Gone But Not Forgiven

Hope n' Change

Obama's proposed replacement for Sebelius is Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Matthews Burwell, who has no experience or expertise in Human Health Services whatsoever, but has a long history of sycophantic service to the Democrat party - demonstrated mostly by cooking the budget books, stonewalling Congress, and issuing the orders to barricade the WWII Veterans Memorial (and other open air national monuments) during the preposterous "government shutdown.' "

Illiberal Liberalism; The left’s disdain for ordinary Americans has deep historical roots.

Bruce S. Thornton  "During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama let slip his disdain for the middle-class when he explained his lack of traction among such voters. “It’s not surprising then,” Obama said, “that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” More recently, U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley mocked his opponent incumbent Chuck Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.” The liberal disdain for ordinary Americans has been around for a long time. Beneath the populist rhetoric and concern for the middle class that lace the campaign speeches of most liberal politicians, there lurks a palpable disgust, and often contempt, for the denizens of “flyover country,” that land of God, guns, religion, and traditional beliefs." ... Full article
 

From the grooveyard of old favorites: Quote Of the Day from The Los Angeles Times:

Alan Berkelhammer     Posted on March 11, 2012      

 

“ 'Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re Number One. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on ‘Macbeth’. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.' ” – Columnist Burt Prelutsky, Los Angeles Times

 

Hat tip to Robert Hope, Sacramento, CA

Israel blames Kerry as peace talks hopes fade

The Times of Israel

 

... "Earlier this week, Kerry appeared to focus primary blame for the collapse of the talks on Israel, for having failed to release a scheduled fourth and final group of security prisoners at the end of March ...

 

"But an unnamed senior Israeli official, quoted by Channel 2 on Friday night, asserted that it was Kerry who was to blame for the breakdown. “He’s responsible for the crisis,” the official reportedly said. This was because Kerry inaccurately told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel would be willing to release Israeli Arabs in the fourth group of prisoners, when Israel had not agreed to do so. There was also a difference between the sides about how many prisoners would go free. The secretary had months to try to resolve the discrepancies but failed to do so, the report said." ...

israelnationalnews.

George Will: The Obama Administration’s Constant Claims of Racism Are Becoming a Joke

Breitbart   "On "Fox News Sunday," Washington Post columnist George Will criticized Attorney General Eric Holder who claim racism is behind his political adversaries' attacks:

“ 'Liberalism has a kind of Tourette Syndrome these days," Will said. "It's constantly saying the words racism and racist. There’s an old saying, 'If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have neither, pound the table.' This is pounding the table. There’s a kind of intellectual poverty now. Liberalism hasn’t had a new idea since the 1960s, except Obamacare, and the country doesn’t like it."

" 'Foreign policy is a shambles from Russia to Iran to Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he added. "And, the recovery is unprecedentedly bad. So, what do you do? You say anyone who criticizes us is a racist. It’s become a joke among young people. You go to a campus where this kind of political correctness reigns and some young person says, ‘It looks like it’s going to rain.’ And, the person next to him looks and says, ‘You’re a racist.’ It’s so inappropriate. The constant invocation of this that it is becoming a national mirth.' "

Posted by Scott Adams at US Tea Party Political Activists National Assembly where he adds:

“Liberalism has a kind of Tourette Syndrome these days," Will said. "It's constantly saying the words racism and racist. There’s an old saying, 'If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have neither, pound the table.' This is pounding the table. There’s a kind of intellectual poverty now. Liberalism hasn’t had a new idea since the 1960s, except Obamacare, and the country doesn’t like it."
"I consider it a badge of honor when a Liberal calls me a racist!!!"

The Roots of CAIR’s Intimidation Campaign; Brandeis sides with a spawn of Hamas over a champion of women’s rights.

Andrew C. McCarthy

      

 

... "President Bill Clinton was confronted by the murder and depraved mutilation of American soldiers in Somalia. A few weeks later, on February 26, jihadists bombed the World Trade Center. The public was angry and appeasing Islamists would have to wait.

"Yasser Arafat, however, sensed opportunity. The terrorist intifada launched at the end of 1987 had been a successful gambit for the Palestine Liberation Organization chief. Within a year, even as the body count mounted, the weak-kneed “international community” was granting the PLO the right to participate (though not to vote) in U.N. General Assembly sessions. And when Arafat made the usual show of “renouncing” terrorism — even as he was orchestrating terrorist attacks in conjunction with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Islamist factions — the United States recognized him as the Palestinians’ legitimate leader, just as the Europeans had done. Arafat blundered in 1991, throwing in his lot with Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, and that seemed to bury him with the Bush 41 administration. But Clinton’s election was a new lease on life."...

Why do Jay Carney and Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet propaganda posters?

American Thinker  "The moral blindness of the American Ruling Class is on display.  The Washingtonian Magazine, a glossy lifestyle and politics rag, has published a fawning profile of D.C. power couple Jay Carney and Claire Shipman that was a bit more revealing than intended.  At the top of the piece was a photo of mom Claire with her son and daughter, flipping a fried egg in their beautiful kitchen/great room."

... "Well, how about those Soviet propaganda posters in the background?  The Week noticed, and highlighted them, and Drudge put the story up."

New York Court Struggles To Find Jurors Who Don’t Hate The Occupy Movement

American Glob  "The trial of an Occupy Wall Street activist accused of assaulting a police officer has been held up by the jury selection process.

"The problem? No one in New York likes the Occupy movement. I wonder why?"
...
"I have a sudden strange new respect for New Yorkers."

Hey, what's not to like?

Iran Continues to Rub America’s Nose in 1979 Hostage Drama

PJ Media  "Iran would never come out and say openly, “Here’s a reminder of how we humiliated you 35 years ago by seizing your embassy and holding your people hostage.” Even for the cloistered leadership of Iran, that would be too obvious.

"But neither are they basking in subtlety when they name a participant in that terrorist act as UN ambassador.

 

"On Friday, the US State Department denied a visa to Hamid Abutalebi, an admitted member of the group of students who masterminded the taking of our embassy in Tehran in 1979. Mr. Abutalebi was destined to become the new Iranian ambassador to the UN."

Krauthammer’s Take: Sebelius Resignation a ‘Textbook Case’ for Getting Rid of Cabinet Member

NRO
 

 

... "The resignation is also far away enough from the midterms elections that it will likely not be an issue in November. Even if Republicans manage to slam the White House and Democrats over the health-care law during nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s confirmation hearings — which Krauthammer was doubtful would happen given Republicans’ recent track record in congressional hearing — it’ll only be a “week or two” of negative press."

Nevada Cattle Rancher Wins 'Range War' With Feds

"Wins"? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

ABC News   " 'I have no contract with the United States government," Bundy said. "I was paying grazing fees for management and that's what BLM was supposed to be, land managers and they were managing my ranch out of business, so I refused to pay."

"The federal government had countered that Bundy "owes the American people in excess of $1 million " in unpaid grazing fees and "refuses to abide by the law of land, despite many opportunities over the last 20 years to do so."

However, today the BLM said it would not enforce a court order to remove the cattle and was pulling out of the area."

We the People Converging on Nevada force BLM into Retreat 

... "One thing to set the dogs on protesters and taser one or two when your government bosses are backing you up.  Quite another when hundreds of folk are driving from hours away to be there for a harassed rancher and his family.

 

"With agencies like the IRS and NSA in their faces and pockets,  Americans are finally mad and aren’t going to take it anymore.

 

"Dozens of their letters to this news site and others prove that they don’t care if it’s about the Desert Tortoise, the Delta Smelt, the Spotted Owl, the Prairie Grouse, or even the Obama-claimed flatulence of cows.  They just want Big Government to stop driving landowners, ranchers and farmers off their land."

Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point  ... " Many onlookers have been informed that this dispute is over protecting the desert tortoise.  But it is nothing of the sort.  In fact, the reality of the dispute goes far underneath what is being talked about.  The more appropriate source of the dispute is ground water as well as surface water – this is a war over water."

http://themustangproject.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/blm-political-cartoon/

From TruthorFiction: The Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated The White House-Unproven!

Truth Or Fiction  "Summary of the eRumor: This is a forwarded email with the title of  "White House Staff" or "New In The White House" that alleges that six American Islamist Activists who work with the Obama Administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives influencing American policies."

 

"The Truth: This eRumor is an unproven conspiracy theory." 

The text does not say it is false, you will notice. Read the short summary of each individual to see what you can determine for yourself. Take a closer look at each of these and see what you think:

• Arif Alikhan   - Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Mohammed Elibiary- Homeland Security Adviser
• Rashad Hussain- Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference
• Salam al-Marayati- Obama Adviser –founder Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director
• Imam Mohamed Magid - Obama's Sharia Czar – Islamic Society of North America     Truth or Fiction, having no sense of irony, says there is no office called "sharia czar", just as there is no group in Obamacare called "death panels". Forget the title; just watch for the end results. TD
• Eboo Patel- Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
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• Hat tip to Gail Downie; Nehalem, Oregon