February 03, 2010

The most shocking thing about Hawkins' analysis? 8 of the 10 seats voted Obama.

How you like them apples?

January 21, 2010

Special Post-Election Analysis by Rosa Ortiz

Former Chief of Housekeeping Staff, Coakley For Senate Campaign

Classic!

h/t Chip

January 20, 2010

January 18, 2010

Heh.

"We are in deep s--- if we lose on Tuesday," a Democratic operative said.

A new poll out of Public Policy Polling on Monday underscored the depth of Coakley's challenge.

The poll showed Brown leading 51-46 overall, 64-32 among independents and winning 20 percent of the vote from those who backed Obama in 2008. On the flip side, the survey showed Coakley pulling just 4 percent of the vote from those who backed John McCain, in the 2008 presidential race[...]

[I]n a potentially telling moment, Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy -- Ted Kennedy's son -- forgot Coakley's name while speaking to reporters after the Obama rally Sunday. According to an account in The National Journal, he referred to Coakley as "Marcia" every time.

Update: MSNBC'S Schultz: "I'd Cheat To Keep Brown From Winning In Massachusetts":

h/t "Guest" in comments.

January 17, 2010

Obama needed his teleprompter.....I, I, I, I,....

h/t Watcher

Some what related:

Zonation MASS HYSTERIA: The Coakley-Brown Race Has Surprises the MSM Won't Show You

Nice!

h/t Chip

January 15, 2010

What. The. Frak? PJM:

A new poll taken Thursday evening for Pajamas Media by CrossTarget – an Alexandria VA survey research firm – shows Scott Brown, a Republican, leading Martha Coakley, a Democrat, by 15.4% in Tuesday’s special election for the open Massachusetts US Senate seat. The poll of 946 likely voters was conducted by telephone using interactive voice technology (IVR) and has a margin of error of +/- 3.19%.

That's the second poll in a row showing Brown up in MA. Yesterday's Suffolk University/7News poll had Brown up by 4 -- within the margin of error. PJM's poll has Brown up well outside the margin of error.

I know the first instinct will be to dismiss PJM's poll as an outlier because it was sponsored by a right-leaning organization. But consider these two facts:

a) PJM's poll had a larger sample size than Suffolk's, meaning the margin of error is less.

b) Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the poll by 16%.

Three exit questions: 1) Is there life after death? 2) Is there a system of punishments and rewards after death -- ie, heaven and hell? 3) Is it out of the realm of possibilities for a just God to punish Ted Kennedy by letting him watch the Brown/Coakley drama unfold?

Because that visual, my friends, puts a smile on my face.

January 14, 2010

So shocking that it's got someone as uninterested in the MA Senatorial race as me giddy with some Chris Matthewsesque tingly-feeling-up-my-leg excitement. Boston Herald:

The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead.

Somewhere in hell, Ted Kennedy is reeling.

Thanks to Jules.

November 04, 2009

At some point picking on the New York Times just gets boring: When a Dem wins, it's Bush's fault; but when a Republican wins this has absolutely nothing to do with Obama.

November 03, 2009

This video is certainly appropriate. Maybe Neal Cavuto was right.

October 05, 2009

(Portland, Maine) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has launched a statewide drive to register convicts to vote.

Though prison inmates tend to skew to the Democratic side, the drive isn't about furthering any political agenda, said Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

September 18, 2009

My friend Matt Burden-- one of the best milbloggers in the business -- is running for the Illinois House of Representatives!

Go, Matt, go!

Give cash via Paypal here.

August 25, 2009

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July 31, 2009

Washington Times

The Department of Justice recently dropped the conviction of Jerry Jackson member of the “New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” (NBPP)...more

There is no doubt they were intimidating voters when they stood outside, weapon in hand, at a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 Presidential election. Even worse, they were chosen to be poll watchers by the Democrat Party and the Obama campaign.

Article has link to Jackson's MySpace page. Pretty sickening to think Dept of Justice drop the charges, even more so, after viewing his MySpace page.

h/t HA's headline link thingy

Update: GOP lawmakers press Obama's DOJ to stand up for voting rights

May 29, 2009

John Hawkins has the latest poll of right-of-center bloggers.

The good news? The vast majority of us think that Republicans will pick up seats next election cycle.

The bad news? 27.3% of us think Barack Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii, presumably in Indonesia and that he's really a super-sikret Muslim -- part of the Muslim Illuminati, no doubt.

May 04, 2009

Amidst all the change, there is hope:

Monday, Nevada's Attorney General's Office and Secretary of State's Office filed charges against ACORN for voter registration violations and forging voter registration forms.

April 28, 2009

Good riddance to Arlen Specter. From Specter's press release:

Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."

So, why is Specter changing parties? No, this isn't about the Republican party becoming more conservative. It isn't. We just went through 8 years of "compassionate conservatism" where the party abandoned it's core principles of fiscal responsibility -- the very uniting principle which forged the Reagan big tent.

Arlen Specter's one and only concern has always been Arlen Specter. He's a political opportunist with no core values.

Moderation is not a core value, it is simply taking someone else's values and saying um, okay, but why don't we do less of what you're talking about?

I'd say this was good news, but do you really think Toomey has a chance of beating him in Pennsylvania? This is a state which voted Obama over McCain 55 to 44%.

UPDATE: Just finished the entire press release and my gut instinct about the switch was right on. I'll give Specter some props for admitting the real reason he's jumping ship is that he's afraid he'll lose in the primary:

Since then, I have traveled the State, talked to Republican leaders and office-holders and my supporters and I have carefully examined public opinion. It has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable. On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.

As Michelle says, Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

UPDATE: AllahP on the same page and also calls Specter out on the "party left me" lie. Hot Air notes further that both The One and VP Slick were deeply involved in wooing Specter. Who could have seen that one coming?

And Drew breaks out the flaming skull.

So, again I ask, is this good news or bad news? What's the probability that Tooney could win in Penn?

UPDATE: Wow, I'm not half as insightful as I think I am. Michael Steele:

Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.

UPDATE: Hold the phone. Dan over at Riehl World view notes that Specter is up against one of Obama's guys in the Democratic primary. So, maybe Spcecter won't even be on the general election ballot?

That would be classic cosmic justice: Specter leaves Republican party fearing loss in primary only to be defeated in Democratic primary.

UPDATE: Filibuster proof majority? That's why Specter's defection might be a bad thing.

UPDATE: Heh!

April 15, 2009

Every day I think I have heard it all, now this.

From HA:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon’s most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea’s recent missile launch, precluding officials from collecting finely detailed launch data or testing the radar in a real-time crisis, current and former defense officials said. …[...]

One current and two former specialists in strategic defenses said the administration rejected the request because it feared that moving the huge floating radar system would be viewed by North Korea as provocative and upset diplomatic efforts aimed at restarting six-nation nuclear talks.

h/t Mongol

April 11, 2009

Drudge links to this disturbing article regarding the arguments among Obama's team in regards to al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab. Some want to strike al-Shabaab's training camps while others want a non military, more patient approach. The reasoning for the later?

Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials maintain that uncertainty about the intentions of the al-Shabab organization

Obama can't vote present on this one and it is showing.

The newness of the Obama administration, one senior military official, has slowed the decision process even more.

They are "walking slowly," the official said, "and for the players with continuity, the frustration continues to grow."

But many on the national security team insist that it is their caution and willingness to consider all aspects of the situation that differentiate them from the overly aggressive posture of the Bush administration that they say exacerbated the terrorist threat.

UPDATE by Rusty: I was actually working on a post on this at the same time SH was, so let me just add a couple of thoughts.

What is most troubling is that it seems that the Obama administration isn't clear as to Shabaab's intentions. Not knowing the best response to terrorist groups is one thing, but not understanding intentions is quite another.

The intentions of Shabaab are crystal clear: the establishment of Taliban like sharia in Somalia, and the spread of that type of government abroad.

Of course Shabaab has its eyes outside of Somalia. Just ask the people in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Some analysts confuse the motivations of those fighting for Shabaab with organizational goals. I'm afraid this confusion has now reached the White House.

The confusion stems from the fact that many fighting for the Shabaab against the Ethiopian occupation force were motivated to some extent out of nationalism.

But so what? The motivation of street-level fighters tells us little as to the goals of the organization they fight for.

The goal of many terrorists may be even less sophisticated than nationalism. I'm sure that some fight for the promise of three squares a day.

This may inform us as to how to respond to individual members of a terrorist group. It may even help us craft strategies for splitting the fragile coalitions that make up insurgencies, as we did in Iraq. But it tells us absolutely nothing about the organization itself, or what its goals are.

I would also point out that just because some in the Shabaab movement are not interested in global jihad, this does not mean that none of them are.

Clearly, the video showing Abu Mansoor al-Amriki and other English speakers fighting in Somalia should give rise to concern about their motivations. They did not go there to fight for Somalia, they went there to fight for Islam against the kuffar.

Surely this gives us a glimpse into the motivation of many Shabaab fighters, and that motivation is no different than jihadis found in any of al Qaeda's global affiliates.

UPDATE 4/13: Steve Schippert has related thoughts here: Getting Past Somalia Inanity

Related: Al Qaeda's Africa Strategy #6: Disrupt Western Shipping

April 01, 2009

Despite Barack Obama's persistent pledges as president-elect that he would not meddle in foreign affairs while President Bush was in office, a new report in The New Yorker claims that his transition team worked to persuade Israel to end its offensive in the Gaza Strip before Inauguration Day.

The article also quoted a former intelligence official as saying former Vice President Dick Cheney started "getting messages from the Israelis about pressure from Obama" before Jan. 20.

March 28, 2009

h/t Ace

Participants called on in the audience were all Obama campaign supporters or donors

Who woulda thunk...

March 12, 2009

This comes as no suprise.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance[...]

Eleven of the most prominent veterans organizations have been lobbying Congress to oppose the idea. In the letter sent last week to the president, the groups warned that the idea "is wholly unacceptable and a total abrogation of our government's moral and legal responsibility to the men and women who have sacrificed so much."

h/t CJ

March 10, 2009

I wonder how Obama's network, MSNBC, is going to spin this F grade:

I voted, will you?

h/t WND

March 09, 2009

During the presidential elections LA Times refused to release transcripts of a going away party for anti-Semite, ex-PLO member Rashid Khalidi. Then Senator Obama paid a special tribute to his friend Khalidi.

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.

MEI [Middle East Institute] is honored to host Rashid Khalidi , to discuss his new book, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East.

In his new book, Rashid Khalidi dissects the crucial dynamics of power in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as it played out in the Middle East, compellingly arguing that the intense rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR in the region set the stage for the tragic conflicts that have followed in its long wake.

Understanding the powerful and lingering aftereffects of the Cold War requires going back in time and reassessing that conflict. The perceived Soviet threat was the pretext for the establishment of U.S. military bases and for the development of a vastly enhanced American international intelligence network, for example.

The strategies the United States adopted in the Cold War have, in fact, led directly to its prevailing policies and to the “hot” wars it is waging in the Middle East today. Khalidi argues that, without a critical analysis of the legacy of the Cold War in the current political climate of the Middle East, the cycle will continue onward, without hope of a lasting peace.

Another possible Khalidi thought process in Obama's head - Anti- Semite and America bashing Chas Freeman nominated by Obama to head National Intelligence Council.

Again, maybe, maybe not.

March 05, 2009

I would imagine you are aware of the attack on Rush Limbaugh by the left. Did you realize our tax dollars are paying for it?

"For the White House to employ an operative whose responsibility is, fundamentally, to direct a political strategy aimed, not at shaping is response to criticism but to take down a single media figure goes well beyond of the pale of an acceptable response."

“Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin wrote Wednesday, “a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.”

According to Martin, an unidentified “senior White House aide” has been given the responsibility of “helping to guide the Limbaugh strategy,” a very scary thing indeed.

A political operative, based inside the White House, employed by the president of the United States and receiving a salary from the American taxpayer, goes to work every day to help direct a strategy against a broadcaster whose opinions are supposed to be covered by every protection the First Amendment can provide. To quote Shakespeare, “Something is rotten.”

From Rush:

RUSH: It is on the record -- thanks to Politico.com -- since last fall, the White House, led by Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff to Barack Obama, has been targeting me, your host, your harmless, lovable little fuzzball.

Their standard operating procedure: they need a demon to distract and divert from what their agenda is. They need a demon about whom they can lie so as to persuade average Americans that they're the good guys, the benevolent good guys, and the mean SOBs are their enemies trying to stop this great young little president from doing miraculous and wonderful things

February 23, 2009

I haven't really felt like a Republican, since, I dunno, that incident at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Nevertheless, here's your chance to chime in and return the Republican party to the ideas of Ronald Reagan -- a party I would gladly claim membership in.

Until then I'll just hang out on the edges, biding my time. Shout back to the RNC link below.

How did I miss this:

Commentary at Forbes:

The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United States had worked actively to oppose efforts to brand Israel as racist in the committee drafting a Durban II declaration. The trouble is that they didn't.

The Feb. 20 State Department press release says the U.S. delegation in Geneva "outline[d] our concerns with the current outcome document" and in particular "our strong reservations about the direction of the conference, as the draft document singles out Israel for criticism."

One member of the delegation told The Washington Post: "The administration is pushing back against efforts to brand Israel as racist in this conference." In fact, tucked away in a Geneva hall with few observers, the U.S. had done just the opposite. The U.S. delegates had made no objection to a new proposal to nail Israel in an anti-racism manifesto that makes no other country-specific claims.

Getting involved in activities intended to implement the 2001 Durban Declaration--after seven and a half years of refusing to lend the anti-Israel agenda any credibility--was controversial to be sure. But late on Saturday Feb. 14, the State Department slithered out a press release justifying the move. It claimed that "the intent of our participation is to work to try to change the direction in which the Review Conference is heading."

Following what was clearly a planned public relations exercise, Washington Post columnist Colum Lynch championed the U.S. bravado in an article based on the story orchestrated by the American delegates. In his Feb. 20 article entitled: "U.S. Holds Firm on Reparations, Israel in U.N. Racism Talks," he fawned: "The Obama administration on Thursday concluded its first round of politically charged U.N. negotiations on racism, pressing foreign governments ... to desist from singling out Israel for criticism in a draft declaration to be presented at a U.N. conference in April."

The reality, however, was nothing of the sort. Instead, Obama's Durban II team slipped easily into the U.N.'s anti-Israel and anti-Jewish environs, taking the approach that "fitting in" was best accomplished by staying silent. More..

Yes Dinah Lord, it looks like the Obama administration quietly lifted the ban and will attend the anti-Semitic Durbin II conference

Related: TV Crew Booted From UN Meeting On Freedom Of Expression

Update: Carl in Jerusalem explains Ooobaaamaaa's pick for National Intelligence - Juice Hater, Chas Freeman.
h/t Are You Sure? in comments.
Update II: Are You Sure? is on a roll reminding us of the appointment of anti-Semite Samantha Powers appointed to Hopey One Keobi's National Security Council

February 21, 2009

Obama tells mayors not to waste stimulus money.

February 20, 2009

Oh the horror:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sided with the Bush administration Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.

In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.

"The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."

Ah yes, this has been a good Friday. Can't wait until Monday when the shite hits the fan. Kinda puts a damper on the evil Boooosh responsible of abuse of GITMO detainees, etc.

Give it time, the Messiah isn't done with America yet.

Note George W moved from 19th to 5th and editor had to note he was only in office for six months in 2001

Chicago SunTimes

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Americans named President Obama as their No. 1 hero, followed by Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, in a new Harris poll[...]

The biggest changes upwards on this list into the top 10 since 2001, apart from Barack Obama, were:

— George W. Bush was rated only 19th in July 2001, when he had been president for six months, and is now number 5 on the list.

h/t Matthew Nickerson in comments

February 19, 2009

Hopey One Kenobi is still confused where he is at.

Ottowa, Canada President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper just started their joint news conference, the first such dual podium event for the new president

The newness is showing - the president began his remarks with, "It's a great pleasure to be here in Iowa - Ottawa."

Gotta get out of that campaign mode Hopey.

Update: Hopey thanked Canadians for coming to the US to campaign for him.

Really, did they donate monies too?

Kyrgyzstan has told Hopey One Kenobi to f**k off. His message of changing the world's view of us doesn't seem to be working

MoscowThe Parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted on Thursday to terminate the American military's eight-year lease on an air base outside the capital, Bishkek, complicating President Barack Obama's plans to deploy as many as 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan over the next two years.

The bill was approved by 78 of the 81 deputies present, with two voting against it and one abstaining. President Kurmanbek Bakiyev will now send official notification to Washington, giving U.S. forces six months to vacate the base.

The facility is a key logistical hub for American forces in Afghanistan, particularly at a time when Taliban attacks have jeopardized another prime overland supply route from Pakistan. The Manas base in Kyrgyzstan provides transit facilities for some 15,000 personnel and 500 tons of cargo each month. It also hosts large tanker aircraft refueling fighter planes on combat missions over Afghanistan[...]

In public comments, deputies portrayed the vote as the culmination of years of complaints and said the American presence in Central Asia had outlasted its usefulness.

Too good to pass up on linking. If I've got the story right, Chip Harrison was pulled over by an Oklahoma City police officer because he had a sign reading, "Abort Obama Not the Unborn" sign in it. The sign was confiscated by the officer who apparently thought it was some kind of threat on the President's life.

How any one with an IQ over 100 could construe that as a threat is mystifying.

In the end the police gave Chip his sign back with a hearty apology. But the Secret Service searched his home any way to make sure he wasn't part of a "hate" group.

All's well that ends well, I guess. But, come on, isn't it pretty obvious the message the sign was supposed to convey wasn't a threat on the President's life?

Thanks to J

Update:

Must see video of the trading floor buzz on whether the government's plan to save the economy will actually help the markets. Lot of bleeping...heh

h/t El Rider'

I know that this is off the subject but people really should watch this video of the great Rick Santelli and part of the CME trading floor booing Obama's latest economic plan. I was on a different part of the floor during the speech and this video sums up how people felt.

Indeed

February 18, 2009

Hopey/changey on the meet America never ending campaign trail.

MSM not interested, evil Bush/Cheney/Rove/Halliburton not involved.

Presidential protesters made their voices heard in chants and signs Wednesday outside Dobson High School.

The protesters, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket holders walked in.

Mesa police set up a protest area along Guadalupe Road.

They held their signs up high: "Don't tread on me," "Spend all you want, I'll pick up the tab," "I'll keep my freedom! You keep the change!"

February 17, 2009

Gul Bibi is one smart woman. She realizes the Taliban's strict Sharia law will hurt the Swat Valley.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Gul Bibi and her three children fled the Taliban's bloody interpretation of Islamic law in Pakistan's Swat Valley, hoping one day to return.

But now that the Pakistani government has recognized Taliban rule in the region in exchange for a temporary cease-fire, she said those hopes have been dashed.

She warned that the government's deal with the Taliban will have worldwide implications.

"The whole point is, if it's not contained to Swat, it's going to spill all over in Pakistan and the West also doesn't realize the seriousness of the situation," Bibi said. "Probably your next 9/11 is going to be from Swat." [ video]

Ironic, Hopey One Kenobi has approved 17,000 more additional troops to be deployed to Afghanistan..This falls short of 30.000 of what was requested. Hopey has formed a study group to make sure the extra troops or whatever are really needed.

What did he say during the campaign Did he forget his words? Apparently so.

Never the less, God speed to those of you who have been called up....my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Video below fold from AlJazerra who is praising Sharia in Swat Valley of course.

Too bad they didn't interview Gul Bini, she would have set them straigt.

February 16, 2009

For $19.95 you get a set of coins that have been covered by stickers of Obama's face.

What you see and what you get kinda sums up The One, ironic isn't it.