They claim David Vitter is vulnerable in LA despite a 24 point lead in the polls
I wonder what it must be like to have such little journalistic integrity that you can publish demented nonsense like this.
Stormy Daniels
It now appears that Queen Nancy is indeed going to circumvent the rules of the House, the Senate and the abiding controls of the Constitution with the so-called 
“Slaughter Rule” Here’s a link to some excellent analysis at Powerline (which then links to the full article at NRO).
The shape of things to come
This is frankly staggering BULLSHIT!
MSNBC will, of course, hail this as “sadly necessary”…but I think this may be a pile of crap too big for even the other networks to swallow. We’ll see.
The Obama/Piglosi/Reid cabal really do seem intent on seeing what it really WILL take to bring about a revolution. This is certainly a step in that direction!
‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes’ - Josef Stalin
There are some who dispute whether Josef Stalin said this, believing (wrongly) that Soviet citizens didn’t “vote”. They did…routinely and in huge numbers. Stalin knew that the pretense of elections was necessary to pacify the population, but there was no danger so long as HIS people counted the votes…and established the rules under which voting was conducted. Whether or not Stalin did say this, he certainly understood and believed it.
The Department of “Justice” under Eric Holder dropped investigations into voter fraud by ACORN this last week. The evidence of nation-wide coordinated efforts by ACORN to stuff ballot boxes via illegal voter registration is overwhelming, yet Holder is signaling that his version of a DOJ will turn a blind eye to DEMOCRAT ballot-box stuffing.
Time to refresh Stalin’s quote:
‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes…and the people you let vote who shouldn’t!’
A routine occurrence in recent elections is the disenfranchisement of our military. Military absentee ballots are set aside as: “having arrived too late”, “not having the proper postmark”, and “no address had been given for those witnessing the voter signatures”…and dozens of other reasons.
We need to refresh Stalin’s quote again:
‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes…and the people you let vote who shouldn’t…as well as the people you STOP from voting who have a right to.’
Over the last few years the Democrats have targeted the Secretary of State office in key States. Why? They’re the people who ultimately act on “Stalin’s Rules for Elections”, and this year it paid off big time in Minnesota. There the recently elected Minnesota Secretary of State set up a process that turned a 1,200 vote lead by Republican Norm Coleman into a “victory” for alFranken.
I bring all this up because the Democrats are just about to ram the hugely unpopular ObamaCare Bill through, via methods that fly in the face of every aspect of our democratic traditions. Ordinarily, a combination of self-preservation and (to a lesser extent) sense of duty to [gasp!] represent their constituency would prevent what is about to occur. But not this time. Why are the Democrats seemingly not worried about preserving their careers (since they blew right past the whole “representing their constituency” thing)? Blind adherence to ideology won’t get Queen Piglosi the numbers…but maybe a promise of support from “Stalin’s Rules for Elections” will.
I can’t come up with any other reason why the Democrats would march headlong over this cliff in complete defiance of the will and desire of the American people. We The People need to ensure they DO pay the price for this blatant abuse of power.
Whether or not “time is money” it is certainly a precious commodity. This November, in addition to everything we do to wake people up, we need to help defeat “Stalin’s Rules for Elections” by spending time watch-dogging all aspects of the process…it’s truly the Price of Freedom. I’ll just have to find the time.
In “The March of Folly,” Barbara Tuchman asked, “Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?” Her assessment of self-deception — “acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts” — captures the conditions that are gripping President Obama and the Democratic Party leadership as they renew their efforts to enact health-care reform.
Their blind persistence in the face of reality threatens to turn this political march of folly into an electoral rout in November. In the wake of the stinging loss in Massachusetts, there was a moment when the president and the Democratic leadership seemed to realize the reality of the health-care situation. Yet like some seductive siren of Greek mythology, the lure of health-care reform has arisen again.
As pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively, we feel compelled to challenge the myths that seem to be prevailing in the political discourse and to once again urge a change in course before it is too late. At stake is the kind of mainstream, common-sense Democratic Party that we believe is crucial to the success of the American enterprise.
Bluntly put, this is the political reality:
First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes.
Hat tip: Washington Post
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – Kamakazi Squadron Leaders
Liberal and progressive organizations that helped propel him to the White House are turning on him now, little more than a year after he took office. Their collective discontent, on issues from health care to nuclear energy to the handling of terrorism suspects, could mean bad news for Democrats during this fall’s congressional elections.
Polls show that liberals and blacks still approve of the job Obama’s doing. That approval, however, doesn’t necessarily mean they will make the effort to vote, and many of the activists and groups that worked to get people to the polls in 2008 say they’re not inclined right now to help Democrats in the fall.
”The energized base which transformed the nation and elected our first black president (is) now disengaged,” Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile says. “If this was September, I would hit the panic button.”
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs routinely brushes off questions about whether Obama and the Democrats are losing key constituencies, but he says the notion that the president is taking liberals for granted is “silly.”
Hat tip: USA Today
“Now I’m losing the looney left?”
In a move that should surprise no one, the Department of Justice is suspending its investigation of ACORN, according to information obtained by Judicial Watch.
WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration’s decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.
The documents include background information on two specific complaints filed in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively, during the 2008 election season.
According to Corelli, on August 1, 2008, her office received 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the Secretary of State’s office. Over 300 of these cards were rejected because of “duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses,” which “put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers’ expense.” Corelli claimed the total cost of the extra work caused by ACORN corruption was $20,000. Likewise, Borges contended that: “The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens…” Among the examples cited by Borges was a seven-year old child who was registered to vote by ACORN through the use of a forged signature and a fake birth certificate claiming she was 27-years old.
The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in “questionable hiring and training practices,” closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.
Hat tip: Breitbart
“Move along. Nothing to see, you racist honkey.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Board of Education voted Wednesday night to close almost half of the city’s public schools, accepting a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink the system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.
In a 5-to-4 vote, the members endorsed the Right-Size plan, proposed by the schools superintendent, John Covington, to close 28 of the city’s 61 schools and cut 700 of 3,000 jobs, including those of 285 teachers. The closings are expected to save $50 million, erasing the deficit from the $300 million budget.
“We must make sacrifices,” said board member Joel Pelofsky, speaking in favor of the plan before the vote. “Unite in favor of our children.”
Over hyped? Well if you consider the Kansas City decision as a bellwether to the fiscal situation in many big city school districts across the country then it will be repeated in some fashion across the country. Many municipal services are now in peril in CA, Ill, NY for lack of revenues due to the current state of the economy.
One however cannot blame problems like this on merely economic conditions. A hot topic among many now is the overburden of public pension debt that has been kicked down the road for years. School districts are not exempt from this problem. The bill(s) have come due and the ’smarter folks’ that thought there was no reckoning have found out otherwise. Yet their wise council provides no solution to the problem.
The debate over so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and even open borders has been on the back burner as Barack Obama and the Democrats have made health care their #1 issue. But, amnesty supporters appear to be gearing for a major push this spring, prior to the 2008 elections. Left-leading religious congregations are planning major demonstrations and Lucy Graham and Charles Schumer (D-NY) are trying to prod Barack Obama into making CIR a priority. They realize that with the elections coming, the clock is ticking and they want action now.
Joining with groups like ACORN, a wide coalition of Religious Left groups will march on Washington, D.C. on March 21 on behalf of eventual amnesty and largely open borders under the rubric of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). The National Council of Churches (NCC) is even hailing CIR as a “divine mandate” and a “patriotic act.”
At least the NCC is acknowledging patriotism is a virtue of sorts. New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is touting CIR, but no one believes it legislatively stands any chance in this year’s U.S. Congress. Maybe the Religious Left is praying for a divine miracle to enact its dream of a borderless America. The rally is titled “March For America: Change Takes Courage and Faith.” Once again, the Religious Left is exploiting “faith” to advance and echo the secular Left’s hard core agenda. Its irate activists will gather on the U.S. Capitol’s West Lawn to insist that God opposes well regulated borders for the U.S.
“We hope to show the moral urgency of repairing America’s broken immigration system,” explained an immigration spokesman for the National Council of Churches and its relief arm, Church World Service. “It will be demonstrated in a dramatic display of unity among supporters of comprehensive immigration reform – people of faith, immigrant rights groups, labor groups, and others from all across the United States.” Reputedly, church immigration activists have already been “hosting prayer vigils and potluck suppers and meeting with members of Congress in their home districts for months,” laying the spiritual and political groundwork for the March 21 march on Washington. “”Help us keep this momentum by joining us for this great action in Washington,” he further implored.
And in Washington:
President Barack Obama is summoning two key senators to the Oval Office on Thursday for an update on immigration reform efforts — but one of them, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), thinks Obama should be the one giving the update.
Graham, less than thrilled at the notion of providing the equivalent of a book report to the headmaster in chief, said Obama’s lack of direction on immigration reform is hampering Graham’s efforts to recruit additional Republicans to the cause.
“At the end of the day, the president needs to step it up a little bit,” Graham told POLITICO on Tuesday. “One line in the State of the Union is not going to do it.”
For the past six months, Graham and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — who meet with Obama at 3 p.m. Thursday — have worked on a reform framework. Their plan, which hasn’t been introduced yet, includes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (a liberal must-have) while sweetening the pot for moderates by proposing tough new safeguards, including a biometric national ID card for workers.
To the frustration of many reform advocates, Obama has kept his opinions of the possible deal vague, giving a head nod to reform in his State of the Union speech but not much more.
Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro offered no response to Graham’s challenge but reiterated the administration’s intention to allow Congress to hash things out before Obama weighs in, an approach reminiscent of his health reform strategy.
Hat tip: Front Page Magazine and Politico
“Dial 2 for English”
…I do not think it means what you think it means.
On March 4, Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland explained the administration’s rationale for its renewed health care offensive: “The reason … we have the moral authority to do this is Massachusetts was just an act of God,” she related. “We had that seat; we got profoundly unlucky. … This election wasn’t scheduled to happen normally, so we shouldn’t allow this to knock us off course.”
I find the use of the phrases moral authority and act of God highly ironic. I don’t think this administration is on speaking terms with the word moral! As for act of God, well, I don’t think they’ve quite gotten the message on that one either! Using the Massachusetts election to justify their continued push for a pro-abortion, death panel, power-grabbing government takeover of health care is just a wee bit irrational, don’t you think?
I think you’ll enjoy the rest of the column by Noemie Emery: Obama in dire need of an intervention.
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H/T: Washington Examiner.
In recent weeks, Obama’s approval rating has been lower on weekends and improves as we enter midweek in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. This week Obama’s numbers have continued to plummet and today’s -21 equals his all time low. Has Obama finally reached the point of no return where his numbers will equal George Bush’s in the lower 30s?
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).
Forty-two percent (42%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 72% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help.
Sixty percent (60%) of parents believe that textbooks used by their students are more concerned about political correctness than accuracy.
Republicans hold a seven-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Hat tip: Rasmussen Reports
“If it wasn’t for typical white people like you, I’d be doing great. At least the media still loves me.”
Nothing can bring about a Republican resurgence like an Obama presidency. Independents and middle class Americans have been abandoning Obama and the Democrats by the millions. Now, one of the last holdouts (and source of Obama’s strength) is starting to crack as voters age 18-29 are starting to move toward the GOP.
But wasn’t Barack Obama the “cool black guy” who was going to solve all the country’s problems and win respect around the globe?
A new poll shows 18- to 29-year-old Republicans are more politically energized than young Democrats and are more inclinbed to vote in this fall’s elections. Young adults are also extremely concerned about the economy.
Republicans are enjoying new popularity among 18- to 29-year-olds, which may signal the first step in a Republican resurgence among young adults, a new poll suggests.
The poll finds young Republicans are more politically energized than young Democrats, and they’re more likely to say they will “definitely be voting” in this November’s midterm elections.
Forty-one percent of young Republicans say they plan to vote in November, compared with 35 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of Independents, according to the poll conducted by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), a nonpartisan group.
Fifty-three percent of those who voted for Sen. John McCain (R) of Ariz., in 2008 say they will definitely vote in midterm elections, compared with 44 percent of those who voted for President Obama.
“We’ve seen a reengagement of young adults in the political process in levels not seen in decades,” says Bill Purcell, director of the IOP.
Even the youth are coming aboard. What could possibly go wrong? With party “leaders” like Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Pete Sessions and “party insiders” who are in love with Mitt Romney – plenty.
Hat tip: Christian Science Monitor
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