Democrats Deserve No Distance
On July 22, Joe Biden said the following at a fundraiser in North Carolina: “Now that the heavy lifting is over, we can go out and make our case.” In other words, it’s time to campaign.
He didn’t get off to a good start when he also said: “There are 3 million [more] Americans working today than there were before we took office.”
What? Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that no matter which of four possible ways you look at the numbers, he’s laughably wrong by at least five years.
Numbers are stubborn things, aren’t they, Joe? Of course, you shouldn’t expect much from a guy who says “J-O-B-S” is a three-letter word.
In declaring the campaign war on, Biden immediately demonstrated that its first casualty is and will continue to be the truth.
Before I learned of Biden’s howler, I was going to establish three ground rules for this year’s election campaign. Now I’m down to two:
- If you supported Barack Obama in 2008 and are seeking election or reelection, it’s too late to distance yourself from him if you haven’t already. You own him, and his administration’s agenda.
- If you voted for the Obama administration’s key initiatives — stimulus, cap and trade, ObamaCare, or financial “reform” — you can’t credibly claim to have beliefs that run contrary to their specific provisions.
Rule Number 3 was going to be: “Tell the truth.” That’s clearly out the window on the Democratic side.
Let’s look at three concrete applications of the ground rules.
Well done and excellent analysis. At this point it hopefully should be clear to every person who is genuinely concerned with the direction of our country that to vote for a Democrat is equivalent to playing Russian roulette. The Congress is fully exposed and has doubled down on the screw the Constitution and the body politic. It’s time to show these elitists a thing or two about American values.
To many of us it was clear what we had in Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid well before the 2008 election. One of the most compelling reasons to vote against Obama in 2008 was to make sure that those two had a check on their power in the form of a president who could veto their lousy legislation. Nevertheless, many people allowed themselves to get scared about Sarah Palin when they should have been scared of what those two clowns would do–and what they have done.
Remember that Nancy Pelosi and her family OWN the Congressional District which forever votes for her, as the employer in that District. Remember also that she was child in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of the Beltway. Similar to Chicago, a part of Cook County, Illinois, and other large cities in the”Blue States” of New York and California. Of THE WIRE fame. Fictional TV series which one cannot discount is based on fact.
It’s not just a riveting series , but discloses to all who pay attention an example of the ENTIRE POLITICAL MACHINERY of America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as in the hands of people, all sexes, all races who are COMPLETELY CORRUPT. (wITH SOME HEROIC TRUE SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE). And that System imcludes the journalists who hanker for “Pulitzer” Prize, and get it for entirely fictitious “reports”.
AND WHO PAYS in destruction of hopes and dreams for change in their lives? POOR URBAN BLACKS AND WHITES — AMERICANS ALL — WHO HAVE NO CHAMPIONS IN THEIR ABUSERS, the PREDATORS OF THE PARTY OF HOPE AND CHANGE,
BUT ARE, exemplied by Nancy Pelosi, All the Kennedy’s, All the Clintons and their standard bearers in the “Democratic” Party, and now Obama, the FEUDAL LORDS of these urban poor: beholden to these “lords” in their vassalage. Exiles in their Siberia of single mothers/ children without responsible available fathers, crime, poor education, drug dependence, and general hopelessness . It requires real heroism to survive and prosper in such an environment. And there are many of such heroes, NONE OF WHOM is lauded by the “Democrats” who depend on vassalage for their power.
THE disgrace, THE crime is that of the politicians, and those who vote them into power again and again, who wear the elegant, expensive clothes of gangsters and dictators, who “feel their pain”. AND WHERE ARE, WHERE HAVE BEEN THE MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY PARTY, the Republicans while these crimes were / are being committed? Keeping their heads down. And letting “the little people” contend with and try to clean up the messes made by the politiciams and the “elite”.
Actually, when Strickland was in the U.S. House, he rarely took “affirmative action” to support the Second Amendment. His “support” mainly took the form of carefully making sure he was absent when and anti-RKBA bill was being voted on. He wanted the image of being “pro-gun” back home in his district, but he also wanted to avoid annoying his party leadership. This probably explains why his lieutenant governor is former (one term) Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher, who dreams of eating gun owners alive with fava beans and a nice Chianti. BTW, Fisher is the Dems’ Senate candidate to replace the notably feckless George Voinovich (R- Cuyahoga Co.) this year. (As glad as I am to see Gorgeous George retiring, I really don’t want Loony Lee replacing him.)
When running for Governor, Strickland promised he would “never SUPPORT an anti-gun initiative”. Translation; I won’t help it pass, but I won’t openly oppose it, either.
His signing of the Ohio concealed-carry law was less out of belief than his understanding that the then-Republican controlled legislature had enough votes to override the veto the Democrats at the national level demanded of him. He has since been kept on a very tight leash by the DNC to ensure he commits no more apostasies.
Strickland’s administration is also famous for having one State Attorney General, Mark Dann, indicted for felonies and fired, only to be replaced by a former State Treasurer, Richard Cordray, whose first job as AG was “investigating” financial irregularities (i.e., apparent embezzlement) at… the State Treasurer’s office on his own watch. Needless to say, Cordray hasn’t found any evidence of unethical behavior. He also hasn’t “found” about $30 million in missing taxpayers’ money, either.
(My guess is, everybody at the state Democratic Party HQ knows where it is, and the rest of us will find out by way of their campaign spending this year.)
Strickland still dreams of higher office, and if he’s a good boy and the Democrats remain in power in Washington he’ll probably get it; a nice ambassadorship, if nothing else.
But the people of Ohio other than the usual one-fifth who worship anybody with “D” next to their name don’t trust him, and never will again.
The moral is; Just because somebody doesn’t openly oppose you, it doesn’t mean he’s on your side. Or that he can be trusted on other subjects, either.
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eon
I hope the Democrats choke on their record. In less than two years they have managed to throw us into unbelievable debt with precious little results to show for it. The “stimulus” was basically a payout to union workers in various states and it allowed state governments to temporarily avoid the inevitable, which was to balance their own budgets. California is finding out right now that aid from Washington does nothing unless the underlying cause of the disaster is addressed, which is runaway spending.
Now the “stimulus” money is gone and where are all those “shovel-ready” jobs Obama promised? Why hasn’t the stimulus kept unemployment to their promised 8% cap rather than the almost 10% that it is right now? Obama bailed out GM, Chrysler, and gave even more bailout money to AIG, and what has it gotten us? Oh yes, the Chevy Volt, an expensive crappy car nobody is going to buy that will also be subsidized by the taxpayer, or YOU! When did we agree to subsidize other people’s cars? Even the “cash for clunkers” promotion only proved to be a temporary boost, which all of these measures are. And will we ever see any of these loans paid back from GM, Chrysler, or AIG? Sure, just like we’ll see that the health care bill will actually bring medical costs down and not up.
The great thing about November is that you don’t have to exaggerate anything when fighting the democrats. All you have to do is tell the truth and show the facts. Americans are not dumb. They no things are bad and that the economy is only getting worse. And let’s not even talk about Obama’s foreign policy. That will only make the democrats look worse.
November is coming and I hope it makes 1994 look like a “victory” for the democrats. They loved Obama, they blindly followed Obama, they voted for all of his insane big-spending bills, and they embraced Obama’s socialist agenda. NO THEY ARE STUCK WITH HIM.
“Americans are not dumb”…A statement people would like to believe but I think at least 40% of our population is precisely that. Under educated, under informed and completely disinterested except for their immediate circumstances. A great majority of the rest of the population is just apathetic. I live in a small rural,lakeside community in the south and find that my neighbors are computer illiterate and not very well read. Only three of the five couples of which I have daily contact with, have newspaper subscriptions. Their topics of conversation center around the status of their health, next trip to their camps or vacation destinations, children and grandchildren and their next trip to a casino. These are not uneducated people as two in the group are school teachers. They are not passionate about anything political. Good people who will not financially support their candidate of choice. Depressing to think that they’re like most people in the U.S. and to think that one day they’ll wake up from their stupor and wonder “how did all this happen to our country?” Duh!!! Add these people to the people in the north who keep electing liberal senators and representatives and it paints a pretty bleak picture of the future of our country. I simply refuse to give up and do support candidates around the country that I believe will do the right thing when elected.
Instead of adopting highways Americans should switch to politicians.
Each citizen should pick a favorite bad politician.
Then every morning when they wake up have a “to-do” list of ways to make that politician’s life miserable as hell.
When that politician collapses or gives up, the citizen, without any delay finds another bad politician and starts working on his or her head with a jack-hammer.
Voters should never seek revenge against bad politicians.
But, they should always get even!
The Democrats running this year must be made, in their debates, to affirm all the things they voted for from Pelosi to Reid to Obama. It should be a “this is what they did – ignore what they say” election. In the House they all voted for Pelosi, the farthest Left of anyone in Congress today. Hang her around their neck, put Reid on their back and Obama as their skull cap.
Instead of Obama as a skull cap0 it should be their asshat!
Thus, no one, including Ted Strickland, can claim to be pro-Second Amendment and continue to support Barack Obama.
What nonsense! I’t would be nonsense about any issue and any president. Obama is not defined by gun control as he is by his stands on healthcare, racism or withdrawing troops from Iraq. It is never all or nothing because, except in the rarest of cases, no one 100% agrees with the current President on every issue. Unless you are his Press Secretary.
Most people will say about any candidate they support that they agree with him on most things or issue X is most important to them and their candidate has the preferred stand.
In the case of Obama were issues the issue, anyway? How many voters cast their ballots because they felt it was time for a black president, because McCain was too old or because Obama wasn’t Bush? Because of gun control? No distance there.
Methinks you miss the point! He’s not saying you can’t continue to support Obama, even if you disagree with some particular policy. Go for it! (At your own risk…)
He’s saying you can’t continue to TRUTHFULLY say you are FOR something, if every policy, ruling, appointment, and law passed and supported by the Dems and pushed by Obama flies in the face of what you state and claim to hold so dear…
Of course, one can always RATIONALIZE and well…LIE, but then what makes you different from any other Democrat in power today???
You wallow around pigs in the mud….you’re gonna end up stinking!
While I agree, it’s been my experience as a columnist and blogger that most of President Obama’s followers drank a little too much Kool-Aid.
I’ve never been a fan of political zombies who will agree with their party, either party mind you, even if the party says that killing kittens are a good thing.
However, I do see a lot of hypocrisy with many Democrats and liberals. If Republicans created health care reform the same way as President Obama, with no real transparency, back-room deals and taxing people, etc., they would be screaming bloody murder.
As irrefutable as your statements are, Mr. Blumer, they’re only half the game. It isn’t enough to know what you’re against; you have to know — and say — what you’re for.
The Republican Party got into trouble with the electorate by betraying its supposed principles once it had attained hegemony. It overspent by many billions; it approved large new entitlements and expansions of the welfare state; it intervened in the marketplace more than once to favor American businesses over foreign competitors. Its legislators rewarded themselves lavishly with earmarks, and its president remarked, in public hearing, that he had to violate free-market principles to save the free market. That’s not a record to run on, which is probably one of the strongest reasons to “run against.”
With both parties’ escutcheons so badly blotted, the voting public might just render a verdict against both of them, by staying home on November 2. Were that to occur, the Democrats would retain their hegemony; they might even increase their margins. After all, the folks who always go to the polls are those who have a direct personal interest in activist, ever-enlarging government.
The GOP must turn sincerely conservative — well beyond Reaganite, hold-the-line conservatism — and must say so plainly and provably, to be worth supporting in the immediate future.
The Republicans are often hypocritical and morally weak—but they are vastly superior to the Democrats who truly believe in the principles of big government spending. They are literally the only game in town. Staying home this November will prove to be disastrous. George W. Bush was another Herbert Hoover. That was bad enough. Barack Obama is, however, the reincarnation of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Great comment, and I enjoyed your linked post.
As to your impatience with the Republican Party, I share it, especially as it relates to the one in Ohio, which I refer to as ORPINO (the Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) — as you’ll see in this previous column, and this one.
Agreed Francis and very legitimate point. And though I’ve heard some hints of what Conservatives stand for, I would like a more vocal demonstration of specifics as such.
Great piece. Maybe someone can answer this question:
Why does al-Bama look and act like Mister Peanut?
Jimmy Carter look-alike.
As opposed to Michael Dukakis, who both physically and “intellectually” bears a startling resemblance to Mad Magazine’s mascot, Alfred E. Neuman.
Or Howard Dean, who reminds me of the fellow on the bridge in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”.
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eon
I always thought Hillary Rotten Clinton and her apple cheeks had a striking resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman.
Make ‘em admit they’re Democrats. Every single statewide campaign (TV) ad I’ve seen contains absolutely no reference to the democrat party.
Make ‘em admit what they voted for in Congress.
Do NOT let them use rhetoric to avoid admitting they are democrats who supported and support obama’s wrecking crew.
Thank you for calling them out on this. The Congress and their media lapdogs criticized anyone that voted against these huge big government pork barrel legislations in name of stimulus, health care and financial reform. It would be equivalent to reading 15 Tom Clancy novels and not one them or the journalists they control even attempted to read what they have dumped in our laps. Now they want to vote for Elena Kagan, a Sotomayor in questioning and a radical freedom destroyer in real life. Even Senator Lugar is suffering from hard of hearing or something else is seriously wrong. Oh, it isn’t an election cycle for him.
Lies, lies, and more lies from the Democrats. I know, I used to be an active gay democratic veteran up until 2007. I get chastised from both the left and right because of who I am and my beliefs, but I don’t care. It’s all good. But what amazes me more then anything is the blind allegiance gays (and Jews) have toward the Democrats. This is slowly changing, so there is some hope. During Obama’s campaign, one would not believe the vitriol and ostracization toward me from the gay community because of my support for McCain and conservative ideas and principles. Now, I hear a different story from some, in fact quite a few. Many would not have voted for Obama if they knew how things have turned out so far under his administration. I only hope they wise up even more this November to the Democratic lies.
Mike, my twin brother is gay. I am not. He’s a liberal. I’m a conservative. We’re both in our early 60′s and grew up in the same social and economic environment in the deep south. Why an individuals sexual orientation has anything to do with his or her’s political ideology is beyond my comprehension. Maybe it’s because of the inate prejudice against gays in society and the liberal ideology seems to be more tolerant to them and more supportive and inclusive of their lifestyle. I too wish that more gays and lesbians would put their own prejudices aside and vote for people who would best serve our country, regardless of party.
Thanks Richard, I wholeheartly agree to put “prejudices aside and vote for people who would best serve our country, regardless of party,” as you so eloquently put. That’s why I am a proud gay conservative veteran. Thanks for the support and reaffirming my belief in putting country first, regardless of who you are. There is so much more at stake to this country than one’s sexuality. Why blindly give it up to Democrats? BTW–I grew up in the South too, so there is hope for your brother.
Hey, Mike… it seems I’m about 3 years too late, but welcome to conservatism. This straight Christian conservative is glad to have you, regardless of the gender you choose to sleep with.
Greetings Mike.
While I am not gay (I am a Jew so I understand your reference to the “blind allegience”), we have a kinship in that we are both former “active democratic veterans”. Welcome to the right, as well as correct, side. It kills me that I used to think of the democratic party as the party of inclusion and tolerance. That couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s amazing how anyone who has a different opinion or view of an issue is automatically branded an evil, racist,______. Fill in the blamk.
I say this in all sincerity. Mike, welcome from people who accept you and apreciate you for all that you are!! Now let’s go get the best people in office to right this wonderful ship we call the U.S.A.!!
Remember all the talk of “Shovel Ready” projects back when the O’Stimulus was being written. I could have possibly supported a bill written to do infrastructure projects as that would help an industry hit hard, but only about 10% was infrastructure – the rest seemed to just shovel manure.
The Interstate Highway System cost $425B in 2006 dollars and does need a lot of work – but the stimulus basically avoided highways because they are not “green”.
What really galls me is how all of the legislation of the last few years seems to be just kneecapping private business, in particular small business. The Democrats must be panning to destroy some other segment of the economy in secret right now. Please vote them out before they get the chance.
Why don’t we become a one parry state ? isn’t that what you want? i dictatorship where only your ideas or lack of ideas count. http://WWW.WHITE HOUSE.COM/JOBS; that will give you the truth mine mr. hitler
You sound like a lunatic. I do believe that you should seek help. Seriously.
I keep wondering when the little Democrats on the ground, the liberal progressives who inhabit places like Berkeley and Vermont, are going to wake up and discover their continuing bleats of “racism” and “it’s all Bush’s fault” have absolutely NO credibility any more, and, if anything, just make normal Americans laugh in their faces.
I look at people driving cars with Obama stickers still attached to them wondering “what is wrong with you?” Like, they should be drooling and twitching with a unicorn horn sticking out of their forehead, so that normal people can see at a glance exactly what sort of mutant they are, not to be able to see reality and taste the changed political breezes.
And when you see their pathetic little acidic wannabe posts on the internet, it is just simply to be hoped that they are the ones who have lost their jobs while running up a gazillion dollar college debt in women’s studies — that these voters-for-Obama are now suffering from their idiotic beliefs and futile efforts to “spread the wealth around”.
We have our primaries in Tennessee Thursday and I will be voting a straight Republican Ticket and the same in November. I believe two of our democrats have decided to not run again and one is in my district, so there will definitely be some Republicans picked up in this state for sure. Can’t wait till November to watch the election results and will take the next day off hopefully for a great big celebration of a massive Republican takeover of Congress and the Senate.
Progressives can’t tell the truth in this country if they expect to win. Every one of them is, at the very least, an enabler of the unAmerican, anti-democratic left. Remember, they only had 60 votes in the Senate. That means they ALL voted for the healthcare monstrosity, which represents the final blow to freedom and shows their true colors. Any true Conservative Democrat in the House should have switched parties after this idiocy and stopped enabling the Progressive agenda, not just voted against it. Since only one of them did, it is only rational to assume the rest secretly support Progressive policies. Conservatives are principled people and too often their disagreements with one another provide Progressives the opportunity to advance their agenda. Just imagine how different things would be right now if Conservatives hadn’t decided to stay home and “punish” the Republicans in 2006 and 2008. Democrats won so many close races, their radical agenda would never have gotten through the Senate intact. Now we have no more margin for error. Stopping the Progressive dependency agenda is more important than any other issue on which you may agree with the Democrats or disagree with the Republicans. We are the last best hope for the world, the freest nation ever created. If we cannot preserve our freedom now, no nation can hope to stay free and all may be lost, literally.
The 2010 and 2012 elections are now the most important elections in the history of elections. Follow the link to see why, its something everyone considering voting for the Democrats or staying away from the polls needs to read
http://elaboratepredictions.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/why-we-fight/
I realize that this is a really stupid comment but why wouldn’t the O put that stimulus money to good use (except what was already stolen) toward infrastructure instead of studying the effect of cocaine of monkeys? Piss all the money away on stupid projects! I cannot comprehend why not the bulk of the money going toward some noteworthy project? If this were scripted into a movie it would be a stupid movie.
I am so totally with you on this, Mr. Blumer. Furthermore, I think there should be a public ritual instituted for people like Peggy Noonan, Megan McCardle, and Ann Althouse to make public apology for being so thoughtlessly STUPID and destructive of our Republic as to support such an obvious loser as O. There should be penance–big time.
I actually saw Claire Mc. of Missouri described as a “moderate” in some MSM piece today.
Better stop. My blood pressure won’t take more.
Boring Stimulus Facts that Will Change Our Lives
Ever get a big wad of unexpected cash fom somewhere? Were you conflicted as to what to do with it, whether to just go out and blow it, pay off bills, or save it for a rainy day?
The Obama administration had no such conflict, no doubts at all as to what to do with the $862 billion windfall it got its hands on as a result of the critically-needed 657 page stimulus bill last year, to which Democrats assigned the grandiose title of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Like any good drunken Democrat, they pissed it away.
The result has been no economic recovery, no “reinvestment,” (whatever that meant), and certainly no stimulus felt by the economy or the American people. Employment remains at an intolerable 9.5% a full 17 months after Obama’s stimulus package was passed by Obama’s Democrat congress and after the president promised that its passage would keep the unemployment rate at 8% or less.
One could say that we were snookered except for the fact that the snookering, as well as all the other Obamian boondoggles perpetrated on the American people, will not only affect us, the taxpayers. Our kids and grandkids will be paying off much of the tab into the next century.
And now Obama and his merry band of spendthrift Democrats want yet another “stimulus package” to piss away.
The inmates have clearly taken over the asylum.
Republicans, who also screwed up during the Bush years with their irrational exuberance for spending our and our kids’ and grandkids’ hard-earned bucks, have nothing to crow about but at least the deficits they built up during those years were believable if obscene. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1830)
As a life and health insurance agent in Califonia for over 30 years, I have yet to be able to discern any real difference regarding the ability of either party to meet the needs of the people of this country. Of course, that is hardly surprising given the nature of politics today. Everything makes perfect sense as long as you follow the money trail.
Predictions: Hillary, Biden, and Children under the Auspices of the United Nations
Making predictions is a cinch job and making long-term predictions is even cinchier. Like weather predictions, the predicter can always figure his audience will forget that he said, “Cloudy with an 80% chance of rain” and we end up getting a foot deep blizzard or he can always say the snow “developed out of nowhere.”
Likewise with socio-political-economic prognostications, there the prognosticator always has the out that “unforeseen circumstances” developed that made his predictions 100% inaccurate and/or hope that people forget what he said in the first place.
With that as preface, a few very plausible predictions:
Hillary Clinton for Vice President? Washington scuttlebutt of the day is that the Secretary of State may be offered the Democrat Party’s VP slot in 2012 after Foot-in-Mouth Joe Biden gracefully bows out. The theory is that Mrs. Clinton would boost the president’s sagging hopes for re-election. It’s even being suggested that the two switch jobs and that Biden goes to State after Clinton is elected: http://tiny.cc/ae6oi
Gasp!
As comical as Old Joe can be, his gaffes are usually forgiveable since the vice presidency isn’t “worth a bucket of warm spit” or “warm piss,” as John Nance Garner actually said. As Secretary of State, Biden’s inanities would be taken seriously!
PREDICTION: No way on God’s green Earth . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1835)
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