Cuomo Chastises Cantor

The son of the former Democratic governor of New York and ABC morning show flack Cuomo interrogated US Representative Eric Cantor this morning about Obama's speech-not interviewed-interrogated. His hostility was palpable. The dinosaur media has scored some remarkable victories in their war on Republicans-I well recall the tremendous GOP stalwarts, Al D'Amato, Rick Santorum, and George Allen (whose wound was somewhat self-inflicted but who I would still vote for in a heartbeat) who the media helped knock down and take out. Sarah Palin and Eric Cantor are in their sights now because of their evident appeal. Bobby Jindal will join them on the target list. The Democrats stick together and rally around their own; Republicans have a tendency to cut loose their own over the least perceived transgression. But Republicans have always behaved more like a political party and less like a gang than their opponents. Let's not let these gangsters, who wish to punish initiative and throttle enterprise, win.

Pillory Hillary Please

Confirmation hearings for Hillary Clinton will hardly be probing and she will doubtless be confirmed. She and Bill, who was disbarred as I recall, will not have to account for any past action (transgressions such as the cattle futures payoff coup, the Rose law firm billing records, the Loral sell the Chinese accurate missile delivery capacity fiasco, or anything else). The future conflict of interest issue will not be addressed either with the Clinton Library being allowed to release an annual list of contributors but not the amounts they are giving. Perhaps the amounts don't matter, anyone who would sell the Lincoln bedroom could be bought cheap. Obama and the Clintons have said that Clinton will thus disclose more than any other former President which is utter sophistry as no other former President has had a wife seek the high office of Senate or the lofty position (perch for her as I see her as a carrion-munching vulture) of US Secretary of State. It is however a done deal, the cowardly lion Republicans won't press her hard on any of these issues or on the arcane Constitutional provision of her voting to raise the Secretary of State's salary while she was in Congress which should technically disqualify her. She's in, don't sweat the details and so is gun-banning, pardon pusher Eric Holder as Attorney General. After being accused of wanting to starve children and kill old people, all but a handful of the Republicans have lost the stomach for the fight. So when they have Hillary in the cross hairs, don't expect them to miss-they're afraid to even take the shot. And the press doesn't care to look too hard either, they have become the boot lick, lick spittle, toady lapdogs, a totally owned subsidiary of the Democratic party. A conservative opposition party in Washington which used to be the GOP is long past due.

A Tad Skewed

The coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict is slanted toward a genocidal terrorist group against a Western-style democracy who is America's closest ally in the Middle East. Virtually every story incorporates the "Israelis claim" or "Israel says" as if the Jewish state herself is inherently dubious. Yet every contention of Hamas is shown to possess authority. There is no skepticism of Hamas reporting huge civilian casualty figures or saying that what Israel told the world was a rocket crew was according to the Palestinians merely a truck transporting oxygen. Why on earth would any sane person transport oxygen during a pitched battle except for military use? Media bias strains credulity on other stories as well. On the ABC Sunday morning fiashow, Katrina Vanden Heuvel berated Bush as the cause of the two great catastrophes America is engulfed in- the financial collapse and the Iraq War. She is factually wrong on both counts. Through the toil and sacrifice of our troops, we have contained the insurgency in Iraq. The market crash was certainly not to Bush's credit, but it was the Congressional Democrats who blocked increased scrutiny and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac whose collapse triggered the downturn. Ms. Hovel who would certainly make her professors of Marxist Dialectic proud, then went on to describe eight(8) years of "conservative misrule". What was conservative about campaign finance reform, the Kennedy education bill, the Part D prescription entitlement plan, the proposal for comprehensive immigration reform, or what was essentially the nationalisation of banks, insurance companies, and two of the automakers? If Bush had a "D" after his name, his leftward lean would make him a media darling. One thing Bush should never be accused of is being conservative.

Corporate Jet Crash

ABC's gadfly imp Brian Ross pilloried auto executives for flying to Washington on corporate jets. He tried to question GM's Rick Wagoner as he departed the hearing chamber. GM employs hundreds of thousands in Michigan, Tennessee(Saturn), Kentucky(the Corvette plant), many other US states in fact, and many foreign countries. He could be summoned anywhere on earth at any time and can not be tied to airline schedules. He may use his powers of suasion in person to lobby Angela Merkel and other German leaders as GM, which has sold millions of cars under the Opal label, to extend GM a line of credit (as of now, GM is seeking $1 billion from Germany). A local talk show host joined the bashing bandwagon. This usually reliable conservative does not recognize the mainstream media is on a anti-corporate jihad trying to facilitate Obama's socialism. This is not Steve Gill's first departure from reason. I well remember his defense of Sam Howard who helped bankrupt Tennessee's attempt at universal health care. He knew Howard, a colleague in Republican administrations, was an honorable man despite drawing $50 million while failing to pay providers. I guess it is alright to drain the public trough as long as you are a close personal friend, and it's fine to play the class envy card when it advances your argument. AIG was also criticized by Ross as it has multiple jets still in use but is trying to sell two of them. Part of AIG's business model and a profit center is jet leasing. Just a short-time ago, reporters were doing stories on the good corporate jets have done, transporting needed transplant organs, sick patients, or relatives of injured troops such as a flight of a family to the military burn center in Texas to be with a critically wounded soldier. The free market is our only hope for positive change.

Car Crash V

Mike Boltiere was down after his sister's demise. She had been his only sibling, the product of his mom's marriage to a half-Italian, half-Jewish ne'er-do-well from New York City. He hated his dad and harbored some antisemitism as a result. Mike would be at the house with his Mom who had a parrot and two mean black Chow dogs. His maternal grandparents had flown in from Las Vegas and were complaining about the ticket cost even though they had been given a compassionate discount. Mike's grandfather regaled us with tales of guarding Nazi prisoners with a Tommy gun during World War II. Things brightened up a bit for Mike and his mom-Joyce if I recall, with their insurance settlement checks. They bought cars-Mike a '57 Chevy like Stephen King's Christine with a bad generator that kept stalling out. Mike got a new job at a place called Cube Graphics which sounds high-tech but was actually assembling sticky notes. On April 1, incidentally my grandfather's birthday, I heard on the local ABC affiliate's early news that two young men had been killed in a car accident. They named one as Mike Boltiere. I looked in the phone directory and there were two Mike Boltieres listed. I prayed it wasn't my Mike. I called our mutual friend Paul when I was not able to raise anyone at Mike's house. Paul and no one else I knew had heard the news report or anything of the accident. Even Mike's mother had not been informed but some irresponsible emergency service worker had released the name to the media. Paul confirmed the death through local cops he knew, and he and I drove to Mike's house and told his mother who had just arrived home from work that she needed to come with us to the hospital. We entered through the ER and spoke to a nurse who immediately understood the gravity and nature of what Paul and I whispered. A clergyman-I always presumed from the staff told Joyce the news. She wailed. Mike had been in a little yellow Mustang-I had thought Christine and his bad driving had finally caught up to him. But he was a passenger. He and his co-worker were rushing with a batch of Ex lax pudding to play a joke on their mates before their shift ended. What an ignominious way to go on April Fool's Day. The last time I saw Joyce was when we visited her home several days after the open casket funeral. She was distraught, almost catatonic. Her home was on the market; her folks were there and they were going to move her to Vegas. Everything she had created with her life and cherished was dead.

Stir the Pot

My previous post mentions Good Morning America. This Sunday's program had a news story about the G-20 Summit. The reporterette had the gaul to say that the menu at the Summit raised eyebrows as the leaders dined on lamb and wine that cost upward of $400. Is she kidding? These are the leaders of the twenty largest economies on earth. Did she expect them to wait in line at a soup kitchen or go thru the takeout window at McDonald's. Does she believe the Obamas will subsist on bread and water? This is promulgating class envy and populist bull. There is little sense and even less integrity in the old line media. I heard today on Fox News Sunday that Dick Parsons, the head of Time Warner, is a senior Obama advisor. That relationship should have been mentioned early and often by every magazine and news program generated by his company, then those voters who were not cognizant of it could have taken everything reported with a grain of salt. News should be objective, not an editorial in disguise, tainted with concealed bias.

Driving the Stake

Last night ABC's Nightline aired a scurrilous report about Governor Palin's alleged excesses particularly in wardrobe spending on the campaign trail. These reports are made either by Democrats who fear Palin in 2012, liberal Republicans for the same reason, gossip-mongers seeking attention which is doubtful, or those trying to cover their own failures in the McCain campaign. Governor Palin is a charismatic, obviously attractive, unabashed Christain conservative stalwart who lives her values. Those making these allegations ought to come forward, sit in front of the cameras under the hot lights and make their claims. Otherwise, they should be summarily dismissed as the petty backbiters they are. There were also stories last night that proclaimed the defeat of evangelicals in this election. Nothing could be further from the truth. The perversion of marriage by homosexuals was resoundingly defeated all across the nation. The Obama campaign bent over backwards with outreach to evangelicals with efforts to lure Christain voters with stewardship of the earth arguments, frequent proclamations that Obama was a Christain, and constant effort to conceal Obama's anti-religious policy positions such as his support of the gay agenda and the massive amount of support he drew from the producers of pornography and wealthy early backers such as David Geffen. Governor Sarah Palin and faithful conservatives like her are the best hope for the Republican party and the USA.

Into the Abyss

Obama collected the support of voters who balloted on the basis of sharing his race. Other Obama backers are union members particularly SEIU members, teachers, and other government workers increasing their own power. Many of his voters were so ill-served by their education in government schools that they simply do not know the difference between capitalism and socialism. Others were young and naive. Obama won the blame America crowd including college professors. Trial lawyers by in large backed Obama. Obama did not run a masterful campaign. He was protected by an uncritical mainstream media. McCain and Palin were pilloried by them. Convicts, non-existent folks, and motor voter illegal aliens seemed to be universal Barry backers. Wasn't Governor Crist brilliant in Florida giving felons their suffrage back? We were told denying these criminals the vote was racist as they were largely African Americans. They were disenfranchised not because they were black but because they were lawbreakers. Now, my own re-elected Republican Senator speaks of creating universal health care and replacing fossil fuels to fight global warming. If the state of Tennessee had wanted ever expansive government, burdensome regulation, and infringement of our lifestyle Senator Alexander, we would have voted for Bob Tuke. Don't cross the aisle to betray your constituents. Fight for Tennessee values.

Depress Republican Turnout

The major networks have called the election before most of the votes are cast, and none of the votes are counted. NBC's Chuck Todd said today McCain had zero(0)% chance of winning. This and similar pronouncements are meant to dispirit Republicans to the extent that they don't even bother to go to the polls. The mainstream press has ignored and spiked news that does not flatter the junior Senator. Republicans will focus on the mission and as they do every election cycle, vote in droves.

Caveat Emptor America

Obama is nothing more than a doctrinaire hyper-leftist, not a liberal in the American tradition. Obama views capitalism as a vice. The junior Senator is strikingly arrogant, dogmatic, but not really capable of understanding the economic dislocation his policies will cause. He aptly delivers a speech from a teleprompter or script and has been prepared by his Goebbels handlers to hide the degree of his Marxist leanings, a rhetorician who conceals more than he reveals. The major media is in sympathy with him and has protected him when he does make a fool of himself. If McCain had said there were fifty-seven(57) states, the lead story for days would have been this gaffe, with questions about his age and senility or Alzheimer's. Today, some of Obama's venom against business slipped out with his promise in San Fransisco recorded in January to bankrupt coal-fired plants. America leads the world in coal reserves and clean coal technology. Thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia will be lost when Obama fulfills this pledge. Incumbency entrenches itself organically, and there is no guarantee that Obama will not bend the Constitution to his whim and stay in power ad infinitum or appoint a nominal replacement as Putin did with Medvedev and retain his hold on power. This hubris-filled peacock will alter America in ways we can't imagine now and may never be able to recover from.To paraphrase an author with whom Obama is well-versed-Americans-you have nothing to gain but Obama's chains.

There is Smoke

Obama refuses to release his birth certificate, his academic records, his doctoral thesis. If there is not something amiss, why hide them? Was he born abroad, registered as a Muslim, was his education financed by Saudi coreligionists? We may never know. When George Bush I was running, he was accused of making an SR-71 flight to Paris to persuade the Iranians to retain their American hostages until Carter left office. Preposterous, of whole cloth, but reported and investigated by the media and Congress. Governor Palin has been raked over the coals for "Troopergate" while the media has deliberately underplayed allegations that Palin's ex-brother-in-law had tasered a ten(10) year old boy and had threatened the lives of Palin's parents. What should be investigated is why the Public Safety commissioner would allow such a man to retain his authority. The media has supposed public interest groups on today to tell voters how to enforce their voting rights and where to report violations. Republican voter suppression is a myth designed to inflame. Democrats in Fairfax county in this election have thrown out 98% of military absentee ballots just as they discarded military votes in Florida during Bush/Kerry, real voter suppression. This is a military that may well be asked to disarm law-abiding gun owners in this country. Obama will overturn posse comitatus and just as Red China has done, bring troops from different regions in to enforce the abolition of the Second Amendment. Will soldiers, sailors, and marines who have been denied their vote obey these repugnant orders. Under Obama, our military will be asked to disarm not defend the homeland.

On Media Polemics

Last night, Obama aired his infomercial filled with sob stories and vacuity. This 30 minute cliche was greeted as holy writ by the paleolithic media. ABC's Terry Moran had a candy-eating grin as he waxed delight about Obama but turned dour when discussing McCain. Elizabeth Vargas behaved as a if a skunk had entered her tent with an expression of contempt on her face as she interviewed personable, approachable, earnest, and capable Sarah Palin. Network media flacks must sit in front of mirrors to practise the countenance of antipathy for Republicans and the smiling visage for Dems. President Bush is greeted with dripping sarcasm and overt hate by entertainers such as Letterman and his audience. For those who follow Judaism, the name Haman from the Purim holiday evokes hisses and the use of a rattle noisemaker to show him as the embodiment of evil. So, it is with Bush. There is a conditioned response that Bush is evil incarnate. The media has so poisoned public perception that the leader who has kept us safe since September 11 is regarded as a dunce. Obama who is hailed by Terry Moron-not a typo, Stephanopolous, and the rest is no genius. He said there were fifty-seven(57) states. He clearly does not understand that his tax increases will stifle any chance at economic recovery. He said in his ad last night that to improve education he will spend more and pay teachers better. What needs to be done to fix education is to restore discipline to the classroom and accountability to teachers. Allowing competition to government schools with vouchers will also help. Republicans are not perfect, but Obama is no Messiah.