Did any of you see this stunning display of blatant hypocrisy yesterday? Rush pretty much covers everything here, but it's just amazing to me that this "man" can stand up and lie through his teeth, pretending that he supports our troops and acting as if it was HIM who secured this victory in Iraq, when it was HIM and his party who were trying all along to secure our defeat. It's just amazing, and it's even more amazing how his followers fall right into line. As Rush said, an honest man would have had George W. Bush there, congratulating HIM on the success in Iraq. That would require integrity, though, something that Barack Obama just does not have.

I still can't believe we as Americans elected this boorish jerk.

SPOCK: "You have to shoot.  If you are logical..."

VALERIS: "I...do not wish to...."

SPOCK: "What you want is irrelevant, what you've chosen is at hand!"

KIRK: "I'd just as soon you didn't."

 

-Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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Well, Speaker Bass, are you prepared to follow through on the logic of your words?:

From a Q&A with the speaker of the California assembly, Karen Bass, in the Los Angeles Times:

Q: How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature’s work?

A: The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.

I guess she said it: “I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.”

As if....

1) Bass gives one leaf off the fig tree about whether Republicans are "threatened" or not - unless, perhaps, it's anybody besides reprobate tinpots like her doing the threatening.

2) Voting for "revenue" isn't voting for tax increases.

3) Voting for tax increases on top of the biggest state tax burden in the country in the face of an even more bloated state budget that is the blinding neon flash-skyscraper sized billboard-visible from parsecs away-grand bull moose gold medal winner example of naked statist greed constitutes "fiscal responsibility".

4) The voters of California didn't overpoweringly and angrily reject the jackbooted attempt on the part of Bass' party to indulge that greed at their expense.

5) "Threats" of mounting primary challenges in the next legislative elections against Republicans who vote like Democrats constitutes "terrorism".

6) Priority #1 for Golden State Donks isn't to abuse their power to utterly erase Proposition #13, the initiative/referendum process, and any other civic mechanism that gives the people - remember them, Ahnuld? - a say in what their government can do to them.

And even after "da peepul" spoke emphatically, leaving the Legislature no choice but to start cutting spending and reducing the size of the behemoth in Sacramento, they still refused bow to the supposedly sovereign will of the electorate and are simply spewing IOUs every which way, undoubtedly counting on their lord and master Godbama to "terrorize" the rest of the country into bailing them out.  And he'll do it, too.

Meanwhile, we see yet another example in an embarrassing - well, it ought to embarrass them - wealth of examples of what Marxist authoritarians Obamunist Dems really are.  I've always said, going back to the early Clinton years, that Democrats, in their gilded self-righteousness and moral supremacism, don't understand how there can even be any political opposition to their sainted rule - so virtuous that allowing such Lilliputian impediments to proletarian sanctification as the rule of law and the (former) democratic (small "d") process to get in the way of the Left's "great work" would be immoral, sinful, blasphemous, and sacreligious - and therefore deem any such political opposition to be ipso facto illegitimate, immoral, and now evidently criminal and demonic as well.  They have reached the depths of one of their own publicly declaring that Islamist fanatics trying to mass-murder Americans - what used to be understood in official circles as the working definition of "terrorism" - is morally superior to conservatives exercising their supposed constitutional rights to influence the political process by holding their own party's officeholders accountable.

Well, now.  If that is what Karen Bass truly believes - and if she does, you can take it to the (nationalized) bank that national Donk capos all the way up to the big-earred, greedy, lying, sack-'o-shit ninny on the Unholy-Of-Unholies (formerly the Oval Office) throne himself do as well - then don't they all have to take the appropriate action to address this mortal national security threat?  Don't they have to end the secret ballot not just for union elections but federal elections as well?  Arrest all registered and elected Republicans?  Ban the Republican Party?  Suspend their writ of habeas corpus and imprison them without trial or appeal?

Oh, wait, yeah, there is that little quibbling detail known as the FIRST F'ing AMENDMENT, isn't there?  But it's so UNFAIR that EVERY American should get constitutional protections, rather than just those Americans who are of the "correct" political affiliation and divinely empowered and guided intentions, isn't it, Karen?

Well, don't worry, Miss Bass; once your D.C. counterparts abuse their misbegotten 2008 majorities to blow the fluttering tatters of the Constitution to smithereens via the jamdowns of Hogzilla, card check, cap&tax, "the government option," Hogzilla II, Stalinizing the 2010 census, and the rest of a lib agenda only a commissar could love, I'm sure they'll get around to it.

Or maybe Red Barry will save time on waiting until 2012 and ask his good, close, personal friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if he can borrow the latter's Basij storm troopers to summarily end this "terrorist threat" once and for all.

A small price to pay for "revenue," right?

Just think - Remember the adage that media bias moves the polling bubble fifteen points in the Democrats' direction? - If Red Barry is running a polling deficit now, not even six months into his term, how low will his numbers be a year from now?  With his brand of "change" already brutally killing "hope," will power be all that's left?

And given the Pelosi/Reid hard left legislative blitzkrieg, will the critical damage have been done before they can be cashiered and their "god" cut off at the knees in November 2010?

• Families of DoD personnel returning to Bahrain
• US Central Command Investigation into Civilian Casualties in Farah Province
• Gulf CHOD Conference Media Advisory
• U.S. funds forest fire fighting and community center in Ehmej, Lebanon

Thank you, Minnesota!

Democrat Al Franken, a satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate seat in Minnesota on Tuesday, clearing the way for President Barack Obama's party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in the Senate.

Gawd, what next?

JASmius adds: Republican defeat if their margin of victory in any race is under two percentage points.  The template for Donk election theft was put in place by Al Gore in 2000; it worked for Al F'ing Franken in Minnesota, Scott Murphy in the New York special congressional election a few months back, most likely in quite a few 2006 Senate races all of which the Dems won, and Washington pseudo-Governor Christine Gregoire in 2004.  Fat Albert's only mistake was in failing to cheat his way to a lead that the Donk courts would then cite as "evidence" of his "victory".  Really, it's nothing I haven't predicted years ago; only difference now is they've perfected the process so that they know how to fabricate leads.

John Tedisco was the first 'Pubbie to begin to grasp what it takes to keep the Enemy from stealing elections.  Norm Coleman never did, as his concession speech depressingly reinforces:

“Ours is a government of laws, not men and women.  The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken and I respect its decision and will abide by the result.  It’s time for Minnesota to come together under the leaders it has chosen and move forward. I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States Senator – Al Franken.

 

“Just a few last words about my legal challenge.  Sure, I wanted to win.  Not just for myself but for my wonderful supporters and the important values I have always fought for.  I also thought it was important to stand up for enfranchising thousands of Minnesotans whose votes weren’t counted like the others were.  After all, issues and politicians come and go, but voting is fundamental.

 

“It is the essence of democracy so I knew we needed to do everything we could to get it right.

“I am forever grateful and humbled by the people of Minnesota who have given me the honor to represent them – and even more grateful for their wisdom, courage, patience and understanding over these past several months.

 

“The path that I take in the future is not nearly as important today as the path that we must now — all travel on together — to strengthen our state and our nation.

 

“I have never believed that my service is irreplaceable.  We have reached the point where further litigation damages the unity of our state, which is also fundamental.  In these tough times, we all need to focus on the future.  And the future today is we have a new United States Senator.

 

“I congratulate Al Franken and his victory in this election.  He now enjoys the advantage that our Congressional Delegation has over the other 525 people on Capitol Hill: he represents Minnesota.

 

“I know the great ideas, the amazing work ethic and the historic ability to come together to get things done in this state will help him greatly, as it has me.

 

“Speaking of which, I think we all should take a moment to thank Amy Klobuchar and her staff.  They have done a great job of carrying the burden of two Senators these last six months.  She is an extraordinary public servant.

 

“I don’t reach this point with any big regrets.  I ran the campaign I wanted.  I conducted the legal challenge I wanted.  And I have always believed you do the best you can and leave the results up to a higher authority.  I’m at peace with that.  As to my future plans, that’s a subject for another day.

 

“We live in a great country and a great state.  We can all have confidence that by some path we don’t yet know – one which we can all come together to lay out – we will arrive at the better future we all seek.

The point isn't that Senator Coleman is a good loser; it's that he's a loser, period.  And until Republicans - ALL Republicans - get it through their thick skulls that politics is war by other means, that ballots ARE bullets, and that there are NO rules because the Democrats don't respect any, they will continue to get robbed blind, and the country will continue to sink into an ever deeper abyss of lies, corruption, poverty, oppression, and misery.

Wow. With our president siding with dictators, apologizing for our country, taking our liberty away bit by bit while a few Republicans enable him...watch and listen to this and remember the origins of America, and be reminded of what Barack Obama and his sycophants are slowly taking away.

Michael Ledeen ramps up (if that were possible) his mission as the Jeremiah of our age....

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• Kyrgyz parliament approves Manas Air Base agreement
• U.S., Iraq closer to meeting deadlines
• Portuguese Navy thwarts pirate attack
• Afghan border efforts showing signs of success
• Oil market prompts shift in Iraqi security strategy
• Central Euphrates Farmers' Market open for business

Kyrgyz parliament approves Manas Air Base agreement Posted: 26 Jun 2009 05:40 AM PDT WASHINGTON – The Kyrgyz parliament ratified an agreement between the United States and Kyrgyzstan to extend U.S. access to Manas Air Base.

U.S., Iraq closer to meeting deadlines Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:57 AM PDT WASHINGTON – Iraqi and U.S. forces continue to make strides toward meeting the terms of the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

Portuguese Navy thwarts pirate attack Posted: 24 Jun 2009 06:21 AM PDT GULF OF ADEN – The Portuguese frigate NRP Corte-Real disrupted an attempted pirate attack on a Signapore-flagged cargo ship Monday.

Afghan border efforts showing signs of success Posted: 24 Jun 2009 05:07 AM PDT WASHINGTON – Operations designed to restrict militants’ movements along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border have accomplished visible gains.