The United States Department of Justice, a federal executive department established in 1870, has decided, under the administration of President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) and Attorney General Eric Holder, that the perceived civil rights of Terrorists and people who are living in our country illegally, are more important than the wishes of the American citizens who they are supposed to be protecting and serving, to the point of attempting to destroy American Sovereignty.

KJ, you’re off your meds again, aren’t you?  Not hardly.

Example #1 – The judge in the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has barred the prosecution’s star witness Wednesday from testifying.  This action will forever cripple the government’s effort to build criminal cases with evidence obtained through harsh CIA interrogations overseas.

According to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the witness could not take the stand because investigators learned of his existence through coercive questioning of the defendant, terrorism suspect Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, pictured here, at a secret CIA camp.

In explaining his ruling, Kaplan wrote:

The court has not reached this conclusion lightly.  It is acutely aware of the perilous nature of the world in which we live. But the Constitution is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not when it is convenient, but when fear and danger beckon in a different direction.

The ruling stunned federal prosecutors, who asked for an immediate delay in the case while they decide whether to appeal. It also re-energized the debate over whether terrorism suspects captured overseas should be prosecuted in civilian courts and whether the American justice system is up to the task.

Ummm…call it a snap judgement…but I’d have to say…NO.

In spite of the judge’s ruling, Attorney General Eric Holder (whose former law firm defended Islamic Terrorists) said at a Washington news conference that he remains confident the Justice Department can successfully prosecute Ghailani in civilian court.  Of course.

The smackdown by the judge came during the final selection of jurors in the case against Ghailani, a Tanzanian charged in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The twin attacks killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.

The man who was supposed to be the government’s star witness, Hussein Abebe, said he sold explosives to Ghailani that were used in the bombing. But defense lawyers said prosecutors never would have learned about Abebe if Ghailani had not divulged his identity while undergoing harsh interrogations at a secret overseas CIA camp in 2004.

Former Army judge advocate and now a civilian attorney,Michael Farkas, said the ruling shows why those backing military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees contend that “civilian criminal courts are no place for war criminals.” He said the military rules of evidence do not give defendants some of the protections they are afforded in the civilian justice system.

Per Farkas:

In a military tribunal, this witness would not have been precluded.

Ghailani was brought to New York for trial in 2009, as covertly as possible.   The subject of where to try Guantanamo Bay detainees got the attention of the American people when AG Holder announced last November that the 9/11 Islamic Terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others would be tried blocks from where the World Trade Center stood.  Holder later parsed his words, saying that he was reconsidering.

Ghailani is accused of being a bomb-maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden. He is charged with conspiring in the 1998 bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

Prosecutors had repeatedly said that Abebe’s testimony was vital to their case.

Judge Lewis shot a big hole in the DOJ’s plans by ruling that Abebe was identified and located as a “close and direct result of statements made by Ghailani” while in CIA custody. He noted the government had decided not to contest the details of Ghailani’s treatment while in CIA custody and had told the judge to assume that everything Ghailani said while in CIA custody was coerced.

Though many of the details about his treatment have been kept secret, the defense divulged during a pretrial hearing that he was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques for 14 hours over five days. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA used 10 harsh methods, including waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, against select detainees.

That’s better treatment that the Americans murdered on 9/11/01 received.

The judge previously rejected a defense request to throw out the charges because of Ghailani’s treatment at the hands of the CIA.

Example #2 – Yesterday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer  filed a motion stating her opposition to foreign countries’ participation in the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to SB 1070 at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and requesting the court’s permission to respond to their brief.

Mexico and 10 other foreign governments have asked the court to participate in the appeal by filing an amicus brief supporting the U.S. Department of Justice against the State of Arizona in the defense of SB 1070.  Mexico is joined by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Chile in opposing SB 1070 and enforcement measures that have been a part of U.S. federal law for decades.   

What is an amicus brief?

Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views. Such amicus curiae briefs are commonly filed in appeals concerning matters of a broad public interest; e.g., civil rights cases. They may be filed by private persons or the government. In appeals to the U.S. courts of appeals, an amicus brief may be filed only if accompanied by written consent of all parties, or by leave of court granted on motion or at the request of the court, except that consent or leave shall not be required when the brief is presented by the United States or an officer or agency thereof.

The Arizona Legislature passed SB 1070 in order to insure that Arizona’s law enforcement officers cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and to adopt state crimes that mirror existing federal laws. These laws were passed by the Arizona Legislature to protect the citizens of Arizona from the federal government’s failure to enforce the immigration laws. 

Governor Brewer’s motion asserts that the opinions of foreign governments have no bearing on whether a state law providing for cooperative enforcement of federal immigration law in Arizona complies with the U. S. Constitution.  In addition, the foreign government’s brief raises issues that are unsupported by the facts in the record and have little relevance to the issues presented in this preliminary injunction appeal.

Go, Gov. Brewer, go!  This great civil servant summarizes thusly:

As do many citizens, I find it incredibly offensive that these foreign governments are using our court system to meddle in a domestic legal dispute and to oppose the rule of law.  What’s even more offensive is that this effort has been supported by the U.S. Department of Justice.  American sovereignty begins in the U.S. Constitution and at the border.  I am confident the Ninth Circuit will do the right thing and recognize foreign interference in U.S. legal proceedings and allow the State of Arizona to respond to their brief.

Sovereigntyis defined as supremacy of authority of rule as exercised by a sovereign or sovereign state (country) or complete independence and self-government.  America was established by our Founding Fathers as a sovereign nation, a Republic whose citizenry elect their peers to representative the citizens of this country and protect them from threats, foreign and domestic.  So far, this administration and the sycophantic Congress has been an epic failure in the performance of their duties.  That is why November 2nd, 2010 is so very important.  It is time to start taking our country back.

The Father of Modern Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, has never been afraid of telling it like it is.  Yesterday, his expert tweaking of Liberal sensitivities reached a whole new level.

America’s lovable little fuzzball referred to President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) as a “jackass,” an “economic illiterate” and an “idiot, where capitalism is concerned.”

This hammer hits the nail on the head moment happened during a monologue on the president’s ill-informed position on extending the Bush tax cuts to all but the top two percent of wage earners.

According to Rush, Scooter is an “economic ignoramus” for not understanding how a “tax increase” on the wealthy won’t stimulate growth.

Reading excerpts from an AP article from Monday, El Rushbo pointed out Obama’s remarks at a meeting of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board that the wealthy would “take our ball and go home” if their tax cuts aren’t extended.

Rush then informed the president as to how the cow ate the cabbage:

Mr. Obama, our imam-child, they have already taken their trillion dollar ball home, and they’re sitting on it, you jackass.

Rush continued to take the former collegiate guest lecturer to school, saying that added degree of certainty would free business to spend some of the capital they’re holding onto and hire people

Extend the tax cut to everybody, and you’ll inspire confidence.  Which, once upon a time, we were told, was Obama’s top priority.

For not getting this, Rush said:

He’s a jackass.  He’s an economic illiterate.  He’s an economic ignoramus.  And that’s being charitable.

29 million people, including yours truly since 1988, listen to Cape Girardeau’s favorite son every weekday.

Rush is far from alone in his opinion of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Desperately searching for jobs, coping with a lousy economy, and unimpressed by President Barack Hussein Obama, working-class whites are supporting Republican candidates in record numbers, turning a group long wary of Democrats into impetus for a Political Massacre on November 2nd, 2010.

An Associated Press-GfK poll shows whites without four-year college degrees preferring GOP candidates by twice the margin of the last two elections, when Democrats became the majority party in the House and Senate. September’s poll found these working class Americans favoring GOP hopefuls 58 percent to 36 percent, a whopping 22 percentage-point gap.

When Scooter won the presidency in 2008 (a looong time ago), they favored GOP congressional candidates by 11 percentage points, according to exit polls of voters. When Democrats won the House and Senate in 2006, the Republican edge was 9 percentage points.

Compared with whites who stayed longer in the education system, working-class whites tend to be older and more conservative.  These are groups that traditionally lean Republican and do not care for the tone-deaf president’s activist governing.  Their discernment is reinforced by a clueless economic policy producing a prolonged economic funk that has disproportionately hurt the working class and shown scant signs of improvement under Obama and Congress’ majority Democrats.

Even though they are used to trailing among working-class whites, Democrats can’t afford further defections from a group that accounts for about 4 in 10 voters nationally. Their GOP preference is in contrast to whites with college degrees, who the AP-GfK Poll shows are split evenly between the two parties’ candidates, and to minorities, who decisively back Democrats.

These working-class voters were called Reagan Democrats in the 1980s, when some in the North and Midwest who had previously voted for Democrats began supporting conservative Republicans. Scooter insulted these Americans during the 2008 presidential race, when he said some bitter small-town residents cling to guns and religion for solace. They preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, by 2-1 and in the general election backed Republican nominee John McCain by 18 points.

Jennifer Moore, 40, a school bus driver from Amherst, Va., said of Democrats:

They try to make everybody think the economy is better, and it isn’t.  Gas prices are going up, food is going up and people working for the minimum wage can’t make it.

In the AP-GfK poll, working-class whites were more likely than white college graduates to say their families are suffering financially and to have a relative who’s recently lost a job. They are less optimistic about the country’s economy and their own situations, pessimistic about the nation’s overall direction and more critical of how Democrats are handling the economy.

Lawrence Ramsey, 56, a warehouse manager in Winston-Salem, N.C., said:

Democrats are more apt to mess with the middle class and take our money.

 Working-class whites are more likely than better-educated whites to dislike Obama personally and are more negative about his leadership. Over half say he doesn’t understand ordinary Americans’ problems. They are also likelier to disapprove of Obama’s performance as president, including more than two-thirds who are unhappy with his stewardship of the economy.

According to Barbara Schwickrath, 64, a clothing store employee from Brooksville, Fla.:

The country hasn’t come up the way it should have under Obama.

Polls from around the country back up the fact that working-class Americans are fed up with Obama and the Democrats.   While a Marist Poll shows both of New York’s Democratic senators running strongly, one trails and the other is even among white working-class voters. Quinnipiac University polls show clear advantages with this group for GOP Senate candidates in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

To try to con working-class Americans into believing that he actually cares, Obama has used nationally televised chats in people’s backyards to boast about his efforts to lift the economy. The Democratic-led Congress passed legislation with tax cuts and loans for small businesses before breaking for the election. On the campaign trail, Democrats whined about Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s refusal last week to rule out reducing the minimum wage to help ailing companies.

Democratic pollster Dave Beattie voiced his concern:

Democrats have to make it a choice between two individual candidates, not a referendum on do you like where things are or not, because no one likes where things are.

Republicans countered Scooter with their own message, unveiling a “Pledge to America” that broadly promised tax and spending cuts and criticizing congressional leaders for adjourning without voting to extend expiring income tax cuts.

A TV ad by Wisconsin Republican House contender Sean Duffy shows a man in an orange hardhat and safety vest getting flung off a rolling log into a pond. “Our working folks have been tossed aside,” Duffy says in the ad.

One glimmer of hope for Democrats is that 28 percent of working-class whites in the AP-GfK Poll say they may still switch candidates. (Yeah, and Scooter may walk through the doors of a Southern Baptist Church in Mississippi to attend Sunday morning service.)  Republicans say it’s too late.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Sept. 8-13 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications and involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,000 randomly chosen adults. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. Included were interviews with 416 whites without college degrees, for whom the error margin is plus or minus 6.6 points.

Rush is exactly right.  And Americans’ lack of confidence in this president is cemented by moments like this:

More than 400 progressive and civil rights groups gathered Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial in support of jobs, education and justice, in a poor, astroturfed attempt at imitating  the Tea Party movement.  An astroturfed event is one which is organized by the powers-that-be, is a desperate attempt to make it seem like a groundswell movement. 

Organizers, including the NAACP, La Raza and Code Pink, labelled it the most diverse march in history as they tried to rally their base around Democrats desperately trying  to keep their phony baloney jobs on Capitol Hill.

The Maytag Repairman of cable news, MSNBC host Ed Schultz, (nobody wants him around, either) said:

We are together. This march is about the power to the people.  It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?

So says the guy who works for one of the largest corporations in the world, General Electric.

In a bombastic speech that opened the “One Nation Working Together” rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed those wascally Wepublicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed lines from conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck and Conservative Americans everywhere and vowed to “take back our country.”

The Far Left/Progressives are a small minority in America.  It ain’t your country, Skippy. 

Schultz told the bussed-in crowd of thousands, who at times seemed like they would rather be at home on the couch with Pookie:

This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?  This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America.

It’s pretty sad if you have to ask, Ed.

The NAACP’s Jamie Branch claimed that the march is not an alternative to the Tea Party but an antidote:

We’re all working for the same purpose, the same mission.  Everybody wants jobs. Everybody wants health care. It’s just a way of going about doing things and if we all come together like all these people are, it will benefit everybody.

No, ma’am.   Everybody wants Freedom.  You can keep your nanny-state government.  Americans want no part of it. 

With a month to go before a political re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand , the Far-Left organizers of yesterday’s event hoped that the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment would energize activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood is definately against Obama, the Progressives, and their policies, and if Republicans don’t blow it, they will ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

As a casual observer, it appeared to me that most of the crowd had that “forced to be here” look and were more interested in talking to each other than in paying attention to the speakers.

Organizers insisted that this rally was not partisan.

You lie!  Heh.

Organizers said Saturday their message is about job creation, quality education and (social) justice.  

I am sure that it is just a coincidence that the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, always back Democratic candidates.

The speeches were hardly bi-partisan.

Schultz warned participants of Republicans:

They want to change this country.

More than 400 organizations, ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups, co-ordinated the astroturfed event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.

Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace traditional values.  The theme of the Rally was Restoring Honor.  It emphasized a return to America’s religious roots and honored Americans, including our military, who have made a difference .

One Nation organizers claimed that they began planning their event before learning about Beck’s rally, and said Saturday’s march is not in reaction to that.

Bwahahahahaha…I can’t breathe…hahahahahahahahaha…Sorry.

Obama didn’t make it.  He was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.

I guess that was more important than energizing his Far-Left Base.

Allow me to summarize: 

 On 8/28, you had up to 750,000 Americans at an event of their own free will, praising their Creator and proud to be Americans.  They stayed there for the day-long event, enraptured by the powerful speakers and the beautiful music, including a stirring version of “Amazing Grace”, played on the bag pipes.  When the crowd left, they cleaned up after themselves, as if they had never been there.

On 10/2, you had a crowd of around 80,000, bussed-in, provided box lunches, and possibly paid union wages for their time.  Strident speakers attempted to convince the disinterested crowd that their publically-funded special interest group was more important than the previous speaker’s.  Lame musicians were backed up by a record-scratching DJ who would have seemed more appropriate at a Washington nightspot.  When they left, half of them leaving before the event was over, the sacred grounds of the Lincoln Memorial looked like a carnival had been there and the carnival gypsies pulled out in a hurry, with the law chasing them.

That’s the exact way that a lot of Democrat Candidates’ Campaign Headquarters will look like late in the evening of November 2nd.

Like a storm hit it.

Desperate to recapture the lightning in a bottle that propelled an unknown cipher to the White House, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) held a “yute” rally Thursday night, where the hand-picked crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats.

Obama led a pep rally/rap concert attended by 3,000 at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at DAR Constitution Hall.

Thursday’s event was organized for the DNC’s Gen44 group, which attempts to cultivate (i.e., indoctrinate) young leaders. It was expected to raise $750,000.

Beforehand, Obama spoke at a small fundraising dinner at the home of John Phillips and Linda Douglass, where guests paid $30,400 each to raise $1 million for the Democratic Party. Citing his big rally in Madison, Obama told the group that Democrats are “waking up.”

When he got to the “yute” rally, Scooter spoke to the  young minds full of mush, and said:

I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like to change the country.  It was always going to be hard. Now is not the time to quit.

The DNC, in their infinite wisdom,  had enlisted hip hop artist B.o.B to perform, and the crowd also heard from Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, now set to be a White house “Insider” upon the departure of Rahmbo, on the importance of the youth vote to the November midterm elections, which are scheduled to be Political Massacre for the Democrats.

Never heard of B.o.B before?  Me, neither.  However, I did manage to get a hold of the words to the dignified little ditty that they sang for the President last night.  Why, it’s positively Shakespearean in nature:

Im that n**** that you heard about thru word of mouth,
they prolly said i change the music in the dirty south,
now that the word is out,
the timing is perfect now,
to take all these hypicritical rumors and burn em down.
if you observe the doubt you would see what they worried bout,
they say i sound like dre when im rappin bout virgins now,
honestly, i could give a f— wut you blurtin out.
point blank, im in the game..rockin my jerseys now.
so just accept me or dont pay me no mind,
either way you gonna be hearin me all the time,
wether on greg street, or 107.9,
or on yo favorite rap blog, on yo rap website,
and if that aint right, then show me straight to the judge.
just like bryan nichols i aint spittin, nuthin but slugs,
venomous blood in my vains,
chemicals up in my brain,
yes i resemble a criminal,
B.o. Bizzle, you aint f—’n wit mane!

[Whatever happened to “Hail to the Chief”?]

Inspired by the classy spirit of the evening, Obama spoke without a teleprompter again, and showed just how post-racial he truly is:

As at a massive rally earlier in the week in Madison, Wis., Obama accomplished the illusion of recapturing, at least for a few moments, some of the political magic of his 2008 presidential campaign. When he spoke of the “pundits” who were decreeing an “enthusiasm gap” the Liberal Collegiate crowd yelled uproariously, apparently wanting to prove there wasn’t one.  Or maybe it was just the Free Rock Concert at that event.

Scooter said at that event:

I need you to be fired up, I need you to stay fired up, all the way to Nov. 2. … Because Nov. 2 is going to say a lot about your future.

Even if Obama and Democrats go dig up and re-animate John Lennon, George Harrison, and Marvin Gaye, they will not be able  to create the excitement they need to avoid the re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand on November 2nd, 2010. The president met with Democratic congressional leaders at the White House earlier Thursday to feverishly try to figure out a strategy to keep their political power.  With one month to go, panic has definitely set in.

As I close, I wish to share something with you.  Something about this week’s festivities nagged at me.  Why has Obama always gone after America’s young people through events like this and his satellite-delivered speech at the beginning of each school year?  Perhaps, it has something to do with this quote from somebody I am positive that Obama is familiar with:

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. – Vladimir Illyich Lenin

White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday, as Congress leaves to go on the campaign trail, that he is leaving his post to run for mayor of Chicago.

Rahmbo’s likely exit is not a surprise.  His mayoral aspirations are no secret.

Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection.

The former Chicagoan is not exactly known for being shy.  Emanuel said in April to Charlie Rose:

One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. … That’s always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives

When Daley announced that he was leaving, Chicago Democrats quickly began angling to replace him, pestering Emanuel to make a decision on his White House position soon, including Barack Hussein Obama himself (mm mmm mmmm).

Obama graciously said that Emanuel would make an “excellent” and “terrific” mayor, but has not said whether he will endorse him yet.

Emanuel has to declare his intent to enter the race by Nov. 22, the filing deadline in Chicago. Candidates need to collect 12,500 signatures by that day to qualify for a Feb. 22, 2011 Democratic primary. Rahmbo showed up at the White House with a reputation and political identity built as a feisty four-term former congressman from Illinois, a veteran of the Clinton administration, and a close Obama political ally from the president’s early days in Chicago.

Emanuel brought the knowledge of where the bodies are buried up on Capitol Hill to the White House when he started in January 2009, as well as a sense of loyalty to the president, who had been in his inner circle for years.

Sources close to Emanuel say that the decision on whether to run for mayor has not been easy for him, because  uprooting his wife Amy and three children for the second time in as many years weighed heavily on him.

Emanuel put off his original decision to give up his seat in Congress and run the White House staff.   At the time, Emanuel wanted to be the first Jewish speaker of the House, an accomplishment that now seems more likely to be achieved by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

After a lot of nudging by then President-elect Obama, Emanuel decided to join the administration, where he has remained for 21 months.

During his time in the West Wing, Emanuel helped guide the health care act through Congress, pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and pass financial regulation.

Gee, thanks, Rahmbo.

While others in the White House, like senior adviser David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, are full-speed ahead Progressives, Rahmbo was the one with the most realist view of Washington politics.   Many progressives and liberals remain angry with him for not pushing harder, or at all, for a public option in the health care legislation, or for criminal trials for Guantanamo defendants linked to the 9/11 attacks.

Rahmbo knew that Americans do not support those ideas.

Rahmbo’s Chicago-bred political style often clashed with that of the pointy-headed professional academicians that Obama has filled his administration with.

Well-known for his brash-to-the-point-of-being-a-jerk personality, Rahmbo begins each day before sunrise, often by swimming a mile, and is perhaps the hardest worker in the White House, where the rest of the administration, including Scooter, saunter in at 9:30 a.m.

Ryan Lizza described Rahmbo this way in an article for The New Yorker:

He is a political John McEnroe, known for both his mercurial temperament and his tactical brilliance. In the same conversation, he can be wonkish and thoughtful, blunt and profane. (When Emanuel was a teen-ager, he lost half of his right middle finger, after cutting it on a meat slicer—an accident, Obama once joked, that “rendered him practically mute.”) And, like McEnroe, Emanuel seems to employ his volcanic moments for effect, intimidating opponents and referees alike but never quite losing himself in the midst of battle. “I’ve seen Rahm scream at a candidate for office one moment and then quickly send him a cheesecake,” Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic representative from Maryland, and a friend of Emanuel’s, told me.

As Rahm sometimes jokes, if it’s Saturday, there’s just two more full workdays until Monday.

With just five weeks left for the White House  to make a difference leading up to the worst Midterm Political Massacre in American History, the most recent ABC/Washington Post poll from early September shows the president’s approval ratings at 46 percent, with a 52 percent disapproval rate.

Other Liberal polling services show Obama at 42 % Approval.