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Left vs. Right

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 176 Comments › )
Filed under Education, Media, Open thread, Patriotism, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at June 13th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

[Found here.]

The best summary of the various forms of government I’ve ever seen was in this must-see video from a year or so ago. If any of my fellow netizens haven’t seen it, it’s required viewing IMO.

I know I’m preaching to the choir, but if any of you have kids or grandkids that haven’t seen that video, it’s worth paying them to watch it.

Did someone say Open Thread?

Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House press corps, and anti-Semite Extraordinaire…

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 206 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Hate Speech, History, Holocaust, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Progressives, Religion at June 5th, 2010 - 5:00 pm

I’d spit on this uckin’ fugly scumbag if I ever saw her. The Jews should go back to their “homes” of Germany and Poland? And even the U.S.A.? I guess this disgusting, Jew-hating, wrinkled old hag has never read the bible. And you can bet the ranch that what this ugly old bitch speaks is the way the vast majority of the state-controlled media and most of the leftists in our country (even a lot of pathetic self-hating liberal Jews also) feel. And I’m certain that a lot of losers serving in the Obama administration feel exactly the same, including the head POS himself…

President Jug Head

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 233 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Environmentalism, Humor, Media, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at May 29th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

I don’t know about you, but whenever our Fearless Leader speaks, I look around and imagine that he looks like something in our kitchen, like the water cooler. Somehow it makes it all better, because I know that our water cooler has no control over my life.

It amazes me that on 27 May 2010, the leader of the free world and the President of the greatest nation on earth had the audacity to utter these words:

“I mean, we’re still years off and some technological breakthroughs away from being able to operate on purely a clean-energy grid.

During that time, we’re going to be using oil. And to the extent that we’re using oil, it makes sense for us to develop our oil and natural gas resources here in the United States and not simply rely on imports.

That’s important for our economy. That’s important for economic growth. So the overall framework — which is to say, domestic oil production should be part of our overall energy mix — I think continues to be the right one.”

Although I completely agree with him on that, his comments came only minutes after he announced a moratorium on all domestic oil exploration and drilling. Unsurprisingly, his adoring media let him off the hook instead of calling him on it:

Of course, nobody in the Press Corpse [sic -Obama’s own pronunciation] wants to be the recipient of one of these not-so-subtle gestures from President Jug Head:

One thing Fearless Leader knows is the art of subtle nuance.

If he were serious, he’d open up ANWR immediately and forge a cartel with Canada and Mexico (and perhaps other democratic countries in South America) to reduce/eliminate our trade with OPEC. Now THAT would be a legacy he could be proud of.

Unfortunately, my water cooler can’t do it, so let’s have an Overnight Open Thread.

Favorgate: Obama Administration breaks federal law, offers job to Dem Senate candidate opposing Sen. Mike Bennett, D-CO.

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 105 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Democratic Party, Elections, Politics, Progressives at February 27th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Here’s yet more proof that most democrats, starting right at the top with The Zero™, are criminals and have no problem breaking federal laws, and as usual the state-controlled media buries their collective heads in the sand and ignores it.

Favorgate
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
Posted by Mark Impomeni
Tuesday, February 23rd at 9:00AM EST

We take a break from the hyperventilating over the latest moves in the slow-motion kabuki dance that is the Obama Administration’s efforts to ram its federal takeover of the health care system down the throats of the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose the various bills to take a look at what should be a much, much bigger story.

Last week, Democratic Senate Candidate Joe Sestak, a retired Admiral, let slip in an interview that someone in the White House offered him a position in the Administration if he would drop his primary challenge of Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. Sestak wouldn’t elaborate on which job he was offered – speculation centers on Secretary of the Navy – but it hardly matters. As Jeffrey Lord points out, federal law prohibits anyone from offering, soliciting, or receiving any federal office in exchange for a political favor.

“Whoever solicits or receives … any….thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” – 18 USC Sec. 211

It seems highly unlikely that this was a misunderstanding or exaggeration on Sestak’s part. It’s the second time in this election season that another Democrat has accused the White House of trying to buy them out of a Senate challenge with an offer of employment.

Last year, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s deputy, Jim Messina, reportedly suggested that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff might find himself a position in the Department of the Interior if he dropped his prospective primary challenge of Sen. Michael Bennett. Romanoff, like Sestak, refused to be bought off.

The Sestak and Bennett incidents are potentially far worse than that. Republicans need to start asking very pointed, very public questions, right now. They should call for a Special Counsel to lead a Department of Justice investigation along the lines of Patrick Fitzgerald’s look at the Valerie Plame affair. Even if no wrongdoing is uncovered, the atmospherics of this scandal in waiting are bad for the Obama White House. The president would have to explain why relativley low-level staffers in his Administration feel empowered to offer high-ranking positions as plums for doing the Administration’s bidding without consulting their superiors.

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