’ last White House nominee, questioned the medals he won for valour.
“The Democrats’ mistake was to sit back and think nobody would believe this garbage. But some of it stuck and the harm was done. This time we’ll be out there fighting back,” insisted Miss Ferraro, a feisty New York native who is a regular commentator on Fox News, the conservative television network. Telegraph UK
Ferraro mentions this as if it is true. The Swifties lied and people believed the garbage. There has not been any credible evidence to show that these guys who served with Kerry lied but to Kerry and the Democrats they must have and people were foolish enough to believe it. We are supposed to believe that because the Swifties were against Kerry they were liars but every veteran Kerry paraded out who talked nice about him was a decent honorable guy who was telling the truth. Not one person has been able to refute what was alleged by these guys and yet they are the liars. Kerry did not help himself by coming home and protesting against this country and then by committing treason. He lied when he said that he did not throw his medals over the fence. He either lied now or he lied then when he said they were his. Since he is a Democrat we are supposed to bow down to his greatness and accept what happens. If you disagree you are part of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Ferraro claims that they learned to fight back against these lies because of the Kerry campaign. What they learned was that they needed to start damage control early and to lie as early as possible to sow the seeds of doubt so that by the time the truth is exposed it will be in question. They are starting now by putting out their propaganda long before Hillary even has the nomination. Ferraro claims that the only thing that can keep Hillary out of the White House is Republican dirty tricks which means she has discounted the primary as an obstacle.
If Ferraro thinks that Hillary will not be open game in the Democratic primary then she is nuts. I know that a lot of the candidates have pledged to make a clean fight of it but if they do not have the dirt in the background they do not deserve to win. If any one of them thinks for a moment that Hillary will not sling mud the first chance she gets, especially if she is losing ground, then they are sadly mistaken. Clinton will go for the jugular the first chance she gets and while the dying candidate is reeling from a mortally inflicted wound it will make no difference what kid of civility was pledged. Clinton will sling dirt when the time is right and the others in her party who want to be president had better be prepared to open with both barrels or they will die a quick death. Clinton is already leaking bad things but doing it under the radar. As time goes on she will get more aggressive.
Ferraro can claim that it is Republican dirty tricks but Clinton needs to make it that far and to do so she will have to pass by the Democratic dirty tricks first. As for my opinion, it is not a dirty trick to expose the truth about a candidate. A dirty trick is when you fabricate a story or make an event out of one that does not exist (think Plame and prosecutor firings). I also think that Hillary does not need a person who lost miserably telling her who to win…
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Use Clinton, not Gonzales!
Mar 30, 2007 Political
On March 15th, just as this whole issue with legally firing prosecutors was unfolding in yet another Democrat induced hysteria for political gain (think Plame) a guy named Ari Emanuel wrote a piece at the Huffington Post. This is it in its entirety:
I have been trying for some time to find a good way to teach my sons that lying is not the right thing to do. At long last, I have found the perfect example: Prosecutorgate. I never thought I’d find myself saying this, but here goes: Thank you, Alberto Gonzales and your team at the Justice Department for providing the very high-profile cautionary tale I was looking for.
As Messrs. Sampson, McNulty, Moschella — and, who knows, Rove and Gonzales himself — are forced to fess up in public, I can turn the TV from Hannah Montana to C-SPAN and tell my kids, “For heaven’s sake, whatever you do, don’t act like that!” Now I just have to figure out the pre-school equivalent of, “It’s always a bad idea to tell Congress things that are directly contradicted by 143 pages of internal emails and documents.”HuffPo
As this guy states, he is thankful that the issue happened so that he could use it as an example for his children. He wanted to teach them that lying is not right so he picked the example of Gonzales because, being an idiot, Emanuel was not able to come up with an example until this very moment. I guess in this moonbat’s world it is rare to find a lie (though that has yet to be determined in this case) being told among politicians. I have a few here that this guy could have used more effectively:
I did not have sex with that woman-Bill Clinton
I have always been a Yankee fan-Hillary Clinton
I did not try to take a bribe-John Murtha
I invented the Internet-Al Gore
I was not drinking and I tried to save that poor girl-Ted Kennedy
We will end the culture of corruption-Nancy Pelosi
The land deal must have slipped my mind-Harry Reid
I did not throw my own medals over the fence-John Kerry
I knew nothing about Mike Steele’s credit report-Chuck Schumer
I had no idea that these contract would benefit my husband-Dianne Feinstein
All you had to do Ari was stop drinking your Kool-Aid long enough to look around. There are many examples of out and out lies right in the Democratic Party if you are willing to look for them. The issue with the attorneys is a non starter and Bush and his administration are being taken to task for not firing all 92 prosecutors. Clinton did that to get rid of one who was investigating Dan Rostenkowski (who received a pardon from Clinton) so it is obvious that his action was politically motivated. No one questioned it because they are at will appointees who serve at the President’s pleasure.
Ari Emanuel has been drinking the burrito flavored Kool-Aid again and he let us know how really stupid and partisan he is by making a claim that he had to wait until now to find an example of a lie. Which reminds me of another lie:
I have been trying for some time to find a good way to teach my sons that lying is not the right thing to do. At long last, I have found the perfect example-Ari Emanuel. You could be your own best example…
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Demand Feinstein’s Resignation
Mar 29, 2007 Political
I wrote in the past about Dianne Feinstein’s illegal and unethical activities with regard to her husband’s business. I have discussed in the past that Feinstein does not want the war to end because she is funneling contracts, many of them no-bid, to companies owned by her husband or in which he has a financial interest. Today, my friend Gribbit has a post up about this very issue and it appears the the whole thing is getting a lot of light on it. Unfortunately, the whole unethical and illegal behavior has not been reported in the media and, just as when I reported it in this blog and on the air, it is being ignored. The Democrats trumpeted this culture of corruption and pointed fingers at Republicans. The entire time they were making accusations and saying that they would clean up DC, they were involved in unethical behavior themselves. Harry Reid and his land deals, William Jefferson and his payoffs, and Dianne Feinstein (or as Gribbit calls her, Feinslime) and her funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money into her husband’s (and ultimately her) hands.
Part of the money was spent to provide better heath care services for veterans so is it fair to say that Feinstein is partly responsible for the mess that Congress had its panties in a wad about? Feinstein got richer and richer at the expense of our troops. Two general officers and the Secretary of the Army lost their jobs over this mess. They were the sacrificial lambs but now it is time to get rid of a person who had direct, financial, involvement in the mess. Dianne Feinstein needs to be removed from office.
I am urging all people who read this to go to her website and fill out a contact form demanding that she resign for her misdeeds. Do not let anyone BS you, make the demand. It should not hurt their feelings and they should just do it. After all, that is what they expect each and every time they demand a Bush administration official resign (and often for little or no reason other than partisan politics). It is very clear in this case that Feinstein was involved in illegal behavior and that she knew it was illegal. She failed to disclose her ties to the companies with business before Congress and she failed to recuse herself from votes that could have (and often did) a huge financial impact on her family. She failed to do these things despite being informed by others outside of Congress that conflicting issues were going to come before her. She still disregarded this and took decisions that allowed her family to profit from government contract. The fact that some of these were no-bid contracts should also raise a red flag, especially when one considers how appalled the Democrats said they were at that practice when Bush used it to employ the services of Halliburton.
In addition to sending a demand to Feinstein, I also suggest you send an email to Harry Reid demanding that he assist in getting rid of her. I also suggest you send these items to media outlets and demand that they cover the issues. We want Feinstein to resign.
She claims to be anti-war but it appears she is all for it if her family can profit from the work of the military. Her resignation from Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee is not enough because she abused that position for all the years of the war. She is only turning tail now because someone turned on the light and like any good cockroach, she scattered.
GET RID OF HER NOW!
Sources (read them both and then tell me again how they will end the corruption):
Gribbit’s Word
WND
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