I thought they had gone away now that gas is around $3 a gallon. But I was wrong. The Ring-of-Fire Air America crowd has been festering over this for years. They never got over the fact that Bush consulted experts in the energy-related industries when trying to develop an energy policy instead of environmentalists.
Category Archives: 2008 Election
Hillary Clinton, What Makeover?
It only makes sense that Sen. Clinton has to have a ‘makeover‘ to show her (mid-western) roots. I hearken back to her first Senate race in New York when she found out she was Jewish, and a New York Yankees fan. Chameleons don’t do makeovers.
[T]the Clinton campaign has embarked on an ambitious effort to present the candidate the way they want her to be seen: as a pragmatic Midwesterner with a compelling life story
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The challenge is more than just getting voters to connect to Clinton: She has extremely high negative ratings to try to counteract.
It’s what happens when you have a candidate that supplants polls for principles.
Who’s Going To Ask Hillary?
What is the former President’s relationship with InfoUSA?
Because Senate financial disclosure rules do not require Hillary Clinton to reveal exactly how much — or for what — the company has paid her husband over the past five years, we don’t know all the details. But we do know this: former presidents – especially Bill Clinton – don’t come cheap. And, just months after he left the presidency, Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 for a speech given to InfoUSA in Omaha. Since then, he has been paid an undisclosed amount each year, listed only as “more than $1000†for ‘non-employee compensation†on Senator Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure form.
According to the The New York Times, InfoUSA compiled and sold lists that disclosed the names of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams.
The ‘testicle lock-box’ is stronger than anyone can imagine. It has worked for her so far. Whether there’s something to indicate that Slick Willie knew of these practices seems to be a most relevant question. And if there is, I’m just dying to hear him explain. And did she know too? At any rate, the worst thing Mrs. Bill Clinton can do is to ignore it or dismiss it as a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ like the way John Kerry ‘handled’ the Swift Boat Vets. His running from the SBV’s cost him. If Hillary takes a similar stance, she’s toast.
related: NY Times Accidentally Does Opposition Research on Clintons
42 Captives Freed From al-Qaida Prison
The machinations that those on the left like Sen. Joseph Biden go through to constantly berate our soldiers, their commanders, and their mission so as not to make our enemy mad at us (what?) is instructive in revealing that their strategy of ‘if we’re nice to them then they’ll be nice to us’ is a guaranteed losing one. War is about killing the enemy before the enemy kills you. Period.
The recent rescue of torture victims and discovery of al-Qaida torture manuals shows just how ignorant and wrong those on the left are when it comes to the war on terror and the determination of our enemy. It’s not about issuing prayer rugs, Korans, special food, and scheduled “prayer sessions.”
One of our own was recovered, from the river.
The Melting Pot Is Melting
Other than the war on terror, the next dangerous situation to America is illegal immigration and its effects on The Melting Pot. The “solution” to this was the result of no input from ‘the American people’ on the the major aspects of the immigration bill in Congress. It is the beginning of the pot melting. The best presentation of what this bill actually does, as opposed to what proponents say about it, is this Heritage In Focus video by former AG Edwin Meese.
related: Is America Worth Keeping?
GOP Straw Poll
The GOP straw poll is back and ready for your use. GOP Bloggers started this for the ’06 election cycle and now has it ready for ’08.
Dems Don’t Want To End War, Not Yet
Ending the war before it is won, which is all the democrats in Washington 
have been talking about, just hit a snag.  Having a chance to do it decisively by not funding it just slipped away. They only got 29 votes in favor, where 60 would have been needed to override a veto. Nineteen democrats voted against ending funding for the war, and twenty-eight democrats voted to end funding by March 31, 2008.  So, what does that say about the so-called mandate that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi claim got them in the majority? It all kind of goes up in smoke. It’s exactly what you get when you kowtow to the far left Soros groups instead of ‘the people.’Â
They deceived themselves into believing that they got elected to END the war. Taking their money and advice from the Soros wing of the party, and having absolutely no convictions of their own, I can see how they got that way. They don’t want the war to end yet. Not until they have used it politically to the fullest extent possible, leading up to the ’08 election. 
End it now, then what if we get attacked in our homeland before the election?  It’s curtains for them for sure. It comes down to the democrats concentrating more on criticizing the administration than killing our enemy. For them, Iraq is just a political tool to use to gain political power. After all, it’s Bush’s war, not ours. Never mind the 6,400 + casualties so far. And never mind to our military families that have loved ones in harms way, doing the job we (democrats included) asked them to do.
Winning this war would be a snap if this bunch would only focus on our real enemy, as opposed to their enemy, republicans.
Left Attacks Limbaugh, So What’s New?
The Seattle Times titles the story “Limbaugh draws fire on Obama parody.”  He may be drawing fire, but not from anyone who counts.  It’s only the Soros financed Media Matters and their far-left ilk who are making something out of it.  Them and some callers to Al Sharpton’s talk radio show. As for Obama, he thinks it’s not to be taken seriously.Â
Obama’s campaign called the song “dumb,” although a spokesman said the campaign doesn’t think anyone is taking the song seriously.
“It’s not the first dumb thing said during the course of this campaign and it likely won’t be the last,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. “But, frankly, I don’t think anyone takes this too seriously.”
It’s a hilarious parody that correctly characterizes the Sharpton / Obama dynamic.  Â
Limbaugh predicted the lefts’ reaction, including the ones who will bring it up. And viola, here it is. The Limbaugh Institute does know how to push the left’s buttons.  It was also educational to watch.
Here’s 3 more iterations of the same story by By Christi Parsons at the Chicago Tribune: Limbaugh under fire for Obama parody – Memphis Commercial Appeal, Limbaugh’s ‘Negro’ parody stirs racial concerns – Houston Chronicle, and Parody targets role of race in Obama candidacy – The Honolulu Advertiser
Democrat ‘Debate’ Analysis
Ann Coulter’s column about the Democrat Debate last week is a gem.
“I just woke up from watching the Democrats’ debate last Thursday, and I am rested and ready to report!”
Ann’s account of the debate is priceless. John Edwards had trouble naming his favorite moral leader, a question that kind of stumped him. And surprisingly, Ann came to his defense . . .
In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.)
What Obey Tried To Pull Off
We know all about Nancy Pelosi’s admonition and promise to be an open government. Well today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) decided this morning to pull television cameras out of today’s Iraq Supplemental Appropriations conference meeting.
Ultimately Obey relented and C-Span was back in. The fact that he would attempt such a move is one of those red flags. We should pay attention to red flags and take them for what they are. Gross incompetence or power-drunk. Is Obey the best they could do to chair this committee?
>UPDATE 2:15PM: From a source, “it is official…they’re letting c-span provide pool coverage of the whole meeting….”
>UPDATE 2:12 PM: FishbowlDC has learned that Obey has relented and will allow cameras…developing…
One red flag.
ref: FishbowlDC, Radio-TV Correspondents’ Association Warns Of “Troubling Situation”