he was out, not down
There have been many a news item that transpired during my hiatus that I was itching to comment on. Unfortunately, the news is so old now that my comments are now irrelevant, but I have kept up to date with the issues and have often left little tidbits on my Twitter page.
First off, I would like to say that it is encouraging that the bloom has come off the Obamarose. People are slowly realizing that almost a year ago, 52% of the electorate voted for a guy who is clearly in over his head. The ObamaCare bill, now in its second incarnation, is still up for debate, Cap-n-Tax is stalled in the US Senate, and Iran is still playing Obama for a fool (Life is great, isn't it?). Republicans, who had been marginalized as a regional party in the minds of liberals, picked up two governorships, despite Obamessiah's reliance on his cult personality. Liberals would love to continue to spin those two elections as non-referenda on Obama's becoming the White House's Megan Fox, while championing a "pickup" in a New York district that hasn't seen a Democrat representative in 16 years. Oddly, the Republican and the conservative candidate, in that election, picked up more votes than the Democrat.
The idea was to show how candidates who ally with the Tea Party Movement will be on the losing end of any future elections. The same group that continues to portray legitimate criticism as "unpatriotic" claim that Doug Hoffman's loss in Tuesday's election was a referendum on Sarah Palin-style conservatism. Back here in the real world, the Sarah Palins, Rush Limbaughs, Sean Hannitys, Laura Ingrahams, et al, brought a virtual no one to within 4 percentage points of beating his Democratic contender. This is interpreted by many of the Beltway Republican types as a wakeup call to avoid choosing squishes like Scozzafava for future races. Of course liberals want the GOP to heed the advice of Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) because they want to advance their agenda. They understand that the RNC nominating moderate squishes is a guaranteed win for Democrats. I would call on the RNC, the NRSC, and the NRCC to stop taking advice from liberals.
What happened Tuesday is causing some conservative Democrats to become skiddish about supporting the wishes of San Fran Nan and Pinky Reid. The nutroots are demanding congressional Democrats shove their unpopular policies down the throats of the electorate, because somehow these moderate Democrats should have the assurance that the White House and the DNC will have their backs come this time next year. I say, a congresscritter has to answer to their constituent...not Tim Kaine and Barack Obama. Democrats can ignore the results of Tuesday at the peril of their congressional majorities, which is fine by me. The people have spoken, just as they have time and time again. We all remember what happened when the Republicans ignore the will of the people in 2006, right?! Democrats still herald that result, like Rahm Emmanuel did about governors races in 2005 (Damn that Spirit of Spin Past).
Meanwhile, the Toilet Paper goes back to the meme that all Tea Partiers are crazy nutjobs...apparently, the Tea Party's strategy is working, if they can get all this consternation from Toilet Paper...
Have a great day!
Showing posts with label Think Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Think Progress. Show all posts
05 November 2009
14 July 2009
Liberals: Advocating the murder of public officials is wrong...
...we've reached an epiphany since our guy was elected to the White House...
Jason Mattera, the cute spokesman of the Young America's Foundation, has made a few new friends on the blue blogosphere for posting on his Facebook page a thought about when Sonia gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, whether she'll have a tendency to shank fellow Justice Antonin Scalia. He admitted that he was mocking liberal's beliefs that Sotomayor's life gives her an insight into jurisprudence that seems to escape the white members, and the lone black on the bench. Liberals at Think Progress twirled like Diana Prince and became the Race Police, attacking Mattera for not serving in the military. This would not be laughable if most of the Democratic party voted for the military veteran over someone who thought military service was an anathema to the best interests of the United States...but they didn't. In fact, liberals view military service as a credible qualification, much like Bill Clinton's policy stances...whatever way the political winds were blowing.
Another person the Race Police must tackle with their Lasso of Diversity Training, is Debbie Schlussel, who refers to Sonia Sotomayor as "Justice J-Lo" and "So So." Don't ask me how that's racist, 'cause I dunno. Last I checked, the real J-Lo is a very attractive woman, and the pro-Sotomayor crowd should thank Schlussel for paying a less deserving woman such a high compliment, instead of projecting their own racist views on others. It shows that like his cabinet nominees, Obama can't vet his appointments to the US Supreme Court. Liberals know if a Republican president nominated someone with the record of Sotomayor, there'd be protesting in the streets. Hell, there was one Supreme Court nominee whose jurisprudence outshined So So's on every level, and he went down in defeat in 1987, with a vote of 42-58, with Snarlin' Arlen Specter (then R-PA) and that paragon of women's rights (*snicker*), Bob Packwood (R-OR), opposing.
This new epiphany that liberals have reached is remarkable and appreciated (/sarc). It's nice that they oppose killing public officials who disagree with them. It's also nice that liberals oppose promoting someone solely based on race, but did liberals have to destroy the careers of successful minorities along the way? During Senator Feinstein's Q & A with Sotomayor, she got all pissed off because Miguel Estrada's name reemerged in the debate. She claimed that Estrada would not answer questions, which is the same thing her union bosses said, and he was not as qualified as their dear Sonia. Senator Feinstein forgot to mention the hurdles they placed in front of Estrada, subjecting him to treatment no other federal court nominee had to face. According to an article written by Byron York in 2003, Democrats refused to send questions to the White House for the nominee to answer. They didn't want Estrada to answer any questions, but they also had nothing to hammer him about...
Estrada wasn't good at the Democrats' game of gotcha...
So Democrats shouldn't act like historical revisionists and paint the Republicans as racists against Sotomayor. The silence of Hispanic "rights" groups about the Democrats' treatment of Estrada is galling, and they should be ashamed. Perhaps it was as then-Congressman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) claimed, Estrada wasn't Latino enough, which is what blacks said about Clarence Thomas. So, if Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are going to be called racists, no matter how carefully they ask questions, they should make the best of it.
That's just my thoughts...
Have a great day...
Jason Mattera, the cute spokesman of the Young America's Foundation, has made a few new friends on the blue blogosphere for posting on his Facebook page a thought about when Sonia gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, whether she'll have a tendency to shank fellow Justice Antonin Scalia. He admitted that he was mocking liberal's beliefs that Sotomayor's life gives her an insight into jurisprudence that seems to escape the white members, and the lone black on the bench. Liberals at Think Progress twirled like Diana Prince and became the Race Police, attacking Mattera for not serving in the military. This would not be laughable if most of the Democratic party voted for the military veteran over someone who thought military service was an anathema to the best interests of the United States...but they didn't. In fact, liberals view military service as a credible qualification, much like Bill Clinton's policy stances...whatever way the political winds were blowing.
Another person the Race Police must tackle with their Lasso of Diversity Training, is Debbie Schlussel, who refers to Sonia Sotomayor as "Justice J-Lo" and "So So." Don't ask me how that's racist, 'cause I dunno. Last I checked, the real J-Lo is a very attractive woman, and the pro-Sotomayor crowd should thank Schlussel for paying a less deserving woman such a high compliment, instead of projecting their own racist views on others. It shows that like his cabinet nominees, Obama can't vet his appointments to the US Supreme Court. Liberals know if a Republican president nominated someone with the record of Sotomayor, there'd be protesting in the streets. Hell, there was one Supreme Court nominee whose jurisprudence outshined So So's on every level, and he went down in defeat in 1987, with a vote of 42-58, with Snarlin' Arlen Specter (then R-PA) and that paragon of women's rights (*snicker*), Bob Packwood (R-OR), opposing.
This new epiphany that liberals have reached is remarkable and appreciated (/sarc). It's nice that they oppose killing public officials who disagree with them. It's also nice that liberals oppose promoting someone solely based on race, but did liberals have to destroy the careers of successful minorities along the way? During Senator Feinstein's Q & A with Sotomayor, she got all pissed off because Miguel Estrada's name reemerged in the debate. She claimed that Estrada would not answer questions, which is the same thing her union bosses said, and he was not as qualified as their dear Sonia. Senator Feinstein forgot to mention the hurdles they placed in front of Estrada, subjecting him to treatment no other federal court nominee had to face. According to an article written by Byron York in 2003, Democrats refused to send questions to the White House for the nominee to answer. They didn't want Estrada to answer any questions, but they also had nothing to hammer him about...
Estrada wasn't good at the Democrats' game of gotcha...
So Democrats shouldn't act like historical revisionists and paint the Republicans as racists against Sotomayor. The silence of Hispanic "rights" groups about the Democrats' treatment of Estrada is galling, and they should be ashamed. Perhaps it was as then-Congressman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) claimed, Estrada wasn't Latino enough, which is what blacks said about Clarence Thomas. So, if Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are going to be called racists, no matter how carefully they ask questions, they should make the best of it.
That's just my thoughts...
Have a great day...
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