Monthly Archives: April 2009
Specter 1 Obama 0
Centrist Senate Democrats joined with Republicans on Thursday to defeat a measure intended to help struggling homeowners stay in their homes.
By a 45-51 vote, Senators voted against an amendment that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to write down the terms of existing primary home mortgages. The proposal was offered to a bill that would increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp…
Credit where credit is due!
Exit question time.
Were we to tough on Specter?
can you imagine this question being asked of the DNC Char?
Is there room for Moderates in the GOP?
That question, of course will never ever be asked of a leading Democrat. Just like the Democratic Party will never be painted as not being a “big tent” party. You want media bias, all you have to do is listen!
New Frank Salvato column
Frank Salvato blasts Senator Secter as only he can.
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced this week that he was switching political parties. Initially he said that he was doing so because he didn’t want to be “judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,” the same electorate he courted in his last election. But later, after he realized his statement depicted him as an ungrateful political opportunist, he said his decision was based on the idea that the Republican Party
– which has moved more to the center in recent years – has “moved too far to the Right.” The truth is that Specter is a political opportunist who has literally thrown his constituency under the bus just to save his political career. In the political sense, he is a traitor.
The element of surprise surrounding this announcement comes in that he chose a time when the Republican Party can least afford to lose even one from their ranks. With anti-American, neo-Marxist Al Franken likely to be seated as the junior senator from Minnesota and the two Independent senators, Joseph Lieberman (CT) and Bernie Sanders (VT), voting with Democrats on social issues, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have their “last man needed” to advance social programs that will redefine the authority of the American government and literally cripple the economy. Arlen Specter has handed Barack Obama the total of his agenda for at least the next two years and there isn’t a damn thing the Republicans can do about it.
In Specter’s formal announcement – in other words, after Specter’s political spin doctors crafted an excuse for his narcissistic, self-serving party switch – he said:
“Since my election in 1980…the Republican Party has moved far to the right…I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”
Really? The current Republican Party is now more to the right than during the Reagan Era? The spendthrift Republican Party of the 2000-2004 Era is more to the right of Newt Gingrich’s Republican Party of the Conservative Revolution and Contract with America? Is anyone buying this line of garbage?
The sad, despicable truth of the matter is that Specter switched parties because he was going to have his butt handed to him on a platter in the Pennsylvania Republican Primary Election, courtesy of Pat Toomey, former president of the Club for Growth, an organization that promotes a low-tax and limited-government agenda. Specter’s political treason had nothing to do with ideology, but has everything to do with political longevity.
Not too long ago, former DNC Chairman and current Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell, let it be known that Democrats had been courting Specter to switch parties. Rendell is even quoted as saying that he, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Vice President Joe Biden had all tried to persuade Specter into turning his back on the Republican Party. At the time, Specter responded that “he didn’t want to see Republican moderates vanish from the face of the Earth.” With Specter’s announcement, it would be fair to assume this sentiment was based in opportunism and advanced as pure rhetoric.
Republicans were already well aware that he was less a Republican and more a Democrat. He voted for the stimulus package, which was vehemently opposed by all but three “Republicans,” and over the years Specter amassed a voting record that found him voting with the opposition party almost 50% of the time. And he begged to ride President Bush’s coattails in 2004 for the fact that he was so disliked by core Republican voters in Pennsylvania. But Republicans were in no position to be subjected to defection after November of 2008. With an almost super-majority in the House and now a virtual filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, nothing stands between Barack Obama and the realization of some of the most fiscally irresponsible and constitutionally destructive legislative measures ever to be imposed on our nation.
Like it or not, the United States of America is now a one-party government run by the radical Left. And while, in the end, the blame for this predicament rests with those who were distracted by the “bright shiny thing”; who naively voted for the hollow rhetoric of “hope” and “change,” we could have had at least a fighting chance through the use of the filibuster to maintain the liberties and freedoms, the rights bequeathed to us to safeguard, had the traitor Specter honored the Pennsylvania electorate’s ballot determination. With his political treason – and that is exactly what it is when you consider the fact that Pennsylvania voted in a Republican senator in Specter – he has usurped the authority of the people and the authority of the ballot box to further his political career, electorate be damned.
One has to wonder how many political “pieces of silver” the traitor Specter received for selling out his constituency for a political party.
New Nancy Salvato column
A great piece on the Obamassiah’s first 100 days.
I am having problems poting it here so you will have to go to the link. It is well worth the trip though!
Sarah Palin on “American Chopper”
Cool choppers, America’s hottest governor, what else do you need? H/T Hot Air
Your really cool pic of the day!
Are We Lumberjacks always has some great pictures and today I found one I had to share here. Pretty cool!
Ahhh, Summer is almost here
Maybe President Obama ought to read some history
It looks like he could use it!
“I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees,” said Obama, who’s evidently reading Andrew Sullivan. “And Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture,’ when the entire British — all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat.”
A reader points out, though, that that’s a seriously contested claim. The Guardian published an article in 2005 the alleged torture of German prisoners in the “London Cage” between 1940 and 1948.
The paper described the facility as a “torture centre” and quotes one detainee — an SS officer — alleging “that he was doused in cold water, pushed down stairs, and beaten with a cudgel. Later, he says, he was forced to stand beside a large gas stove with all its rings lit before being confined in a shower which sprayed extremely cold water from the sides as well as from above. Finally, the SS man says, he and another prisoner were taken into the gardens behind the mansions, where they were forced to run in circles while carrying heavy logs.”
Read your history, it will benefit you in so many ways. Liberals like to forget, or better yet, re-wite history to fit into their little idealistic fantasies. It is simple. Dont like history? Ignore it, or edit it to better suit you. Liberalism continues to be the ideology of convenience and emotion.
H/T Ace
Video- Joe Biden on Swine Flu
Biden is kinda like that crazy uncle you have over every Thanksgiving. He regales the family with stories that never happened as he cleans his ears with his toes. He frightens the kids, the dog, which Uncle Joe blames his farts on, will not go near him, but, he kinda makes you laugh, so you keep inviting him over.
Well, it is not yet Turkey Day, BUT, Uncle Joe is here anyway, advising all of us on, the swine flu! Enjoy this!
And Joe, God love ya! Here is some GREAT advice from Sister Toldjah! STFU!
This moment of obonoxiousness brought to you by…..
Who else? Arianna Huffington! Pundit and Pundette have it, go on and read it, at least you do not have to listen to THAT VOICE!
Eye test time!
OK, look at the photo, and see if you can spot the “enhanced” area(s)
The future Mrs Gator!
Another Pelosi lie!
She cannot move her face but she can still LIE! And in a BIG,BIG WAY!
Don’t worry, this shouldn’t hurt. In fact, you won’t feel a thing. So goes the refrain of those pushing for passage of a climate bill regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Just what do they think we’re smoking?
A crackdown on greenhouse gases should involve “no cost to the consumer,” declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the other day — this from a leading supporter of the legislation. As if one fanciful pledge weren’t enough, the California Democrat also insisted that it would be wrong to pass a bill “that was a penalty to some states.”
Meanwhile, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a congressional hearing that “in today’s economic climate, it would be completely unwise to want to increase the price of gasoline.” Trouble is, Chu is a climate-bill enthusiast, too — and the purpose of the cap-and-trade legislation that he and his boss, President Obama, favor is to raise the price of fossil fuels. Refiners will be one of the hardest-hit segments of manufacturing.
Two years ago, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that if climate legislation were enacted, low-income households would experience a 3.3 percent drop in income from higher prices associated with a 15 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions, with middle-income households losing 2.8 percent. (The Waxman-Markey climate bill calls for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020.)
More recently, the CBO estimated that “the price increases resulting from a 15 percent cut in CO2 emissions could cost the average household roughly $1,600 (in 2006 dollars),” with the greatest impact “relative to income, on lower-income households.”
New look unveiled!
I have been toying with some new themes, and I finally just went ahead and did it. So, feel free to share your thoughts.
YES! Conservative women ARE hotter!
Suzanna Logan makes the case at her blog, and I just made a quick list in my head. Let’s see. Michelle Malkin, Cheryl Ladd, Janine Turner, Sarah Palin, Suzanna Logan herself, Sister Toldjah, Mary Katherine Hamm, Miss California. Yes, a pretty hot list!
Your daily dose of Liberal tolerance
Hmmm, let us see here. A Liberal reporter tweeting a death wish for my blogging role model? Founding Bloggers has the details and some contact info you might need.
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Video- Tapper questions Robert Gibbs about Uncle Joe
Apr 30
Posted by Gatordoug
Is it fair to expect Robert Gibbs or anyone to explain the Gaffetastical Joe Biden? NO! Is it funny to watch Tapper humiliate Obama’s spokestool? OH YES!
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