As I was surfing websites to choose a topic today, nothing in particular jumped out at me.   However, the thought did occur to me that with everything the Democrats have done since taking over Congress in 2007,  everything that Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has said and done since his ascension to the throne of the Regime, and the words and actions of Liberal activist judges, celebrities, and figures within the administration, the “smartest people in the room” have succeeded in creating the perfect political storm.

If I were to list all the mitigating factors and circumstances since 2007, brought on by the Democrats, that have brought us to this seminal point in American history, I would have written the sequel to War and Peace.  So, for brevity and bandwidth’s sake, I’m going to restrict myself to some general impressions.

Beginning in 2007 , a new ship sailed into Washington.  The new Democratic Congress hit the ground running, firm in their belief that leveling the playing field outweighed fiscal responsibility.   Despite such noble aspirations, according to a report on rollcall.com from December 1, 2008:

Members of the 110th Congress introduced nearly 14,000 pieces of legislation, more than any Congress since 1980, but only about 3.3 percent of the bills actually were signed into law, the lowest success rate since 1976.

While the percentage of bills that pass has dropped significantly over the past two decades, the number of ceremonial bills — naming post offices and other federal buildings — has risen dramatically, squashing the substantive work of Congress into fewer and fewer pieces of legislation.

…No Congress since 1975 has introduced fewer pieces of legislation than the 7,991 bills and resolutions offered in the 104th Congress.

That was only the beginning.  Once our “story book” president  took the Oath of Office (twice) and his sycophantic Congress was seated, more frivolity ensued.   Beginning with the Porkulus Bill, written by the radicals at the Apollo Foundation, Obama and his Congressional minions have foisted upon the American people such memorable programs as Cash for Clunkers, a proposal for our veterans to pay for their own medical coverage, and, of course, the Obamanation known as Obamacare.

And through all their hubris and pandering political machinations, they have looked upon the American people with self-righteous arrogance and disdain, tone-deaf and oblivious to the actual wishes of the average American, believing within their own smug minds, that the 52% per cent of Americans that were tricked by the promise of Hope and Change into voting for their unknown presidential candidate, had given them cart blanche to fulfill their wildest Progressive Utopian dreams for changing  the land of the free and the home of the brave into the land of Marx, Lenin, and Woodrow Wilson.

Congress has not accomplished this all on their own, though.  They were aided and abedded by Progressive activist Federal Judges, ruling by judicial fiat, whose own dreams of reshaping America were formed through their study of European case-law in preparation to attempt to circumvent the will of the American people for their own good, in order to purposely weaken American exceptionalism, in order to bring us in line with the global community.

Of course, all these changes that we have witnessed to our nation in the past 2 years have all sprung from the policies and world view of those charged with charting America’s course: President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his minions, err, administration.  From his birth, in Hawaii, presumably, he was groomed to be a citizen of the world, a fellow traveler, steeped in the failed ideology of Marx and Lenin, reinforced by the anticolonialism of a father he barely knew, his activist mother, his Indonesian step-father, and the Communist U.S.A. Party member/pedophile that lived next door when his mother abandoned him to be raised by his grandparents in Hawaii. As I explained in my 4 part series The Great Disconnect, Obama’s background  was carefully cultivated throughout his life and obfuscated to the point to where an unknown Far-Left hack politician was able to pass himself off as a Moderate messiah, offering hope and change to a country suffering through a horrible economy that his own political party actually created.

So now, less than three weeks away from the Midterm Elections, Obama and his political party are flailing about wildly, lashing out at anything that moves, trying to stave off a monstrous tidal wave of American Patriotic righteous indignation over an irresponsible administration and Congress who have been trying to force a failed ideology down the throats of average Americans who want their elected representatives to  act upon their wishes, not the utopian dreams of a minority of pinheads educated beyond their collective intelligence.

Just in the last few days, through Obama’s hip-hop pep rallies, his hypocritical, unfounded accusations of foreign influence against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the unrelenting attacks on Conservative Candidates, Fox News, and Talk Radio, and the ruling by the activist Federal Judge in San Diego eliminating Don’t ask, Don’t Tell, Progressives have seeded the storm clouds hanging above their heads. 

The Political Tsunami is here.  And they have no one to blame but themselves.

President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), in remarks at two separate Miami fundraisers Monday night, made no reference to the explosive charge he hurled days earlier at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the business industry group was using foreign money to finance election year TV ads.  The charge has largely dominated the political debate since a liberal blog first raised the issue last Tuesday.

However, Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee kept up the unsubstantiated charge, despite its crumbling credibility as an accusation.

The president’s retreat came as three more normally sycophantic all-things-Obama-outlets, the Associated Press, ABC News and FactCheck.org, all published reports dismissing the accusation. That follows a report by the New York Times, normally a propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party and Obama,  on Saturday that proclaimed that there was “little evidence” the Chamber was engaged in unusual or improper conduct.

According to a  senior Democratic Senate leadership aide, speaking on   Monday night, the line of attack was chopped off at the knees on Sunday morning when Bob Schieffer, host of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” asked Obama adviser David Axelrod,

Is that the best you can do?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

This anonymous aide told the Daily Caller:

Once Axelrod got the treatment by Bob Schieffer, it was all over but for the shouting, and time for them to try another line of attack.

Obama had weaseled around the charge on Sunday in his speech in Philadelphia, saying the use of foreign funds for TV campaign ads was possible but not going so far as he had Thursday to state it as fact. But an Obama adviser said Monday morning there was “no recalibration” in the president’s remarks, and as recently as Sunday morning, the White House said they would continue to go on the offensive.

But late Monday, the Associated Press published a report with the headline: “SPIN METER: Foreign Money in Politics? Not Proven.”

Not even with Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign?

Even the suspicious website FactCheck.org began its detailed report with this subheadline: “Democrats peddle an unproven claim.” According to them, the charge by Obama and Democrats against the Chamber has “little basis in fact.”

Per FactCheck.org:

It’s certainly true that millions are being spent without public disclosure, and that much of the money is coming from corporations taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling easing restrictions on political spending.  But using foreign funds to finance political ads is still a legal violation. Accusing anybody of violating the law is a serious matter requiring serious evidence to back it up. So far Democrats have produced none.

ABC News ( hardly a Conservative source of news) also did its own fact check of Obama’s attack, and found that “an examination of the evidence provides little support for the claims.”

Scooter had claimed that the Chamber’s actions are a “threat to democracy,” and a fundraising e-mail from Organizing for America, an arm of the White House, called the Chamber itself a “threat to democracy.”

And while Obama stayed away from the foreign money charge Monday evening in Miami, Vice President Joe Biden raised the issue during a fundraiser in Pittsburgh.

Obama’s plucky comic-relief sidekick, Joe (Stand up, Chuck!) Biden, said of donations to groups like the Chamber:

You don’t know where it’s coming from, but you know where it’s coming from. It’s coming from some of the biggest interests.

The Democratic National Committee went on the air Monday, in their desperation, with a TV ad accusing the Chamber, along with Republican operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, of “stealing our democracy.”

According to this piece of propaganda:

It appears they’ve even taken secret foreign money to influence our elections. It’s incredible.

Rove and Gillespie both worked in senior White House adviser roles under President George W. Bush.  They also helped set up American Crossroads, an independent conservative group that is spending roughly $50 million in this election cycle.  Rove and Gillespie do not run the group but advise the group and help raise money for it.

MoveOn.org, the liberal advocacy group, (funded by billionaire socialist puppet master George Soros) has the hypocrisy to start gathering signatures in support of a petition asking Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a criminal investigation of the Chamber.

MoveOn.org said on its website:

This is potentially a very serious crime and it is up to Attorney General Eric Holder to use his power to stop the flow of money immediately and order a full Justice Department investigation.

Gillespie has written an op-ed for the Washington Post, to be published this morning, in which he goes after Obama and ThinkProgress, the blog that originally published the accusation.

According to Gillespie:

The smears are based on nothing more than a blog posting on a Web site affiliated with the Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit that does not disclose its donors.  The fate awaiting Democrats in November is a result of their dismal economic record and their arrogance.  One reason voters are deserting President Obama in droves is because of fears of unfettered, invasive government power, fears that will only be reinforced by the Democrats’ new political vigilantism.

Speaking of the evil puppet master, George Soros says that he’s sitting this election out:

I made an exception getting involved in 2004.  And since I didn’t succeed in 2004, I remained engaged in 2006 and 2008. But I’m basically not a party man. I’d just been forced into that situation by what I considered the excesses of the Bush administration.

Soros, 80, spoke those words in a brief interview Friday at a forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee, which promotes understanding of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Soros, who was one of the main contributors to Obama’s Presidential Campaign and remains an advisor to the president, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said:

It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.

 Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) tried to recapture lightning in a bottle Sunday, imploring voters not to reward what he called Republican cynicism and incompetence by sitting out the Nov. 2 elections.

Project much, Scooter?

The president unloaded with both barrels on the GOP and their record in front of several thousand people on a beautiful day in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.

Obama reluctantly acknowledged that Americans are frustrated, especially about the economy. Ignoring his own failed economic policy,  he said Republicans have decided “to ride that frustration and anger” without providing solutions. He added that congressional Republicans deliberately opposed his administration and the Democratic majority on almost every issue, in hopes that stalemate would depress Democratic turnout in the midterm elections.

Obama explained:

If I said there were fish in the sea, they said ‘no.  They figured ‘if Obama fails, then we win.

Scooter, you have, and they will…on November 2nd.

Reminding voters of their enthusiasm for his presidential campaign, the president said, “we need you as fired up as you were in 2008.”

Fat chance, Scooter.  That was before everybody knew you.

Obama’s 28-minute speech was the second of four planned large rallies scheduled in a desperate attempt to spur Democratic turnout to try to make a dent in  what many expect to be the biggest GOP victories in House, Senate and gubernatorial elections since 1894.

Sunday’s event, before a mostly black audience, was smaller and less boisterous than last week’s rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.  According to Democratic organizers, more than 18,000 people turned out, including those in overflow lots who listened on speakers.

Obama repeated many of his familiar themes ad nauseam, such as the claim that Republicans drove the economy into a ditch before he took office, and then they refused to help Democrats extract it.

Somebody get the president some Kleenex:

The Republicans messed up so bad, left such a big mess.  The hole we’re climbing out of is so deep.

Do you want some cheese with that whine, Scooter?

Obama said about 8 million Americans had lost jobs before his economic policies could start taking effect.  He said:

It’s going to take us a while to get out of this hole.

Republicans want to increase the debt to continue a major tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, he said, yet they “lecture us on fiscal responsibility.”

Uhhh, because Americans never got a job from a poor person, Scooter.

Vice President Joe Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pa., introduced Obama with a three-minute speech. Democratic Senate nominee Joe Sestak also spoke briefly.

With only 22 days remaining, it’s doubtful that Scooter can stir up enough Democratic passion to avert a GOP takeover of the House, which would require a net pickup of 40 seats.

Democrats are trying to fire up apathetic voters who feel this year’s elections are not nearly as exciting and meaningful as his record-breaking election was.  They also are trying to placate liberals who feel Obama and congressional Democrats have let them down.

During the rally, someone threw a book at Obama.  It sailed past the president’s head without him even noticing.  The MSM is strangely silent about the event so far.  However, you can be sure that some Secret Service heads are going to roll.

John Duda, 46, a Veterans Administration physician who attended Sunday’s rally, said he thinks liberals are somewhat disenchanted that Obama had to make compromises on major issues such as energy and health care. Duda said he saw no reason for dropping a government-run health insurance option that would compete with private insurers.

Duda was not feeling the hope and change:

We’re probably better off. but there wasn’t this sea-change” that people had expected from an Obama presidency.

The crowd did liven up for a moment, however, and it wasn’t due to the performance of the hip-hop band playing there or the soaring rhetoric of the president.   24-year-old Juan James Rodriguez streaked in front of Obama, disrupting the president’s pontificating.

Rodriguez performed the mindless stunt in pursuit of a $1,000,000 reward offered by Alki David.   
 

David is a billionaire shipping and bottling magnate who is known to carry out stunts by paying others to perform them. As the The Sun reported on August 17: 

A WACKY billionaire has offered $1 million (£638,700) to the first person who streaks in front of US President Barack Obama. Loaded Alki David has promised to pay out the cash — providing the streaker writes the name of his website ‘Battlecam’ across their chest.

According to David:

When I see the video and it’s confirmed…it won’t be check [that he sends], it will be cash.

Per David, the requirements of the streaking stunt,  were that the streaker must have been within “eye-shot and ear shot of the president, they have to scream the name ‘battlecam.com’ six times, and they have to be nude.”

So, Rodriguez is a million dollars richer, if he ever gets out of jail…minus lawyer fees, of course.

I’m waiting for the announcement today that Obama created another job.

In the Midterm Election of 1894, under Democratic President Grover Cleveland, the Democrats went from having a majority in the House of Representatives, at 218 to 127, to becoming a minority of 105 members. They lost a total of 113 seats, 7 of them to Populists, the rest to the Republicans. That was almost a third of the total membership of the House, which then numbered 356.  In the Senate, where only a third of it is elected at a time, the Democrats’ numbers dropped from a controlling 44 to 39.

Perhaps it could be blamed on the depression that had hit in 1893. There is a problem with that, however.  In 1890, the Democrats had unseated a slim Republican majority even more decisively. The Fifty-first Congress, elected in 1888, had 166 Republicans in the House. (Sound familiar?)  The 1890 election cut the number of Republicans in half, to 88, leaving the Democrats with an outrageous 147-vote majority.

You might think that sort of enormous swing in the balance of power was unusual, but it wasn’t. Democrats got control of the House (by only five seats) in the elections of 1878, barely lost it in 1880, won it back in 1882, and kept it through the 1886 election, lost it again in 1888, regained it in that 1890 landslide, and were then bounced out of power, as noted, in 1894. In the Senate Republicans and Democrats were more closely balanced, exactly even in 1881-83, although Republican senators were in the majority by a handful of votes in all but two of the Congresses up to 1894. The Populists and other independents who won seats in defiance of the two-party monopoly completed the shifting congressional picture.

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Outrage, Fleeced and Catastrophe.  In his latest column at thehill.com, he analyzes the political tsunami that is forming and makes a prediction:

Republicans realize that our entire way of life and national idea is at stake in the 2010 elections. The radicalism of the Obama agenda and the mindless complicity of House and Senate Democrats who didn’t even read the bills they were passing have left a sense that America as we know it is on the line.

The regimented ranks of labor-union members enlisted by their leaders to turn out for Democratic candidates cannot compete with the fired-up intensity of the Republican grass roots. Democrats have gotten lazy and lethargic. The prolongation of the war in Afghanistan and the residual U.S. military presence in Iraq have sapped the left of its vitriol and undermined its faith in Obama. The new-left groups can’t gin up the enthusiasm they could in 2006 and 2008. It’s easier to attack than to defend.

When polls show Republicans even with their Democratic opponents, the GOP will win. Undecided voters generally go against the incumbents, and the vast difference in voter enthusiasm will tilt these races to the Republican challengers.

Prediction: The Republicans will win the Senate, capturing seats in Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Washington state, Illinois and Nevada. And they could prevail in New York, Connecticut, Delaware and California to boot. 

So, how are the Democrats trying to fight back against this political tide?  By showing the Heartland how badly they underestimate them.  Check out this ad, posted on backstage.com for an upcoming Townhall event hosted by the MTV Networks featuring President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm):

PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC MTV, BET, and CMT (prods.) are casting the audience for a town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in Washington, DC. Seeking—Audience Members: males and females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town Hall” in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are (interested in).

This is no surprise.  Everybody’s known that all his political rallies had hand-picked audiences.  This advertisement goes beyond the pale, however, and demonstrates just how phony Obama and his political party really are.

Obama’s unofficial Public Relations office, the Associated Press, has released the following:

President Barack Obama is holding a big rally in Philadelphia on Sunday in hopes of reigniting the type of Democratic enthusiasm that carried him to victory two years ago.

Vice President Joe Biden will join Obama at the rally where the hip-hop band, the Roots, will warm up the crowd.

It’s the second of four large rallies designed to recapture some of the big-stage excitement that Obama created in 2008 with stirring speeches to thousands of young and first-time voters. The president spoke to more than 17,000 people last week in Madison, Wis., where many more thousands watched on screens in an overflow area.

Democrats are desperate to close the “enthusiasm gap” that may lead to huge Republican victories in the Nov. 2 elections.

So, there you have it.  Our Kanye West President has been trying to impose his will on our Taylor Swift nation.  And in doing so, this elitist president and his elitist party have set the stage for a duplication of  the election of 1894.

I can’t wait.

Desperate Democrats are trying to hold down Republican gains in this November’s elections by questioning their loyalty to the nation’s veterans. 

Though taxes, spending and the economic slump have been the focus during this election year, several Republicans have piggy-backed on the small-government themes made popular by the Tea Party movement by suggesting veterans be allowed to seek a portion of their medical care through the private system. In some cases, they’ve hinted at it; in others, they’ve outright proposed it. 

Democrats are refusing to campaign on their disastrous destruction of the American Health Care system, which will eventually provide millions in government subsidies.  However, they’ve been more eager to label any Republican as heartless and irresponsible for proposing plans to “privatize” the veterans health system, if not the Department of Veterans Affairs altogether. 

The issue is front-and-center in the 17th Congressional District race in Texas, where Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat, is battling Republican challenger Bill Flores. 

Edwards is hammering Flores over a comment he made during a debate in January in which he rightfully said veterans would be “much better off” if they could see doctors in the private system and then have the government pay for it. 

Flores said:

Typically the care in the private sector is better than the government sector.  So they need to go into the private system. 

Flores is not backing off from his proposal. His website explains that under his plan, veterans would have a choice. The campaign said the private option could be useful for veterans who don’t live near a VA facility. 

But in August Edwards convened a press conference with local Texas veterans where he called Flores’ idea a “radical and dangerous plan that would destroy the VA health care system as we know it.” 

Edwards has issued a series of ads about the issue, including one in which Gen. Paul Funk, the former Fort Hood commander, says Flores’ plan to “privatize” veterans’ care “would hurt our nation’s veterans badly.” 

Edwards also had another ad featuring the Disabled American Veterans, an advocacy group that ludicrously claims the private sector would not want to treat ill and disabled veterans, and that lawmakers should concentrate instead on improving the VA medical system. 

In this political war, Flores has pulled out a big gun, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, to join the fight. McCain, in an ad, called Flores a “patriotic American who’s proven he’s devoted to taking care of our veterans.” He said Flores’ proposal mirrored his. 

In Delaware, Democratic Senate nominee and former(?) bearded Marxist Chris Coons has seized on a paraphrased section of a New York Times story from last month in which Republican Christine O’Donnell said she would make health care vouchers for veterans a priority if elected. 

According to Coons, that’s a “terrible idea”:

Her voucher scheme would seriously undercut the health care provided to our veterans.

O’Donnell’s campaign held an event Friday in which she laid out her plan for veterans health benefits.

The Veterans Affairs Department budget in 2010 was $114 billion, with about $58 billion going to mandatory benefits and about $47 billion going to medical programs. Obama touted legislation in October 2009 announcing that the VA budget had increased by its highest amount in 30 years. The 2011 budget request is for $125 billion.

But, hey, we all know how efficient Government-run programs are, don’t we?  Well, maybe not:

There is a long history of  backlogs in the treatment of veterans at the VA hospitals as well as sub-standard conditions at several vets hospitals. Most recently, the VA sent letters to 1,800 veterans warning them of possible exposure to HIV during dental work at a St. Louis-area hospital.

Despite calls for reforms on several fronts, in the face of criticism from their Democratic opponents, some GOP candidates have backed down from their initial ideas for changing the system. 

Nevada Senate GOP nominee Sharron Angle suggested in a May radio interview that Veterans Affairs edge toward a private program. In the interview, she explained how her father was paying hundreds every month on prescription drugs that he couldn’t get through the VA. Asked if the government should cover those things, she said:

No, not if you’re working toward a privatized system. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has since made that a centerpiece in his campaign’s effort to cast Angle as the “extreme “candidate.   Self-realization does not seem to be one of Harry’s strong points.

He and his aides hammered Angle for months on the comment, and in an ad last month the Reid campaign accused Angle of wanting to “end the VA as we know it.” 

After steering away from the issue, Angle’s campaign directly responded to Reid’s ad, calling it “desperate and dishonest.” 

According to her campaign:

Never has Sharron Angle called for privatizing Veterans Affairs and never has Sharron called for the end of Veterans Affairs.

A similar situation happened in the Colorado Senate race between Tea Party favorite Ken Buck and incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. The liberal website ThinkProgress (think Soros)  last month released a video clip of Buck saying a private sector veterans hospital would “be better run” than a public one. In the same clip, he noted that the funding for that would “have to come from the public sector and not from the injured veteran’s pocket.” 

Bennet subsequently pulled together a group of Colorado veterans to defend the current system. 

But Buck spokesman Owen Loftus told FoxNews.com Thursday that Buck “does not want to privatize veterans’ health care.” 

Loftus would not comment on what specific changes to the system Buck might consider, but said the GOP nominee just wants to look at “everything” to see how it can be improved. 

Loftus said:

He does want to make it better for veterans. They should not have to wait in long lines.

The Democrats have a problem.  It concerns people in glass houses.  Remember?

March 10, 2009 – Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

But the proposal would be “dead on arrival” if it’s sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.

Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.

No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to President Obama voicing their opposition to the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration.

The groups also cited an increase in “third-party collections” estimated in the 2010 budget proposal — something they said could be achieved only if the Veterans Administration started billing for service-related injuries.

Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under “consideration.”

“A final decision hasn’t been made yet,” he said.

The Democrats have a history of using our Best and Brightest as political tools.  The Clintons used them as banquet staff at White House Events, having Marines in dress blues carry trays of munchies.   For the “smartest people in the room” to be feigning concern for our veterans in the ninth hour before the biggest political massacre in American history is disingenuous and laughable.  The men and women that they are using as political tools sacrificed their health and well-being to keep us all safe and free.  They deserve the finest medical help that we can give them.  Public or private.

President Barack Hussein Obama used two campaign appearances on Thursday to attack the Republican party over the private money that has filtered into their coffers for the November election campaign, suggesting that some of it came from abroad, and urging what remains of the Democratic Party faithful to symbolically drown out the cash with their “millions of voices.”

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: