"Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but BOLD COLORS which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people..."
-RONALD W. REAGAN (03/01/1975)
This is almost unbelievable. A left-wing advocacy group calls a press conference pretending to be the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, claiming that the Chamber will now support climate change legislation. When an actual representative of the Chamber arrives and exposes the phonies, the gig is up. This is a must watch… what a joke!
I love how the phony, who introduced himself as “Hingo Sembra,” refuses to give his real name and has the gall to claim that, “the statements of late that the Chamber has made in regard to, uh, climate science are frankly embarrassing for those of us who truly represent it.”
Claiming to “truly represent” climate science only moments after falsely claiming to truly represent the U.S. Chamber of Commerce… now that’s funny! “Sembra” is actually a member of the Yes Men, an extremist group that believes big corporations are “criminals.”
True believers must be at least a little discouraged to see that even the BBC has begun to question the idea that humans are responsible for changes in temperature due primarily to their uses of carbon-based fuels and the internal combustion engine.
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
Congress better act quickly if they want to pass the Cap-and-Tax Bill, before any other scientists begin to raise questions about the “facts.”
According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.
The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago’s unsuccessful Olympic bid.
And why was the Obama Administration so upset?
In London, Gen McChrystal, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 Nato forces, flatly rejected proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda.
He told the Institute of International and Strategic Studies that the formula, which is favoured by Vice-President Joe Biden, would lead to “Chaos-istan”.
When asked whether he would support it, he said: “The short answer is: No.”
He went on to say: “Waiting does not prolong a favorable outcome. This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, and nor will public support….”
Gen McChrystal delivered a report on Afghanistan requested by the president on Aug 31, but Mr Obama held only his second “principals meeting” on the issue last week.
He will hold at least one more this week, but a decision on how far to follow Gen McChrystal’s recommendation to send 40,000 more US troops will not be made for several weeks.
And the Administration’s perception of why McChrystal would make such comments:
An adviser to the administration said: “People aren’t sure whether McChrystal is being naïve or an upstart. To my mind he doesn’t seem ready for this Washington hard-ball and is just speaking his mind too plainly.”
Yes, please continue to tell the military how to operate, since Washington obviously understands the situation far better than anyone actually working in Afghanistan; just like Iraq, right?
Speaker Pelosi has finally taken the initiative in warning the American people of the corporate backed, hate-filled mobs that are responsible for forcing the legislative process to come to a screeching halt.
She’s right- just look at these astroturf domestic terrorists- I’m fairly certain that elderly lady with the American flag purse is actually concealing
As Our Great Leaderthe Speaker alluded to, perhaps Americans that “aren’t as balanced” should be held responsible for their “rhetoric.” I too am afraid Madame Speaker; I too am afraid.
When Senator Arlen Specter (D-Penn) changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, I told you it would just be a matter of time before he flipped to support the immoral Card Check Bill. After all, he’ll need the support of labor unions in order to win as a Democrat next year. Well, the time to bow to their demands has come, and he told the AFL-CIO convention yesterday that he will support the legislation, despite killing the legislation earlier this year.
To read, in the words of Democrats, why this legislation is so dangerous, please click here!!!
When late-term abortionist George Tiller was murdered earlier this year, President Obama rightly and immediately condemned the shooting, saying that our differences “cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.” He then mobilized federal authorities to protect other abortion clinics from similar attacks.
Now fast forward to this morning, outside of a school in Michigan. A pro-life activist has been shot and killed while protesting the grotesque practices of abortionists. I wonder if we’ll hear from the President (or even anyone in the media for that matter) on this one. I wonder if he’ll mobilize federal authorities to protect other pro-life activists and organizations.
I wouldn’t bet on it. He still hasn’t even condemned the acts of a muslim extremist who who shot two military recruiters in Arkansas, killing one, just days after Tiller was gunned down. He didn’t utter a word then… I doubt we’ll hear from him now either…
While not in the media, the Republicans do in fact have proposals on cutting costs and increasing access to health care for all Americans. The only difference between HR 3200 (the Democrat’s plan) and HR 3400 (the Republican’s plan) is that HR 3400 places patients first and actually reduces costs- without creating yet another government bureaucracy.
This is a must-see video. Disabled Marine veteran David Hendrick takes Congressman Brian Baird (D-Wash) to task. For a little background, Baird is the guy who accused healthcare protesters of using “brown shirt” (Nazi) tactics. Semper Fi!
This afternoon we will once again be guests on “Bradshaw In The Afternoon” from 2-3 p.m. CDT on 98.3 WOW FM. If you’re not in the Des Moines area, feel free to listen live online here.
Today’s major topic will be Obama’s true motives behind his healthcare plan, but we may also delve into the new developments in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary. As always, feel free to call in and join the conversation or leave suggestions in the comments section of this post.
If you don’t count my cameo on Mickelson yesterday, we last appeared on the air July 20, 2009.
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer was upset about protesters in Arizona who legally carried firearms outside of a conference where President Obama was speaking. Now, I wouldn’t personally carry a gun near any President (for obvious reasons), but Contessa dishonestly opined that these men could only have racial motives:
“A man at a pro-health care reform rally just outside wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip… The reason we’re talking about this… [is] because people feel like yes, there are Second Amendment rights, for sure, but also there are questions about whether this has racial overtones. You have a man of color in the Presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists.”
Well, here’s a picture of the ”white” man Contessa is referring to who had ”a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip.”
This man obviously hates the President because Obama’s black… riiiiiight…
Just watch the entire video. Her guest is just as ignorant, saying:
“It sounds simplistic when you put it that way but it is real that there is tremendous anger in this country… anger about a black person being President, just several upheavals in the country over the last ten years from 9/11, to the economic tsunami, to the black man becoming President and, you know, we see these hate groups rising up and this is definately part of that.”
Really? Does he really think that a black President is just as traumatic as 9/11 to white people? Isn’t that a bit of brilliant commentary! And the media wonders why they no longer have any credibility with the American people…
UPDATE – Monday August 24, 2009, 8:56am: I sounded off on this issue during Jan Mickelson’s morning show on 1040 WHO radio last Thursday. It was the very last segment of the show. You can listen to the Podcast here (starting at 1:24:23 of podcast), or download it directly from his show website.
