Jan Schakowsky Despicable And Shameful

It's always dispicable when people speak their minds,eh, Jan?

Schakowsky: Tea parties 'despicable'
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful."

"The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs," Schakowsky said in a statement.

"It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt," she added. "Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”

This is the strongest language to date opposing the protesters, which, according to some estimates, topped 250,000 across the country.

Let's see, do as I say, not as I do?

From April 5, 2009:

Cong. Jan Schakowsky, Robert Creamer, and the Illinois Public Action Council
Earlier today Robert Creamer, the husband of Cong. Jan Schakowsky, (D-IL), was sentenced to five months in prison and 11 months house arrest for his role in a 1990s check-kiting scheme while he was the head of defunct Illinois Public Action Council, a consumer advocacy group.

Schakowsky has not been implicated in the scheme.

Jan Schakowsky is one of the most liberal members of Congress. She is a member of the far-left Progressive Caucus. Other members of the caucus include such "stars" as Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich, Jim McDermott (Baghdad Jim), Bernie Sanders, and Lynn Woolsey.

Schakowsky made her name in the Illinois Public Action Council. From 1976 to 1985, she was the IPAC program director. Four years later, Jan organized a senior-citizen rally that was a TV reporters dream. In 1989, cameras caught Schakowsky-led seniors chasing the powerful then-Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski, (D-IL). That protest drew national attention.

The Illinois Public Action Council was known for the aggressiveness of its members, particular in their "pro-consumer" door-to-door fundraising efforts. Those same IPAC members proved to be a useful ground force that got Schakowsky elected to Congress in 1998.

After Illinois Public Action folded, Robert Creamer went on to serve as a highly paid political consultant for Democrats such as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Congressman Lane Evans, and Chicago Alderman Joe Moore, among others.

In short, Creamer was not a "Mr. Mom."

(He was also part of Obama's campaign.)

Despicable And Shameful? She's got the right vocab, but has bad aim.

I May Be On Janet's Jaded Jihadists of Conservatism List

CNN's Roesgen Showing Some Love For Journalism

Of course when President Bush was the subject, Ms Roesgen was merely reporting on what she witnessed and calmy pointed out that Bush couldn't make the event. Presumably President Bush couldn't be bothered.

I love to watch a professional journalist at work. When I see one I'll be sure to let you know.

Liberals, Loose Women And Gays Out The Tea Party Conspiracy

When libs at HuffPo start quoting Goldwater and Reagan you know you’re in for some great fun(nies).

Conspiracy Theory Conservatism
If the rash of 'Tea Party' protests planned for Tax Day 2009 is any indication, the Right Wing in American politics may finally abandon all pretense at what Barry Goldwater once called the "conscience of a conservative." Instead of that lofty, albeit tattered ambition, the Right Wing of 2009 is rapidly embracing a wild-eyed, media manipulated, and self-destructive "conspiracy theory conservatism."

If I were a Republican leader, I would be very worried about this change. Should it come to pass that conspiracy theory conservatism wins out once and for good over Goldwater conservatism, the Republican Party will be doomed, broken, kaput.

And then there is the ever lovely, vivacious and estimable Jane Hamsher.

The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties
Maybe they're afraid that if people knew that those behind the demonstrations were the very same lobbyists and influence peddlers the teabaggers claim to decry, the whole thing would be revealed to be what it is -- a hollow excercise in extremist right-wing hypocrisy.


This one from the Atlantic is fun. Hoogly boogly men behind every tree. Hoogly boogly being shorthand for conservative libertarian.

The Santelli Conspiracy?*
Update: As Megan McArdle notes, this story appears to be completely bogus.
Was Rick Santelli's "Chicago Tea Party" a spontaneous expression of populist outrage? Or was it a carefully orchestrated media campaign that was planned long before Santelli's now-famous socialist-bashing CNBC rant? Mark Ames and Yasha Levine suggest that Santelli's mini-movement was in fact bought and paid for by a network of right-of-center moguls led by the Koch family, best known for their outsized backing of libertarian causes.


Then there is the respected journalists at Playboy. Feminists all. Too bad Playboy found out this story was completely bogus and took it down. That's just proof that people buy Playboy for the articles. Not the pictures.

Playboy dips a toe into investigative journalism
What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a "Chicago Tea Party" was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.

And then there is Cooper who is a big part of why CNN has become a joke. It's always funny to share vulgar gay humor with one's audience.

CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'It's Hard to Talk When You're Tea-Bagging'
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper followed his colleague David Shuster into the gutter on his Anderson Cooper 360 program on Tuesday in making a vulgar “tea-bagging” joke about Republicans/conservatives. After CNN’s senior political analyst David Gergen remarked that Republicans were “searching for their voice” after two electoral losses, Cooper quipped, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.” [audio available here]

Andy keeps them rolling at any Bar & Bath or over at Blogger Interrupted who stole Andy's line to humor all of us with his witty and self deprecating headline.

Seems that JournoList memo made it to everybody.

Desperately Seeking Reading Help

I'm not sure what your reading comprehension level is after reading this post, so here's another post on this topic with a video you can watch:

Video: Right-wing Bets Against U.S. In Pirate Standoff
http://www.progressohio.org/page...aveharding/ CqhZ
Dave

The above comment was left for my post concerning the rescue of Capt. Phillips:
Are Progressives Torn Over The Freeing Of Captain Phillips?
Progress Ohio had this post up this morning. It is a shameless attack on the morals of all the people following this ordeal. It is also a very sad comment on the author.

I must admit, I am deeply wounded by such a critique of my reading skills, but I shall endeavor to rise above it somehow. It is wearisome knowing I shall never be intellectual enough to be a Progressive, but that is only one more burden to carry and I shall once again endeavor to bear it.
Also, I must admit that a source such as Kos TV is hard to refute in the mind of a Progressive. Especially with the obvious editing skill of the person who put this masterpiece together.

So, once again I will say that this is a shameless attack on fellow citizens, even by the intellectual standards of Dave.

Did conservatives want Capt. Phillips murdered, say like the 100's of thousands Saddam murdered, just to have a political point to score? No and nor did the people on Dave's Kos TV video. They questioned Obama's ability to handle this matter and based on the events as they were unfolding and based on comments by President Obama during the campaign and leading up to the event, they were in my mind, right to do so. Oh wait, they must be racists. OMG, that means I am one.

The left appears incapable of understanding that a loyal opposition hopes that Obama's programs, not Obama, to fail. Actually, they are well aware of the frivolousness of that charge, but they'd rather the political battles be fought on that ground rather than honestly. The race card has been good to the left. Unfortunately, the race card has not been good for blacks, whites and other races, but when one wants to paint they opponents with a wide brush race will do I guess.

So did the Right want Obama to fail and Capt. Phillips murdered for political gain? Again, no. Nor are we racists as the Democrat Party history has shown itself for decades.

Racists are mean-spirited little nothings. Just as are those that falsely accuse others of being party to murder for political gain. Those that constantly feel the need to interject personal slurs are just sad.

Are Progressives Torn Over The Freeing Of Captain Phillips?

Progress Ohio had this post up this morning. It is a shameless attack on the morals of all the people following this ordeal. It is also a very sad comment on the author.

(photo of crying baby in suit with GOP pin)
Wingnuts hoped Obama would fail this test. They wanted him to "be like Jimmy Carter." Just hours after the hijacking, long before most of the facts were known, Republicans and conservative bloggers were placing massive bets against the ability of the United States--under the leadership of the Obama administration--to deal with this crisis.

Once again, as in November, they lost and America won.

God bless the unit that freed the captain from captivity and his family from fear.

RISEN

FUGLY

English Heritage has included the centre in Birmingham among the 30 best schemes in its book Shared Interest.

The £500m Bullring, which was completed in 2003, is described as being part of Birmingham's "famous architectural rebirth" in the past two decades.

English Heritage said the Selfridges building was "brashly exciting" and St Martin's Church was better presented.

The translation for the above statement is, "This hideous building is a blight on any neighborhood, especially this neighborhood, but we at English Heritage, being on the public dole, can do what we damned well please when we destroy your neighborhood with your money and our total lack of taste, history and remorse. Tata, you bloody wankers."

Demand $2 Million To Let Pirates Live

Pirates want $2 million for American hostage

Demand $2 million and the return of the ship captain from the pirates terrorists or we'll kill them. Then we'll hunt down the rest.

Might as well make them cover the cost of their demise. It's not the bullets that are expensive, it's their delivery and in this Obama economy we have to find other sources of funds where we can.

Troofers For Osama

Dutch TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden
A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the Sept. 11 attacks.

I love these people. The more serious they are, the more entertaining they are. The article itself is just standard shtick, but the real fun stuff is in the comments.

1. FredW comments:
April 10, 2009
Several of the films made about 9-11 show that Bin Lauden in fact did not claim responsibllity for the attacks and that the films and where he appears to do so are crude fabrications. Some of the other "evidence" for his involvement, such as the cellphone call (there was only one) about arabs with box cutters and the video of Mohamed Atta at the airport have also been shown to be fakes. For reference, listen to any recent talk on youtube by David Ray Griffin.

FredW is on this like white on rice. No doubt the thousands of FBI/NSA/CIA/WHATEVER midgets setting the charges to blow up the buildings and holding toy airliners in the sky wore stealth cloaking devices so none of us could see them. Our government is ingenious that way.

Obama's DREAM Amnesty For More Dem Voters

ACORN is already counting them for the post census redistricting.

The DREAM Act in the 111th Congress
S. 729 and H.R. 1751

In-State Tuition for Future Illegal Aliens
• The bill retroactively repeals the federal ban on in-state tuition for illegal aliens, thus
nullifying the lawsuits already decided in favor of the federal ban, but currently under
appeal.

The Amnesty
• To qualify for lawful permanent resident status, an applicant must be inadmissible or
deportable and must:
o Have been physically present in the US for the five years preceding the date of
enactment (the bill does not specify how aliens are to prove this, or even whether
they have to prove it);
o Have been under the age of 16 upon entry into the US;
o Be a “person of good moral character,” but only AFTER the application is filed;
o Not have been convicted of an aggravated felony or more than two misdemeanors
(though being charged with such crimes is fine);
o Not be a known terrorist or national security risk;
o Not be a known/convicted smuggler or human trafficker (all other immigration
violations are fine, and this one can be waived for humanitarian or family unity
purposes);
o Not have abducted a child and taken the child to a different country.
o At the time of filing an application, have been admitted to an institution of higher
education, or have a high school diploma or a GED;
o Have never received a final order of removal or exclusion unless the alien
successfully played the legal system and found a way to remain in the US under
color of law, or the final order was issued before the alien turned 16; and
o Be under 35 years of age as of the date of enactment.

• There are no numerical limits on how many illegal aliens may be granted amnesty, and
they cannot be counted against any existing immigration cap.

• There is no end date on the application period, so an alien who enters illegally next year,
but who can purchase or fabricate “evidence” indicating that he meets the requirements,
can apply for amnesty.

• No alien who files an amnesty application may be removed from the United States before
the application is adjudicated completely. There are no exceptions to this, so as long as an alien filed an amnesty application before he flew a plane into the World Trade Center or went on a killing spree in the local mall, he could not be removed from the country until USCIS (hopefully) denied his application and he exhausted all appeals.

Go read the rest and look at what our future looks like.

Obama & States Overspending Similarity

There are a lot of similarities between these two maps which 1) shows states with an overspending problem and 2) shows states that voted for Obama.

Here in Ohio, Republicans, in years past, teed up the overspending ball, but Democrat Gov. Strickland has driven it down the fairway towards bankruptcy. Higher taxes will drive more business out of state, prevent business from coming to Ohio, stop new business start ups and send them all over seas.

Public Education Has Brought Us Socialism As A Reality

Notice the numbers of the younger group of respondents. The national teacher unions are succeeding in destroying the American dream.

Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

Soon we can all enjoy the grayness of "equality" in a socialist state where government rules absolutely everything including freedom, creativity, religion, business and an individual's ability to participate in these things.

And now we have Obama, Pelosi and Reid running the executive and legislative branchs of government. They're two thirds of the way to their goal.

Gateway Pundit has more on this.

Must Be An Episcopal

Bishop says people should be able to have sex, smoke in their private office

No word on Clinton endorsement. Yet.

Obama Secret Trip To Iraq To Reward Soldiers With Medals Of Valour

MoveOn and kos not consulted. Must be miffed. Sullivan and Huffy will point out this is part of a grand Obama plan to wind down the war.

OBAMA: BAGHDAD

It's very funny to read outlets such as Reuters that are falling all over themselves to point out that Obama inherited the Iraq War from Bush and completely omits the fact that Obama is handing out medals to our soldiers.

They were able to write that bad visibility prevented Iraqi leaders from meeting with Obama, but that he would speak with them by telephone. This is no doubt because Obama inherited bad climates from Bush.

Obama, First European President of The United States

This just about wraps up Obama perfectly. Go read the rest.

The Obama Assault on Sovereignty
And, at the very time he was crisscrossing Europe pretending to be the first European president of the United States, his defense budget cuts were announced. They include a $5 billion cut to the military’s modernization programs, and a near 17 percent cut in the budget for missile defense—just two days after North Korea launched its long-range missile. Why is national security the only area of the budget in which he shows fiscal restraint? Combined with his abdication of American leadership at the G-20 and NATO summits, this weakening of American military power heavily implies that Obama has consciously accepted the idea that America is and should be a declining military power.

At least he got to kiss a Sarkozy.

In My Email

Please forgive the vulgarity, but....

Obama UN Drop Hammer On North Korea

A defiant North Korea had a show and tell session to boost their illegal sales of advanced weaponry to dictators, despots and Islamofascists when they launched a long range rocket that fizzled out over the Pacific.

After NKorean rocket, US presses for punishment

An equally defiant Obama along his backups, the Defiantettes, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and the UN Security Council, have put Kim Jong II, a big film buff, on Double Secret Probation which should scare the beJesus out of Minnie Me. Nothing a little chat won't clear up. Well, maybe also a time out for Kim Jong Jr to contemplate his true place in the universe. That'll do it.



Golly gee, we're safe now,

Obama To Boost Cuban Economy

I'm seeing a pattern here.

U.S to Lift Some Cuba Travel Curbs

Maybe Axelrod had Cuba on ASK Strategies' secret client list.

Obama chose this clown to be his personal lawyer, which is pretty sad;

White House Counsel: Gregory Craig: Craig represented the father (thus really Castro & the Cuban Communist Party) of Elian Gonzalez; Juan Miguel, where he successfully got the boy who had escaped to freedom sent back to Communist Cuba at gunpoint in a major international incident. Craig, once President Clinton's attorney, called the case 'one of the most satisfying experiences I have had as a lawyer.' Craig also prepared two private jets to aid Gonzalez's forced return to Cuba. After SWAT teams seized Elian, he was held prisoner at the Aspen Institute's Wye River property until being sent to Cuba. More Info. Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder also helped evict Elian back to the clutches of Castro. Shame on Obama.

Elephant

Nice