This one is from Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide Financial):

Senate Democrats on Tuesday proposed stripping the Federal Reserve of its supervisory powers and creating instead three new federal agencies to police banks, protect consumers and dismantle failing institutions.

The 1,136-page bill…

Once you get to that point, there’s no need to go on – something that large written by a guy who’s in bed with the financial sharks who helped start the current credit crisis means that its just a bunch of BS designed to make it seem like Dodd is doing something – and, meanwhile, he and his bankster buddies are getting away with their actions.

I guess they really do think we’re stupid – that we’ll fall for this stuff, again, as if we haven’t well learned our lesson. Sorry, Democrats, but the party is over – we’re coming to clear you out and then make you pay for your mischief.

Victor Davis Hanson notes our societal attitude about Moslems and terrorism:

…The society at large, driven by the sermonizing of its elites, has come to an unstated conclusion that, unfortunately, a few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time, for the larger goal of establishing the fact that Americans in no way think Muslims are any more likely than any others to commit either random or premeditated terrorist violence. I think that is the initial lesson of Fort Hood. (I remember something similar from the 1980s and 1990s, when we accepted that to be a diplomat or a soldier stationed in the Middle East or Africa or anywhere in the Muslim world meant that there was some chance that your barracks, camp, hotel, embassy, or ship would be attacked — and very little chance that the U.S. government would do much in response other than launch an occasional ineffectual cruise missile or offer a bombastic “this will not stand” speech.)

If the lone-wolf incidents start happening ten times a year, rather than three or four, and if one or two terrorist plots succeed and result in several hundred killed, then attitudes may change (at least for a while).

This seems to be it. I know Moslems – good, decent people who offer no threat at all; but what we are actually doing is transposing our view of these decent people on those who are hate-filled and always just an instant away from going on a personal Jihad. While I am distressed to think that patriotic, law-abiding American Moslems will have to be discomforted, I believe that we must do it. We don’t want an “acceptable level of violence”. I don’t want to bow down before Political Correctness on a pile of innocent, American corpses. I’d rather offend than attend funerals.

And, in truth, patriotic Moslems should be eagerly seeking such scrutiny – and they should be making loud, bold statements of loyalty to the United States and disdain for people who murder in the name of Islam. The fact that such actions are rarely – if at all – seen after incidents of Islamic terrorism is in itself disturbing. And it may be indicative of a fear in the Moslem population – fear that if they speak out, they’ll be the next victims of the Islamists; fear that we, their fellow Americans, won’t protect them from the radical Islamists who pour hatred in to our midst.

We must start treating radical Islam as a subversive element in our society – an internal enemy which must be rooted out. They are trying to overthrow our government and, indeed, our entire way of life. This is the United States of America. We are a Judeo-Christian nation. We are part of Western civilization. We welcome all who come here – but if you are to live in the United States of America, you’ll have to live as an American. This means, at a minimum, you never seek, advocate, justify or even mildly excuse violence against your fellow Americans. And if you are a member of a group which is routinely producing people who violate this basic trust, then you’ll have to accept a certain level of inconvenience as we attempt to separate the good from the bad.

Hmmm…

The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.

Anyone get a comment from Al Gore?

A pinko site, but the Justice Department had no business asking this:

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Indeed, it does. In the end, Justice was scared off by lawyers for the web site – but it is this sort of thing which keeps all of us on edge. Its no one’s business (heck, not even mine, unless you comment) who comes to this or any other website. While I hope that not a single creep will ever view Blogs for Victory, its not for me to stop them – nor to tell anyone that they did come by, should I have that knowledge. Are we going to indict the local Ft. Hood newspaper because Hasan read it?

It would be one thing if a web site was advocating violence or being used as a place to plot law breaking – but if its just a bunch of opinions, even if the opinions are considered idiotic, then its all good – and Government should just keep out.

As evidenced in their treatment of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:

How do you mark the Berlin Wall coming down without including Reagan?

Well, NBC News shows us how, and, as a bonus, manages to include Hillary Clinton in the report, twice. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that the four-minute, 12-second report doesn’t include at least one of the Kennedys.

Obama noted in his own remarks – taped (badly) for the event – how the fall of the Berlin Wall is akin to his being elected President of the United States. Hillary hit on that theme, too…Reagan, Thatcher, John Paul II are simply not to be credited by the left for the simple reason that the left was flat wrong, and Reagan et al proved it. And, of course, no mention of how horribly inhuman was the communist system which built the wall. The left can’t have any of that – they hope to import at least some of that here.

But, then again, she’s also good looking, well armed and in the IDF. Enjoy.

Words fail me – there is, perhaps, just too much going on with today’s soldiers for me to pause and give proper tribute to the past. With the continuing battle in Afghanistan and the losses at Ft. Hood, the symbolism of 11/11 seems a bit out of place.

I can only, for now, think of my father – who joined the Marines at 17 in World War Two. And my grandfather and all his brothers, who went to serve in France during World War One. I also have in my mind’s eye the place where my father is buried – among his like, at the veteran’s cemetery. Row upon row of simple, gray blocks recording the mundane of birth and death, rank and branch of service. But then I remember the Marine who knelt before me – before the likes of me! – and handed me the flag that had draped my father’s casket…where did I earn such honor?…only in the veterans, and only in so much as I honor them.

Interesting:

Word has been leaked by the Washington Post’s insidery The Fix that White House communications director Anita Dunn will be the first Obama senior staffer to “resign” at the end of this month. I guess they don’t count czars as senior staff, but no matter. What’s interesting in The Fix’s rather lengthy report is that there is no mention of the red elephant in the room – ‘Papa Mao Tse-Tung,” as we used to say in the sixties. No, The Fix’s Chris Cillizza dances around, seemingly linking Dunn’s downfall, if that’s what it is, to her leading the administration’s charge against Fox News (taking one for the team, I suppose). He doesn’t mention Dunn’s notorious remarks at a high school graduation, when she cited Mao and Mother Teresa as her mentors.

Of course there’s this, so who knows?

The passing of the baton from Dunn to Pfeiffer had long been expected within White House circles as she had made clear when she took the job that the “interim” in her title was meant to be taken literally.

Hard to tell if that’s real or spin or, more probably, both, but Cillizza’s report also contains this eye-opening tidbit:

Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff and former Illinois Congressman, has made clear he would like to return to elected office at some point in the not-too-distant future and, if past presidencies are any guide there will be some further turnover in the senior staff over the next year or so.

As Chief of Staff it is Emanuel’s job to make things run smoothly, engineer political victories and make the President look Presidential at all times. To put it mildly, Emanuel has been rather ineffective at this. The bad news is that it might be leftist anti-Semites who are pressing for Emanuel’s ouster – I’m figuring that Emanuel is the sole voice of reason on Israeli issues inside the White House and that simply has to be rubbing some people the wrong way.

Be that as it may, we’re starting to see all sorts of cracks in the Obama edifice – from Democrats steering clear of him to MSMers finally (albeit mildly) questioning his acts to leftists growing increasingly frustrated with Obama’s failure to deliver a United Socialist States of America.

Its just going to get worse from here on out – we’ve got the man who will redeem Carter in the White House; no longer will that dimwit from Plains hold the title of “worst President”.

This, I think, can now been seen as a consistent trend – the GOP is leading, thus far, in the overall 2010 contest:

Republican candidates have stretched their lead over Democrats to six points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 43% to 20%.

its in those Independents where our 2009 victories came from, and the more Obama, Pelosi and Reid push left, the more those Independents will swing behind us.

I agree whole-heartedly and am glad I, too, never bought in.