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• Playing Silly Political Games with Death and Misery
• The Obama Administration Declares War On…Us.
• Soon, It Will Be Time for Operation Witness Immunity
• Hype, Hype, Hype! He’s the Hypesman…err…Huntsman!

Playing Silly Political Games with Death and Misery Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:24 PM PDT Something very wicked happened in the Republican presidential campaign today, and we on the right should not stand for it. Here is the setup. Most of the candidates attended a debate of sorts today in South Carolina called the Palmetto Freedom Forum, which was headlined by Senator Jim Demint, Rep. Steve King, and the head of the American Principles Project. Governor Rick Perry cancelled at the last minute so he could return to Texas and run his state’s government, which is right now handling a deadly outbreak of wildfires on over 32,00 acres of land that have already consumed over 420 homes. You can see for yourself how widespread the fires are and how many heavily-populated areas they now threaten. Most of us can understand why a Governor would need to return to his state to handle an ongoing natural disaster. That “most”, however, does not include a couple anonymous lowlife staffers from two different campaigns who decided to score a couple cheap points off the misery of their fellow Americans. “It’s obvious that Rick Perry is skipping the DeMint forum because he knew he was going to be asked tough questions about his previous support for gay marriage in New York, as well as his policies in Texas in favor of illegal immigration,” says one representative of a rival camp. “He’s looking for a reason to not actually be compared to the other candidates,” says an official in another camp. “He was grasping for a reason not to show.” This is low, disgusting gutter politics that ought to have no place in the Republican party. I, and a good number of others I’d imagine, want these staffers publicly fired and their names made public so that we can heap on them the derision they have earned. Texans have dies and more may well die before the fires are beaten down. Rick Perry’s duty, as a chief executive, is to the people of his state, not to a bunch of puling staffers who lacked the courage to put their names behind their attacks. He did the right thing. That is his job. I’m no naif. I know “politics ain’t beanbag”, but these quotes are well out of bounds. Whichever campaign signs their checks needs to deal with the situation quickly and transparently. I’m very sure it will not go well for the campaign that does nothing when we learn the identities later, and we surely will. In a campaign dishonorable enough to launch a scurrilous attack like that and play innocent about it, someone will talk. When we do, I assure you that campaign will lose my support and I know I won’t be alone.

The Obama Administration Declares War On…Us. Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:01 PM PDT It’s good to see that the Democrats have fully embraced the message about civility in political discourse they ever so subtly shoved down our throats like you’d shove a pill down the throat of a sick dog. We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war… President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong. Those gentle words of reason and understanding came from the honeyed tongue of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. He uttered them in a speech from the Presidential podium immediately before the President spoke to a revved-up union crowd in Detroit. The President made no attempt to denounce his remarks, or even to temper them. Hoffa himself stands by them without reservation. Meanwhile, Joe Biden went before an AFL-CIO audience and told them, “You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates…the other side has declared war on labour's house”. Notice a common theme? Now, when someone acts on this twin declaration of war made and approved by the Obama administration on roughly half of the American public today, who will shoulder the blame? I don’t actually expect an answer to the question. I already know. It’ll be the Tea Parties’ fault.

Soon, It Will Be Time for Operation Witness Immunity Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:30 PM PDT I have not written about every development of the still-growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal, but I do want to bring one story to your attention. The Los Angeles Times, one of only two MSM outlets that have shown any interest at all in the story, unearthed a few e-mails that show at least three people in the administration were briefed about the operation. Two of the three were members of the President’s national security staff and the third was the President’s Latin America adviser. It’s not certain how often any of them had contact with the President nor do we know if they discussed Operation Fast and Furious with him or staff members closer to him. You could assume that at least the National Security Adviser, the Attorney General, and someone fairly high up in the State Department had to have gotten briefings as well, but we don’t have proof. Yet. At this point, Moe Lane’s advice is very useful. My usual comment about this investigation, at this stage: these things take time to develop.  We're starting to exit the 'ask questions' part and starting to enter the 'here, let me pull on these loose threads here' stage; patience is a virtue generally, and doubly so when it comes to a (potential) scandal of this magnitude.  The real fun starts when people increasingly under the magnifying glass start realizing that while, say, the Attorney General can count on having a signed pardon covering his departure, they cannot… Let’s be patient. We’ve gotten far more of the story than I would have expected given the media boycott. There will be a point at which the weight of the evidence pushes the media coverage from a trickle to a great flood. We can but remind people of what we’ve learned about the deadly political scheme thus far and educate those who have not heard about it. The rest will come in time.

Hype, Hype, Hype! He’s the Hypesman…err…Huntsman! Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:34 PM PDT friend, the Lonely Conservative, is puzzled by a question posed by left-wing blogger Steve Benen. Why, they wonder, is Jon Huntsman getting so much press right now? Benen noted that he was scheduled to appear on six national shows in the past two weeks even though he barely appears as a blip on any Presidential poll. In fact, saying that his support is a “blip” is a gross insult to actual blips throughout electoral history such as perennial write-in candidates Mickey Mouse and Elmer Fudd. It is a puzzler, if you assume that the MSM are open brokers of information and show favor to no particular party. There is no objective reason Jon Huntsman should have more media appearances than, say Herman Cain who according to his staff has won ten straw polls thus far. You might be able to make the argument that Huntsman isn’t as in demand as other GOP candidates who are busy campaigning because they have a chance to win, but I’m not sure that works. I believe the answer is far more simple. The MSM is setting Jon Huntsman up to use him as a weapon against the rest of the Republican field. Imagine how an average voter might see what the MSM has shown him. Huntsman is “moderate” and he gets all manner of warm receptions from television hosts who are otherwise hostile to Republicans. He must, says the coverage, be that most rare of creatures, a true moderate champion of bipartisanship, the very sort of politician for whom the President has long sought. But he won’t win anything, and when his campaign finally crashes, after a number of last-place finishes, the MSM will alter their narrative. He will become Jon Huntsman, the reasonable conservative who was utterly rejected by Republican voters in favor of a horde of fire-breathing, hard-hearted, extremists. They’ll tell the nation how fortunate Barack Obama is that he didn’t have to run against Huntsman and how his exit will lead to a far more coarse campaign as the troglodytes launch their insidious attacks against the noble President. And that, folks, will be the storyline for at least a couple months of the election season. Jon Huntsman never had a chance as a Republican and the media know that. Their apparent adoration for him now is a put-on to set up a new line of attack against the candidates who can beat Barack Obama next year. That’s my thought. What do you think?

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