Translated: “The rich are not human, they are animals in human form.”
We didn’t know the the DNC hired Hugo Chavez to float trial balloons for future class warfare campaign slogans.
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Arlen Specter: Double standard for two-faced Senator
You know the media bias is out of control when reliably-liberal Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz notices it.
Here’s what Kurtz said about the media’s coverage of Arlen Specter switching parties:
Correspondent Carl Cannon, on AOL’s new PoliticsDaily site, says conservatives are right in complaining that much of the media have “a double standard regarding party-switchers. . . . When Republicans morph into Democrats, we tend to act like they finally saw the light, and quote them ad nauseam about how the Republican Party has gotten too narrow, etc., etc.” But when a Democrat joins the GOP, “we concentrate on the tactical advantage to the party switcher.”
When it comes to commentators, their analysis often turns on the direction of the defection. In 1994, when Democratic Sen. Richard Shelby switched parties days after the Republicans won control of Congress, a New York Times editorial said: “Talk about slipping out of the hills to bayonet the wounded! . . . His desertion to the victorious Republicans this week was hardly a huge surprise.” But when Jim Jeffords flipped control of the Senate to the Democrats by leaving the GOP in 2001, the Times said approvingly that the Vermont lawmaker had given George W. Bush “an embarrassing lesson” for having pulled a “conservative bait-and-switch” on the country.
Arlen’s switches back and forth are not uncommon in nature.
Here’s how the New York Times describes a similar situation:
When a school of reef fish loses its single male, the largest female begins acting like a male within a few hours and will produce sperm within 10 days. Some other species repeatedly switch back and forth between the production of eggs and of sperm during a single mating. Among deep sea fish that only rarely encounter potential mates, reproduction is often possible only if one changes sex.
Poor Arlen. The only sex involved in his switch was when he screwed the Republicans.
Source: Washington Post
Today is April 15, or as the Democrats like to call it, Thanksgiving
It’s the joyous annual holiday on which Democrats gather with their families, feast at the government trough, and give thanks for all the taxes they “forgot to pay” or “overlooked” or “got incorrect advice from their tax preparer” or “missed because of a glitch in TurboTax.”
Tom Daschle. Tim Geithner. Hilda Solis. Ron Kirk. Kathleen Sebelius. And half the other people nominated for positions in the Obama administration will be celebrating today. And they will offer this simple prayer: “We thank you, FDR, for the bounty you have given us. And for all those phony Schedule C deductions, too.”
Remember President Obama’s pledge to simplify the tax code? What he meant, obviously, was “It’s simple to cheat on your taxes and get away with it. Especially if you’re a Democrat.”
Welcome back, McCotter: Our favorite congressman tells “How to speak Democrat”
Here’s Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan) translating Democrat-speak into clear, concise English.
We love this guy. You’ll love this guy. If only there were about 300 more just like him in Washington, DC.
Update: We are so impressed with this guy that we’ve made an entire page devoted to him here at IHTM (link in left sidebar): America’s Conservative: Thaddeus McCotter.
Obama resolution causes racial dispute in Georgia
Black lawmakers pitched a hissy fit and stormed out of the Georgia House on Friday claiming that white Republicans’ decision to delay a resolution honoring President Barack Obama had racist overtones. (Gasp)
They say it’s an intentional snub to the nation’s first black president. “It drips with racism,” Democrat Representative Al Williams said. “I call it just like it is.”
Republicans simply objected to the over-the-top wording that declared Obama to be a man of “unimpeachable reputation for integrity.”
“All we’ve requested is minor changes to the language,” Representative Austin Scott. But Democrats are resisting the revisions.
House Majority Leader Jerry Keen asked to “get this language recrafted.”
“Two or three words can be changed and this matter can be voted on,” another Republican said.
Please. Can’t we all just get along? We’d like to offer our services as peacemakers and wordsmiths in this dispute.
We suggest they simply re-word the resolution to declare that “President Obama is a man with an unimpeachable reputation for integrity except for that Tony Rezko thing and that socialist thing and maybe a few other insignificant items too minor to really get into here.”
That would satisfy everyone, wouldn’t it?
Source: NewsMax, Associated Press
Irate Republican congressman rips Democrats over bail-out. You’ve never heard anything like it.
This is the most honest, remarkable, refreshing speech you’ve ever heard on the floor of the House of Representatives.
We’ve never heard of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, a Republican from Michigan, until now. But we have a feeling we’ll be hearing a lot more from him in the future.
Here’s how McCotter ends his speech:
“Here’s the sad reality of where we are today. In a time of crisis they passed the Wall Street bailout, the nightmarish prognostications of myself and others have been exceeded. Now what we find is an attempt to cover ones tracks with another bill in a time of crisis that will leave no one–no one–safe from the hand of the taxman when the politicians come to cover their tracks at your expense. The public deserves better. The public deserves transparency. We cannot fail them again.”
Anyone seen our checkbook? We’re thinking of sending a McCotter a campaign contribution. This is the kind of guy we need to keep in Washington, DC.
Source: Breitbart
Which Senators voted in favor of censorship…uh…we mean the Fairness Doctrine?
By now you’ve probably heard that the Senate approved an amendment a few days ago to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine.” Republican Senator Jim DeMint’s amendment passed by a comfortable margin of 87-to-11.
Although one would think it’s important to know which senators cast their votes in favor of censorship, we can’t find a single news report that calls out their names. So we’ll do it:
Bingaman (D-NM), Conrad (D-ND), Dorgan (D-ND), Feinstein (D-CA), Harkin (D-IA), Johnson (D-SD), Kerry (D-MA), Reed (D-RI), Rockefeller (D-WV), Sanders (I-VT), and Whitehouse (D-RI).
In addition, Kennedy (D-MA) did not vote, but does anyone doubt that he would have joined them Infamous Eleven had his health been up to it?
Please note that there’s a “D” attached to ten of the eleven of the names. “D” as in Democrat. “D” as in unDemocratic.
Chris Matthews doesn’t want the Democrat Party to be called the Democrat Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR7MphuhEwcChris Matthews is a very sensitive man. He cares about the feelings of others. Especially when the others are Democrats.
In the middle of Thursday night’s Hardball program, Matthews interrupted California Congressman Darrell Issa’s comments on the administration’s massive budget deficit to complain that Issa had referred to the opposition as “the Democrat Party.”
“I think the Democratic Party calls itself the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party,” Matthews raged. “Do we have to do this every night? Why do people talk like this? Is this just fighting words? They call themselves the Democratic Party. Let’s just call people what they call themselves and stop the Mickey Mouse here. Save that for the stump.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEVmAbxC14gBased on that faulty logic, if Matthews were discussing rap music, he would refer to African-Americans as “niggas” like so many rap artists do. That would be, as Matthews requested, just calling people what they call themselves.
Matthews might want to re-think this concept.
WARNING: The Richard Pryor video contains obscenities. But what the hell, it’s Richard Pryor. What do you expect?
Me(d)ia (d)eclines to i(d)entify (d)emocrat scan(d)als
Lamar Smith, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, strode purposely to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday to discuss the elephant in the room. And the donkey that isn’t.
“The national media spells scandal without the ‘D,'” Smith roared during the one-minute daily speech allotted every member of the House.
“Two weeks ago the Governor of Illinois was removed from office,” he said. “All three television networks ran full reports on the story the same night and again the following morning. Not one report mentioned that he is a Democrat.”
To reinforce his point, Smith noted that the major media also failed to identify the party affiliation of troubled Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, jailed Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and ousted New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
“Americans need and deserve balanced reporting from the media, not selective omissions,” Smith added.
We completely agree with Smith. So let us point out to you that he is a Texas Republican.
