That is, if he wants to retain a majority and his Speakership next year.
Line in the Sand, a speech by Speaker of the House John Boehner
The ill-named Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare -- has been a "trainwreck" according to its very architects since day one. From the CLASS Act, to the delay of the Employer Mandate, to exempting Congress from the law, the sheer size and complexity of this partisan bill makes it virtually impossible to implement.
I and my peers, all of us, we took an oath to uphold the Constitution. And today we are going to stand by that oath and defend the Constitution of the United States.
This bill was passed in an unconstitutional fashion -- with bribes and payoffs and other skulduggery -- by a single party that temporarily held power during the 110th Congress. The bill consisted of thousands of pages and not one person was permitted to read the bill before it was voted upon.
This bill fundamentally changes the relationship of the citizen to the government.
This is an unconscionable violation of representative government. Nancy Pelosi famously told us we had to pass the bill to find out what's in it. Now we know, and it's an unconstitutional disaster.
Because a single judge bows to some unknown pressure, and changes his vote at the last minute to rewrite a bill that is clearly unconstitutional... because, unlike every other entitlement program, Democrats had no Republican support for this bill...
Because Democrats used every underhanded tactic -- bribes, payoffs and corporate reacharounds -- possible to pass a bill that not one of them read before voting upon...
Because the IRS, already caught punishing groups based upon their political and religious affiliations, will be the enforcers of Obamacare... because radical, left wing groups like La Raza and ACORN will be hired as "Obamacare Navigators" with access to their political opponents' most sensitive health care data...
Because jobs are being destroyed. Because good jobs are disappearing before our very eyes as small businesses are driven not to hire by the law. Because full-time jobs are turning to part-time jobs. Because employers are slashing benefits for spouses and other family members to adapt to a law no one read.
Because the lies that were told to sell this bill were as awful as they were brazen... Because you can't keep your policy, you can't keep your doctor, you can't keep your plan, you can't keep your insurer, and you will pay far more, not far less...
Because Democrat lobbyists and staffers are raking in million advising companies how to comply with the tens of thousands of pages of regulations that this law has spawned... Because they have built a law so complex that no one can possibly understand its effects without paying off the very people who created it!
Most of all, because the people who want Obamacare most are the very same people who have exempted themselves from the law! Obamacare waivers have been issued for Congress, staffers, unions, special interest groups...
I have a question for President Obama and the Democrats? Aren't the American people the most important special interest group Congress serves? The vast majority of Americans want a waiver from Obamacare, just like the lobbyists and the other Beltway elites.
True to my word, Republicans will not shut down the government. We have passed a continuing resolution that funds every single aspect of the federal government except for Obamacare. Every single penny.
But we are drawing a line in the sand when it comes to the trainwreck of Obamacare. We want at least a year delay in its implementation, just like Congress, just like the unions, just like the employers subject to the mandate, and just like other Democrat special interests got.
So if Democrats want to shut down the government, so be it. The House Continuing Resolution funds the entirety of the government -- every single penny -- just not the trainwreck called Obamacare, which President Obama has already defunded for his pals. The vast majority of the American people have told us over and over again: we want a waiver from Obamacare too, just like Congress got.
Call up your Senator and tell them: we want a waiver too. Pass the House Continuing Resolution and delay Obamacare now.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
MARK LEVIN TRANSCRIPT: Just How Desperate is the New Obamacare Sales Pitch?
Via Hannity
JOINING ME NOW, THE AUTHOR OF, NUMBER ONE ON AMAZON FOR OVER A WEEK, "THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS," MARK LEVIN FROM HIS BUNKER.
SIR, HOW ARE YOU?
>> I'M GOOD, HOW ARE YOU, SEAN?
>> I GUESS NEXT THEY'LL BE SINGING SONGS TO CASTRO AFTER THIS, MARK.
>> YEAH, WHY NOT? I MEAN, WE'RE ADOPTING THE CASTRO AGENDA, AREN'T WE? OBAMA CARE IS A -- NOT ONLY IS IT A COMPLETE DISASTER, BUT I'M AFRAID, SEAN, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET RID OF IT.
BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF IT.
AND INSTEAD OF TAKING ON OBAMA AND TAKING ON THE LEFT, THEY'RE TAKING ON THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS AND ATTACKING THEM, TELLING US TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY.
THESE FRENCH REPUBLICANS, THEY ARE ALWAYS SURRENDERING.
AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ALEAST ATTACK THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDING OR USE THE POWER OF THE PURSE IN THE HOUSE TO PASS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT FUNDS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, BUT NOT THIS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHAT'S LEFT? ONCE THIS THING IS INSTITUTED, IT'S NOT GOING TO IMPLODE.
I HEAR THIS, OH, THE LAW IS GOING TO IMPLODE.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AN IMPLODING LAW?
>> NO, NEVER.
>> YOU HAVE TO REPEAL A LAW.
YOU HAVE TO DEFUND A LAW.
LAWS DON'T IMPLODE.
JOINING ME NOW, THE AUTHOR OF, NUMBER ONE ON AMAZON FOR OVER A WEEK, "THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS," MARK LEVIN FROM HIS BUNKER.
SIR, HOW ARE YOU?
>> I'M GOOD, HOW ARE YOU, SEAN?
>> I GUESS NEXT THEY'LL BE SINGING SONGS TO CASTRO AFTER THIS, MARK.
>> YEAH, WHY NOT? I MEAN, WE'RE ADOPTING THE CASTRO AGENDA, AREN'T WE? OBAMA CARE IS A -- NOT ONLY IS IT A COMPLETE DISASTER, BUT I'M AFRAID, SEAN, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET RID OF IT.BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF IT.
AND INSTEAD OF TAKING ON OBAMA AND TAKING ON THE LEFT, THEY'RE TAKING ON THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS AND ATTACKING THEM, TELLING US TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY.
THESE FRENCH REPUBLICANS, THEY ARE ALWAYS SURRENDERING.
AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ALEAST ATTACK THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDING OR USE THE POWER OF THE PURSE IN THE HOUSE TO PASS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT FUNDS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, BUT NOT THIS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHAT'S LEFT? ONCE THIS THING IS INSTITUTED, IT'S NOT GOING TO IMPLODE.
I HEAR THIS, OH, THE LAW IS GOING TO IMPLODE.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AN IMPLODING LAW?
>> NO, NEVER.
>> YOU HAVE TO REPEAL A LAW.
YOU HAVE TO DEFUND A LAW.
LAWS DON'T IMPLODE.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Attention, Reince Priebus and John Boehner: More Than a Dozen Maine Republicans Just Fled the Party
If the Republican Party disintegrates, you can thank its spineless [air quotes] "leadership" including John Boehner and Reince Priebus. James Daniels at DownTrend explains:
Mark Levin alludes to this kind of drastic action in his new book, The Liberty Amendments. Levin asserts that the answers for fixing Washington cannot be found in Washington.
The answers instead lie in the power of the states, the very states that gave birth to the federal government. These powers, articulated in the second amendment process of Article V of the Constitution, have laid dormant for more than two centuries.
The second Article V process allows the states to amend the Constitution without any Congressional or Executive Branch involvement. It bypasses the federal government altogether. It is an escape hatch against an oppressive federal government.
Levin notes that the second process was only included at the insistence of George Mason -- the famed anti-federalist -- who predicted the very quandary in which know find ourselves. That is, a federal government run amok, with each branch conspiring with the other to evade the constraints of the Constitution, growing ever larger and more tyrannical, tightening the circle of liberty around each individual like a noose.
Such a federal government, Mason presciently observed, would never agree to limit itself. And such is the political landscape today, with a far left political-and-media complex running an Executive and an immense, unelected fourth branch of government, unchecked by the courts and assisted by Congress.
Levin's approach is an escape hatch for liberty.
The states that created the federal government must be the instruments that reign it back in, reestablishing the Constitutional limits that made America great.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Bangor Daily News published an interesting letter Monday from 13 Maine Republicans to State GOP Secretary Chuck Mahaleris. The letter, signed by six Maine Republican state committee members, a state RNC member and six other registered Republicans, addresses numerous glaring problems within the party both at the state and federal level.
One of their most notable criticisms is that of Speaker of the House John Boehner. The defecting Republicans condemn him for his decision to purge the most fiscally conservative Republicans from their leadership positions in late 2012.
And, they criticize the House’s “utter disdain” for the Constitution in its handling of the Amash Amendment, which would have restrained NSA surveillance... Among their other criticisms of Congressional Republicans include their support for:
• An Internet sales tax
• Gun control
• Illegal immigrants
• Illegal wars
The group also claims the RNC has “no intention of reforming and would rather fly under invalid rules than to right the wrongs of Tampa” in reference to rules battles that have taken place since the 2012 convention...
Hopefully, their decision will serve as a wakeup call to the Republican Party, which all-too-often abandons the principles of fiscal responsibility and freedom for its own gain. Until then, let’s hope more Republicans (and Democrats, for that matter) jump ship instead of contributing to the destruction of the very values that once made America great.
Mark Levin alludes to this kind of drastic action in his new book, The Liberty Amendments. Levin asserts that the answers for fixing Washington cannot be found in Washington.
The answers instead lie in the power of the states, the very states that gave birth to the federal government. These powers, articulated in the second amendment process of Article V of the Constitution, have laid dormant for more than two centuries.The second Article V process allows the states to amend the Constitution without any Congressional or Executive Branch involvement. It bypasses the federal government altogether. It is an escape hatch against an oppressive federal government.
Levin notes that the second process was only included at the insistence of George Mason -- the famed anti-federalist -- who predicted the very quandary in which know find ourselves. That is, a federal government run amok, with each branch conspiring with the other to evade the constraints of the Constitution, growing ever larger and more tyrannical, tightening the circle of liberty around each individual like a noose.
Such a federal government, Mason presciently observed, would never agree to limit itself. And such is the political landscape today, with a far left political-and-media complex running an Executive and an immense, unelected fourth branch of government, unchecked by the courts and assisted by Congress.
Levin's approach is an escape hatch for liberty.
The states that created the federal government must be the instruments that reign it back in, reestablishing the Constitutional limits that made America great.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Marines preparing for IEDs carrying WMD payloads
Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Iran: since the ascent of Barack Obama to the presidency, a series of baffling and bizarre decisions (and non-decisions) on the part of the administration have left the Mideast awash in violence and misery.
Which explains the U.S. Marines preparing for WMDs in improvised explosive devices (IEDs):
Which reminds me: Hillary Clinton is the greatest Secretary of State ever.
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
Which explains the U.S. Marines preparing for WMDs in improvised explosive devices (IEDs):
The Marine Corps’ explosives experts are enhancing their training to prepare for expected future encounters with improvised bombs carrying chemical, biological or radiological agents — so-called weapons of mass destruction...
To date, such improvised explosives have not been a credible threat on the battlefield, especially in improvised explosive devices. In Iraq, a few failed attempts were made using industrial chemicals, but the Marine Corps considers improvised WMDs a threat that’s likely, according to a contract solicitation from the service seeking assistance in developing this new training.
Marines with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company at Camp Pendleton will attend the new Weapons of Mass Destruction Design and Defeat Course in October. The goal is to improve EOD techs’ chances for survival should they encounter improvised WMD, and help deployed forces adapt to the threat.
It is a matter of time before improvised WMD are used against U.S. forces, says Steven Bucci, ... a retired Army Special Forces officer, said attempts in Iraq demonstrated the enemy’s willingness to use them. All they lack are the materials, and failing states like Syria, which possess weaponized chemical agents, could provide them.
Improvised WMD would most likely incorporate chemical agents, Bucci said. While they are difficult to manufacture and weaponize, much of the work is done if enemy forces obtain chemical weapons from an unsecured national stockpile — artillery shells, for example.
“The bad guys know how to detonate artillery shells as IEDs,” Bucci said. “They did that in Iraq and Afghanistan. If they are chemical weapon shells or warheads, then you have a potential problem. So while that has not been a particular threat in the past — other than these lame attempts in Iraq — if they can get some of these things out of Syria, the possibility of creating chemical IEDs goes way up..."
Which reminds me: Hillary Clinton is the greatest Secretary of State ever.
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Will Mark Levin Actually Moderate the GOP Debates? Exclusive Interview with RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer
A few days ago Sean Spicer, the Communications Director of the Republican National Committee, made a surprising statement: he said that Mark Levin should moderate the GOP debates. Levin has formally accepted the offer. To explore this issue and a few others, I made a few attempts to get a hold of Mr. Spicer and, after a time, was able to synch up with him this evening.
Ross: Sean, thanks very much for taking the time out of your schedule to meet with us. Give us a little bit of background on yourself and how you arrived at the RNC and rose to such a key position.
Spicer: I got involved in several Congressional campaigns, House races in the nineties... after a time, I became the Republican National Congressional Committee's Retention Director. Three years later, I became a spokesman for the House Budget Committee. More recently, for the last three years of the Bush Administration I had a very lengthy title, but was really a trade spokesman.
Ross: Sean, a recent statement you made really caught conservatives by surprise -- and in a positive way. You said you thought Mark Levin and perhaps other conservative thought leaders should moderate GOP debates. How serious was that statement and did the reaction catch you by surprise?
Spicer: That was a very serious statement. Obviously, we're not at a point yet of picking debate forums or moderators, but we are definitely committed to energizing the conservative base. It's common sense: anyone's who listening to Rush, Levin, Hannity... they are addressing the issues that the grassroots are concerned with.
What I also find absolutely unbelievable is that in 2008 Chris Matthews, of all people, moderated two GOP debates. Yet why wouldn't we insist on the converse situation?
Ross: Sean, thanks very much for taking the time out of your schedule to meet with us. Give us a little bit of background on yourself and how you arrived at the RNC and rose to such a key position.
Spicer: I got involved in several Congressional campaigns, House races in the nineties... after a time, I became the Republican National Congressional Committee's Retention Director. Three years later, I became a spokesman for the House Budget Committee. More recently, for the last three years of the Bush Administration I had a very lengthy title, but was really a trade spokesman.
Ross: Sean, a recent statement you made really caught conservatives by surprise -- and in a positive way. You said you thought Mark Levin and perhaps other conservative thought leaders should moderate GOP debates. How serious was that statement and did the reaction catch you by surprise?
Spicer: That was a very serious statement. Obviously, we're not at a point yet of picking debate forums or moderators, but we are definitely committed to energizing the conservative base. It's common sense: anyone's who listening to Rush, Levin, Hannity... they are addressing the issues that the grassroots are concerned with.
What I also find absolutely unbelievable is that in 2008 Chris Matthews, of all people, moderated two GOP debates. Yet why wouldn't we insist on the converse situation?
Thursday, August 15, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: White House releases new photo from Situation Room during Bin Laden raid; proves Love and Obama weren't playing cards
Earlier today Biff Spackle received the following encrypted email concerning the Reggie Love-Barack Obama card game controversy:
Well, I suppose that clears things up.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:04:06 -0700
To: Biff Spackle <biff@badblue.com>
From: Richard Windsor <fatlisa@whitehouse.gov>
Subject: Proof that Obama was in the Situation Room during Bin Laden raid
TELL YOUR WINGNUT FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE PROOF THAT OUR LIGHTBRINGER WAS NOT1!!!!!!!! PLAYING CARDS WITH REGGIE!!!!!!
SEE???? WE WANT A RETRACTION!!!! BECHES@!!!.
RW
Well, I suppose that clears things up.
China aggressively testing advanced nukes that can hit mainland U.S. as Obama slashes missile defense
Guest post by Investors Business Daily
Defense: Beijing tests a mobile missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. and prepares to deploy ballistic missile submarines that can do the same, while our commander-in-chief slashes our missile defenses.
In a speech before the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Rep. Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., chairman of the House armed services subcommittee on strategic forces, warned that the Obama administration has cut $6 billion from U.S. missile defense programs at a time of growing missile threats from potential adversaries.
According to Rogers, Obama cut $1.16 billion from missile defense — a 10% reduction — in his first budget as president and has continued the reductions. "Over four fiscal years, this underfunding adds up to almost $6 billion less than President Bush planned for missile defense; this represents a 16% reduction," Rogers said.
Thanks largely to President George W. Bush and his push to fulfill President Ronald Reagan's dream, the continental U.S. and overseas allies are protected against missile attack by 30 deployed long-range Ground Based Interceptors (GBI), 32 ships armed with more than 100 SM-3 IA interceptors, and two dozen advanced SM-3 IB interceptors, dozens of Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, and eight X-band missile defense radars deployed abroad.
However, a GBI test on July 5, the first such test in five years, failed. Our missile defense capabilities, which President Obama told the Russians he would have more "flexibility" to scuttle after his re-election, have been allowed to atrophy and deteriorate.
To placate Moscow, President Obama betrayed our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic by abandoning plans to deploy GBIs and missile defense radar there.
Other programs canceled by the Obama administration include a missile defense space sensor system; a next-generation Aegis missile, which was to replace the abandoned European GBIs; the Airborne Laser, an airborne sensor system; and a next-generation missile defense interceptor kill vehicle.
Defense: Beijing tests a mobile missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. and prepares to deploy ballistic missile submarines that can do the same, while our commander-in-chief slashes our missile defenses.
In a speech before the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Rep. Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., chairman of the House armed services subcommittee on strategic forces, warned that the Obama administration has cut $6 billion from U.S. missile defense programs at a time of growing missile threats from potential adversaries.
According to Rogers, Obama cut $1.16 billion from missile defense — a 10% reduction — in his first budget as president and has continued the reductions. "Over four fiscal years, this underfunding adds up to almost $6 billion less than President Bush planned for missile defense; this represents a 16% reduction," Rogers said.
Thanks largely to President George W. Bush and his push to fulfill President Ronald Reagan's dream, the continental U.S. and overseas allies are protected against missile attack by 30 deployed long-range Ground Based Interceptors (GBI), 32 ships armed with more than 100 SM-3 IA interceptors, and two dozen advanced SM-3 IB interceptors, dozens of Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, and eight X-band missile defense radars deployed abroad.
However, a GBI test on July 5, the first such test in five years, failed. Our missile defense capabilities, which President Obama told the Russians he would have more "flexibility" to scuttle after his re-election, have been allowed to atrophy and deteriorate.
To placate Moscow, President Obama betrayed our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic by abandoning plans to deploy GBIs and missile defense radar there.
Other programs canceled by the Obama administration include a missile defense space sensor system; a next-generation Aegis missile, which was to replace the abandoned European GBIs; the Airborne Laser, an airborne sensor system; and a next-generation missile defense interceptor kill vehicle.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
CNN: During Bin Laden Attack, Obama Abandoned Situation Room to Play Hours of Cards With Reggie Love
While the famous photo op depicts President Obama hunkered down in the Situation Room while SEAL Team 6 pulled off its dazzling assault on Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, the reality was far more galling.
Via CNN, we discover that a bored President Obama and his "body man" Reggie Love were deeply engaged in hours of card-playing during the attack.
The revealing video appears to have been sufficiently damning that it has since been removed by the user who uploaded it.
Which begs the question: since the media still will not ask what the president was doing for eight hours while the Benghazi attack raged, perhaps we could ask Reggie Love.
And: what the hell is a "body man"?
Hat tips: Weasel Zippers and Wanda.
Via CNN, we discover that a bored President Obama and his "body man" Reggie Love were deeply engaged in hours of card-playing during the attack.
A famous photo shows President Barack Obama hunkered down in the Situation Room in May 2011 with his national security team as U.S. Navy SEALS carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
But his former body man Reggie Love said in an interview posted online Wednesday that Obama also played cards to distract himself during the day-long ordeal...
...In the July 18 interview, which took place during a lunch hosted by UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, Love talked about life with the president, including the historic moment more than two years ago when bin Laden was killed.
Describing it as a "very long day," Love said most people were in the Situation Room but Obama came to the private dining room to play cards with Love, White House photographer Pete Souza and staffer Marvin Nicholson.
"[President Obama] was like, 'I'm not, I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing'," Love said. "We must have played 15 hands-15 games of Spades."
The revealing video appears to have been sufficiently damning that it has since been removed by the user who uploaded it.
Which begs the question: since the media still will not ask what the president was doing for eight hours while the Benghazi attack raged, perhaps we could ask Reggie Love.
And: what the hell is a "body man"?
Hat tips: Weasel Zippers and Wanda.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
It Would Seem That the Email Address of Sean Spicer, the so-called RNC "Communications Director", is a National Secret
There's a rumor circulating that the Republican Party has a Communications Director by the name of "Sean Spicer".
I had the idea of interviewing Mr. Spicer concerning his offer to Levin -- which the famed author, attorney and radio host has formally accepted -- but contacting the "Communications" director has proven more difficult than interviewing Jimmy Hoffa.
Tweeting @SeanSpicer hasn't worked thus far.
Nor has emailing every permutation of email address I can think of, including -- but not limited to:
• sean.spicer@rnc.org; sean@rnc.org; seans@rnc.org; spicer@rnc.org; ssspicer@rnc.org;
• sean.spicer@gop.com; sean@gop.com; seans@gop.com; spicer@gop.com; ssspicer@gop.com;
All of which were returned as undeliverable.
It would seem that the Republican Party's "Communications Director" is in the Witness Protection Program.
He's harder to get a hold of than Howard Hughes.
All of which seems appropriate for a GOP that is more out of touch with its conservative base than Michael Moore with his toes.
Update: Hallelujah! I have received an email and a tweet from Mr. Spicer himself. I will keep you apprised as to our communications.
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Sean Spicer, the communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC), said conservative talk radio host Mark Levin should ask 2016 Republican presidential candidates questions in debates during the next election cycle... [he said,] "the people who are out there talking to grassroots" should be asking Republican presidential candidates questions in the debates...
"Mark Levin should ask the questions," Spicer declared...
...He urged listeners to follow him and send him feedback and ideas on twitter to him (@SeanSpicer) and Priebus (@Reince).
Spicer said he could not emphasize how even the simplest suggestion can be adopted and help make the RNC better and more receptive to the concerns that grassroots conservatives, bloggers, and activists have...
I had the idea of interviewing Mr. Spicer concerning his offer to Levin -- which the famed author, attorney and radio host has formally accepted -- but contacting the "Communications" director has proven more difficult than interviewing Jimmy Hoffa.
Tweeting @SeanSpicer hasn't worked thus far.
Nor has emailing every permutation of email address I can think of, including -- but not limited to:
• sean.spicer@rnc.org; sean@rnc.org; seans@rnc.org; spicer@rnc.org; ssspicer@rnc.org;
• sean.spicer@gop.com; sean@gop.com; seans@gop.com; spicer@gop.com; ssspicer@gop.com;
All of which were returned as undeliverable.
It would seem that the Republican Party's "Communications Director" is in the Witness Protection Program.
He's harder to get a hold of than Howard Hughes.
All of which seems appropriate for a GOP that is more out of touch with its conservative base than Michael Moore with his toes.
Update: Hallelujah! I have received an email and a tweet from Mr. Spicer himself. I will keep you apprised as to our communications.
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
GERAGHTY: McAuliffe vs. Cuccinelli is a dry run for Hillary 2016
Writing at The Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty raises some excellent points for conservatives to ponder.
We Constitutional conservatives like to think we have far more support for our principles than the RINO establishment has for its non-principles. We need to prove it when it comes to serious candidates like Cuccinelli, especially when lined up against loathsome, crooked-as-a-corkscrew moonbats like Terry McAuliffe.
If you have a few bucks to spare, please drop by Ken Cuccinelli's site and help out.
You can read Geraghty most days he decides to wake up before noon by subscribing to The Morning Jolt.
Why the Cuccinelli vs. McAuliffe Race Matters to You, Even If You Don't Live in VirginiaGeraghty's right.
First, does anyone want to argue that Ken Cuccinelli–Virginia's attorney general, and the current GOP candidate for governor – is not a conservative?
- Led the legal challenge to Obamacare.
- Defended Arizona's immigration-enforcement statute.
- Filed legal challenges to the EPA's findings on greenhouse gases being a threat to human health and thus an emission they have the authority to regulate.
- Supports right to life from conception until death, supported and pushed several pro-life bills while in the state legislature.
- Endorsed by the NRA.
...So if you're one of those folks who believes that Mitt Romney was a RINO squish, and that Republicans always lose when they nominate RINO squishes, then you really, really, really need Ken Cuccinelli to win this year.If Ken Cuccinelli – Mr. Conservative Record – loses against a flawed competitor like Terry McAuliffe, in a purple state like Virginia . . . and simultaneously, Governor Hug-Obama-After-a-Hurricane-and-Move-Left wins in a landslide up in New Jersey . . . the message to the rest of the Republican party will be pretty clear. What you fervently believe – conservatives win, moderate squishes lose – will be refuted in the eyes of many Republicans.
Proud conservatives like to believe that their like-minded grassroots voters are, collectively, like a sleeping giant... [but if] the conservative grassroots are indeed a sleeping giant, so far they're hitting the "snooze" button on this race. At least through mid-summer, Cuccinelli's fundraising is pretty "meh"...Cuccinelli, 44, had $2.7 million in cash as of the end of June, compared with $6 million for McAuliffe, 56, the former national Democratic Party chairman and fundraiser. While McAuliffe had been expected to out-raise Cuccinelli, the Republican is lagging behind where McDonnell was at this point in his 2009 race, when he had $4.9 million in cash on hand.What, national conservatives, the stakes aren't high enough? You don't feel sufficiently invested in the success of Cuccinelli in November?Okay, then think of the Terry McAuliffe 2013 campaign as a dress rehearsal for the Hillary Clinton 2016 effort.Because that's how the McAuliffe team sees themselves ... In fact, McAuliffe and some of his top allies have suggested to big donors and consultants that supporting his campaign is a way to get in on the ground floor of Hillary 2016, several donors and operatives told POLITICO.
We Constitutional conservatives like to think we have far more support for our principles than the RINO establishment has for its non-principles. We need to prove it when it comes to serious candidates like Cuccinelli, especially when lined up against loathsome, crooked-as-a-corkscrew moonbats like Terry McAuliffe.
If you have a few bucks to spare, please drop by Ken Cuccinelli's site and help out.
You can read Geraghty most days he decides to wake up before noon by subscribing to The Morning Jolt.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Full-auto Gauss gun "has 3D printed guns running scared"
Daddy like.
The video at the link won't have anyone trading in their AR-15, but the technology does show a great deal of promise.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
3D-printed guns have been making the news a lot recently. That's not to say that they and their creators don't deserve the press — people arming themselves without so much as a permit is pretty terrifying. But whoever it was that said 3D printing was the only way for people to circumvent the law and arm themselves just might not have seen this bad boy.
This fully-automatic Gauss gun, dubbed the CG-42, has a 15-round capacity and can fire an entire clip of ammo in 1.5 seconds. What it fires is almost as frightening as the gun itself, because the CG-42 is armed with nails, side-stepping the need for even the slightest of paper trails.
A Gauss gun, also known as a coilgun, is a battery-operated, electromagnetic linear motor which pulls a projectile forward faster and faster until it exits the weapon's muzzle, no gunpowder required. The CG-42 has a muzzle velocity of 138 feet per second, which doesn't sound like a lot until you see it put a nail right through a laptop's casing. Gauss guns also get more powerful the longer you make them, so a Gauss "rifle" would be capable of much more destruction...
The video at the link won't have anyone trading in their AR-15, but the technology does show a great deal of promise.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
President Obama Orders 22 U.S. Embassies Closed Over Fears of Widespread Workplace Violence
Al Qaeda, as the theme song of the Democrat National Convention goes, is on the run.
Indeed, worldwide terrorist groups are quite literally on the run, including a recent and explosive entry in the Boston Marathon. All over the world, radical Jihadists have grown sufficiently emboldened to convene a global conference call, patching in at least 20 terror leaders for what must have been a jolly recounting of the Obama administration's policy of weakness, appeasement and preemptive surrender.
Let me put this in terms even a Democrat can understand: the Obama administration's policies of willful blindness and Jihadi appeasement have resulted in a global, de facto surrender to radical Islam.
Obama's failures are represented perfectly in the case of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan. This piece of pig excrement is on trial in Killeen, Texas this week on charges of "workplace violence" after he killed or wounded 43 individuals at a Texas Army base.
In an utterly disgraceful act on the part of the Obama administration, Hasan's rampage has not been categorized as an act of terrorism though that is clearly what it was. Sara Noble explains that the Holder Justice Department has instead labeled Hasan's slaughter as "workplace violence".
As Noble observes, the Ft. Hood attack was categorized as "workplace violence" because he faced reelection and needed to pretend that Al Qaeda was "on the run". Just like Benghazi. Just like Benghazi.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Indeed, worldwide terrorist groups are quite literally on the run, including a recent and explosive entry in the Boston Marathon. All over the world, radical Jihadists have grown sufficiently emboldened to convene a global conference call, patching in at least 20 terror leaders for what must have been a jolly recounting of the Obama administration's policy of weakness, appeasement and preemptive surrender.
The crucial intercept that prompted the U.S. government to close embassies in 22 countries was a conference call between al Qaeda’s senior leaders and representatives of several of the group’s affiliates throughout the region...
...included [on the call were] the leaders or representatives of the top leadership of al Qaeda and its affiliates calling in from different locations, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence. All told, said one U.S. intelligence official, more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call...
...Al Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from [Yemen,] Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan branch. Also on the call were representatives of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
Let me put this in terms even a Democrat can understand: the Obama administration's policies of willful blindness and Jihadi appeasement have resulted in a global, de facto surrender to radical Islam.
Obama's failures are represented perfectly in the case of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan. This piece of pig excrement is on trial in Killeen, Texas this week on charges of "workplace violence" after he killed or wounded 43 individuals at a Texas Army base.
[Hasan] said he was as a soldier who switched sides in what he described as a war between America and his Islamic faith. He then fell silent for most of the day... Maj. Hasan had also asked to argue that he carried out the shooting in "defense of others," namely members of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan, but the judge denied that strategy.
In an utterly disgraceful act on the part of the Obama administration, Hasan's rampage has not been categorized as an act of terrorism though that is clearly what it was. Sara Noble explains that the Holder Justice Department has instead labeled Hasan's slaughter as "workplace violence".
Nadal Hassan... began his opening statement at his trial Tuesday saying, “The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter... We mujahedeen are imperfect soldiers trying to form a perfect religion. I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavor,” the unrepentant Hasan said...
...The act of terror by Hasan, who was in contact with now-deceased terrorist Anwar al-Awalaki, was declared an incident of workplace violence though it was obviously a terrorist attack...
...The victims are and were not eligible for the Purple Heart as a result.
As Noble observes, the Ft. Hood attack was categorized as "workplace violence" because he faced reelection and needed to pretend that Al Qaeda was "on the run". Just like Benghazi. Just like Benghazi.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
15 Overpasses for Impeachment Photos You'll Never See in Legacy Media
"Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment" Rallies were held nationwide today to protest both the president's stunning series of scandals and the silence of a complicit media.
Some of the highlights:
Via @MsJulie
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Some of the highlights:
Via @ShariaFighter
Via @RedEarthFlame
Via @MericanDude
Via @Nadine19751
Monday, August 05, 2013
BOMBSHELL REPORT: Valerie Jarrett Gave the Orders on 9/11/2012 and Blocked Rescue in Benghazi
And such a report is entirely believable, given that Jarrett nixed the raid on Bin Laden three separate times. Chip Jones of The Conservative Report writes:
Valerie Jarrett, Commander in Chief
Confidential sources close to Conservative Report have confirmed that Valerie Jarrett was the key decision-maker for the administration, the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11/2012.
The chronology of the evening of 9/11 are as follows:
At approximately 5 PM Washington time, reports came in through secure-channels that Special Mission Benghazi was under attack. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey summoned the President,and briefed him on the crisis, face to face.
Subsequent to that brief meeting, President Obama proceeded to the White House to dine in his living quarters.
After supper, Barack Obama had a telephone conference scheduled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... As that meeting drew to a close, Ms. Jarrett, who is also the Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, went from the living quarters to the White House Situation Room, where the attack in Benghazi was being monitored by Dempsey, Panetta and other top-ranking officials.
Whether she was instructed by the President to go there, or if she went of her own volition, is only known by the President and herself.
A critical question that needed to be answered, and the sole military-order that could have launched offensive-actions, neutralizing the Ansar al Sharia terrorists attacks on the Mission (the purpose of which are detailed here) and its subsequent attacks on the adjacent CIA Annex, was the issuance of “Cross Border Authority”, an order that can only be issued by the Commander in Chief himself.
Saturday, August 03, 2013
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT #9,036: How the Obama Administration is Systematically Destroying the U.S.M.C.
W. T. F.
I'll say it again:
W. T. F.
Hat tip: BB.
[This is a] sample test question that has been making the rounds in USMC circles...
...The objective is to drive anyone who is disgusted by this moonbattery out of the Marines. When the true warriors are gone, the Corps will stop oppressing the world with the American hegemony Obama has been working so diligently to put an end to.
The Obama Administration is the most destructive weapon that has ever been leveled against the US Armed Forces.
I'll say it again:
W. T. F.
Hat tip: BB.
Thursday, August 01, 2013
While Obama slept and then partied in Vegas, wounded Benghazi hero David Ubben waited 20 hours for help
Guest post by Investors Business Daily
Scandal: The former commander of special operations in North Africa says he, like our president, was incommunicado during the Benghazi attack. We may soon hear from the hero who survived 20 hours waiting for help.
During the second wave of attacks on Benghazi, diplomatic security agent David Ubben was on the roof of the CIA annex with two former Navy SEALS. Eventually, several rounds of mortar attacks found their mark, killing Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty while shredding Ubben's right leg.
Ubben was stuck on that rooftop for 20 hours before help finally arrived. He can tell us and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "what difference does it make" that help was not sent — at least two American lives. Ubben sustained injuries at Benghazi so severe he's still being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Scandal: The former commander of special operations in North Africa says he, like our president, was incommunicado during the Benghazi attack. We may soon hear from the hero who survived 20 hours waiting for help.
During the second wave of attacks on Benghazi, diplomatic security agent David Ubben was on the roof of the CIA annex with two former Navy SEALS. Eventually, several rounds of mortar attacks found their mark, killing Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty while shredding Ubben's right leg.
Ubben was stuck on that rooftop for 20 hours before help finally arrived. He can tell us and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "what difference does it make" that help was not sent — at least two American lives. Ubben sustained injuries at Benghazi so severe he's still being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Read this before you start believing that Google searches can bring the government knocking on your door
The New York Daily News' Josh Greenman tips us off:
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Read this before you start believing that Google searches can bring the government knocking on your door. http://t.co/kpfxm5BpuB
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) August 1, 2013
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Unappreciated Genius Doug Mataconis Says Ted Cruz is "Foolish" for Trying to Stop the Obamacare Trainwreck
99 percent of you have no earthly idea who or what a Doug Mataconis is (if that actually is his real name). Nor should any of you care, other than the fact that his website is home to dozens, if not hundreds, of woefully confused progressives. In his latest excretion, Mataconis takes Ted Cruz and fellow conservatives to task for daring to fight Obamacare.
Gee, Doug, ya think it has anything to do with the fact that the Republican Party in its current state stands for absolutely nothing? Tell me, Doug, what does it stand for? Lower taxes? No. Secure borders? No. Investigating the Obama administration's unprecedented series of scandals? No.
Of course the Republican Party is unpopular. It spends its energy fighting the same conservative base that brought it to power in 2010 in an unprecedented beatdown of Democrats nationwide rather than the Marxist Left that is Cloward-Pivenizing the country into bankruptcy. And instead of embracing fiscal conservatism, the Tea Party, and First Principles, it repudiates them.
Its marble-mouthed "leaders" like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have all the charisma of your average houseplant.
So, Sherlock Mataconis, if you're looking for reasons that the GOP is unpopular, perhaps you could add one (the far left Democrat kook movement) and one (the conservative base) and you'll come up with two (the answer).
How many shutdowns did the Republicans pull off? Oh, that's right: none. So comparing a shutdown to a Boehner surrender is like comparing monkeys to cashews.
Let me get this straight: the GOP passes a CR that funds the entire government except for the wildly unpopular and destructive Obamacare cluster -- and Obama blocks it, shutting down the government.
Who do you think gets the blame? Oh, that's right: Mataconis thinks Ted Cruz will.
In reality, the GOP will be viewed as heroes by roughly 60 percent of the electorate.
Best of all, Obama will be on the hook for actually making a decision: (a) either shutting down the cancerous federal leviathan that grows in good times and bad; or (b) funding the federal government and starving Obamacare.
Either way, Republicans win.
So if you're relying on Doug Mataconis for political advice, I'd recommend using a Ouija Board instead. It's bound to offer more reliable counsel and it has a better chance of outwitting Ted Cruz than Doug ever had.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Cruz’s advice requires anyone who follows it to ignore political reality to a significant degree. For one thing, 2013 is not 1995, and the Republican Party, especially in its Congressional incarnation, is not viewed nearly as positively today as it was nearly 20 years ago.
Gee, Doug, ya think it has anything to do with the fact that the Republican Party in its current state stands for absolutely nothing? Tell me, Doug, what does it stand for? Lower taxes? No. Secure borders? No. Investigating the Obama administration's unprecedented series of scandals? No.Of course the Republican Party is unpopular. It spends its energy fighting the same conservative base that brought it to power in 2010 in an unprecedented beatdown of Democrats nationwide rather than the Marxist Left that is Cloward-Pivenizing the country into bankruptcy. And instead of embracing fiscal conservatism, the Tea Party, and First Principles, it repudiates them.
Its marble-mouthed "leaders" like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have all the charisma of your average houseplant.
So, Sherlock Mataconis, if you're looking for reasons that the GOP is unpopular, perhaps you could add one (the far left Democrat kook movement) and one (the conservative base) and you'll come up with two (the answer).
More importantly, though, Cruz is making the same mistake that Republicans made in 1995, and which they have made several times already in the four years that President Obama has been President. He believes that by taking the Federal Government to the brink, they can somehow turn the tables and make the public believe that it’s President Obama who’s at fault for the fact that the Government has been, or is about to be shut down. They tried in in the Spring of 2011 when the government was about to run out of money, they tried it in July and August of that year with the battle over the debt ceiling, and they’ve tried it several times since then.
How many shutdowns did the Republicans pull off? Oh, that's right: none. So comparing a shutdown to a Boehner surrender is like comparing monkeys to cashews.
Let me get this straight: the GOP passes a CR that funds the entire government except for the wildly unpopular and destructive Obamacare cluster -- and Obama blocks it, shutting down the government.
Who do you think gets the blame? Oh, that's right: Mataconis thinks Ted Cruz will.
In reality, the GOP will be viewed as heroes by roughly 60 percent of the electorate.
Best of all, Obama will be on the hook for actually making a decision: (a) either shutting down the cancerous federal leviathan that grows in good times and bad; or (b) funding the federal government and starving Obamacare.
Either way, Republicans win.
So if you're relying on Doug Mataconis for political advice, I'd recommend using a Ouija Board instead. It's bound to offer more reliable counsel and it has a better chance of outwitting Ted Cruz than Doug ever had.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Monday, July 29, 2013
MEET MATT BEVIN: Mitch McConnell Faces a True Conservative Republican Challenger in Kentucky
Good News: The Senate Minority "Leader" -- who hides in the shadows and orchestrates surrenders while pretending to be a conservative -- will face a well-deserved challenge in Kentucky. Those Constitutional conservatives who are sick and tired of Marxist-Lite policies would do well to consider supporting Matt Bevin.
Bevin is a veteran and a businessman. This is his first time running, but he's been politically active for decades. His conservative background led to the Madison Project's recent endorsement.
They said Ted Cruz couldn't beat David Dewhurst. They were wrong. They said Mike Lee and Rand Paul couldn't win. They were wrong. If you have a couple of spare bucks, consider helping Bevin.

Bevin [isn't very] pleased with today’s congressional Republicans. “Of 535 members of Congress, I would bet there are two dozen truly conservative people,” he estimates. “We are not being well lead in either the House or the Senate in the Republican party.” He does admire Senator Rand Paul (who has endorsed McConnell), and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, and, perhaps most of all, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. “I love Ted Cruz,” he enthuses. Indeed, “someone like a Ted Cruz” would be his dream pick for a Republican Senate leader to replace McConnell. “I think he could handle it. It would be refreshing.”
In a heated primary, the outspokenly conservative Cruz beat Texas lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, who was the GOP-establishment favorite. The Cruz team slammed Dewhurst as someone who would “go along to get along.” During his relatively short tenure in the Senate so far, Cruz has shown himself more willing to operate as a conservative outsider than a team player. That’s the kind of role Bevin envisions for himself if he is sent to Washington.
Another politician Bevin admires is Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.). “Thomas Massie is awesome — I love Thomas,” Bevin gushes. “He’s one of the nine guys who had the cojones to vote against John Boehner” for House speaker, he explains. Massie might not share Bevin’s passion for replacing McConnell, though. Earlier this year, asked about the possibility of a tea-party challenge to McConnell, Massie told Kentucky radio station WFPL: “My advice to people who are frustrated with Washington is that there’s probably a better way to spend your time, effort, money, blood, sweat, and tears than trying to have Senator McConnell unelected. I think there are a lot better chances and better use of your time in terms of changing Washington, D.C.”
Bevin is a veteran and a businessman. This is his first time running, but he's been politically active for decades. His conservative background led to the Madison Project's recent endorsement.
They said Ted Cruz couldn't beat David Dewhurst. They were wrong. They said Mike Lee and Rand Paul couldn't win. They were wrong. If you have a couple of spare bucks, consider helping Bevin.
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