Filed under: American Elephant, Health Care, News, Politics, Progressivism., Socialism | Tags: Bill Owens, Democrat lies, Nancy Pelosi
(Update: Traffic from Drudge appears to have crashed the linked site, if the link doesn’t work, try again later.)
That’s gotta be record-breaking dishonesty, even from the notoriously dishonest Democrat party. Brand-spanking new Democrat congressman, Bill Owens (NY-23) has broken at least FOUR campaign promises in his very first hour!
Owens told voters he did not believe a public option was appropriate, he said he was opposed to cuts in Medicare, he said he was opposed to taxing health care benefits, and said he was opposed to increasing taxes on the middle class.
But now that he has been sworn in, this new weasel among weasels has pledged to vote for the Pelosi bill, which:
- contains a public option.
- cuts Medicare.
- taxes benefits, and
- increases taxes on the middle class!
That’s four campaign promises broken in his very first hour! When dealing with a group as reliably dishonest as the Democrat party, it’s hard to plumb new depths of dishonesty, but congratulations NY-23! Your new congressman may have set a new record!
Update: Ace has Owens statement of support for the bill.
Filed under: American Elephant, Conservatism, Liberalism, News, Politics, Progressivism. | Tags: Obama, Hoffman, Christie, Scozzafava, McDonnell
(photo sent in by reader Jeremayakovka who lives in NY-23)
No, he didn’t win the election, but he scored a big victory for conservatives nonetheless. He put the Republican party on notice that
- They cannot win without conservative support. And
- If they continue to put up liberal, big-government candidates like Dede [D] Scuzzyfavors, they will continue to lose.
Which strikes me as a very good message for the party establishment to get heading into 2010. Particularly at the same time that an across the board conservative candidate scored a record-breaking victory in Virginia, and a fiscally conservative candidate wins the governorship in New freakin’ Jersey.
The Hoffman win also sends a very important message to conservatives of all stripes across America — that if conservatives want to win, they must work within the two party system. Hoffman would have won had he been the Republican candidate. He did better than anyone thought he could just a few months ago, but lost, in the end, because third parties do not have the organization, the manpower, the funding, or the trust of the American people. Say what you will about the Republican party, but the American people know it, it is familiar, and they have at least a vague, general sense what it stands for. (Lets not forget, either, that according to both Rassmussen and CNN, Americans now trust the Republican party more on every major issue, than they do Democrats.) It is all too easy to paint someone running on a third party ticket as too extreme for the mainstream. Indeed their candidacy is itself an admission that they are too extreme to work within the two-party system.
But conservatives, and Hoffman supporters, must not rest on their laurels. The party apparatus that nominated Dede Scuzzyfavors in NY-23 is still in place. We cannot assume that they are receptive to the message the Hoffman candidacy sent. Afterall, they nominated Dede [D] — that means they are of the opinion that she is the right direction for the party to go. It is up to conservatives in NY-23 to get involved in the party, and make certain that those same people are not in a position to pick next year’s nominee.
Indeed, all across the country, conservatives must make certain that their local party is being led by people who want to advance conservative principles over liberal RINOS. No, it doesn’t mean that every candidate can be conservative. Nor does it mean that the Republican party is not a big tent.
It means that conservativism won Republicans the majority and big government Republican “moderates” put us right back in the minority. It means that while there is plenty of room for “moderates” in the Republican party, that doesn’t mean they have the right to lead it! Indeed, since they are responsible for our minority status, they don’t get to lead it anymore.
Filed under: American Elephant, Democrat Corruption, Liberalism, News, Taxes | Tags: Democrat Corruption, Democrats, Obama
Chicago to pay rewards for citizens who turn in tax-cheating neighbors. A person could make a fortune just turning in the Chicago natives in the Obama administration!
Ahh, but it only counts if the tax cheats are businesses. So, since no one in the tax-evading Obama administration or corrupt Democrat congress has ever worked a real job, I guess they remain safe from paying for their felonious, tax-dodging ways.
Funny how it always works out that way!
Filed under: American Elephant, Humor, Movies, YouTube | Tags: Halloween, Mary Poppins, The Shining
The horrifying tale of a magical nanny with a disturbing obsession with small children*:
…and for those who prefer more “wholesome” fare, a lighthearted, feel-good, family-flick called “Shining”*:
*please tell me no one is gullible enough to need a warning that this is sarcasm.
Filed under: American Elephant, Democrat Corruption, Health Care, News, Politics, Progressivism., Socialism | Tags: Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrat Corruption, Obama, Swine Flu
Obama declares swine flu a national emergency, becoming the ONLY national leader in the entire world to have done so.
Meanwhile the regular seasonal flu affects far more people, and causes far more death than the swine flu ever will. For all the hysteria whipped up by Obama and his administration, the H1N1 “swine” flu has killed 1,000 people this year — plain old seasonal influenza, on the other hand, kills over 30 times that many people — an average of 36,000 Americans every year– and I don’t see Obama calling it a “national emergency.”
The number of seasonal influenza-associated (i.e., seasonal flu-related) deaths varies from year to year because flu seasons often fluctuate in length and severity. CDC estimated that about 36,000 people died of seasonal flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States. [Center for Disease Control]
Nor will Obama declare the plain old seasonal flu an emergency because it is not sensational and he can’t use it to whip up fear and political support for his fascist health care takeover.
Meanwhile, the hysteria Obama is whipping up over swine flu will result in more deaths, not less, as millions of people who don’t need vaccines clog the system, making it harder for those who need the vaccine to get one. The vaccine is already in short supply. And will cost taxpayers billions more as the declaration makes federal dollars available to for Obama’s marketing ploy.
But that is the self-described Motus Operandi of this most corrupt, Alinskyite thug — “never let a crisis go to waste.” And when there isn’t a real crisis handy, manufacture one.
Can’t we impeach this crook yet?
Filed under: American Elephant, Health Care, News, News the Media Doesn't Want You to Hear, Politics, Progressivism. | Tags: Democrats, Obama, Obamacare
Support for Obamacare has always been weak. He was able to garner majority support for a brief moment following his infamous and very deceptive speech in which millions of Americans around the country were shouting along with Representative Joe Wilson, “YOU LIE!”
Since then, despite the administrations best efforts to demonize anyone and everyone who gets out the truth about his plans, the American people have nonetheless learned what Obamacare will mean to them. This bill will cause our rates to skyrocket, cause our taxes to skyrocket, make care harder to get, and will force millions of Americans to give up the private care we want and force them onto public plans we don’t. Which, Americans are increasingly coming to understand, is the purpose behind everything Democrats are doing.
Support for Obamacare has now fallen to 42%, while opposition remains strong at 54%.
Which is why Democrats are having to figure out ways to avoid a filibuster even though that party holds a filibuster-proof majority.
Have you contacted your Representatives lately? Phone them first, then email them. We must keep the heat on them because the radical majority of that party intends to pass the bill one way or another. We must let their members know that doing so will cost them their jobs.
Filed under: American Elephant, Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture | Tags: Best Halloween Movies, Best Horror Movies, Best Scary Movies, Chick Flicks, Family Movies, Halloween, Kids Movies, Movies
It’s that time of year again! October is here, the weather has turned crisp if not downright cold, the days are markedly shorter, and the grocery stores are already bursting with candy and pumpkins.
Fall has arrived and Halloween is almost upon us.
I love Halloween. Witches, goblins, ghosts and ghouls. Carving pumpkins, trick or treating on foggy nights. (Okay, I haven’t gone trick or treating in ages, but I do like to go all out on the house.) I’ve just never out-grown my love for the fun of Halloween.
And there have always been certain movies that to me are “Halloween movies” — not necessarily because they’re scary (Friday the 13th and Jaws are among the most popular horror movies ever, for example, but what do a killer fish at the beach and a madman at summer camp have to do with Halloween?) — but because they put you in mind of full moons, foggy nights, spooky stories and a crackling fire. Or because they conjure up rich visions of classic Halloween legends: werewolves, witches, vampires and assorted things that go bump in the night.
So what are your favorite fall and Halloween movies? Which films get you most anxious for All Hallows Eve? Click on comments and let us know!
Here are my favorite films to watch every October (in no particular order.) Scary, spooky, fearsome or funny — it’s an eclectic mix of genres — each one is guaranteed to be a ghoulishly good treat. (Click images for reviews and trailers.)
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Filed under: American Elephant, Liberalism, News, News the Media Doesn't Want You to Hear, Politics | Tags: Democrat Corruption, Democrats, Obama, Worst President Ever
Contrary to what liberals will say, this FOX News poll, showing that only 43% of voters would vote to re-elect Obama, is actually middle of the road. This is also the first time the FOX poll has shown Obama with less than 50% approval. Other polls have had him at majority disapproval for some time now. (Rasmussen, for example, which has been the most accurate in terms of election results.)
Indeed, there doesn’t seem to be ANY area in which a majority of Americans think Obama is doing a good job:
Afghanistan: Approve 41 Disapprove 43
Iran: Approve 44 Disapprove 43
Economy: Approve 48 Disapprove 49
Health Care: Approve 42 Disapprove 50
Indeed, a majority of 54% disapprove of the health care plan now being rammed through congress, and 51% would prefer that we keep the health care system exactly as it is over the Democrat plans, while only 34% prefer the Democrats plan.
One thing majorities of ALL groups agree on is that Obama and the Democrats have divided America more than ever!
Finally, in a rare example of bipartisan agreement, majorities of Democrats, 53 percent, Republicans, 78 percent, and Independents, 61 percent, agree the country is more divided these days. All in all, 64 percent of Americans think the country is more politically divided today — that’s more than twice the number who say it is not more divided, 31 percent.
So the good news in these bleak, divisive, dark days for America, is that people are waking up to how monumentally bad these Democrats truly are.
Filed under: American Elephant, Liberalism, Media Bias, News, News the Media Doesn't Want You to Hear, Politics, Socialism, Television | Tags: "V" The mini-series, Democrat Corruption, Obama
Imagine that! Empty platitudes of “hope” and “change” spawning hero worship of unknown newcomers who promise to deliver you heaven on Earth if only you give them power over you! Who insist in return only that the media not ask uncomfortable questions. But as always, people who want power over you have agendas of their own!
No wonder ABC is rewriting the show…
The new one might be seen as commentary on contemporary politics. The teasers running on ABC offer a hint of this. “They gave us hope. We gave them our trust.” Who does that bring to mind? Of course, the Visitors (hence the title), after promising things like universal health care and peace in a one world government, turn out to be totally evil. They attempt to seize control of the media, favoring those who don’t challenge them or ask probing questions about their real agenda, which turns out to be the annihilation of humanity. The heroes are everyday people, who form a grass roots resistance movement. Supposedly, the show is being slightly reconceptualized to soften or remove events some might interpret as negative parallels to today.
…because it resembles the reality of Obama/Democrat rule too closely!
What do you want to bet the changes were demanded by the White House after the trailers first appeared last summer?
The same White House that hounds reporters and networks about how they portray Obama? And ABC? The home of ABC “News”? Former home of current Obama Snitch Czar Linda Douglass? The network that refuses to sell “The Path to 9/11″ at the Clinton and Democrat’s request?
I’d put money on it!
(h/t: Ace)
Filed under: American Elephant, Europe, Politics | Tags: Debunking Liberal Lies, Eugene Robinson, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama
At least according to the half-wit, Eugene Robinson, who claims Republicans who criticize Obama’s undeserved Nobel prize do so because they hate America.
The problem for Robinson is that nobody else thinks Obama deserves the prize either. Polls in the UK show most Brits agree that Obama did not deserve the award. Another poll shows Norwegians (the peace prize is awarded in Norway) agree. Indeed, reaction all across Europe has been fairly unanimous, and the world agrees with Republicans — they don’t think Obama deserved the award either!
So I guess the only conclusion we can reach, if we are to use the torturous contortions Eugene Robinson calls logic, is that Obama has increased world hatred of America!
Filed under: American Elephant, Economy, News, Politics, Progressivism. | Tags: Obama, Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrat Corruption, Democrats
Must-read from Forbes:
…Liberals pooh-pooh the idea that a 30-year-old law could have contributed to the current subprime crisis and credit crunch. But what they ignore is the massive expansion of CRA-commitments forced on banks in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.
According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, in the first 20 years of the act, up to 1997, commitments totaled approximately $200 billion. But from 1997 to 2007, commitments exploded to more than $4.2 trillion. (Keep in mind this is more than four times the size of the current health bill being debated in Congress.) The burdens on individual banks can be enormous. Washington Mutual, for example, pledged $1 trillion in mortgages to those with credit histories that “fall outside typical credit, income or debt constraints,” and was awarded the 2003 CRA Community Impact Award for its Community Access program. Four years later it was taken over by the Office of Thrift Supervision. In 2004 Bank of America agreed to provide $750 billion in CRA loans to applicants with poor credit who had previous difficulty obtaining a mortgage. By 2008 Bank of America was reporting that CRA loans represented only 7% of its portfolio but 29% of its losses. Numerous large banks are now in the middle of enormous CRA commitments. In 2004 J.P. Morgan Chase agreed to provide $800 billion of such loans over the course of 10 years.
For all the talk of unsold condos in Miami and foreclosed McMansions in California, the epicenters of the mortgage crisis are inner-city urban areas–precisely those areas where the CRA was most applicable. As the Boston Federal Reserve put it in a massive 2008 study, “In the current housing crisis foreclosures are highly concentrated in [urban] minority neighborhoods.” The study found that borrowers in these areas were seven times more likely to be foreclosed on than the general population. Analysis by the Pew Research Center and another by The New York Times found that mortgage holders in these areas had foreclosure rates four times higher than the national average.
In short, the CRA is compelling banks to make trillions in loans to individuals who have poor credit and who often can’t or won’t make their payments.
Now comes Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and 50 other co-sponsors (all Democrats) of H.R. 1479 the “Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009,” who want to expand the CRA to include not just banks but also credit unions, insurance companies and mortgage lenders. Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has supported the idea in the past. The SEIU and ACORN, along with a host of other activist groups, are also behind the effort. [read the whole thing here]
You can nominate and vote for him here.
After all, he’s done more to deserve it than he has the Nobel.
(h/t Washington Examiner via Gay Patriot)
Filed under: American Elephant, Humor, Liberalism, News | Tags: Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Obama
Free in every box!
Two years after awarding the “prize” to Al Gore for his propaganda film, the Nobel committee has awarded the once coveted waste of precious metal to a man whom even Saturday Night Live recognizes has done squat.
But before that mildly rebuking skit was even finished, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had started work furiously “fact checking” the comedy sketch and, apparently, half a world away, the Nobel committee had decided their purported prestige was urgently needed to prop-up a prostrate presidency as well.
Seriously, what is the rush?
Why not wait until next year, the year after, or God forbid at least ’til the end of his term when Obama has actually (ostensibly) accomplished something…anything?!
Could it be that the SNL skit made them realize that Obama’s presidency is in desperate trouble of becoming a joke? With nothing under his belt but a skyrocketing deficit, climbing unemployment, and a deeply unpopular health care catastrophe, perhaps these leftist organizations are simply trying to resuscitate Obama’s failing presidency.
But their plan has backfired; rather than lifting up Obama with their unwarranted accolades, CNN and the Nobel Committee have simply made themselves into laughingstocks as well.
Update:
- Times of London: “Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize“
- The joke heard round the world.
- The Deadline for nominations is February 1, so Obama was nominated after being in office only 11 days!
- Committee’s laughable decision was unanimous.
- Even White House aides thought they were being punked. One asked, “It’s not April 1, is it?“
- Telegraph: Obama’s won the Nobel Peace — WTF?!
- Der Spiegel: Obama’s Prize More Burden than Honor
Filed under: American Elephant, Foreign Policy, Military, National Security, News | Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Support the Troops!
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Obama has taken ownership of the war in Afghanistan. Since the presidential campaign, he has characterized it as the good war while he calls the Iraq war (despite liberating 24 million people, and turning an avowed enemy and a rogue dictator into a democratic ally) a mistake.
Meanwhile, things have not been going well in Afghanistan of late. Restrictive rules of engagement are getting our troops killed while the president hems and haws about what to do.
On the one hand, the loss will be Obama’s — he cannot blame it on President Bush — and no president wants that kind of legacy. On the other hand, our allies continue to leave the theater, and Obama’s base, the left, have finally gotten the courage up to admit that their prior support of the Afghan war was always a lie (Imagine that!) and they want to bail on that war as well.
With that in mind, come two headlines today:
White House: Obama to take ‘Next several weeks’ to review strategy and,
Tony Blair to head the EU within weeks.
Now we all know Tony Blair has his head on straight about both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and resolutely so. Is Obama then waiting for Blair’s leadership to give him the political cover to send more troops to Afghanistan? Or are the stories unrelated, and Obama simply finds himself too busy trying to secure Olympic contracts for his Chicago cronies and seizing the American health-care system for his union thugs to bother himself with little things like terrorism, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and our troops lives?
Let’s hope it’s the former.
Time will tell.
Filed under: American Elephant, Health Care, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | Tags: Debunking Liberal Lies, Obama, Obamacare
Perhaps you realized this before yours truly — I understood it was true, yet for whatever reason, never really wrapped my brain completely around it…
Whatever “mandate” Obama may have once had is history…evaporated….GONE!
He won the election by garnering 53% of the vote, and we were told that was a landslide. That he had a mandate.
Perhaps he once did, but American voters now oppose Obamacare by 56%. Forgive my remedial math, but if 53% is a landslide, then 56% is a complete shutout. Only 41% of voters — that’s barely more than his base — support his health-care proposals, and only tepidly at that. All the passion among Americans is in opposition to his signature issue.
Americans do not want what Barack is cooking!
The reason I post this, is because I don’t think Democrats have wrapped their tiny little brains around these numbers either. They certainly don’t behave like it. They are still pushing ahead with an attempt to cross a large majority of voters on an issue that touches more closely on personal liberty than any other. As personal as liberty gets.
I suspect Democrats saw President Bush defying popular will by refusing to abandon Iraq, and took inspiration from it. They believe his resolve means they can also defy the voters to pass their socialized health-care Trojan Horse. But they forget a few things at their peril.
- They forget that Bush was insisting on winning a war the American people, and their representatives, initially, specifically, supported. And
- They forget that Bush lost both houses of Congress for doing so.
Either that, or they are convinced that by passing their socialist health-care Trojan Horse, they will secure their majority in perpetuity. That voters wont dare vote them out once they depend on government for their health.
I think its a little bit of all of the above.
What we need to do is make sure every Democrat understands that we, the people are very serious in our opposition to these reform proposals — that they will lose their seats, and their majorities, if they pass this abomination.
I intend to explain it to Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell today.
Filed under: American Elephant, Humor, Politics | Tags: Obama, United Nations
This video of an immovable Obama with 130 UN delegates has others wondering if the White House sent a cardboard cutout to the UN in the president’s stead. Watch his face, his lips, and his eyes. They are completely plastic. Only the position of the camera changes. I submit that the shadows are too realistic for a cardboard cutout. Perhaps they borrowed the president’s wax doppelganger from Madame Tussaud’s. In Times Square, its less than 2 miles away from the UN…
I’m inclined to believe it’s the real deal. After all, it’s what he does! He speaks and he poses, speaks and poses, speaks and poses — while others govern. Speaking and posing could very well be his only expertise. I suspect he has just mastered the art of the phony smile so thoroughly that he has taken his to this whole new level — Stepford President.
What do you think?
(h/t Hot Air)
