January 27, 2010


State of the Union

Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Politics, Republicans, White House
By ledygrey (Email) @ 8:37 pm

Would it be too cynical to call it State of the (dis)Union?  I’ll be taking notes.  I’m looking forward to Governor McDonnell’s response and the post-game analysis by my fellow esteemed SA bloggers who are all a lot smarter than me.  Live blog here if you wish. I’ll bring the popcorn.


January 22, 2010


Good Week To Be A Conservative

Filed under: Conservatism, Democrats, First Amendment, Liberalism, Republicans
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 10:41 pm

You know, this is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, health care dies and the Supreme Court unshackles the First Amendment. It’s the best week I’ve had since spring break in medical school — and I don’t even remember it. And there was another item . . .  Air America, the liberal talk show network went out of business — which is a redundancy because nobody was listening anyway. ~ Charles Krauthammer on Fox


January 21, 2010


LibTalkRadio Put Out of its Misery

Filed under: Death Penalty, Democrats
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 6:26 pm

aa tombstone

Just came down the wire. Coincidentally [or perhaps not], I tuned in for a little schadenfreude this morning, and after the Scott Brown victory, they were in particularly miserable form.

Details here. R.I.P., if that means it stays dead.


January 20, 2010


It Begins

Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Democrats, Election 2010, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 6:00 am
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Do not be idle – join the fight for your children and grandchildren.


January 13, 2010


Do Dems Support Freedom Of The Press?

Filed under: Civil Rights, Democrats, First Amendment, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 2:34 pm
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Apparently, this one doesn’t. Democrat Mass. Senatorial candidate Martha Coakley’s aide pushes Weekly Standard reporter down, then continues to assault him as he seeks to question Coakley. Story here.  Let’s see, assault and battery, civil rights violations . . . yes, yes, all kinds of fun things to consider here. Has Coakley fired this thug? No, she’s blaming the incident on “Republican stalkers.” Good grief.

The reporter thinks this might be the perp.  Hey, Chicago style politics is all the rage these days! And Coakley is the Mass. AG! Holy, Moley!

**UPDATE: BigGovernment.com is saying yes, Michael Meehan is the perp. And surprise, surprise, he’s an Obama appointee – for the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees federal news operations like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe no less!! He also worked with NARAL – hey, he’s used to violence. And, you gotta love this line by BIG G:

“His (Meehan’s) Senate confirmation hearing should be a hoot.”

I could not make up much better stuff than this. Thank you Mr. Meehan, you may have just handed the election to Scott Brown.


January 10, 2010


Harry Reid’s “‘Negro’ Problem”

Filed under: America, Barack Obama, Democrats, Politically Incorrect
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 11:03 pm

Frank Beckwith has the story here, with a link to there.

Basically, the Democrat Senate Majority Leader has shot off his idiot mouth once again. Harry Reid’s subtext was actually if Obama had been too “black,” America never would have elected him.

But Commenter “Jay” agreed on the face of it, that

It surely IS true that Obama would have had a much harder time getting elected if he spoke stereotypical Ebonics, just as a white candidate who sounded like he’d come straight from a trailer park…would lose votes on that account.

as did Commenter BSK, who noted that

Obama’s looks and diction may have played a role in his presidency (something true of all candidates)…

And that should be like, duh? to any denizen of the 21st century. If you can’t articulate the English language at least as well as the twits who read the 11 O’Clock News, you can’t be president.

OK, OK, George W, Bush couldn’t quite talk that talk and Sarah Palin could, but let’s move on, and also past Barack Obama’s relative “light-skinnedness,” which actually cuts both ways.

Because there’s a far more serious issue at hand here.

Reid’s use of “Negro” is unfortunate in this day and age, but I’m a generation younger, and I remember MAD Magazine referring to the “TV Negro,” who looked black but sounded like he went to Harvard.

Which—or who—Barack Obama is.

And there’s a PC flap right now over the 2010 US census, that in addition to self-identifications of “race,” “Negro” was kept in, as well as “Black” or “African American,” since some folks from Harry Reid’s generation prefer “Negro.”

But little of this, the word “Negro,” has anything to do with what’s important.

GOPers have some room for a righteous whine here, but not much: Lott’s praise of Strom Thurmond

“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have all these problems over all these years, either.”

was substantive, not just a comment on Barack Obama’s cosmetic appeal.

Yes, it was rhetorical carelessness on Lott’s part. His retraction:

“My comments were not an endorsement of his positions of over 50 years ago, but of the man and his life.”

Yeah, yeah. But it went far deeper than that. When Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948, he was deeply committed to segregation and opposed to anti-lynching laws.

So the Republican Party can enjoy a “gotcha” moment on Democrat Harry Reid and on the press giving him a relatively free ride for violating political correctness.

But it’s a hollow victory, and indeed not a victory atall. Harry Reid mouthed some thoughtless words, but Trent Lott thoughtlessly gave voice to an abominable idea, that Strom Thurmond should ever have been elected president in 1948.

All stupidities are not created equal. Sadly, it’s just more evidence that when it comes to race, today’s GOP still doesn’t get it. Yes, Republican Ike sent in the troops to Little Rock to enforce desegration of our schools. And Sen. Everett Dirksen swung the day in 1964 to win passage of the Civil Rights Act.

But in 2009, The Party of Lincoln has few other laurels to rest on. It can’t even tell the difference between Reid’s stupidity and Lott’s. This has simply got to change.

You gotta walk the walk, but as a politician, you also have to talk the talk. When you speak an alien language like Trent Lott did that night, that Strom Thurmond should ever have been our president, even in loose party talk, you’re not speaking American atall.


December 21, 2009


REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AT ITS WORST.

Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health Care, Uncategorized
By Joel L (Email) @ 9:09 am

The Senate passed its health care bill last night and in doing so did not exactly cover itself in glory. The numerous high-profile payoffs and shameless sellouts used to secure the bill’s passage were enough to make one lose all faith in representative government. Rep. Cantor hit the nail on the head when he stated, “They’re allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators. It borders on immoral. Just look at the way Senator Landrieu put her vote up for sale. Senator Nelson did the same.”

Michelle Malkin breaks down who got what in “Cash for Cloture.”

As my fellow Alabamian pointed out below:

“But when  you express moral opposition to a bill and that moral opposition suddenly evaporates when your state gets enough money – that is a whole different matter.  In Alabama, we have a word for a person who sells his self for money – a whore.”

Sen. Nelson, Sen. Landrieu, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world, but for extra Medicare funding?

bribe


November 18, 2009


The Scots-Irish Continue To Influence America

Filed under: Conservatism, Cultural Issues, Democrats, History, Politics, Republicans
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 1:15 pm

Arkansas 2 is part of what I call the Jacksonian belt, the swath of counties from southwestern Pennsylvania along the Appalachian chain and extending to Oklahoma and Texas which were largely settled by the Scots-Irish immigrants that streamed into America in the dozen years before the Revolution and their descendants. Their great hero, and the son of Scots-Irish immigrants himself, was Andrew Jackson, the victor of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans, who set about removing Indians from much of this territory and was the founder of the Democratic party. In 2008 voters in the Jacksonian belt voted heavily against Barack Obama in both the Democratic primaries and the general election, as you can see on these national maps and by clicking on individual states to see the county-by-county returns. This map showing the counties which cast a higher percentage of votes for John McCain in 2008 than for George W. Bush in 2004 is essentially a map of the Jacksonian belt.

If Vic Snyder is in trouble, it’s a good bet that many other Democrats from the Jacksonian belt are too.

Very interesting. My Scots-Irish ancestors are smiling from heaven. More here.


November 3, 2009


NJ and VA go red

Filed under: Democrats, Election 2009, Republicans
By Paul Zummo (Email) @ 10:34 pm

The McDonnell blowout is no surprise, but Christie’s relatively comfortable win is.  Of course you never know how many dead will rise in New Jersey to vote for Corzine, but it looks like the GOP just picked up two gubernatorial seats.


October 27, 2009


What if the Kennedy Legacy had been Pro-Life?

Filed under: Catholicism/Catholic Culture, Democrats, Penumbra Lovers
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 12:03 am

Oh, what could have been…

It’s no secret that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and the American Catholic bishops were pals. Friends, even. Hung out together, drank together, as friends do. Give each other awards. And they had a deal.

x

“I knew Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy was a friend
of mine. Congressman, you’re no Ted Kennedy.”

The late Edward M. Kennedy’s son, the mostly undistinguished congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI), gets an earful from the Bishop of Providence:

(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) -The Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, today issued the following statement in response to a Cybercast News Service article that reported: Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) told CNSNews.com that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning “the flames of dissent and discord” by taking the position that it will oppose the health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress unless it is amended to explicitly prohibit funding of abortion.


“Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s statement about the Catholic Church’s position on health care reform is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts. But the Congressman is correct in stating that ‘he can’t understand.’ He got that part right.

As I wrote to Congressman Kennedy and other members of the Rhode Island Congressional Delegation recently, the Bishops of the United States are indeed in favor of comprehensive health care reform and have been for many years. But we are adamantly opposed to health care legislation that threatens the life of unborn children, requires taxpayers to pay for abortion, rations health care, or compromises the conscience of individuals.

Congressman Kennedy continues to be a disappointment to the Catholic Church and to the citizens of the State of Rhode Island. I believe the Congressman owes us an apology for his irresponsible comments. It is my fervent hope and prayer that he will find a way to provide more effective and morally responsible leadership for our state.”

Wow. “Irresponsible.” “Ignorant.” Catholic bishops never would dissed Teddy that way.

And Teddy Kennedy never would have attacked such reliable Democratic Party allies as the US Catholic bishops either—the deal was that the American bishops looked the other way whenever Teddy screwed up, and never opposed him politically.

That was the game, the unwritten agreement. The deal.

You know, opposed him politically over that issue—abortion—the inconvenient Catholic truth on “choice,” inconvenient for Catholics, for Catholic Democrats, and especially for Democrat Catholic bishops.

“Congressman Kennedy continues to be a disappointment to the Catholic Church.”

…said Bishop Tobin. Wow.

Of Ted Kennedy the man, what should we say? His personal life was certainly a disappointment before man and before God, before his family and before his constituents, and more disappointing than most. But being disappointing is true of all of us, even if to a lesser degree. We shall not judge.

But not only in death, but in life, Ted Kennedy was lionized not just by men, but worse, by the men of his church—and worst, by his bishops—that his politics in service of the poor somehow made up for it all, and as if that issue could be outweighed.

I can’t say I’d be strong enough to resist politics if the tide turned—and Ted Kennedy pulled a 180 from “pro-life” to “pro-choice” in a Boston minute [see Southern Appeal's Alberto Hurtado on "Teddy Who Was Once for Life" for the gory details].

But let’s think just a moment on what America 2009 would be like if the Lion of the Senate, the Lion of the Democratic Party, the Lion of Martha’s Vineyard, had put up just a fraction of his political clout against abortion, as the late Henry Hyde did.

What if there were a “Kennedy Amendment?”

Rep. Henry Hyde was no lion, just some guy in congress. He lived with little fanfare, and died with even less fanfare.

He’s remembered for nothing except one thing— theHyde Amendment stands as one of the few obstacles to the US Government being in the abortion business. It can’t finance abortions. The law is still on the books, for now.

Patrick Kennedy wants the Hyde Amendment gone, of course: erased, sent to the dustbin of history. And I expect that Congressman Kennedy will get his wish in the coming years, unfortunately.

Nothing lasts forever in politics, but what a different country this would be today if there had been a Kennedy Amendment…

Me, I might be a Democrat today, as I’m mushy [or "crunchy"] on a lot of the other issues. And the United States of America would be the standard-bearer in defense of the unborn, in defense of the gift of life all across the world.

Instead of what our country is, a big fat zero, let’s face it.

Patrick Kennedy accuses the Catholic Church of fanning “the flames of dissent and discord.” Ha. I hope you’re right, Congressman, I hope you’re godamm right, and it’s about goddam time the Church did fan the flames of dissent and discord. What’s a church for, anyway? To be an arm of the government?

We can only hope that this flap marks the end of 50+ years of the unholy alliance between the Kennedy family and the bishops of the American Catholic Church, and that “friendship” is over, and the “deal” is off.

See, after all these years of mythmaking about Jack, Bobby and Teddy, their real legacy could have been the “Kennedy Amendment,” in defense of the most defenseless of all, the unborn, and of human life itself.

That’s the Kennedy family’s greatest tragedy of all.


October 19, 2009


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October 17, 2009


The Jackal Pack Gets its Man

Filed under: Cultural Issues, Democrats, Rush Limbaugh
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 2:09 am

That would be Rush Limbaugh of course, thwarting his lifelong dream to affiliate somehow not just with professional sports [once upon a time he lackeyed for MLB's Kansas City Royals], but with his true love, the NFL.

For those who came in late, Limbaugh was prepared to pony up some portion of his hard-earned fortune [$20+ million a year] to become a minority owner of the St. Louis Rams.

“Minority.” Therein lies the rub.

Limbaugh hasn’t been gentle on the Black Establishment, especially the corrupt demagogues Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, nor has he been gentle on their fealty to the Democratic Party.

Limbaugh’s a Republican, afterall.

Neither has Limbaugh been particularly kind to the pathologies that are sometimes excused as “African-American culture,” or charitably, the fallout from slavery and Jim Crow. Crime, gangs, broken families, education, employment, whatnot.

Race is America’s Third Rail—to touch on its implications and enduring problems in any meaningful way is social suicide, and that includes African Americans like Bill Cosby, who endured Jim Crow personally in his journey as one of Black America’s first transracial—post-racial—social pioneers.

Cosby, like Jackie Robinson, pierced the ceiling of racial prejudice by overwhelming merit. Cosby was charming, could absorb the flak without firing back, and he was funny. Robinson was charming, could absorb the flak without firing back, and could play the hell out of the game of baseball.

Limbaugh’s funny and charming, and very good at what he does too. See, this isn’t about race, it’s about partisanship. It’s about political power.

The Democratic Party cannot gain or stay in power without retaining 80-90% of the African American vote. That’s just a statistical fact.

Therefore, race-baiting—in this case branding the other “side” as racist—isn’t only convenient, it’s entirely necessary for the Democratic Party and their clients like Jackson and Sharpton and Waters and Lee and the NAACP and MSNBC in these, the early days of the 21st Century.

Just as it was in the 1960s, and has been ever since.

Y’see, after his baseball career was over, Jackie Robinson tried to become a journalist. In 1960, he interviewed both John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. According to US government archives

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/nixon-draft.html

Robinson viewed Nixon’s civil rights record as more promising than Kennedy’s, especially after meeting with both candidates.

But the fix was in. The political power game, in favor of the Democratic Party. And so

Robinson was pressured into taking an unpaid leave of absence and ending his triweekly column with the liberal New York Post when he publicly endorsed Nixon.

It’s not about race and never was. It’s certainly not about Limbaugh.

Even Jackie Robinson himself had no chance against the machine, and he was no Rush Limbaugh. It’s not about race and never was. It’s about power, pure and naked.


October 7, 2009


Another exciting local race

Filed under: Democrats, Virginia Politics
By Paul Zummo (Email) @ 8:35 pm

One of the great joys of living in suburban DC is that I am privy to the ads not just for the local Maryland races, but also for all of the always thrilling Virginia ones as well.  It’s hard to top the lovely Webb-Allen Senate campaign from 2006 in which, by the end, I wanted both men taken out back and shot.  That same year was the Steele-Cardin race here in Maryland, one in which I don’t believe I ever actually saw Ben Cardin’s face, but I sure did see a lot of Michael Steele – in both his own ads and in Cardin’s.  I’m surprised I didn’t see Steele portrayed in devil horns at any point, but I was busy moving that month (I always seem to be moving in October).

This year is of course the gubernatorial election pitting Republican Bob McDonnell against Democrat Creigh Deeds.  McDonnell’s campaign has been okay.  He has run a lot of fluff ads featuring his family and suggesting that he will magically cure the local transportation problems by selling state-run liquor stores.  As for his opponent, he has run a very focused campaign that has centered on one crucial issue.  It’s an issue that keeps Virginians up every night, no doubt, and which might be the most pressing concern for all involved.  That’s right, Bob McDonnell wrote a master’s thesis 20 years ago that suggested such shocking things like: it isn’t ideal for the family when the mother works, Griswold v. Connecticut was wrongly decided, and that the removal of religion from public schools was a bad thing for the country.

Horrors I know.

Naturally this has been played up by the not-at-all uber partisan Washington Post.  Honestly, Deeds would have been an idiot not to have made some political hay out of this, especially in liberal northern Virginia.  Unfortunately, his entire campaign has essentially centered on this one aspect of McDonnell’s public life.  I have not seen one single substantive ad from Deeds outlining anything remotely like a positive vision of what he is going to do for Virginia.

Not only has this been the dumbest campaign I have ever witnessed in my life, it doesn’t even make logical sense.  Even if McDonnell were the king of all social conservatives, does anyone rationally believe that he’d be able to outlaw contraception and abortion as the governor of Virginia?  Somehow I don’t think the Chief Executive of a state that doesn’t even allow it’s governors to run for re-election is quite that powerful.

Finally the Virginia Republican party (ah to have a local state party that has enough money in its coffers to even pay to have a commercial made let alone broadcast it) has decided to have some fun with Deeds’ completely inept campaign, running an to the tune of “Dirty Deeds” by AC/DC.

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It might seem like whining to complain about Deeds’ negative campaign, but even Jim Moran thinks it’s getting ridiculous.  For the love of humanity, when Jim Moran thinks you’ve gone too negative, it’s time to dial it back a little.

Creeds is probably toast, though it’s a little closer than it should be.  Creeds has simply offered the voters nothing.  As Jim Geraghty puts it:

Look, if Deeds had prompted the opposition to play “Highway to Hell,” that’s the closest he would have come to generating an actual transportation plan.


September 25, 2009


Breaking Non-News!

Filed under: Art, Democrats, Under the Bus
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 10:52 am

art cult

Yosi Sergant, former Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, and NOT a political hack attempting to hijack the NEA for partisan purposes, and assuredly NOT a member of any non-existent “cult of personality,” has resigned.

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.



Beck’s Point

Filed under: Conservatism, Democrats, Election 2008, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 7:54 am

An excellent piece in today’s issue of the American Thinker makes Glenn Beck’s point that, perhaps, Obama’s election will be better for America in the long run:

Would the country be as aware of the following if not for an extremist government in power in Washington?  Acorn and the “community organizer” groups have been revealed to be nothing more than corrupt partisan hacks exploiting the poor and the taxpayers.  The unions and their leaders exposed as power hungry ideologues with no interest in the long term well-being of their members.  The mainstream media’s willingness to lose all credibility with the vast majority of the public with its not so subtle cheerleading for their preferred politician has become obvious to all.  The Democratic Party, at one time the self-declared defender of the little guy, has openly declared war on small business and capitalism.  The Democratic members of Congress have been revealed to be indifferent to the voters, incapable of reading bills and fully in the pockets of liberal special interests groups.

This issue was debated in an earlier post. Read the rest of the AE piece here.


September 24, 2009


Naked Bleg

Filed under: Art, Cults, Democrats, Manliness, The Chief, unicorns
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 11:46 pm

One of our commenters disputes there’s a “cult of personality” around our current president.

naked Obama on unicorn

In the interest of fairness, we ask our readers to forward any similar renderings of Reagan or Bush, naked and triumphant. Unicorn optional.

—The Management

[As for naked paintings of Bill Clinton, let's just not go there.]


September 23, 2009


Let’s Recap

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Law, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 10:39 pm
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September 22, 2009


Maltese Double Cross

Filed under: Abortion, Catholicism/Catholic Culture, Culture of Life, Democrats, White House
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 5:55 pm

Doug Kmiec, a law professor, pro-life advocate, former Reagan Administration official, and evangelical-Catholic-whatever, took a lot of heat from us usual suspects for endorsing Barack Obama, perhaps the most pro-choice major candidate ever.

“A black man; a caring man; a talented man. A man different from conservative self and yet calling me to find the best of that self.”

Professor Kmiec has now been appointed by President Obama as America’s new ambassador to Malta.

A scene from A Man for All Seasons comes to mind, where Thomas More confronts his betrayer, Richard Rich:

There is one question I would like to ask the witness.

That’s a chain of office you’re wearing. May I see it?

—The Red Dragon.

What’s this?

—Sir Richard is appointed Attorney General for Wales.

For Wales.

Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world.

But for Wales?

Or Malta.


September 18, 2009


“Defund ACORN” a bill of attainder?

Filed under: Constitutional Law, Democrats, Law
By Younger Now (Email) @ 4:18 pm

via Big Government

Rep. Nadler (D-NY) claimed today that the Republican-led initiative to defund ACORN is an unconstitutional bill of attainder. I am no expert on bills of attainder but this does not seem like one. Rather than a punishment for past action without trial (i.e. a bill of attainder), voting to cease funding ACORN is more of a decision that the appalling, systemic flaws present in the organization make it unfit to continue receiving federal funds. I would think there is a key distinction between discontinuing funding and a punishment that requires ACORN to do something.

Any thoughts on this?

(Cross-posted on Underdog Soldier)


September 16, 2009


The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 9:04 pm

“There are more,” Mike Flynn, Editor-in-chief of new site BigGovernment.com, told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview this afternoon regarding the number of undercover films exposing ACORN. Flynn would not reveal the location of the ACORN office where the latest video was filmed, but he said, “It’s a slightly different discussion in this one than you’ve seen so far.” The video should break around 9 p.m. EST.

Flynn said this is not the last one, either. “There are more after that. It is amazing. Stay tuned.”

More here.



Obama Opponents = Racist

Filed under: Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Cults, Democrats
By Tom Van Dyke (Email) @ 6:07 pm

Oh, it’s on Page One of the Obama playbook. The NYT Magazine ran “The Mellowing of Bill Clinton” a few months ago:

And the man once called the “first black president” remains deeply wounded by allegations that he made racially insensitive remarks during the campaign, like dismissing Obama’s South Carolina win by comparing it with Jesse Jackson’s victories there in the 1980s.

“None of them ever really took seriously the race rap,” he told me. “They knew it was politics. I had one minister in Texas in the general election come up and put his arm around me.” This was an Obama supporter. “And he came up, threw his arm around me and said, ‘You’ve got to forgive us for that race deal.’ He said, ‘That was out of line.’ But he said, ‘You know, we wanted to win real bad.’ And I said, ‘I got no problem with that.’ I said it’s fine; it’s O.K. And we laughed about it and we went on.”

Well, Bill laughed, I guess, but it was Hillary who took it in the pantsuit.

I was a little surprised the elites and mainstream media didn’t pick up on this, but the answer’s obvious now—they intended to use the same slimy tactic again, this time at the real enemy, the right. If they pulled it on Bill Clinton, what chance do the rest of us have?

No doubt some people are serious in calling Obama’s opponents racist, like that unfortunate puddinhead Jimmy Carter, but for the rest, it’s all just part of the game.



Speaking of Obama & ACORN

Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2008, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 9:40 am

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education.  Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school.   That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.  Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

Hmmm . . . more here.


September 15, 2009


ACORN Video #4

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Liberalism, Uncategorized
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 3:57 pm
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(Warning – F bomb not censored.)

Keep the pressure on.


September 14, 2009


ACORN Spotlight Picking Up Steam?

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Law, Liberalism
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 1:07 pm

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings and IRS audits of ACORN following the release of three videotapes that show the group’s employees offering advice to a “pimp” and a “prostitute” on how to skirt the law.

Story here.



Slammer Time. . .

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Liberalism, Uncategorized
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 9:05 am

For ACORN employees? ACORN investigation video #3 here.


September 12, 2009


What A Week

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Liberalism, Radio
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 1:43 pm

I’ve recently posted some comments about Glenn Beck and his increasingly aggressive investigations of corruption tied to the Obama administration and the current Congress. The events over the last few days have been breathtaking, when considered as a whole.

Though a couple of Republicans had earlier attempted to cut off funding to ACORN and expressed concern about the corrupt practices related to voter registration, their efforts were fruitless. Their powerless status in the current Congress, along with their sickening timidity, were mostly laughed at by the likes of ACORN and the hyper-radical left.

They’re not laughing any more. In less than one week, Glenn Beck, in partnership with the much-respected Andrew Breitbart and two 20 something guerilla-warfare videographers by the names of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, have done what the neutered Republicans in Congress have been unable (or unwilling) to do since Obama’s election. Let’s recap what’s happened since last Saturday night, September 6th:

1. Obama czar and self-avowed communist Van Jones, resigns after being hammered relentlessly on Beck’s radio and TV show.
2. Acorn fires 2 workers after Beck breaks and airs the investigative report from James O’Keefe exposing numerous crimes in the Baltimore ACORN office.
3. The Census Bureau severs ties w/ACORN after the video goes viral on the internet, talk radio, and cable news. (ACORN was one of the “volunteer organizations” who were going to be helping with the census in 2010. No word yet as to whether or not they had planned on counting 13 year old prostitutes from El-Salvador).
4.) A second ACORN video is brought to light by Beck with many of the same crimes being committed in the Washington DC ACORN office.
5.) ACORN fires 2 more workers.
6.) Respected WSJ writer Charles Krauthammer gives the story more legs and credibility by writing about it in the WSJ and discussing it on the Hugh Hewitt show. WSJ writer John Fund follows with demands funding be cut off immediately.
7.) Two Republican members of Congress (Bachmann and Boustany) are making new calls for a Congressional investigation and cutting off funds. I suspect that chorus will grow.

That’s one helluva week my friends. Beck, Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Miss Giles deserve our congratulations, support, and prayers. They are doing what real journalists and reporters in America used to do. They are patriots. Thank God for them. Anyone out there still think Beck is “harmless?” I can assure you ACORN, Congress, and the Obama administration don’t think so. I can’t wait to see what next week brings.

(You can follow all this here.)


September 11, 2009


Shoe #2

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 1:33 pm

The second shoe has dropped. Congress must cut off funding now and call for hearings. Beck scores again.  And it’s going viral. The stenographers aren’t happy. Is O’Keefe the new Drudge of Youtube?


September 10, 2009


This Is Beck’s Bombshell

Filed under: Democrats, Law, Politics, Radio
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 8:47 am
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He says he’s going to name names – BIG names. He says it’s bigger than Watergate. We shall see. More here, here, and here.


September 9, 2009


Glenn Beck Was Right About Van Jones

Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Law, Liberalism, Politics, Radio
By Davy Buck (Email) @ 10:19 am

He is now promising a news story that will send government officials to jail. I’m betting he’ll be right again. How about you? How many readers will go on record here? Place your bets suckers.

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September 1, 2009


Virginia: Change we Can Believe In?

Filed under: Cultural Issues, Democrats, Republicans
By Alberto Hurtado (Email) @ 10:05 am

In some respects, the election of Obama to the Presidency showed the culture wars are over. Craig Deeds who is running for Governor in Virginia would like you to think he is just like Obama. So, should it come as any surprise that down fifteen points and two days prior to the critical end of the second quarter/beginning of the third quarter fundraising cycle, the Democrats in Virginia and the Washington Post tag-team to resurrect the culture wars to fire up their base? The controversy is a decades old thesis written by the Republican candidate for governor. From today’s op-ed on Bob McDonnell: (more…)


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