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What a fizzle:

At Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday morning, party workers were loading minivans with Xerox boxes, each addressed to a different congressional office. It was a classic campaign canvassing operation — except that the next election is 19 months away. “Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release.

CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.

In fact, the canvassing of Obama’s vaunted e-mail list of 13 million people resulted in just 114,000 pledges — a response rate of less than 1 percent. Workers gathered 100,000 more from street canvassing. The DNC got to 642,000 by making three photocopies of each pledge so that each signer’s senators and representative could get one.

I heard a snippet of the training video for this and I was utterly disgusted by it – mindless robots pledging themselves to Obama. Its a pity we can’t strip them of their citizenship – people with the minds of slaves should not be participants in our democratic republic. We expended hundreds of thousands of lives to end slavery in this nation, now we’ve got hundreds of thousands of people eager to have shackles bolted to them, body and soul. At least those who were held to slavery in the past yearned to be free…these slaves are afraid to be free and are seeking a master.

The stunts go on – Obama and his allies seeking to jury-rig popular applause for Obamunism. Fawning media, slick Hollywood productions, endless photo ops and sound bites. Obama is building a fairy tale – and his ardent supporters are falling for it hook, line and sinker.

Well, reality is coming – we’ll see how things look for these robots in November of 2010.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, was finally indicted today on federal corruption charges.

Several aides were also charged in the 75-page indictment filed late Thursday afternoon in federal court.

“Since 2002, even before he was first elected governor … Governor Rod Blagojevich and a circle of his closest aides … engaged in a scheme to deprive the people of Illinois of honest government,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Blagojevich, 52, was indicted on 16 felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion and making false statements to federal agents.

He allegedly abused his office in numerous matters to seek money, campaign contributions, and employment for himself and others, in exchange for official actions, including trying to leverage his authority to appoint a United States senator, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement.

Here is the full indictment.

The news story:

ALBANY—Now it’s Tedisco by 12!

As voting machines are re-canvassed, Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco has picked up 37 votes, evaporating Democrat Scott Murphy’s lead in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress, according to county election officials who are conducting a recanvass.

Tedisco now has 77,236; Murphy has 77,224.

Tedisco trailed by 25 votes yesterday after a recanvass in Columbia County. Elections workers in Rensselaer, Dutchess, Columbia and Otsego counties looked over their tallies today. Other counties will do so in the coming days.

Murphy led on election night by 59 votes.

Now we’ll see if the Democrat steal-an-election machine starts to swing into gear as it has in the Minnesota Senate race…

Nothing like a nasty, internecine battle in the Democrat party to warm a GOP heart:

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president’s budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.

Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.

Its targets were initially Republicans, as team Obama ran ads depicting the GOP as the “party of no.” But now the fire is being trained on Democrats worried about runaway spending.

Americans United is going after Democrats who are skeptical of Mr. Obama’s plans to double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10. The White House is taking aim at lawmakers in 12 states, including Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. MoveOn.Org is running ads aimed at 10 moderate Senate and House Democrats. And robocalls are urging voters in key districts to pressure their congressman to get in line.

Obama is not just President of the United States, but Il Duce of the Party-State, and just as with certain other such leaders of the past, he’s determined that the Führerprinzip be obligatory on all party underlings. As Obamunism is now to be the bearer of the American National Ideal, to be opposed to Obama is to be, in a large sense, opposed to America.

At least, that is what Obama appears to believe, even if he doesn’t articulate it like that. He’s a bloody, little fascist and a growing megalomaniac. His wife’s no better – if I hear one more story about Mrs. Obama’s arms and how beautiful and sexual she is, I’ll puke. She’s not that good looking, guys and gals, but it does seem to be a requirement upon the MSM to laud her to the skies as the price for continued White House access. I never thought I’d live to see the day when so many of my fellow Americans would abase themselves before a mere man – and a not too clever man, at that.

Will the Democrats stand up to him? Time will tell – I hope that some of them do show some guts here and tell the President to go jump in lake. He needs to be brought down a peg or two and it needs to be rammed home to him that he’s just a man – no better than anyone else out there.

Because they don’t want this albatross ’round their necks in 2010:

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Connecticut U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd now trailing former Republican Congressman Rob Simmons and two other possible GOP challengers for the 2010 election.

The survey of nearly 2,000 registered voters also shows that Dodd is experiencing his lowest job approval numbers, with only 33 percent approving of the job that he’s doing and 58 percent disapproving.

Pollster Douglas Schwartz says a 33 percent job approval rating is unheard of for a 30-year incumbent.

The poll shows Simmons defeating Dodd by a 50 percent to 34 percent margin. Dodd trails state Sen. Sam Caligiuri 41 percent to 37 percent, and former ambassador Tom Foley 43 percent to 35 percent.

With polls showing Dodd trailing the second tier GOPers, the Democrats have to face up to the fact that Dodd is an almost sure-loser next year – only a complete GOP melt down in Connecticut would spare Dodd. So, what will Democrats do? In an honorable party there would be a backroom request to Dodd to retire gracefully but, if he decided to run, the party would loyally back him because of his long service to the party through thick and thin. Democrats aren’t honorable – so, look for them to try to force Dodd out the way they scratched Senator Toricelli (D-NJ) when he started to show himself as a sure-loser.

The bell weather for 2010 will be the Northeast – if the GOP continues to gain strength in that area where the GOP was forced to the brink of extinction in 2006/08, then it will be a sign the GOP will sweep the nation in 2010.

…and off themselves voluntarily when they make such statements:

Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth’s “limits of sustainability”.

Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007, initially working with Condoleezza Rice.

Under the new Obama administration, she now advises Hillary Clinton.

“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people,” Dr Fedoroff said, stressing the need for humans to become much better at managing “wild lands”, and in particular water supplies.

Pressed on whether she thought the world population was simply too high, Dr Fedoroff replied: “There are probably already too many people on the planet.”

Dr. Fedoroff, if there are too many people on the planet then it is your bound duty to do yourself in – seriously: don’t you realize that your continued breathing is killing Mother Earth? Do it, and do it now – save the planet!

Or is it that you’re just talking a bunch of sh** and what you really want is control?

The Episcopal Divinity School has hired a priestess who thinks abortion is a blessing to run the place:

The announcement on Monday, March 30 that The Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale was appointed as the sixth and newest president of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, MA, has orthodox and pro-life Episcopalians shaking their heads.

Ragsdale, who is an outspoken advocate of abortion and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) rights, was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees and will begin her duties on July 1, 2009.

In addition to the press release and public letter concerning the appointment, the EDS website also has a link to Rev. Ragsdale’s sermon blog. There, the first sermon is entitled, “Our Work is Not Done.” The content has been cited and circulated on a large number of pro-life and conservative Christian blogs. An excerpt follows:

“When a woman wants a child but can’t afford one because she hasn’t the education necessary for a sustainable job, or access to health care, or day care, or adequate food, it is the abysmal priorities of our nation, the lack of social supports, the absence of justice that are the tragedies; the abortion is a blessing.

“And when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship; has every option open to her; decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion – there is not a tragedy in sight — only blessing. The ability to enjoy God’s good gift of sexuality without compromising one’s education, life’s work, or ability to put to use God’s gifts and call is simply blessing.

Does anyone want to call this woman Christian? Does anyone want to assert that what she’ll teach is Christianity? I mean, come on – this isn’t a difference of degree, this is positively anti-Christian. The religious left has become a self-parody. If you wrote this out for Saturday Night Live it would be rejected as too implausible.

Perhaps it is just the madness of liberalism being writ large, so that no one may mistake it anymore? The Enemy has spent time and effort putting wolves in sheeps clothing, but there is always that fact of God being sovereign and thus able to confound even the most subtle plans for undoing Christianity. Tempting a priest or pastor to insert a bit of moral relativism or materialism into a sermon is insidious – putting a pagan in charge of a supposedly Christian school is ludicrous. No one but the most purblind liberal will be fooled by this.

Close up shop, Episcopalians. Those of you who are Christian will just have to become Evangelicals or Catholics because there’s no point in belonging to an anti-Church.

I was wondering what kind of blunders would be committed by Team Obama overseas… well… apparently, they blundered the scheduling, and Obama thinks it is appropriate to give the Queen of England an iPod as a gift… when she already has one.

Embarrassing.

Just getting in too late and ending up too tired to write as much as I used to. Dad is, of course, a large reason for this. Please keep him – and us – in your prayers. He’s still hanging in there – mind sharp as a tack, body falling apart. God will take him when it pleases Him to do so, meanwhile we just do the best we can.

Be that as it may, there is much to discuss, so have at it.

That is how much Obama and Co have spent or pledged:

The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.

New pledges from the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. include $1 trillion for the Public-Private Investment Program, designed to help investors buy distressed loans and other assets from U.S. banks. The money works out to $42,105 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. and 14 times the $899.8 billion of currency in circulation. The nation’s gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion in 2008.

What is really wrong with this picture is that we don’t have that kind of money to spend – and we don’t have the ability to borrow that kind of money. This means we’re either going to print ourselves into hyper-inflation, or we going to be cooking the books in a manner which will make Enron look honest by comparison. Whomever takes over from Obama – be it in 2013 or 2017 – is likely to find that we’re awash in a sea of bogus money. Counterfeiters are actually ending up more honest than the government – at least the counterfeit money exists: Obamunisms dollars will be as mythical as Obama’s pledge for open and honest government.