Via Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.
Boy, am I glad this guy is on our side. He tells it like it is and gives no ground at all.
Andrew Breitbart had two choice words for Richard Trumka, Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., and the rest of the Hate Left, including the unionistas, tonight at TeaCon …. “F*ck you!”
I can add only one thing to that. ” … and the horse you rode in on.”
Breaking news: Ron Paul is still nuts. Film at eleven.
The Roasted Paulnut himself has condemned the killing of a top Al Qaeda jihadist in Yemen via a drone. WHy? Because the jihadist was born in the United States and as such, Paul argues we deprived him of due process.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (al-AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is condemning the Obama administration for killing an American born al-Qaida operative without a trial.
Paul, a Texas congressman known for libertarian views, says the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki on Yemeni soil amounts to an “assassination.” Paul warned the American people not to casually accept such violence against U.S. citizens, even those with strong ties to terrorism.
As Mark Belling pointed out on his show this afternoon, we are not fighting a traditional war against another nation with a uniformed army. In addition, the jihadist that was turned into a crispy critter by the U.S. military is not in the U.S. and has taken up arms against the country of his birth.
The only good jihadist … is a dead jihadist.
Congratulations to the U.S. military on a high profile kill … and Ron Paul is still nuts. No wonder few people take him seriously.
Well, they’ve gone and done it.
Florida has officially changed the date of its presidential primary to January 31, 2012.
Politico quotes the Iowa chairman:
The arrogance shown by Florida’s elected leadership is disappointing, but not surprising. Equally troubling is to see this petulant behavior rewarded with our national convention. The consequences of Florida’s intransigence must be swift and severe, including the refusal by the RNC to credential or seat any member of Florida’s presidential primary date commission at the 2012 RNC convention in Tampa.
Regarding the timing of the First in the Nation Iowa Caucuses, Iowa will remain first. Consistent with tradition, the final Iowa Caucus date will be announced once New Hampshire sets the date of its First in the Nation Primary.
In other words, what we predicted yesterday here will happen: a front-loaded presidential primary system guaranteed to pick an establishment GOP candidate. Mitt Romney = John McCain 2.0.
Right now, the Iowa caucuses are scheduled for February 6. Look for those to be moved up about a month, or right after the holidays. That means folks in Iowa will have to deal with campaign politicians and media types screwing up their Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.
The New Hampshire primary is set for February 14. That, too, will be moved up, interfering with, as RSM points out here, the BCS National Championship Game. Of course, he’s rooting for Alabama to be there and we’re rooting for Wisconsin, but still … few Americans will be paying attention to politics at that point, and thanks to Florida, the GOP race could very well be over by the time the calendar turns to February, rendering any caucuses and primaries, including ours here in Wisconsin, meaningless.
RSM notes:
Let’s just hope Reince Priebus can stop these crazy Florida bastards from ruining Christmas.
Reince, the ball is in your court.
As we wrote yesterday:
A frontloaded primary/caucus system that’s almost guaranteed to produce a weak candidate based on whatever candidate has the most money and best organization and coupled with the appearance of momentum. The flames of the latter are certain to be flamed by the state-run media, which hardly has the GOP’s best interests at heart.
In 2008, this process gave us John McCain, arguably the weakest candidate that could have headed up the Republican ticket. Most likely this time around, it will produce Mitt Romney, the Next Guy In Line.
Yawn. Talk about depressing the GOP base.
That’s the end result: the Cocktail Party GOP showing the Tea Party who’s boss. Same old RINO crap sandwich. No Herman Cain. No Sarah Palin. No real conservative.
As Judge Smails told his spoiled rotten grandson in Caddyshack: “You’ll get nothing and like it.”
Michael Walsh of the New York Post reports that a smoking gun in the treasonous operation conducted by the Obama Regime known as Operation Fast and Furious may have been located:
This just might be the smoking gun we’ve been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.
Let that sink in: After months of pretending that “Fast and Furious” was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.
Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy four Draco pistols for cash and even got a letter from his supervisor, David Voth, authorizing a federally licensed gun dealer to sell him the guns without bothering about the necessary paperwork.
“Please accept this letter in lieu of completing an ATF Form 4473 for the purchase of four (4) CAI, Model Draco, 7.62×39 mm pistols, by Special Agent John Dodson,” read the June 1, 2010, letter. “These aforementioned pistols will be used by Special Agent Dodson in furtherance of performance of his official duties.”
On orders, Dodson then sold the guns to known criminals, who first stashed them away and then — deliberately unhindered by the ATF or any other agency — whisked them off to Mexico.
People were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, including at least two American agents and hundreds of Mexicans. And the taxpayers picked up the bill.
So where’s the outrage?
Very simple: the state-run media, who’d be all over this like white on rice if this had been done during the Bush administration is taking the “Nothing to see here, move along” approach.
A little background: the Justice Department under the control of Obama Regime corruptocrat Eric Holder sold guns to one side of the Mexican drug cartel wars — the State Department under the control of Hillary sold them to the other side — in a thinly veiled attempt to limit Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
How, you say? Simple once again: if the Obama Regime could make the case through its willing accomplices in the state-run media that American firearms were turning up in Mexico and being used in the drug cartel wars, they could argue that more strict gun control laws were needed.
Holder himself has denied knowing anything about Operation Fast and Furious but has also stonewalled Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and the House committee investigating. Once again, it’s not the action but rather the cover-up that gets ‘em. The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms at the time of the operation resigned and was transferred in order to get him out of the way of investigators in late August.
How bad is this? It makes the Iran-Contra operation from the 1980s look like a Sunday School picnic. Guns were knowingly sold by the Obama Regime to members of the Mexican drug cartels on both sides of the conflict. Some of those weapons were likely used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent in December 2010. The murder of agent Brian Terry was described as “collateral damage” in recordings obtained by See BS News.
The recordings were obtained exclusively by CBS News. The man who made them – Arizona gun dealer Andre Howard – ran the Lone Wolf Trading Company and was speaking with Hope MacAllister, the ATF operation’s case agent.
Two of the guns Howard sold while cooperating with the ATF that were later found at Terry’s murder.
“It happened. It’s terrible,” Howard said. “That’s life ok we move on.”
Tell Agent Terry’s family that he was collateral damage in the Obama Regime’s war against Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Walsh offers some possible scenarios, none of which puts the Regime in too good a light:
There are two possible explanations. The first is that the anti-gun Obama administration deliberately wanted American guns planted in Mexico in order to demonize American firearms dealers and gun owners. The operation was manufacturing “evidence” for the president’s false claim that we’re to blame for the appalling levels of Mexican drug-war violence.
If this is true, then Holder & Co. have got to go — and the trail needs to be followed no matter where it leads. For the federal government to seek to frame its own citizens is unconscionable.
A second notion is that the CIA was behind the whole thing, which accounts for all the desperate wagon-circling. Under this theory, the Agency feared the los Zetas drug cartel was becoming too powerful and might even mount a coup against the Mexican government. So some 2,000 weapons costing more than $1.25 million were deliberately channeled to the rival Sinaloa cartel, which operates along the American border, to keep the Zetas in check.
Of course, there’s a third explanation — that both scenarios are true, and that those in charge of Fast and Furious saw an opportunity to shoot two birds with one Romanian-made AK Draco pistol.
I’ll go with option #1, since we already know the State Department was also selling firearms to Los Zetas.
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey goes with the third option:
I’m going with option C. And if that’s the case, then include Leon Panetta among those who has to hit the road, too.
Resignation are not enough. People seriously need to go to prison for this type of corruption. It’s time for a special prosecutor, since the DOJ is too busy covering for its own corruption as well as for anyone higher up.
Brings to mind the famous question from Sen. Howard Baker from the Watergate era: What did the President know and when did he know it?”
At Public Secrets, Phineas observes:
This might be the final crack before the dam surrounding Operation Fast and Furious collapses altogether.
Ace observes:
This was not a “botched surveillance mistake” as the Administration is trying to peddle. The ATF goons in charge of this deliberately allowed the guns to be delivered into the hands of narcoterrorists with no surveillance whatsoever.
This is not a case where they watched 2000 guns, but lost 25 guns due to the inevitable problems with 24/7 surveillance. And that, oh bad luck, some of those 25 lost guns were used in crimes, such as the murder of Brian Terry.
They didn’t watch any of them. Mexico wasn’t even in the loop, so how the hell could they have watched where the guns went on the Mexican side of the border?
They didn’t “lose” 2000 guns. They intended to let 2000 guns loose.
And why? I ‘ll stick with theory #1, even though it tends to be one that is conspiratorial in nature.
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It’s OK to portray President Bush as a chimpanzee, but don’t you dare depict Barack Hussein Obama as a crying baby in a diaper. Or a dunce. Or what He is: a puppet of George $oro$.
Homeowner Tim Riley in New Orleans is learning just how tolerant and compassionate the Hate Left is for putting up such a sign on his private property.
An Uptown neighborhood was clogged with cars Wednesday morning as 60 people showed up outside a home on Calhoun Street, demanding the removal of a sign of President Barack Obama in a diaper mounted on a fence.The people gathered outside the home just off St. Charles Avenue said they came to express their frustrations over the “offensive” poster.
Here’s one of the signs:
Here are the others:
One local resident is all hacked off over the lack of respect for Our Lord and Savior:
“We see it every day. It’s a monstrosity, and I can’t believe somebody would put it up. But (Riley has) the right to do that, unfortunately,” neighbor Veronica Lyons said.
“Unfortunately” is Lyons’s choice of words. Someone needs to inform her of the First Amendment, which reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Translated, this is free speech protected by the First Amendment. Plus, we don’t have a monarch or a dictator here. We don’t have to bow and scrape and pay homage to Dear Leader, no matter how much the lobotomized, Kool-Aid drinking followers of Il Douche think He’s the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
The Right Scoop speculates on the end result — sad to say, correctly:
Regardless of free speech, it sounds like the city is going to dig until they find a reason to take it down.
Welcome to America’s version of the Third Reich. One dare not criticize The Anointed One. Der Fuhrer.
Stephen Gutkowski at MRC-TV adds:
I’ve always been under the impression that here in America freedom of speech was a protected right given to us by God and protected from infringement by the constitution. Heck, I’m not even the kind of person who would put up big provocative political signs on my property (and I don’t agree with everything on those signs) but I am certainly the kind of person who will push back against those who try to drum up bogus technicalities in order to infringe on speech they don’t like.
If this attack on free speech goes unabated and succeeds it will be yet another dark day for our country.
Seriously, where was all this concern for respect for the presidency and the President of the United States — Obama may be THE president but he is not and never will be MY president — when George W. Bush was in office?
No one complained about websites that compared Bush to a chimpanzee, complete with graphics. No one complained when Bush was equated with Hitler, or when writers and filmmakers created Bush assassination fantasies.
But now we have a petulant little man-child making a mess — deliberately, I will argue — of the nation’s economy as well as everything else He touches and blaming everything and everyone else and we cannot dare criticize Him.
Here we go again.
The Stupid Party is hellbent on blowing the biggest slam-dunk presidential election since 1980.
Florida is planning on defying the Republican National Committee and moving its primary up to Jan. 31, 2012.
Florida appears poised to schedule its Republican primary in late January, earlier than national party officials want, setting off a chain reaction that would send Iowa voters to make their choice for president the first week of 2012.
A spokesperson for Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon tells CBS News that the commission appointed to select the state’s presidential primary date is expected to announce on Friday that the Florida primary will be January 31, 2012.
The commission had been looking at a February 21 date, but Florida officials moved their target date forward this week after reports over the weekend that Missouri, Colorado and Georgia were looking to get a headstart on Florida.
The staff of the Florida governor, Senate president and House speaker, all Republicans, who each appointed 3 of the 9 members on the panel, have been discussing the move and are pushing for the January 31 timetable, the earliest possible date that the commission could pick for the primary, aides said.
Right now, the order has the Iowa caucuses — or as El Rushbo calls them, the Hawkeye Cauci — first, followed by the New Hampshire primary, the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primary.
Needless to say, this will cause a chain reaction to move those events up even earlier. Right now, as it stands, the schedule is as follows:
The end result? A frontloaded primary/caucus system that’s almost guaranteed to produce a weak candidate based on whatever candidate has the most money and best organization and coupled with the appearance of momentum. The flames of the latter are certain to be flamed by the state-run media, which hardly has the GOP’s best interests at heart.
In 2008, this process gave us John McCain, arguably the weakest candidate that could have headed up the Republican ticket. Most likely this time around, it will produce Mitt Romney, the Next Guy In Line.
Yawn. Talk about depressing the GOP base.
Florida blogger Sunshine State Sarah weighs in, republishing a statement from a key Florida GOP official:
Republicans have always been law abiding people who obey the rules. If we don’t want to go by the rules – if we want to be arrogant and only abide by the rules we like or agree with – then we should consider another party. As long as we are a member of the Republican Party we should go by their rules. If we want to change things, we should do it through the proper channels and procedures, not break the rules because we think we are better than other states. I agree that we have better demographics and are more representative than some of the four states that are authorized because of tradition and history to go early. They are small and we will be more meaningful if we are close to the front and at FULL STRENGTH.
If we break the rules again (this will be two in a row) we will alienate the remainder of the country. We have to demonstrate and prove that we can and will play by the rules before we can ask to legally be allowed to go early to help the country get our view (which we think will be a better view) of how the candidates will do with large state which has the many different voter groups that we have.
The Other McCain is clearly not thrilled about the jumpstarting of the primary season stampeding all over the Christmas holidays:
Never mind how this dumbass stunt could affect the Republican primary outcome. If those bats–t crazy motherf–kers do this, I’ll be spending Christmas in Iowa.
He also identifies the two Florida GOP officials behind the move:
A Wall Street Journal article lists state House Speaker Dean Cannon and state Senate President Mike Haridopolos as the vicious swine responsible for this crazy idea. So who are these big shots?
- Cannon has endorsed Rick Perry, and anyone who suspects Cannon’s push for a Jan. 31 primary is intended to cripple Perry’s opponents — well, you’re entitled to your suspicions.
- Haridopolos was forced out of the 2012 GOP Senate primary after a debate disaster in which he expressed his support for Obama’s troop withdrawal plan and his opposition to the Ryan budget. Haridopolos was “effusive in praising” Mitt Romney back in July. IYKWIMAITYD.
What does this look like? In four words: The fix is in.
Oh goodie. A collection of Florida RINOs hellbent on making sure the road is paved for the GOP Establishment candidates.
And, writing over at The American Spectator, RSM asks: “Why does Florida hate America?” Florida: The Evil State.
Once again, for emphasis, a front-loaded primary system benefits only the media-designated frontrunners, not the GOP voters. This process gave us John McCain in 2008 and cannot end well in 2012.
And Mama Gump sure was right.
This from the intellectual who thinks the U.S. has 57 states, once had a Intercontinental Railroad and said the U.S. Navy has “corpsemen.”
What’s wrong with this picture?
That’s right. The people who think they are better and smarter than the rest of us misidentified Wyoming as Colorado.
The press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the president’s trip this week to Washington state, California, and Colorado. The credential even provides a handy graphic highlighting (in white) which states the president will visit.
The only problem?
Wyoming is highlighted, not Colorado.
Maybe they got confused counting all 57 states. But we have to have an Ivy League education in order to rule in America. These people belong on Jaywalking, not in power.
We need fewer intellectuals and more intelligent people.
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year. Happy Rosh Hashanah to all of our Jewish friends, and God bless Israel.
This one should have them wetting the bed at the White House. Rock you like a Herman Cain!
The latest Rasmussen horse race poll has Herman Cain trailing Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama by just five points at 39 percent to 34 percent.
Here’s a little behind-the-numbers data:
Data released earlier today shows that voters nationwide are evenly divided as to whether or not Cain is qualified to be president — 30% say yes, 33% no, and 37% are not sure. Republicans, by a 49% to 17% margin believe he is qualified while most Democrats disagree. Among Republicans, Cain’s numbers on this question are similar to Rick Perry’s but not as strong as Mitt Romney’s.
In a match-up against President Obama, just 61% of Republicans are ready to vote for Cain. Eighteen percent (18%) would prefer a third option and 11% are not sure. Among unaffiliated voters, 33% prefer Cain, 31% Obama, and 36% aren’t ready to commit to either candidate.
What does this mean? The door is open to Cain to be able to sell himself to the American people. Just because some voters aren’t ready to vote for him or will not commit doesn’t they won’t be. They need to be convinced, and that’s now Cain’s task: selling himself as a viable alternative to Romney and Perry and someone who can beat Obama.
