By Deborah Durkee on 9/29/2009 1:03 PM

Without ACORN can Dems win?

 

The blogger at the blog Armed and Dangerous has a really interesting take on what could be the backlash to the Democratic Party from the current ACORN scandal. Let’s hope this guy (or gal) is correct:

 

…the real problem is this: ACORN was the linchpin of the Democratic electoral-fraud machine. Without it, the party’s position going into the next round of elections may be seriously weakened.

 

Three years ago I wrote a mini-essay on Game Theory and Vote Fraud, explaining the psephological logic behind the observed fact that vote fraud is in recent U.S. history primarily a crime associated with urban Democratic political machines; simple risk-benefit analysis explains why a national minority party operating in densely populated districts should be the most likely to systematize the practice. What I didn’t write at the time…is that ACORN has long been the Democrats’ single most important source for legions of deniable fraudsters.

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/28/2009 9:58 AM

ACORN, SEIU, health care.

 

Kathleen Parker, who is a conservative turned Obama-lover, actually delves into the ACORN-SEIU connection. Now, she hasn’t linked that connection to The One as yet, but this is a good column. She can’t actually look through those fingers that are covering her eyes. She does, however, link SEIU to Rod Blagojevich, so maybe those fingers are spreading a little farther apart. She also ties SEIU to the health care bill. This is in the Washington Post:

 

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Service Employees International Union are as tight as Heidi Klum and a new pair of jeans….

 

You…don't talk about either organization without mention of Wade Rathke, co-founder of ACORN and founder of SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans. Rathke, who resigned from ACORN last year as "chief organizer" …continues...

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By Ted on 9/27/2009 8:05 AM

The state of North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) is spending $250,000 for a music trail in the eastern counties of the state.  Now where the heck does the DOT think it has the responsibility to use gas tax money to promote a music trail?  I personally do not look at the funding of the arts as a responsibility of government.  In my opinion, if the art is to be funded, let it be funded by those who value it.  But, even if you believe in government support of funding for the arts shouldn't it come from the general fund?  How do our politicians and public officials reach a point where it’s right to steal from gas tax money, which is specifically designated to fund roads, to fund kiosks along the highway to promote a music trail?  So the next time you are driving the roads of North Carolina and you car disappears into a pot hole know that the money that could have fixed them, is...

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/27/2009 7:18 AM

McConnell: Administration stifling dissent.

Well, it seems some Republicans are finally stepping up to the plate to actually defend the Constitution. Let’s hope this is just the beginning of the opposition party’s attempt to shine the light on this administration and its abuses. Americans keep trying to find someone, anyone in D.C. with the guts to do what is right. Humana wrote to its seniors about how the proposed health care legislation would affect them, and they were hit with intimidation tactics by the Obama administration. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went to the floor of the Senate to hit back with a “free speech” violation. Here’s a portion of his speech as printed in the Washington Examiner:



 

"… this episode should be of serious concern to millions of seniors on Medicare who deserve to know what the government has in mind for...

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/24/2009 11:46 AM

U.S. could face 9/11-type threat from Venezuela.

 

For all those lefties who seem to have a bizarre attraction to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, this article should at least make them scratch their heads, but I’m sure it won’t. The Venezuela-Iran connection grows deeper and more dangerous to our country, as useful idiots like filmmaker Oliver Stone and Obama appointee to the FCC, Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd, increasingly look to Chavez as some kind of revolutionary hero. This is from Kenneth R. Timmerman at Newsmax:

 

“The ostensible reason the Iranian-owned bank Banco Internacional de Desarrollo (BID) was opened in Caracas was to expand economic ties with Venezuela,” Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau told an audience at the left-leaning Brookings Institution on Sept. 8.

 

“Our sources and experiences lead me to suspect...

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By Ted on 9/24/2009 7:45 AM

The Social Security Program's financial disaster is imminent, with deficits beginning as early as 2010, ten years earlier than what had been predicted earlier. The failure of timely government action and the current economic climate will produce deficits of $9 billion in 2010 and $11 billion in 2011. These are the same government leaders who feel they can improve the financial condition of our healthcare system. Why would we be so willing to turn our healthcare over to these defective human beings? Read more on the upcoming debt crisis of our social security program here:  http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506978

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/23/2009 8:55 AM

UN loves weak Obama.

 

We all look at our current president and shake our heads as he turns his back on Poland and the Czech Republic and kowtows to the Russians without gaining anything for our country in the process. As he apologizes for the country and cozies up to radical regimes, we wonder where this will lead. Well, we aren’t the only ones who have noticed. Many in the UN hate our country, and Obama seems to be one of them. This president is weak on his support for his own country, and this will leave the United States vulnerable to attack, so says Nile Gardiner in today’s UK Telegraph:

 

Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people. Snip –

 

…Obama’s popularity...

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/22/2009 9:02 AM

Liberals—strangers to dissent.

 

Michael Barone has an excellent insight into the left with this column. He says that liberals haven’t been used to having their policies questioned over the years, and because of that, unlike conservatives, they aren’t used to having to argue their issues, so they attempt to shut dissent down:

 

It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress told us to stop "bickering," as if principled objections to major changes in public policy were just childish obstinacy, and chastised his critics for telling "lies," employing "scare tactics" and playing "games." Unlike his predecessor, he sought to use the prestige of his office to shut criticism down. Snip...

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/21/2009 8:49 AM

Obama and “Net neutrality.”

 

Okay, the Obama administration wants to regulate the Internet, and they plan to announce it today. How do we fight this? This is from the Prowler at The American Spectator:

 

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce today his intent to put in place rules that would allow the federal government to regulate the Internet…

 

"We couldn't give them a Guantanamo shut down, or ending the Patriot Act, so this is the immediate payoff to MoveOn and Free Press and the those guys who worked so hard for us during the campaign," says a White House source. "Getting 'net neutrality' codified and under our control was at the top of their list of things for us to do."

 

Genachowski will outline the rules for net regulation at a speech at the Brookings Institution this morning....

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By Deborah Durkee on 9/18/2009 8:43 AM

Another ACORN video.

 

The latest O’Keefe/Giles video takes place in San Diego, and they get a Mexican lawyer to help with the logistics of getting the El Salvadoran girls across the border.

 

http://www2.nationalreview.com/video/video_homie_091709_A.html

 

 

Dems jump the ACORN ship.

 

Byron York has a column in today’s Washington Examiner of how the recent release of the investigative videos by amateur journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles has shaken up the political class in Washington, D.C. The rats are scurrying for cover. Let’s hope Republicans keep up the pressure so the president has to sign these laws (if they ever make it that far). This is truly good news.

 

Back in February, during the Democrats' frenzied...

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