Archive for April, 2009
Ventura County, California National Tax Day Tea Party, April 15, 2009
But, the political class strongly disagrees.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the “tea parties†held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is Very favorable.
Thirty-three percent (33%) hold an unfavorable opinion of the tea parties according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure.
While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political elite offered even a somewhat favorable assessment while 81% said the opposite. Among the Political Class, not a single survey respondent said they had a Very Favorable opinion of the events while 60% shared a Very Unfavorable assessment.
One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.
Is this surprising for the political elite?
But, this spells trouble for the Obama Administration and Congresional Democrats if the economy does not quickly turn around.
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Why Miss California didn’t win Miss USA pageant.
Perez Hilton or Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. is a “RENOWN” homosexual and shows his bigotry towards straight people in the above video.
Did Miss California’s answer on gay marriage affect his vote?
Here is the question and Hilton’s immediate reaction.
Perez Hilton a bigot?
On his blog following the ceremony, Hilton called Prejean a “dumb bitch†and described her answer to his question “the worst answer in pageant historyâ€.
It is unclear what land Miss California was speaking of when she said she lives in a place in which you can choose a same-sex marriage, because same-sex marriages are, at least for the time being, not an option in California. It is equally unclear exactly what an “opposite marriage†is. Even stranger is how Prejean became first runner-up when she didn’t answer the question presented to her.
For someone representing the state of California, in which the decision to overturn Prop 8 currently lies in the hands of the state Supreme Court, Prejean showed a shockingly poor grasp on the issue of same sex marriage.
You betcha……..
Did Miss California, Carrie Prejean’s views on gay marriage cost her the Miss USA title?
Probably…..
No tolerance is permitted by the radical homosexual community.
Remember the California Propsition 8 campaign and its aftermath with over the top boycotts and protests?
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President Barack Obama and Hugh Chavez extending each other a hand and photo op at this weekend’s Latin American summit
Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lets it fly against President Obama for his palling around this weekend with Venezuela President and/or Dictator Hugo Chavez.
Chavez has been one of the harshest critics of the United States in that part of the world. Obama said at the conclusion of the Latin summit Sunday that he didn’t think greeting Chavez would be “endangering the strategic interests of the United States.”
Gingrich complained that the simple act of a smiling Obama shaking Chavez’s hand caused a book Chavez has written to skyrocket on the best-seller lists in the United States.
“What I find distressing,” he said, “is that the administration opposes opening up oil exploration,” but yet Obama has “bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia” and now reached out to Chavez, whom Gingrich said has been conducting “a vicious anti-American campaign.”
Gingrich, whose name has been mentioned in 2012 presidential speculation, said, “How do you mend relationships with someone who actively hates your country. … “
“Cuba releases zero prisoners,” he said, “yet we make nice with Cuba. I’m for doing things methodically and calmly … things that will work, but I’m not for deluding myself about smiles and words.”
Fantasy land world for Obama….
Hugs and exchanging books will not change the policy of these American hating dictators.
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 Day By Day by Chris Muir
President Obama’s atrocious display of lovey-dovey with Venezuela dictator Hugo Chavez over the weekend has empowered an American enemy and a thug.
This reminds me of the ol’ Jimmy Carter foreign policy where the President cozied up to the LEFT totalitarians while they spewed hatred towards the United States and undercut freedom throughout the world as they expanded their sphere of influence.
Obama is using his popularity in the wrong way.
Is it arrogance or ideology?
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 Day By Day by Chris Muir
But, you see Chris, President Obama views himself as the new Gorbachev and to that end as his advisor David Axelrod says, “You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable” – even if you are selling out American values.
It is DOUBLESPEAK.
What has Obama done:
- Admitted to Europeans that America deserves at least part of the blame for the world’s financial crisis because it did not regulate high-flying and greedy Wall Street gamblers.
- Told the Russians he wants to reset relations that fell to Cold War-style levels under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
- Asked NATO for more help in the fight in Afghanistan, and, not getting much, did not castigate alliance partners.
- Lifted some restrictions on Cuban Americans’ travel to their communist homeland and eased rules on sending wages back to families there.
- Shook hands with, more than once, and accepted a book from Hugo Chavez, the virulently anti-American leader of oil-rich Venezuela.
- Said America’s appetite for illegal drugs and its lax control of the flow of guns and cash to Mexico were partly to blame for the drug-lord-inspired violence that is rattling the southern U.S. neighbor.
Obama should remember what happened to Gorbachev though.
The President is gambling with over fifty years of American foreign policy and when there is a misstep he will receive ALL of the blame.
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Several Republican members of Congress spoke at Tea Party protests around the country on Wednesday. Some were applauded. Others heckled. But only one, it appears, was booed relentlessly for the entire duration of his speech: Rep. Gresham Barrett of South Carolina.
Barrett, who voted in favor of the $700 billion bailout to stabilize the financial sector, despised by many of the demonstrators, knew what he was getting into. South Carolina grassroots conservatives have been blasting the congressman for months because of his vote on the Bush administration's bill last October.
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At President Obama's meeting with the heads of South American countries this morning, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stood, walked over to him, and presented him with a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano.
Obama politely posed for a photograph with Chavez, shook his hand, and accepted the gift.
The book, first published in Spanish in 1971, offers a critique of the consequences of 500 years of European and U.S. colonization of Latin America.
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John McCain's top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Ever hear of federalism, Steve?
Steve Schmidt, in his first political appearance since the election, spoke at the Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans — a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans.
He urged Republicans, in the near-term, to endorse civil unions and stop using the Bible as rationale for gay-marriage opposition.
"If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party," he said. "And in a free country a political party cannot be viable in the long-term if it is seen as a sectarian party."
Schmidt, whose sister is a lesbian and who supports same-sex marriage, said he understands the Republican Party probably won't reverse its resistance to same-sex marriage anytime soon.
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Factcheck makes a glaring error here (in an effort to dispute Fox's 17% claim):
The 5,114 figure is simply wrong. What Newell said quite clearly is that the number of guns submitted to ATF in those two years was 11,055: "3,312 in FY 2007 [and] 7,743 in FY 2008." Newell also testified, as other ATF officials have done, that 90 percent of the guns traced were determined to have come from the U.S. So based on Newell's testimony, the Fox reporters should have used a figure of 9,950 guns from U.S. sources. [emphasis added]
They're clearly assuming 100% of guns submitted are successfully traced . . . which obviously isn't so.
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There's no dispute that thousands of handguns, military style rifles and other firearms are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across.
But is it true as President Obama said, that "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?" No, it's not.
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he star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up). As John noted, both networks' "journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes — in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment.
The Media Research Center detailed the teabagging references in an informative press release. The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).
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