A Rookie President:
“However much Barack Obama has proclaimed his support for Israel, his first phone call as president of the United States was to Hamas, to which he has given hundreds of millions of dollars, which can buy a lot of rockets to fire into Israel.”
From The National Review: A Rookie President

Is the Rush Limbaugh strategy giving way to the Sarah Palin strategy?
Straight out of the Alinsky playbook: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
“James Carville, a key architect of the [anti] Limbaugh strategy, says Dems will be seeking to elevate Palin more and more, because she’s “an identifiable person who has a hook,” unlike GOP leaders like Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell.
From The Plumline: Dem Strategists: Sarah Palin Is The New Rush Limbaugh
Also see Hot Air’s take on it

Gun and Ammo sales through the roof:
“At Rich Wyatt’s Gunsmoke, “We are getting ‘Prius-driving Obama people’ buying guns because they realize they picked the wrong pony…even though they never admit it.” Just like my local gun shop, Wyatt has “old ladies and young people and liberals” buying guns. He says that while there were spikes in gun buying during the Clinton administration, during the Rodney King riots, and even just before Y2K, he’s never seen anything remotely on this scale.”
From Humanevents.com:  Are You Hoarding Ammo?
From the NRA: Obama’s Anti-gun Record

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Calling it a ‘game changer’, New York Times editors reportedly directed reporter Stephanie Strom to kill a story pertaining to how the Obama campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office.

Read the whole story at The Bulletin

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From the Washington Times:

“As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections, a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives and their spouses to give.”

Full story here.

Fox News has a Dodd lackey’s predictable response

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Enriching us with their culture and heritage

Quiet Amnesty takes another step forward. Nevermind the rising crime rate among illegal aliens, the almost epidemic number of illegal alien-caused drunken driving deaths, the propagation of illegal alien gangs like the latin kings or the ms13, the mexican drug cartels that have taken root in and brought horrific levels of violence to hundreds of cities across the country, or any of the millions upon millions of illegals who have driven blue collar wages into the dirt and put a corresponding amount of citizens out of work.

No, forget all that, because it seems that in the course of making even token efforts at enforcing our immigration laws we’ve managed to enrage “Latino community and religious leaders, immigrant advocates and civil liberties groups important to the Democratic base…”, which, as we all know, is much more important than the sovereignty of our nation and the safety of our family, friends and neighbors.

Is this an outrage? You bet your ass it is. At every turn though, Barak Obama and his administration are doing everything they can both here at home and internationally to bring the United States of America down. There’s simply no other explanation for their reckless disregard for the safety and well being American people.

Want some more? How about this from another Phoenix-area news agency:
Pinal immigration task force on hold

The bastards.

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As if this comes as a big surprise to anyone. Former ACLU and ACORN member and current Indiana federal district judge David Hamilton has been nominated to the 7th Circuit Court Of Appeals in Chicago.  Although Obama predictably praises his pick as having “a long and impressive record of service and a history of handing down fair and judicious decisions”, there is much in this man’s history to suggest he isn’t quite the moderate that herr leader would have us believe he is.

More from judicialwatch.org and nationalreview.com.

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The city of Cape Coral, Florida has denied its citizens their constitutional right to peaceably assemble in a city park for a Tea Party protest on April 1st.

From winknews.com:

“…the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party. Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she’s not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, “I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st.”

Since the ‘official” organizer of the event has withdrawn, what can the city do if a few thousand people just happen to show up?

If they’re smart, they’ll just let it be.

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This evening I recieved an email from someone with whom I was having an ongoing political discussion via email few months back. Our political views are pretty much 180 off from each other - me a committed conservative and her committed liberal -  so predictably the discussion got to a point where we decided (unspoken, but decided all the same) it would be best if we just dropped it rather than risk things getting heated and ugly.

That made tonight’s email a bit of a surprise.

She sent me a copy of a post someone left on a blog she moderates (I’d provide a link but haven’t a clue what it is, and it’s probably just as well). It was about as creepy a post as you’ll ever see. Here’s a little taste:

“…kill all of the stray pets and hard core criminals and murderers and them that rape anything.. and kill anti americans and anti christians and anti jews.. and kill them that are anti white men.. which most of you fall into…”

That wasn’t the worst part though. What my correspondent said next, to me, was:

I just sent this post, to a blog I work for, to the FBI with all relevant details. This is the whirlwind that Fox Spews, Michelle Malkin and the likes of your blog will reap. If this happens are you ready to take responsibility for it? Will you be happy if they kill me, or [redacted]? Or [redacted]? Or [redacted]?

I had to read it several times. Checked the ‘from’ address, read it again…sat there like ‘wtf’ for a few minutes before finally being able to start digest what just crossed my screen.

The I responded. It was, unfortunately, an angry response, but nothing that didn’t need to be said, and certainly nothing that I will later need to take back.

Beyond the anger though, there was and is a large degree of sadness. Sadness that someone I know to have been a reasonable, sane person, and whom I love and generally respect has fallen so far down the ideological hole that she would blame what I write for the psychotic ramblings of a sociopath.

Which brings me to my point. Is this really how we, as conservatives, are viewed by the left? Is the worldview of the modern era liberal really warped to such a degree that they believe that strong conservative values, love of God and country and the refusal to march quietly into the arms of socialism makes one some sort of ruthless psycho killer, or at the very least an enabler of such?

Apparently so.

It’s not the drunk-with-power administration who have gotten people up in arms. No, of course not. It’s the pundits and the bloggers.

How are we supposed to deal with that? How do you have any sort of meaningful conversation with those so blinded by ideology that they cannot or will not deal in reality?

It’s simple. You don’t. You can’t. You don’t even try, because to do so would be nothing more than a colossal waste of time and energy, and will quickly give you a whole new respect for the term ‘excercise in futility’.

This is a message that I hope the GOP is getting loud and clear because they will never, ever convert the far left (ie; Steele’s ridiculous ‘hiphop GOP off-the-hook’ idea). What they need to do - what WE need to do - is live and govern according to our core principals, lead by example, vote those into office who share our principals and vote out those who don’t, and demonstrate to those whose minds are being turned to mush by the onslaught of liberal propaganda being thrust upon them 24/7 that conservative values and strong conservative leadership is the way out of the mess our nation finds ourselves in at this point in its history.

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Just some links and minor commentary today.

Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column on Obama’s very creepy compulsory national service programs:
To GIVE and to SERVE: the $6 billion National Service boondoggle

Three traitorous assholes (OK, two traitorous assholes and one Mexican anti_American sleazebag) slam Immigration and Customs Enforcement for…yes, for doing their job. Geraldo I can understand, because, well,  he’s just a creep. Always has been, always will be. But that’s the speaker of the house taking up with Juan Hernandez. How is this not treason on the part of Pelosi? Absolutely disgraceful.
Also from Michelle Malkin (actually, just go there and read everything she’s posted today, all good…):
Guess who else thinks ICE agents are unpatriotic?

Is is all over for card check? From Marketwatch.com:
Manufacturers Applaud Senator Specter for Opposing Card Check Legislation

From American Thinker:
What kind of president thrives on chaos?

From Heritage.org
Morning Bell: ‘Investing’ Our Way to the Poor House

From HumanEvents.com:
Gordon Gekko is a Democrat

Finally, Geithner strikes again. From Swamppolitics.com:
Geithner misses lifeline, sinks dollar

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Burn baby burn....

Today, Timothy Geithner unveiled the Treasury’s latest plan to buy up toxic loans and securities from the nations banks. A brief description of the plan from Fox Business Correspondent Peter Barnes:

“Under the plan, the Treasury will match investments dollar-for-dollar in joint ventures with hedge funds, private equity funds and other investment firms to acquire the loans and securities at discount prices, the officials said.”

Obviously there’s more, but the gist is that the plan will rely heavily on investments from the private sector, and without those private dollars it will not succeed.

OK, that’s all well and good as far as it goes (I am witholding comment on the specifics of the plan until I have a chance to really dig into it. Unlike our ruling class, some of us have to, you know, work for a living.)

Here’s the problem - the federal government has gone out of its way to make an example of AIG over the past couple of weeks, culminating on the legislative side with the house passing a 90% tax on bonuses paid this year to employees of companies that have accepted federal bailout funds, and socially with further escalation of Obama-led class war with a union-backed liberal group actually visiting the homes of AIG employees in protest.

The duplicity of this ‘outrage’ on the part of government, however, is well-illustrated by the now well-known fact that congress, along with Obama and Geithner themselves, specifically allowed these bonuses to happen via a Chris Dodd-authored amendment to the stimulus bill.

The question, then, asked by many over the past several days, is who in their right mind would want to do business with Obama’s government after witnessing the AIG carnage? Perhaps a better question: how does the government expect to encourage the private sector to team up with it after it has demonstrated that it can and will do whatever it wants to its ‘partners’ without regard for contract law and, arguably, the Constitution? Regardless of its assurances to the contrary, there is nothing in this government’s recent history to suggest it would not do exactly the same thing again.

On tonight’s Hannity show, Dick Morris’s take on this was that he thinks Obama wants and expects the plan to fail. The reason that Geithner is the frontman on this, he says, is simply to be the fall guy so that when the plan does fail, Obama can jump in and say ‘we tried’, fire Geithner, and then use the ongoing - and probably still deepening - economic crisis as reason to go after what he really wants, which according to Morris is complate nationalization of the banking system in order to realize his dream of a socialized economy.

OK….Generally speaking, I’m lukewarm on Morris, but there are two things in his favor here:

1. He has a sharp political mind, and by that I mean he knows how the sleazy, backroom-deal side of politics is played.
2. He is not known to be a conspiracy theorist.

I think Morris’ comments on this more than anything go to illustrate the deep distrust that many of us have of this president, his administration, and congress. However it is the sheer number of things destructive to our country, our financial system, and our way of life that Obama has done, tried to do, is doing right now, or has proposed over the past three months that make Morris’ opinion seem not only not that far-fetched, but actually quite feasible.

Personally, Ill be more surprised if Morris’ scenario doesn’t come to pass than if it does.

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I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime. No, strike that. I never thought I’d see it in the United States of America. Ever. But here we are in Barak Obama’s Amerika where  hard work and success is penalized, the rule of law is disregarded with  law enforcement officers being specifically told NOT to do their jobs; where the financial strain of  illegal aliens has gone from destroying local economies to destroying entire state economies (California, for one); where a belligerent lower class is demanding handouts, free houses, and more money and services on the backs of the productive segment of society……and getting much of it. Add to this that the free market system that has grown this country from nothing to the envy of the world in it’s relatively short history is being destroyed, some might say intentionally, along with both investor and consumer confidence, in the name of ’social justice’.

We have a speaker of the house, princess Nancy Pelosi, who has gone so far as to change house rules to hobble the republican minority. This is the same Nancy Pelosi who had the stones to go on TV last week and claim - with a botox-straight face - that she’s ‘not partisan’.

Now this week, it is announced that the Obama administration os formulating a plan that would allow the federal government to regulate executive compensation at “all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies”. This includes companies/corporations that haven’t recieved TARP money.

That’s right. The federal government now wants to regulate salaries at private firms.

In the mean time, on the class warfare front, groups of people are taking a bus to AIG execs homes in order to protest in front of them. Someone needs to tell these idiots that the house they should be protesting in front of is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC . We keep hearing the phrase “too big to fail”. I propose another one: “Too Stupid To Understand Who’s Really To Blame”.

Oh, wait, I almost forgot -  Obama is getting ready to force some sort of immigration ‘reform’ down our throats. More here. Be prepared for this one folks, because, obvious problems aside, this has the potentiual to increase the democrat voting base by about 30 million, virtually ensuring the ultimate destruction of our capitalist free-market system and our continued descent into Eurpoean-style welfare. Which, in my opinion, is Obama’s end game anyway.

I spent an hour or two at the C&E gun show in Raleigh this past Saturday morning. The place was asshole-to-elbow packed. Coincidence? Not a chance.

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