Bloodthirsty Liberal

The Democratic spin is that the losses in New Jersey and Virginia were little local difficulties—something to do with pot holes and snow removal.

Can we run the tape back four years?

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Democratic House campaign committee chair Rahm Emanuel, calling First Read immediately after Kaine’s and Corzine’s victories were announced, argued that it’s clear Democratic voters were already energized earlier in the year when Democrat Paul Hackett nearly won a traditionally GOP-leaning Ohio House district. “I think that’s even more true today.” He also pointed out that the mayors of Detroit, Cleveland, and St. Paul, MN were all losing. “A lot of incumbents are losing to change,” he said. …

Plus ça change, Rahm, plus c’est la meme chose.

President Obama spent so much time in Jersey, he was starting to sound like Tony Soprano, and the quickness with which he turned on “my friend, Jon Corzine” (now labeled a weak candidate) shows he acts like him too.

It wasn’t just Keith Olbermann who couldn’t bring himslef to watch the Tuesday Night Massacre on the news stations:

MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a “special live edition of Countdown” at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there!

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Keith had obviously left the building. But why? Where in the world was Keith Olbermann?

Not too hard to figure out. He was watching something else:

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

On Tuesday night the White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the election returns. Apparently Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander in chief was watching a self-indulgent fawning documentary about himself.

But wait, it gets better:

Interestingly, Obama apparently previewed the HBO special a few days earlier, as Gibbs himself explained to the blog Talking Points Memo: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People’…Gibbs told TPMDC Obama’s review: ‘Thumbs up!’”

He preferred to watch a repeat of a documentary about himself rather than watch democracy in action.

Who is this guy, Kim Jong Il?

Does it even occur to him that his swollen narcissism is a blemish on his political visage? Can’t he even fake sincerity?

I have to laugh, because it’s so funny, but it’s a nervous laughter. He’s just so weird.

CORRECTION

Not exactly, BTL. It didn’t happen quite that way. See corrected version of events here, and BTL apology here.

Sometimes we’re more serious than others when we employ the Liberal Fascism category.

This time we’re deadly serious:

[A] police officer recognized gangbangers, who discovered him and threatened him after discovering where he lived.

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How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop? And then find out that the men were sent into the neighborhood by the Democratic Party for GOTV operations – complete with lists of voters names, addresses and phones numbers!

That is what happened Sunday on a quiet street in Morris Township. The officer, who’s name we are with holding, specifically heard the men discussing that he was a police officer and that they now know where he lives. The officer confronted the men and they took off. He contacted the local police who responded and caught up with them and about a dozen other men a few blocks away. According to the police report, the men were known criminals and when asked why they were in the neighborhood they stated they were “campaigning for the Democratic Party.”

My question in the title is entirely serious. Why use cop-shooters and other known criminals to break in—knock on doors, when the New Black Panthers are just down the road in Philly?

They know all about poll monitoring, and the precedent is all set: they won’t be charged.

On the day of the first Obama referendum, let’s see how he’s playing to Joe and Flo Sixpack:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13.

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Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.

Interesting side note:

It’s Election Day. Our latest polls show a very close race in New Jersey and a solid lead for Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia. Also, we look at what New York-23 race says about the GOP and its voters. Nearly half the conservatives nationwide do not consider themselves Republicans.

While that’s bad news for Republicans, it’s certainly not good news for Democrats.

Also:

The number who blame Obama’s policies for the nation’s economic woes has grown to 45%, the highest level yet. However, 49% still blame George W. Bush.

All in good time, my pretty, all in good time.

To vote Republican, press 1.

To vote Democrat, press 2.

If you’re not sure who you’re voting for, please stay on the line and wait for the next available ACORN volunteer:

The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett.

A Democratic spokeswoman says the party’s chairman, Joe Cryan, was not aware of the robocalls when he denied that the state committee had anything to do with them yesterday afternoon.

Cryan, who told PolitickerNJ.com yesterday afternoon that the Democratic State Committee had “absolutely” nothing to do with the call, could not immediately be reached for comment…

Before the Democrats owned up to it, Daggett media advisor Bill Hillsman said the call might be a Republican trick to generate a sympathetic newspaper story.

Democrats shilling for Independents is bad enough—but Republicans shilling for Democrats?

This isn’t all she’s done for him, either: He asked her to swing by an event at the VFW and she merrily obliged.

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The irony here is that it’s moderate Republicans who’ll end up being the big losers from Scozzafava’s betrayal. Not only does she make them look untrustworthy (or rather, more untrustworthy than before) but increasingly it seems like they’re not even going to get Hoffman’s scalp as a consolation prize.

The Republican brand may not be brightening as the Democrat brand fades. But more Americans identify themselves as conservative than ever before. The race in NY-23 could have been predicted without reading a single story.

For our liberal readers, let us do the math and point out that self-identified conservatives hold a 2-1 lead over self-identified liberals.

And all we got was this lousy gridlock:

President Obama, on a whirlwind visit to Boston yesterday, linked Governor Deval Patrick’s political fate to the fate of the nation, telling Patrick supporters at a downtown fund-raiser that the governor had made the kind of hard choices the country needs to make to put itself on a stronger course.

Sweeping into town for the fund-raiser and to deliver a speech on clean energy at MIT, Obama said Patrick deserves credit for implementing near-universal health care, investing in education, and making the alternative energy and biotech industries a priority. If voters fail to recognize this hard work in next year’s state election, the president said, it will not bode well for the United States.

“When the people of states reward the courageous and hard-working governors like that, that has implications for our nation as a whole,’’ Obama said at a 125-person reception at the Westin Copley Place.

125? He came to Boston, as Democratic a town as there is in the nation, on a much-publicized trip, to raise money for his brother from another mother, Deval Patrick—and he barely drew enough people to fill a black box theater?

The fund-raiser, composed of the reception and a larger ballroom gathering, demonstrated one of Patrick’s advantages in what is expected to be a difficult reelection campaign: having the president of the United States, a close friend and political soul mate, shower him with praise and help him raise money. Patrick aides said the fund-raiser would bring in more than $600,000 for him, running mate Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray, and the Massachusetts Democratic Party - although the events appeared to not be fully booked.

I hope the reporter won’t be fired for writing that. Pretty much everything else was copied with stenographic (even pornographic) exactness from the prepared texts.

As usual, one has to read the Boston Herald to get even a hint of the truth:

President Obama blows into the bluest state today facing a cold shoulder from once true-blue admirers, as gay rights activists, anti-war protesters and vexed environmentalists vow to picket a fund-raiser he’s headlining for Gov. Deval Patrick - a marquee event that hasn’t even sold out.

As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats - between $500 and $6,000 - by e-mail up to the last minute.

Your gays, your eco-fuits, your union thugs, and your Code-Pinkos all pretty much have had it with the guy.

That and the hard times (which he inherited!) held numbers down:

“There really should be no doubt that this guy gets a second term. But let’s be honest. This is going to be a tough race,” Obama told a room barely half-full with 125 deep-pocketed Democrats who ponied up $6,000 for Patrick and the party. “Re-election is not a foregone conclusion because times are tough.”

Reflecting those hard times, the swanky Westin Copley Place ballroom - where the subsequent $500-a-head fund-raiser was held - was “about two-thirds full,” with about 400 people attending, according to press pool reports.

Despite the dismal box office, Patrick shouted to attendees, “You fired up? Ready to go?”

I don’t know about them, but it sounds like he’d better be.

Doesn’t it just figure that this administration would get bitch-slapped by the US Commission on Civil Rights?

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year’s election, saying the department has offered only “weak justifications.”

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage “other hate groups” to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

“If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome,” he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

OH BABY!

The civil right to vote without fear of intimidation and violence is so important that the Commission was created in reaction to a long history of violations of it. It’s literally their raison d’etre. As Reynolds notes, it matters not who intimidates whom; the federal government has the duty to enforce those laws regardless of who benefits from the intimidation. Otherwise, the rule of law means nothing.

He really is the perfect post-racial president. No one else could take a big steaming dump on the civil rights movements and get away with it.

But Yes He Did.

We’ve already quoted Betsey McCaughey, and recently, but her piece in the WSJ makes a good jumping-off point:

Since Medicare was established in 1965, access to care has enabled older Americans to avoid becoming disabled and to travel and live independently instead of languishing in nursing homes. But legislation now being rushed through Congress—H.R. 3200 and the Senate Health Committee Bill—will reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.

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The assault against seniors began with the stimulus package in February. Slipped into the bill was substantial funding for comparative effectiveness research, which is generally code for limiting care based on the patient’s age. Economists are familiar with the formula, where the cost of a treatment is divided by the number of years (called QALYs, or quality-adjusted life years) that the patient is likely to benefit. In Britain, the formula leads to denying treatments for older patients who have fewer years to benefit from care than younger patients.

Let’s see: that should mean (should) geezers won’t be voting for Obama the next time around. Also, I think he might have lost the law-enforcement vote just last night. Business leaders won’t be supporting him anything like the way they did last time after he’s nationalized whole sectors of the economy and set limits on pay. Doctors are going to hate his portrayal of their avarice and his capping of their incomes. Working stiffs who aren’t working won’t be too thrilled with him. Jews should be livid at his one-sided bullying of Israel. The anti-war crowd won’t be as energized to turn out to support someone who’s a war-monger in their eyes. Ditto for the civil liberties zealots in light of his broken promises on everything from Gitmo to signing statements to lobbyist logs.

Who’s going to re-elect him?

I guess he’ll win the Latino vote big, but he did so last time. Unless he legalizes a lot if “the undocumented ” (or ACORN registers them regardless). I wouldn’t put it past either one of them.

It’s actually a rhetorical question. I fully expect overwhelming numbers of all of the above groups to maintain their support for his objectionable (to them) policies. Maybe there’ll be enough erosion to kick him out of office, but nothing like the mass revulsion that should greet a lying, race-mongering, socialist in the Oval Office.

Maybe that would finally make us truly post-racial: when we have the balls to send packing a black man who is a failure. To invert the famous slogan: Can we? Yes!

Everybody remembers the Black Panthers who showed up as “poll watchers” on election day in Philadelphia.

And everybody remembers that the Obama Justice Department dropped a case they had already won on a technicality.

But did everybody know the the US Commission on Civil Rights was so outraged by that decision that they voted unanimously to inquire into the miscarriage of justice?

Or that they’ve been stonewalled for weeks?

The Civil Rights Commission has sent two letters — on June 16 and June 22 — to Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, asking for an explanation, but it has not received a response. Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, sent a June 8 letter demanding an explanation, but the congressman told us he has yet to receive an answer from the department one month later.

The Civil Rights Commission’s first letter expressed its “great confusion” over the department’s decision. After all, “defendants were caught on video blocking access to the polls, and physically threatening and verbally harassing voters during the November 4, 2008 general election.” The video showed “one of them actually brandished a nightstick in plain view of voters and poll observers … defendants ‘made statements containing racial threats and racial insults.’ ”

The commission’s letter quoted “Veteran of the civil rights movement, Bartle Bull” calling the defendants’ actions “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960s.”

The commission summed up the case in its June 16 letter to Ms. King: “Though it had basically won the case … the [Department of Justice’s Civil Rights] Division took the unusual move of voluntarily dismissing the charges …. In its notice of dismissal, the Division cites as its rationale only the fact that defendants failed to appear and respond … the Division’s public rationale would send the wrong message entirely - that attempts at voter suppression will be tolerated and will not be vigorously prosecuted so long as the groups or individuals who engage in them fail to respond to the charges leveled against them.”

Quick question for President Obama’s supporters: he’s letting voter intimidation slide; he’s letting talk proceed of repealing term limits for presidents; he’s rewriting whole swathes of federal power in his image; he’s befriending and defending some of the most autocratic and repressive leaders in the world today. Will you let us know when it’s okay to worry about his fascistic tendencies? And why you aren’t?

Islamic Republic of Iran, meet the People’s Republic of Massachusetts:

Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran’s disputed election.

Many in the massive crowd wore green wristbands and carried flowers in mourning as they filed into Imam Khomenei Square, a large plaza in the heart of the capital named for the founder of the Islamic Revolution, witnesses said.

Demonstrators marched silently until they arrived at the square, where some chanted “Death to the Dictator!” and “Where are our votes!”

Now you know how Aggie and I feel.

But it’s not just us misplaced recovering liberals. No one who is not a bug-eyed, hairy-legged, tent-wearing moonbat (and I’m describing men and women here) is represented by the Massachusetts legislature. Citizen initiative measures with sufficient numbers of petition signatures (e.g. gay marriage) are denied certification and left off the ballot; even measures place on the ballot—and approved overwhelmingly—suffer legislative veto (e.g. state income tax rate).

We get the government the moonbats deserve. The third consecutive Speaker of the Massachusetts state House of Representatives (the most powerful office in the Commonwealth) just had to resign in disgrace after front-page allegations of kickbacks and graft—and his seat was just won in a special election by his former aide!!!

There were both an Independent and a Republican in the race, but the electorate in its wisdom put Junior Rat in the seat with 80% of the vote.

They don’t need to steal elections here in Massatwoshits—we just give ‘em away. Pray for us.