The True Value Of A Princeton/Harvard Education . . .
. . . is you can make inane comments like this without being denigrated in the establishment press:
Dissent Is The Highest Form Of Patriotism. . .
. . . except when the president is a Democrat.
Obama minion John Brennan, who openly criticized George Bush for his execution of the war on Islamic extremism, jumps the shark in an op-ed by denouncing anyone who criticizes Obama’s policy on the war on terror as serving al-Qaeda.
What a hoot! Brennan and countless other Democats, including Obama himself politicized the war on terror to their benefit. Obama and his henchmen can’t take the high road here
because—well, they would be hypocrites.
Obama should thank his press kittehs that he will
never have to be held to account for what he said prior
to today.
Fortunately, the press kittehs don’t control the narrative, the people control the narrative, so I urge everyone to grab the
popcorn and I’ll bring the beer—Barack Hussein Obama has
jumped the shark no matter how hard the MSM tries to
tell us that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism—unless Obama is POTUS”.
It’s a twofer—Obama and his fawning press are both discredited—what’s not to like?
Gound Control To Major Mike
My State Rep. Mike Boland on why it “makes sense”
for him to be Lt. Governor:
OK, except for the fact that you were 4th out of a field of 6 for the Lt. Governor spot and the inconvenient fact that you
gave legislative scholarships to the daughter of your largest campaign contributor.
Aside from that, how will you ever hope to pass our moralistic Congressman Phil Hare’s acid test of “the people of
Illinois expect and deserve leaders who exhibit the highest standards of personal conduct”?
Be like the Philster Mike, go for the dirty backroom deal.
It’s A Feature Not A Bug
With a three year voting record under his belt that is
more liberal than Nancy Pelosi’s, there have been
insinuations that Phil Hare is a socialist.
To my knowledge, he has never been asked about this
and the only reference I could find was during
his August “Whoppers ‘09 Tour”, when someone kept shrieking
that Hare was a socialist. According to the news accounts,
Hare neither confirmed nor denied the charge, but just
let the guy rant until he was finished.
A new Gallup Poll indicates that being a socialist might
not be such a negative. Overall, 36% of Americans view
socialism as a postive; 53% of Democrats approve vs. 17% of the GOP; 61% of liberals approve vs. 39% moderates vs. 20% conservates.
I prefer to think of Hare as a statist, but if these
poll numbers are correct, now might be the time for Hare to come out of the Marxist closet.
John Gianulis R.I.P.
Rock Island County Democrat powerbroker John Gianulis
died this morning at age 87.
The Dispatch says that he was elected RICO Democrat
Party Chairman in 1968, and built his party into the one-party monster it is today. Of course, a heavily unionized area
like the QCs was going to become Democrat sooner or
later, but even after the majority of the factories closed
in the 1980s, the Democrats still controlled local politics to
such a degree that the RICO GOP became so dispirited they didn’t even bother to field candidates for
for any county race, thereby depriving a whole generation
of Republican candidates from getting experience in running
for public office.
But it wasn’t all political magic and greatness for Gianulis. As the QCTimes says:
“. . . he played a key role in getting ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich elected eight years ago.”
What I’m getting from the official statements by local Democrats is that this is the end of an era, and I think we
saw that in the primary election last week. There was spirited
competiton on the Democrat side for Boland’s seat, county clerk and county treasurer—this would have never happened
during Gianulis’ tenure—he would have picked the winner
and everybody else would be told to shut up, sit down and wait their turn—and like sheep, they would obey.
The Kiss Of Death
Rich Miller has a huge roundup of the aftermath of the
Scott Lee Cohen debacle, with all the finger-pointing and blame gaming. Along with all that, Miller includes a nifty map by the Chicago Sun-Times that shows which counties were won by which Lt. Governor candidate.
Miller had this aside:
“. . . note that Rep. Mike Boland won all of the Quad Cities area, even though Congressman Phil Hare endorsed Terry Link, who did not exactly run a great campaign.”
From this I gather that when Congressman Phil Hare offers to endorse your candidacy, the smartest thing to do is run away!
Bad Moon Rising
Rich Miller on the Democrat’s ticking time bomb of Blagojevich’s trial, set for June:
“. . . if you’re a Democrat there’s trouble on the way for
you whether you like it or not, or whether you deserve
it or not. Then again, if you’re a Democrat, then there’s
a good chance you voted for Blagojevich twice—or four
times counting the primaries. In that case, it really is your
fault. Particularly that last time, when if you’d been paying
any sort of attention, you would’ve known you were taking a risk on a known ethical dud.”
