Blogs For Victory

Asked by Victor Davis Hanson:

After listening to Ahmadinejad’s U.N. rant and seeing his goons shout at Elie Wiesel, hearing Ortega go on his 50-minute rant, and listening to the antics of the thuggish Chávez and Morales at the Latin American “summit” — and collating all that with Obama’s praise of the “courageous” Saudi royal (replete with bow) and the Turkish government’s demands to derail the new Danish head of NATO (who courageously stood up for free speech) — does anyone really believe that Obama’s glad-handing, push the reset button, “we’re listening now,” “Bush did it,” “I was only (fill in the blank) then” overseas script constitutes morality, wisdom, or the advancement of our national values and interests? Or has the thin ethical veneer almost completely worn away from this narcissistic, Bono-like celebrity tour?

Of course it has – but as we have now found out that Obama’s appearances are highly scripted and designed to maximize the amount of adulation directed at Obama, there is a very strong possibility that Obama, rapidly becoming a laughing stock, believes he’s still the global messiah who has the love and devotion of the whole world behind him. The dimwit might really believe that the nasty people out there wouldn’t dare cross him because he’s so popular that the whole world will drop like a ton of bricks on the dissenter from the Cult of Obama. “I’m not Bush” isn’t a policy – in fact, to use anything like that is a sign of either craven cowardice, or megalomania of a certifiable sort.

Our hope: that the enemies of the United States, knocked about quite severely for 8 years by President Bush, won’t be able to take advantage of Obama’s folly. If we can get Obama out in 2012, we might be able to nip the next round of anti-American carnage in the bud.

This news story says that President Obama is open to prosecuting Bush Administration officials who justified the use of harsh interrogation measures against suspected terrorists.

Memo to Obama:

If you looking for means to permanently poison American politics and, perhaps, set the stage for Civil War II, then go right ahead. But I will advise that we on our side will not tolerate the criminalization of our political views.

Clearly someone who never would have understood the glory that is Obamunism:

Man is not free unless government is limited. – Ronald Reagan

With a “no kidding, we won’t let anyone take it from us” stance:

NASHVILLE – The House voted Monday night to allow people with handgun carry permits to take their weapons into state parks while leaving city and county governments to decide whether guns are permitted in parks under local control.

The House also approved a bill that declares the guns of Tennesseans cannot be seized during periods of martial rule. All three bills now go to the Senate, where Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has predicted they also will win approval.

Three cheers for the Volunteer State – that is sticking it right in the eye of liberal statists who see the people, and the States, as an annoyance rather than the core of American politics, and the bulwarks of American liberty.

Just like the first one, it starts small:

Still glowing in the success of the Providence Tea Party, in which somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 people turned out last Wednesday to protest what they consider high taxes at all levels of government, Colleen Conley, the event’s primary organizer, pledged to keep the movement alive during a telephone interview yesterday.

Conley said she plans to create a non-partisan political action committee that will eventually endorse political candidates who sign anti-tax pledges and show a penchant for transparency. Conley also said she plans on organizing similar rallies in the future in order to harness the energy shown at last week’s event.

Skeptics say the audience at the rally, while large, consisted of frustrated people who wouldn’t get along with one another if a platform was created.

Conley disagrees.

“I think those people are misjudging the sentiment of the hardworking taxpayer. I think we’ve reached a tipping point due to this excessive taxation. The straw that broke the camel’s back has arrived,” said Conley.

First off, let’s take a look at some issues which can neatly dovetail into the Tea Party movement’s fiscal responsibility ethic:

Gun rights, border security, property rights, strict constructionist judges, War on Terrorism, Social Security reform

Now, what can’t be grafted on without destroying the movement:

Abortion (pro or con), gay marriage (pro or con), global warming/environmentalism, socialized medicine.

As you can see, while conservatives (like me) who feel that Life Issues are the actual central issue of our time must be wary of trying to force our agenda on the movement, there are far more vital elements of leftwing ideology which are impossible to mesh with this bedrock, American popular movement. In other words, while we’d be stupid to try and take over the Tea Party movement, we can ride along with it and assist it in breaking down Big Government – and by so doing we can clear the field to allow us to educate about and agitate for issues such as the Culture of Life, defense of marriage, etc.

You see, the left is largely taxpayer funded – either directly through government grants, or indirectly through tax deductible contributions. If we back a movement which is designed to reign in government spending and lower taxation, the fundamental thing we’ll be doing is starving the liberal beast of it’s funding. Once liberals are forced out of their taxpayer funded positions, they’ll be easily swept aside – as they always were in America until the New Deal put them on the government payroll. This Tea Party movement can very well be the spark of a new American Revolution, even if the participants don’t see it completely at the moment – fixated, with great justification, on the twin burdens of taxes and spending as they are.

The basic program of liberals from Obama on down is to get 50% plus one of the population on the government teat and 50% plus one relieved from all income taxes. This would build a permanent coalition in favor of higher government spending and indifferent to higher taxation. This is Europe’s deadly problem at the moment – with more than half the population dependent in one way or another upon government spending, proposals to curb said spending are met with hostility. That this is literally killing Europe is unimportant – liberals pretend its not killing Europe and, at any rate, only care that their vision of social justice prevail, come what may. Our job – and its a difficult one – is to get as few people as possible dependent upon government spending and ensure that everyone pays at least some of the burden of government, so that everyone feels the pinch when Uncle Sam puts his hand in the national wallet. The Tea Party movement may break the log jam.

Time will tell, of course, but I’m more highly encouraged than at any time since the disastrous day we elected Obama President.

Once again. Obama and the Democrats are wrong,

The Obama administration’s top intelligence official privately told employees last week that “high value information” was obtained in interrogations that included harsh techniques approved by former President George W. Bush.

“A deeper understanding of the al-Qaida network” resulted, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said in the memo, in which he added, “I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past.” The Associated Press obtained a copy. 

 Critics of the harsh methods—waterboarding, face slapping, sleep deprivation and other techniques—have called them torture. President Barack Obama said Tuesday they showed the United States “losing our moral bearings” and said they would not be used while he is in office. But he did not say whether he believed they worked.

Obama ordered the release of long-secret Bush-era documents on the subject last week, and Blair circulated his memo declaring that useful information was obtained at the same time.

In a public statement released the same day, Blair did not say that interrogations using the techniques had yielded useful information. 

CNSNews reports that thanks “enhanced techniques” of interrogation, a 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles was thwarted.

The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.

If Obama doesn’t want to protect this country from terrorist attacks, then he should consider a different job.

And a good thing, too:

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, announced it is launching a national campaign today demanding that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) retract a warning it included in a recent report on domestic terrorism that labels pro-life supporters as ‘extremists.’

At the same time, the ACLJ is notifying all 50 states that the report – and the offensive warning – should not be used to curtail the First Amendment rights of pro-life supporters. Further, the ACLJ is supporting a call for Congressional hearings on the DHS report.

“The report creates a very troubling climate for those who want to exercise their constitutional rights to speak out about protecting the life of the unborn,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. “It’s now clear the DHS ignored its own internal concerns about this outrageous and inflammatory warning.”

” We’re very concerned that this disturbing report not be used by law enforcement agencies around the country to silence the legitimate First Amendment rights of pro-life supporters. The fact is that the DHS must retract this offensive reference. We also support the call for Congressional hearings to get to the bottom of this. The DHS report represents at the very least – bad judgment – and at worst – an Administration-backed effort to intimidate and silence pro-life supporters.”

I go with the latter – whatever Obama’s views on the matter may be, he has stocked his Administration with the kookiest of screwball pro-abortionists who are bent on using fascist measures to shut down the pro-life movement. They hate us and want us to shut up and go away – turning us into proto-terrorists is just one of the ways they hope to accomplish their goal.

Now, where are all you liberal civil libertarians who were shrieking bloody murder over President Bush’s signals intelligence program? To listen to you a year or two ago, the mere prospect of Uncle Sam listening to your phone calls was the slippery slope to fascism…now we’ve got the government actually using fascist methods against dissent. What will you do? Show the courage of your claimed convictions, or mumble excuses and prove to the world you are no supporters of freedom?

And do keep in mind that this horrific group is the beneficiary of taxpayer funds:

A counselor at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis, TN was caught on hidden camera coaching a 14-year-old girl to lie to a judge so he would not find out about her 31-year-old boyfriend; the girl could then obtain a waiver for an abortion without her parents’ knowledge.

This is the sixth Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic implicated in a developing multi-state child abuse scandal, involving the deliberate suppression of evidence of statutory rape by PP employees.

Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student and president of the nonprofit Live Action, entered Planned Parenthood’s Memphis Health Center undercover and told a counselor that she was 14-years-old, pregnant by her 31-year-old “boyfriend”, and needed a secret abortion so her parents would not find out about her sexual relationship with the older man. Tennessee Code 37-1-605 requires health professionals to report suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors to law enforcement immediately.

The Planned Parenthood counselor tells Rose on camera, “Look, if we keep this conversation I’m gonna have to talk to my manager and yeah, [your boyfriend]’s gonna get in trouble,” but promises, “I’m not gonna tell anybody, ok?” She adds, “And please don’t say that I told you this.”

When Rose tells the counselor she thinks her boyfriend will get in trouble if her parents find out, the counselor advises Rose to lie about the man’s age when speaking to a judge in order to obtain a bypass of Tennessee’s parental consent law for abortion: “Don’t mention it. Just say you have a boyfriend 17 years old…whatever.”

They’ll gladly take racist donations, they help statutory rapists escape detection – this is a group we taxpayers should fund? What say you, liberals? I mean, don’t you have even the slightest queasy feeling here? You are allegedly just pro-choice as opposed to being pro-abortion – will you now at least admit that PP is pro-abortion?

It is no surprise at all that PP is like this – any group dedicated to procuring the death of innocent people will be a group wallowing in wickedness. What is sad is that so many people refuse to recognize what a disgrace Planned Parenthood is – one might as well wish to associate with a drug cartel as be with PP.

Goodness, this rightwing extremist was once President?

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant

The bellweather of 1993 and 2005 – perhaps the bellweather of 2009? Time will tell:

Republican Bob McDonnell has lengthened his lead on all three Democratic hopefuls in the race to be Virginia’s next governor, but it’s a long way to Election Day.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds the closest race is between McDonnell, the former attorney general and lone GOP candidate, and Brian J. Moran, a former state delegate from Alexandria. McDonnell now leads Moran by 10 points, 44% to 34%.

The highest profile Democrat in the race is next. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton confidant and former national party chairman, trails McDonnell by 12 points, 45% to 33%.

State Delegate R. Creigh Deeds of Bath County continues to fare the worst against his Republican opponent. McDonnell leads Deeds by 15 points, 45% to 30%.

It is, indeed, a long way to election day – and the Democrats will pour in resources as it is understood throughout American politics that a GOP win in Virginia would signal a strong shift back to the GOP after our drubbing 2006-08…if we could also win New Jersey, then we’d be gearing up for quite a 2010. But, lets just take it one day at a time.

Meanwhile, if you want to help the GOP come back, here is Bob McDonnell’s website.