Blogs For Victory

Today is President George W. Bush’s birthday. Feel free to become a fan of his on Facebook and wish him a happy birthday directly.

And, if you haven’t done so yet, you can give to the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Religion of Peace Update.

Slander, 101.

$1,333,333.00: the cost of an Obamunism “green job”.

The rains in Spain may fall mostly on the plains, but the Spanish banks seem set to fall on their bad home loans.

Dogpile on the RNC Chairman: GOProud joins chorus for Steele’s resignation. I agree that his comments about Afghanistan were off the mark – but I’m not ready to go that route at this time.

More on RNC: Lowry opines on his plight.

What am I on about in economics? Here ya go.

Iowahawk strikes again – “When no one is looking, make non-profit organization profitable”

From the Washington Examiner:

…Case in point is Democratic Underground (aka DU), a liberal discussion forum started in 2001 that, up until recently, was united in its hatred for former president George W. Bush. But now that many Democrats have withdrawn their support of Obama, DU responded last week with regulations on how its users may express opinions about the current occupant of the Oval Office and Democrats generally.

It turns out Democratic Underground is a safe haven for all Democrats too faithful to their party to say anything beyond “constructive criticism” of Obama or other Democrats in office. The last thing they need is another voice telling them that maybe Obama should have factored hurricanes into the oil cleanup plans. Oh, and don’t you dare think about calling our president “Barry.”…

Barry would be proud – the kooks at DU now fully understand that with the Cult of Personality comes the Dictatorship of the (leftwing) Blogitariat.

DU is free to make whatever rules they like – freedom of speech does not mean that people can write whatever they want in blog comments. But I do recall the rather vile anti-Bush sentiments expressed at DU on a regular basis and it is a bit surprising that even mild criticism of Obama is being purged. You’d think they’d have tougher skins over there – I mean, once you’ve called the President a war criminal, any other sort of criticism directed at the Chief Executive becomes relatively mild. Even when we were Blogs for Bush, we allowed a wide range of criticism of President Bush to appear on the blog.

The true believers are hunkering down – getting in to mental bomb shelters, ever more disconnected from reality. It’ll make the November results all the more entertaining – always love it when liberals are shocked by election results.

So much for the DNC talking point that ObamaCare is getting more popular:

Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law, including 49% who Strongly Favor repeal.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 36% oppose repeal. That figure includes 24% who are Strongly Opposed…

The big question: is the GOP really listening? We need to actively campaign on a repeal of ObamaCare. Highlight its horrors and the corruption surrounding its passage, while offering a replacement which will actually put people in charge of their own health care. On this issue as on immigration, the conventional wisdom that the GOP should stay away is wrong – the people are not open to our views, but are actually marching far ahead of where the GOP plan is.

Liberalism thought it has won another 60 years of political dominance in 2008 – that was a crucial error. They could have got it, had they moderated their plans and worked with the center – but, they went flat out and have now discovered that the tilt to the left was in response to GOP failure, not support for liberal plans.

We have to hammer them – every day; liberalism is becoming political kryptonite again.

For all you non-Nevadans out there, we like her for the very reasons the left and the political elite hate her – George Will on Sharron Angle:

… when asked where she was born, she is on message: “I was conceived in Lovelock [Nevada] but — if you’re not pro-life — I was born in Klamath Falls [Oregon].” During her four terms in Nevada’s 42-seat Assembly, many votes were “41-to-Angle.” She wears as a badge of honor having been voted Nevada’s worst legislator, a disparagement she says is always bestowed on a conservative because the voters are members of the press and the political class (the legislators and their staff).

Her favorite legislators? U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann…

…Angle is somebody nobody sent. Nobody in the upper reaches of national or even Nevada politics, that is. But voters may not be finished sending her places.

We are entirely realistic. We know she’s not as smooth as Sue Lowden would have been. We know she’s taken controversial positions that we true-blue conservatives cheer but which some might misconstrue (especially with the left deliberately misrepresenting said positions). We know she’s inexperienced in the hammer-and-tongs electoral battle Reid will give her. We know she could lose whereas if we had voted for Lowden, it might have been a walk over.

And we don’t care about that.

She’s one of us. We know that if we get her in to the Senate, she’s going to remain loyal to the principles she proclaims and to the people who elected her. We expect that we’ll be throwing a political hand grenade in to the “collegial” (ie, “corrupt”) Senate. We want a pistol-packing, rural grandma who won’t roll over for career politicians.

And, we think she can win – and win rather handily. Obama and his Democrats claimed they were who we had been waiting for – Sharron Angle really is.

This campaign kinda writes itself, doesn’t it?

Showing, once again, that the best man doesn’t always win – from Breitbart:

US Senator John McCain Sunday slammed the July 2011 target for beginning to pull US troops out of Afghanistan, saying setting a firm date for withdrawal would raise questions about US commitment there.

“I’m concerned about the perception of our friends and our enemies as well as the people in Afghanistan, as to the depth of our commitment,” McCain told ABC news in an interview from Kabul.

The Republican lawmaker and former prisoner of war said the policy of announcing a planned draw down date was a “bad idea,” and that the United States should only leave Afghanistan when the country is stable enough to maintain a strong government.

Which is the only sensible thing to do – but good sense is in short supply in DC these days. I recall watching a short bit of the Petraeus confirmation hearings where I believe it was Sen. Leahy (D-VT) who said that time tables proved their worth in Iraq. A statement more at variance with the facts would be harder to find – it was because President Bush stubbornly resisted Democrat attempts at setting a time table that we were able to win, at all. Obama’s July, 2011 time table just sets the date for our defeat.

The enemy is just waiting until we leave and our friends – actual and prospective – in the area are trimming their sails to the withdrawal date. This is what bin Laden was on about when he talked of strong and weak horses – the strong horse isn’t necessarily the fastest or more muscular horse, but the horse with the greatest endurance. Right now, we’ve set a limit to our endurance, and our enemies are determined to last just one day longer.

General Petraeus has signaled that he doesn’t mean to hold to the July, 2011 time table, and that is good. But the ultimate decision isn’t his, it belongs to President Obama. The President must, in public, set aside July, 2011 and commit to victory…which may, by the way, come sooner than July of 2011 if we show that we’re not going to quit. People would much prefer a peace based upon our ideals than upon the Taliban’s – but they’ll swallow the Taliban if there is no other choice.

Right now, for them, there is no other choice – we must change that.

From Quinnipiac:

New York City voters oppose 52 – 31 percent a proposal by a Muslim group to build a mosque and cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 17 percent are undecided.

Opinions about the proposed mosque range from 46 – 36 percent support among Manhattan voters to 73 – 14 percent opposition in Staten Island, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds…

It is just plain and simple wrong-headed for any Moslems, anywhere, to think that a mosque in proximity to Ground Zero is a good idea – and the fact that a Moslem group is trying to do it demonstrates the level of contempt they have for America.

This, in turn, stems from the way Moslems view non-Moslems as, in varied hues, scum of the Earth. Remember, no non-Moslem is to be allowed in Mecca. The very presence of you, dear reader, is an intolerable pollution. Small wonder that Moslems would want to deliberately insult the memory of the non-Moslem dead by building a mosque close to Ground Zero.

I don’t care how it gets stopped, but it must be stopped – no mosque at Ground Zero, not now and not until the Moslem world ceases to view non-Moslems as filth…until, as I’ve said before, a church is freely operating in Mecca.

As the economy starts to tank and visions of a Republican Congress start materializing, Democrats are starting to press for a stimulus which, they hope, might keep the economy afloat until after election day – from The Hill:

…In letters, interviews, and public statements, President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other senior Democrats are now raising red flags that the economy could falter without additional stimulus efforts.

Obama urged congressional leaders in mid-June to pass an extension of tax breaks and unemployment benefits, and up to $50 billion in aid for states and local governments. Without Congress acting, Obama said the economy could “slide backwards.” …

It is already sliding backwards, its just that it’ll be two or three months before the slide shows up in the GDP numbers. The money for the States and local governments is to keep government employees on the job – all I can see tells me that the Democrats biggest fear is an unemployment rate of more than 10% come election day. As it stands right now, quite a lot of government employees are going to get the boot from our bankrupt States…unless Obama Claus slides down the chimney with magical federal money.

All is to be subordinated to keeping Pelosi in the Speaker’s chair and some Democrat as Majority leader (they are already getting ready to write off Reid, I’m sure). The liberals are deathly afraid of both having their agenda derailed and Republicans in charge of government oversight – too many crooked deals have happened too recently. They don’t want them looked in to by anyone who would want to find the truth.

Our job, as Republicans, is to block them at every turn – no amount of stimulus will fix what wasn’t fixed by the previous, much larger stimulus and, indeed, any attempt to do so will just make matters worse. We daren’t allow Democrats to further mortgage our future just to try and save their political hides. Fight them out toe to toe, and let the voters decide in November.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…