A Turkey Shoot In Geneva

 

Yesterday, the United Nations Council on Human Rights held a glorified turkey shoot in Geneva, Switzerland.  The United States of America was the Turkey.  What’s worse, our president, State Department, and the Department of Justice agreed to it!

This first-ever review of the US human rights record was supposedly part of a gradual examination of the performance of all 192 UN members over a four-year period.

A collection of thug, rogue, and downright spineless nations lined up to be a part of the inquisition.

Iran’s delegation accused us of violating human rights though covert CIA operations “carried out on pretext of combating terrorism”.

Russia  recommended “a careful investigation of the facts in the use of torture especially in Guantanamo and Bagram” air force base in Afghanistan.

The Cuban ambassador, Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez, called on  America to end its embargo against the oppressive regime (my words) of his country.

European countries, quickly being consumed by Sharia Law, said America should do away with the death penalty.

Mexico wants us to halt racial profiling and the use of lethal force in controlling illegal migration over its border.

So that Mexican drug dealers and other assorted punks can murder more American citizens like Arizona rancher Robert Krentz?  Forget it!

Indonesia, where Scooter grew up, which also happens to be the world’s most populous Muslim nation, called on America to better promote religious tolerance.

Treasonous Progressive Human Rights Organizations were positively gleeful over yesterday’s proceedings.

Antonio Ginatta of the New York-based group Human Rights Watch said:

US officials were often reduced to restating current practices that grossly violate human rights, like the death penalty, poor prison conditions and sentencing youth offenders to life without parole.

According to a statement released by Amnesty International, the US must also hold accountable those responsible for torture:

These recommendations must be at the heart of rebuilding the United States’ human rights record.

Harold Koh, an US state department legal adviser, did his best to defend the administration, while at the same time, sucking up to the UN council:

Let there be no doubt, the United States does not torture and it will not torture.

Between Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo we have conducted hundreds of investigations regarding detainee abuse allegations and those have led to hundreds of disciplinary actions.

Earlier, Koh had whined to the council, saying:

…the president cannot close Guantanamo alone.

US Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, head of the delegation, said she was honored to present the first US Universal Periodic Review (UPR). 

She told the packed meeting room in Geneva: 

We take our place in the UPR process with pride in our accomplishments, honesty in facing continued challenges, and a commitment to using the international system to elevate and advance the protection of human rights at home and abroad.

Michael Posner, the US assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights, claimed after the council debate that the US got “a fair hearing”:”

This is part of an ongoing process to engage with the Council and the UN.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican who is set to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee when a new US Congress convenes in January, had a different view.

She said that the 47-member Human Rights Council was:

…dominated by rogue regimes.

Serial human rights abusers like Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela all hijacked the platform to attack the US for imaginary violations.

The US should walk out of this rogues’ gallery and seek to build alternative forums that will actually focus on abuses and deny membership to abusers. 

Preach, sister, preach!

The council will issue its recommendations on Tuesday and the US delegation will indicate which of them are acceptable before reporting back in March when a final report is adopted.

This administration is bound and determined to destroy American sovereignty and America’s legacy of exceptionalism.

In April 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) attended a G20 summit of European countries.  When asked if he believed in American exceptionalism, he said:

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

What a far cry from the greatest American President of our generation, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who said:
 
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land. It was set here and the price of admission was very simple: the means of selection was very simple as to how this land should be populated. Any place in the world and any person from those places; any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.
Hopefully, after last Tuesday’s referendum by the American people against Obama and his Far Left agenda, things like this dog and pony show in front of the UN, can be stopped before they happen, or at least slowed down.    If Obama does not begin to act like an American President, instead of an anti-American President, he faces the longest two years of his life, followed by a unceremonial firing by the people of the country that he swore an oath to serve and protect from enemies foreign and domestic.

A Tale of Three Women

Just when Americans thought they had seen the last of the Wicked Witch of the West, a.k.a. “San Fran Nan” Pelosi, she spreads the word that she’s considering running for House Minority Leader.

Of course,  her political cronies want her to stay and to lead the Democratic effort to win back their majority. Those encouraging her believe that she can unify the progressives in the caucus, and more importantly, that nobody in the House can raise money for the next campaign better than Pelosi.

Others, like Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC), a member of the conservative Democratic Blue Dog coalition, are threatening to challenge her if she does. Another member of the Blue Dog coalition, Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT), told Politico that Pelosi should not stay on.

He said:

We just got whupped.

Their problem is, the Blue Dog coalition was pretty well wiped out on Tuesday.  More than half of its members, 29, lost.  Only 28 remain.  Those Democrats who survived Tuesday’s Political Massacre are the more liberal members, including Pelosi’s strongest supporters.

The biggest threat that San Fran Nan faces could come from Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), currently the number two Democrat in the House.  But Hoyer has told Pelosi that he will not run against her. Pelosi and Hoyer had a private meeting late Tuesday that lasted more than 90 minutes. They remain tight-lipped about what was discussed.

Pelosi’s popularity among Americans stands at 22%.  I’m surprised that it is that high, considering the idiotic remarks she has made, like this classic about her concerns about violence coming from the Tea Party Movement:

With the Democrats relying on an idiot like this for leadership, the Republicans should have a leg up on them, huh?  Maybe not.  Considering the reaction I saw from establishment Republicans yesterday toward those that made Tuesday’s glorious refudiation possible, Elitist Republicans may ruin this deal for all of us.

Michelle Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite, and dynamic Conservative leader has received a less than enthusiastic reception from Beltway Republicans, including John Boehner, in her attempt to become GOP conference chairman.  Boehner, the future Speaker of the House,  is officially endorsing no one, but Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, and others are endorsing Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas. (who?)  Hensarling is said to have lined up dozens of endorsements.  The good ol’ boy network lives!

Nobody can dispute Bachmann’s contributions to Tuesday night’s GOP victory.  Her fundraising prowess is unparalleled.  The Minnesota Republican is the House’s top earner, bringing in $11 million in the two-year election cycle for her own campaign and giving out $130,000 to other GOP candidates in the campaign’s closing months, according to election records.

Heck, the Old Guard in the GOP should give it to her just on the basis of Tuesday night’s epic smackdown of little Chrissie Matthews, live on MSNBC:

Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin got in a dig at the Liberal-leaning website politico.com’s treatment of this story.  She issued a tweet over the picture of Bachmann they used for their take on the story which showed Michelle getting make up applied.  Gov. Palin wrote:

Press: why use this Bachmann pic in LEADERSHIP story?Ur 2 transparent “@politico: Bachmann leadership bid adds drama http://politi.co/d46HwR

Politico soon replaced that picture.

In an e-mail, Palin would not give her opinion on the GOP chairmanship struggle.  After all, first things first:

I’m taking a position on who gets to sit in the big boy highchair this morning for breakfast… Trig or Tripp?

Leadership in the US Congress this morning? Nah … not ’till after the Cheerios.

Yesterday, nationalreview.com published an article by Sarah Palin.  In it, she reviews and gives an explanation for  the unprecedented Conservative victory on the night November 2, 2010 and also charts a course for a Conservative future:

…Whether Republicans will do as well as they did in this cycle depends on whether they learn the lessons from the 2010 election.  

…The 2012 story should be about conservatives in Congress cutting government down to size and rolling back the spending, and the Left doing everything in its power to prevent these necessary reforms from happening. In the next two years, if all we end up doing is adopting some tax hikes here, some Obama-agenda compromises there, and a thousand little measures that do nothing to get us out of the economic mess we’re in, the same voters that put the GOP in office will vote them out in the next election. If that happens, the story of 2012 may well be that of the GOP going the way of the Whigs. No, the American people are expecting us to be bold and big in our economic reform to allow the private sector to create jobs and soar!

…In 2012, we need to renew our optimistic, pioneering spirit, revive our free-market system, and restore constitutional limits and our standing in the world as the abiding beacon of freedom.

Till then, I hope that commonsense patriots will join me in applauding the real heroes of this election year: the Tea Party Americans. In 2008, we were told that we had to “move beyond Reagan.” Well, some of us refused to believe that America chose big-government European-style socialism. American voters elected a politician who cloaked his agenda in the language of moderation. Once the mask was removed, Americans rejected his “fundamental transformation.” The Tea Party reminded us that Reaganism is still our foundation. I think the Gipper is smiling down on us today waving the Gadsden Flag.

Republicans need to give heed to advice like Gov. Palin’s.  The American people did not cast their votes on Tuesday night to voice their approval of the same ol’, same ol’.   Tuesday night was a mandate for real change.  63 House seats, 6 – 7 Senate seats, and 680 State seats changed hands.

The Beltway Elite on BOTH sides of the aisle had better be minding their Ps and Qs, or, come 2012, America will wish them well in their future endeavors.  And, the Republican good ol’ boy network needs to be very aware of how important our country’s great Conservative women were to Tuesday night’s victory.  Business as usual just won’t cut it with the American people anymore.  As this video, released yesterday by Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee shows, the American people are TOGETHER: 

UPDATE:  San Fran Nan just announced that she will run for House Minority Leader.  Let the games begin.  Pass the popcorn.

Obama: Two Days Later, He’s Still More Deaf Than Beethoven

Yesterday, in a Noon Central Press Conference, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) appeared as if he wished that he was already in the Jakarta mosque he’s about to visit in his 10 day, $200,000,000 a day Asian trip.

Answering a barrage of surprisingly hard-nosed questions from the normally sycophantic media, a less-than-contrite, and at times, lecturing Obama, proclaimed that he knew exactly why his political party had been politically massacred the night before:  Americans were economically frustrated and impatient because his wonderful policies and programs were taking too long to kick in.

Yes, boys and girls, Scooter is still tone-deaf.  I’m shocked.

Obama went on to say that his decisions so far in his term as president had been tough but right, and that he must take direct responsibility for our economic frustration.  At the same time, in the strident tones of a collegiate guest lecturer, he pledged to do more to reach a consensus with Republicans:

No party has a monopoly on wisdom.  I want to engage both Democrats and Republicans. … I do believe there is hope for civility. I do believe there’s hope for progress. 

When he was asked for details on his plans, Scooter said that he would not be opposed to joining Republicans for a suspension of earmarks and taking a second look at the ignorant provision in Obamacare that would make small businesses file a 1099 for every purchase over $600.  (My words, not his.)

Speaking of Obamacare, the potential incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner said:

I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country.  That means we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care.

Now, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!

Obama also spent a great deal of time during the Presser talking about Clean Energy and electric cars. This makes one wonder if the Lame Duck Congress is going to try to pass some version of Cap-and-Trade, even though Obama said that it was off the table for now.  And, if his Lame Duck minions don’t get an energy bill passed, will he just issue an Executive Order and have the EPA initiate it?

Probably.  A lot of his clean energy push has to do with political chicanery.  From my post Psst Bud.  You Want to Buy Some Air?

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is proud to let everyone know that it is “North America’s only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 . What a coincidence, that, as president, pushing cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities, huh?

Currently, CCX members are legally bound together by a  voluntary agreement to regulate greenhouse gases.

The CCX provides the vehicle by which to trade the very pollution permits and carbon offsets that would be  imposed by government mandate through the administration’s cap-and-trade proposals .

But, hey, right now, our boy Scooter is getting the heck out of Dodge.  His longest foreign tour so far starts in India, then brings him home to Indonesia where he spent part of his childhood, moves to a Group of 20 summit in South Korea, and ends with an Asian-Pacific economic forum in Japan.  First Lady Michelle (ma belle) will accompany him.  The girls will stay at home.

By the way, when Obama lands in Mumbai, India on Saturday, he’ll be protected  during his stay by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier.  This is because the attack on Mumbai in 2008 came from the sea.

Scooter will fly from Mumbai Airport to an Indian Navy Base on Marine One.  Two jets will accompany him, rigged with the latest in communication technology, and he will travel India’s roads in a fleet of 40 cars.

Around 800 rooms in the Taj Mahal and Hyatt Hotels have been reserved for Obama and those accompanying him during his 2 day visit there.  Arrangements just like this have been secured for New Delhi, where the president will be from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning.

I heard Glenn Beck say this morning that Obama’s Asian Trip will cost American taxpayers TWO BILLION DOLLARS. (said in a Dr. Evil from Austin Powers voice)

Perhaps I’m insane, (which, according to my Preacher and my beloved bride, is a distinct possibility), but does this extravagant trip, just like his Press Conference yesterday, seem just a wee bit tone-deaf?

With unemployment in our nation at a record high, with over 1/6th of the country on food stamps (SNAP), and the Democratic Party reeling from their worst electoral defeat since 1932, by his own words and actions, Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) comes off as imperious in nature and more tone-deaf that Ludwig von Beethoven.  If this man-child cannot overcome his own self-aggrandizing and didactic nature, his defensiveness due to his false perception that Americans do not like him because he has a weird name, and his distrust of capitalism and the nation he is supposed to be leading, Obama is in for a long two years.  And so are we.

November 3, 2010: So, Now What?

Hey, Scooter!  Can you hear us now? 

Last night Americans sent a loud and clear message to President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his Progressive Posse.  We’re tired of his socialist dream and we’re ready to take back our country.  There’s just one problem, though.  It’s a long time from now until Jauary 2011, and there are a lot of issues that Congress may deal with between now and then.

Robert Strong, of the Daily Caller, in a fine article, lists the following items:   

The Musts:

The Bush Tax Cuts – The Dems still want to exclude those making $250,000 or more a year, which will not help boost the economy, at all.

The Estate Tax – Detrimental to the families of small business owners, whose businesses exceed over $1,00,000 in value.  The businesses would be hit with a 55 % tax after the death of the owner. 

More taxes – The “Alternative Minimum Tax”, etc., ad infinitum.

Doc Fix –  To deal with the  difference between what Doctors need to be paid and what Medicare authorizes

Continuing Resolution – To fund the government until 2011.  Then they’ll pass it on to the next Congress. 

Food Safety – Already moved toward cloture by Harry Reid, this bill gives the FDA additional powers to deal  with food safety.

The Maybes:

Defense Reauthorization – Funds the Armed Forces

New START Treaty – This treaty with Russia Governs Nuclear Arms

Obamacare “1099” Fix – It fixes the requirement hidden in the bill that businesses report all business-to-business expenses over $600

Unemployment Benefits – They’ll discuss whether to extend them or not. 

Chesapeake Bay Reauthorization – This would give the EPA broad powers to handle the polution problems in Chesapeake Bay.  It could limit economic growth as it extends to those areas.  American Industry opposes this legislation. 

Finally, Strong gives a “Wish List” for the Lame Ducks:

Disclose Act – Regarding Campaign Finance, it probably won’t happen, as it harms the Dems as much as the Republicans.

Immigration – Dinghy Harry promised the “Dream Act” during the campain, which would creat a path for under-age illegals to become U.S. citizens.  Whether they try this or a broader bill, it would still be a long shot.

Cap and Trade – They’ll probably try to push for this one, to appease the Enviromentalists, and Obama’s buddies at the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Card Check – It failed miserably during the 111th Congress. 

But, hey, Harry Reid has to pay back his Union buddies somehow.

Yesterday, according to Glenn Beck’s theblaze.com, SEIU members were knocking on doors for Reid’s successful re-election campaign.  Political Chicanery, evidently, was the theme of the day in Nevada.  Hopefully, it will not succeed in the two houses of Congress between now and January.

The day after a severe Political beating, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), will hold his 4th Presidential Press Conference at 12 Noon.  Tuesday night, Obama phoned both Congressman Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to say he was looking forward to working with them and the Republicans “to find common ground, move the country forward, and get things done for the American people,” according to the White House.   This conciliatory gesture  came just a few days after he said this: 

The New Speaker of the House, John Boehner, said this in reply:

Today’s presser should be very interesting.  If Boehner and the new Representatives reach across the aisle too much, they’ll most certainly pay the price in 2012.  If Obama stays the ideologue that he is, there will be gridlock for two years and he will not be re-elected.  It should be an interesting 2 years. It’s morning in America…again.

As I wrap up, I leave you with the undisputed smackdown of last night:  Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s verbal slapping around of Chris Matthews and Scooter’s stupid sycophants at MSNBC, who were in maniacal denial of  the truth of last night, defending themselves with their shield of snotty sarcasm.  Enjoy!

You Can’t Outrun a Political Tsunami

Americans have been watching as signs of desperation and panic have been very apparent in the word and actions of Progressives over the last several weeks.  In today’s Senate races, indicators in just about every close race for Democratic-held seats – Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania – moved those contests toward the Republican. And in Washington, last-minute polls made clear that Sen. Patty Murray will have a very long Tuesday night, possibly keeping the entire nation waiting to see who controls the Senate. The two remaining wild cards are West Virginia and Alaska. Polls tightened in the Mountaineer state, and Republican Joe Miller got a much-needed dose of good news Monday in the form of a Public Policy Polling survey that showed him with 37 points to 30 points for both Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Democrat Scott McAdams.

Last weekend, it appeared as if a Senate takeover for Republicans was out of the question. But on Election Day, the energy is going to the right in a big way and no one knows how far that goes. That said, polls close in West Virginia at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and that will tell us a lot. If Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin can’t pull that race out despite holding a few point-edge in polls (Nate Silver of the New York Times gives him an 88 percent chance of winning), it’s going to be a very long night for Democrats.

Sho ’nuff hate it for them.

In the House, estimates of how far above 39 seats the Republican pickup would go have been climbing as well. Last week it was 50 to 60 seats. Over the weekend pundits began to mention the 70-seat threshold. The Cook Political Report’s last analysis showed 25 guaranteed GOP pickups, with an additional 49 Democratic-held seats in the tossup category. Democrats can win half the tossups and still see Republicans gain 50 seats.

One of the first races to look for is at 6 p.m., when the first polls of the day close in Indiana and Kentucky. If Rep. Joe Donnelly, the incumbent Democrat in Indiana’s 2nd district, can’t defeat Republican challenger Jackie Walorski, that might be the first sign that GOP gains are going to be much higher than 50 seats. If Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly in Virginia’s 11th district and Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher in Virginia’s 9th district get knocked out when polls there close at 7 p.m., that will be the second sign of an epic wave.  That’s why it’s so important to vote!

His campaign travels over, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) was taping interviews with radio hosts in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Honolulu and Miami as well as one with Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” for his national radio show, all for broadcast Tuesday as Americans vote. In one interview he tried to pull back from earlier remarks calling Republicans “enemies” of Hispanics.

Obama, in an interview with talk radio host Michael Baisden, said:

I probably should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of enemies.

Gee, Scooter.  Ya think?

He made the comments week ago in an interview with Univision radio in which he was trying to suck up to Hispanics and get them to vote for Democrats.

Our anti-American President said:

If Latinos sit out the election instead of, ‘we’re going to punish our enemies and we’re going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder.

John Boehner, the Republican who would oust Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House speaker, responded to Scooter’s rhetoric in a speech Monday in Cincinnati:

Today, sadly, we have president who uses the word ‘enemy’ for fellow Americans … fellow citizens. He uses it for people who disagree with his agenda of bigger government … people speaking out for a smaller, more accountable government that respects freedom and allows small businesses to create jobs.

Mr. President, there’s a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don’t call them ‘enemies.’ We call them ‘patriots.’

For more evidence that the Liberals are deperately trying to cover their tracks:

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Monday night that he is stopping his “Worst Person in the World” segment.

I’m sure that both of his viewers will miss the segment terribly.

This horse’s backside, errr, I mean, mercurial host said:

As of right now, I am unilaterally suspending that segment with an eye towards discontinuing it.  We don’t know how that works long-term. We might bring it back. We might bring back something similar to it. We might kill it outright.

The change comes after comedian Jon Stewart criticized cable news personalities like Olbermann at this weekend’s embarrassing “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.” Olbermann referenced Stewart’s comments Monday night, saying he agrees that “the tone needs to change.”

Today given the serious stuff we have to start covering tomorrow, we think it’s the right time to do it short-term and then we’ll see what happens.

His apparent agreement with Stewart differs from his attitude Saturday, when he Tweeted his disapproval of the comedian’s remarks about the media at the rally.

Olbermann also defended running the segment over the years:

The anger in this news hour was not an original part of it, nor was it an artifice that we added to it. It was a response to a threat to this democracy posed by [former President George W.] Bush.

Too little.  Too late, y’all.

Yesterday, former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin wrote the following on her Facebook page, speaking out Congress’ arrogant and egregious passage of the Obamation known as ObamaCare:

They voted against our will that day. Tomorrow it’s our turn to vote against them and put our government back on the side of the people. This is our chance to rebuke their big government power grab, reject their unwanted “fundamental transformation” of America, and start the process of repealing this bill before it buries us under a mountain of debt. 

So let’s fire Pelosi, retire Reid, and send all those who were responsible for that disgraceful bill a message that America is still about “We the People.”

Tomorrow is our Freedom Day. 

Enshrined in our Constitution is the process for the peaceful transfer of power. Our revolution continues each election at the ballot box, and tomorrow we will renew the spirit of the American Revolution once again.

Let freedom ring!

Tomorrow, Tomorrow. You’re Only a Day Away!

The final USA Today/Gallup measure of how Americans’ plan to vote tomorrow in the Midterm Elections shows Republicans continuing to hold a huge lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them the majority in the U.S. House.

The results are from Gallup’s Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot — depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup’s analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. (I’m thinking they’re a little low with their estimate.)  This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided.

There are some more numbers that I want you to consider today as you prepare for the biggest Midterm Elections in our lifetimes.

America is more Conservative today than we were when Newt Gingrich and the Freshmen Class of 1994 swept into Congress.  54% of likely voters proclaim Conservatism.  This is not very good news for President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and the Progressives.  Would you like some more proof?

Yesterday, in Cleveland, Obama could only manage to draw a crowd of 8,000 for the Democratic National Committee’s Moving America Forward’ rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty.  Organizers whined in explanation that the president was competing on a Sunday afternoon with church, football and Halloween.  Obama drew a huge crowd of about 35,000 when he was in nearby, Liberally run Columbus, Ohio, in an earlier October rally.  The thrill is gone.

Even Democratic campaign professionals are admitting that the House is gone.  The only question that remains is how many seats they will lose.

While few of them have the courage to come out on the record for fear of  losing their jobs or depressing what meager Democrat turnout, that there will be, every one of nearly a dozen Democratic House consultants and political strategists surveyed expect a GOP majority to be elected Tuesday.  Their consensus was that Democrats would lose somewhere between 50 and 60 seats.

A senior party consultant who was on the low end with his predictions said the party would lose between 40 and 50 seats. On the high-end, one Democratic consultant said losses could number around 70 seats.

Dave Beattie, a Florida-based Democratic pollster who is working on a slate of competitive House races wrapped up the Democrat viewpoint very succinctly:

It s*cks.  I’m resigned to the fact that it s*cks.

On the Republican side, two Republican leaders told it like it is on yesterday morning’s talk shows.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Republican Governors Association chairman, said on NBC that “the midterm election is a referendum on Obama’s policies” and predicted that the Republicans will take over the House.

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee, said on “Fox News Sunday”:

It’s going to be a political earthquake and the message will have been sent to the left that they blew it.

 Yes, ma’am.  Perhaps it was a moment like this that blew it for the Dems:

Or maybe it was a moment like this:

But, hey, we can always count on Obama to put Americans first:

And, if the Domestic issues and Scooter’s arrogance aren’t enough to get you fired up about tomorrow, chew on this from Breitbart.com:

The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN’s top human rights assembly’s for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.

The 12-day session of the 47 member council starting on Monday will include regular “universal periodic reviews” of 16 members of the United Nations, including the United States on November 5.

Some 300 US civil liberties and community groups in the US Human Rights Network on Monday called on the Obama administration to bring “substandard human rights practices” in the United States into line with international standards.

The United States only agreed to join the Council in May 2009, after the Bush administration had shunned the body which replaced its similar though discredited predecessor, the UN human rights commission, in 2006.

The Network produced a 400-page report criticising “glaring inadequacies in the United States? human rights record,” including the “discriminatory impact” of foreclosures, “widespread” racial profiling and “draconian” immigration policies.

[Among the] UN member states scheduled for review in this Council session will be Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Liberia, Libya, Lebanon Malawi, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, and Panama.

The greatest, most charitable nation in the world is under Human Rights review by a bunch of under-developed Third World countries?  We can all thank our anti-American President, his entire idiotic administration, and the Far-Left controlled Democrat Progressive Party for this.   As we look forward to a glorious, righteous election day tomorrow, I wish to leave you with a reminder from Mr. Ray Stevens.  God Bless America!

Through the Night With the Light From Above

The late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a commander during the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt in 1967. 

We join our story in progress:  By nightfall, Sharon’s forces had advanced three-quarters of the way from Abu Agheila to Nakhl. Their progress had been extremely difficult and slow, following the course of a wadi through the desert. Their average speed for much of the way had been a snail’s pace of 3 mph. As they continued their advance by night, they ran into a minefield and lost one of their armored troop-carriers. Sharon decided to halt their advance for the night. . . .

At dawn, as they advanced on, they suddenly came face to face with a whole brigade of Stalin tanks, much more powerful than their own tanks.  Behind the tanks were several large self-propelled guns. The Israeli tanks charged into battle,  but the Egyptian tanks, strangely, made no move at all. The Israelis couldn’t believe what they were seeing: every tank was intact but their accompanying troops had left.  Later, after the battle, Sharon spoke with the commander of this Egyptian tank brigade, who had been taken prisoner.

He told Sharon that he did not believe his armored brigade could resist the Israeli attack (although he had no idea of the size of the Israeli force) so he had decided to escape with all his men without even stopping to blow up his tanks.

He sorrowfully told Sharon:

You spoiled all my plans.

The Egyptian, El-Naby, said that on Tuesday night, he heard the noise of a large body of tanks coming up on his position nearby. The tanks in fact turned out to be an Egyptian armored brigade that was also moving up from the west about which he had not been told.

On Wednesday night, El-Naby again heard tanks advancing toward him. By now he had been informed of the Israeli advance, and, afraid that he was about to be attacked, he decided to abandon all his tanks and artillery and withdraw his men in half-tracks westward toward Bir Thamada, which he believed was still in Egyptian hands.

A grinning Sharon replied:

 It wasn’t.  Our boys were already there.

After a brief battle with the Israelis, El-Naby skipped out on his troops and, taking with him a lieutenant-colonel and a major, headed south-west on foot.

In an interview with Charles Mohr of the New York Times, when asked why he did not destroy his tanks, he said:

I had orders to withdraw. My orders did not say to destroy my tanks. . . . If I had blown up the tanks the Jews would have heard me. It makes a lot of noise to destroy a tank.

El-Naby said that the first part of his withdrawal took place ‘in very good order’ with his troops still organized by units and responding to discipline. The trouble happened at a road junction in the central desert when Brigadier El-Naby’s men hit what he called an ‘ambush’ or an Israeli roadblock:

Because of the ambush we had to take different roads and head for the Mitla Pass further south.

Why didn’t he try to fight his way through the roadblock?

He said:

That was impossible.

An Israeli captain who was monitoring the conversation broke in:

Why? What kind of force and weapons do you suppose we had in that roadblock?

The Egyptian replied:

Well.  I heard light machine guns and I think I heard .50-calibre heavy machine guns.

The Israeli captain threw his hands and eyes upward and said:

You had a whole brigade and we held the roadblock with light forces. (A brigade is 3000 to 5000 men.)

El-Naby Said:

Yes , but you must remember that I had left the tanks behind. . .

At the Mitla Pass, the brigade fell to pieces, although it was not in contact with enemy forces.

The Egyptian added:

I lost all my order at the Mitla.  Everyone wanted to flee for his own skin. All vehicles were abandoned and the men set off on foot to cross the mountains to the west.

Many of the Egyptians discarded their weapons, helmets and much of their personal equipment.  Brigadier El-Naby left in such a hurry that he did not take any food or water with him when he started his own trek.  He was asked whether he attempted to keep any men under his command with him. He answered:

No, no. As I said, everyone wanted to save his own skin.

Some accounts say it was a desert mirage that caused El-Nady to see hundreds of Israeli tanks where there were no more than a dozen.  The Israelis will tell you that it was Divine Intervention.

On November 3, 2008 , in an article for the New York Times titled The Republican Rump, Economist Paul Krugman said:

I’m not saying that the G.O.P. is about to become irrelevant. Republicans will still be in a position to block some Democratic initiatives, especially if the Democrats fail to achieve a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

And that blocking ability will ensure that the G.O.P. continues to receive plenty of corporate dollars: this year the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has poured money into the campaigns of Senate Republicans like Minnesota’s Norm Coleman, precisely in the hope of denying Democrats a majority large enough to pass pro-labor legislation.

But the G.O.P.’s long transformation into the party of the unreasonable right, a haven for racists and reactionaries, seems likely to accelerate as a result of the impending defeat.

This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.

On Tuesday, November 2, 2010,  a Political Tsunami, fueled by a Conservative awakening, is scheduled to sweep Conservatives back into political relevancy, thanks to the failed policies of a tone-deaf president who said the following while on a trip to Turkey:

Now Progressives will say that Tuesday’s Midterm Elections, predicted to be the biggest Congressional sweep since 1894, is nothing more than a cyclical event that happens all the time.  However…there are  a lot of Americans who have spent a lot of time on their knees before their Creator (You remember Him:  The One who gave Americans our inalienable rights?) who know better.

Enemies Foreign and Domestic

Nothing like a quiet Friday, huh?  As America watched breathlessly for 5 hours, authorities mobilized, tracked down, and investigated suspicious packages delivered from the tiny country of Yemen, sent by a group of Islamic Terrorists who wish to not just pull our chain but wipe us off the map

Two packages mailed from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat,” Obama said Friday afternoon, as he gave a brief statement before the cameras and answered no questions.

These packages came from an increasingly lethal affiliate of al-Qaeda.

Our country’s counterterrorism officials suspect that the packages, which were intercepted in Britain and Dubai, were sent by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who had already been the puppet masters behind Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who murdered 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood and the failed Underwear Bomber, whose Panty Bomb malfunctioned in an attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Obama would not specify any new security measures that would be taken, nor would he say that the nation’s terrorist alert level had been raised.  But he described the threat as serious and pointed once again to Yemen as the source of a terrorist plot, saying his top terrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, had been in touch with that country’s president. 

By the way, do you remember what this rocket scientist said about Islam, terrorism, and jihad?

The two packages were intercepted at separate locations, one on a UPS plane at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, England, and the other at a FedEx facility in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Officials gave no details on the kind of explosives found, but they said that they thought that the substance used was PETN, the same explosive used in the Christmas Day plot.

A U.S. official said the search for the devices was triggered by a “tip from a very close ally of the United States.” The tip was relayed to U.S. authorities Thursday and contained “very specific information” about devices in packages being shipped to the United States from Yemen, the official said.

Brennan, in a statement, said the United States was

…grateful to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their assistance in developing information that helped underscore the imminence of the threat emanating from Yemen.

 

We were looking for packages that were of concern.

He said he briefed Obama before the first package was found in Britain about 3:30 a.m. Friday local time.

U.S. authorities were looking at other packages coming from Yemen, but only the two packages found in Britain and Dubai had been identified as dangerous. Those devices were “intended to do harm,” Brennan said.

Friday’s activity will reinforce the government’s focus on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, an organization in which an American-born cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, plays a leading role.

Twice in the past year and a half, AQAP was able to get a PETN-based bomb past security and in position to strike a major target. The first time, in August 2009, one of the group’s operatives smuggled an explosive hidden in a body cavity into a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s top counterterrorism official. The bomber was killed; his intended target, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, survived.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian trained in Yemen, had a similar device hidden in his underwear during his alleged attempt to take down the Detroit-bound airliner in December.

Both devices are said to have been developed by AQAP’s bomb making expert, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.

And, as I mentioned before, this insane Imam was the mentor of the mass murderer of Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hassan.

In a (ahem) non-related story, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) will visit one of the world’s largest mosques when he makes good on a long-delayed promise to visit Indonesia, the island nation he called home as a child.

Scooter will visit Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta — the largest mosque in Southeast Asia and the third largest Muslim house of worship in the world — during his swing through the country Nov. 9-10. Islam is the dominant religion in populous Indonesia, making it the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

White House national security aide Ben Rhodes said the visit is standard protocol for Obama, who visited the famed Blue Mosque while on a visit to Turkey shortly after his inauguration.

According to Rhodes:

When he visited Muslim-majority countries as president, he has often visited the most prominent mosques.

Obama called off his first visit to Indonesia to focus on ramming Obamacare down America’s throats, and he canceled a rescheduled visit to appear that he was dealing with the BP-Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Gulf of Mexico in April.

It’ll be a big crowd, as Obama is “very popular” because of his biography and policies, according to Rhodes.

He also said:

He wanted to have the opportunity to reach more Indonesian people.

I’m sure.  Remember the article Obama:  Man of the World, written by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times in 2007?  No?  Here’s an excerpt from Scooter’s own website, Organizing for America:

He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.”I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my [Kristof’s] blog, http://www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his
elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite.

And, of course, after he ascended to the most powerful position in the Free World, he gave a conciliatory speech to the Muslim world at the University of Cairo on June 5, 2009.

How’s that working out for ya, Scooter?

The crux of the matter is this: yesterday’s sound and fury was designed by those responsible to intimidate us….to make us fearful…to try to manipulate us like a shepherd would a flock of sheep…to try to influence Tuesday’s elections.  The plain truth is:  we have an administration and political party in power that do not exactly strike fear into the hearts of our nation’s enemies.  In fact, P.J. Crowley of the State Department tweeted Iranian President Ahmadinejad and wished him a happy birthday yesterday:

Happy birthday President #Ahmadinejad. Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be.

Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open #Iran to a different relationship with the world.

How sweet.  Please, as you step into the voting booth on Tuesday, November 2nd, remember your faith…remember your family…remember our country…and vote accordingly. 

God Bless America!

The Political Assassination of Christine O’Donnell

Why all the attacks on Christine O’Donnell?  Is she the second coming of  Imelda Marcos?  Is she some sort of horrible enemy of our blessed land whose sole purpose is to radically change our capitalist system into a socialist netherworld?  Nope, couldn’t be.  We’ve got one of those in the highest office in the free world already.

Ever since this perennial also-ran became, through the will of the citizens of Delaware, the Republican nominee for Senator, she has been under an egregious political attack, not seen since, dare I say it, Sarah Palin.

She has been accused of everything from being a human-sacrificing worshipper of the devil, to now, with just 5 days left in the campaign, the kind of girl that you wouldn’t take home to mother.  And the sad thing is, the attacks are not just coming from the opposition party.

Yesterday, in the latest attack against her, Gawker published some sleazebag’s story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O’Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off.   The funny thing is, all they did was smooch a little bit.  Big whoop.

Brad Kurisko, 28, a district executive with a Boy Scouts council in the Philadelphia area, had his uniform borrowed by Dustin Dominiak, (no, not Dustin “Screech” Diamond) who was wearing it as a Halloween Costume in a bar.  Gawker put a black bar over the name tag on the uniform, so that the jerk could not be traced.

Shortly after his last phone conversation with a reporter from thesmokinggun.com, a single name disappeared from Kurisko’s list of Facebook friends.

The man with whom electronic ties were abruptly cut is Dustin Dominiak, a 28-year-old buddy who attended Albion College with Kurisko. Records show that Dominiak has previously shared a Philadelphia address with Kurisko. One online posting reports that Dominiak, a Michigan native, has worked as an auditor at the Federal Reserve in Philadelphia.

Soon after Dominiak’s name vanished from Kurisko’s list of friends, Dominiak’s entire Facebook page (which listed 356 friends) was suddenly deactivated.  Can you say running scared?

This incident is so sleazy, even the National Association of Gals (or, as Rush Limbaugh refers to them, the NAGS) had to, reluctantly, come out against it.  Spokesperson Mai Shiozaki said:

NOW/PAC has proudly endorsed women’s rights champion Chris Coons, O’Donnell’s opponent in the Delaware Senate race, and finds O’Donnell’s political positions dangerous for women. That does not mean it’s acceptable to use slut-shaming against her, or any woman.

NOW has repeatedly called out misogyny against women candidates, and this election season is no different. Let me be honest: I look forward to seeing Christine O’Donnell defeated at the polls, but this kind of sexist attack is an affront to all women, and I won’t stand for it.

Translation:  Although we hate the (Joy Behar’s new favorite word), we have to speak out about this or lose what little support we have left.

The other hot news item about O’Donnell that came out yesterday, was a poll issued by Fairleigh Dickerson University in Delaware.  It presented the surprising conclusion that Coons is leading O’Donnell by 21 points, 57-36.

That’s kind of strange, because the  usually accurate guys at hillbuzz.org, posted the following on 10/26:

Yesterday, a poll went around showing Christine O’Donnell just five points behind Commie Coons in Delaware’s Senate race. This SORT OF explains the weird amount of time the White House has been spending in a slam dunk blue state.

But, Democrats are ferociously attacking CoD as hard as they attacked Scott Brown in Massachusetts.  If she is so far behind, what is the point in beating up on this woman?

This is anecdotal, but I think I know why they are doing this…just like with [Scott Brown] there are internals showing O’Donnell ahead.

Today I talked to a friend from Team Hillary who is a big Dem fundraiser. He told me that for the last week or so the DNC has been at DEFCON 1 leaning HARD on the rainmakers because they are terrified of a CoD win in Delaware.

The problem is some internal poll that apparently shows that a high percentage of Democrats early voting are voting straight ticket Republican instead…they are Democrats voting against Democrats.

So, how did that esteemed institution, Fairleigh Dickerson University, come up with such different information than hillbuzz.org? 

Well, according to the university’s website:

The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of 797 randomly selected likely voters statewide in Delaware was conducted by telephone, using both landlines and cell phones, from Oct. 20 through Oct. 26, 2010 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.

Dr. Dan Cassino with Fairleigh Dickinson University says O’Donnell has firmed up her Republican base, but not without great cost:

We’ve seen that the voters in Delaware have become increasingly polarized about Christine O’Donnell, and we’re seeing that right now, she has a very unfavorable number of 44 percent, and that is up significantly.

Chris Coons’ unfavorability numbers, earlier in this month, were at 27 percent. His unfavorability numbers are now up to 36 percent.

Who is Dr. Dan Cassino?  He’s an Associate Professor in Social Science, in charge of their political polling department/initiative named Public Minds.  What are his bona fides?  Well, let’s let his biography page on the school website tell you:

APPOINTMENTS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: (2007-) Fairleigh Dickinson University Department of Social Science and History

DIRECTOR OF OUTSIDE RESEARCH: (2007-) Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Survey

LECTURER: (2006-2007) Fairleigh Dickinson University Department of Social Science and History

STAFF RESEARCHER: (2005-2006) Princeton University Department of Politics

INSTRUCTOR: (2003- 2005) Stony Brook University Department of Political Science

PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Academic Publications
“Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Politics, Religion and Masculinity in Young Men’s views of Abortion.” Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 1:2.

“Motivated Ignorance and the Dynamics of Partisan Presidential Approval.” (with Matthew Lebo) Political Psychology 28:4.

“Information Processing and Public Opinion.” (with Charles S. Taber and Milton Lodge) Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Political Science Quarterly) 48:2.

Books
Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Symbolic Politics and the Youth Vote in America (with Yasemin Besen). Under Contract with Associated Universities Press, for delivery in 2008.

Book Chapters
“The Primacy of Affect in Political Evaluations.” (with Milton Lodge). In The Affect Effect. Marcus, Neuman, et al., eds. 2007: University of Chicago Press.

Non-Peer Reviewed Journals
“Bush Withers Republican in Garden State Senate Race,” (with Peter J. Woolley) The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 16 (August 28, 2006), pp. 1, 7-8.
“Why Menendez Won,” (with Peter J. Woolley) The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 22, (Nov. 27, 2006), pp. 1, 5-6.

EDUCATION
PhD. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2005)
Stony Brook University
Areas of specialty: Political Psychology, Political Economics, Methodology

M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2003)
Stony Brook University

B.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2001)
University of Arizona

UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES TAUGHT
Parties and Interest Groups
The American Presidency
Research Methods
Introduction to American Politics
Congress
Statistics
Constitutional Law
Political Psychology

GRADUATE SEMINARS TAUGHT
Introduction to Quantitative Methodology in Social Sciences
INQUISIT programming seminar

MY RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA
(selected examples)

“New Poll Gives Sen. Menendez Edge in NJ,” Washington Post, Forbes, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, October 5, 2006.
“Poll: Democrat Leads NJ Senate Race,” MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, Thursday, October 5, 2006.
“GOP Hopeful Says Rumsfeld Should Resign,” New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 2006.
“Iraq Weighs Heavily in Kean’s Balancing Act.” New York Times, Sunday, September 10, 2006.
“Gibes are Traded by Rivals for Senate.” Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, August 31, 2006.
“Poll: War Concerns Hamper Kean Bid.” Newsday, San Jose Mercury News, others, Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
NPR’s Talk of the Nation, August 30, 2006.

So…Dr. Cassino, the guy responsible for the Fairleigh Dickinson Political Poll is a Liberal Pinhead.  I’m shocked, I tell you.  Shocked!

Christine O’Donnell walked across the stage with the undergraduates at Fairleigh Dickinson in 1993.  She did not earn her degree until 2010.

This academic pinhead-driven poll couldn’t be liberally slanted, could it?  Nawww.  Of course, not.

 
 

Dems: The Dirty Tricks Aren’t Working, Let’s Get Ready for 2012

It appears that the Democrat Party, with 5 days to go until their Political Massacre on November 2nd, 2010, are attempting to come to grips with the inevitable. 

Gallup’s recent tracking of the generic ballot for Congress has shown the Republicans with substantial leads over the Democrats among likely voters, partially because the underlying registered voter population leans Republican.  Compared with previous elections, that tilt is an extraordinary advantage for the Republicans, who are in a tie with the Democrats among registered voters. The GOP’s position is further enhanced by the generally strong manner in which Republicans turn out to vote, which appears to be even greater than usual this year.

In some important demographic respects — namely, gender, age, and education — 2010 midterm voters will be very similar to past electorates. However, if the figures reported at gallup.com stay the same through the final poll conducted this coming weekend, this will be only the second time in the last five midterm elections in which the majority of voters on Election Day were Republican in their party identification or leanings, likely exceeding the 51% found in 2002. Much of this is due to a surge in Republican-leaning independents.

Therefore…

The Democratic National Committee has formally asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the midterm elections.

An internal Army e-mail obtained by ABC News indicates that the DNC has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for “any and all records of communication” between Army departments and agencies and each of the nine Republicans — all of whom are widely mentioned as possible challengers to President Barack Hussein ObamaMm mmm mmmm.

The agencies are asked to respond to the request by this Friday, just four days before Election Day.

The nine Republicans that Democrats are seeking information on are former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind.; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.

Such requests are typical in the world of opposition research, which involves casting a broad net for publicly available material that may at some point prove embarrassing or incriminating to political candidates.

The request isn’t for details of military service or lack thereof, but appears to be designed to find information on letters and memos sent to and from the potential candidates in official positions they’ve held.

DNC officials declined to comment, but did not dispute that the information has been requested. An Army spokesman confirmed that the DNC’s formal request for information has been received.

The spokesman, Col. Tom Collins, said:

We did receive a FOIA request, and now we are responding to that FOIA request.

Following up on yesterday’s article, where I presented footage of the Rand Paul incident in which Paid Professional Liberal Agitator Lauren L. Valle, 23, of MoveOn.org, one of the websites that George Soros funds, was pinned to the ground and had her neck and shoulder area pressed on by the boot of a Paul volunteer, I now give you, as the late, great Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story :

While the boot pressure was unnecessary, Ms. Valle is not the innocent little angel that all the Liberal Blogsites are trying to portray her as.  She, along with her unnamed and unmentioned posse, were there at the rally for no other purpose than to try to stage a media event and to disrupt a Conservative politician’s message.  They are no better than those pitiful individuals that get paid to sit in their Mom’s basements and surf the web, trolling Conservative websites all day in order to disrupt and obfuscate the Conservative message that has been resonating from one coast to the other.

Bill Maher summed up the Far Left’s view of Conservatives thusly:

Hey, Bill, if you ever become relevant again, let us know.

The Lauren Valles and Bill Mahers of this nation are in for a rude awakening on November 2nd, 2010.  That’s why Hillary Clinton has already left the country for Australia and President Barack Hussein Obama is leaving on a 12 day Asian Tour right after the election.

The Sleeping Giant has awakened…and I’m loving every minute of it.