If the shutdown doesn't end Obamacare, maybe the military will.

Congrats to FOX NEWS for finally finding a poll that blames the dems and not republicans for this government shutdown. It must have been hard for them, but if anyone can find a poll to show the GOP in a favorable light we know that the folks over at FOX can.

Anyway, as someone else said, I am not sure how scientific it is, but here is what it looks like.

Speaking of polls, it looks like my man Ted Cruz is still the darling of real republican activists in America.

"Though his approval rating may be slipping nationally, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz received an overwhelming nod of confidence from conservative activists on Saturday with a decisive victory in the Values Voter straw poll.

The Texas firebrand received a whopping 42 percent of the vote at the gathering of social conservatives, garnering more than triple the amount of support of second place finisher, conservative activists Dr. Ben Carson, who got 13 percent. Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum came in a close third, also receiving 13 percent of the vote. Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio rounded out the top five, receiving six and five percent of support, respectively. 

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council President that sponsored the summit, said Cruz was 'very grateful to know that there are Americans across the country who are standing with him as he stands for your values in Washington, D.C."' [Source]

Run Ted, run.

I should be careful what I ask for, because given the times that we live in here in America, Ted could actually win. And if he doesn't win at the ballot box, there is no telling what Ted and his values voting friends could do.

One minister is actually calling for the military overthrow of the government. Clearly he preaches mostly from the Old Testament on Sunday mornings.

"No matter how bad things are in Washington, D.C., right now, most people would probably agree that a military takeover of the federal government wouldn't improve the situation.

But not televangelist Rick Joyner.

While on the show "Prophetic Perspective on Current Events" on MorningStar TV on Monday, the notoriously conservative pastor implored God to save America from being wiped out by the nefarious "forces" that are "at work right now to undermine and destroy the republic."

"Raise up those who will save us," Joyner said. "Because the system is so broken... I believe our only hope is military takeover. Martial law."
Joyner seems to genuinely believe the United States is on the brink of annihilation. Earlier in the segment, he warns that the country "may not last through [President Barack] Obama's second term."

Those familiar with Joyner, who is the executive director of MorningStar Ministries, may not be surprised by his remarks. The website for MorningStar Ministries is peppered with references to Armageddon, a topic Joyner frequently returns to in his sermons and during roundtable discussions." [Source] 

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Onward Christian Soldiers."

The minister is calling for "Martial Law." Somehow I don't see Jesus walking around on earth and going along with the "Martial law" program.  It's just not his style.

But hey, times have changed since the days of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. These modern day Christians wouldn't recognize the Jewish preacher from Galilee. They have other things on their minds these days. Like holding on to political power and making sure that wealthy people stay wealthy.

Some of these same Christians are going to be declaring, once again, that president Obama is a Muslim because he and the First Lady had the nerve to invite a young Muslim girl to the White House.

"Malala Yousafzai may not have won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but she enjoyed a private Oval Office audience with President Obama and the first family.

Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani student who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for speaking out in support of the right of girls to go to school, met Friday with Obama and his wife, Michelle. A photograph issued by the White House shows the Obamas' 15-year-old daughter, Malia, also present during the visit.

The Obamas welcomed Yousafzai to the Oval Office "to thank her for her inspiring and passionate work on behalf of girls education in Pakistan," according to a statement issued by the White House.

The statement added, "The United States joins with the Pakistani people and so many around the world to celebrate Malala's courage and her determination to promote the right of all girls to attend school and realize their dreams."

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Is there a Doctor in the HOUSE?

As someone who was raised as a Seventh Day Adventist, it pains my heart to rip Dr. Ben Carson- a man I admire for his surgical skills- tonight.

The good doctor likened Obamacare to slavery. Imagine that for a minute. A health plan that makes it easier for people-even those who have a pre-existing medical condition-  to get coverage, is the same as an institution that brutalized an entire race of people in unspeakable ways.

But this is what happens when you rub elbows and share the same air-space with "values voters". You have to wonder about a bunch of people who call themselves "values voters" but have a flawed value system, themselves.

I bet Dr. Ben will be on FOX News next. Wait.....

Anyway, I think that they are supposed to be all Christians, but I heard nothing but unchristlike things coming out of their "summit".

"Towards the end of a sprawling, fiery speech at the Values Voter Summit, outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) predicted that in the near future, the Affordable Care Act will no longer be referred to as “Obamacare,” as conservatives originally intended, but rather as “Deathcare.”

“This egregious system, that will ultimately be known as ‘Deathcare’ must be defeated,” Bachmann declared. During the speech she set up a dichotomy of “police state,” symbolized by the shuttered World War II memorial during the government shutdown vs. “Constitutional republic,” represented by conservatives like her who fought to reopen it, only after directly causing the shutdown in the first place."

Nice. This woman of "values" accuses her government of promoting a plan to purposely kill people. Because nothing says Christian like an angry mean spirited political loser.

Still another one of Dr. Carson's palls accused the White House of wanting to take him hostage.

Ted Cruz, as you might have noticed, has a high opinion of himself.

Trust me, the last thing the White House would want to do is to get rid of Ted Cruz. Ted is the best thing to happen to this White House since Mitt Romney ran for president.

"None of us know what’s going to happen on this Obamacare fight right now,”..... “In my view, the House of Representatives needs to keep doing what it’s been doing, which is standing strong.”

Don't believe it, if you keep doing what you are doing, the values summit will have to feature a lot more praying in the  future. 

Finally, if you want to see what's causing the fear and angst among those folks down at the values summit read this article. These people truly believe that they are losing their country, and that Barack Obama represents the type of people that they are losing it to.

The Democracy Corps study might be surprising to folks like James Carville, but not to me; I saw this coming from a mile away.


"What they found is downright frightening. The study, titled “Inside the GOP: Report on Focus Groups with Evangelical, Tea Party, and Moderate Republicans” and written by Greenberg, Carville, and Erica Seifert, opens with an apocalyptic scenario:

If you want to understand the government shutdown and crisis in Washington, you need to get inside the base of the Republican Party. …
Understand that the base thinks they are losing politically and losing control of the country—and their starting reaction is “worried,” “discouraged,” “scared,” and “concerned” about the direction of the country—and a little powerless to change course. They think [President Barack] Obama has imposed his agenda, while Republicans in DC let him get away with it.

From there, it gets worse:

While many voters, even some Democrats, question whether Obama is succeeding and getting his agenda done, [core] Republicans think he has won. The country may think gridlock has won, particularly during a Republican-led government shut down, but Republicans see a president who has fooled and manipulated the public, lied, and gotten his secret socialist-Marxist agenda done. Republicans and their kind of Americans are losing.

Admittedly, the Democracy Corps report is impressionistic and based on focus groups; therefore, it can’t be exaggerated into a scientific study. Still, as pundit-blogger Andrew Sullivan accurately notes, “It’s a sobering read … and definitely helps explain the primal scream now threatening to take down the entire American system of elective government.”

The report is at its discouraging best—or should I say worst?—in the way that it illuminates the thinking of the focus-group participants’ fears surrounding the changing demography of the country. Nobody made crude racial references or spoke in the offensive language of bigots, according to the reports’ writers. Yet a fear of racial change lies at the core of the GOP base’s concerns. The report states:

They have an acute sense that they are white in a country that is becoming increasingly “minority,” [that] their party is getting whooped by a Democratic Party that uses big government programs that benefit mostly minorities, creat[ing] dependency and a new electoral majority.

Or, as one evangelical man in Roanoke put it—apparently blind to the irony of the government shutdown by a small number of Tea Party activists in the U.S. House of Representatives—“The government’s giving in to a [racial] minority, to push an agenda, as far as getting the votes for the next time.”

Paging Dr Carson, paging Dr. Carson.













 

Ted's Waterloo moment.

Poor Ted Cruz was thinking that he would lose a few battles but ultimately win the war. Now, though, it's not looking so good for the Canadian born golden boy from Texas. This is getting ugly.

I just saw the latest NBC/WSJ poll and the republican party is taking  a serious hit. They lead O in negative ratings by over 20%, and just 24% of Americans have a favorable opinion of them. That's not a good look for a party that wants to win future elections.

Maybe the rest of America noticed that O put on his best Sidney Poitier face and invited right wingnuts to the WH, but almost all of them declined. (I guess they just couldn't face their constituents after breaking bread with the black man. )

Oh (pun intended), and get this:

"What’s more, Obama’s political standing has remained relatively stable since the shutdown, with his approval rating ticking up two points since last month, and with the Democratic Party’s favorability rating declining just three points (from 42 percent to 39 percent).

“If it were not so bad for the country, the results could almost make a Democrat smile,” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.

“These numbers lead to one inescapable conclusion: The Republicans are not tone deaf; they are stone deaf.”

A ‘boomerang’ effect for the GOP

Yet what is perhaps even more worrisome for the GOP is the “boomerang” effect: As the party has used the shutdown and fiscal fight to campaign against the nation’s health-care law and for limited government, the poll shows those efforts have backfired.

 For one thing, the health-care law has become more popular since the shutdown began. Thirty-eight percent see the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) as a good idea, versus 43 percent who see it as a bad idea – up from 31 percent good idea, 44 percent bad idea last month.

In addition, 50 percent say they oppose totally eliminating funding for the law, even if it that means a partial shutdown of the government. That’s up from 46 percent who said they opposed that move in a Sept. 2013 CNBC poll." [Source]

Oh my! What's a good wingnut to do? No matter how hard they try and how loud they shout, certainly they must now realize that Obamacare is going nowhere. And why should it? This might be the best thing to happen to real people in America since that great social program that FDR started in 1935.

"In a football game we all cheer for our respective teams. I cheer for the Houston Texans. It’s a good thing to cheer for your team…This isn’t a team sport. This is life and death. There is a fundamental divide between the government and the people.”

Ted, your team, like your hometown Texans, might need a new quarterback.





 

   

 

Right wing intellectuals.

There are some truly stupid people in Washington. The fact that these people were voted into office tells you all you need to know about a large segment of the American population.

Take,for instance, Buck McKeon:

"Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is keeping quiet about exactly how many people have successfully signed up for insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s online exchanges so far, but it has to be more than 10, right? During an appearance on CNN with Wolf Blitzer earlier today, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) made the bold claim that total signups were in the “single digits.”

“I heard that they’ve had over eight million hits, people that have tried to sign up, and so far they have people in the single digits that have signed up,” McKeon told Blitzer, citing anonymous “bipartisan” sources. “Now, obviously there is something very wrong there.”

Blitzer pushed back, responding incredulously, “When you say single digits, I’m not exactly clear what you mean by that.”

“Single digits would be less than ten,” McKeon replied, matter-of-factly. He clarified that he read that fact in an article in Forbes today, possibly referring to an this piece from last Thursday that quoted an anonymous insurance industry official.

Blitzer, who still couldn’t believe what he was hearing, asked if McKeon really believed that less than 10 people have signed up for the plans “nationwide.” [Source]

Yes Wolf, he is serious.

And then there is this gal:

"In the same interview where Michele Bachmann weighed in on Miley Cyrus spoofing her, the Republican congresswoman also had some tough words for President Obama, even going so far as to suggest impeachment should be on the table.

She told Rusty Humphries in a conference call sponsored by TeaParty.net on Tuesday that “we can have an impeachment hearing in the house” because she believes Obama “has committed impeachable offenses.” Removing Obama from office is off the table, though, because the Senate determines that action and the Democrats currently hold it.

Bachmann bashed Obama’s “thuggery,” and at another point said the fight over Obamacare isn’t just that, it’s a battle for “whether or not we will hold onto a constitutional republic.” [Source]

I hear you Michele, but can you twerk?

Finally, everyone is rightfully outraged about the families of those American soldiers who were lost  in battle not getting their benefits because of the government shutdown. But don't fall for the lies and disinformation coming from people like Bill O'Reilly over at Der Angriff. The truth of the matter is that we are in this place because of the government shutdown. The government is shutdown because a few right-wing extremist decided to hold the rest of us hostage.

I am not quite sure what folks expected. When you shutdown the government you can't pick and choose who to pay because the country is more outraged about the families of dead soldiers not getting their death benefits than a bunch of IRS workers not getting paid.

Sorry, the government is down. Parks not being open and military death benefits not being paid is a by- product of this right wing tactic. The wingnuts might as well own it all now. I mean let's face it; their approval rating is sitting lower than Osama Bin Laden and Kim Il Sung these days. How much lower can they go?

“I am offended, outraged, and embarrassed that the government shutdown had prevented the Department of Defense from fulfilling this most sacred responsibility in a timely manner,” Hagel said.

“In the days before the shutdown, we warned Congress and the American people that DoD would not have the legal authority to make these payments during a lapse in appropriations.”

The announcement came just after the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to resume paying survivor benefits, which includes a $100,000 payment."

So it's all good for now. But, in the days to come, more lives will be lost, and...

"While the deal staves off this particular injustice, failure to end the shutdown, or to pass an increase in the debt ceiling before October 17, could have continued dire consequences to military vets and their families. “If the shutdown does not end in the coming weeks, VA will not be able to assure delivery of 1 November checks to more than 5.18 million beneficiaries, including veterans who are 100% disabled, surviving spouses, eligible children orphaned by the death of their military parent,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki said in testimony before Congress."

Sorry Mr. Shinseki, stupid people don't care about such things.








   

911 was no joke in his town, and the truckers are coming to Washington.

Another day and another black man used for target practice by law enforcement in America.

And yes, I know, black men use other black men for target practice damn near every day. But if we can't trust the po po to do the right thing where are we as a society? Thugs are going to be thugs. We need to lock them all up and throw away the keys. But who is going to uphold the law if those we train to protect us do the opposite?

"Jack Lamar Roberson, 43, was gunned down by Waycross, Georgia police on October 4 after his family called 911 for an ambulance due to issues with his diabetes,  First Coast News reports.

Waycross police officers claim they responded to a report of attempted suicide and were told that Roberson was combative.

Upon arrival, Roberson allegedly “lunged” at the officers with two “weapons” and refused to drop them. That’s when they fired, claims Police Chief Tony Tanner.

Roberson’s family tells a different story.

Read more from First Coast News:

“He didn’t have nothing in his hands at any time or period at all before they came, any time while they were here, anything. They just came in and shot him. He didn’t say nothing, the police didn’t say nothing, anything, it was like a silent movie. You couldn’t hear anything, all you could hear were the gun shots go off and I seen them going into his body and he just fell down,” cried Alcia Herron, Roberson’s fiancé. 

Herron said she called 911 to call an ambulance for Roberson. She said she was worried about medication he took for his diabetes, but instead of paramedics, officers arrived at the home on Reed Street." [Source]

Of course the po po had a different story.

"The officers were en route about 4:30 p.m. to 1013 Reed St. to a suicide threat when they were updated that the man had become combative and had damaged items in the home, Tanner said.

When the officers entered the residence, Jack Lamar Roberson started toward them “aggressively armed with two items used as weapons,’’ Tanner said.
The officers retreated and yelled repeatedly for Roberson to stop and drop the weapons, Tanner said.

The officers retreated as Roberson gained ground on them and raised one of the “weapons in a threatening manner,’’ whereupon the officers fired to prevent their being assaulted, Tanner said."

You Negroes better be careful when you call 911. The family said that they "couldn't hear anything", but I bet those police officers could see.

Finally, a bunch of truckers are planning a rally around D.C. and they plan to slow down the D.C. beltway and arrest congressmen. Nice.

Nothing says red blooded American good ole boy like a trucker. The irony is, of course, that they got this brilliant idea from those "wimpy" French dudes.

One of the things that they are enraged about is President Obama. Go figure. The guys and gals  who drive on roads and bridges for a living are mad at the guy who has been pushing for reinvesting in America's infrastructure; not the people in Washington who have been holding up the funding for such things.

"Enraged by low wages, fuel prices, regulations, the government shutdown, the debt ceiling, President Obama and "the corruption that is destroying America," the "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" aims to tie up three lanes of Interstate 495 circling the nation's capital, with big rigs traveling 55 mph, an organizer told U.S. News & World Report.

Last week, one of the promoters said 3,000 truckers had said they planned to participate in the holiday-weekend rally. Two convoys reportedly will leave from the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.

The "general strike" seeks to enlist sympathetic motorists — and will let them pass if they display the group's calling card: T2SDA, which stands for "Truckers to Shut Down America," the original name.

The group behind the rally, "Ride for the Constitution," said in a news release that the "stage is now set for what we now consider the last peaceful defensive stand in a war that has been declared by Wall Street, Washington, and the Whitehouse upon the American people."

I smell the Koch Brothers.

Anyway, I feel for you hard working law abiding citizens around D.C. who will be trying to go about your business when this trucker revolution rolls into town.
It can't be cool to live in the nation's capital these days. You are living with mass shootings, a government shutdown, and a football team with an offensive name that stinks. Now you have one big Smokey and the Bandit movie.

"What We're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law."

Where is Sheriff Buford T. Justice when you need him?

 

 



  

Anna's News and John's lies.

These last few days have been tough for the folks over at Der Angriff . This government shutdown stuff is not a good look for their peeps and they have been going to great lengths to change the narrative or to paint O and his administration in a bad light.

It's gotten so bad that they are taking Onion style stories as gospel.

"Fox News host Anna Kooiman apologized on Sunday for reporting a story from a satirical news site. 

On Saturday, the co-host of Fox & Friends Saturday was talking about the government shutdown when she said President Barack Obama had offered to personally pay for a "museum of Muslim culture" while the Republican National Committee was willing to pay to keep war memorials open.

"It really doesn't seem fair, especially -- and we're going to talk a little bit later in the show too about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this," Kooiman said.

A fake news story about Obama offering to personally pay to keep the "International Museum of Muslim Culture" open during the shutdown was posted on the satirical site National Report last week. 
Kooiman tweeted out an apology on Sunday." [Source]

What an idiot! But we have come to expect this type of journalism foolishness that we have come to expect from the television cable network that caters to low IQ voters.

The truly sad part of this story is that real people have been hurt by the actions of this clown.

Down in Mississippi the real folks at the International Museum of Muslim Cultures have been swamped with calls ("some of them disturbing") about Obama being a funding source for their operation.

But this is what they do over at FOX: Fire up their ignorant and benighted base (thanks for the Bigfoot news), and then step back to watch the sparks fly. Sometimes literally.

Finally, maybe there is something about tanning salons that causes people to stretch the truth a little bit. I am thinking about House Speaker, John Boehner, and his CR lie over the weekend.

He declared on national television this Sunday that there was not enough votes to get a clean CR (continuing resolution) bill passed in the house, when everyone in Washington with knowledge of the situation (including members of his own party) says that there is.

This, of course, is all kind of scary. I mean the man is the leader of the House of Representatives for crying out loud.

"The votes are there, but Boehner is preventing a vote from happening. He is lying about the votes not being there. He is preventing a vote from happening unless he gets his way. He is flouting the voters, who just re-elected President Obama, and he flouting the majority in his own chamber of Congress, by not allowing that majority to express its will. He is holding the government and the economy hostage. It is political extortion:"

But this is what the FOX crowd wants. They are cheering in the Gaue right now.

The puppet masters.

Here Is

the real reason that your government has been shut down.

"Freedom Works has signed on to the following Memo to the Movement by the Conservative Action Project:

Current Event:

The current continuing resolution (CR) funding the government expires on March 27, setting up an opportunity for Congress and President Obama to honor the bi-partisan sequester savings already agreed upon.  It also presents an opportunity to achieve even more savings by defunding and stopping the implementation of Obamacare, which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported will force 7 million Americans out of their existing health insurance.

Action:

• Conservatives cannot support a CR that is above the sequester level of $974 billion annually.  While many conservatives would prefer reprogramming defense cuts to other areas of discretionary spending (dollar for dollar cuts in the same year), the current sequester savings are better than none at all.

• Conservatives should not approve a CR unless it defunds Obamacare.  This includes Obamacare’s unworkable exchanges, unsustainable Medicaid expansion, and attack on life and religious liberty.

A mere “date-change CR” is unacceptable.  Although the Obama administration and others will argue the CR is not the appropriate legislative vehicle to defund Obamacare, it is easily done through a series of appropriation riders.  Because the CR represents one of the best vehicles possible to delay the implementation of Obamacare, it must not be used to bargain on the upcoming sequester.

Issue in Brief:
On October 1, 2013, open enrollment begins for the federally backed health care exchanges. On January 1, 2014, new money from Washington will begin flowing to states and individuals, all but ensuring that these new entitlements will become a permanent fixture of life in America. The window of opportunity to stop the implementation of these massive new subsidies is closing.
Although many of Obamacare's provisions are now the law of the land, many of the law's most damaging and irreversible provisions do not take effect until 2014.

Once implemented, the new spending contained within Obamacare, primarily the Medicaid expansion and exchange subsidies, will cost taxpayers more than $1.6 trillion over the next decade, according to the latest CBO estimates.  Given the history of federal entitlement programs and the back-loaded nature of Obamacare spending, some estimate the full implementation cost could reach  $2.6 trillion over ten years. It will increase the federal government's health spending by 15 percent.

The issue is far from settled in the states, which are tasked with either implementing the wide-ranging mandates and invasive requirements put forth by Obamacare, or deferring such choices to the bureaucrats in Washington.

The fractured opinion amongst the states is one reason the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has continually pushed back the deadline for states to make a decision on the exchanges and Medicaid expansion.

The invasive elements of Obamacare are not set in stone; in fact, elements of the law are already under assault from Republicans and Democrats alike. The CLASS Act was repealed and there is bipartisan support for eliminating the devastating Medical Device Tax.

Blueprint to Defunding Obamacare

Obamacare’s funding mechanisms are as complicated as the law itself, but they can be stopped through the appropriation process, which includes the upcoming continuing resolution.

• Federally Backed Exchanges.  An appropriations rider must eliminate the refundable tax credits for premiums and the cost sharing subsidies that are essentially used to support insurance purchased in the Obamacare exchanges, which starts January 1, 2014.

• Medicaid Expansion.  An appropriations rider must eliminate the enhance match funding for the Medicaid expansion, which takes effect January 1, 2014.

• Permanent Appropriations.  Obamacare contains items called “permanent appropriations” which guarantee funding for the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) and Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF).  An appropriations rider turns off funds for these so-called permanent appropriations, which are already in effect.

• Implementation.  An appropriations rider must block the implementation of Obamacare, covering salaries, rulemaking, enforcement, etc.

• Life and Religious Liberty. Obamacare is an unprecedented attack on life and religious liberty. An appropriations rider must repeal the HHS mandate that attacks the religious values and principles of countless Americans.

• Miscellaneous Programs.  An appropriations rider must block all funding for newly authorized discretionary programs contained in Obamacare and return reauthorized programs back to their pre-Obamacare levels.

Signed:

Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan

Chris Chocola
President
Club for Growth

Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder
Tea Party Patriots

Penny Nance
President
Concerned Women for America

The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
President
Constitutional Congress, Inc.

William Wilson
President
Americans for Limited Government

Duane Parde
President
National Taxpayers Union

Susan Carleson
President
American Civil Rights Union

Andrea Lafferty
President
Traditional Values Coalition

Alfred S. Regnery
President
The Paul Revere Project

Lewis Uhler
President
National Tax Limitation Committee

Brent Bozell
President
ForAmerica

Matt Kibbe
President
FreedomWorks

Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
Susan B. Anthony List

David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance

The Honorable David McIntosh
Former U.S. Representative
Indiana

David Bozell
Executive Director
ForAmerica

Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring

Stuart Epperson
President
Council for National Policy

Heather Higgins
President
Independent Women's Forum

Cindy Chafian
President
The Mommy Lobby

Gary Bauer
President
American Values

Mike Needham
CEO
Heritage Action for America

David Bossie
President
Citizens United

Mathew D. Staver
Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action

James Martin
Chairman
60 Plus Association

Erick Erickson
Editor
RedState.com

T. Kenneth Cribb
Former Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan

Becky Norton Dunlop
Former White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan

Grace-Marie Turner
President
The Galen Institutue

Myron Ebell
President
Freedom Action

Craig Shirley
Reagan Campaign Biographer

Rev. Lou Sheldon
Chairman
Traditional Values Coalition

Richard Rahn
President
Inst. for Global Economic Growth

Lee Beaman
Businessman
Nashville, TN

Bob Reccord
Executive Director
Council for National Policy

Angelo M. Codevilla
Professor Emeritus
Boston University

Tom Donelson
Chairman
America's PAC

Brian Baker
President
Ending Spending

Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary

Don Devine
Senior Scholar
The Fund for American Studies

Gary Aldrich
President
Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty

Ralph Benko
President
Center for Civic Virtue

Andresen Blom
Senior Strategist
Center for Civic Virtue

Joe Gregory
CEO
Gregory Management Co.

Rebecca Hagelin

(All organizations listed for Identification purposes only)" [Source]

 

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"Dumb & Dumber"

"

"Games people play
Night or day they're just not matchin"

I hear you Spinners, but these dudes sure are trying.

"Kentucky Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell were caught on a hot mic in the Capitol Wednesday evening pitching a strategy to pivot to a more compromising tone in hopes of forcing Democratic lawmakers to negotiate an end the government shutdown.

“I just did CNN and I just go over and over again ‘We’re willing to compromise, we’re willing to negotiate,’” Paul said, having just concluded an interview with Erin Burnett. “I don’t think they [Democrats] poll tested, ‘We won’t negotiate.’ I think it’s awful for them to say that over and over again.”

“Yeah, I do too,” said McConnell, who himself had just been at a “candid” meeting with President Barack Obama and other congressional leaders, during which little progress on the stalemate was made. “I just came back from that two hour meeting with them and that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly.”

“I think if we keep saying, ‘We wanted to defund it, we fought for that, but now we’re willing to compromise on this,’ they can’t—I know we don’t want to be here, but we’re gonna win this, I think,” Paul said." [Source]

Yes, but if you win and the people suffer ,what kind of victory is that?

Finally, I am sad to report that Herman Wallace has passed away. He died "less than a week" after being released from a Louisiana prison which kept him locked up under conditions that would have violated most international human rights standards.

His freedom was short lived, but the struggle to treat human beings better than animals continues. Because I am quite sure that authorities in Louisiana's Angola Prison treat their pets better than the prisoners they are charged to watch.  

 


 

Shut down and shot down in Washington.

Let me say for the record that the next car I buy might just be an Infiniti Coupe.

If you saw the video of the tragedy that played itself out today on Capitol Hill you will know why.

It ended tragically for that lady who was getting her NASCAR on, and Congress and all the people in Washington were terrified as that surreal scene played like a Hollywood movie.

This is not a good time to go speeding through DC streets close to the Capitol. Nerves are frayed and folks are on edge. You can blame the angst on the recent shooting at the naval facility and the wingnuts holding the country hostage from their DC lair. Maybe today while they huddled like cowards they had a "come to Jesus moment. "

Anyway, I will reserve my comments about the actions of that woman today and that of the Capitol Police until I hear more about the story.

Still, there are a couple of things that I do know: She was not armed, and there was a one year old child in her car.

Another thing I know is this: A GOP representative showed the true nature of his party by sending out a tweet about the tragedy and blaming it (the tragedy) on the president. I think he sent his tweets before the shots stopped.
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"Griffin posted his message after several people on Twitter commented about his original tweet, sent moments after shots were fired and which has since been deleted. "Stop the violent rhetoric President Obama, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. "#Disgusting,"' [Source]

No congressman, what is "disgusting" is that you continue to get paid and go on with your destructive life, while the men and women who protect your sorry ass have to worry about their checks.







 

There is a government shutdown, but the Big R is still at it.

"After 40 years in solitary confinement, the terminally ill inmate may be going home.

U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson did a remarkably good and decent thing today -- something that every judge should aspire to do in the right circumstances. He found a way to bring a small measure of justice to a man whose entire life had been rife with injustice. He found a way to order the immediate release of Herman Wallace, a terminally ill prisoner who spent 40 years in solitary confinement at the notorious Angola prison in Louisiana in a 6' by 9' cell for a murder there was no valid evidence he committed.

Last week, I wrote about this case here at The Atlantic because I felt it comprised so many of the failings of the American justice system. A black man whose trial is marked by racial animus. A defendant whose attorney does unconscionable work. A lack of physical evidence or adequate investigation. Co-defendants and state witnesses with obvious incentives to lie. Punishment that was both cruel and unusual. Deliberate indifference on the part of reviewing courts. It all happened to Herman Wallace. All of it and more; his case was a disgrace from the beginning.
Here is the link to Judge Jackson's order. If you read it, you will discover that he did not focus upon any of these constitutional infirmities in granting Wallace the relief he sought. Instead, Judge Jackson held that the original indictment against Wallace, over 40 years ago, was constitutionally flawed because women were excluded from his grand jury. So you can add "equal protection violation" to the heap of ways in which Wallace's rights were denied by our courts for four decades. Here is what the judge wrote:

The record in this case makes clear that Mr. Wallace's grand jury was improperly chosen in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "the equal protection of the laws," and that the Louisiana courts, when presented with the opportunity to correct this error, failed to do so.... Our Constitution requires this result even where, as here, it means overturning Mr. Wallace's conviction nearly forty years after it was entered.

In the hours after the ruling was made public, state lawyers rushed to object to the judge's ruling, arguing that Wallace, who is dying of liver cancer and may have only days to live, did not deserve to be allowed to be freed on bail while Louisiana decides whether to retry him or not. The conduct of these officials on this day is nothing if not consistent with Louisiana's treatment of this man throughout his entire adult life -- cruel and unusual to the bitter end.

At long last, Herman Wallace should be allowed to die in peace, and in freedom, as far away from that dreaded prison as his breath will take him. Let his miserable life and his early death become a symbol for all that is wrong about what America accepts today in its justice systems. Let it be a lesson, too, about perseverance and the ceaseless value of redemption. For decades, while he sat alone in that tiny, fetid cell, justice delayed to Wallace was justice denied to him. But today, while he is still alive to savor it,  the law has turned away from injustice.

It is the first day of the rest of Herman Wallace's life -- and I sure hope it is not too late for him to enjoy it.

UPDATE: Immediately after Judge Jackson's initial order, attorneys with the East Baton Rouge district attorney's office filed a request to halt Wallace's release. This evening, Judge Jackson promptly rejected the request, again ordered the prisoner's immediate release, and warned prosecutors that they would be held in contempt if they refused to allow him to leave prison. Here is the link to that second order. Prosecutors have the right to appeal this ruling to the 5^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals." [Source]

Hi fives all around for Judge Jackson. Not so much for authorities in the state of Louisiana.

I bet that "celebrity couple" who got a dose of reality from "post racial" America

down in South Carolina are glad they didn't end up like Herman Wallace.

"Actors Cherie Johnson and Dennis White are speaking out about the way they were treated by a Marion County sheriff’s deputy when they were stopped on their way to Myrtle Beach. Johnson, best known for her roles in the television shows “Punky Brewster” and “Family Matters,” and her boyfriend, White, who was in the movie “Notorious,” said they were initially stopped and ticketed for speeding. A short time later, they pulled over to take pictures on the side of the road when they say another police officer pulled up behind their parked car.
'Cherie, she was like, ‘I’m just taking a picture,’ and put her hands up, and he grabbed for his gun and said, ‘Get in the car,'’’ White told TODAY’s Maria Schiavocampo on Wednesday.

'At that point, I was kind of like, ‘Whoa,’’’ Johnson told Schiavocampo.
The officer questioned them, asking them to step out of the car, and then initially claimed there was a warrant out for Johnson’s arrest, according to the couple.

'I said, ‘Sir are you doing this because we're black?’’’ Johnson said. 'He kind of just patted the car, gave me a look, and walked to his car. The next thing I knew, he was putting on his gloves, and he was handcuffing Dennis. I couldn’t understand why he was handcuffing. We didn’t do anything wrong.'

The couple claim the officer then accused them of having drugs in the car.
'I said, ‘Well, what was your probable cause?’ Johnson said. 'Why do you feel that you need to search the car?' He told me there could be a dead body in the trunk. That was the only probable cause he gave.'
 
The officer let them go after searching the car and finding nothing, and also later said there was no warrant out for Johnson’s arrest, according to the couple. The Marion County sheriff’s office released a statement saying racial profiling is “strictly prohibited” and that it “will take immediate and appropriate action” to investigate the allegations. It also is asking the state law enforcement division to review the allegations.

'I was praying,' Johnson told TODAY. 'I just wanted to call my mom. I was scared for our lives.'

'I just felt like there was nothing that we could’ve done to prevent that situation,' White added. " [Source]

Dennis, you could have stayed out of  South Carolina.

Finally, a conservative writer, Evan Gahr, (yes, I know some) reached out to me, because he knows how much I love to chase the Big R.

The irony is that he has a story of the Big R acting up and he cannot get FOX News or the Washington Post to report about it.

Here is the story in a nutshell:

"Father Lawrence Lucas, a controversial black priest, says that Kevin Merida, the first black managing editor of the Washington Post,  is a "house boy" for the power structure and "slave to money" because he refuses to report that his own paper is being sued for race discrimination by a longtime black  advertisement department employee who was fired by his white boss just days after she shrieked at him for no apparent reason. 

 

The lawsuit was first reported by Washington Gadfly Evan Gahr. 

 

In an interview, Lucas,  longtime pastor of a Harlem church,  made the same comments about New York Times managing editor Dean Baquet, the second black man to hold that post at the no longer paper of record.  Baquet has known about the story for almost three weeks.

 

"I’ll be damned. It’s awful," Lucas says. "Not every black face have the black community at heart rather than where the money’s are coming from. They’re slaves to the money and they don’t want to get the money baggers upset. These guys are not going to stick their not out. They are only thinking a bout their necks. It’s like expecting one cop to tell the truth about the other one."

  

Lucas said that the "money baggers" are advertisers who might be offended if the paper does the story. "

 

And this is what he wrote me:

 

"I sent the my story about the Washington Post being sued for race discrimination to O'Reilly's senior producer and two producers for Hannity. Given how both Hannity and O'Reilly love to humiliate the Washington Post I thought they would jump on it.

But neither used it.

Like I told you on the phone, conservatives refuse to do this story because they don't want to admit there is still race discrimination in this country. Liberals won't touch it because they don't want to embarrass their friends at the Washington Post."

 

I actually agree with him.

 

Evan, please keep us updated. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not all "thugs" are created equal.

Oh, so I get it, if you are an old white male "thug" you earn millions, but if you are a young black male "thug" you get shot to death by an out of control vigilante. Nice. Only in America.

"Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday night to discuss his latest book, Killing Jesus. O’Reilly opened up about his show preparation, his media empire, and how he has matured since his youth. “I was a little thug, and now I’m being paid millions of dollars for being a big thug,” the Fox host said of his youth" [Source]

Anywhoo, we are almost 24 hours into our government shutdown, and  the gangs on both sides are digging in. Let the battle of the talking points begin.

I know that most of you reading this haven't felt it yet, but my fear is that we will feel it in unspeakable ways down the line. Our national security is at stake. The safety of our air travel will be jeopardized and the lives of poor children will be disrupted.

Michele Bachmann can kiss a million veterans in a DC national park, it won't change the fact that her party is responsible for the park -and others like it- being closed.

"Officials said roughly 800,000 federal employees would be affected by the shutdown after a half-day on the job Tuesday to fill out time cards, put new messages on their voice mail and similar chores.

Among those workers were some at the National Institute of Health’s famed hospital of last resort, where officials said no new patients would be admitted for the duration of the shutdown. Dr. Francis Collins, agency director, estimated that each week the shutdown lasts will force the facility to turn away about 200 patients, 30 of them children, who want to enroll in studies of experimental treatments. Patients already at the hospital are permitted to stay." [Source]

I bet Michele won't be kissing any of them.