The Liberal Democrat Party – A Study in Victimology

The Liberal Democrat Party’s sole means of existence is to create as many “victims” as possible and to promise, with perfidious regularity, that their government will take care of your every wish and desire (it has gone way beyond needs). The Utopian Nanny State of Amerika is their ultimate goal, with them in control, of course (otherwise it would not be their idea of a Utopian Nanny State).

In order to be “victim”, as defined by Liberal Democrat Victimology, one needs only to exist. Anything that has ever gone wrong in life, or just slightly irritated you, must be the fault of someone other than yourself. In their Utopian Nanny State of Amerika, as a member of their Coalition of Victims, you need not take responsibility for anything. If you were a slackard in school and are now dumb as a box of rocks and cannot hold even the most menial job, it is not your fault. Blame it on NAFTA, or immigration, or better yet, blame it on Bush! Since personal responsibility is no longer necessary or desired, much less a work ethic or any sense of shame, you are a perfect candidate for the Democrat Coalition of Victims.

The best part of Liberal Democrat Victimology is that you may not even know you are a “victim.” If you are a hard-working American who gets up and does the right thing by going to work, paying your taxes, feeding your family and helping your neighbor, you are a “victim.” You do not think yourself a victim but you must be for Liberal Democrats to exist. Therefore they convince you that you are a victim of some “evil rich”, whatever that means. Liberal Democrat Victimology Theology does not accept the premise that a hard-working American works hard in hope of one day becoming one of the “evil rich.”

This just cannot be allowed! What if everyone worked hard, took responsibility for themselves and their own actions, cared for their own family and helped their neighbors? An attitude like that would be the end of Liberal Democrat Victomology and the Utopian Nanny State of Amerika. These blasphemous thoughts must be purged for the minds of the people. Liberal Democrat Victomoligists started this purge roughly 40 years ago through the public schools. Aided and abetted by the National Education Association (of Liberal Socialists) the Nation’s children have been systematically indoctrinated in the nuances of Liberal Democrat Victimology. Grades? We don't need no stinking grades! The “C” slackard student (victim) may have a ‘self-confidence crisis’ if the hard-working “A” student receives any type of recognition for a job well done. Competitive playground games? No! Someone might lose and have their feelings hurt (victimized). Now, don’t get me wrong. There are some good, honest teachers out there in the trenches, but I fear they are fighting the good, but futile battle.

Liberal Democrat Victimology has now become part of the 2008 Presidential campaign talking points for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. The Democrats have embraced the idea that soldiers are a new constituency in their Coalition of the Victimized. Obama's victory speech after the South Carolina primary in January grouped soldiers and their families with "the mother who can't get Medicaid for her sick child," the "teacher who works another shift at Dunkin Donuts" and the "Maytag worker who is now competing with his own teenager for a $7-an-hour job at Wal-Mart."

This is just insulting to our brave Volunteer / Heroes of the US Military. They must look back at their homeland from their faraway combat duty posts in disbelief and wonder, “Is this really what we are fighting and bleeding for?” How sad!

America's Vets - Heroes All

Memorial Day is a good time to reflect on the sacrifices and services of the American soldiers and veterans and the U.S. military men and women. The American military is, has always been and will always recruit the best and finest of the crop of young men and women of the country and we will continue to shower them with appreciation, support and prayers, as we have always done. Memorial Day is just an opportunity for us to express the special places they have in the hearts of American citizens and more by honoring the people who work in the various branches of the military.

The horrific tragedy of September 11, 2001, stirred all and reawakened the spirit of patriotism in all hearts and unity and oneness bound all Americans in a special bond. If only that were still so! However, the words 'United We Stand' and 'God Bless America' still hold the power to stir most hearts on this very special day. Let the feelings of true patriotism and love for all those who have risked their lives for the sake of America show by putting up American flags in front of your houses, have parties with patriotic themes to honor military and ex-military men and women in your neighborhood and community. It is a good idea to coax them into telling more about their experiences with the military and on the warfront and you may get an opportunity to hear some exceptional real tales that you may have not even imagined about.

As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said in his Memorial Day address in 1884 at Keene, Memorial Day 'celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith.' With changing times, Memorial Day is more celebrated as a holiday than the glum occasion it was meant for. We must remember that the day means to honor of America's defense personnel who lost their lives in various wars. Though, people used to honor the graves of the war dead even before the Civil War, the National Memorial Day holiday, originally known as 'Decoration Day' was first observed on May 30, 1868.

The concept originated in the mind of General John Alexander Logan, who dedicated this day to decorate the graves of the American Civil War dead. Later, it encompassed all those who sacrificed their lives for their nation, from the Revolutionary War to the present. May 30th every year was celebrated as the Memorial Day until 1971. Later, the federal government issued the orders of holding the Memorial Day on the last Monday of May. Alabama celebrates Confederate Memorial Day on the fourth Monday in April while the states of Mississippi and Georgia celebrate it on the last Monday of April.

Seeing the Memorial Day losing its importance in the minds of younger generations, the concept of the National Moment of Remembrance was hatched by a national humanitarian organizations known as the 'No Greater Love, based in Washington, D.C. It was introduced in 1997 and is recognized by the President and Members of Congress. Since then, 'Taps' is at 3 p.m. throughout America to honor the contributions of our dead soldiers. All Americans are encouraged to pay respect to them by keeping silent for one minute in their memory at 3:00 p.m.

Better Watch Your Back, Barack!

Hilliary Rodham Clinton, the self-anointed Democrat Presidential nominee, was diagnosed with terminal 'foot-in-mouth' disease on May 23, 2008. This is usually a politically fatal affliction from which mere mortal politicians never recover. How did this condition manifest itself?

HRC, formally known as the smartest woman in the world, brought up the Robert F. Kennedy assassination while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Hussein Obama - leaving friend and foe alike aghast!

Said she, "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," dismissing calls to drop out.

Clinton made her comments at a meeting with the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, a paper in South Dakota. She is campaigning in the state ahead of its June 3 primary.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has already expressed anger toward Clinton during the race, planned to spend his rally May 23rd at his Harlem-based National Action Network addressing "a sense of outrage and dismay at statements made by" the New York senator, according to his office.

“We have seen an x-ray of a very dark soul,” wrote Michael Goodwin, a New York Daily News columnist. “One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?”

The outburst joins “Sniper-gate” – Hillary’s imaginary landing under fire in war-torn Bosnia – as one of the most memorable mistakes of a historic fight to the finish between two remarkably evenly matched candidates.

Later the same day she firmly planted her foot in it by issuing a lame apology that mentioned the brain-cancer diagnosis this week of Ted Kennedy, RFK's brother.

"The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator [Ted] Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family, was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever."

Any comments about assassination and the primary contest are especially sensitive because Obama is the first African-American to advance so far in the race for the White House and he has faced threats, congressional sources have said. Concerns about Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s safety led the Secret Service to give him protection last May, before it was afforded to any other presidential candidate, although Mrs. Clinton had protection, too, in her capacity as a former first lady. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s wife, Michelle, voiced concerns about his safety before he was elected to the Senate, and some black voters have even said such fears weighed on their decision of whether to vote for him.

A word to the wise, Barack Hussein Obama, any threats you may or may not have faced in the past were mild and harmless in comparison. You have now been targeted by the Pros. The Clinton's have left a string of bodies from Arkansas to Washington and have it down to a science.

Don't think I would take any late night walks in Fort Marcy Park, if you know what I mean!

Consequences of an Obama Presidency

Being that Barack Hussein Obama is now the defacto Democrat nominee for the presidency, what would things look like four years from now should he, Heaven forbid, be elected?

The issue that would be affected the most would be the shape and texture of the Mideast, the fount of worldwide terrorism, suicide bombers, Zionaphobes and haters of the United States and her allies.

Ever since 1972 and the George McGovern candidacy, the Democrat party has longed and moaned for a Utopian world of benevolent peace and harmony, much like a spoiled child demanding the unattainable. Their perfect world would be one in which we could "talk" and "reason with" those who have no intention of talking or reasoning with us as rational partners. Past administrations have learned this the hard way through events like the bombing of the World Trade Center, the attack on the USS Cole and, of course, September 11, 2001. But not, apparently, Barack Hussein Obama and most of the left-wing-nuts he represents.

They do not wish peace simply for the lack of violence, but for the money they could divert to the insatiable welfare state of their creation and sole reason for existence. The Left cannot exist without the pandering-for-votes opportunity of a larger and larger "nanny state" but have no intentions of themselves giving up anything to keep it going. The resources taken away from national security, they see as their natural inheritance.

The lessons of 200+ years of history dictate that if the United States were to show a mere iota of weakness, surrender or cut-and-run mentality from Iraq, our enemies will salivate in their celebration of our palpable moral weakness. When a head is lowered in weakness, it will get lopped off! Therefore, with an Obama presidency, Iran will have its nuclear weapon by 2012 in the confident expectation that America has no heart to do battle to prevent it.

On the domestic front, if Barack Hussein Obama keeps his pledge to raise taxes on the top 10% of income earners, he will give them enormous incentives to come up with new and ingenious ways to lower their reported income. Since just the top 1% of top income earners pay over 35% of all income taxes paid by ALL Americans, any decline in their taxable income will result in a dramatic decline in tax revenue; which will result in calls for even higher taxes. This, Barack Hussein Obama will learn the hard way.

His policies on quasi-universal health care will change all the incentives in our current health care system; and all for the worse. Studies show that a high percentage of demands for health care are the result of bad personal behaviors, such as eating or drinking too much, not exercising enough, and not taking advantage of preventive care. All this results in the tremendous waste of health dollars because they are paid by the State, not the responsible individual. Many older doctors, along with their wealth of knowledge and experience, with leave the profession rather than become employees of the State, constantly regulated, badgered and demeaned.

Neither Barack Hussein Obama, now the creature and prisoner of the American far Left, seems to understand how incentives motivate human behavior -- not force, nor coercion, mockery or nursery-school regulation. Real possibilities of good rewards up ahead for free and responsible actions are what produce growth, prosperity and security. They still live in the failed fantasy world of the European Left of 150 years ago.

Having learned nothing from the failures of socialist and statist and anti-capitalist ideas of the last 100 years, they are doomed to repeat those mistakes with devastating results. They porpel themselves, not with practical wisdom, but with outrage and contempt and an overarching desire to punish those who do not agree with them.

During a Barack Hussein Obama reign, virtue, character and responsibility for oneself would be mocked and discouraged. The State would take over more and more of life; leaving less and less control over one's own future. Moral concepts of right and wrong would be relegated to the Nanny State . . . and woe be unto 'right-wing' dissenters!

One can only hope that Barack Hussein Obama, as president, will be dissuaded from acting as he now says he will. Only in that way, as in the old proverb, will "God take care of children, drunks and the United States. "

But don't count on it!

Obama and Pretty Boy?

John Edwards, former presidential candidate and losing VP candidate with the haughty looking John Kerry, yesterday endorsed Barack Hussein Obama in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Watching the newsclips of the event reminded me of just how smarmy Edwards, a vehicle to carry around a haircut, really is. Edwards' endorsement of Obama is just the latest in a line of high-profile Democrats who have thrown Hilliary Clinton under the campaign bus on the road to Denver.

Once again, Edwards, the "champion of the poor?" is in the spotlight spouting populist pablum. The former ambulance chaser with the exaggerated North Carolina drawl who lives in a 28,000 sq foot, $6 million 102 acre estate and $400 haircuts is the poor-man's champion. What a sick joke! Even with the sound off, the video of this bottom-crawling-scum-sucking-scavenger leaves you reaching for the anti-bacterial soap. His facial expression while speaking at you is one of raised eyebrow pandering condescension; reminiscent of the high-school frat boy we all knew with new contact lenses, constantly blinking with nose held high.

The professional chattering class are now all agog at the prospect of an Obama / Edwards ticket this fall.

Perfect! The empty suit and the empty head. It just doesn't get any better than that!

Welcome My Friends To The Show That Never Ends

I have not commented lately in this space simply because I have been sitting back and enjoying the unfolding train wreck called the Democrat Presidential Primary. There has been so much good material, I just did not know where to start. However, it is now time to start weighing in with greater regularity.

The Demo-spat primary has been going on for a year and a half; however it feels like a period longer than married life! It has been entertaining and nauseating at the same time. Just how much populist-socialist pandering can one stand?

Hillary downing shots-and-a-beer in Indiana and fake Southern drawls in black churches. Promises to raise taxes on the evil rich while she and Hubba-Bubba rake in $109 million last year in questionable income. Hypocrisy is nothing new to Hillary (just how did you find those billing records?) but now has become so outrageous that even wild-eyed mouth-foaming liberals are taking notice. Vivid memories of withering sniper fire in Bosnia and duck hunting in her youth. Hillary wouldn't know a duck if one sat in her lap and called her "momma"! (No offense meant to Chelsea) What a show! Hillary is the best thing the Republicans have going. The longer she hangs around like the nagging ex-wife from hell, the more dysfunctional the Dumbocrat Party becomes.

As for Barack Hussein Obama? Well, just where do you start? Just who is this guy? A two dimensional image with no depth. What are his accomplishments that make him think he is qualified to be Commander-In-Chief? A still wet-behind-the ears (big ears at that!) Senator from Illinoxious rated as the most Liberal Senator in a Liberal Senate. His position on the economy is not that much different from any other without-a-clue Liberal: raise taxes! For example, on the issue of capital gains taxes; he wants to raise them from the current 15% to 29%. When it was pointed out to him that, historically, lower capital gains taxes generate more investment and therefore, higher revenues from capital gains taxes as a result his response is that the consequences of higher taxes is not the concern; the issue is one of "fairness"! The Liberal idea of "fairness is thus: If you have worked hard, taken risks and have reaped the rewards of your work and risk and have achieved "it"; that is inherently unfair. Therefore, we, who know better than you, will confiscate your "it" and give it someone who has not worked for it or taken risks to achieve it and really does not deserve it. That is, in the Liberal Universe, somehow defined as "fair." Besides that, he is completely oblivious to the fact that 40% of cap-gains tax revenue come from people making less than $50,000 / yr. (You know, the people who cling to God and guns.) Never a thought from Liberal Dem Land that cutting government spending might be part of the answer.

Historically, a man's character has, in large part, been determined by the company he keeps. This is still true unless your name is Barack Hussein Obama and the company you keep is a flaming radical black preacher damning America (Jeremiah Wright)or a un-repentent domestic terrorist such as William Ayers of Weather Underground fame. (No, Weather Underground is not a heavy metal rock band but a bunch of radical leftists that planted bombs in such places as the Pentagon and regrets they did not do more.) If the Obamessiah were a conservative Republican, the media, by now, would have left nothing more than a greasy spot on the sidewalk of 'such an out of the mainstream' candidate.

But, not to worry, we do not have a conservative Republican anywhere in sight!

The Audacious Hoax

The fictional telling of Hillary’s hair-raising , bravery under fire, resume enhancing trip to Tuzla, Bosnia is just amazing; but unsurprising. It is just one more of those little “I misspoke” episodes to add to Whitewater, Travelgate, the missing Rose law firm, suspicious pardons, Johnny Chung and cattle futures.

For those of you who are “news deprived”, at a recent campaign speech Hillary regaled the crowd with her version of a daring aerial decent to the Tuzla airfield complete with military evasive maneuvers and a movie-like dash to safety from the plane to awaiting, presumably, armored transport; All this to escape withering sniper fire for the surrounding hillsides.

Just another day in the life of a First Lady that takes the tough jobs and goes to places that are “too poor or too dangerous” for the President. This Indiana Joan tale made good fare for her adoring crowds until that pesky CBS News outfit (no vast right wing conspirator there) had the audacity to dig out the actual footage of that, perilous in her own mind, event. The now famous video shows the First Lady and her daughter Chelsea leisurely strolling down the steps of the plane and across the tarmac to a pre-staged greeting party complete with an eight year old little girl reciting poetry and presenting flowers to Hillary. Hillary in turn rewarded the little Miss with air kisses and greeted others in the party. No sniper fire; no mad dash to the safety of vehicles, no emergency military landing under fire.

But that is all right. She simply misspoke, being, as she explained, sleep deprived from all her hard work and experience of the past 35 years. But something unusual has happened this time. The news media did not let it die on the vine.

Now Bosnia-gate. This “embellisment”, apparently told for years, may be the proverbial straw that broke the jack-asses back. It is becoming a watershed event in Clintontopia and one that may just give the peasants of her serfdom a very rare chance to liberate themselves. No more apologizing. Now comes the euphoria, the liberation, the freedom of . . . Bosnian snipers! Suddenly, liberals all over are remembering that they never really liked the Clintons, even as they defended them in the 1990s. Suddenly, they can sidle into a discussion about Mrs. Clinton's ethics, and all on a subject that (bonus!) is relevant to today's race. Suddenly, they can break free of the Clintons, much as New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson did earlier this week, with a look of ecstasy, as he ran toward the daylight and endorsed Mr. Obama.

Obama’s Wright “Chickens” Could Roost on Hillary

Hillary and her cadre of hit-men (persons) are sitting fat and sassy like the feline who devoured the avian. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barak Hussein Obama’s spiritual mentor and pastor for the past 20 some-odd years, the Black Racist bigot whom Obama considers an ‘old uncle’, has moved into the Obama-Haus and will not go away.

Barak Hussein’s Rev. Wright problem was not solved with his, now famous, Tuesday Speech when he refused to disown this hate-speech spewing, anti-American black racist; instead he tried, unsuccessfully, to distant himself from some of Rev. Racist’s more politically poisonous rants, but not from the source itself. The lame attempt of justifying such bile with “moral relativism and white guilt” was more damaging that saying nothing. White independent voters are beginning to see The Obamessiah for what he really is: Just another black South Side politician.

This apparent solid gold gift to the Hillary campaign may just prove to be fool’s gold. Hillary and Hillary, Inc. have been very quite on the subject. This, in itself, is a very odd occurrence for this group of flame-throwers; instead she has been “back-rooming” super-delegates dropping hints of doubt about Obama’s electability. This back-room politics as usual and the deafening silence from her on Wright’s rants could just be her undoing. The Wright issue will make her unelectable as well if she cannot stand up to him. But, alas, if she does, she could win the nomination but lose a significant chunk of the key black vote in the general election. If she does not come out and condemn the black racist and his movement, she will lose the key white vote. Damned is she does and dammed if she doesn’t. Priceless!

This is all very entertaining to this “typical white person” as we are considered by Hussein Obama, but it begs the question: If there is such a thing as a “typical white person” is there, on the other side of the equation, the “typical black person”? Sounds like racial profiling to me!

Face Off

Well, well, well…a lot has happened since I last set electrons to LCD display; today’s equivalent to setting pen to paper.

The endless presidential campaign grinds on with the Republican hash settled on John McCain, warts and all. The Democrats are, delightfully, still scrapping like two schoolgirls over the last prom dress; it being ripped in two so neither can wear it.

Hillary and Bill have met their match in Barak Hussein Obama. What was to have been a regal procession to coronation for the world’s self-proclaimed queen has turned into one of the great political melees of the century. The Hildabeast vs Obamessiah.

While there is little difference in Clintonian and Obamaminian liberal socialism, the differences in the candidates are as stark as black and white (pardon the obvious pun).

Hillary: Shrew-like; screech-speak; cackling; manipulative; ruthless; scheming; frightening; bullying; duplicative; self-adoring; secretive; resentful; back-stabbing (long list of victims, political and otherwise); pompous; narcissistic; sense of entitlement; personality-challenged; all terms with a photo of her highness in the definition.

Obama: silver-tongued-devil; snake-oil salesman; upstart; uppity; holier-than-all; and until now, unscarred by political fisticuffs.

While Hillary has dragged around more baggage over her “35 years of experience” than a similarly tenured Red Cap, Obama now finds himself stranded on the tarmac with his own set of Samsonite; that being one Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

For those of you who have been in a bubble-like isolation for the past couple of weeks, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, retired, has been Obama’s pastor and spiritual mentor for the past 20 years. He married Obama and his wife and baptized their children. He also asserts, from the pulpit, that the U.S. government invented the HIV virus “as a means of genocide against people of color”! Wright claims that America was morally responsible for 9/11 – “chickens coming home to roost” – because of, among other crimes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then there is the charge that the U.S. government under Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat god-father) knew about Pearl Harbor in advance, but lied about it. And best of all, the government gives drugs to black people to enslave and imprison them. All this from a pastor who thundered not once but three times from the pulpit (on a DVD the church proudly sells) “God Damn America”!

This is the spiritual mentoring that Obama (and presumably thousands upon thousands in other predominately black congregations) has received in Wright’s ministry of the “Black Value System”. Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ, believe in precepts, covenantal statements and vision that include:

- Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”

- Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System

- Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value system.

- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resouces for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.

- A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.

- A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.

- A congregation working toward ECONOMIC PARITY.

If Barack Hussein Obama is to be the candidate for president who can transcend race, be above it all; like his DNA, blend all of America into one color, why his he still a member of this church? Why does he refuse to disown this black-racist preacher?

As Charles Krauthammer, in his column, “The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud”, puts it:

Obama's 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.

His defense rests on two central propositions: (a) moral equivalence, and (b) white guilt.

(a) Moral equivalence. Sure, says Obama, there's Wright, but at the other "end of the spectrum" there's Geraldine Ferraro, opponents of affirmative action and his own white grandmother, "who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." But did she shout them in a crowded theater to incite, enrage and poison others?

"I can no more disown (Wright) than I can my white grandmother." What exactly was grandma's offense? Jesse Jackson himself once admitted to the fear he feels from the footsteps of black men on the street. And Harry Truman was known to use epithets for blacks and Jews in private, yet is revered for desegregating the armed forces and recognizing the first Jewish state since Jesus' time. He never spread racial hatred. Nor did grandma.

Yet Obama compares her to Wright. Does he not see the moral difference between the occasional private expression of the prejudices of one's time and the use of a public stage to spread racial lies and race hatred?

(b) White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," and then proceeds to do precisely that. And what lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.

Obama may be right. There is, still today, racism in America. But it is Black Racism now!

As Ricky Ricardo would have stated, “You have a lot of ‘splaining to do, Barak!”

No Longer Able to Ignore Good News

As violence continues to decline in Iraq as a result of the Petraeus Surge, the leading Democrat presidential pretenders find themselves backed in an uncomfortable corner of their own making. For months, and in some cases years, they have been undermining the US mission in Iraq and demanding immediate withdrawal and defacto surrender to Islamist Terrorists. After supporting the war when politically advantageous, Clinton and Edwards, like vanes in the political winds, have swung to anti-war / anti-Bush zealots shamelessly pandering to the rabid mouth-foaming Left. Hussein Obama touts his credentials of not having voted to authorize the war. In fact, he did not vote against it either. He wasn’t even in Congress then. Talk about experience!

Almost from the time boots hit the ground, anti-war Leftists have been demanding immediate withdrawal based on the violence and sectarian fighting in Iraq. Sunnis vs Shites with Americans caught in the middle. Never once have they acknowledged the cause of most of the violence was the result of Iran inserting itself in the mix continuously stirring the pot and providing arms to the warring factions. Nonetheless, the main reason they gave for cutting and running was the security situation and perceived civil war.

Then along came General David Petraus and his “Surge” strategy; Brilliant in its simplicity and amazingly effective. Of course, this was immediately labeled a failure by Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry (land deal) Reid with his proclamation, “This war is lost.”

Far from being “lost”, the Surge has routed al-Qeada in Iraq from Baghdad and inflicting on them an humiliating loss of face with the ‘Arab Street.’ Violence is down by more than fifty-percent in Baghdad and more in other parts of Iraq. Tribal leaders, tired of al-Qeada brutal tactics and imposition of strict Islamic Law, have turned against them and allied themselves with US Troops. Iran has even greatly reduced its influence in the theater as a result.

Unable to ignore the progress of the US Military, despite the almost complete boycott of positive reporting by the media, the pandering politico class are sensing a change of direction in the political winds and true to their character, or lack thereof, they are changing their tone. No longer to you hear the constant drumbeat of “violence”, “security” and “civil war” as reasons for immediate withdrawal, it is now “lack of political progress.” True, the federal government of Iraq, as not performed to the expectations of US advisors. In fact they have been almost dysfunctional. (It is really the height of chutzpa to see US House Leader Nancy Pelosi (d) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (d), leaders of the dysfunctional US Congress, point fingers at the Iraqis!)

What is happening is amazing political progress, not from the top down, but from the ground up! Local tribal governments have taken the lead and are making their towns and cities work. Oil revenues are being shared, despite a lack of a federal law mandating it. The northern Kurd region is, for all intents and purposes, autonomous and governing themselves quite nicely. Again without federal mandates. The point is, Iraqis are taking control of themselves and their lives without the “federal government” telling them how and when to do so. This is a lesson the United States might take to heart!

Not surprisingly, the Democrats, champions of big omnipotent government, decry the lack of a strong federal government in Iraq as the reason de jour to cut and run. I would venture to guess, that if the government in Baghdad shows progress, the next reason to cut and run will be the number of potholes on Main Street unfilled.

When Things Go Right - Where Is The News?

As we come upon this Thanksgiving Season, let us be thankful for all the men and women of the greatest military of the greatest country on earth. These exceptional real Americans are fighting to preserve our way of life from an enemy that has vowed to destroy it. They are fighting a long way from home to allow us to be here, stuffing ourselves with gluttonous abandon then napping the afternoon away under the guise of watching the ‘big game’ on our big screens. They are fighting for our right and ability to have things to be thankful for. And yes, they are also fighting for the right of some (mostly liberal Democrats) to be absolutely miserable, self-loathing human beings wallowing in defeatism and pessimism about America and it’s rightful place as the shining light of freedom and opportunity in an anxious world.

These genuine heroes, by any definition, are defying all the odds and prognostications of our defeatist media and absolutely loathsome leaders in the US Congress. The proof is on the ground in Iraq and in the near complete blackout of positive news from the theater fed to a mind-numbed populace here at home by main-stream-media. Isn’t it amazing that just a few short weeks ago, ink by the barrel was sloshed upon every car-bomb, every US casualty, the almost gleeful daily body count of our soldiers and Marines. Countless hours on the floors of the House of Representatives and Senate spent on 41 (to date) attempts to legislate our defeat. Almost 24/7 arm-chair media punditry demanding an immediate surrender and humiliating defeat.

Now, amazingly, nary a word about Iraq in the news from Democrats. What can account for this sudden silence on the subject? Ralph Peters writing in the New York Post answers this mystery:

Mr. Peters notes that the situation in Iraq has improved so rapidly that Democrats now shun the topic as thoroughly as they shun our troops when the cameras are not present. The positive indicators on the ground are now so strong that the American public no longer believes the rabid anti-war defeatist lies. Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid’s “This war is lost” no longer rings true.

Attacks of every kind are down by at least half and in some cases more than three-quarters. For those of us with public school math educations, that is a lot! An almost devastated country is struggling back to health. And our mortal enemies, al Qaeda’s terrorists, have suffered a defeat from which they, hopefully, may never recover. They have lost their “street cred.”

Mr. Peters notes that there are five big reasons why this dramatic turnaround has come to pass:

1. We did not quit! Despite the best efforts of the anti-war left and their wholly owned Democrat politicians and media to demoralize and hamstring our efforts, our troops stood to and did their duty bravely. The tenacity of our soldiers and Marines in the face of mortal enemies in Iraq and the blithe traitors at home is the No. 1 reason why Iraq has turned around.

2. General David Petraeus took command: Petreaus brought three vital qualities to our effort: He wants to win, not just keep the lid on the pot; he never stops learning and adapting, and he provides the top-cover for innovative subordinates. In other words, he supports his troops!

3. The surge: While the increase in troop numbers was important, allowing us to consolidate gains in neighborhoods we’d rid of terrorists and insurgents, the psychological effect of the surge was critical. The message sent by the surge to our enemies was that we not only wouldn’t quit, but also were upping the ante. It stunned out enemies – while giving Sunni Arabs disenchanted with al Qaeda the confidence to flip to our side without fear of abandonment. Sorry Mookie….you can’t believe everything you read in the New York Times – we are not losing!

4. Fanatical enemies: We lucked out when al Qaeda declared Iraq the central front in this war against civilization. They alienated their local allies by their monstrous actions and indiscriminate killing of civilians. Al Qaeda in Iraq is now a spent force and has suffered a strategic humiliation.

5. The Iraqis are sick of bloodshed and destruction: This is the least-recognized factor – but it is critical! When tyrannical regimes collapse in artificial states such as Iraq, a lot of pent-up grudges play out violently – sectarian fighting. People seem to need to get suppressed hatreds out of their systems. This appears to be what is happening. Violence is down and the downward trend is continuing. They have had their fill of gunmen and gangsters who claim to be their defenders. Passivity has morphed into active resistance to the terrorists and militias. The blood-lust of hatred has passed; peace is built on sobriety, not passion.

As Thanksgiving approaches, consider this example from Baghdad:

As part of its campaign to eliminate Iraq’s Christian communities, al Qaeda in 2004 bombed St. John’s Christian church in Doura, in the city’s southern badlands. By last spring, local services had stopped completely.

Our Army’s 2^nd Battalion of the 12^th Infantry stepped up. Under Lt. Col. Stephen Michael, our soldiers methodically cleaned out Doura of terrorists – no easy or painless task – and aided the reconstruction of the church.

Last week, a grateful congregation returned for a service that was, literally, a resurrection. Fifteen local Muslim sheikhs attended the Mass to support their Christian neighbors. Could their be a more hopeful symbol?

The long suffering Iraqi Christians will celebrate Christmas in their neighborhood church this year. “Peace on earth” will mean more to them than mere words in a carol.

As for the heroes of the 2-12 Infantry who made it all possible, their motto is “Ducti Amore Patria” or, for recent public school graduates, “Having been led by love of country.”

On Thanksgiving Day, be thankful for such real Americans!

Caveat Emptor (Let The Buyer Beware)

Move-On.org and the rest of the Anti-American Looney-Left proudly proclaimed ownership of the 2006 mid-term elections which put an inept Democrat Party in the majority of the most inept organization in the world: the United States Congress. As a result they have put the national security of the United States at risk, however, I suspect they are now having ‘buyer’s remorse.’

To be fair, there are probably some good Democrats somewhere out there, but they are completely obscured by what can only be laughingly referred to as “Leadership” in the pathetic persons of Nancy Pelosi (D-Speaker of the House) and Harry Reid (D-Senate Majority Leader).

Pelosi flounced into her position, with a whinnying Reid, who looks in need of a dose of prunes, in tow with all the pomp and flourish of pretend royalty. She/He proclaimed the elections as a mandate for ending "George Bush's war" in Iraq and draining the swamp of corruption in Congress. That had to be your first clue of just how incompetent a pair this was going to be.

The election was never a mandate to surrender in the war in Iraq, although it was a sign of frustration on how it was being prosecuted. In spite of polls taken ad-nauseam showing the American people more perceptive on the need to prevail in Iraq than are Democrats, Peolsi-Reid continue to trot out their delusional calls for immediate withdrawal. They have tried, unsuccessfully, 41 times to force our surrender through wasteful and useless legislative shenanigans for one purpose and one purpose only: to appease a rabid mouth-foaming Leftist base that has hijacked a once respectable political party.

As far as ending corruption in Congress? Do the names Jack Murtha (d-PA) and William Jefferson (d-LA). Ring a bell?

In 1980, during his third term as a Congressman, Murtha became embroiled in the Abscam investigation, which targeted dozens of congressmen. The investigation entailed FBI operatives posing as intermediaries for Saudi nationals hoping to bribe their way through the immigration process into the United States. Murtha met with these operatives and was videotaped; ultimately, he was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" but he was never indicted or charged. He did agree to testify against Frank Thompson (D-NJ) and John Murphy (D-NY), the two Congressmen mentioned as participants in the deal at the same meeting and who were later video taped placing the cash bribes in their trousers. (I guess there really is no honor among thieves!)

The FBI videotaped Murtha responding to an offer of $50,000, with Murtha saying, "I'm not interested... at this point. [If] we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't", right after Murtha had offered to provide names of businesses and banks in his district where money could be invested legally. The U.S. Attorneys Office reasoned that Murtha's intent was to obtain investment in his district.

Murtha is now the Chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. Talk about putting the fox in the hen-house!

As for Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat: Jefferson was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from a Northern Virginia investor who was wearing an FBI wire, according to a search warrant affidavit. A few days later, on Aug. 3, 2005, FBI agents raided Jefferson's home in Northeast Washington and found $90,000 of the cash in the freezer, in $10,000 increments wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers. The money was said to have been "fresh and still crisp" due to the containers. He is currently the subject of a corruption probe, and in May 2006 his Congressional offices were raided.

Despite his legal woes, in the midterm election on November 7, 2006, Jefferson received 30% of the vote against several opponents, and then proceeded to win in a runoff election against Louisiana State Representative Karen Carter on December 9, 2006.

On June 4, 2007, a federal grand jury indicted Jefferson on 16 charges related to corruption; if convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

He, of course, is still a member of the Democrat Congress.

The dirty little secret that Move-on.kook / Looney-Left are now realizing is that the politicians they bought and paid for have no intention ending the war. A year after regaining control of the Senate and the House by railing against “George Bush’s war” in Iraq, the Democrats show no sign of changing the war machine. Four of the top five senators who earmarked money in their states for defense contracts were not Republican hawks, but liberal and centrist Democrats – Carl Levin of Michigan, the Hildabeast Clinton reportedly of New York, Charles (Smarmy) Schumer of New York, and Jack Reed of Rhode Island.

The New York Times recently reported that members of the House earmarked an extra $1.8 billion to the military budget for projects the Pentagon did not request. This is despite cutting earmarks by half. The top earmarker at $166 million was the chairman of the Defense Appropriations Committee, John Murtha of Pennsylvania. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California asked for $32 million and majority leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland request $26 million.

The same party that complains about Bush's no-bid contracts for Halliburton in Iraq is willing to maintain this system of funding local companies and programs that also face no competitive bidding.

The Seattle Times detailed last month how Senator Patty Murray and Representatives Norm Dicks and Brian Baird, all Democrats, earmarked $17.65 million to a boat company for a vessel the Navy did not ask for and never used. Murray also earmarked $6 million to a company for battle gear the Army rejected. Representative David Wu, an Oregon Democrat, earmarked $2 million for combat T-shirts that were banned because their polyester was flammable.

Move-On / Looney Left: You were lied to! Enjoy your purchase and shop again in 2008 at Kook-Mart!

The Sound of Silence

Since the beginning of our action in Iraq, there has been an unending cacophony of vitriol spewed at President Bush and our efforts to drain the terrorist swamp and free 50 million people. The Looney-Left and their bought-and-paid-for politicians have called the President and our troops everything but human. They have been gleefully pronouncing the defeat of the United States almost before we had boots on the ground. Aided and abetted by a compliant media establishment, this “defeat” has been chronicled ad nauseam. Every incident that could be spun into bad news was used to pummel the Administration and undermine the efforts of our military the front pages of newspapers and lead stories of new-casts. There were no end to this defeatist coverage force-fed to the American public and the world.

How odd it is now, and how deafening the silence when there is actually good news happening on the ground in Iraq. The earth-shaking news (in any other war) that the enemy has been routed and chased from Baghdad got nary a mention in the US media. This story ran in the New York Times around November 8^th but was nowhere near the front page, but buried on page A-19! For those who missed it (and how could you not miss it?) here it is:

American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the “surge” to depart as planned.

Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, “there’s just no question” that violence had declined since a spike in June.

“Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak,” and attacks involving improvised bombs are down 70 percent, he said.

I have not heard any national politician on the Liberal-Looney-Left-Democrat side even acknowledge this news, much less applaud it. The Democrats have tried to pass legislation 41 times as of today, to ensure defeat of the United States by limiting military funds and attempting to micro-manage a war. They have been and continue to pander to their liberal anti-war base to the enormous detriment to our national security and safety of our troops. This, however, does not seem to bother them as they wont to continue this destructive behavior. They are so completely invested in the defeat of the United States as to be in complete denial of the real possibility that we are within reach of victory in this phase of the War on Terror.

How could anyone want people such as this to be the leader of anything, much less the United States?

The Difference Between Conservatives and Liberals

This is a conundrum whose unwinding has been attempted by people much smarter than I. However, that will not stop my attempt at the same:

Personal freedom and economic equality; it seems that Conservatives and Liberals want both, however much in differing quantities.

Liberals are enthralled with “communitarianism”; this is a warm-and-fuzzy buzzword among Liberal-Elitists that means ‘community over individualism’. This concept is evident in such literary mole-hills as Hillary Clinton’s “It Takes a Village”, in which she muses that the ‘community’ is better suited to raising children that the individual family. This philosophy has turned our public schools and institutions of higher learning into social laboratories of liberal indoctrination over the last half-century.

Liberals are very keen on individual freedoms when it comes to sexuality and related social matters, but will sacrifice the individual when it comes to economic equality and seem to want the government to ensure both. On the other hand, Conservatives strive for a balance between freedom and social conscience with an emphasis on personal freedom and responsibility.

This dichotomy would seem to be the difference in whether you believe that human actions are primarily dictated by the “system”, or whether the way the system works is due to how the people within the system act. Is society a thing in and of itself, or is it the sum of human interactions? It is, of course, a little of both but most people tend to think of it as primarily one or the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian of the mid-1800’s, pointed out that equality and liberty (freedom) are two inherently opposite goals. Since men are not all equal in abilities, liberty will allow the better to outstrip the less talented, and give a head start to their offspring, resulting in greater and greater inequality. Therefore, Liberals, being loathe to admit that those who do better are more talented, will increasingly tend to restrict liberty in favor of equality. It is this contradiction that is behind dictatorial “equality,” such as Communism and Socialism. How odd it is that Liberals, as a whole, will espouse support of Darwinism (survival of the fittest) in the development of the species, but shun the same concept when it comes to socio-economic development.

Liberals tend to want heavy doses of both equality and freedom, without much thought to how the two can co-exist while Conservatives try to balance the two, with an emphasis on liberty and personal responsibility over socialist equality. This difference in evidenced by the belief of Liberals in the malleability of human nature. They believe that if they can manipulate society in the right way, they can have both near-absolute freedom (a lack of personal responsibility) and near-absolute equality (economic and social). Whereas Conservatives believe in the relatively fixed state of human nature and are more willing to accept compromise in certain areas, realizing a modicum of freedom must be given up for the good of the community in terms of national defense but do not wish to give up liberty when it comes to such things as economics and child-raising.

So, the battle continues. Gird well; fight bravely; return victorious!

Hillary's "Chinese Take-Out" Problem

The Los Angeles Times reports that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been raking in money from New York’s Chinatown from poverty stricken dishwashers, waiters and busboys. Their jobs and dilapidated home addresses (the ones that can be verified) seem to make it improbable they could afford the $1,000 and $2,000 contributions finding their way into Clinton’s coffers.

The paper tries to figure out who these people are and how they can afford to write big checks to Hillary – all without much success:

Of 74 residents of New York's Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn that The Times called or visited, only 24 could be reached for comment. . . .

The tenement at 44 Henry St. was listed in Clinton's campaign reports as the home of Shu Fang Li, who reportedly gave $1,000.

In a recent visit, a man, apparently drunk, was asleep near the entrance to the neighboring beauty parlor, the Nice Hair Salon.

A tenant living in the apartment listed as Li's address said through a translator that she had not heard of him, although she had lived there for the last 10 years.

A man named Liang Zheng was listed as having contributed $1,000. The address given was a large apartment building on East 194th Street in the Bronx, but no one by that name could be located there.

Census figures for 2000 show the median family income for the area was less than $21,000. About 45% of the population was living below the poverty line, more than double the city average.

In the busy heart of East Broadway, beneath the Manhattan Bridge, is a building that is listed as the home of Sang Cheung Lee, also reported to have given $1,000. Trash was piled in the dimly lighted entrance hall. Neighbors said they knew of no one with Lee's name there; they knocked on one another's doors in a futile effort to find him.

Salespeople at a store on Canal Street were similarly baffled when asked about Shih Kan Chang, listed as working there and having given $1,000. The store sells purses, jewelry and novelty Buddha statues. Employees said they had not heard of Chang.

Another listed donor, Yi Min Liu, said he did not make the $1,000 contribution in April that was reported in his name. He said he attended a banquet for Clinton but did not give her money.

Many of these donors admit they were pressured by so-called Chinese Neighborhood Associations to make these donations or were given money to do so. At least one of these “associations” has had a shadowy past involving organized crime, gambling and human trafficking and exert enormous influence over immigrants.

The Clintons have always been very cozy with the Chinese and others with Far East connections. The result has been bagmen like Charlie Trie and, most recently, Norman Hsu. Hillary had to return almost $ 1 million in “questionable” donations from the Paw family on the West Coast - another set of donors whose contributions did not jive with their incomes.

Folks, this is just another in a long list of examples where Hillary will operate without any moral or legal consideration and acts shocked when she gets caught. This has and continues to stink to high heaven!

My Presidential Candidate

All the sound and fury over the presidential primaries is enough to overwhelm anyone. I have not yet made up my mind whom I will support (other than anybody but Hillary, a liberal or a democrat). However, I have a platform in mind that I would like someone to adopt. That would be my candidate.

Term Limits – Absolutely! If term limits are good for the presidency, then they are better for Congress-critters. While I am at it, Congress would be in session only 30 days per year, with a salary paid only for those 30 days. They would have to pick up all their travel and health insurance as well as pay Social Security like the rest of us. The rest of the year, they go back home and work in real jobs, live by the laws they pass, and pay the taxes they impose. That should solve most of our problems in the first year!

There should also be an IQ Test with a minimum score somewhere above room temperature in order to be in Congress. That would immediately eliminate 99% of the current crop and we could have a fresh start.

Foreign Policy - Mess with us and you are toast! No pussyfooting around anymore. Do away with the State Department and replace it with the Department of Kick Ass. Call all the parking tickets of UN Diplomats due and payable immediately. That would bankrupt the UN and we could have our real estate in New York back and have it generate revenue. At the very least, charge the UN rent in an amount equal to what they charge us for dues. If that is not acceptable to them, move the UN to Baghdad!

National Health Care – If socializing the health care industry is good, then doing the same to the legal profession is better. Government sponsored legal services for all with attorney fees capped at minimum wage. That should put an end to the idea of socializing ANYTHING!

This would also solve the unskilled labor shortage in America. There is no one more unskilled at anything than an ex-lawyer.

English as the Official Language of the US – If you do not speak English don’t talk to me!

The War On Terror – Git-R-Done! Send every one of those Islamo-Terrorists off to meet their 72 virgins (may they all look like Madeline Albright and cackle like Hillary Clinton)!

Illegal Immigration – Why do we need a “policy” to deal with something that we already have laws for (note the word ‘Illegal’)? Just enforce the laws on the books, strictly; secure or borders (north and south); and end this “invasion” of our country!

Gays in the Military – Who cares as long as they can kill people and break things (the primary job of the military). Also, see the first item under “Foreign Policy.”

Abortion – Against it! With the possible exception of retro-active abortion for select liberals.

Taxes – Against those too! Institute the Fair Tax and eliminate the IRS (another source of unskilled labor).

There! If there is a candidate out there that can adopt this platform, then he has my vote. If not? GMWinslow in 2008!

The Coward’s Way Out

Democrat House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi and her hen-pecked fellow idiots, are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation to set a firm date for a disastrous retreat from Iraq. However, that has not stopped them from undermining, at every opportunity, any chance of success in this front in the War on Terror. Their latest ploy is the most cowardly and the most dangerous!

Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey is the trans-shipment conduit for about 70% of all air cargo (including 33% of the fuel) going to supply our US Troops in Iraq. This also includes about 95% of the new “MRAP” (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected) vehicles designed to save the lives of American Troops.

Turkey’s government has indicated that if the US House of Representatives takes action on a non-binding resolution being pushed by Speaker Pelosi and her useless idiots, Turkey might revoke our ability to use Incirlik as a waypoint for supplies headed to our Troops in Iraq.

This non-binding resolution, passed on October 10^th by the Democrat controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee, labels the 1915-1923 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a genocide. Just in case you did not read this right, a non-binding resolution on something that happened almost 100 years ago, is going to potentially put our Troops in Iraq in mortal danger because of a lack of supplies.

One would have to ask, if one was disposed to rational thought, just what is the overriding urgency and import of such a resolution that it has to be brought up now, in the middle of a war, that has the risk of jeopardizing our relationship with a major ally in that war?

This resolution is gratuitous and the Democrat’s timing is certainly suspicious. It is gratuitous because, in 1981, President Reagan referred to the Armenian massacre as genocide in a proclamation condemning the Nazi Holocaust. If Democrat Pelosi is so concerned about condemning genocide, why aren’t she the Senate Democrat leaders doing something about the ongoing genocide in Darfur or the massacres of protesters in Burma?

The timing of the resolution is suspicious because it could not come at a worse time. Not only are we dependent upon Turkey for our principal supply line into Iraq, we are on the verge of a crisis with Turkey and their desire to attack Kurdish terrorist forces in Iraq that have been raiding into southeastern Turkey for years.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) told Jed Babbin of Human Events, “We are a nation at war, and our first concern must always be the brave men and women of our armed forces, who I believe are done a great disservice by this symbolic House vote. This is just one more example of Democrats in the House being either oblivious or indifferent to the welfare of American forces serving in harm’s way.”

After the House committee vote, Turkish Ambassador to the United States Nabi Sensoy was recalled to Ankara for consultations. In diplomatic terms, the recall of an ambassador is a very serious matter, indicating a near-break in relations between the nations involved.

House Republican leaders are very concerned about the effects the Democrats’ resolution could have. House Minority Leader John Boehner, again to Mr. Babbin, said, “If the Turks cut off our ability to use Incirlik, there’s no question that this could jeopardize our troops on the ground in Iraq. And frankly, if this is just the latest in the Democrats’ string of back-door attempts to force a retreat from the war against al Qaeda, it’s certainly the most dangerous.”

Speaker Pelosi, and her Democrat co-traitors, are apparently so intent on forcing an end to American involvement in Iraq that she is willing to interfere with our tenuous relationship with a war ally, Turkey. When she does, it will be an historic event: the House of Representatives will be responsible for alienating a key ally in a time of war and possibly putting our troops at greater risk; all for the purpose of preventing a success in Iraq prior to the 2008 US elections. Once again, Democrats put our troops at risk for their own political agenda.

Cowardly! Treasonous! Despicable!

Leave No Crook Behind!

Hillary is, once again, showing her true colors if only anyone would pay attention. Her hiring of Sandy (Burglar) Berger, Bill’s former National Security Adviser and admitted thief, as a national-security adviser to her campaign is a sure sign that the old gang will be together again and up to their old shenanigans. In 2003, Berger took several highly classified documents about the Clinton-era Millennium terror plot from the National Archives with “aiding” (hiding them from) the September 11 commission. After being caught on video tape spiriting away, what can only be deduced as incriminating evidence of Clinton errors, top-secret papers stuffed in his pants and socks (and who knows where else) his Clintonista lawyers negotiated a “slap on the wrist” plea agreement. Two years probation, along with a security clearance suspension (not a revocation) and a $50,000 fine where anyone else would be in prison for years and years. $50,000 fine?; A small sum for any number of Chinese fund-raising scam artists employed by the Clinton machine. And guess what? His security clearance ‘suspension’ will be over just in time for him to become National Security Advisor for a President (gag) Hillary with access, once again, to all the little inconvenient top-secret documents that might come to cause distress to the Queen.

In a rational and just world, there is no question that Berger should be finished in Washington national-security circles and any other career that requires trust. The Clintonistas continue to dismiss the Berger thievery as just another crazy caper in the story or a eccentric and sloppy Sandy. It could not have been that, since the theft was planned, deliberate and elaborate.

Berger ferreted the highly classified documents out of the Archives and put them under a construction trailer adjacent to the building. He returned to retrieve them later and then destroyed the documents at his office in his home. This is not a simple case of an overworked, absent-minded, bumbling sloppy good-ole boy as defended by the Clintons.

This was an attempt, and probably successful one, to alter the historical record of the Clinton administration in the lead up to 9-11. A technique that is often employed by the Clintonistas; if the facts are inconvenient, just ignore, alter or destroy them.

Leave No Child Behind? The Clinton version is Leave No Crook Behind!

Queen Hillary – Queen of Federal Pork

Democrat hypocrisy is, once again, on full display. Democrats lied their way into power this year promising a reform of the ‘earmark’ system and make it more transparent to the taxpaying public rightly disgusted with Congress’s free-spending of our money. Let’s call earmarks exactly what they are: Bribes! They are that which Congress-critters, in the form of expensive projects of questionable public worth, use to buy the votes of their home districts so the Congress-critter can stay in Washington and spend more of our money. It is a long disgusting and corrupt practice engaged in by both parties but now elevated to high art by the current crop of thieves. As a result, the Democrat Congress is now even less popular in national polls than the Republican one before it. That is no small feat!

Using the earmark issue to pummel Republics in the 2006 election, Democrats made great theater of passing an ‘earmarks reform’ bill. Now all earmarks are supposed to be publicized in an online record which, most importantly, identifies the name of the member who submitted each request. Not surprisingly, this transparency has had a big effect on the Republican presidential candidates, but not on the Democrats!

Among the presidential candidates, many Republicans currently holding office have responded to media requests to make public all their earmarks. They presumably have done so because they have nothing to hide, but not the Democrats whose candidates have been much less forthright. (feigned shock and surprise).

Only Barack Obama has voluntarily made his earmark information publicly available. The others are covering their tracks. Senator Joe Biden's spokeswoman explained, ``We don't release them until the committee has had the opportunity to review the requests.'' A spokeswoman for the Dennis Kucinich campaign argued, ``We never have made our earmarks public.''

A little digging shows why they are so evasive. In fiscal year 2006, Chris Dodd and fellow Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman were jointly responsible for more than $100 million worth of earmarks for their home state, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Clinton campaign refused to respond at all to requests that she identify her earmarks.

The numbers speak for themselves. Ever since flouncing into Washington, Her Hilliaryness has worked tirelessly to bring pork (bribes) home to her politically adopted state, New York.

Clinton, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, placed $2.2 billion worth of earmarks in spending bills from 2002-2006. One would have to concede that she is good at it. In the fiscal 2008 defense-spending bill alone, Clinton successfully attached 26 earmarks worth $148 million, which was the most of any Democrat except Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who is now chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

The earmark game is a treacherous one because it is so easy to find specific instances, like the bridge to nowhere in Alaska, that are repulsive to voters. With such a successful track record, this will be a genuine liability for Clinton. That probably explains why she's trying to bury her record. But even digging through the limited list of earmarks that could be acquire suggested that Clinton has deftly spread federal taxpayers' money around to parochial projects of questionable public value, sending, for example, $250,000 to the Seneca Knitting Mill, and $200,000 to the Buffalo Urban Arts Center.

Such spending projects might be great local politics, but they produce national outrage as our federal dollars are bled away from health care and national security. Each one may seem small, but collectively they are not.

The Democrat Party and their sycophants in Main Stream Media have been so busy preparing for the coronation of Queen Hillary that they have purposely failed to take a critical look at her record on this subject (as well as many others that would have buried a conservative candidate).

Will her hypocrisy be questions in the months ahead? Time will tell.