Blogs For Victory

No, I’m not kidding – from Gateway Pundit:

Dan Margolis, chair of the New York State Communist Party USA and 2004 coordinator for the Democratic Party, recently wrote about the Communist Party’s influence in democratic politics.

KeyWiki Blog reported:

When there were setbacks in the fight for health care, there was demoralization and frustration. Our Bronx club, which was instrumental in building an Organizing for America-based local organization, helped fight this feeling and, in the process, gained a good deal of experience. It can be said that, without the Communist Party, and solid leadership from one comrade in particular, the OFA group could have easily disbanded itself…

First off – Matt, is this guy a cousin of yours? Just curious – and if he is, don’t feel too bad. I’ve got a Marxist half-sister, after all (she’s a perpetual student/writer and I’d link to her stuff, but I’ve got a definitive impression from her that she wishes I’d drop off the face of the Earth, so we’ll leave that aside….wouldn’t want to cause her any trouble…imagine if her friends at Columbia found out her brother is a Republican! She’d have to undergo re-education, at the least).

That aside – fascinating that the commies are claiming credit for saving an Obama group. Fascinating, but not surprising. It is clear that under Obama, communism has become acceptable in the Democrat party.

That communists are, at best, fools and, at worst, beasts in human skin doesn’t seem to matter to the Democrats these days. That really does tell the tale of the Democrat party, and tells us why voting Republican in 2010 is a patriotic duty – we have to clear these people out before they wreck the nation.

The dynamics of this year’s mid-term elections is really quite interesting.

Some Democrats on the campaign trail have hit upon a winning campaign tactic: Run against President Obama and his agenda — especially the health care overhaul.

Democrat Mark Critz railed against the Obama administration’s health care reforms while campaigning in his western Pennsylvania district — and was easily elected to the House.

In West Virginia, Democratic stalwart Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, who voted against an administration-backed energy bill last year, was defeated in his primary after his challenger accused him of not having enough disdain for the measure that was wildly unpopular in his home district. He also was hammered for supporting health care reform.

Rep. Joe Sestak, in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, challenged the White-House-endorsed five-term incumbent, Sen. Arlen Specter, and was rewarded with a cushy eight percentage-point win.

As Obama sees Democrats distancing themselves from him, he’s decided to run against neither incumbent nor candidate. He’s campaigning against Bush.

President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington.

It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months ago.

The White House’s mid-term election strategy is becoming clear – pit the Democrats of 2010 against the Republicans circa 2006, 2008 and 2009, including Bush.

It’s a lot to ask an angry, finicky electorate to sort out. And even if Obama can rightfully make the case that the economy took a turn for the worse under Bush’s watch, he’s already made it – in 2008 and repeatedly in 2009.

It’s not clear that voters still want to hear it.

My guess is they won’t. Obama can’t spending nearly two years in office and run against his predecessor. The fact that such a strategy is even considered proves the White House believes Obama and the Democrats don’t have much of a record to run on. And, quite frankly, that would be correct. The economy isn’t getting much better. The unemployment rate still flirts with double digits. Obama’s stimulus failed. Terror attacks in this country were foiled, not by our country’s anti-terror methods, but by mere luck and private citizen intervention. The oil spill in the Gulf gets worse with little interest from Obama. The health care bill remains unpopular.

All kind of makes sense now doesn’t it? Obama has nothing to run on, so he might as well run against Bush, a man whose legacy has only improved in the eyes of Americans since he left office.

As Mark reported last night, Republican congressional candidate Charles Djou won a special election in Hawaii, filling the vacancy left by Former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie. This historic election gives Hawaii their first REpublican representative in Congress in two decades.

This is great news, although Djou likely faces a similar probably as Joseph Cao in Louisiana, who was elected on a wave of anti-Democrat sentiment following the William Jefferson scandal. This special election is more symbolic at this point. Winning in Democrat-territory is a lot easier in an effective 3-way race  between one Republican and two Democrats. Djou can still do it, but Republicans across the country who supported him with donations can’t get all hot and bothered if he votes in line with his district more than the national GOP.

Time to MoveOn to the next “we’re all gonna die/give us money” scam:

The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer.

The Stern report on climate change, which was prepared for the UK Treasury and published in 2007, famously claimed that the cost of limiting climate change would be around 1%-2% of annual global wealth, but the longer-term economic benefits would be 5-20 times that figure.

The UN’s biodiversity report – dubbed the Stern for Nature – is expected to say that the value of saving “natural goods and services”, such as pollination, medicines, fertile soils, clean air and water, will be even higher – between 10 and 100 times the cost of saving the habitats and species which provide them.

Par for the course with environmentalism – but I thought we wouldn’t see it for a couple decades. Until, that is, global warming simply didn’t happen. No one counted on the beans being spilled and the resultant collapse of the anthropogenic global warming scam.

But, a scam is needed – lots of people gain power and wealth over environmental alarmism, so a replacement was needed. Presto! Biodiversity is the new thing – watch as this becomes a “crisis” and calls rise for massive amounts of spending to fix the problem.

Breaking out the big money in order to save their Congressional majority:

At least two influential unions will spend close to $100 million on the 2010 election, with most of those funds going to protect incumbents.

Union officials told The Hill they plan to help endangered members — particularly freshmen — who made politically difficult votes in a year during which an anti-incumbent mood has filled the country.

Anti-incumbent? A bit – but its mostly an anti-Democrat mood. At any rate…

The unions see their very large monetary investment going down the drain. They’ve spent untold millions – stolen from their own members – to advance an ultra-liberal set of politicians to power in Washington, and now they fear power may be lost. They are doubling down.

Will it work? No. Money doesn’t buy elections. Corrupt politicians – especially on the left – think it does, but that is not true. Money can make it easier, but victory comes in spite of money, or the lack thereof.

But the unions will still pour it on – we’ll have a huge blast of union-paid lies aired courtesy of the dues of hard working union members, a large number of which prefer the Republicans. It will be a sad and disgusting spectacle – and it won’t affect the outcome in the slightest.

The great news:

Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has won the special election in urban Honolulu’s 1st Congressional District, the first Republican sent to Washington, D.C., to represent the Islands in two decades.

According to the state Office of Elections, Djou leads with 39.5 percent of the vote, followed by 30.8 percent for state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa and 27.6 percent for former congressman Ed Case. The remaining 11 other candidates attracted the rest of the vote.

The first of many such victories, I am sure, for the Republican party in 2010.

UPDATE: In Djou’s words – why he won;

“This is a momentous day,” Djou told a jubilant crowd at state party headquarters. “We have sent a message to the United States Congress. We have sent a message to the ex-governors. We have sent a message to the national Democrats! We have sent a message to the machine.

“We have told them that we will not stand idly by as our great nation is overburdened by too much taxes, too much debt and too much wasteful spending.”

That is it – and that is the ticket for victory in November.

Inquiring minds really do want to know – even in the MSM. Sestak says he was offered a bribe in return for backing out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. People would like to know who in the White House made the offer:

Gibbs…managed to successfully not answer a question although it was asked of him 13 times in a row…

…So was he offered a bribe or not? ABC’s Jake Tapper took the first shot at Gibbs.

“Jake, I don’t have anything to add to what I said in March,” Gibbs replied.

Back then Gibbs didn’t answer the question either except by saying “whatever conversations have been had are not problematic.”

Tapper politely noted that he didn’t say anything in March. “Then I don’t have anything to add today,” Gibbs replied.

Fair enough. So how about if you don’t have anything to add, just starting from the beginning then? “Jake, I don’t have anything to add to that,” he said.

And on it went. Quite stupidly, too – its not something that will actually go away. In the heat and passion of the campaign, this will just bubble up more and more, especially as a GOP win in Pennsylvania may be crucial to whom controls Congress in 2011. This is the sort of drip-drip-drip scandal of which Watergates and Lewinskys are made.

The MSM is curious about it and I’m certain that Obama’s media team is issuing instructions that the question is not to be raised again. But it might not work as well as it has in the past – Obama is a greatly diminished figure and the MSM might have to start currying GOP favor in order to retain access in DC. Slavish devotion to liberalism does come second to one thing in MSM-land: career.

The Chicago Way politics of the Obama Administration is generating a lot of problems – small and just a bit annoying, for now, but to grow in to grand proportions as time goes on, and especially if Republicans wind up with Congressional power.

Mark Steyn takes note of Obama’s words about Daniel Pearl:

“Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination because it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.”

Now Obama’s off the prompter, when his silver-tongued rhetoric invariably turns to sludge. But he’s talking about a dead man here, a guy murdered in public for all the world to see. Furthermore, the deceased’s family is standing all around him. And, even for a busy president, it’s the work of moments to come up with a sentence that would be respectful, moving and true. Indeed, for Obama, it’s the work of seconds, because he has a taxpayer-funded staff sitting around all day with nothing to do but provide him with that sentence.

I know that even a lot of my fellow conservatives are still working on the “smart guy Obama” theme, but it simply isn’t true. Yes, I know he attended elite universities, edited the law review and got elected President. But, sorry, he’s dumb as a box of rocks.

There is no one with an IQ above room temperature who would make such a bloodless statement regarding the memorial to a man brutally murdered by wicked men. So weak was the statement that it works out as an insult to the memory of Daniel Pearl – he and his family wound up just a prop in an Obama signing ceremony. A chance for Obama to be on TV in a positive light, nothing more.

Its not like Obama had to get up there and preach a crusade – but some statement along the lines of, “the shocking murder of Daniel Pearl reminded us, once again, that those who search for truth are endangered by those who live by lies”, or some words to that effect. Didn’t have to mention Islam; didn’t have to use the word “terrorism” (though, of course, it was all about that) – a thousand ways present themselves to make a statement which has a bit of vigor, does honor to the fallen and yet goes with whatever is passing for American foreign policy at the moment.

So, as I said, anyone with any sense at all would have immediately seen that the statement prepared was hideous. Obama could not fail to see it unless he’s some sort of mindless puppet who has skated through life. Someone who simply likes to be the center of attention and is happy to let others call the shots. Its either that or he simply must be the most insensitive man alive.

Stupid or mentally deranged, your pick – but its one or the other for Obama.

Nothing good can come of the Culture of Death – this is just more proof of that:

Women who refuse requests from their husbands or boyfriends to have abortions are often finding themselves subject to violent attacks that sometimes result in their deaths. That’s the finding of a new report from the Elliot Institute, which calls the problem a “widespread epidemic.”

The new report, Forced Abortion in America, is drawing attention to attacks on pregnant women and girls in order to prevent them from continuing their pregnancies.

It points out a “widespread epidemic of unwanted, coerced and forced abortions taking place in the United States.”

The report notes how research suggests most abortions are likely unwanted or coerced, with one survey of women who had abortions finding that 64 percent said they felt pressured by others to abort.

Death is something never to be sought – it comes to us all, of course, but it is not something we are supposed to court. Our natural inclination is to live – life is good, and God has written that on our hearts. When we choose death, when we go out of our way to inflict it without cause, we have chosen evil. And out of that evil, worse will follow.

The Culture of Life is the only rational position to hold – it is in line with human nature and expresses the truth of our condition. We must end this scourge of abortion in order to regain a rational society.

So much for cobbling together a bunch of unproductive, demographically declining socialist welfare States:

…The euro has many flaws, but its weakest link is Greece, whose fundamental problem is that for years it spent too much, earned too little and plugged the gap by borrowing in order to enjoy a rich man’s lifestyle. It flouted EU rules on the limits to budget deficits; its national accounts were a moussaka of minced statistics, topped with a cheesy sauce of jiggery-pokery…

…This is why the euro, in its current form, is finished. The game is up for a monetary union that was meant to bolt together work-and-save citizens in northern Europe with the party animals of Club Med. No amount of pit props from Berlin can save the euro Mk I from collapsing under the weight of its structural dysfunctionality. You cannot run indefinitely a single currency with one interest rate for 16 economies, when there are such huge fiscal disparities.

What was once deemed unthinkable is now, I believe, inevitable: withdrawal from the eurozone of one or more of its member countries…

Of course, even the more “work and save” types of northern Europe aren’t really healthy, either. They’re just not as bad off as the “play and spend” types. But the fact of demographic decline means that Europe is finished, long term, unless they start having children. Even if they can figure out a way to integrate Moslems in to European society, that will be a temporary fix – Moslem birth rates are dropping like a rock, too.

The whole concept of the Europe Union was built on a false premise – that a welfare-dependent people have a future. The Euro is very much finished – but in a real sense, it never had a chance. The money jugglers in the various finance ministries and the European Central Bank might be able to animate the corpse for a while longer, but the rot won’t stop – doom is certain for the Euro and the European Union.

But don’t get too cocky, my fellow Americans. Outside the fact that a collapse of the Euro would take us down, too, there is the fact that our structural problems are like Europe’s, just not as bad at the moment. We, too, are not having children. Our source of immigration, like Europe’s, also has a collapsing fertility rate. We’re just a decade or two back – less if Obama gets his way on a fast-track to Euro-disaster.

What to do? Well, lots of policy prescriptions – lower taxes, lower regulation, subsidiarity, etc…but, ultimately, only a return to Truth will fix what ails us. We forgot about God, set ourselves up as if we could do it on our own, and disaster has been the result. The answer is obvious.