Political Truth and Fact

Thursday - Radicals Gather Saturday in Washington

“One Nation” rally this week end in DC -- bringing together the far left

Jealousy is obviously driving far left extremists to attempt to make a showing in DC to rival the half million Glenn Beck was able to bring to the Capitol several weeks ago.  One key difference is Beck’s rally was quite patriotic – the one Saturday is not likely to be.  Beck’s rally was one with a muffled political message, the one Saturday will openly present far left extremism – participation will include groups that are openly socialist.  The Communist Party is also a participating member.

Clearly Saturday’s rally was spurred on by Beck’s success in attracting ordinary Americans to the Capitol. The far left just had to try matching it.

Obama’s own political group, “Organizing for America” defines the rally as the “biggest progressive demonstration in decades.”

The Democratic National Committee’s group that lauds Obama’s legislative policies, praises the “One Nation, Working Together rally”.

The far left organizers of this week end’s display of political power, have an advantage – labor unions and similar groups can draw  crowds by simply demanding members attend.  Union bosses have that sort of power and are never reluctant to use it. 

(Some weeks back, the giant and radical SEIU union sent busloads of ranting and raving demonstrators into a upscale neighborhood, crowded surrounding private property, and terrified the young son of the target of their protest.  Police stood by, powerless to provide protection.)

It should be noted the SEIU was a source for what violence attended last summer’s town hall meetings.  SEIU thugs pummeled a wheelchair-bound conservative vendor in Missouri, and similar thugs incited violence at other town hall meetings in other states.

Yesterday, the FBI and the Labor Department announced an investigation is in progress, focusomg on SEIU’s president, Andrew Stern, for what are euphemistically described as “financial irregularities”.

SEIU finances and accounting operations have long been directly entangled with those of another Obama organization – ACORN.  ACORN, of course, has faced investigations and prosecutions for voter fraud in more than a dozen states, and was secretly filmed giving aid and comfort to what they thought were prostitution groups using underage illegal alien girls.

Stern is also involved with infamous left wing extremist, George Soros.  Stern is said to have spent $5 million of union dues to buy into George Soros “Democracy Alliance”. SEIU donated almost $30 million to Obama’s presidential campaign.  No wonder Stern is said to have been the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House.  Campaign money does buy access – and buys it whether the membership wants its dues spent to acquire it or not.

The real intent of this week end’s rally is breathing air into the deflated lungs of Democrat political hope.  Pundits are united in predictions of a major GOP sweep when voters go to the polls in November.  Not only are many Democrats trailing in the polls, but there are distinct indications of fading enthusiasm on the part of would-be Democrat voters.  They see failure on the horizon and many will kist shrug and walk away, rather than stand in lines waiting to vote.

Some political experts say the gap in enthusiasm could give conservative candidates boosts of as much as eight percent.  This would mean many marginal GOP candidates will end up winning.  A few pundits are now seeing a possibility the GOP could win as many as 100 seats when the dust has settled.  Republicans need 39 victories to retake control of the House.

Those attempting to read something into the crowds attending this week end’s far left rally, cannot depend on conventional evidence.  The raw power of the unions means they can force attendance. 

Some of those union members, no one knows how many, will be voting against their union’s selections when they are alone in the voting booth.  Union bosses lose political control of their members when those members vote as ordinary Americans rather than as union members.  For union bosses, many things have changed – including the political viewpoint of many of their members – no one can be sure just how many since the bosses still have a threat of retaliation against members who are caught not toeing the line in union loyalty.

Voters should tune in briefly to see exactly who is attending the rally.  That analysis will reveal just how extreme the support is.  Among the organizations involved are: the National Council of La Raza – the radical pro illegal immigration group, the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, Code Pink – the radical anti-war group that verbally assaulted wounded troops at a DC hospital – tried to force Marine recruiters out of Berkeley – and is reported to have provided aid to terrorists fighting American troops in Iraq,  and the International Socialist Organization.  Other groups are also involved, but that brief list provides enough insight to make the point.

In short, the Saturday rally, will present the face of the political opposition facing ordinary Americans, especially those ordinary Americans who support the tea party movement.

“Gaze on, and beware” is an appropriate Saturday slogan. 

Buddy

Today’s top political news:

Crist Is Slipping in Bid for Senate

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, battered by rivals as a political opportunist, is losing ground in his quest to build a bipartisan voter coalition and win a U.S. Senate seat as an independent.

The latest attack came Wednesday in a new Democratic Party ad featuring clips of the ex-Republican, who is courting Democratic voters, praising George W. Bush and Sarah Palin and saying he is "about as conservative as you can get." Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, right, is now running for Senate as an independent.

Mr. Crist had been leading the state's three-way Senate race in surveys taken after he abandoned his failing Republican primary campaign in April and switched to independent, presenting himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to both parties. His campaign envisioned a formula of centrist Democrats, liberal Republicans and independents—a counterweight, strategists thought, to the tea-party movement boosting his chief competitor in the race, GOP nominee Marco Rubio.

But surveys now show Mr. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, taking the lead and Mr. Crist dropping into a battle for second place with Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek, a congressman from the Miami area. Mr. Rubio is ahead among independents and Mr. Meek is beating Mr. Crist among Democrats, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released over the weekend.

The survey showed 40% of voters backing Mr. Rubio, 28% Mr. Crist and 23% Mr. Meek.

wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703431604575522401612216786.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_news

And they're out! Congress flees DC to campaign

Battle-weary members of Congress are coming soon to neighborhoods near you to press for re-election, more eager to campaign before angry constituents than compromise in Washington on tax cuts, child nutrition or a federal budget.

Majority Democrats facing tough re-election fights rebelled in both chambers Wednesday against their leaders' decisions to call off controversial votes, pass a temporary bill to keep the government running and head home.

The measure to adjourn passed both chambers despite the protests. In the House, it passed by one vote — Speaker Nancy Pelosi's — after 39 Democrats joined Republicans in voting no.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_campaigning_congress

Loyalty to Obama Costs Democrats

Democrats who have been thorns in the president's side are doing well in some of the toughest districts for their party, from Alabama to the steel belt of western Pennsylvania. But swing-district Democrats who have voted with the president in Congress are struggling, even if they're now asserting their independence.

In swing districts, House Democrats who've resisted some party initiatives are polling strongly.

Democrats running against the White House prevail, the result could have a profound impact on the party's ability to govern. More than 30 Democrats with proven records of independence are campaigning on this theme, and scores more have started trying to do so late in the game. Even if the party maintains control of the House, it almost certainly won't have a functioning liberal majority, Democratic aides and lawmakers say. Conservative Democrats would be emboldened to go their own way, especially if many colleagues who stuck with the president lose.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575501760957676960.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

Wednesday - Tea Party Reality dawns

Tea Party power is driving November’s outcome

Finally, the reality of what has been dubbed “the tea party movement” is leaking through to what pollster Scott Rasmussen calls “the political sector”.

Up to this point, few inside the Capitol Hill population, have had a realistic clue.  Far too many looked to the groups that co-opted the tea party title, presuming those small (and usually disconnected) groups were what the tea parties were all about.  They were dead wrong.

Despite the obvious reality, many – especially liberals such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi – assumed the conservative groups just had to be racist and most certainly were  inclined to violence.  Neither assumption was even remotely true, yet Democrats petulantly stomped their feet and insisted that just had to be the case.  They even claimed racist acts when there were none.

Now, pollsters find a full third of probable American voters are tea partiers, and that figure is almost certain to be lower than reality.  Much lower.

It’s virtually impossible to get an accurate measurement of tea party membership.  Many voters who will act as tea party members when they vote, voters who embrace tea party issue positions, and voters who provide a huge amount of tea party political muscle, don’t think of themselves as tea party members, and thus refuse to identify themselves as such.

A smaller group is influenced by the false negative image crafted by liberals who are desperately in denial, and refuse to admit they support the tea party or its policies. 

If pollsters find a third of the voters to be tea party members, then the actual figure must be close to 50% or, perhaps, even greater among probable voters.  PLUS count on tea party members, even if they don’t accept the label, voting this November.  They are highly motivated and they are “mad as hell and don’t want to take it anymore” as the old movie line goes.  This year, it does, and it replicates tea party thinking.

The Wall Street Journal reports:  “The poll found that tea-party supporters make up one-third of the voters most likely to cast ballots in November's midterm elections. This showed the movement "isn't a small little segment, but it is a huge part of what's driving 2010."

Says the WSJ: “Republicans retain major advantages, including a fired-up base. Two-thirds of GOP voters say they are intensely interested in the election, compared with about half of Democrats, suggesting that Republican voters are more likely to turn out at the polls”.

Such a finding suggests a GOP candidate who trails his Democrat opponent by no more than five or eight points, may win purely because more of his voters will actually cast a ballot.  If that Is true, a Republican sweep will have even greater dimensions than currently predicted.

This election will be driven by the tea party movement.  That movement was born in the early months of the current Congress and White House tenure, gained momentum and power during last summer’s town hall meetings, then hardened into a serious political power as primaries were held this year.

They are angry at the irresponsible spending – highlighted by the trillion dollar Obama bill that produced little other than an almost 10% unemployment figure, and a yawning deficit.  When voters began realizing  just how outrageous other liberal legislation such as Cap and Trade, that anger grew to rage.  Prospects of $8 a gallon gasoline were unacceptable.  When Democrats imposed their radical health care scheme on an unwilling population, then compounded that outrage by attacking the Arizona law against illegal immigration, tea party emotions reached a real high.

Now, they will heavily determine November’s outcome.

GOP leadership on Capitol Hill do not seem to understand what they face when oaths of office are taken the latter part of January.

It is likely that as many as one third of the total GOP membership will be tea party candidates who are arriving filled with evangelistic fervor and zeal regarding conservative positions and guidance from the Constitution.  Many Republican incumbents will join the newcomers in order to assure their own positions.

GOP leadership will be forced to accommodate the tea party arrivals, and they will largely feel more obligated to keeping on track with “the folks back home” than most.  The inner working of the Republican caucus will be interesting to watch.  It is quite possible, Democrats may be seriously wounded and will remain as such for several elections.  Republicans will be tested as well, and reminded they have returned as a majority simply because they were not authors of the outrageous extremism of the Obama-Pelosi Democrats.  They will be expected to fulfill the desires of voters as never before.  They will have to do more than talk, they will be forced to produce, and do so with dispatch.

Given Obama’s probable veto of legislation aimed at such goals as repealing, reversing, and rejecting the radical health care bill, along with providing answers for dealing with threats posed by illegal immigration, gridlock is a probability.

The tea party is real, and its power continues to grow.  It will likely be seen by historians as one of the most important movements of American history.

Politicians of all sorts face a season of testing.  How they respond to the expectations and demands of the tea parties, will directly impact their futures, as well as the future of the country.  There is a realistic potential tea parties will return to American government many of the values and perspectives of the founding fathers.  Success in politics in the immediate future will likely depend directly on how well a candidate follows or is seen as following, the tea party mandate.

This will be a serious test for both candidates and voters.

November may produce more change than voters bargain for.  Again.

Buddy

Today’s top political news:

Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High

For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% now saying this is a record high by one percentage point.The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup's annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.

Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower than trust in the executive and judicial branches of government, even though trust in all three branches is down sharply this year. These findings also further confirm a separate Gallup poll that found little confidence in newspapers and television specifically.

Nearly half of Americans (48%) say the media are too liberal, tying the high end of the narrow 44% to 48% range recorded over the past decade. One-third say the media are just about right while 15% say they are too conservative. Overall, perceptions of bias have remained quite steady over this tumultuous period of change for the media, marked by the growth of cable and Internet news sources. Americans' views now are in fact identical to those in 2004, despite the many changes in the industry since then.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/Distrust-Media-Edges-Record-High.aspx

Democrats not getting jobs, tax bills done

The Democrats' agenda of jobs and tax cuts has begun to lose support within the party's own ranks, even as House and Senate members rush to finish their pre-election business and return home to seek votes for November's midterms.

A last-ditch jobs bill backed by Senate Democrats, designed to punish companies that shift jobs overseas, collapsed in the face of a bipartisan filibuster Tuesday, even as nearly four dozen House Democrats signed a letter breaking with party leaders and urging that at least some of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for higher-income taxpayers be extended past the end of this year.

The moves mark a rocky ending as Congress puts off much of its agenda and seeks to adjourn this week with plans to return after the elections in order to pass spending bills, address the tax cuts and possibly tackle immigration, as well as the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy of gays in the military, and climate-change legislation.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/28/democrats-not-getting-jobs-tax-bills-done/

Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength

The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republicans showing an affinity for the movement that has repeatedly bucked the GOP leadership this year, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.

In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea- party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections.

Already, the tea-party movement has helped to oust a number of incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders in this year's GOP primaries amid complaints that they lacked commitment to small-government principles. The poll findings suggest that the rising influence of the movement, with its push to cut spending and oppose the Democratic agenda, will drive the GOP to become more conservative and less willing to seek common ground on policy.

If the Republicans win control of the House or Senate this fall, the survey shows "enormous amounts about how limited the interest is going to be in those new majorities to try to seek negotiation with the president or the Democratic leadership."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520252928390046.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

 

Monday's Web -- Saturday rally reveals real Democrat party

Democrat rally Saturday ripped the mask from their far left faces

In their “One Nation Working Together” rally Saturday, Democrat politicians accomplished what their conservative counterparts could never have done – provide a clear connection between today’s Democrats and far left groups such as socialists and even communists.  Their all being “joined at the hip” could not have been made clearer.

While their constant support for such legislation as “public option” provisions of the radical health care scheme – a move that would have provided a direct pathway to socialized medicine – accusations of Democrat embrace of actual socialism was something only whispered, but not openly claimed.  The mainstream media has run from such associations – but those media sources have long embraced the same political extremism.

Now the wraps are off and Democrats are saddled with the reality.

That fact will no doubt have repercussions in November’s voting.  Few Americans are willing to openly embrace such extremism.  Socialism is seen as anti-American and communism has been an active enemy of America and American culture for generations. Communism per se remains an enemy of this country and a threat. 

A blog, “The Tea Party Wire”, minces no words in its accusations and findings.

“For the last year and a half the left and their activist old media have tried to dump on the Tea Party movement, hoping beyond hope they would find evidence of racism, sexism, Nazism, or any type of ism that they could use to disparage and discredit Americans who love Liberty.

They never found it.”

That failure didn’t stop many of the far left groups on the Mall Saturday, however.  TV cameras focused several times on one or more signs crying “Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are racists”.  The accusation, of course, is absurd and totally unsupported.  That doesn’t prevent political extremists from making the charges anyway.  Liberals, after all, are quite desperate.

The wire observes:

“Now, we have actual proof of the Communist/Democrat/Socialist Party holding a rally on the steps of the Washington Monument. Complete with signs equating Green Jobs with socialism, Obama supporters promoting socialism, anti-Israel signs, and on and on. The photos tell the story that the media refuse to report. Ben Jealous, the head of the NAACP confirmed the connection on ABC when he was asked about communists and socialists promoting this event and he said the Democrats are a “big tent” party and anybody who can vote is welcome. See a Republican try to give an answer like that if anything similar had happened at a Tea Party rally.”

Nuff said.

Further more, the wire continues:

“The media need to ask Democrat candidates why communists and socialists were part of this event. These anti-American groups promoted this event, they were a force at this event and they felt very comfortable at this event.

“The connection between the Democrats, communists and socialists were clear at this event and this needs to be explained by every candidate in every race out there. Thumbs up or thumbs down to their party aligning with these groups as they did over the weekend. “

Of course the mainstream media will never ask such questions despite their clear obligation to do so.  They will shrug and position such questions as “political extremism” and “absurd smears”.  After all, the media has long been an open ally of far left interests, and of Democrat candidates and causes specifically.  A trail of emails within circles of top journalists, was uncovered some weeks back and unveiled a conscious conspiracy through which charges of “racism” would be thrown against any conservatives.  Such tactics have been very apparent even since the conspiracy was uncovered, and liberals remain unabashed in tossing their claims about with total abandon.

The wire concludes:

“The Democrats have just given the Republicans their own “October surprise”. They did it live on TV and they have given photos. Use them. Republican candidates should put their Democrat counterparts on the spot, especially if the media will not. This is 10 times better than any of that sick little stuff the Democrats are using right now and it’s actually legitimate. Chose this day whom ye will serve.

If you didn’t think we were at a crucial tipping point in this country, you have to know that we are there now. Choose this day. The choice could not be more clear. Nov. 2nd is trash day in my neighborhood—I’m thinking we’ll be filling a pretty large dumpster that day and Democrats will be thrown out with the Hammer and Sickle.”

Once again, there is only one thing to add: “nuff said”.

Buddy

The day’s top political news:

Obama Likely to Scale Back Legislative Plans

President Obama, facing at best narrower Democratic majorities in Congress next year, is likely to break up his remaining legislative priorities into smaller bites in hope of securing at least some piecemeal proposals on energy, climate change, immigration and terrorism policy, White House officials say.

In recent campaign appearances, Obama has talked up the stakes in the November election as he seeks to energize supporters and retain Democrat control of Congress. At the same time, White House officials have begun revamping their legislative strategies.

They are talking about a new, more incremental approach, championed by former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, to fulfilling campaign promises on energy, immigration and on closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The new White House chief of staff, Pete Rouse, is far more steeped than Mr. Emanuel in the culture of the Senate, where comprehensive approaches to some of these issues have fared poorly. White House officials hope Mr. Rouse's expertise will help navigate smaller measures through the chamber.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703466104575530032491819348.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5

Ground Zero mosque likened to Superman’s HQ

Ground Zero sketches show a 16-storey building wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes resembling crosses of David.

The building was compared by some to the Fortress of Solitude, the crystalline headquarters of Superman depicted in comic books. The company behind the development pointed out that the hexagram is used in Islam, as the Seal of Solomon, as well as in Christianity and other religions.

The proposed Islamic centre, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Centre attacks, has created widespread controversy in the United States. Many non-Muslim Americans see the proposed mosque as a conspired insult and celebration of the 9/11 attack.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8040204/Ground-Zero-mosque-likened-to-Supermans-HQ.html

Nancy Pelosi may strike back at disloyal Democrats

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become a punching bag for struggling Democrat House colleagues this fall, but some mouthy members have hit below the belt, raising questions about whether they’ll face a “Pelosi punishment” after the elections.

Pelosi has blown off the public slights from the likes of Texas Rep. Chet Edwards, who recently said he would not commit to backing Pelosi for another term as speaker, and Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright, who recently predicted Pelosi could “get sick and die” before the next Congress. Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina even suggested that he might run for the position of speaker himself.

But will Pelosi be yanking committee seats or chairmanships after the election? It’s unlikely. Pelosi’s form of punishment has been more subtle — usually a cold shoulder and a behind-the-scenes admonishment — but being frozen out by your leader can be costly, especially in campaign fundraising.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43067.html#ixzz11Ou8XXUC

Monday -- Define "Winning"

First, we define “Winning”

For five decades, I have provided consultations and guidance in political planning, and sometimes planning for non-campaign efforts.  I insist a crucial first step for any client is “define winning”.

In the case of a political campaign, defining winning is quite clear: it is to obtain 50.1% of the votes cast.  In projects outside politics, defining winning can be more complicated. Grasping success can be even more critical.

Unless “winning” is defined and understood by all key players, success is unlikely.  In fact, a viable definition must be reduced to writing – requiring a more defined conclusion.  

In politics, some aspiring candidates – usually making a first timers – respond emotionally –  “my goal is returning constitutional government to Washington”, or “I intend to return a sense of honor and honest patriotism to Washington”. 

Such responses are dead wrong.  While being admirable long term goals and aspirations, they are not accurate definitions of winning campaign efforts.  For campaigns, “winning” is getting the most votes, and having those votes honestly counted, reported, and confirmed.  That step accomplished, the winning candidate can then set off on whatever personal crusade may be in play.

A definite goal, understood and embraced by all, is a crucial necessity for success in any endeavor.  The greater the challenge, the more crucial a definition of “winning”.

We see in Bob Woodward’s latest book that the Obama White House has failed to define “winning” for its war in Afghanistan.  It boils down to simply wanting out.

No wonder there is confusion among Obama advisors and military aides.  The Woodward book shows Obama conceding being unable to successfully press his military leaders to adopt his personal wishes – almost pleading to not be forced to increase troop commitments lest he “lose the entire Democrat party”.

Long ago, Democrat Senate Leader, Harry Reid, declared the war in Iraq as “lost”, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made more than 40 attempts to cut off funding for our troops under fire, and “cutting, running, and surrendering” continues as the perpetual military strategy for Democrat politicians.

Imagine the emotional impact such positions have on our troops under fire against  a brutal and implacable enemy, and the impact on the families those troops. In better days, such attitudes would have been considered treasonous. 

If Woodward’s portrayal of war direction issuing from the Obama White House is accurate – then no good outcome is likely.  Having stubbornly insisted on setting a time specific date of withdrawal underscores the serious failure of those in charge to provide winning leadership. It is unlikely US policy will succeed unless new leadership calls the shots.

Having failed to specifically define “winning”, there is no viable means for measuring our progress, or lack thereof.  We are left – apparently – wandering in the desert. 

Such chaos is also detectable in Obama/Democrat governing on Capitol Hill and beyond.  What has been revealed: the radical health scheme, the cap and trade super tax scam, and challenges to effective opposition to illegal is less than encouraging.

An opportunity to block that chaos, reverse the far left course, and provide a means for regaining control of government, presents itself on November.

We all know that.  We also can define “winning”.  It’s more than getting 50.1% in enough campaign vote counts to retake government, but it’s also a case of honing the plan presented last week by Republican leaders. 

When the votes have been counted, and a new majority installed, the GOP leadership must define what it plans for the ensuing two year period.

“Winning” in that case, is clear: finding a new occupant for the White House and installing a permanent conservative majority.

Buddy

The day’s top political news:

Congress prepares to punt, then spend the fall campaigning

Congress is deadlocked over virtually every major, including key economic matters such as a detailed federal spending plan and extending Bush-era tax cuts, yet lawmakers still hope to leave Washington by Friday and not return until mid-November. 

Chances are they'll approve a stopgap budget to keep the government running, maybe vote on extending the Bush administration tax cuts and call it a day. This desire to punt on the day's biggest issue could be one more reason for voters to turn against incumbents of both parties in November.

Analysts think Republicans have a decent chance to gain the 39 seats the party needs to take control of the House of Representatives, and an outside chance of a net gain of the 10 Senate seats needed to control that chamber. Members of Congress, who returned to Washington on Sept. 13 after taking off most of August and early September, clearly want to return home to fight for their political lives.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/26/101156/congress-prepares-to-punt-spend.html#ixzz10jrNaXPf

Vulnerable

House Democrats  Declare Their Independence

Aware their stock has taken the same tumble as home values, Congress' most vulnerable Democrats are desperately declaring their independence from their party' in Facebook profiles, television advertisements, news interviews and campaign websites leading up to the Nov. 2 election.

The tactic could hurt Democratic turnout at a time when the party needs to protect its majority in Congress, some political strategists say.

The party infighting ranges from minor jabs – criticizing Democrat leaders for failing to sell the health care bill – to body blows on other issue failures. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is a favorite punching bag -- taking much blame for the defective health care bill.  Note some – “it’s hard to sell a defective bar of soap” – that sums up the Democrat health scheme.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/26/vulnerable-house-dems-dec_n_739734.html

Democrats say tax-cut vote likely to be held after elections

The White House and congressional Democrats conceded Sunday that they will probably wait until after the Nov. 2 elections to vote on a plan to prevent tax rates from rising next year for the vast majority of Americans.

"I doubt that we will" stage a vote before adjourning next week, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said. Speaking on the Sunday talk shows, he and White House senior adviser David Axelrod added that Democrats are nonetheless determined to act before the tax cuts expire in January.

Republicans on Sunday accused Democrats of making a calculated political decision to postpone a vote, noting that many vulnerable Democrats are uneasy about the economic impact, and political consequences, of letting anyone's taxes go up right now. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) criticized that decision, noting that many economists say ending the uncertainty over tax rates is one of the most important things lawmakers could do right now to bolster the economy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092603394.html

September 25 2010

Due to difficulties that prevented yesterday's page from being published, today's web will be limited. Buddy will be unable to update the site for the next few days so I will attempt to take his place.

Today's Opinion Piece:

America: A Note

Over the course of my life time I have become absolutely convinced of this one fundamental fact: the most important creation in the history of mankind was America. Many will view this quote as evidence of profound arrogance, ignorance or jingoism; I assure you that is incorrect.

First, allow me to define America. To me, America is not the continental 50 states of the Union – no, America is an idea. An idea of the greatest political and social importance. Just like the life of a butterfly does not start with wings; the story of America does not start in the New World. Just as you must understand darkness before you can comprehend light, you must understand the world before the idea of America.

All civilizations are controlled by the philosophy of its government. Primitive tribal civilizations had primitive governments governed by primitive philosophies. It is not by coincidence that the most impressive civilization of its time, ancient Rome, was strongly encouraged by their impressive advances in philosophy – aided by the Greeks. Western Civilization would never be able compare until the Age of Enlightenment, which saw a rediscovery of many aspects of Greek society – including its political philosophies.

After the fall of Rome, Europe fell into a period of history known of the Dark Ages. It was a time of low life expectancy, hard lives and limited technological or philosophical gains. The dominant political philosophy during this time was Feudalism, which I will define as: Any system that resembles the one used in the middle ages, where the people provided labour and military service to a lord in return for the use of his land. A form of contractual servitude.

I believe it can be reasoned that the cause of the “Darkness” for the Middle Ages was this flawed philosophy.

What concept did Rome and 18th Century Europe grasp that Feudalism missed? The concept of Individual Rights. Roman citizens had the freedoms to live his life as he saw it, a serf did not. A Romance citizen could become a soldier, or a grocer, or a gambler, or a gangster; serfs, on the other hand, lived to fulfill the needs of their land’s lord. When the rights to their own lives returned to Europeans, the region once again prospered.

As successful as these civilizations were, they were still hampered by their governments. The Republic of Rome became an Empire. Europe retained Monarchies. A constant throughout European politics was a concept of servitude to a higher power. This was perhaps always most clear economically. The monarchies of Europe all believed in an economic philosophy known as Mercantilism, which I will define as: economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power.

Of course thirteen of those mercantilist colonies would eventually become the United States of America. When thirteen individual colonies banned together to fight off the greatest empire on the globe, the world changed forever. The physical incarnation of the Age of Enlightenment, the philosophical purpose of this country was clearly stated in our Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”

For the first time in man’s history a country was founded upon the single notion of individual rights – personal sovereignty. “All men are created equal”, and as such, no man (or woman) has any right to enforce his will onto another.

This seems like a simple concept, and one we take for granted today. But there are many who disagree with this notion.

Many have a cynical view of humanity, a portion believing that all men are inherently evil and unable of doing good without being coerced into doing so. Most hold views not necessarily that extreme; more properly described as the belief that civilization needs a guiding hand to keep it good – a benevolent, wise Big Brother. They want to ban Hummers, censor TV, and prevent two sovereign citizens agree upon a wage lower than a certain amount. You may agree with some of these ideas – that’s how subtle Individual Rights are.

Since our countries founding, our government has moved increasingly towards rejecting these Individual Rights. As time goes on, the concept of America suffers – greatly damaged by an increasingly tyrannical and incompetent federal government.

In many ways the current administration is the ideal embodiment of the new age of tyranny that threatens to destroy the idea of America. Our Constitution was structured in order to place power as close to the people as possible. For this reason the Constitution was meant to chain down the Federal government, allowing the state governments to legislate most of the issues concerning the lives of Americans. The 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

In spite of this, our current Federal Government believes it has the power to provide health insurance, to influence our behavior regarding the use of energy, or to limit our access to the internet.
When did our government become tyrannical? That’s an issue that worthy of a separate, full debate. However what we must realize is that how we came to this point is a lesser priority than figuring out how to emerge from it.

The reality is that our country is currently in a precarious position. Our global image is in tatters, pride in our country is low and trust in our government is non-existent. Our economy is being decimated due to incomprehensible tax code, overbearing regulation, a fundamental rejection of capitalism and an astronomical debt. Our need for political reform is obvious.

Only by realizing, and returning to, the principals that made America great do we ever have of reaching our potential.

I HOPE we do.

- Tho

Thursday -- The GOP Pledge

The Republican Pledge – assurance for its allies, new targets for its enemies

In the terminology of that other kind of combat – the one in which real bullets are fired and real bombs are dropped – Republicans have just “broken cover” and provide Democrats with inviting targets as the campaign heads into its final six weeks.

Charles Krauthammer sees issuing the “Pledge” as a foolish act on the part of Republicans and many other strategists agree.

On the other hand, Democrats and their mainstream media have pounded the GOP as being “the party of NO” for months. 

So?

In the face of radical, far left, politics, “no” is the best answer and the only viable alternative.  Thus it has been throughout the Obama tenure.

“No” is the best answer to the radical health care schemes that included the infamous “public option” which is a pathway to the sort of socialized medicine seen in Canada.

Needless to say, “no” is also the only responsible answer to the proposals of the so called “cap and trade” legislation.  Not many Americans volunteer for $3000 a year tax increases, or $8 a gallon gasoline.

The same applies as being the response that should greet all those who choose to enter the country illegally.  “No” must not only be a consistent answer, but a response that should be backed up with whatever legislation, manpower, or dedication that is required to keep our borders secure.

Democrats, of course, disagree.  But then Democrats and other liberals hold beliefs and viewpoints alien to those of most other Americans.  This fact has been clearly demonstrated recently by the actions of some idiot who calls himself a “University Academic Professional”.  If he means “student”, he should be flunked.

David Green, says he is offended by cheer leaders chanting “USA, USA, USA” at football games.  This complaint is the sort of idiotic babble liberals in which liberals specialize.

Green says of those shouting the patriotic cheer: “they might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.”

Real Americans would conclude Muslims offended by a display of American patriotism, are among those choosing to consider themselves our enemy.  While certainly not all Muslims are enemies.  However, those promoting terror against Amrica, and those engaged in combat against our forces, Muslims. 

David Green doesn’t get it – but then “not getting it” is common among liberals.

Liberal politicians don’t get it when they support illegal immigration, when they denigrate religion, and when they sneer at such heart-felt sentiments as patriotism.

Green claims he currently lives in Illinois.  Perhaps he would feel more at home in Frisco or up the road at Berkeley.

Republicans are reflecting the response of a majority of Americans to the extremism that has enveloped Capitol Hill and those who govern for the past several years.  However, Republicans share a degree of culpability as well.

Producing the pledge today may be seen as a first step in assuring Americans that Republicans do get it and they now grasp the problems, and demonstrate they have crafted responses to effectively and pragmatically deal with them.

That’s fine. 

However, America stands on the cusp of a potential tidal wave of political change.  It is a time in which excessive far left efforts, threaten the nation’s future and the foundational values of the Constitution.

That means this is a time in which political victory at the polls is paramount.  It is a time in which winning must be the focus and the obsession of the moment.

While most potential Republican voters will support the provisions of the Pledge, Democrat politicians will pick at it and find points to unravel.  Such a potential was not necessary.

That said, it is reassuring to see a great deal of thought and consideration has been given by Republicans to a blueprint for what follows after the swearing-in ceremony the latter part of  January.  Let us all pray that moment will make real, what today’s polling and punditry can only predict.

Buddy

The day's top political news:

Tax, spending cuts top GOP campaign-year 'Pledge'

Six weeks before midterm elections, House Republicans vowed to cut taxes and federal spending, repeal President Barack Obama's health care law and ban federal funding of abortion as part of a campaign manifesto designed to propel them to victory in November and a majority in the next Congress.

The "Pledge to America," circulated to GOP lawmakers Wednesday, emphasizes job creation and spending control, as well as changing the way Congress does business. It steered clear of controversial issues such as Social Security and Medicare, big drivers of deficit spending.

It pairs some familiar Republican ideas — such as deep spending cuts, medical liability reform and stricter border enforcement — with an anti-government call to action that draws on tea party themes and echoes voters' disgruntlement with the economy and Obama's leadership.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100923/ap_on_el_ho/us_republicans_agenda

Obama heckled on AIDS, gay rights at fundraiser

Obama was heckled at a fundraiser Wednesday night by protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Activists yelled slogans and held signs aloft reading "Obama broken promises KILL." Supporters of the president tried to drown them out with shouts of "O-bam-a! O-bam-a!"

The hecklers were so raucous Obama went off-script several times to address them, insisting he's increased AIDS funding and is working to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. He told them to go shout at Republicans, noting that a vote on repealing "don't ask, don't tell" failed this week in the Senate, with Republicans united in opposition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100922/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_hecklers

Politico: "Dems guess wrong on health care" -- big time

Rarely have so many political strategists been so wrong about something so big. But when it comes to the health care bill, everyone from former President Bill Clinton on down whiffed on some of the more significant predictions.

Democrats would run aggressively on the legislation? Nope. Voters would forget about the sausage-making aspects of the legislative process? Doesn’t seem that way, as the process contributed to the sense that the bill was deeply flawed.

At the six-month mark, the law remains a riddle for political analysts, lawmakers and the White House.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3BFD8BB5-0BBC-3794-4482D56192976AD5

Wednesday -- Obama as just another Jimmy Carter

Obama facing comparisons to Jimmy Carter – joined at the hip?

Perhaps the worst of all political circumstances has enveloped the Obama White House – an increasing comparison to that of Jimmy Carter.

Carter is seen by most Americans as the most failed president of all time.

It doesn’t help Democrat election chances, that Carter is launching a promotional tour of a new book centering on his administration.  The effort only serves to remind those who may have forgotten what the Carter Administration did that led so many to see it as failed.

Now, things get even worse courtesy of another new book, this one by Watergate author Bob Woodward.  “Obama’s Wars” just hit the stands and have already have over a half million in print. The book is not complimentary of Obama’s handling of current warfare.

Meanwhile The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund writes:  “Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats.”

Fund continues, “Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s ‘just turned against us—same as with Obama.’ As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter ‘began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public.’ Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama.”

Notes Fund,“Mr. Carter himself is heightening comparisons with his own presidency by publishing his White House diaries this week. ‘I overburdened Congress with an array of controversial and politically costly requests,’ he said on Monday. The parallels to Mr. Obama's experience are clear -- within a few months, liberals were already finding fault with his rhetoric. ‘He's the great earnest bore at the dinner party,’ wrote Michael Wolff, a contributor to Vanity Fair. ‘He's cold; he's prickly; he's uncomfortable; he's not funny; and he's getting awfully tedious. He thinks it's all about him.’"

We can all envision Obama thinking to himself, “but it IS all about me – I’m the one who was elected.”  The ego-centrist arrogance of Obama personally, has been obvious from the start.  As long ago as the campaign, Obama was also seen as gaffe=prone when ad libing without the support of the usual batteries of teleprompters -- the content of which could be overseen and managed by staffers such as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod.  Emanuel and Axelrod have actually been calling the shots and running things in the Obama Administration.  Obama, for his part. has been filling a role as “front man” for the administration – travelling widely, and speaking frequently.

As things have progressed, Obama’s expansive performance has been among his administration’s major missteps.  Even advisors say he has lost honest contact with the American people – a problem brought home dramatically by the MSNBC townhall  program that generated repeated re-playing of an Obama supporter expressing her frustration with the lack of performance by Obama and his administration.

She said she is tired of defending the lack of performance by the Obama White House, and she made her comments to Obama himself…and on national TV to an audience most likely nodding their collective heads in full agreement.

Buddy

The day’s top political news:

Bob Woodward's new book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.

Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page "terms sheet" that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in "Obama's Wars," to be released on Monday.

According to Woodward's meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives. "This needs to be a plan about how we're going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan," Obama is quoted as telling White House aides

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/21/AR2010092106706_pf.html

Senate deals blow to proposed 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal in 56-43 vote

The Senate has dealt a significant blow to the Obama administration’s efforts to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military.

In a 56-43 vote, Senate Democratic leaders fell short of the 60 votes they needed to proceed to the 2011 defense authorization bill, which included language to repeal the Clinton-era “Don’t ask, don’t tell” law. Every Senate Republican present and three Democrats voted to block debate on the bill.

Republicans objected to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan to hold votes on several amendments to the bill that reflected Democratic priorities, including an immigration measure seen as boosting Reid’s own reelection campaign. Reid also would have limited amendments offered by the GOP.

http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/defense-homeland-security/120029-dadtnosenate-deals-blow-to-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal

Dems lag badly in outside spending

Twice in the past week, House Democrats used closed-door meetings with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver an urgent message: They’re being crushed on the airwaves by outside groups, and they need her to do something about it.

In the meetings, according to people present, Democrats cited the nearly unmatched advantage Republicans are enjoying from conservative, third-party organizations. A sympathetic Pelosi vowed to pressure liberal groups to do more — and quickly.

While the spending in Senate races gets much of the attention, it’s the House whose majority is unquestionably up for grabs — and in which big money can have an outsize impact on races typically overshadowed by statewide contests. And, according to an internal Democratic spreadsheet obtained by POLITICO, there is a canyon-size gap between the two parties right now when it comes to spending by outside groups.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=36D1E8A6-18FE-70B2-A89EBA600DF32D0B

 

Tuesday -- Tea Party reality

The Tea Party movement – changing America for good, and forever

When histories are written, they will have to note that the “tea party movement” is a major development that has forever changed the face and substance of American government and politics.  In fact, it has changed American life itself.

With options provided by development of the Internet, and growing numbers of Americans exchanging email messages on politics, the manner in which politics in America are practiced have changed, changed completely, and changed forever.

As political communications have evolved, the Internet has pushed its way to the forefront of how campaigns are run.  It is not a matter of choice, but a case of practitioners being forced to find ways to utilize the new technology, and use it most effectively.

Without the Internet, email, and “youtube”, the “tea party movement” would not have happened.

Few, if any, journalists, and virtually no one operating in and around Capitol Hill, have a viable grasp or understanding of the phenomenon.  A “phenomenon” is exactly what the tea party movement has become.

The initial outburst focused on financial and economic issues and sounded a trumpet of discontent that quickly spread and began expanding like an inkblot on a shirt pocket to reflect public opinion on a wide spectrum.

As the Obama Administration entered its second quarter of activity, more than 4,000 people suddenly rose up in Orlando, Florida.  The outrage then spread across the country like a prairie fire.

In Washington, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi twisted enough arms to attain passage of the infamous cap and trade legislation and protesters were motivated to become even more active and attracted even greater numbers.

Cap and trade legislation was recognized as being a far left scheme that would provide a stealth tax of huge proportions (costing every family over $3,000 a year) and send the price of gasoline to levels approaching $8 a gallon.  It would ruin the economy and drastically increase the struggle of ordinary Americans.

Even with their dominating majorities, Democrats have not been able to gain passage of cap and trade by the Senate.

In the summer of 2009, town hall demonstrations produced waves of energetic protests against incumbent Democrat congressmen across the nation. The political fortunes of Republicans soared –  not because people embraced Republicans, but because Republicans are the only alternative to the far left.

Predictions of a massive GOP sweep in November can be directly traced to the tea party protests. 

The tea party protests represent a political example replicating the result of undoing the cap of a bottle of Coca-Cola.  The pent up gas explodes when the pressure is released. It can be quite messy. The same thing has happened in American politics, and it was the tea party movement that spewed across government.

For the first time, ordinary Americans with no axe to grind could effectively protest universal outrage against far left politics: an increasing size of government and government interference in the lives of people, combined with a rejection of such liberal cultural impediments as “political correctness”, a meaningless obsession with “diversity”, and irritation with imposed corruptions of language, usage, and life in general. 

The tea party movement has no particular leader.  It also has no specifically focused goal or objective, other than beginning an overhaul of what is seen as a government that is out of control.

It speaks volumes that a majority of Americans say they agree with Sarah Palin, and oppose Democrat viewpoints – especially accommodating illegal immigrants. A majority demands rejection and repeal of Obama’s radical health  care scheme.

The Democrat problem runs deeply. The effect of the tea party movement cuts to the bone.  There has never been a similar spontaneous uprising of this dimension, or a demonstration of public opinion so deeply seated, it must be understood and accommodated.  So far, it is not understood.

The movement addresses outrage across a spectrum of life that exceeds politics.  It reaches into core beliefs, and demands a return to foundational principles, a renewed patriotism, and an expectation of reverence for religion – no matter whether Christian or Jewish.

The tea party protest cannot be easily defined, nor can it be accurately measured. It has no bounds, or limits and no demographic limitation. But it is real, it is central to American opinion, conviction, and outlook. 

It is a political movement that will forever determine the road into the future that America will follow.  It is an amazing demonstration of a democratic society – but democratic with a little “d”. 

Buddy

The day’s top political news:

House may adjourn by end of week

House leaders are considering adjourning as early as the end of this week, which would give lawmakers five and a half weeks to campaign before the Nov. 2 election but could also leave them exposed to allegations that they didn't finish their work in Washington.

The House hasn’t adjourned before Sept. 30 in an election year since 1960.

There's been no decision made yet, and insiders caution that the scenario is dependent upon the Senate and House completing action on a stopgap spending bill to keep government agencies running through the election. But a House leadership aide said they are working with the Senate to pass the spending measure, known as a continuing resolution, “as soon as possible, so we’ll see if Republicans expose how extreme they are to the American people by standing in the way (of the measure) and risking
shutting down the government.”

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=30BF25E9-18FE-70B2-A8DF33C450A3EE2F

Republicans to introduce a new 'Contract With America' Thursday

Republicans will present a clear alternative to the Democrat-led Congress heading into the midterm elections.

The new document — modeled after the original “Contract With America,” credited with helping Republicans win the House in 1994 — will highlight what the GOP would stand for if it were to return to power in Congress. Polls show Republicans have a strong chance of winning back the House this fall, and taking the Senate is not considered out of reach.

Material for the contract was culled from the GOP’s America Speaking Out program, which asked voters to submit ideas on how to govern the country.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/119717-gop-will-unveil-new-contract-on-thursday-in-va?tmpl=component&print=1&page=

Tea party effort picking up steam in campaigns nationwide

Fresh off big primary wins in Delaware and Alaska, national "tea party" groups are redirecting the energy of the movement toward the November midterm elections, raising millions of dollars, expanding their advocacy into dozens of congressional races and building voter turnout operations nationwide.

Leaders of the Atlanta-based Tea Party Patriots said they will announce a seven-figure donation Tuesday, from a yet-unnamed person, that the organization will pour into local tea party groups and get-out-the-vote efforts in some of the most competitive congressional races.

FreedomWorks, which is headquartered in Washington and endorsed 25 House and Senate candidates during the primary season, said it will expand that list to more than 80. The Tea Party Express, based in Sacramento, is planning its largest national bus tour at the end of October to get conservatives to the polls. The goal is to keep alive the momentum the movement has generated and to use it to target vulnerable Democratic candidates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092006163_pf.html

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52% of Voters Say Their Views Are More Like Palin’s Than Obama’s

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Just 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.

Growing Majority wants repeal of Obama’s radical health scheme

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Likely U.S. Voters now at least somewhat favor repeal of the new national health care law, including 50% who Strongly Favor it.  That’s up eight points from a week ago and the highest level of opposition measured since late May.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely Voters oppose repeal.  Since the passage of the bill in late March, a majority of voters have consistently favored repeal of the new law, with support ranging from a low of 53% to a high of 63%.

Only 33% say the health care plan will be good for the country, the lowest level measured since late July. 

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2010/52_of_voters_say_their_views_are_more_like_palin_s_than_obama_s

 

 

Democrats plan frontal assault on tea parties.

 

Democrats continue demonstrating incredible ignorance regarding the movement labeled “tea parties”. Now, they plan media assaults on the movement, attempting to paint participants as “extremists”.

They continue to just not get it.

For one thing, Democrats and other far left political activists, simply cannot understand the movement’s population features normal Americans who are totally disgusted with the way Washington operates, and with the people who are responsible for the mess.  They blame both parties, but Democrats currently have massive majorities and have called the shots of late – “shots” that featured far left politics.

Democrats are convinced the tea party participants are all violence-prone thugs of the sort actually found among Democrat groups such as the SEIU.  They also try frantically to sell a myth the tea party is racist.  The Democrat concept was first revealed by Obama himself, when he pictured voters in opposition to his presidential bid as people “huddling with their bibles and their guns”.  Even Janet Napolitano’s Homeland Security Department sees those who differ with Obama politically are being suspects as potential terror recruits – especially if they are veterans.

The only racism so far, is in the way many liberals see all opposition to Obama political stands and issues.  To differ with America’s first Black President, it an act of racism, according to liberals.

Actually, racism in current politics can be seen in the words of Obama himself.  Speaking to the Democrat Congressional Black Caucus over the week end, Obama said:

"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops, and beauty shops,” Obama told Black lawmakers. “Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now," he told the Congressional Black Caucus.

Obama says those who oppose Democrats want to turn back the progress of his administration in changing America’s very culture.

Thus Obama reveals himself as less George Washington, and more George Wallace when it comes to questions of race and politics.  Choosing to play the race card, Obama risks drawing a line in the sand that may configure November’s voting process and lead many observers to view it from racial perspectives.

Racism, no matter its political roots, can produce serious divisions, conceptions, and results. 

Now, White House political advisors are reported moving to double down on risky politics by going after the movement that has caused growing numbers of Americans to rise up spontaneously and provide physical demonstration of opposition and downright disgust.

Far left Democrats do so hope they can convince many Americans that other ordinary Americans are extremists.  Spinning the tea party movement as Democrats are trying so desperately to do, invites a backlash of serious dimensions.

Certainly, the new White House strategy is likely to up the energy among those opposing Obama when it comes to incitement to casting ballots.  It may send additional droves of ordinary Americans to the polls in November.

Meanwhile, polling continues to show majorities of Americans opposing Obama on issues from his radical health care schemes, to his assault on Arizona’s immigration law.  Obama’s headlined issues, proposals, and actions are simply contrary to the conviction of vast numbers of real Americans.

The final score will be quite clear after November.

Buddy

The Day’s Top Political News:

 

NY Times and Obama White House dispute each other

The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president's political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists.

The story is “100 percent inaccurate,” a White House official told POLITICO. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet counters that the "piece is accurate.”

In a face off between the NY Times and the Obama White House, who can ordinary Americans believe?  Do two negatives make a positive?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42412.html#ixzz104pQAC4t

GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda

Eyeing a potential Congressional win in November, House Republicans are planning to chip away at the White House's legislative agenda—in particular the health-care
law—by depriving the programs of cash.

The emerging plan has been devised in part to highlight the policy differences between the two main parties, especially over legislative achievements of the Obama administration that have proven unpopular with voters.

Republican leaders acknowledge many of these salvos will fail. At best, the party will gain a majority in the House and a razor-thin hold in the Senate in November's elections—short of what's needed to overcome a presidential veto. Analysts give the GOP a better shot at taking the House than the Senate.

But Republican lawmakers portray the anticipated drama as foreshadowing the far bigger brawl of the 2012 presidential elections and a clash of visions with President Barack Obama. A vote in the House to repeal the health-care overhaul would be among the GOP's top priorities.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575501782138298328.html

'I Want Your Money' and turnout New Documentary woos Obama foes

Taking aim at the Obama administrations economic record, a new documentary is looking to ride a wave of government resentment to the unusual heights of blockbuster status.

Think "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's liberal documentary that dovetailed with Americans' shrinking approval of President George W. Bush and growing alarm over the
Iraq war, but for the nation's center-right voters.

The makers of "I Want Your Money," which uses animation plus interviews with conservative-leaning pundits, know their core audience and have tapped one of the few marketing companies with experience in attracting conservative-leaning voters to movies. Motive Entertainment worked on "The Passion of the Christ" and "Expelled," films that exceeded box office expectations.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/19/i-want-your-money-and-turnout/

Obama White House plans going after grass root Americans

Democrats plan frontal assault on tea parties.

Democrats continue demonstrating incredible ignorance regarding the movement labeled “tea parties”. Now, they plan media assaults on the movement, attempting to paint participants as “extremists”.

They continue to just not get it.

For one thing, Democrats and other far left political activists, simply cannot understand the movement’s population features normal Americans who are totally disgusted with the way Washington operates, and with the people who are responsible for the mess.  They blame both parties, but Democrats currently have massive majorities and have called the shots of late – “shots” that featured far left politics.

Democrats are convinced the tea party participants are all violence-prone thugs of the sort actually found among Democrat groups such as the SEIU.  They also try frantically to sell a myth the tea party is racist.  The Democrat concept was first revealed by Obama himself, when he pictured voters in opposition to his presidential bid as people “huddling with their bibles and their guns”.  Even Janet Napolitano’s Homeland Security Department sees those who differ with Obama politically are being suspects as potential terror recruits – especially if they are veterans.

The only racism so far, is in the way many liberals see all opposition to Obama political stands and issues.  To differ with America’s first Black President, it an act of racism, according to liberals.

Actually, racism in current politics can be seen in the words of Obama himself.  Speaking to the Democrat Congressional Black Caucus over the week end, Obama said:

"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops, and beauty shops,” Obama told Black lawmakers. “Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now," he told the Congressional Black Caucus.

Obama says those who oppose Democrats want to turn back the progress of his administration in changing America’s very culture.

Thus Obama reveals himself as less George Washington, and more George Wallace when it comes to questions of race and politics.  Choosing to play the race card, Obama risks drawing a line in the sand that may configure November’s voting process and lead many observers to view it from racial perspectives.

Racism, no matter its political roots, can produce serious divisions, conceptions, and results. 

Now, White House political advisors are reported moving to double down on risky politics by going after the movement that has caused growing numbers of Americans to rise up spontaneously and provide physical demonstration of opposition and downright disgust.

Far left Democrats do so hope they can convince many Americans that other ordinary Americans are extremists.  Spinning the tea party movement as Democrats are trying so desperately to do, invites a backlash of serious dimensions.

Certainly, the new White House strategy is likely to up the energy among those opposing Obama when it comes to incitement to casting ballots.  It may send additional droves of ordinary Americans to the polls in November.

Meanwhile, polling continues to show majorities of Americans opposing Obama on issues from his radical health care schemes, to his assault on Arizona’s immigration law.  Obama’s headlined issues, proposals, and actions are simply contrary to the conviction of vast numbers of real Americans.

The final score will be quite clear after November.

Buddy

The Day’s Top Political News:

NY Times and Obama White House dispute each other

The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president's political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists.

The story is “100 percent inaccurate,” a White House official told POLITICO. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet counters that the "piece is accurate.”

In a face off between the NY Times and the Obama White House, who can ordinary Americans believe?  Do two negatives make a positive?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42412.html#ixzz104pQAC4t

GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda

Eyeing a potential Congressional win in November, House Republicans are planning to chip away at the White House's legislative agenda—in particular the health-care
law—by depriving the programs of cash.

The emerging plan has been devised in part to highlight the policy differences between the two main parties, especially over legislative achievements of the Obama administration that have proven unpopular with voters.

Republican leaders acknowledge many of these salvos will fail. At best, the party will gain a majority in the House and a razor-thin hold in the Senate in November's elections—short of what's needed to overcome a presidential veto. Analysts give the GOP a better shot at taking the House than the Senate.

But Republican lawmakers portray the anticipated drama as foreshadowing the far bigger brawl of the 2012 presidential elections and a clash of visions with President Barack Obama. A vote in the House to repeal the health-care overhaul would be among the GOP's top priorities.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575501782138298328.html

'I Want Your Money' and turnout New Documentary woos Obama foes

Taking aim at the Obama administrations economic record, a new documentary is looking to ride a wave of government resentment to the unusual heights of blockbuster status.

Think "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's liberal documentary that dovetailed with Americans' shrinking approval of President George W. Bush and growing alarm over the
Iraq war, but for the nation's center-right voters.

The makers of "I Want Your Money," which uses animation plus interviews with conservative-leaning pundits, know their core audience and have tapped one of the few marketing companies with experience in attracting conservative-leaning voters to movies. Motive Entertainment worked on "The Passion of the Christ" and "Expelled," films that exceeded box office expectations.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/19/i-want-your-money-and-turnout/