Bloodthirsty Liberal

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.

While the sitcom that is Chicago politics continues to generate belly laughs, the spin-off set in Washington is a real downer:

The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris is a federal tax deadbeat who landed a $75,000-a-year state job under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich five months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Blagojevich’s administration hired Roland W. Burris II as a senior counsel for the state’s housing authority Sept. 10 — about six weeks after the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $34,163 tax lien on Burris II and three weeks after a mortgage company filed a foreclosure suit on his South Side house.

A spokeswoman for the Illinois Housing Development Authority indicated Wednesday there was nothing improper about Burris II’s employment by the agency, whose mission includes overseeing mortgage programs for low-income home buyers and anti-foreclosure initiatives.

Burris II’s hiring, however, raises more questions about Sen. Burris’ interactions with Blagojevich and his inner circle at a time when the governor was soliciting Sen. Burris for campaign contributions and Burris was angling to have Blagojevich appoint him to the Senate seat once held by President Obama.

Burris II: The Son Also Slices.

I laughed as loudly as anyone at the pilot episode, but my mirth is passing. Hopes that the stench of sleaze would follow Obama to Washington have not come to pass. We may eventually learn what we already suspect (know, really): namely that Obama, Emanuel, Axelrod, and many more talked plenty to Blago about the senate seat and lied about it. It’s a much simpler explanation than anything they’ve come up with.

But it will be too late. About two or three trillion dollars too late. About socialized medicine too late. About the re-institution of welfare too late. About appeasing Islamic madmen and selling out Israel too late. About silencing dissent too late.

Credit Obama (or his Karl Rove, David Axelrod) for knowing that:

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

They took it at the flood, and the rest of us are drowning.

Underpaying taxes and screwing it, screwing it.

I just wish I had written this dialogue:

In an amazing news coincidence, on the very same day as the US Air Flight 1549 emergency radio tapes were released, The Ticket has exclusively obtained the tapes of recent emergency radio conversations between ground traffic controllers with the Obama administration’s White House and Rep. Hilda Solis.

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The dramatic tape excerpts tell a compelling story of confused but calm determination and political professionalism during the sudden tax emergency and unexpected descent this week. Here are the exchanges between Solis and the White House:

HS: We had a problem on takeoff. Flew into a flock of liens.

WH: Of what?

HS: Liens. Tax liens. My husband has more than 6,000 in unpaid business taxes.

WH: That’s a lot of faxes!

HS: No, not faxes. Taxes. You know, like money. That regular people pay to government.

WH: We’ve heard of that.

HS: It was an accident. An unintentional oversight.

WH: We’ve heard of that too.

HS: For about 16 years.

WH: Oh.

HS: Yes.

WH: How long have you been in public office?

HS: For about 16 years.

WH: Oh.

HS: What should we do?

WH: Well, you could pay the taxes.

HS: OK. OK. Hadn’t thought of that. I suppose we could.

But won’t it look funny to not pay 15 tax liens over 16 years? And then suddenly the day before the committee’s scheduled vote we pay them? What if USA Today goes poking around?

WH: They wouldn’t do that. The newspapers are all wrapped up in Sunday’s Pro Bowl.

HS: OK, we’ll pay the taxes Wednesday and say we’re gonna appeal them.

WH: Good. Then Thursday we’ll have the press secretary say that your own taxes are just fine. They are, aren’t they? And no decent American would want to penalize a hard-working wife for her husband’s mistakes. It worked for what’s-her-name up in New York.

HS: But I’m worried about Thursday’s vote.

WH: We’ll get the unions to turn up the heat on committee members. We’ve got the majority. We’ll be fine.

HS: OK, good.

WH: We’ll be OK as long as there’s no last-minute postponement of the vote.

HS: What about a boat?

WH: You’ll need one if you go in the river.

–Andrew Malcolm

To give him credit—this is wittier than anything SNL has done in more years than I can remember.

And prescient:

In the coming days, EMILY’s List will mobilize its members with an online petition calling on the Republicans in the Senate to act on Solis’ confirmation as President Obama’s Secretary of Labor.

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The National Women’s Political Caucus urges the Members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to vote for the confirmation of Congresswoman Hilda Solis to serve as Secretary of Labor.

As Geithner goes, so goes Solis.

Why not let her in? After all, it’s not like the Labor Secretary actually does anything—which is pretty ironic when you think about it.

Because this Treasury Secretary designee sure did:

Timothy Geithner, when at the Fed in New York, orchestrated hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout monies that have fallen into unknown nooks and crannies in our banking system. He presided over the demise of Lehman Brothers, which many now blame for the complete meltdown in our financial system. And he approved a bailout for AIG, which is regarded by Democrats and Republicans alike as a mistake. But if he fails to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary it won’t be because of any of that.

It will be because he has what has come to be generically called a “nanny problem,” but in his case is actually housekeeper problem. That is, he had a housekeeper whose work authorization expired. Oh, and he failed to pay self-employment taxes for himself for the time he worked at the IMF. In 2006 he was forced to pay back taxes for 2003 and 2004. In December 2008 when the Obama team discovered additional years ( 2001 and 2002) of non-payment, Geithner made further repayments (including interest) to the IRS. In total, he had to pay over $42,000 in back taxes and interest.

Is he toast? If he were a Republican the answer would surely be yes. We’ll have to see whether he and the Obama team can get away with it. (The blogspheric cheerleaders are already assuring us it is but a “hiccup.”) This, of course, brings us to the bigger issue: what the heck is wrong with the Obama vetting process?

Well, that’s one question, sure. Richardson, Holder, now Geithner. Even Hillary has a lot of baggage, most of it monogrammed WJC.

But my questions is: how do we feel about our Treasury Secretary, CEO of the IRS, intentionally skipping his taxes? I say “intentionally” intentionally. While he may have erred the first time, he can’t claim not to have known about the second payment. And Team Obama can’t claim ignorance either, since they’re the ones who forced him to pay only last month.

I can tell you how Maureen Dowd feels:

How does a guy on the fast track to be Treasury secretary fail to pay $34,000 worth of federal taxes ($43,200, including interest), or forget to check on the immigration status of a house cleaner — the same sort of upstairs-downstairs slip-up that has tripped up other top-drawer prospects on their way to top jobs here? Americans expect the man who’s in charge of the I.R.S. to pay his own taxes.

Amen. Tell it, sister.

I don’t want his name withdrawn because others have had to suffer the same indignity. Rather, I want his name withdrawn because it is unconscionable to put someone in that post who is so casual with his personal liabilities and responsibilities.

Massah Messiah says we all have to have skin in the game. Well, fine. But let them put their own hide on the line before they come looking for mine.

We’ve already read about Eric Holder’s problems at home; now we learn that he’s bringing the Chicago Way to D.C.:

Barack Obama’s Attorney General candidate Eric Holder hires two Senate staffers, still working on the public’s dime, to guide him through the Senate nomination process — yet we haven’t heard one word of objection about the clear conflict of interest from the GOP (non)-leadership.

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Since when do current, sitting Senate staffers get to shepherd presidential nominees through the confirmation process? Where are the checks and balances on the ability of two top Senate aides to advise Holder at the same time they are expected to assist their bosses in providing independent assessments of their client’s qualifications?

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Jennifer Rubin at PJM adds:

A Capitol Hill insider had this to say:

I can’t think of another example of a current Senate staffer facilitating a nominee’s confirmation. If the Senate is really conducting an independent review of the nominee, doesn’t this arrangement undermine it? Would you ever let a judge’s legal clerk act as the lawyer for a defendant? That’s why we have conflict of interest restrictions for lawyers.

Am I alone in detecting a sense of privilege among Team Obama? They invent an office (with its own logo), they think they can hand-pick their guy’s successor, they want to move into guest digs early, they requisition Senate staffers.

The one thing you can say with absolute certainty about the Office of the President of the United States is that if you don’t know humility when you take office, you will surely learn it, and probably sooner rather than later.

Obama’s pratfall from grace should be one of the most spectacular ever witnessed.

May he not have the luck of Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr.

You know, I might just be able to get into this whole Obama thing, if a little late.

But if my main concern was that he wouldn’t keep our country safe, I have to re-think that. I was worried that the thugs, goons, and hoods of the world would beat him up for his lunch money and then push him over while one of them kneeled behind him.

But, really, are the like of Putin, Ahmadinejad, Kim, et al, any nastier than the likes of Wright, Ayers, and Rezko? Of course not. If Obama can convince the mentors of his past that he’s the reincarnation of Eldridge Cleaver, then convince the rest of us that he’s the reincarnation of Cleavon Little, I have no doubt he can convince the scumbags of the world not to [bleep] with the reincarnation of Clyde Barrow.

He sure acts like it:

Can the Democrats’ “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” file get any bigger? Thanks to Jeff Poor at the Business and Media Institute, we now know that the Democratic National Committee is employing the very data mining techniques to build its party base that Democrat leaders have assailed when used by the Bush administration to prevent terrorist attacks.

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[Howard] Dean revealed his party used credit card data to predict voting outcomes. However, Democrats and the media have been highly critical of credit card companies that provide that data.

“We now can do what they can do,” Dean said. “We have your credit card data like they do. They’ve been for years doing something that we, until 2006, weren’t able to do. We can predict with 85 percent accuracy how you’re going to vote based on your credit card data without bothering to see what party you’re in – the Secretary of State’s office.”

“They’ve been doing it for a long time,” Dean said of Republicans. “No wonder we’ve been throwing rocks at the bottom of the well. These guys – we can argue about how well they run the country, but they certainly know how to run elections.”
Dean’s admission that his party is using credit card data in elections is curious because a plank in the Democratic Party’s 2008 platform vows to regulate that very instrument through a “Credit Card Bill of Rights”…

Yeah, well, Democrats once supported campaign finance reform, too. Six hundred million dollars ago.

Now, I know you’re going to object that Obama is nowhere mentioned in this story, so why am I tying him to this bald-faced hypocrisy? Fair point. So let’s go to the president-elect for his outrage and dudgeon.

Sir? [crickets]

If the Democratic administration treats Hugo Chavez with the same contempt and derision they treated Sarah Palin, we may have nothing to worry about. Look for Chavez to be finalist for Secretary of Education, however.

Some men are born sleazy. Some men achieve sleaziness. And some men have sleaziness thrust upon them.

It’s called Congress!

Corruptocrat/smear merchant John Murtha wins.

Corruptocrat/bribe freezer William “Cold Cash” Jefferson cruises to victory.

Corruptocrat/convicted criminal Sen. Ted Stevens is in a dead heat and may yet win re-election even as he faces up to five years in prison for seven counts of lying.

If this is the “Change” election, what the hell are these three most miserable miscreants still doing in Congress?

Stevens was obviously born sleazy; Murtha achieved sleaze with his repeated sliming of American servicemen; and Jefferson had sleaze (and stacks of Benjamins) thrust upon him.

Even in the kleptocracy of Massachusetts, we hounded a corrupt state senator out of office for taking bribes. If we are the moral clarion to the rest of the nation, y’all are in a heap o’ trouble.

When the Obama camp pouts about McCain’s sleaze, they might as well squeal like a pig (insert lipstick joke here).

Mickey Kaus explains:

The current lib blog-MSM-campaign tack–getting outraged by McCain’s “lies”–is a total loser strategy. Why?

5 a) MSM outrage doesn’t sway voters anymore. […] After this year’s failed MSM Palin assault, it certainly won’t work;

b) When Dems get outraged at unfairness they look weak. How can they stand up to Putin if they start whining when confronted with Steve Schmidt? McCain’s camp can fake umbrage all it wants–the latest is that an Atlantic photographer took some nasty photos that the mag didn’t run!–and nobody will accuse MCain of being weak. That’s so unfair. A double standard. Dems can learn to live with it or complain about the unfairness for another 4 years. Their choice.

c) It’s almost always impossible to prove that a Republican attack is a 100% lie. Either there’s a germ of truth (Kerry did hype his wartime heroism at least a bit) or the truth is indeterminate (i.e., there’s no way of knowing what Obama meant by “lipstick”–just because he and McCain used the word earlier doesn’t mean he didn’t think using it now, after Palin’s speech, didn’t add a witty resonance).

d) Lecturing the public on what’s ‘true” and what’s a “lie” (when the truth isn’t 100% clear) plays into some of the worst stereotypes about liberals–that they are preachy know-it-alls hiding their political motives behind a veneer of objectivity and respectability.

e) Inevitably the people being outraged on Obama’s behalf will phrase their arguments in ways well-designed to appeal to their friends–and turn off the unconverted. (’This is just what they did to John Kerry and Michael Dukakis!’ As if the public yearns for the lost Kerry and Dukakis Presidencies.

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Lots of people like bad Disney movies, and don’t like the kind of people who sneer at bad Disney movies.

6. There must be some way to disillusion the conservative base with McCain, at least a bit. I know the CW–Palin has locked in the base, freeing McCain to move left. But jeez, McCain isn’t moving to the left just on immigration, and he isn’t moving subtly.

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7. McCain’s made great progress with independents by going against his party. Obama can do the same thing. Obvious areas of potential anti-Dem apostasy: Charter schools, firing incompetent teachers, class-based affirmative action, welfare. At least express some doubts about liberal legalism or the headlong rush to immigrant semi-amnesty. Last Tuesday Obama may have tried to make waves by talking about “schools filled with poor teachers”–a Dem no-no if there ever was one. It got buried by the lipstick pig. So don’t complain. Say it again!

But that would be asking Obama to lead. That’s so unfair!

How could I forget?

She was a Nazi sympathizer:

Florida Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida came out swinging at Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain immediately after he named Gov. Palin as her running mate. He accused her of backing ‘Nazi sympathizer” Pat Buchanan in a previous election and said that Sen. McCain’s choice was a “direct affront to all Jewish Americans.”

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Gov. Palin explained that her alleged “support” of Buchanan consisted of her sporting a campaign button for him in 1999 when he visited the town of Wasilla when she was the mayor. Palin explained at the time she wore the button as a courtesy and that she was an official of the campaign of Republican presidential contender Steve Forbes.

I’ll run this picture as often as I need to, people. Just keep it up.

The little thing over her left shoulder? Pinned to the curtain? Uh-huh, that.

She’s got the American and Alaskan flags, a painting of a dog team, various family snapshots—and an Israeli flag. ‘Splain that, smear merchants.

I don’t know, maybe her jacket pin is a likeness of Eva Braun or something.

I still couldn’t believe that he would lie about what committee he is on so I checked his government site. Sure enough, he is not on the Senate Banking Committee. He really thinks you are stupid, doesn’t he?

Obama claims to be on the US Senate Banking Committee as a way to say that he voted to cut off support for Iran.

Barack Obama held a press conference in Sderot, Israel today. I wouldn’t have blamed him if he had stuck to a reasonable degree of pandering, but check out this question and answer from the press conference:

QUESTION: Senator Obama, you said in AIPAC convention that the (INAUDIBLE) Jerusalem could continue to be the capital city. Then you changed it and clarified later on in the — (INAUDIBLE) wonder.

How could you be sure if your other statesmen, that you are going to be committed to the security and safety of Israel and you’re not going to change it even when you’re the President of the United States?

OBAMA: First of all, I didn’t change my statement.

I continued to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel. And I have said that before and I will say it again. And I also have said that it is important that we don’t simply slice the city in half. But I’ve also said that that’s a final status issue. That’s an issue that has to be dealt with with the parties involved, the Palestinians and the Israelis. And it’s not the job of the United States to dictate the form in which that will take, but rather to support the efforts that are being made right now to resolve these very difficult issues that have a long history.

Let’s pause here. Characteristically, Obama claims that he “didn’t change [his] statement.” But this is a fantasy. At the AIPAC convention, Obama made the ringing declaration that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” “Must.” Within 24 hours, however, his advisers scurried to take back Obama’s commitment to an undivided Jerusalem, saying that he meant only that Jerusalem shouldn’t “be divided by barbed wire and checkpoints as it was in 1948-1967,” and that, in fact, Obama was open to Jerusalem also being the capital of the Palestinian state.

In Sderot today, Obama didn’t say anything about Jerusalem being the Palestinian capital, but he essentially repeated, not his original call for a Jerusalem that “must” be “undivided,” but his mushier fall-back position. In doing so, he not only failed to acknowledge, but specifically denied, that this was a change from his AIPAC call for a Jerusalem that “must remain undivided.”

Obama continued:

Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.

But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee’s action as one of “my deeds.”

If committed by a Republican, this would be a gaffe of historic proportions. Even a Senator as inattentive to his duties as Obama certainly knows what committees he serves on. For him to fabricate the claim, out of whole cloth, that the Senate Banking Committee is “[his] committee,” strikes me as another sign of Obama’s megalomania. That, plus more evidence that he is totally at sea without a teleprompter.

You don’t have to believe me; check out the government’s website.

If you go to littlegreenfootballs.com, they have a video of him telling this outrageous lie. I don’t care if Barry is just dumb as a post and doesn’t know which committees he serves on, or if he is too lazy to care, or if he is just lying because he knows that the media won’t call him on it. This guy is a turkey.

- Aggie