November 26-30, 2014
Nov 26 15:04 SC Times defends President Obama Nov 28 02:55 Progressives' assault on the truth Nov 28 10:07 Democrats' divide deepens Nov 30 10:27 Bakk's DFL, election theft edition Nov 30 11:47 A stunning reversal Nov 30 21:11 Progressives' definition of justice
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SC Times defends President Obama
This Our View editorial in the St. Cloud Times proves how intellectually dishonest the Times' editorial page is. Here's exhibit A:
Even if the bill had passed, President Obama doesn't support the bill. He prefers to have the State Department work through the approval process for the project.
It isn't that President Obama prefers having "the State Department work through the approval process." It's that he's using the State Department to delay the project because he's a true believer in climate change. This isn't about process. It's about President Obama's ideology.
Further, President Obama has consistently and repeatedly sided with environmental activists rather than occasionally siding with construction unions. Thus far, President Obama hasn't shown an interest in helping farmers or siding with the unions.
That isn't the only spin in the Times' editorial. Here's another part:
Closer to home, Gov. Mark Dayton said he thinks the best way to untangle the glut of oil trains on Minnesota rail lines is to transport more oil by pipeline. The large increase in the number of trains carrying oil from North Dakota to Midwest refineries has caused delays for grain, propane and coal shipments by rail.
Gov. Dayton is as enthusiastic about building pipelines as President Obama. Gov. Dayton's appointees to the Public Utilities Commission voted to delay the building of the Sandpiper Pipeline by asking "for a review of six alternative routes proposed by opponents of the project."
The net effect of that is to effectively delay construction of the Sandpiper Pipeline project until after he leaves office. It's possible the Sandpiper Pipeline will eventually get built but it isn't likely to happen with Gov. Dayton's time in office.
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:04 PM
Comment 1 by Chad Q at 27-Nov-14 10:15 AM
What? King Obama is saying that the pipeline needs to go through the process and he can't do anything about it but he can wave his magic wand and allow 5 million plus people who illegally enter this country become de facto citizens of the US?
Progressives' assault on the truth
It's time people started highlighting just how often progressives lie. They lie about people. They lie about events. If their lips are moving, especially during campaigns, it's likely that they're lying. This video provides proof of progressives' propensity for lying:
Here's what Robert Reich said during the campaign:
ROBERT REICH: First, you can forget about the minimum wage. They (Republicans) refuse to raise it even though most minimum wage earners are adults, breadwinners for their families and they need a raise.
It's verifiably false that most people earning the minimum wage are "breadwinners for their families." That's an outright lie. Reich wasn't done lying. Later, he said this:
Here's the transcript:
REICH: Third, you can forget our crumbling roads and bridges and pipelines. Republicans won't invest in what it takes to repair them, even though it would put millions back to work. And letting our infrastructure costs jobs.
The only legislation that the House took up was Bill Cassidy's bill to force President Obama to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. That was 2 weeks ago today. It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. The identical bill was submitted by Sen. Landrieu, the woman Cassidy will replace in January. Every Republican senator voted for Sen. Landrieu's bill. Unfortunately, the vote failed because three-fourths of Democrat senators voted against the bill.
Further, Republicans support building roads and bridges. It's just that they're opposed to pouring billions of dollars into light rail boondoggles. Democrats support light rail in sparsely populated parts of the nation, preferring them to upgrading roads and bridges.
The rest of the video is filled with lies, too, but I'll just recommend you watch the full video rather than transcribing each lie individually:
Posted Friday, November 28, 2014 2:55 AM
Comment 1 by Patrick-M at 28-Nov-14 08:19 AM
another dead-in-the-head rich liberal (net worth over $4 million) try to convince us that we should give our money to the centralized regime so they can control us. Hey Bobby stop already.
Comment 2 by J. Ewing at 28-Nov-14 09:38 AM
The problem is, they don't SEE it as lying. To a liberal, the truth is whatever they say it is, at the time they say it, and has no bearing at all on what they might have said 5 minutes ago, or will say 5 minutes from now. They have the amazing ability to hold two (or more) completely contradictory thoughts in their heads at one time. They see the world not as it is, but as they believe it ought to be. Worse yet, they believe that saying aloud what reality should be makes it so. You can call them misinformed or even delusional, but to lie one needs to know the truth, and these folks don't live in the same world you and I do.
Comment 3 by Gary Gross at 28-Nov-14 10:13 AM
Jerry, you're right about Democrats' 'capabilities'. It's our responsibility to highlight that to normal people. HINT: It doesn't play well with rational people.
Comment 4 by Tricia at 29-Nov-14 09:59 PM
So very true, both that the Dems lie all the time and that they really believe their own bs. Personally I don't think Obama even knows what he is saying most of the time as his verbal diarrhea of the mouth seems automatic. He just doesn't care at all whether he is truthful as long as he gets to his final goal of "transforming" the country. Ok, here is a shameless plug for a post I wrote very recently on lying and obamaCare, hope you don't mind but I think it compliments yours,
freedomthroughempowerment.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/pathological-lying-obamacare-how-one-begat-the-other/
Comment 5 by walter hanson at 30-Nov-14 04:52 PM
Gary:
A comment you should've advertised and provided a translation for. During his comments on why unemployment benefits should be extended he talked about people who hadn't gotten a job since the great recession ended.
Doesn't this mean Obama and the Democrats talk about how they got the economy roaring again that they didn't?
Doesn't this mean that thanks in part to extra costs supplied by healthcare and increasing the minimum wage where raised that employers can't afford to hire somebody?
Um nine million people have gotten insurance since Obamacare passed. I thought that bill was suppose to give over 40 million insurance immediately. If you lied on that bill what else could you be lying about.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Democrats' divide deepens
It was inevitable that the Democrats' divide would deepen after their trouncing in this year's midterms. This article highlights some of the infighting within the Democratic Party:
Tensions within the Democratic Party over policy and strategy have begun to surface after a midterm defeat that saw the party lose control of the Senate after eight years and cede more seats to Republicans in the House of Representatives.Does this mean that the Democratic circular firing squad will report to the range ASAP? I'd argue that the signs indicate that they're already at the range. I'd argue that they're in the 'target acquisition' phase of the operation. This year's exit polling showed rampant dissatisfaction with Democrats:
The most glaring example came Tuesday, when Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, criticized President Barack Obama over the 2010 health care overhaul. Schumer said the party should have focused on helping more of the middle class than the uninsured, whom he called 'a small percentage of the electorate." Schumer added that Obamacare was just one of a "cascade of issues" that the White House had bungled, a list that included the scandal over wait times at VA hospitals and responding to the threat of the Ebola virus.
If Republicans win 35-40% of the Hispanic vote and win a majority of the Asian-American vote, Democrats will find 2016 to be difficult terrain. If that happens, the infighting that's happening right now will only intensify.
This graphic shows another Democratic vulnerability:
This graphic is proof that demographics aren't destiny. Actually, both graphics send the same message. What this exit polling shows is that candidate quality and issues matter. In 2016, especially with presidential candidates, Democrats have a virtually nonexistent bench.
While it's undeniable that Hillary has 100% name recognition for people who haven't spent the last 20 years living under a rock, that hardly proves she's a quality. She's famous because Bill Clinton is a popular ex-president. She's famous for being one of the worst secretaries of state in the last century. She isn't famous for being a competent secretary of state. Political junkies saw how untalented she is during her book tour. The number of deer-in-the-headlights moments easily outdistanced her 'Hillary looks competent' moments.
Hillary will lose if Republicans pick a talented governor who doesn't come with a ton of baggage. That eliminates Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney. If Republicans pick either Scott Walker, John Kasich, Mike Pence or Bobby Jindal, Republicans will defeat Hillary and send the Democratic Party into a tailspin.
Posted Friday, November 28, 2014 10:07 AM
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Bakk's DFL, election theft edition
In 2012, the Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM) accused the DFL of ignoring Minnesota state campaign finance laws when it filed a complaint with the Campaign Finance Disclosure Board. Here's part of the Board's Findings of Fact :
Lit Happens is a political media consulting company based in Minneapolis, MN operating as a sole proprietorship of Vic Thorstenson. Lit Happens was retained by the Senate Caucus Party Unit to design, produce, and distribute communications advocating the elections of Vicki Jensen, Alan Oberloh, and Tom Saxhaug .
The Pivot Group, Inc. (Pivot) is a political media consulting company based in Arlington, VA. Pivot was retained by the Senate Caucus Party Unit to design, produce, and distribute communications advocating for the elections of Jim Carlson, Kevin Dahle, Kent Eken, Melisa Franzen, Laurie McKendry, and Matt Schmit .
Compass Media Group, Inc. (Compass) is a political media consulting company based in Chicago, IL. Compass was retained by the Senate Caucus Party Unit to design, produce, and distribute communications advocating for the election of Greg Clausen, Alice Johnson, Susan Kent, and Lyle Koenen or the defeat of their opponents.
The reason why this is important is because these expenditures weren't attributed to the "Senate Caucus Party Unit." The disclaimer on the mailers said that they were paid for by "the DFL Central Committee Party Unit." Here's what happened:
Lit Happens either took photos during the candidate's door knocking event with the Senate Caucus Party Unit or when the candidate was in St. Paul on other business. In each case, someone acting on behalf of the Senate Caucus Party Unit contacted the candidate or a representative of the candidate to arrange for the candidate to be at a location where Vic Thorstenson would take the photographs. The candidates followed all direction, if any, provided by the photographer.
In other words, DFL Senate candidates worked with the Senate Caucus Party Unit on mailers sent out by the "DFL Central Committee Party Unit" and paid for by the "Senate Caucus Party Unit." This information is important, too:
In the cases of those candidates about whom literature pieces were prepared by Compass and Pivot, Senate Caucus Party Unit campaign staff contacted the candidates or the candidates' campaign managers or other representatives to arrange schedules for the photo shoots with the photographers. Each candidate agreed to a schedule involving multiple locations for the photo shoots and arrived at the specified starting location at the scheduled time.
In connection with the photo shoots taken by Compass and Pivot, the candidates were asked to bring wardrobe changes so that different looks could be obtained in different settings. Each candidate who was asked to bring wardrobe changes did so. All candidates followed the photographers' directions regarding wardrobe changes and other matters relating to the photo shoots and fully participated in the photo shoots.
That's what's known as coordination and it's illegal under state and federal election laws. Coordination between candidates and state party units or independent expenditure groups is prohibited. Of the 13 candidates that coordinated their activities with the DFL Central Committee Party Unit and/or the Senate Caucus Party Unit, 11 were elected. That gave the DFL a majority in the Senate.
In short, the DFL paid a $100,000 fine in exchange for their Senate majority. I'm betting that Alida Messinger, Mark Dayton and Tom Bakk think that that was a wise investment. Thanks to the DFL's lawlessness, they passed a horrific budget that benefitted the DFL's special interest allies in the Twin Cities but did little or nothing to help the regular folks in outstate Minnesota.
I'm betting that the DFL's ends-justify-the-means attitude towards elections won't play well in 2016. The DFL's willingness to do whatever it takes to acquire and maintain power isn't an attractive attribute.
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:27 AM
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A stunning reversal
This article highlights why Mary Landrieu's political career is all but officially over:
In the last six years, Landrieu lost ground to Republicans in every Louisiana parish. In 2008, she defeated Republican John Kennedy by 121,111 votes statewide. This time, Cassidy and third-place finisher Rob Maness, a tea-party favorite who has since endorsed the congressman, combined to lead Landrieu by 186,207 votes, a net swing of 307,318.
Get out the marmalade. Sen. Landrieu is toast. Seriously, I'd be surprised if this election isn't called within half an hour of the polls closing. This isn't a nailbiter. It's a blowout.
President Barack Obama may not be on Louisiana's Senate runoff ballot, but it's clear his widespread unpopularity in the state stands as Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's biggest hurdle to a fourth term.
There's no question that President Obama has buried a ton of Democrats this cycle. Still, it isn't fair to say it's all his fault. If Mary Landrieu or Mark Pryor or Mark Udall or Mark Begich had shown a spine in voting against Obamacare and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda, they might've had a better shot at winning. When they didn't stand up for the voters, the voters punished them.
President Obama's agenda has set the Democratic Party back mightily. When President Obama was sworn in, there were 257 Democrats in the House and 60 Democrats in the Senate. When this congress is sworn into office, there will be 186 Democrats in the House, 46 in the Senate.
President Obama was the pied piper but Senate Democrats followed his tune into this electoral grave.
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2014 11:47 AM
Comment 1 by walter hanson at 30-Nov-14 12:11 PM
Gary:
Technical correction to your comment. There were only 58 democrats in the Senate when Obama was sworn in since Franken hadn't yet won his recount and Arlen hadn't yet switched parties. There were 60 in spirit, but only 58 official democrats in the Senate.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Comment 2 by walter hanson at 30-Nov-14 12:14 PM
Gary:
A thought to try to highlight the dramatic reversal could be this.
Find out the margin that McCain won LA by and add that to Mary's victory margin. Since this shows just how many people Mary had convinced that didn't like Obama that she will protect their interests. McCain I think won LA by at least 100,000 votes.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Progressives' definition of justice
This article shows that progressives' definition of justice isn't predicated on verifiable facts. It's proof that Democrats' definition of justice is mostly about perceptions and allegations.
The trouble is that the United States, for far longer than it has been a 'nation of laws', has been a nation of injustice. And in the absence of basic justice such laws can amount to little more than codified tyranny. When a white cop, Darren Wilson, shoots an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, dead and then is not indicted, the contradiction is glaring. For a world where it is not only legal for people to shoot you dead while you walk down the street, but where they can do so in the name of the law, is one in which some feel they have nothing to lose.
It's offensive that this liberal idiot would attempt to portray Brown as "walk[ing] down the street." Forensic evidence shows that Brown a) robbed a convenience store, b) beat up the store manager and c) attacked Officer Wilson in Wilson's patrol car .
Saying that that's the equivalent of walking down the street is insulting in its dishonesty.
It is through this chasm, between the official claim to an impartial legal system and the reality of endemic racial injustice, that Wilson made his escape, with the flames of Ferguson in hot pursuit. For Wilson was not exonerated. The grand jury decided there was not even 'probable cause' to put him on trial. As the website FiveThirtyEight points out, this is very rare. The Bureau of Justice reveals that in 2010 US attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases, and grand juries declined to return an indictment in just 11.
What isn't said is that these types of cases rarely get to a grand jury. In most instances, the officer would've been cleared because Michael Brown attacked Officer Wilson. Forensic evidence showed Brown's fingerprints and DNA on Officer Wilson's gun. The only time that could've happened was when Brown attempted to attack Officer Wilson in Officer Wilson's patrol car.
It's time for progressives to stop throwing accusations around so recklessly.
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:11 PM
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