Congressman Reminds The Peasants, It's Not Our Money
Rep. Joe Knollenberg, a (cough) Republican from Michigan really gets to the heart of basic economic struggle that's going on in this country. Does money belong to the government or the taxpayers? Knollenberg's stand seems to be that any money we as American individuals possess is only because the government allows us to have it, and whatever the government decides it needs, they have the right to take it. And you know what, that's pretty much the thinking of everyone in Washington save a select few. I'm no Karl Rove, but seems like this could be a huge jumping off point for the "rebranded" Republican Party.
New Jersey Senator Makes 'Playing Dumb' An Art Form
Make sure there is something soft directly under your jaw before watching this video. Neil Cavuto of Fox News interviews New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez who...well, you just have to see it. Pay special attention to the last 1:00 seconds or so when they talk about how 95% of Americans will get a tax cut.
Johnny Dollar has audio of an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News talking about the latest political news. He makes a great comment on the gaffe-machine that is Joe Biden about 3 minutes in. Basically, he says Biden needs an alarm installed in his brain that goes off whenever he utters the words, "frankly" or "let's be honest" because whatever comes after those words is gonna be the wrong thing to say.
Just watching the coverage on Fox News and Geraldo Rivera is talking to all the National Guardsmen from Louisiana who weren't able to help out during Hurricane Katrina because George W. Bush sent them to Iraq. So very right-winged Fox News.
I didn't see the interview, but it sounds like it was less a clash and more a tea-party. Really not that surprising. Hot Air has a clip and some big news from North Carolina. I hope it's true.
His defense of Fox was great, but what I really loved was how he called bullsh*t on the "babies in Iraq" line. Folks, it's a volunteer army of adults and 99% of them knew what they were getting into and are proud to serve. They are NOT babies.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer is one of the repugnant members of the United States Senate. He is, in fact, an Authoritarian, if not a Stalinists. He would be very happy if we had a form of government where we could get rid of elections and the people are governed by a ruling elite...the kind of government Plato and Marx wrote about.
Schumer is angry that the new conservative members of the Supreme Court have made some decisions that have gone against precedent. In fact, one of the court's liberal members, Stephen Breyer, is actually lobbying members of Congress to look at the recent decisions. Naturally, he was able to persuade the Senate's biggest eunuch, Arlen Specter.
Breyer has publicly raised concerns that conservative justices were violating stare decisis, the legal doctrine that, for the sake of stability, courts should generally leave precedents undisturbed.
"It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much," Breyer said, reading his dissent from the bench in June to a 5-4 ruling that overturned school desegregation policies in two cities.
Okay, so the court shouldn't ever go against precedent. What is established now is absolutely, Constitutionally correct and not even debatable. What is this, Global Warming? I'd like to ask Justice Breyer if how he feels about the precedent of the Dred Scott decision. "Oh well, that's was an obvious mistake," he'll say. So what? It's precedent, isn't it?
Anyway, back to the point at hand. Chuck Schumer has declared that Bush will not be allowed to put another conservative on the Supreme Court. Well, democracy was fun while it lasted, wasn't it?
There's another story out today about how Daily Kos and Moveon.org are going to start targeting advertisers on Fox News. Their argument:
"We're not trying to silence anybody," Green said. "Rush Limbaugh has a right to be on the air—he admits his point of view. Fox doesn't."
Okay, I'm making a similar call to the Democrat Party. Admit who you really are.
The Clinton News Network? The network that covered up Saddam's crimes in order to keep a Baghdad bureau? What's going on in Atlanta?
In the past week or so, CNN has done 3 hard-hitting stories on the poor ethics of Congressional Democrats. They even did a story on the al-Qaeda torture manual that the rest of the MSM won't touch. (I only know this from reading the blogs for I have refused to watch CNN since the Eason Jordan scandal.) What gives?
Could it be that finally, at long last, they're looking at their ratings and Fox News' ratings and finally, at long last, coming to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe Fox News is on to something with their platform of a more conservative-friendly news operation?
Seems a long shot, but even if they are moving to the Right, they've got a long way to go before they can even think about redemption.
Well, Barry Obama has dropped out of the Democratic Presidential Debate sponsored by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus. And since, he's the black candidate, his dropping out has made it okay for the rest to follow suit and appease the Nutroots. But remember folks, the Nutroots are just a fringe of the Democrat Party, it's still run by the moderates.
And I'm Buck Rogers.
It's stupid move and I hope the Democrats keep doing it. Don't talk to Fox News at all, I say. Completely ignore the most watched cable news network and see what happens.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an excellent editorial on the idiotic boycott of the Fox News Channel by the Democrats over the previously scheduled Democrat Presidential Debate:
The approach of outfits such as MoveOn.org is so juvenile it's laughable. Imagine if every political organization created litmus tests for news organizations before agreeing to appear on their programming. Republicans would have boycotted PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, National Public Radio and The Associated Press decades ago.
I've seen the Democrat Party do dumb things over my short 34 years, but this is just plain stupid. The pressure of the nutroots in the party is leading to a possible complete pullout by the Nevada Democratic Party of a presidential debate on the Fox News Channel, throwing out their usual lame charges that the network is a Republican shill. Even if they were right about that, doesn't a missionary need to go where the sinners reside? This is so dumb I can feel the intelligence being sucked out of my brain.
I’m sure the idea of registering journalists makes people like Harry Reid feel a tingle in the unmentionable places. Don’t answer the tough questions, don’t respond to people who disagree with you ... just shut them up by whatever means necessary. Campus speech codes, theatening broadcast licenses, pushing to get the “Fairness” Doctrine reinstated ... at every turn, contemporary American “liberals” are proving that “Progressive” is the new “fascist.”
There's quite an advertising war brewing between Fox News Channel and CNN. I think it's a good move by Fox to stay aggressive and not rest on their laurels of being number one. CNN needs to be careful not to show their hand. The obvious attack they'll want to make on Fox is that they're a conservative network. What would that make CNN then? Fair and balanced? That wouldn't pass the laugh test.
