Tag: politics

Were Harry Reid’s parents married?

To this by Krauthammer, slamming Harry Reid et al. for coming out of nowhere with accusation of Romney that he’s paid no taxes in last 10 years, add this by Steve Huntley in Sun-Times:

Another bad jobs report, so it’s time to demagogue Mitt Romney’s tax returns, or so President Barack Obama’s campaign and his supporters believe.

It’s a masterpiece of controlled (righteous) anger, or so it seems to me, at least indignation, rivalling what Krauthammer showed on Fox last night.  Both call Reid’s claim and his support from Nancy Pelosi and others willing to use Reid’s stuff for campaign gain for what they are.  Both get it.

Huntley:

Their hope is that Americans care more about how much taxes Romney paid than they do about their own economic well-being after nearly four years of his failed economic policies. Such is the contempt the Obama camp holds for the voters.

Obama loves it, of course.  It’s reminiscent of the Oxford debater’s ploy of many decades ago, asking an opponent if his parents were married, hearing yes, asking further if the opponent had their marriage certificate with him.  No?  Then until you produce it, the debater said, do you mind if I call you a bastard?

Does Harry Reid mind?

If this isn’t sweet, I don’t know what is

, speaking in Jacksonville, Florida
, speaking in Jacksonville, Florida (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
On Sat, 8/4/12, Michelle Obama <info@barackobama.com>wrote:

From: Michelle Obama <info@barackobama.com>
Subject: Barack‘s birthday card
To: “James Bowman” <jimb . . . >
Date: Saturday, August 4, 2012, 12:06 PM

Obama for America

James –Today is Barack’s 51st birthday, and the girls and I are pulling together his birthday card.Last call for names: Want to sign it?

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http://my.barackobama.com/Baracks-Birthday

This election’s only going to get tougher, so I know it would mean a lot to Barack to know he has your support on his birthday.

Thanks,

Michelle
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Rahm, Jewish, trashing Christian values?

I had thought of Rahm Emanuel as Jewish once that I can remember before he joined unthinkingly in the threat to ostracize Chick-Fil-A for its executive’s public statement of Christian beliefs about marriage. It was when he was inaugurated and mention was made of his being the first Jewish mayor.

Unthinkingly, because not even in Chicago is there political capital in parading disrespect for Christian belief and he has not shown prejudice against Christians that I have ever heard of.

Anyhow, he is (slightly, cautiously) pulling back from his unthinking display of liberal allegiance, thanks no doubt to editorial objections on first-amendment grounds and presumably political advice and his own political instinct.

Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values, Emanuel said Wednesday. They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values. [italics mine]

On Thursday, a spokesman for Emanuel softened those remarks.

The mayor simply said that Chick-fil-a’s CEO does not share Chicago’s values, the spokesman said. He did not say that he would block or play any role in the company opening a new restaurant here.

If they meet all the usual requirements, then they can open their restaurant, but he does not believe the CEO’s values are reflective of our city.

He’s telling us what he thinks our values are. In any case, he is or was embracing gay-rights fascism here:

Thou shall not withhold approval of the gay culture. Tolerance is not enough. You will suffer if you do not toe the line, as gays used to suffer in days when the pendulum swung the other way. Forget liberalism, substitute intolerance of another kind.

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Have a look also at the New York Sun, which notes this importantly:

. . . [I]t’s hard to think of a difference between the views expressed in the quotations above by [the offending CEO] Mr. Cathy and those one might hear from the Council of Torah Sages or the Archdiocese of Chicago. Or every president of America who has spoken on the subject until President Obama changed his position and declared himself, personally if not officially, for same sex marriage.

Rahm is out of his league here.

Making silk purse out of sow’s ear

. . . by responding to D. Wasserman Schultz, Dem spokesperson, who said:

Republicans in Congress would obstruct President Obama from having cereal for breakfast if they could.

The only chance we have to change Washington is to defeat the House Republicans standing in the way of America’s progress.

 

Etc.

To which I:

Debbie, give us time on that cereal for bkfst thing. 
signing it, Loyal  oppo.

 

Deucedly clever, I know.

English: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congressman...
English: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congressman from Florida’s 20th congressional district (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Treasurer Dan Rutherford’s Harry Caray’s Party

Very attractive candidate this fellow, ready to take Quinn on.

It’s the Dan Rutherford Chicago Networking Party. Music, drinks etc. Tuesday, July 31, 5:30-7:00 PM at Harry Caray’s in Chicago. The cover charge is $60 — http://www.danrutherford.org/calendar/event/18/EventDetails.aspx

He’s State Treasurer if you don’t know. (Reading Chi noosepapers you know far more about Lisa What’s her name, daughter of the evil genius Mike What’s his name.) Made wind-up speech at recent state GOP convention, was obvious standout in the day’s beauty parade.

Rush Limbaugh off his game?

Look, I tune in to the maharajah at lunch time in ye olde kitchen, regaling myself with cream cheese on whole wheat or p.b. and jelly and activa yogurt. Got into habit of wine or beer but am dropping that. Flip goes the switch to WLS-AM and Rushbo.

I have loved it for the news items (sound clips), his insights delivered with unique panache and sometimes laugh-out-loud humor. He has exuded confidence. Did. Now — I date it from the Roberts decision to OK Obamacare — he’s off his game, worried. Hard to listen to.

Maybe I don’t spend enough time with him — only a fraction of his three hours. Maybe I am misreading his tone. But Cassandra has a rival these days, I fear, and it’s he.

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Informed rejoinder from Reader D:

The Economy Alone Doesn’t Equal an Automatic Win for Republicans – The Rush Limbaugh Show

Don’t think I can agree in general with your Rush/Cassandra comparison.
In this transcript he sounds pretty sure Obama will lose — but I think he is torn between bolstering the base and whistling in the dark in this campaign — he is suspicious of the Republican establishment, and Republican consultants and Republican Old Guard, etc. But Rush isn’t telling us it’s time to head to New Zealand YET, but I think he’s looked over the travel brochures.
The Roberts decision threw Rush completely. I think it threw the other conservatives on the court, too.
When I listen to Rush it’s usually for the full 3 hours. I didn’t hear him this Mon-Tues, and he had subs on for a few days last week that I don’t listen to. I like Mark Styne as a sub.
Rush has been supportive of Romney — as he said during the primary — Anyone But Obama.
The joys of interactivity.

Roberts did not disappoint

Mike Fahy of Chicago finds precedent for the Roberts opinion:

If you wish to understand Thursday’s incoherent opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, you must first read Republican history from the Summer of 2005.

Contrary to all that has been written since Thursday’s enactment of RobertsCare, John Roberts did not change. He has always been that way. Eight years ago, we were warned about the Roberts appointment, but most of us did not listen.

When Roberts was nominated, we were warned that he was a RINO jurist appointed by a RINO president — just as RINO Souter was appointed by the previous RINO president. To wit: read these two 2005 articles by Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter. They were absolutely 100% correct about Roberts!

President Bush’s Roberts Pick Disappoints by Ben Shapiro on 7/20/5
Pull quote: “Roberts is not an originalist. There is nothing in his very short jurisprudential record to indicate that his judicial philosophy involves strict fidelity to the original meaning of the Constitution.”

Fool Me 8 Times, Shame on Me by Ann Coulter on 7/27/5
RINOs on parade: (1) Earl Warren, (2) William Brennan, (3) Harry Blackmun, (4) John Stevens, (5) Sandra O’Connor, (6) Anthony Kennedy, (7) David Souter, and (8) John Roberts.
Pull quote re the Roberts nomination: “We have 55 Republican seats in the Senate…, and Son of Read-My-Lips gives us another ideological blind date.”

And published this afternoon, looking back to 2005:
A Thought about Chief Justice Roberts by David Bernstein on 6/30/12
Pull quote: Roberts “is extremely risk-averse.”

Also published today, remembering Roberts as a country-club Republican:
Why I Walked Out on John Roberts by Michael Filozof in American Thinker on 6/30/12
Pull quote: “Roberts seemed like the master of pleasing everyone all the time by saying nothing of substance.”

Conservatives had a 2005 alternative to Roberts; she was Janice Rogers Brown. But Brown was frowned upon by country-club Republicans because she is not an Ivy Leaguer. Even before last Thursday’s disgraceful decision, Janice Rogers Brown said the Supreme Court has “abdicated its Constitutional duty to protect economic rights.” See If only Janice Rogers Brown were on the Supreme Court dated 4/18/12.

Again, Republicans have proven beyond doubt the shibboleth of their party. It is axiomatic wisdom: Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity.

Our leaders, from Sarah Palin on the right to Mitt Romney on the left, now tell us we can defeat RobertsCare at the 11/6/12 election. Here is why they are wrong: A National Geographic poll taken this week reveals that 65% of American voters believe that Obama is better equipped than Romney to protect us from alien invaders from outer space.

In the unlikely event that Romney is elected, will he nominate Janice Rogers Brown? Of course not. Romney is not an originalist. Janice Rogers Brown’s copy of the Constitution does not have a respiratory system.

The Republican Party owns this one — RobertsCare!

He’s right about that poll, which says it all.

You need not show up on election day, you know. Your vote still counts — a lot.

At the Illinois Republican convention yesterday in Tinley Park, emphasis was on AB/EB, absentee ballot/early ballot as supremely important come election time. Wall St. Jnl has that today.

The Candidate: Scott Walker

The Play: Getting out the absentee vote

The Strategy: As Mr. Walker, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, tried to fend off an effort to recall him from office over his law limiting union power, Republicans rolled out a program to encourage less-than-reliable GOP voters to cast their ballots before Election Day using the state’s absentee-ballot option. The goal was to identify Wisconsin Republicans who were likely to support Mr. Walker but occasionally skipped elections. Mr. Walker prevailed, and RNC officials say they hope to use their absentee-voting efforts in Wisconsin as a model for …

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