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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
KARL ROVE: Seize the Day, GOP
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:55:27 by Badeye
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KARL ROVE: Seize the Day, GOP By Karl Rove Published July 08, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal During the last week, President Obama doubled down on a losing political bet, further cementing the Democratic Party's reputation as the champion of bigger deficits, higher spending and more government. He did so just as the public is crying out for lower deficits, less spending and less government. In his Saturday radio address, Mr. Obama attacked Republican opposition to additional stimulus spending, saying they "just don't get it." Maybe they do get it. The first, $862 billion stimulus bill of 17 months ago has after all failed to work the president's promised magic. ...
Palin critics suffer from fear factor [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-06 00:15:38 by reaganisright
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The last presidential campaign, its election and each and every day since have crystallized the magic and malice of the national media. By working its magic, the media were able to keep Obama hidden in clear sight. His past was selectively chosen, his present was a manufactured eloquence of hope and change, his future was his transcendent ability to lead us to the land of milk and honey, and his gaffes were editorially retrofitted. The media took a virtual unknown and kept him unknown. This Camelot euphoria was interrupted by another unknown that stoked the malice of the media. Unexpectedly, a non-elite commoner caused a derangement syndrome with Obama and his media acolytes that came out ...
Straight talk is alien to prez
Post Date: 2010-07-04 10:01:58 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama arrived on the scene yesterday of one America's most pressing political disasters and tried lecturing it away. It was a halting speech, punctuated with sighs and head-shaking. America had been sent to its room and once again punished with a long, boring lecture. What made yesterday's speech so remarkable was how callow and shifty Obama was about a topic of such dire importance. He claimed that solutions have been "held hostage to political posturing" and wagged his finger at all those who just beg the government to finally enforce current law before creating a scheme of new promises. Then he played the very same partisan games that ...
Sarah Palin vs. George W. Bush
Post Date: 2010-07-03 02:08:27 by Brian S
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Seems like only yesterday, but it's now been a year since Sarah Palin abruptly quit her governorship, leading many people to speculate that she was trying to get a jump on the 2012 presidential campaign. Anyone wondering if Palin will indeed run for president, and what her chances might be, should cast a glance at the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Per NBC's Mark Murray and friends:[H]ere's the political reality: Outside of Republicans, she's not popular at all. According to our NBC/WSJ poll, just 29% view her favorably, compared with 43% who view her unfavorably (not far from George W. Bush's 29%-50% score).Stop and ponder that one for a moment. Palin's poll ...
Right Wingers Trolling for Jews as MSM Turns the Corner on Calling Out Right Wing Israeli Leadership
Post Date: 2010-07-03 01:56:00 by Brian S
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Right wingers are using American Jews' loyalty and love for Israel to attempt to lure usually liberal, Democratic voting Jews to the dark side-- conservatism. Most American Jews support Israel and like the idea that there is a Jewish homeland. That doesn't make them rabid Zionists. Their prayer books refer to the land of Israel. Their knowledge of history of the holocaust, of Jews who had nowhere to escape to being herded into cattle cars gives them a positive feeling about Israel. They have an inclination to want to protect Israel. But most Jewish Americans are American first and don't pay a lot of attention to the inner politics or actions of Israel, by their silence allowing ...
Unprecedented Arrogance
Post Date: 2010-07-02 23:22:59 by reaganisright
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The Obama administration grows more arrogant, cavalier and fundamentally dishonest every day. Just in the past few days, we've seen a number of troubling examples. Frankly, sometimes it's hard to keep up. In a speech in Wisconsin, Obama was bragging about how wonderful the terrible economy is. You'll recall that during both of President George W. Bush's terms, Democrats, including Obama, castigated him for destroying the economy, despite the existence of empirically verifiable robust growth during some seven of those eight years. Now that Obama has been in office for a year and a half and his economy is failing by all objective measures, he and his Democrats demand, once ...
Politics As Total War
Post Date: 2010-07-01 13:54:33 by Skip Intro
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Politics As Total War When Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000 for a private email list-serv archive, essentially all bets are off. Every blogger or writer who has ever offered an opinion is now on warning: your opponents will not just argue against you, they will do all they can to ransack your private life, cull your email in-tray, and use whatever material they have to unleash the moronic hounds of today's right-wing base. Yes, the Economist was right. This is not about transparency, or hypocrisy. It's about power. And when you are Andrew Breitbart, power is all that matters. There is not a whit of thoughtfulness about this, not an iota of pretense that it might actually advance ...
Olbermann: GOP Takes No Pity On The Unemployed
Post Date: 2010-07-01 12:24:28 by Brian S
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A year ago a heartless Missouri state representative named Cynthia Davis lashed out against school summer breakfast programs.She didn't understand the point. Why should the government keep kids from having breakfast at home with their folks? This woman was so disconnected from privation and want and poverty, that it had not occurred to her that not every child has enough food to eat. She added this insulting, demeaning postscript for the hungry children of Missouri: "Tip: If you work for McDonald's, they will feed you for free during your break." Podcast More from Countdown Get the Countdown podcast As of this month, with their members in the Senate killing a ...
The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party
Post Date: 2010-06-30 15:56:07 by Badeye
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The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party By Michael Gerson Wednesday, June 30, 2010 My political friendships and sympathies are increasingly determined not by ideology but by methodology. One of the most significant divisions in American public life is not between the Democrats and the Republicans; it is between the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party. This distinction came to mind in the case of Washington Post blogger David Weigel, who resigned last week after the leak of messages he wrote disparaging figures he covered. Weigel is, by most accounts, a bright, hardworking young man whose private communications should have been kept private. But the tone of the e-mails he posted on a liberal ...
LEFT: REMOVE PLANKS IN YOUR EYES, NOT SPLINTERS IN PALIN’S
Post Date: 2010-06-30 13:38:52 by Badeye
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LEFT: REMOVE PLANKS IN YOUR EYES, NOT SPLINTERS IN PALIN’S Ron Devito, US For Palin Published 06/30/2010 - 8:39 a.m. CST ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ron Devito Website: us4palin.com/ As we have noted numerous times, leftist attacks on Governor Palin operate like a Baskin Robbins ice cream store, following a “flavor-of-the-day” approach. Today’s flavor relates to a simple oratorical error that Gov. Palin made during her speech at Stanislaus last week. The “lamestream media” – are abuzz with the “horrific, earth shattering” news that Gov. Palin said “California’s Eureka College” rather than its actual location in Illinois, thus giving ...
Turkey's Rise Should Give U.S. Pause
Post Date: 2010-06-29 15:33:03 by Brian S
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The geopolitical map of the Middle East is witnessing a seismic shift not because of an imminent resolution to the Palestine question, a possible Arab-Israeli war, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the Iran nuclear issue. Rather, it is because Turkey is emerging as the new regional superpower. Turkey's rise is due to many factors, including its deep disappointment and humiliation in its pursuit of membership in the European Union. The nation has concluded that despite its membership in NATO and its distinction as the second-largest military force in that body, its inclusion in the EU is far-fetched. Thus, its leaders chose to shift the nation's political, economic and ...
7 Potential Economic Effects Of A War With Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-29 13:05:19 by Brian S
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As each day passes, war in the Middle East seems increasingly likely. The truth is that Israel will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, and Iran is absolutely determined to continue developing a nuclear program. So right now Israel and Iran are engaged in a really bizarre game of "nuclear chicken" and neither side is showing any sign of blinking. In fact, even prominent world leaders are now openly stating that it is basically inevitable that Israel is going to strike Iran. For example, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently made the stunning admission that the G8 nations "absolutely believe" that Israel will ...
Olbermann: Palin Went To Three Colleges But Still ‘Is An Idiot’
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:38:50 by Brian S
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann awarded his "worst person" award to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for displaying sheer "stupidity" during a speech last Friday.The frequent Palin detractor "gave 'Sister Sarah' the honor for her 'gaffefest' at Cal State Stanislaus over the weekend, during which, he said, 'she said, perhaps, 100 things that brand her as a phony," Huffington Post noted."But none is more symbolic of her imbecility, her corner-cutting, her downright endorsement of stupidity instead of intelligence than this one," he said, introducing her false claim that Ronald Reagan attended "California's Eureka ...
Good Riddance, Robert Byrd
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:23:37 by Badeye
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Good Riddance, Robert Byrd by John Howting 06/29/2010 When Robert Byrd was a young man, he organized a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in his hometown of Crab Orchard and at the young age of 24 rose to the high office of “Exalted Cyclops.” He quickly climbed the KKK ranks, ascending all the way to “grand Kleagle,” a powerful recruitment head. Once he became a prominent Democrat in the Senate, he had to mitigate his mistake of joining the Klan. As a former Exalted Cyclops and kleagle, it was hard for him to portray himself as a “good man in the wrong place at the wrong time” so he tried to mitigate the harsh image of the Klan that was becoming mainstream. ...
A Special Place In Hell / Tea Party Jews: Betraying U.S. And Israel At The Same Time
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:17:33 by Brian S
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Every wonder what a future America might look like if the Tea Party took over? Try today's Israel. By Bradley Burston SILWAN, East Jerusalem – Ever wonder what a future America might look like if the Tea Party took over? Try today's Israel. That distinctive brew of left-baiting, Obama-hating, poorly veiled racism, clergy-driven jingoism, clergy-fanned derision of the Supreme Court, the Luddite insertion of anti-government bile where an ideology should go, a majority which feels victimized and discriminated against and threatened by minorities of indeterminate legal status – it's all here. It just speaks Hebrew. In fact, for a far-right segment of U.S. Jewry ...
McCain, Once More [The National Review endorsed John McCain over J.D. Hayworth]
Post Date: 2010-06-28 18:00:24 by Brian S
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That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. For a few years at the start of the decade, not an issue went by, it seemed, without our feeling obligated to criticize the Arizona Republican. That conservatives in his state should be in the market for a senator who agrees with them more consistently is not remarkable. But there are three considerations that militate against dumping McCain for his primary challenger, former congressman J. D. Hayworth. The first is that McCain has usually been on the conservative side of national controversies. He has never voted for a broad-based tax increase, he has voted for every conservative on the ...
Tea Party People are Mad
Post Date: 2010-06-27 13:35:43 by Brian S
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The Tea Party people are rightfully mad. But they don’t have a clue as to what the real problem is and how to correct it. They like to engage in Republican and Corporate organized corporate events and call that a Tea Party. They somehow insanely believe that engaging in more of the same will get them something different. They are aging ‘baby boomers’ that want only social benefits for themselves (social security, medicare, unemployment, etc.) but get all hot and bothered if their suffering brothers and sisters are able to get any governmental support. The Tea Party people are confused. They say they are against Big Government but want it if they will benefit from it. For ...
Buckwheat Picks Slavering Bull Dyke Kagan for Supreme Court!
Post Date: 2010-06-27 11:12:37 by Jethro Tull
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www.newsmax.com/InsideCov...ourt/2010/05/09/id/358489 Obama Chooses Kagan for Supreme Court Sunday, 09 May 2010 WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the president's thinking said Sunday night. The move positions the court to have three female justices for the first time in history. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been made public. Obama will announce his choice at 10 a.m. Monday in the East Room of the White House. Known as sharp and politically savvy, Kagan has led a blazing legal career: first female dean of Harvard Law School, first woman to serve as ...
The Godsend of American Hostility
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:22:07 by Brian S
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The Islamic Republic has been in Washington's crosswires since the revolution of February 1979 overthrew its client regime of the so-called Shahanshah (the king of kings). Putting an abrupt end to US influence over America's most priceless geo-political "possession" in the region, the Islamic revolution made Iran emerge as the greatest challenge to long-term American influence in the region and the Muslim world. Three decades later, as we are about to enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the challenge has not receded or lessened. Rather it has grown more formidable with time, as the Islamic Republic advances in experience and strength, at times faltering ...
Republicans to the Unemployed: You're Lazy
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:56:39 by Brian S
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Salt, meet wound. Wound being unemployment, and salt being the suggestion that the worst economy since the Great Depression was created by its powerless victims -- the jobless. Republicans, do tell: If so many jobs are ripe for plucking, explain the five applicants for every job. (Down from six a few months ago. Oh joy.) Why would anyone believe unemployment is voluntary when there is so much evidence to the contrary? The answer is surprisingly simple: Because that belief makes them feel good. Life is not fair, we learned in childhood. Apparently we never got over it. The psychology term "just-world phenomenon" has been around for only half a century, but the practice of assuming ...
Sarah Palin Is Toxic
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:16:02 by Brian S
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Commentators keep telling us how influential Sarah Palin's endorsements are, and even if the whole "mama grizzly" meme is clearly overstated, there's no quibbling with the fact that Palin has pull among GOP primary voters. But the more interesting point to be made about Palin is how toxic she's become among the broader electorate. In fact, buried in the internals of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is an amusing number: A majority see a Palin endorsement as a clear negative. The poll asked people how they'd respond if a Congressional candidate had various hypothetical attributes. Asked how they'd feel if a candidate were "endorsed by Sarah ...
An Open Letter to President Obama From Jon Voight
Post Date: 2010-06-22 21:39:38 by Murron
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An Open Letter to President Obama From Jon Voight President Obama: You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy — and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world. You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today. The Jewish people have given ...
war falls apart at his 3rd new home. Goldi, 22rifle and Packrat1145 were right about him. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-22 17:59:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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To: war Cut the bullshit. You can't alter content of articles. Are you that f**king stupid? On the titles I already answered you elsewhere. Now have you ever altered any other content of articles. I may already know the answer. Lets see if you can be honest. A K A Stone posted on 2010-06-12 Post Comment Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: rifle22 (#0) I apologize for defending war that one time r22 WhiteSands posted on 2010-06-12 21:49:40 ET Reply Trace #2. To: WhiteSands (#1) Aw man, no need to apologize. But thanks. 22rifle posted on 2010-06-13 0:05:11 ET Reply Trace #3. To: WhiteSands (#0) Lets see if you can ...
Don't blame McChrystal, blame Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-22 17:24:25 by WhiteSands
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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal should not lose his job because of the article about him in Rolling Stone magazine. If anyone deserves blame for the latest airing of the administration’s internal feuds over Afghanistan, it is President Obama. For months Obama has tolerated deep divisions between his military and civilian aides over how to implement the counterinsurgency strategy he announced last December. The divide has made it practically impossible to fashion a coherent politico-military plan, led to frequent disputes over tactics and contributed to a sharp deterioration in the administration’s relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The virtue of the Rolling Stone article ...
GOP Response to Gulf Spill a Model of Incoherence
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:12:26 by go65
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Like a chorus of vuvuzelas, Republican commentary on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a din that could win the World Culp for incoherent messaging if there were such a trophy. Obama should do more. Obama should do less. The feds should crack down on BP. The feds should ease off on BP. Fix the problems that caused the blowout in mile-deep water. Keep drilling in mile- deep water. Joe Barton (right) apologizes to BP, then apologizes for the apology, which was too much even for ultra- partisan John Boehner, the GOP's top banana in the House. Michele Bachmann calls the $20 billion compensation escrow agreed to by BP a "redistribution-of- wealth" fund, as if requiring ...
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