Showing posts with label Democratic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democratic. Show all posts
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Obama immigration order: Does audacity of hope mean unchecked presidential power?
Obama immigration order: Does 'audacity of hope' mean unchecked presidential power? http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/NiN8q_p5Azk/Obama-immigration-order-Does-audacity-of-hope-mean-unchecked-presidential-power http://www.csmonitor.com/ Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:59:00 GMT
Friday, June 15, 2012
Immigration policy shows Barack Obama is in 'full panic mode,' Rush Limbaugh says - POLITICO.com
Rush Limbaugh on Friday said the Obama administration’s new
immigration policy is proof that the president is in “full panic mode”
about the upcoming election.
“The regime today told the border agents: ‘If you catch young illegals, let ‘em go and grant ‘em work permits.’ No more deportation of illegal immigrants. They are to be given work permits and they can stay in the country,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript of his show. “So what this is, is ‘Catch, Release, Vote.’”
“The regime today told the border agents: ‘If you catch young illegals, let ‘em go and grant ‘em work permits.’ No more deportation of illegal immigrants. They are to be given work permits and they can stay in the country,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript of his show. “So what this is, is ‘Catch, Release, Vote.’”
'Obama violating Constitution and oath of office'
'Obama violating Constitution and oath of office' http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-violating-constitution-and-oath-of-office/ http://www.wnd.com Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:23:28 GMT
President Obama triggered a political and legal firestorm on Friday when he ordered a rule change through the Department of Homeland Security that allows young illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. and legally obtain work
permits. The policy was one the major components of the DREAM Act, which failed to clear Congress even under Democrat control.
The easing of the rule is aimed at illegals who were brought to the U.S. before they turned 16 years old and are currently younger than 30. The president says it’s unfair to to punish those young people for decisions their parents made and those young adults are already contributing to society.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, isn’t buying any of that. The Republican lawmaker is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and says the greatest outrage in this move is Obama’s ignoring of the Constitution. King says the president
can’t just create new laws through executive orders because he’s frustrated that his agenda can’t get through Congress.
“This man has refused to enforce immigration law, and now he issues an executive order that essentially institutes an amnesty program by executive order and I think this needs to go to the courtroom and I’m prepared to go there,” King told WND.
King adds that he’s ready to take the president to court for acting in a manner that is clearly reserved for the legislative branch. He has experience in this type of legal fight.
As an Iowa state senator, King successfully sued then-Gov. Tom Vilsack over what King sees as the same type of executive branch power grab.
“What the president is doing is ordering that his executive branch carry out a policy that is in direct violation of constitutionally and congressionally passed federal law,” said King.
The congressman says he isn’t concerned that what the president did may be similar to a reform plan being assembled by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio because the legislative process is where these things need to be hashed out.
King says he will press the legal challenge to the president’s move regardless of what GOP leaders do.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Sorry, We’re not buying the Bush Excuse
Sorry, We’re not buying the Bush Excuse http://commonsenseinaradicalage.blogspot.com/2012/06/sorry-were-not-buying-bush-excuse.html http://commonsenseinaradicalage.blogspot.com/ Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:07:00 GMT
You cannot blame Bush for Solyndra or the economy, simply because it sounds so much better, than “I, the most arrogant poc to ever enter the White House (and, there have been some real stinkers before you), have created an economy that would make dogs howl.” It’s not that simple. Worse than that, Obama—you pathetic loser—it’s a lie. Here’s the deal. You set out to “fundamentally change America,” in short, destroy her, and you’ve damn near accomplished your purpose. We’ve listened to you whine. We’ve heard you lie, and now; you're grasping at straws. You’re done. It’s over. The country you chose to change has more backbone and more ethics than you will ever know, and you’ve lost through simpering, whining, and lying.
George Bush started the bank bailouts, not the automobile industry bailouts, not the stimulus for shovel ready projects that were, by no man’s calculation save your own, shovel ready. He didn't transform health care into a Nanny state dream that no nation could support, monetarily. He didn’t stop the drilling of oil, but left behind policies making it possible for you take credit for the amount of oil being drilled today. He didn’t react to Katrina for two days. You didn’t react to the BP oil rig disaster for 45 days. He didn’t promise to pay for low-income folk’s gas, rent, mortgage, or groceries. You did, and you didn’t deliver because you cannot deliver without taking money from someone else’ pocket.
He didn’t promise to redistribute other people’s income. You did, and what most of us would like to know is, “Who the hell died and made you a god that can decide who gets to keep their income and who has to forfeit to accomplish your goals?”
The Main-Stream Media—not to be mistaken with legitimate news agencies—has declared your foreign policy “The Best that ever Was!” Yes, thanks a lot you stupid jerk, now the whole world knows we have a wimp in the oval office that is willing to bow down to thugs and hoods overseas. You’ve claimed—all by yourself to hear you tell it—that you killed a man who died in Tora Bora in 2002 from kidney failure…who you had those men kill, is beyond most of us; however, no blame goes to them. They were simply following orders. Yesterday, another one of your “sure kills” rose from the dead. Are we surprised? Not in the least.
Today, you believe that the American people have a short attention span, and that we will forget what you’ve done to our beautiful nation, but don’t count on it!! Your arrogance has you insisting that you be given the respect due to a president, but you have not earned it. The only thing you’ve truly earned is a one-way ticket home…and most of us, to this day, are really not sure where that home is, because you were given a free pass and have never had to prove anything.
We hear all the cries of “racism," and it falls on deaf ears. One, you’re half white, and two, your policies and not your skin color are what we abhor. Racism has nothing to do with what is wrong with this nation. Our country has been, and will be, the only country in the world that won’t judge a man’s actions by his color but simply by what he has chosen to do. Your actions speak volumes, while your words are hollow and without meaning. Your lies are another thing. Those may seal your fate, yet.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Communist Defector Speaks Out on America’s Marxist Future
A top communist defector is warning of an unprecedented “alliance” between the Democratic Party and the Communist Party, reflected in the CPUSA’s endorsement of Barack Obama for president in 2008 and the party’s continued support for Democratic Party policies. But is this warning going to be too hot to handle for the media? And the Republicans?
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking official ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc, says in an article for PJMedia that any doubt that the Democratic and the Communist parties had secretly joined forces was erased in 2009, “when Van Jones, part of a left fringe of declared communists, became the White House’s green jobs czar.”
Obama aide Valerie Jarrett had disclosed at a left-wing bloggers convention that “we,” apparently referring to herself and President Obama, had hired Jones for the job. However, Jones was fired when an outcry developed over his communist background, and the media quickly dropped any probes into Jones’ White House contacts.
Pacepa, who served as a top aide in the Romanian communist regime, tells Accuracy in Media, “The Democratic Party has become dangerously infected with the Marxism virus. I recognize the symptoms because I once lived through them, and I believe it is my obligation as an American citizen to help the conservative movement to prevent any further spread of Marxism in my adopted country.”
He adds that he is personally convinced that Obama is a Marxist.
Read full article: NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Communist Defector Speaks Out on America’s Marxist Future
Monday, June 11, 2012
When will Obama crack in public?
At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, “Get used to it” – and with an insouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to “get a more fuel-efficient car.”
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington. And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they’re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf.
Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order “to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”
The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they’ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they’re going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers’ expense. Read full article: When will Obama crack in public?
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington. And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they’re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf.
Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order “to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”
The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they’ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they’re going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers’ expense. Read full article: When will Obama crack in public?
Saturday, June 9, 2012
The Eye-Popping Wisconsin Story You Didn’t Read | RSN Pick of the Day Right Side News
The recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was a critical bellwether. A Walker loss would have guaranteed more ruinous, out-of-control government spending, where unions and their vested interests dictate terms through violence, thuggery and deceit. But the Wisconsin electorate rejected that path, handing Walker a resounding victory. This will embolden leaders in other states to tackle similar problems head on.
Governor Walker deserves our heartfelt thanks for his steadfast determination to do the right thing. But you will never know just how difficult this was if you get your news from the “mainstream” liberal media. While shamelessly championing the Democrats’ cause, they completely ignored the unprecedented, outrageous campaign of hate and lies promoted by those same Democrats and their public employee union allies. This shameless, naked, self-serving attempted power grab is a story in-and-of itself.
Read full story: The Eye-Popping Wisconsin Story You Didn’t Read | RSN Pick of the Day Right Side News
Governor Walker deserves our heartfelt thanks for his steadfast determination to do the right thing. But you will never know just how difficult this was if you get your news from the “mainstream” liberal media. While shamelessly championing the Democrats’ cause, they completely ignored the unprecedented, outrageous campaign of hate and lies promoted by those same Democrats and their public employee union allies. This shameless, naked, self-serving attempted power grab is a story in-and-of itself.
Read full story: The Eye-Popping Wisconsin Story You Didn’t Read | RSN Pick of the Day Right Side News
Friday, June 8, 2012
Liberalism is terminally ill
Liberalism is terminally ill http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/liberalism-is-terminally-ill/ http://www.wnd.com Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:37:41 GMT
It’s been a pitiful sight – a sad week for progressives and “Big Union” Democrat-shilling thugs. In the wake of Tuesday night’s devastating recall smackdown in Wisconsin, tens of thousands of “Occupy” hippies across the nation have simply been too depressed to get stoned and not look for work.
On Wednesday the White House released President Obama’s detailed itinerary through October:
1. Worry
2. Lie
3. Obfuscate
4. Golf
5. Fundraise
6. Worry
Indeed, the president has much to worry about. No honest politico can deny that liberals’ Wisconsin debacle likely represents a shadow of things to come – a precursor to November.
Recall DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s admission on CNN. In a rare moment of candor, she said Wisconsin was a “dry run” – a “test run” for the 2012 election. (A bit like the Titanic’s test run, as it turns out.)
Tuesday night Sarah Palin took to Fox News where she said that Scott Walker’s humiliating defeat of Tom Barrett, the DNC and heretofore-excessively-coddled-labor-union-leaders spells big trouble for little Barry. “Obama’s goose is cooked,” she said. “It’s the union leaders who need to be recalled.”
Does this mean the Democratic Party is not long for the world? That our two-party system is on its way out?
Of course not.
As long as there are voters who really, really want lots of free stuff from other people, there will be Democrats and Democratic politicians.
Still, what it does mean is that beyond the short-term political reality that Wisconsin presents a bleak forecast for Democrats in 2012 – liberalism itself (or “progressivism,” as the left euphemistically prefers) is terminally ill.
On Tuesday night, blogger David Burge of the Iowa Hawk blog “tweeted: “The principal delusion of liberals is that liberalism is popular. The principal delusion of conservatives is that liberalism is popular.”
Simple, yet profound.
Liberals should be afraid. They should be very afraid. The jig is up. Polls consistently show that Americans identify as conservative over liberal by a two-to-one margin. Wisconsin was an earthshaking manifestation of this reality.
But it was only a tremor.
There’s a distinct probability a massive quake awaits liberals when, later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision on Obamacare. If this, both Obama’s and Democrats’ signature accomplishment, goes down, so too do the obtusely utopian, neo-Marxist dreams of the Democratic Party’s progressive base.
And in November? The tsunami.
Indeed, the political tectonic plates are shifting. Unsurprisingly, so-called “progressives” pretend it ain’t so.
Problem is, so do conservatives.
Stop it, both of you!
This is about worldview. This is about an epic clash between two irreconcilable, diametrically opposed socio-political philosophies. It’s a zero-sum game. Somebody wins and somebody loses.
On the one hand, we have secular-socialism, a cultural and political philosophy embraced by labor unions, Barack Obama, the base of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media and many of those controlling the reigns of our elitist institutions. It is “progressivism.”
This is a philosophy that, throughout history, has proven to be a serial failure. One need only look to Europe for the latest example. This secularist worldview is based loosely on the unattainable, redistributionist ramblings of Karl Marx, the father of communism.
It hates Christianity. It hates constitutionalism. It hates the precepts of individual liberty and responsibility codified throughout our nation’s founding documents. It embraces moral relativism and says there are no clear lines of demarcation between right and wrong.
It says that government is God and that as government giveth, government taketh away.
In sum: It’s garbage.
On the other hand we have the Judeo-Christian worldview. This is the socio-political philosophy embraced by our Founding Fathers. The historical record is unequivocal. It was within this framework that our U.S. Constitution was created. It is conservatism.
It says that we are endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
It embraces the virtues of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and personal charity. It says there is black and white – right and wrong. It strives for less government and more freedom.
It acknowledges that there is a sovereign God – to whom we are all accountable – including both government and those whom “we the people” place in government.
It holds that as God giveth, God taketh away, and that you lying, cheating, ungodly snakes in Washington, D.C., better just take a step back and quick.
In sum: It is truth.
On Tuesday night, as the election returns came in and it became clear that Scott Walker was landsliding liberals and their union thugocracy, some progressive nut broke down, sobbing on camera and cried: “Democracy died tonight!”
Progressives, get this straight: On Tuesday night democracy didn’t die. Democracy was fulfilled in a powerful and transformative way.
And it’s only the beginning.
Liberals went to Wisconsin for a recall vote and a revolution broke out. We the people have spoken. Tea party? Yes. “Occupy”? Not so much.
Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
On Tuesday America hit Wisconsin and did an about-turn.
Judge lets lesbian cash in on 'marriage'
Judge lets lesbian cash in on 'marriage' http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/judge-lets-lesbian-cash-in-on-marriage/ http://www.wnd.com Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:53:19 GMT
Michael F. Haverluck
A judge in New York has taken advocacy for normalization of same-sex “marriage” to the next level, ruling this week that a major component of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it doesn’t provide the same financial benefits for homosexuals and lesbians.
The ruling from District Judge Barbara Jones was that a federal law defining marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman is not consistent with the U.S. Constitution.
“[DOMA] intrude[s] upon the states’ business of regulating domestic relations,” Jones stated in her decision this week. “That incursion skirts important principles of federalism and therefore cannot be legitimate, in this court’s view.”
There have been a number of judges who have ruled in favor of same-sex “marriage” ever since the Obama administration said it would refuse to defend the law of the land – the federal DOMA. Then Barack Obama recently announced his complete “evolution” to fully endorse same-sex “marriage.”
“President Obama has been actively promoting an agenda to undermine the nation’s marriage laws,” said Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver. “When you weaken the family, as President Obama is doing by his policies, you weaken society.”
The White House’s increased support of same-sex “marriage” is seen as emboldening more people over the past few years to sue the government by challenging existing laws under the federal DOMA.
In 2010, Edith Windsor filed the New York suit against the government to get back $363,053 that she was required to pay in federal tax on her deceased partner’s estate. The two were “married” as a same-sex couple in Canada two years before Windsor’s partner died in 2009. Windsor sued because she was ineligible to claim the unlimited marital deduction.
Striking down federal law, Jones included in her ruling that the government must reimburse Windsor the entire amount she was legally obligated to pay in estate tax.
And those supporting the homosexual agenda are hoping and claiming that the Empire State’s ruling against DOMA is more than a fad.
“[The decision is] another example of the trend of the judiciary continuing to see that treating same-sex couples differently than their heterosexual counterparts is not only wrong but goes against the laws of equality and justice here in the United States,” said Marriage Equality USA Executive Director Brian Silva.
The American Civil Liberties Union is endorsed the normalization of homosexual behavior.
“[This] adds to what has become an avalanche of decisions that DOMA can’t survive even the lowest level of scrutiny by the courts,” commented the ACLU director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, James Esseks.
Even New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman applauded Wednesday’s ruling, calling it “a major step forward in the fight of equality.”
The decision came less than a week after a similar First Circuit ruling was issued in Boston that declared as unconstitutional a section of DOMA that reserved federal benefits only for couples in marriages that are between one man and one woman. On May 31, the federal court of appeals judge in Massachusetts – the first state to allow same-sex “marriage” in 2004 – affirmed a 2010 decision made by a federal judge.
But Staver says that this battle over DOMA is far from over, as the U.S. Court of Appeals indicates that the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final say in the Bay State’s matter.
“We have done our best to discern the direction of these precedents, but only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case,” Staver explained regarding the final outcome of the Massachusetts case, which he believes has been poorly judged.
“This ruling makes no sense. A state cannot dictate the kind of benefits the federal government must provide,” contested Staver. “If a state recognizes polygamy, does that mean that the federal government must also recognize multiple spouses? Absolutely not! This decision is the proverbial tail wagging the dog.”
Yet these types of decisions aren’t only seen on the East Coast. The tide of judicial activism to abolish marriage protections began earlier this year when a couple of federal judges in California ruled that DOMA works to violate “married” same-sex couples’ due-process rights. With the push over the years to legalize same-sex “marriage” much legislation has taken place across the United States.
Since 1996, more than 30 states have approved and instituted amendments to protect marriage as between one man and one woman, while eight states allow – or are in the final stages of allowing – same-sex “marriage,” including Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Iowa, Maryland and Washington State, as well as Washington, D.C. Legislation allowing same-sex “marriage” is not yet in effect in the latter two states, where referendums could determine their final fate.
Despite all of the political and judicial maneuverings over same-sex “marriage” that are taking place just months out from this year’s presidential election, pro-family advocates want America to remember the most important thing at stake here.
“Children fare best when raised with a mom and a dad,” Staver said. “Redefining marriage to something it was not intended to be weakens the family and is not in the best interest of children or society.”
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Obama just caught in big lie?
http://www.wnd.com Obama just caught in big lie?
Has Barack Obama been caught in a lie that could become a major issue in the upcoming election?
During the 2008 presidential election campaign, Obama’s camp categorically denied he was ever a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.
The denial came amid reports of Obama’s participation with the party, including several articles by WND.
WND previously reported on newspaper evidence showing Obama was listed as a member of the New Party in the group’s own literature.
WND also conducted an exclusive interview with Marxist activist Carl Davidson, a founder of the New Party, who recounted Obama’s participation.
In 2010, John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, recalled speaking with Obama at New Party events in the 1990s.
“When we spoke together at New Party events in those days, he was blunt about his desire to move the Democratic Party off the cautious center where Bill Clinton had wedged it,” wrote Nichols in a January 2009 piece published at Progressive.org.
Now, researcher and author Stanley Kurtz, writing at National Review Online today, reports on documentation from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society that “definitively establishes” that Obama was a member of the New Party.
Kurtz reported Obama also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.
In 2008, Obama’s Fight the Smears campaign website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obama’s 1996 campaign for the Illinois Senate, as stating: “Barack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995.”
Fight the Smears conceded the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined.
According to documents from the Democratic Socialists of America, the New Party worked with ACORN to promote its candidates. ACORN, convicted in massive, nationwide voter fraud cases, was a point of controversy for Obama during his 2008 campaign for president.
Becoming a New Party member requires some effort on behalf of the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party’s political committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will have a “visible and active relationship” with the party.
If Obama indeed signed the contract, not only would his campaign be caught in a lie but it could prove highly embarrassing for him at a time when he is fighting claims, including from Mitt Romney’s camp, that his policies are socialist.
Also, Obama’s 2012 campaign slogan of “Forward” has been criticized for its use of a historic socialist slogan.
Socialist goals
The socialist-oriented goals of the New Party were enumerated on its old website.
Among the New Party’s stated objectives were “full employment, a shorter work week and a guaranteed minimum income for all adults; a universal ‘social wage’ to include such basic benefits as health care, child care, vacation time and lifelong access to education and training; a systematic phase-in of comparable worth; and like programs to ensure gender equity.”
The New Party stated it also sought “the democratization of our banking and financial system – including popular election of those charged with public stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over their pension assets [and] community-controlled alternative financial institutions.”
Many of the New Party’s founding members were Democratic Socialists of America leaders and members of Committees of Correspondence, a breakaway of the Communist Party USA.
Last month, WND reported on a 1996 print advertisement in a local Chicago newspaper that shows Obama was the speaker at an event sponsored and presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA.
WND first reported on the event in 2008.
Obama listed as New Party member
While Obama’s campaign in 2008 denied the then–presidential candidate was ever an actual member of the New Party, print copies of the New Party News, the party’s official newspaper, show Obama posing with New Party leaders, listing him as a New Party member and printing quotes from him as a member.
The party’s spring 1996 newspaper boasted: “New Party members won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).”
The paper quoted Obama saying, “These victories prove that small ‘d’ democracy can work.”
The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not members but specifies Obama as a New Party member.
New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago’s Democratic Socialists of America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama attended a New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he expressed his gratitude for the group’s support and “encouraged NPers (New Party members) to join in his task forces on voter education and voter registration.”
The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was known as electoral “fusion,” which enabled candidates to run on two tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the New Party disbanded in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by the Supreme Court. http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-just-caught-in-big-lie/http://www.wnd.com
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Democrats treat minorities like imbeciles
http://www.wnd.com Democrats treat minorities like imbeciles
One Angry Man writes that you need a valid photo ID to adopt a pet, buy a gun, create a bank account, get a credit card, write a check, obtain a passport, apply for a loan, build, buy, and close on a house, get married, buy beer or cigarettes, drive, get on a plane, get insurance, get a job, legally hunt or fish, rent a car, rent an apartment, rent a hotel room, get welfare, get Medicaid or Medicare, receive Social Security, buy a bus ticket, buy antihistamines at a drug store, walk into a bar, go to college, have your utilities turned on, get cable, pick up a package at the post office or from UPS and Federal Express, and have a prescription filled.
There are other things.
The mantra that “Republicans don’t want you to vote,” that actually showing a photo ID is some nefarious form of voter manipulation, is the slogan of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. That’s right: An organization whose goal is to “keep a Democratic majority in the Senate” actually believes that showing a valid photo ID at the polls is an attempt to stop Democrat voters from casting ballots for Democrats.
We really ought to ask ourselves why that is. The party made famous for its attempts to throw out military ballots (because military voters were more likely to vote for George W. Bush), the party that made courtroom manipulation of elections its stock in trade (yes, Al Franken, this means you) wants vote fraud to be easier, not harder.
The website dmv.org, “a privately owned website that is not owned or operated by any state government agency,” describes its mission as “aiming to simplify the lives of the online community. … [We] leverage what’s cool about the Web to create a community of drivers willing and wanting to share useful knowledge about DMV-related topics.” The site has collected a complete list of requirements for obtaining a photo identification in the United States, region by region.
“State-issued identification cards are a handy resource if you do not, or are not old enough to, carry a driver’s license,” reads the site. “Having some form of photo ID is critical in our world today; you need to be able to prove you are who you say you are in many situations. You’ll need a picture ID to board an airplane, get a job, set up bank accounts, and in order to make certain purchases.” The website even goes on to point out that several states allow you to renew your identification online.
What are the requirements for a non-driver’s license, a simple state photo ID, in New York, one of the most bureaucratic and controlled of states in the union? You need to fill out a form, then show a Social Security card and a birth certificate.
That’s it.
In California, you’ll do much the same. You’ll get your thumbprint taken and, in addition to your birth certificate, you’ll need to prove you’re in the state legally. There’s a long list of documents you could use to do this.
In the middle of the country, in Kansas, the requirements are again the same, although they sound less stringent. You must present two proof of identity documents and pay about $22 in fees (unless you’re a senior citizen, in which case the fee is $18, total). Your ID is then valid for six years and can be renewed at any driver’s license exam station. There’s a $12 fee for replacing a lost card.
Any reasonably productive, contributing member of society looks at these requirements and is wholly unimpressed. It’s EASY to get a photo ID. It’s inexpensive to get a photo ID. It’s even simple to get a photo ID … and this is a process governed by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, an institution whose methods and demands are almost never characterized as simple, easy, or cheap.
Despite this, Barack Hussein Obama’s racist, recklessly murderous attorney general, Eric Holder, believes voter ID laws – laws whose ONLY goal is to prevent voter fraud – are some form of Jim Crow. Mewling that “both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common and have not yet been relegated to the pages of history,” Holder pandered to a black audience late last month by telling them that voter identification “threatens” blacks’ right to vote across the country. The imagery is clear enough: We are expected to picture a bunch of white racist officials peering haughtily over tall tables at impoverished voters-of-color. Said voters probably have tattered hats in hand; they want nothing more than to engage in the democratic process and fulfill their civic responsibilities. Our fictitious officials will smile at them with reptilian menace before saying, “Why, of course you can vote. All you have to do is … show us your photo ID.” Thus foiled by corrupt and hateful people in power, our disenfranchised voters run, tears of disillusionment streaming down their cheeks, from the polling place.
How dare those monsters demand voters produce, on request, something those voters already use every day?
There is no functioning American citizen who does not have valid photo identification. The only people who can’t get such identification are those people who don’t have birth certificates and Social Security cards, which are also very easy to obtain if you were legally born in this country and thus eligible to vote. This begs the obvious question: If photo ID is easy and inexpensive to acquire, which it is, and if the only obstacle to getting it is the fact that you are not an American citizen, how could anyone conceivably consider voter ID racist or a tool of vote suppression?
The answer is simple. The Democrats are the party of vote fraud. They believe voter ID interferes with their frequent attempts to encourage felons, illegal aliens and dead people to vote for liberals. They also believe that persons of color are too stupid to obtain valid identification.
There is no other explanation. There is no other possible interpretation. http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/democrats-treat-minorities-like-imbeciles/
http://www.wnd.com
One Angry Man writes that you need a valid photo ID to adopt a pet, buy a gun, create a bank account, get a credit card, write a check, obtain a passport, apply for a loan, build, buy, and close on a house, get married, buy beer or cigarettes, drive, get on a plane, get insurance, get a job, legally hunt or fish, rent a car, rent an apartment, rent a hotel room, get welfare, get Medicaid or Medicare, receive Social Security, buy a bus ticket, buy antihistamines at a drug store, walk into a bar, go to college, have your utilities turned on, get cable, pick up a package at the post office or from UPS and Federal Express, and have a prescription filled.
There are other things.
The mantra that “Republicans don’t want you to vote,” that actually showing a photo ID is some nefarious form of voter manipulation, is the slogan of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. That’s right: An organization whose goal is to “keep a Democratic majority in the Senate” actually believes that showing a valid photo ID at the polls is an attempt to stop Democrat voters from casting ballots for Democrats.
We really ought to ask ourselves why that is. The party made famous for its attempts to throw out military ballots (because military voters were more likely to vote for George W. Bush), the party that made courtroom manipulation of elections its stock in trade (yes, Al Franken, this means you) wants vote fraud to be easier, not harder.
The website dmv.org, “a privately owned website that is not owned or operated by any state government agency,” describes its mission as “aiming to simplify the lives of the online community. … [We] leverage what’s cool about the Web to create a community of drivers willing and wanting to share useful knowledge about DMV-related topics.” The site has collected a complete list of requirements for obtaining a photo identification in the United States, region by region.
“State-issued identification cards are a handy resource if you do not, or are not old enough to, carry a driver’s license,” reads the site. “Having some form of photo ID is critical in our world today; you need to be able to prove you are who you say you are in many situations. You’ll need a picture ID to board an airplane, get a job, set up bank accounts, and in order to make certain purchases.” The website even goes on to point out that several states allow you to renew your identification online.
What are the requirements for a non-driver’s license, a simple state photo ID, in New York, one of the most bureaucratic and controlled of states in the union? You need to fill out a form, then show a Social Security card and a birth certificate.
That’s it.
In California, you’ll do much the same. You’ll get your thumbprint taken and, in addition to your birth certificate, you’ll need to prove you’re in the state legally. There’s a long list of documents you could use to do this.
In the middle of the country, in Kansas, the requirements are again the same, although they sound less stringent. You must present two proof of identity documents and pay about $22 in fees (unless you’re a senior citizen, in which case the fee is $18, total). Your ID is then valid for six years and can be renewed at any driver’s license exam station. There’s a $12 fee for replacing a lost card.
Any reasonably productive, contributing member of society looks at these requirements and is wholly unimpressed. It’s EASY to get a photo ID. It’s inexpensive to get a photo ID. It’s even simple to get a photo ID … and this is a process governed by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, an institution whose methods and demands are almost never characterized as simple, easy, or cheap.
Despite this, Barack Hussein Obama’s racist, recklessly murderous attorney general, Eric Holder, believes voter ID laws – laws whose ONLY goal is to prevent voter fraud – are some form of Jim Crow. Mewling that “both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common and have not yet been relegated to the pages of history,” Holder pandered to a black audience late last month by telling them that voter identification “threatens” blacks’ right to vote across the country. The imagery is clear enough: We are expected to picture a bunch of white racist officials peering haughtily over tall tables at impoverished voters-of-color. Said voters probably have tattered hats in hand; they want nothing more than to engage in the democratic process and fulfill their civic responsibilities. Our fictitious officials will smile at them with reptilian menace before saying, “Why, of course you can vote. All you have to do is … show us your photo ID.” Thus foiled by corrupt and hateful people in power, our disenfranchised voters run, tears of disillusionment streaming down their cheeks, from the polling place.
How dare those monsters demand voters produce, on request, something those voters already use every day?
There is no functioning American citizen who does not have valid photo identification. The only people who can’t get such identification are those people who don’t have birth certificates and Social Security cards, which are also very easy to obtain if you were legally born in this country and thus eligible to vote. This begs the obvious question: If photo ID is easy and inexpensive to acquire, which it is, and if the only obstacle to getting it is the fact that you are not an American citizen, how could anyone conceivably consider voter ID racist or a tool of vote suppression?
The answer is simple. The Democrats are the party of vote fraud. They believe voter ID interferes with their frequent attempts to encourage felons, illegal aliens and dead people to vote for liberals. They also believe that persons of color are too stupid to obtain valid identification.
There is no other explanation. There is no other possible interpretation. http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/democrats-treat-minorities-like-imbeciles/
http://www.wnd.com
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone: Four-term Former Congressman and Obama 2008 Co-Chair Artur Davis Announces That He's a Republican
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone: Four-term Former Congressman and Obama 2008 Co-Chair Artur Davis Announces That He's a Republican
You might think that the news of an African-American former Congressman switching his publicly declared party loyalty from Democrat to Republican would a national story.
Well, it isn't at the Associated Press, as a search returning no results at the wire service's national site on the full name of former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis (not in quotes) done at about 9 p.m. indicates. Additionally, the link to news about Davis's party switch is currently perched in the "Post Local" section at the Washington Post's web site. If this makes TV anywhere but Fox News, I'll be surprised, even though by any rational definition of "news," this is an objectively big deal. Davis is a former four-term Congressman, was a Barack Obama campaign co-chair in 2008, and was a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus. The last time an African-American congressman or former congressman changed his party from Democrat to Republican was ... well, maybe someone else can come up with a previous example, but I can't. Several paragraphs from the AP's "local" story in the Post follow the jump:
Davis may have thought that either sending an email to or responding to one from the Associated Press might have led to wider coverage. If so, it hasn't exactly worked out that way yet.
Former Ala. congressman Artur Davis shifts voter registration to Va.; eyes bid as Republican
Former Alabama congressman Artur Davis is shifting his voter registration to Virginia and says that if he seeks public office again, it will be as a Republican.
Davis, who represented Birmingham in Congress for four terms and then unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Alabama governor in 2010, announced his decision on his website.
He wrote that people whose judgment he values have asked him to consider running for Congress in northern Virginia in 2014 or 2016 or for that state’s General Assembly in 2015.
“The short of it is: I don’t know and am nowhere near deciding. If I were to run, it would be as a Republican,” wrote Davis, who moved to Virginia in late 2010 to join a Washington law firm, then left to become a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
A Harvard-educated lawyer, Davis was a House member two years ago when he tried to become the first black governor elected in Alabama. He started out leading in the polls for the 2010 Democratic primary, but then voted against President Barrack Obama’s federal health care overhaul and decided not to seek the endorsement of black political groups. Former Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks picked up those endorsements and won with 62 percent of the vote.
Artur Davis noted on his website, “I am in the process of changing my voter registration from Alabama to Virginia, a development which likely does represent a closing of one chapter and perhaps the opening of another.”
In an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Davis said he was filling out his Virginia voter registration form and planned to have it mailed by the end of the day.
Virginia, like Alabama, does not require voters to register by political party. A voter can choose to cast a Republican ballot or a Democratic ballot in a primary election.
An item at the LA Times's Politics Now blog, which if form holds will serve as the paper's excuse not to run the news in its print edition, is headlined "Artur Davis, former prominent Obama backer, leaves Democratic Party," and describes Davis as "one of President Obama’s earliest supporters and a former co-chairman for his presidential campaign." Of course, the AP didn't include that quite pertinent info. The AP also didn't include much of Davis's explanation for the switch. At least the Times did that:
But “wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,” he said.A Google News search on Davis's full name (during the past week, in quotes, sorted by date, with duplicates) returns a whopping (/sarcasm) 68 items at 9 p.m. A similar search on Davis's full name and "Associated Press" at Google News returned 24 items, with their origins pretty much proving that the wire service currently considers the story unworthy of national exposure.
“On the specifics, I have regularly criticized an agenda that would punish businesses and job creators with more taxes just as they are trying to thrive again,” he said. “I have taken issue with an administration that has lapsed into a bloc by bloc appeal to group grievances when the country is already too fractured: frankly, the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country.”
Let's see if the number of stories grows to the thousands you'd expect if a former four-term Republican congressman heavily involved in the campaign of George W. Bush or John McCain chose to become a Democrat. Don't bet on it -- but if it happens, it might just be because "somebody" shamed AP and others into giving the story the coverage it deserves at the level of detail it deserves.
Images were cropped from a photo found at this story at the Politico.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
Tom Blumer
Thu, 31 May 2012 01:40:17 GMT
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