Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2007

Benedict Murtha

 
HWT labels this artwork The face of the Left. It is reminiscent of John Murtha's statement that "we can't win militarily" in Iraq while we continue to win militarily.

Today's Democratic leadership cannot and will not admit that our troops are winning, even though the New York Times' op-ed columnists are saying so. John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi represent a failed and beaten Democratic contingent who cannot be called leaders. They are instead cheerleaders for a defeat that will never come and stewards for a policy of nothingness.

Some suspect that they suffer from a mild form of psychosis; a disease that the Washington Post calls "a state of denial." Voters will remind them soon that denial of very real American military successes and an inability to lead are an exceptionally poor combination.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Axis of Idiots

 
Now that the Democratic primary is heating up, J. D. Pendry's post from 2006 is worth revisiting (hat tips: Sgt. Kirk and Larwyn).

Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine sir. You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanimo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraq’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of the perpetrators of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.

American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America’s axis of idiots. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war – this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

No Commander in Chief, you don’t get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.

They need you to do it now.

J.D., apologies for quoting the whole thing, but it's too good to cut into soundbites.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Unintended Consequences

 
These are the switches once used to wiretap terrorists living in the Middle East who called into America.

These are the politicians that stopped international terrorist wiretaps in a play for political power.

This is the terrorist who received the call in Newark, New Jersey from a handler in Damascus.

These are the home-made explosives that were manufactured by the New Jersey terrorist cell using instructions found on a Syrian website.

This is the cell phone, wired for use as an igniter.

This is a cancer therapy machine, which uses a radioactive source called Cesium-137.

This is some of the Cesium-137 stolen from a facility that houses cancer therapy machines.

This is the van that carried the dirty bomb built using home-made explosives and Cesium-137.

This is the van parked on Wall Street several blocks away from the New York Stock Exchange.

This is the van after it detonated, scattering radioactive material over several square miles during a windy day.

This is one of the innocents killed by the explosion, who happened to be standing nearby.

This is one of the Hazmat teams, decontaminating after hours of cleanup.

These are Manhattan workers, leaving the city after being told to evacuate by emergency personnel.

This is a portion of Manhattan rendered uninhabitable for two to four years by the dirty bomb.

These are the politicians that stopped international terrorist wiretaps in a play for political power.

Peter D. Zimmerman, New York Times: Seize the Cesium

Update: Linked by Instapundit and Atlas Shrugs. Thanks!

Update II: Linked by Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, DANEgerus, Fausta's Blog, Pajamas Media, Riehl World View and Right on the Left Coast. Thanks!

Update III: Linked by Gateway Pundit. Thanks! Also linked by liberal progressive blog Sadly, No, who provides a truthfully entertaining vision of the evils of Bushitler-Halliburton-Blackwater-Corp. Who's got the battery cables so we can begin torturing the lefty bloggers? As for our progressive commenters, I think you missed the New York Times article linked at the bottom entitled "Seize the Cesium." Click and learn, my friends, click and learn.

Update IV: 24th State transformed this post into a commercial. Thanks!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Blog comment o' the day: Mexifornia

 
All seven of our regular readers are sure to enjoy this comment from Don Surber's blog; it's one of the most interesting we've seen since the Internet was discovered by Al Gore in 1968.

Commenter Jose Blow responds to another's assertion that "...[Nancy] Pelosi has helped improve America, even if only slightly. She’d do a lot more for this country if Republicans would just get out of the way.”

Well, I live in Southern California. Anybody who wants to see how the Dems have “improved” the state are welcome to come here and check it out for themselves.

We’re overrun with illegals who we’re pelting with giant wads of cash. Our businesses are fleeing like Saddam’s army. Our emergency rooms have either closed or have become like the Department of Motor Vehicles, where you sit for hours among people who speak no English, to be waited on by people who speak broken English.

Our roads are so potholed you’ll actually lose pieces of your car as you bounce and plunge over them. Our law-enforcement officers aren’t allowed to use any level of force against non-Caucasians, or they’ll get suspended or fired before they’re sued.

A huge portion of our work force is on the government payroll, and they’re always clamoring for more benefits, higher salaries, and bigger pensions. Our politicians are as corrupt as oily banana-republic dictators. Our schools produce people who can’t read, write, or think, and who answer every challenge with the shout of “Racism! Gimmie money!”

California is a Third World nanny state. This is what the Dems want for the rest of you. We’re done here. We’re toast. The Golden State is no more. We’ve become Mexifornia, with a few obscenely wealthy oligarchs living in splendid isolation, a dwindling middle class, and a giant writhing mass of poor who’ll never be good for anything except manual labor, breeding, and voting themselves more government handouts.

But that doesn’t mean the rest of you have to go the same way.

Stop the Dems before it’s too late.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Democratic Earmark Reform Charade

 
Mark Tapscott describes the Democrats' latest efforts to protect their precious earmarks.

Some of my Senate sources have gotten a copy of the 107 page "ethics and earmark reform" bill crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi... [they] are for the most gutting concrete earmark and ethics reform while preserving just enough of the appearance of reform to be able to claim to have fulfilled their 2006 campaign promises... Put another way - it's all a charade.

...Sen. Tom Coburn's staff has gone through the Reid/Pelosi text and compared it to the previously approved earmark reform bill adopted unanimously by the Senate in January. They put the results of their examination in a handy chart:

ProvisionSenate-passed BillNew Bill
Prohibits Senators from trading earmarks for votesYesNo
Prohibits Senators and staff from promoting earmarks from which they or their families would receive a direct financial benefitYesNo
Allows the Senate parliamentarian, not the Majority Leader, to determine if a bill complies with earmark disclosure rulesYesNo
Prohibits consideration of bills, joint resolutions, or conference reports if earmarks are not disclosedYesNo
Requires earmarks attached to a conference report to be publicly available on the Internet in a searchable format 48 hours before considerationYesNo
Requires 67 votes to suspend the earmark disclosure ruleYesNo
Requires a full day's notice prior to attempting to suspend the earmark disclosure ruleYesNo
Requires all earmark certifications from Senators to be posted on the Internet within 48 hoursYesNo


It's a good thing the Democrats have eradicated the "culture of corruption". Problem is, they've only eradicated the phrase from their lexicon. In the mean time, Alan 'Instant Millionaire' Mollohan, Jack 'The Earmark King' Murtha, and William 'Freezer Burn' Jefferson continue to serve in the oh-so-proud Democratic Congress.

If their culture gets any more corrupt, the Democrats will be wearing sandwich boards with the going prices for votes listed.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Reid and Pelosi plan the Democrats' next move

 

Did you see the latest LA Times poll?


Yep. We're down to a 27% approval rating. And you're at 18%, which is exactly half of Chimpy's rating!


Yes, I know, thanks! So what do we do about it, Miss Smarty Pants? If we don't take some action soon, Hillary will have a better shot at winning the Miss America pageant than the Presidency.


Well, maybe we should do something... something important. Pass some laws n' stuff.


Laws? S**t, you're talking work, consensus-building, listening to our constituents... how 'bout just issuing some press releases instead?


Oh, you mean like a no-confidence vote on the Attorney General? That worked out real well, didn't it, Sparky?


No, no, NO! Nothing controversial! How about a statement that says we'll do everything in our power to fight earmarks and pork-barrel politics?


Boehner's already on to us! That idiot Obey tried to slip the earmarks into our spending bills after they've been agreed to and signed, when it's too late to do anything about them!


You know, I'm sitting right here next to you! I can hear you both!


Ooops. Sorry. How about a statement that recommends banning the employment of Congressional family members as lobbyists?


WHATTT??!?! Hand me that glass, I want some of what you're drinking! You trying to send my whole family to the unemployment line?


Hey, brainiac, I'm talking about a statement condemning the practice, not a law! It'll be as meaningless as everything else we've tried to do this term, but it'll look like we're actually doing something.


I don't know... hey, how about a statement regarding the ill-fated immigration bill. Say, that we support building a fence? You know, 72% of all Americans support that... wouldn't that make sense?


We already passed that bill, Mr. Memory. We authorized the construction of 700 miles of fencing on the border in October, remember? But we don't really want any such thing - it would jeopardize our projected majority...


But what if we issue a strongly-worded statement condemning the president for not building the fence... and we get Dowd, Rich, Cohen, and company to hammer Bush for not getting anything done?


Harry, you really are a genius! You know, if you were twenty years younger, four inches taller, a lot more manly, and had a full head of hair, I think I could fall for you.


Seriously?


No, idiot, of course not! I'll see you tomorrow. And don't forget to call Dowd to get the ball rolling.


Will do, sweet-cheeks. *Sigh*. I really do dig her.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Nancy Pelosi and a Culture of Corruption

 
Amid promises to clean up the beltway, Democrats swung into power in 2006, albeit by the slimmest of margins. With their commitments to "drain the swamp" and eradicate a "culture of corruption", Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid drove a metaphorical stake into the ground. It now appears that the stake is rotten at its core, termite-infested and destined for the woodpile.

While Reid has been linked to lobbyist-slash-convicted felon Jack Abramoff and received a highly irregular $1.1 million "windfall" on a Las Vegas land sale, Pelosi has thus far escaped major scrutiny. That is, until now.

Newsmax reports that Nancy Pelosi's son -- Paul Jr. -- was hired by controversial list-broker InfoUSA. His job: a $180,000 "Vice President for Strategic Planning." Interestingly, Paul kept his other full-time job as a mortgage loan officer for Countrywide Loans (California) and does not report to work at InfoUSA's headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dick Morris notes that Pelosi's son was offered the job only after his mother became Speaker of the House. And that such a payment is highly unorthodox given Pelosi has "no experience at all in the basic business of InfoUSA". Morris goes on to describe a possible rationale for InfoUSA's bizarre hiring practices:

InfoUSA is the same company that has been cited by the New York Times for creating marketing lists that were used by con artists to fleece vulnerable elderly people. The lists had provocative names and offered the names of elderly people with cancer, elderly people with Alzheimer's and gamblers over 55 years of age who think their luck will change. After purchasing the lists, the con artists would call and convince the elderly person that they had actually ordered an expensive item. Once they received the victim's financial information, they often emptied their bank accounts, leaving many people penniless. Some of InfoUSA's internal e-mails suggest that company employees were aware that several of the companies they sold the lists to were under investigation.

...it is likely that Congress will eventually address privacy issues involved with the selling of data that InfoUSA sells. Pelosi would be directly involved in that legislation, and her son should not be involved with the company in any way... [InfoUSA's payments] to Pelosi's son can only be viewed as an investment and should be stopped.

The Pelosi family's conflicts of interest smell like Fisherman's Wharf on a hot day.