Monthly Archives: January 2010

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The Pelosi Family Shuttle

Bela Pelosi is sending her kids and grandkids back and forth across the country at guess whose expense … ours. And who’s stuck providing the shuttle service and playing day care provider? The U.S. Air Force.

A Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch uncovered the sickening details.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft for Congressional Delegations (CODELs). According to the documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. The following are highlights from the recent release of about 2,000 documents:

  • Speaker Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. The average cost of an international CODEL is $228,563.33. Of the 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House Speaker’s family.
  • One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.
  • According to a “Memo for Record” from a March 29—April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, “CODEL could only bring Kosher items into the Hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the Delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch, Vodka, Gin, Triple Sec, Tequila, etc.”
  • The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to “view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.” The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46.

“Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel. And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

It wasn’t enough that the Plastic Princess stuck it to taxpayers for over $100,000 in liquor expenses alone for her party jet trip to Copenhagen.

She feels it appropriate to use the U.S. military as a transport service and day care provider for her kids and grandkids.

Doug Ross has more, including visual evidence, here.

November 9 can’t some fast enough to remove her title of Speaker of the House.

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Government-Run … College Football?

Another Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment.

This sounds like it could be from The Onion, but it’s not.

Like government-run car companies? Government-run banks and financial institutions? Government-run health care? Nationalized college student loans?

Get ready for nationalized college football.

If He gets His way, Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama will be nationalizing college football.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a senator who had asked for an antitrust review.

In the letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, obtained by The Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote that the Justice Department is reviewing Hatch’s request and other materials to determine whether to open an investigation into whether the BCS violates antitrust laws.

“Importantly, and in addition, the administration also is exploring other options that might be available to address concerns with the college football postseason,” Weich wrote, including asking the Federal Trade Commission to review the legality of the BCS under consumer protection laws.

Several lawmakers and many critics want the BCS to switch to a playoff system, rather than the ratings system it uses to determine the teams that play in the championship game.

“The administration shares your belief that the current lack of a college football national championship playoff with respect to the highest division of college football … raises important questions affecting millions of fans, colleges and universities, players and other interested parties,” Weich wrote.

Weich made note of the fact that President Barack Obama, before he was sworn in, had stated his preference for a playoff system. In 2008, Obama said he was going to “to throw my weight around a little bit” to nudge college football toward a playoff system, a point that Hatch stressed when he urged Obama last fall to ask the department to investigate the BCS.

Weich said that other options include encouraging the NCAA to take control of the college football postseason; asking a governmental or non-governmental commission to review the costs, benefits and feasibility of a playoff system; and legislative efforts aimed at prompting a switch to a playoff system.

Read that last paragraph again.

That’s the heavy hand of the federal government — which can’t organize a two-car funeral — saying that college football had better do what the The  Anointed One says or else.

It’s the Chicago Way, something that’s come to be expected by petulant street thugs who don’t know any way else to act.

By the way, anyone who supports this, including enabling girlie men Republicans (I’m looking at you, Orrin Hatch), is an idiot.

It’s none of imperial Washington’s business how NCAA D-1 college football is set up. Lord knows the folks in D.C. have turned enough of America into a clusterf*** already.

By the way, watch for this to become the camel’s nose under the tent of the National Football League.

As anyone who follows the NFL knows, without a CBA in place, 2010 will be an uncapped year followed by a lockout by the owners in 2011. If Gene Upshaw were still alive, it wouldn’t have come to this.

However, the new head of the NFL Players Association is a Chicago street thug and confidante of The Messiah Himself, part of His transition team. His goal is simple: he intends on bringing the Chocolate Jesus Himself and the administration into the scrape on the side of the NFLPA — Obama being a major supporter of union thugs — in an attempt to break the owners, the possible end result being a nationalized NFL.

That’s right. The Obama administration running both D-1 college football and the NFL could be a reality before the 2012 election.

Call it what it is: fascism.

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CSPI Food Nazis Are Back

Waging war against movie theater food once again.

The Center For Science in the Public Interest — a left-wing activist group that is never identified as such — has sounded the alarm over snacks at movie theaters across America, apparently all hacked off that those stupid, ignorant, movie-going redneck Americans — no doubt Tea Party folks to boot — didn’t get the message the first time.

Again, one must ask: what business is it of these ninny-nannies what I or anyone else eats or drinks? Unless they are paying the bills, it’s none of their business. Period.

There’s nothing wrong with anything in moderation.

The CSPI reflects the mentality of the likes of Our Lord and Savior and the rest of “we’re smarter than you are” crowd in government and the rest of the academie and self-styled elite.

You’re all a bunch of idiots, rubes, simpletons who couldn’t survive one day without us, the elites in academie, the culture and Big Nanny government. And doggone it, we’re going to save you from yourselves no matter how much you hate us for it.

Watch for more regulations, restrictions, taxes and outright bans once Uncle Sam Barack is paying the bill.

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The Challenger Anniversary

On this day in 1986, America lost the seven astronauts of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after launch.

Here is live video of that tragedy:

Here’s video of President Reagan addressing the nation from the Oval Office that night:

A real leader. No TOTUS in sight. And the number of times Reagan referred to himself? Zero. He understood it wasn’t about him.

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Paul Ryan’s Alternative To Obama

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) offers his alternative vision to that of Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama.

In tonight’s State of the Union address, President Obama will declare a new found commitment to “fiscal responsibility” to cover the huge spending and debt he and congressional Democrats have run up in his first year in office. But next Monday, when he submits his actual budget, I fear it will rely on gimmickry, commissions, luke-warm spending “freezes,” and paper-tiger controls to create the illusion of budget discipline. Meanwhile, he and the Democratic congressional leadership will continue pursuing a relentless expansion of government and a new culture of dependency.

America needs an alternative. For that reason, I have reintroduced my plan to tackle our nation’s most pressing domestic challenges—updated to reflect the dramatic decline in our economic and fiscal condition. The plan, called A Road Map for America’s Future and first introduced in 2008, is a comprehensive proposal to ensure health and retirement security for all Americans, to lift the debt burdens that are mounting every day because of Washington’s reckless spending, and to promote jobs and competitiveness in the 21st century global economy.

The difference between the Road Map and the Democrats’ approach could not be more clear. From the enactment of a $1 trillion “stimulus” last February to the current pass-at-all costs government takeover of health care, the Democratic leadership has followed a “progressive” strategy that will take us closer to a tipping point past which most Americans receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes—a European-style welfare state where double-digit unemployment becomes a way of life.

Americans don’t have to settle for this path of decline. There’s still time to choose a different future. That is what the Road Map offers. It is based on a fundamentally different vision from the one now prevailing in Washington. It focuses the government on its proper role. It restrains government spending, and hence limits the size of government itself. It rejuvenates the vibrant market economy that made America the envy of the world. And it restores an American character rooted in individual initiative, entrepreneurship and opportunity.

All of a sudden, the biggest spending president and biggest spending Congress EVAH! gets the message from New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts? Yeah right.  Talk of spending freezes are a joke. Hardly anyone takes it seriously, especially coming from a man who mocked the concept in the presidential debates less than two years ago when it was proposed by John McCain.

The amount of money projected not to be spent (counted in Washington-speak as “savings”) pales in comparison to the record amounts blown under this Congress and this White House. We’re talking $1.3 trillion deficits or more for FY 2009 and 2010. No targeted spending freeze will offset that much of an increase in spending.

We have more Beltway-style shell games going on. The federal budget is determined by a current services baseline style of budgeting, as opposed to zero based budget as is done in the real world.

What this means is: departments and bureaucratic agencies determine the next FY budget by taking the current one and adding a percentage. Say a department proposes a 15 percent increase in spending from one FY to the next (the incentive to spend every last dollar is to “prove” that department needs more money, by the way).  That department winds up with a 10 percent increase. It can then whine about a 5 percent budget “cut” even though the amount of money it gets is more than the previous FY. Why? Because it’s less than what it wanted in the first place.

This is how Washington can claim savings by not spending money. It’s ridiculous. It’s like saying I saved $4,000 by not buying a new big-screen TV.

Additionally, the White House proposal establishes a number of sacred cows whose budgets cannot be frozen. That includes non-discretionary items like Social Security and Medicare, both already on the brink of insolvency. How do the bureaucrats get around the proposed freeze on discretionary spending? Simple. Reclassify a budget item as something non-discretionary and presto! Discretionary pending goes up even with a spending freeze.

It’s a shell game. They think you’re so stupid that they can show you a bright, shiny object — “Look! A spending freeze!” — and distract you while business as usual goes on.

Go here to check out the details on Ryan’s Road Map for America’s Future.

It’s way past time to have a serious debate on this.

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The STFU, er, SOTU Speech

Tonight, Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama will mount his trusty teleprompter and give his State of the Union speech.

No, we won’t be live-blogging or live-tweeting it, since we have a previous commitment tonight.

The Anointed One is, in the eyes of everyone except the most lobotomized Kool-Aid drinker, a narcissist with a huge ego. Proof was the speech in Ohio on Friday, one shorter than tonight’s is expected to be yet He managed to refer to Himself 132 times.

The over/under on self references tonight? I’m setting it at 150.

Here’s a drinking game for tonight’s event, courtesy of the PuffHo no less. The only category missing on there is the self-references, so we’ll add it.

Every time Obama references Himself, take a shot. You’ll be comatose in no time.

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Another Abandoned Independent Voter

A disappointed Obama voter speaks out.

The writer is an independent voter who fell madly in love with Our Lord and Savior. Her letter of disappointment to The One reads like an emotional high school girl after a break-up.

I am a registered Independent. I voted for Barack Obama. And for that, I am sorry.

I’m not sorry for you. I’m sorry for me. Because I voted for Obama for me, not for you. I voted for hope and change and all the intangibles that Obama was peddling in the wake of the financial crisis, Sarah Palin, Sept. 11 and all the other ills that shook our country in the last decade. I wanted something new. Something different. What I got was, I suppose, exactly what I voted for – a spin doctor. And not a very good one at that.

Read that: she’s not sorry for the country, only for her narcissistic self. She voted for “hope and change.” How’s that “hope and change” workin’ out for ya? Not so good? Miss this guy yet? (Note: I miss him already, more than I thought I would, and I miss this guy even more. They kept us safe.)

Most of the rest of her letter is a bunch of Sarah Palin bashing. She writes:

Before John McCain unwittingly picked a tabloid-magazine cover girl for his running mate, I was leaning toward going Republican this time around. I did the second time Bush was on the ballot and I very nearly did the first time, too. But as soon as Palin climbed out of her igloo and onto the national scene, well, there was no turning back for me.

That “tabloid-magazine cover girl” who “climbed out of her igloo” was the only candidate on either ticket that actually had run anything. John McCain? Professional politician. Same with Joe “Plugs” Biden. And we all know about the Community Organizer and his lack of expertise.

Jill Dorson is a vain, egocentric, conceited, narcissistic bigot. She admits she was turned off because Sarah Palin was attractive. Since when is it written that to be a successful politician and a leader, a woman has to be a bitter, ugly, man-hating Feminazi? What a sexist concept on her part. Imagine if a man had said that … oh wait, lots of liberal men held the same views. They are sexist as well.

One more thing: the overwhelming majority of Alaskans live in traditional residences like lower 48 states (56, if you are Obama). Alaskans do not live in igloos. Another ignorant, bigoted remark. But I guess it’s acceptable  to be ignorant and a bigot and talk in stereotypes if you are a liberal. Don’t believe me? Ask Dingy Harry.

I was right there laughing when George W. Bush struggled with the names of countries around the world early in his tenure. And while my knowledge of foreign policy is limited, I thought Bush’s was lousy, too. But after Sept. 11, I saw a man with no charisma step up and fight for this country, its citizens and its freedom. Bush became a leader.

Seven years later, I am ashamed to say that I was blinded by charisma. Obama was so convincing that I stopped caring about what he knew and started getting caught up in the euphoria. Imagine having a president who came from a broken home, who had money troubles, who did grass-roots community service? A young father. The first black president. It pains me to admit I got caught up in the hoopla.

Dorson should probably stick to voting for the next American Idol and the winners of Dancing With The Stars. The 2008 election was referred to here and in other places as the American Idol election. Because that’s what the in-the-tank-for-Obama state-run media made of it. It was all about Hope. It was all about Change. It was all about Hope and Change. Never mind that Change really referred to the implementation of the most radical agenda the country had ever seen.

Dorson was so blinded she couldn’t see Obama and his radical Marxist agenda, even though who He was could be seen by anyone who wanted to see … just look at who His friends have been since He entered the public arena. Jeremiah Wright. Bill Ayers. Bernadine Dohrn. Frank Marshall Davis. Tony Rezko. And so on.

Birds of a feather do flock together.

Dorson writes:

Like many others, my view is narrow. I vote for the candidate I think will be best for me. I often define myself as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

Maybe her view is narrow. Mine isn’t, although I admit there are a lot of selfish, shallow people who vote. Remember the arousal gappers of the 90s? She says she’s a fiscal conservative, yet votes for a guy who’s anything but over a guy who is a fiscal conservative and rather liberal socially (McCain). Why? Because McCain picked as his running mate arguably the candidate most qualified to be president on either ticket.

The whole thing reads like some ditzy high school girl who bought a line of Barbra Streisand (B.S.) from the charming rogue in her school and accepted his invitation to the prom only to get dumped when they arrived for someone else.

Melissa Clouthier fisks the immature Dorson here:

You hurt the country with your narcissism, just as President Obama has hurt the country with his narcissism and will continue to do so.

Blaming Sarah Palin for your lameness is just par for the course. Another typical, face-saving decision by a childish voter.

You have three years, Ms. Dorsan. I suggest you spend them worrying less about the Republican party and giving them advice, and more about growing up.

How will you even know a good candidate when you see one? You’re so blinded by your superficial needs that you’ll likely vote for the next feel-good dummy who comes along.

Good luck with the maturity thing. Being a grown-up is hard–just ask President Barack Obama.