Monthly Archives: September 2010

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More Bad News For Radical Russ

Just how bad can it get for Sen. Russ Feingold (DS-Al Qaeda)?

Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, Public Policy Polling, the official pollster for the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center, is coming out with a poll showing Radical Russ trailing Republican challenger Ron Johnson by double digits, more than the Rasmussen Reports poll we discussed here.

According to P-Wire, the Kos Kiddies say the poll will indicate a “massive” enthusiam gap as the main cause for the deficit.

Gee, ya think?

Hey Markos! We here in Wisconsin are sick and tired of Russ Feingold’s lefty agenda, lies and smarmy condescension toward his constituents. Finally, we have someone to vote for rather than just against Feingold.

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Amnesty Returneth

It’s got more lives than Dracula.

Once again, amnesty for illegal aliens is back, this time in the form of the previously defeated DREAM Act, which would provide amnesty to all illegal aliens who came to the United States before they were 16 and have been here at least five years.

No compassion, folks, for young people. The Democrats are going to need all those votes in November and in two years.

But rather than a stand alone vote, as happened in 2007 and 2008, Dingy Harry, the illegal aliens’ BFF on Capitol Hill, is playing rank politics, attempting to attach DREAM Act legislation to a defense bill.

The cutoff age for the DREAM Act in the Senate bill? Age 35. The House version has no age cap. In other words, this is a much bigger amnesty that the proponents are leading on. A blanket amnesty. To quote a commenter at The Hill:

At a time when many American parents can’t afford to send their kids to college, Reid is going to peddle the “Dream Act,” a huge amnesty bill which would give scarce college seats and aid to illegal aliens. This will NOT go over well with voters.

Michelle Malkin points out:

DREAM Act lobbyists are spotlighting heart-wrenching stories of high-achieving teens brought to this country when they were toddlers. But instead of arguing for case-by-case dispensations, the protesters want blanket pardons. The broadly-drafted Senate bill would confer benefits on applicants up to age 35 and the House bill contains no age ceiling at all. The academic achievement requirements are minimal. Moreover, illegal aliens who didn’t arrive in the country until they turned 15 – after they laid down significant roots in their home country – would be eligible for DREAM Act benefits and eventual U.S. citizenship. And like past amnesty packages, the Democrat plan is devoid of any concrete eligibility and enforcement mechanisms to deter already-rampant immigration benefit fraud.

Remember the reason behind this: Democrats are losing badly in the polls virtually everywhere. They need the votes, and illegal aliens are another natural Democrat constituency. Ideally, they’d like to make them eligible to vote this November but at least by November 2012.

Politicians who are supporting this insanity are doing so in the face of public opinion. Poll after poll shows Americans supporting border security and tougher stances against illegal immigration, but that doesn’t apparently faze Democrat politicians pandering for votes and Republicans intent on committing party suicide.

What part of illegal don’t they understand?

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Walker Breaks To Lead Over Barrett

Good news in the first post-primary Rasmussen Reports poll in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, where Scott Walker has opened an eight point lead over Tom Barrett.

Walker is at 51 percent in the poll, while Tom the Taxer stands at 43 percent. Further detail:

This is the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey in Wisconsin to include leaners. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either of the candidates but answer a follow-up question and say they are leaning towards a particular candidate. From this point forward, Rasmussen Reports considers results with leaners the primary indicator of the race.

When leaners are not included, however, support for each candidate shows little change. Walker, the county executive of Milwaukee County, leads Barrett 50% to 43%.

There’s another hidden detail here: Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone is on the ballot, whether or not his name is listed. In much the same way that John McCain was George W. Bush’s third term in 2008, Barrett is Doyle’s third term. Doyle is America’s Worst Governor. His re-elect numbers were so low he chose not to run for a third term, but Barrett is Doyle in effect.

And after the trainwreck Doyle and the Democrats have made out of the state in the past eight years in terms of the budget, the economy, taxes, voter fraud, etc., along with crippling Wisconsin’s perception of having honest and ethical government, voters have had enough.

Go here to donate to help make Scott Walker Wisconsin’s next governor.

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Just How Did We Get Here?

Via Badger Blogger, a reminder of just how we got stuck in the national trainwreck we’re in.

How Obama Got Elected by John Ziegler was a look at the stunning lack of basic knowledge let alone insight on the voters who gave us the unmitigated disaster known as Barack Hussein Obama in 2008.

Take a trip down Memory Lane and cringe:

It’s also a revealing look at how the blatant media bias shaped the voters’ perception of both Barack Hussein Obama and Sarah Palin. Case in point: Ziegler plays a clip of Palin stating that one could see Russia from certain points of land in Alaska, something that is true and just a statement of geographical fact and follows it up with a clip from a Saturday Night Live skit in which Palin as played by Tina Fey says “I can see Alaska from my house.” The voters interviewed incorrectly sais it was Palin who made that statement, not a comedian impersonating her.

It shows how the media template depicting Palin as an intellectual lightweight and a true Not Ready For Prime Time Player had its effect. Ziegler asked several voters which candidate claimed to have visited 57 states with one or two more to go and all said it was Palin. Hint: Wrong. It was Obama.

It’s how, more than two years after her arrival on the national scene, despite a successful stint as Alaska’s governor fighting good ol’ boy corruption, she has high negatives and is not considered up to being President, should she decide to run. I had a conversation with a fellow conservative this week who repeated the same ol’, same ol’ about how Palin needs to study up and immerse herself in some sort of policy study. I’ll argue she’s had more impact on the national political scene simply using a Facebook page since January 2009 than any other political figure.

This video also shows how the 2008 election was more than anything else a triumph of the cult of personality. We didn’t elect a President. We selected an American Idol. And that’s just what the narcissistic, petulant Man-Child has acted like. Vacation after vacation, one round of golf after another, a constant stream of parties, all while Americans suffer through the worst economy since the Great Depression on His watch.

He’s nothing but the world’s most prominent celebrity.

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Johnson Brings The Smackdown

Ow! Son of a … that’s gonna leave a mark!

Sen. Russ Feingold (DS-Al Qaeda) put out a campaign ad which draws on a news report from a Madison TV station that heavily edited the ad, left in the station’s news personnel being quoted out of context.

You can see the ad below:

Here’s the WKOW-TV (Channel 27) story via the Wigderson Library & Pub:

MADISON (WKOW) — Within the barrage of political ads we’ve seen this year are some that feature news clips, some from newspaper, some from TV.

Monday, one ad in particular caught our attention and the attention of some of you.

It resembles a WKOW newscast more than a political commercial, right down to the graphics and the anchorman.

“They took out all the context, balance and other side of the story,” said Perry Boxx, WKOW News Director. “He did it without any permission. It may be legal, but it’s just plain wrong.”

Not only did WKOW not give permission for the use of those clips from our copyrighted newscast, we never even knew they had been used until the political ad first hit the air on Monday.

“The fair use doctrine of copyright law allows anyone to use excerpts from copyrighted work for purposes of comment,” said Bob Dreps, WKOW legal counsel.

“The question becomes not is it legal, but is it fair, is it just?” said Madison College Professor Maurice Sheppard.

Campaign ads using new clips aren’t new, but they can blur the line between a news report and a campaign ad, making it seem like journalists are endorsing candidates.

Sheppard said, “For some voters, they don’t know if it’s an ad or a special news report and it can be somewhat confusing.”

What the Feingold ad did was remove the balance from the news story, loop an on-camera comment from his GOP opponent, Ron Johnson, over and over and make the edit appear to be a news story rather than a political ad.

The station demanded that Feingold pull the ad, but as James Wigderson points out:

Oh that wascally maverick! Feingold decided he would rather be deceptive than good, and he’s refusing to pull the ad.

The Johnson campaign struck back, quickly and effectively with this ad:

No, Ron Johnson’s loans did not come from the federal government. They came from private investors and even al-Associated Press admitted as such.

The Feingold campaign caught lying again. But this is just the start: this campaign will hit new lows as Feingold fights for his political life. After all, when he loses November 2 and his term ends in January, he’ll have to go get a real job for the first time in his professional life.

Or, he can just become a … lobbyist.

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The Real Feingold Ads

As I pointed out here, my friend Fred Dooley from Real Debate Wisconsin attended the so-called listening session held by Sen. Russ Feingold (DS-Al Qaeda) at Racine Park High School in March in which he arrogantly and condescendingly lectured his constituents.

Fred took extensive video of Radical Russ’s performance, wch you can see here.

Now, Fred is taking that video and making a series of truthful Feingold campaign ads.

The first ad is up already.

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‘Endowed By Their Creator’

Whoops!

Someone forgot to tell Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama that the rights of United States citizens come from … God.

The Smartest Person In The Room gave a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in which he (deliberately??) omitted any reference to God from the Declaration of Independence:

I do not believe that was an accident. Not from The Messiah, whose basic political philosophy eschews the very existence of God and maintains that rights come from government and can be taken away by government if it so chooses.

Remember various past statements made by the Chocolate Jesus that emerged during the 2008 campaign and were ignored by the lapdog kneepad wearing media as well as the American public, which by then had consumed way too much of the Hope and Change Kool-Aid.

Obama was openly critical of the U.S. Constitution, saying it was wrong to have a document that contained “negative rights.” In other words, limitations on government power.

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that, uh, I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and — and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.  But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

As radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.  It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted — and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.  And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.

Obama believes the U.S. Constitution, arguably the greatest document in living human history, to be “deeply flawed” because it places limits on government authority.

Basically, what Obama did in front of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is rewrite history and eliminate a critical reference inserted by Thomas Jefferson because Obama’s view on the origins of our rights differs from that of Jefferson. Jefferson believed our rights came from God; Obama believes our rights come from government.

Says Bruce at Gay Patriot:

Can’t everyone but the utmost Bush-haters now see what a complete buffoon America has in the Oval Office?

I think most of us have seen it, all but the most Obama Kool-Aid drinking lemmings.

Bruce also posted the Declaration of Independence, highlighting the parts Obama chose to omit in his rewriting of history. By the way, I don’t think Obama is a moron. Vice President Chia Pet, Joe “Plugs” Biden is a moron. Obama is evil. He is attempting to destroy the United States of America with every his word and action.

Change is coming. I can see November from my house.

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Man Arrested For Burning Koran

Wish I were making this up, but I am not.

Via The Grendel Report comes this report from Detroit’s WXYZ-TV (Channel 7):

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) – A man suspected of burning a Quran outside an East Lansing mosque has turned himself in to police.

Police say the suspect surrendered voluntarily on Wednesday after he saw a $10,000 reward issued for his capture.

He is reportedly cooperating with police and the FBI and is under investigation for a possible hate crime.

It will be up to prosecutors to decide if any charges should be filed.

There’s something wrong with this picture. Does anyone ever get arrested for burning, say, an American flag? Of course not. It’s been defined by the U.S. Supreme Court as constitutionally protected free speech, something with which I agree, by the way.

This is political correctness as its worst. Also back-door imposition of sharia law, which calls for death to anyone descerating a Koran. I’ll bet the police wouldn’t have responded in the same manner if some atheist burned pages from a Bible.

Yet a man who burns pages from the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf is facing criminal prosecution as well as a federal felony for committing a hate crime.

This is why I have a major problem with hate crimes legislation. It punishes thought as opposed to action. It sets aside certain politically designated victim groups — after all, only certain people can be the haters (white males) and only certain groups can be the victims of hate (said politically designated groups).

That the man is facing any criminal action at all should frighten everyone who holds a politically incorrect point of view no matter how extremist it may be.