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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
George Will has a point....
Follow up on my last blog and the continued "Harry Reid Crisis". George Will brought up a very good point on Sunday in a little tiff with Liz Cheney.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Lott vs. Reid: Another case study in Liberal Bias!!!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went into damage control over the yesterday after news broke that during the 2008 presidential campaign he said Barack Obama had an advantage because he's "light-skinned" and has "no Negro dialect" unless he wants to employ it.
These comments, clearly racist in nature, once again give us a brutal look at the hypocrisy of the democratic party when dealing with race issues.
Let us remember way back to 2002, when then Senate Majority leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, made a comment during a 100th birthday celebration for the retiring Strom Thurmond:
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either,"
To put those statements in context for anyone not familiar with Thurmond’s background, he ran as the presidential nominee of the breakaway Dixiecrat Party in the 1948 presidential race against Democrat Harry Truman and Republican Thomas Dewey. He carried Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and his home state of South Carolina, of which he was governor at the time.
During the campaign, he said, "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
Thurmond's party ran under a platform that declared in part, "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race."
Eventually, Thurmond moved away from his segregationist position and went on to the longest career in Senate history (not to mention a career in which he was well known for carrying around little pieces of candy to give to all the pretty interns- or throw on the ground to watch them pick them up- but I digress).
Anyway, back to Trent Lott’s legendary comments: After poor Senator Lott uttered these remarks, the liberal bayonet virtually castrated him. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson called for Lott to resign, and former Vice President Al Gore told CNN that the comment was "racist."
The media was all over Lott’s ‘racist agenda’. Finally the poor man was forced to step down under the liberal firestorm of sound bytes and misrepresentations over both his character and his past. A wonderful look into the hypocrisy of many of the allegations can be found in this article by Tom Gormon.
Not let us contrast that incident to the now known comments by Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. Almost as quickly as news of the comments were reported by the media (mostly by Fox News, since god forbid any of the other liberally-biased news outlets rush to report anything that might hinder their own), Al Sharpton can out defending Reid.
In a statement issued yesterday, Sharpton said:
“I have learned of certain unfortunate comments made by Senator Reid regarding President Barack Obama and have spoken with Senator Reid about those comments. While there is no question that Senator Reid did not select the best word choice in this instance, these comments should not distract America from its continued focus on securing healthcare or creating jobs for its people. Nor should they detract from the unquestionable leadership role Senator Reid has played on these issues or in the area of civil rights. Senator Reid’s door has always been open on hearing from the civil rights community on these issues and I look forward to continue to work with Senator Reid wherever possible to improve the lives of Americans everywhere.”
This is the same Al Sharpton who has no problem throwing the likes of Don Imus, Trent Lott or legions of others under the bus for virtually any utterance that can somehow be interpreted as racist.
As Michael Steele, the African American Chairman of the Republican National Committee pointed out Democrats are simply full of hypocrisy on the matter,
"There is this standard where Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it is racism," Steele told "Fox News Sunday."
Democrats are amazingly talented at these things, voo doo magic, a pack with the dark side, who knows....it will be interesting what fate beholds Reid as the week unfolds. My guess: this gaff, like many others, will fade into the sunset and only be discussed in backrooms by Democratic strategists as they recount fondly all they ways they screwed the American people.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
2010 Blog Resolutions
Welcome 2010!!!! I have a feeling this will be a great year!
A few resolutions for this blog in the new year...
-First and foremost: I will post more content. My goal is to have 2-3 posts each week at a minimum....so please try to keep me accountable to that!
-Along that same note, if any reader has a particular issue or concern they would like me to rant, inform or just discuss in general, please feel free to make requests
-With the 2010 elections coming up, I would LOVE to be able to highlight one candidate each week. If you are a candidate in a NATIONAL race anywhere across the country and would like a chance to speak your mind on the issues...I'm your girl
-In a similar vain, if you are representing an issue that you would like highlighted or detailed...contact me as well, I'd be more than happy to look into the issue and give a summary
WARNING: This does not mean that I will not include my own commentary or feelings on your candidacy/issue. You will be able to have a forum to speak your mind and promote yourself (issue), but I will give my thoughts at the end.
Ok, that is it for now. Happy New Year everyone...lets make it a great one!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Ridiculous, Irresponsible and Frightening!
The ridiculous: President Obama flying to Copenhagen to discuss global warming and climate change in the middle of a HUGE blizzard
The irresponsible: Sen. Ben Nelson.....'nuff said
The frightening: Al Franken is actually in the Senate...and allowed to talk
Honestly, the events of this week are so astronomically catastrophic that the above comments are all I can safely muster without Xanax close at hand
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Climate Change-apalooza
I will be the first to admit that when it comes to environmental issues, I stand a little bit to the left of many Conservatives on the issue. Although, I'm not out chaining myself to trees, I do believe that protecting the environment, cutting needless waste and pollution and, in general, encouraging the development of more green spaces is beneficial for everyone (see my previous blog "The Real Socioeconomic Gap in Healthcare". However....as well known to many readers, the current climate farce (along with the ridiculously hypocritical Copenhagen summit) is more focused on
a) gaining political points
b) creation of a worldwide system of regulation to puts business under government control and transfers wealth from rich nations to poor ones.
than it is actually benefitting the environment.
As Dick Morris terrifically pointed out in a recent Op-ed on the issue:
"The worst nightmare of the left is about to come true: The United States is about to achieve the carbon emissions goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Accords. Once seemingly beyond reach, the United States is already halfway toward meeting the stringent Kyoto goals for reduction in carbon emissions without a cap-and-trade law or a carbon tax or carbon dioxide being declared a pollutant...............................Should the emissions come down on their own, as they are doing, the excuse for draconian legislation goes, well, up in smoke."
The rest of the article can be found HERE, a must read to put climate change, emissions regulation and where the U.S. stands as a polluter, in perspective.
A similar economic coup was attempted during the 1970's with the The New International Economic Order (NIEO). This was a set of proposals put forth by developing countries to promote their interests by improving their terms of trade, increasing development assistance, developed-country tariff reductions, and other means. It was meant to be a revision of the international economic system in favour of Third World countries--- basically wealth redistribution via global socialism.
Luckily these aims went no where, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, both of whom refused to let the world cadre of entitlement advocating whiners walk all over the United States and take away the rights of hard working citizens.
Unfortunately the attack on democracy has risen once again, this time attaching itself to the fad of environmentalism and climate change. And frighteningly, this time our political leaders are submitting to their whines, much like an embarrassed parent trying to subdued a child having a temper tantrum in a public place.
Environmentalism is essentially becoming a new form of socialism.
On the first day of Copenhagen opened, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed jurisdiction over the regulation of carbon emissions by declaring them an "endangerment" to human health. Due to the fact that we operate in a carbon-based economy, this declaration will give the EPA unprecedented regulation power. Any institution that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 a year will be under EPA control.
According to Charles Krauthammer, not since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service has a federal agency been given more power over every aspect of economic life.
Frightening to say the least. The Obama administration is determined to turn the United States into a socialist nation and is mounting the war on multiple fronts...environmentalism, healthcare, economic regulations.....
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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