Ooh, Bahney Fwank is Cwanky!!!

From the Boston Herald...

Sorry, Barney Frank, but you can’t be trusted

and...

Testy Barney Frank incensed, even after big win

Obama Took In Most $$ in BP Donations

Remember, Obama and all other liberals are all about the little guy, keeping it real, sticking it to the man, and soaking the rich so that they will pay their fair share of taxes.

That's why liberals must take in millions of dollars in campaign contributions from oil companies: so that they can tell the rest of us to hate oil companies.

Seriously, though, this is totally congruent with the liberal democratic threats to heavily tax the oil industry (remember 2 years ago when oil was high, and oil companies made a lot of profit).
This is simply how the system works - a lawmaker must make laws to regulate an industry because that ensures they will then get donations from that industry. It's the best way for that industry to influence legislation.
So the fact that one of the most liberal senators, and now president, took in the most money out of everyone else from a big oil company makes total sense.

And notice how, in the quote below, that even though the Dems love campaign contribution limits, they all know that corporations, or anyone (George Soros?), can work around this limit any way via PACs. It's a big lie that liberals and democrats aren't interested in big money.

From Politico: Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

Quotes:

While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.

From on high they speaketh...

From Victor Davis Hanson:
Collate the anti-capital rants of a zillionaire currency speculator George Soros, the green sermons from a late Ted Kennedy who stopped a wind farm from marring his vacation home’s views, a John Edwards of “two nations” fame constructing a Neronian Golden House, a Tom Friedman warning of the consumer habits that lead to a hot, flat earth from a 10,000 square foot English-style estate of the sort that 18th-century English barons built after successful careers in the Raj, the comic case of Jeremiah Wright moving to a mostly white golf course to dream up more sermons about “white folks’ greed runs a world in need,” or a $5 million a year earning Obama — with all his expenses picked up by the government — lamenting out loud why rich people seem to want ever more money they don’t need. Some spread the wealth around.


Fully awesome article here.

The real story of the Story of Stuff

Look, I'm not a materialist nor a consumerist. I think many people spend far more than they should, in terms of spending beyond their means and buying simply too much stuff.

But that does not mean I want some statist telling me how much of anything I can buy. And we as a nation are doing a decent job of improving everything we do in order to be easier on the environment. So there.

So watch this, if you're interested in countering some enviro-propaganda...

VDH: An Age of Untruth

And now, the always-awesome Victor Davis Hanson - my Central Valley homeboy.

Read the full article here: An Age of Untruth

Some incredibly great quotes from the article...

O Ye of Little Memory! Do we recall any American shock when the Guardian published Charles Brooker’s lament — “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?” And I don’t recall anyone felt that language was getting too heated when Howard Dean, head of the Democratic Party, fumed, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.” And was it not The New Republic that highlighted Jonathan Chait’s infamous “Why I Hate George W. Bush” article? Of course, there was that thoroughly civil New York play, “I’m Gonna Kill the President.”

***

The real diversity — that of differences in thinking and independence of opinion — was hardly welcome, and any sort of call for such genuine diversity of thought was seen as hostile and sometimes had to be dubbed “reactionary,” “racist,” “homophobic,” “sexist,” etc.

So we ended up with “diversity” meaning “university” — a synonym for monolithic intolerance, for everyone worshiping “diversity” without exception. If that seems harsh, it is also the way things are.

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There is no such thing as an easy, fuzzy notion of instant money creating economic growth. Instead it is a euphemism not for borrowing, but for massive borrowing and unsustainable debt. Indeed, note that we do not even use words like “borrowing” or “debt,” but instead prefer “deficit” (e.g., It’s only a year-to-year thing) and “stimulus” (e.g., spending what we don’t have somehow makes us richer in the future).

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Do not believe that “illegal alien” is necessarily a hurtful or inexact term. Everyone who crosses the border without proper authorization is both doing something “illegal” (not a mere “infraction”), and is an alien (not a U.S. citizen; “alien” = “not of this place”.) When I lived in Greece in the 1970s, I was an alien; had I overstayed my visa, or accepted work without proper documentation, I would have been an illegal alien.

So what is illegal immigration? For most, it is a desperate attempt by the poor of Latin America to find a better life in America, made all the more attractive because postmodern America has no confidence in its institutions and thus asks little of its immigrants in accepting our own culture.

And for us, the hosts?

For the corporation it is a way to profit, masked in libertarian apologetics, of letting the market adjudicate labor costs without government interference.

For the racial tribalist it is payback for the Mexican War of two centuries prior.

For the liberal machine, it is an instant way through serial amnesty to hook a block constituency and redraw the electoral map of the American Southwest.

Why They're Called "The Drive-by Media"

The major media pick up and run with a story that they want to believe. It just has to be true to them. Except, sometimes the story is not true at all. But it's too late. That damage has already been done, and their goal of tearing down their enemies a little bit more is accomplished.
And they wonder why their audience ratings are dropping as fast as a dead insect.

There is still no evidence that the n-word or spitting occurred on the day of the singing of the "health care" bill. Yet I bet if you asked the average person, they'd say that someone from the Tea Party protesters did just those things.

Well, you can go right to the source - the congressman who made the accusations and is now backing off of them. He is a liar, and should be censured for it. It's shame he uses the banner of civil rights as protection for his virulent lying.

Full story here at the American Thinker: Spittlegate.

Bipartisanship Baloney

"Conservatives desire a control of one's own destiny. Liberals seek to control everyone else's destiny. "
- C. Edmund Wright, on The American Thinker

Sean Penn: Prison if You Call Chavez a Dictator

If you call Hugo Chavez a dictator, and you're in the United States, Sean Penn thinks you should go to prison. Not jail. Not be sued. Not censured. Go to prison.

Penn:

"every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it! And accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

Hugo Chavez, dictator (whoops, sorry, Sean) of Venezuela, is of course a classic dictator - elected, but now industry by industry absorbing the whole country into his controllable sphere.

Of course if you say "dictator" in Venezuela, you would end up in prison.

But here, Sean, we have the 1st amendment.

It's people like you who make concentration camps possible. The 3rd Reich was built by people like you. Dictators like Chavez and Fidel Castro are putatively legitimized by you. Your ideas fit perfectly into Nazism and Communism - indeed, they could not thrive any other way.

Well, I guess you have your wish, Sean. People are in prison for using the wrong terms about their dictators - just not here in the U.S.

More here.

Dan Rather: Obama "articulate", "couldn't sell watermelons"

Enlightened.

Yet another liberal claiming how "articulate" Barak Obama is.

So Dan Rather thinks President Obama is "articulate", but "couldn't sell watermelons." Give Rather more time and I'm sure he's got some quips about fried chicken and greens, too.

Don't be too hard on him, though. Remember, this is the man who took a document from a Democratic operative (who had typed it up in MS Word), and tried to push it off as a real memo written on a typewriter and proof George W. Bush had avoided armed service.

I see clearly now that the man simply has a brain that is imploding.

How Much Does it Cost to Buy a US Senate Seat?

About $1 MILLION buckaroonies.

From the Guardian...

Describing the offer in an October 31 conversation recorded by the FBI, Blagojevich said: "We were approached 'pay to play'. That you know, he'd raise me 500 grand. An emissary came. Then the other guy would raise a million, if I made him [Senate Candidate 5] a senator."

Senate Candidate number 5 is none other than Jesse Jackson, Jr. I quoth...

which yesterday widened beyond the figure of Blagojevich to Jesse Jackson Jr, a son of the civil rights leader, who wanted the president-elect's old Senate seat.

A lawyer for Jackson, a congressman and ally of Obama, acknowledged that he was the man identified as Senate Candidate 5 in the FBI wiretaps. Senate Candidate 5 is the only one of the contenders for Obama's seat alleged to have acted improperly, news reports said yesterday.

So the family who purports to stand for the little guy, tearing down discrimination, and raising the plight of the poor, can afford 1 million dollars just to buy a Senate seat. That's perfectly emblematic of liberal politics.

Have we heard one word about the "culture of corruption" in liberal politics? Not from Big Media.

Quote of The Day: Respect

For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.
- Ann Coulter

Full article here.

Fox News Sticks Up For Obama; Darth Nader Speaks...

Can Ralph Nader please just go away?

He's accusing Obama of selling out - this is a guy, Nader, who lives in an ultra-rich neighborhood, but thinks he can identify with poor people. He's irrelevant and and a sore loser (you probably didn't even know that, yes, he was a presidential candidate this year). Bye, Ralph.

Now, when have the monolith ABCCBSNBCBNEWYORKTIMES crowd EVER stood up for Bush in the face of all of those unhinged crackpots (and even those that aren't in congress)?

But Fox News can stand up for Obama in the face of undue criticism and epithets.

I quoth Ralph:

"His choice is whether he's going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country, or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations."

Loonie crackpot.

When Doves Cry...

Whacko clip of Eco-moonbats mourning the loss of 50 million murdered children. I mean, trees...
[hat tip: Hot Air]