I offer a loud second to Cannonfire's post today on Peter DeFazio. Mr. Cannon boils it down to 4 simple words: We have been betrayed.
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) wants Goldman boys Geithner and Summers removed. More than that, his interview on MSNBC's The Ed Show signals a significant shift on the Left. Democrat DeFazio, without apology or excuse, condemns Obama's economic team on the most liberal national news station. Further he insists TARP money go to small business and infrastructure - not Wall Street. Something that should have happened 11 months ago. DeFazio is speaking to the "New Deal" and "Jacksonian/Clinton" Democrats that many assumed were the core of the Democratic party until 2008 - before Soros and the Whole Foods/Cocktail Party/Frank Rich/Daily Kos Left conned their way into the nomination.
As I've said before the party in danger of splintering in the short term is the Democratic - not the GOP. The GOP has shown that it can and will build winning coalitions based on economic conservatism. As opposition, the Pelosi/Reid/Summers/Obama party cannot survive if unemployment stays high. The natural constituency for this wing of the party - the "creative class" - is about 20% of voters. Obama is an aberration. Without the agony of Bush, massive media backing, and funding from various elites, Obama's 2008 campaign would have more closely resembled Howard Dean's in 2004. Alleged economic liberalism and creative class smugness equals rump party status as soon as the fog clears. (Obama is not a liberal, he's a Chicago/Tammany Hall style politician) The Jacksonian Democrats -won by Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries- voted for Obama in the General. They will move to the GOP, as they did in the 80s, if the Democratic Party does not represent their interests. Currently, it does not.
DeFazio's repudiation of Obama's economic policy is a turning point and good news for PUMAs. Obama's honeymoon has been over for the GOP since February, for Independents since the summer - now it is over for populist wing of his own party. Thank God.
DeFazio signals that there will be opposition to Obama from the genuine, populist Left. Here's to hoping it takes root.
Bratty Brats and other Huffington types did not like Tea Parties. Normal people did.Check it out....oh...you say you want a revolution...
How many funny queens will dress as "The Gathering Storm" this Halloween? Rich on the last stand for bigots here.
ye old Olden News -
This "lunch Break" was ready to go last Thursday. Delayed but not forgotten. Some good reads. Email Hoot: I got this email recently:
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Not so straight talk express: Anderson Cooper, who is gay, takes an obviously gay bashing cheap shot in order to service Obama. "IT'S HARD TO TALK WHEN YOU'RE TEABAGGING." There is no way around interpreting this remark except to assume that Cooper could not speak because his mouth had testicles in it. You go, Andy. What a professional! Keep taking the high road as the country goes down in flames.
* there will come a time when the anger directed at wasteful spending will become rage directed at CNN and MSNBC....continuing to mock, bash, trash, and dismiss millions of people will cause blow back...blow back that I am sure CNN and MSNBC will mock, bash, dismiss, or if it is large enough - act "shocked". Many modern revolts begin by surrounding TV stations....have you noticed this?
Who are the Oligarchs?Read it. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the 2008 Bilderberg Meeting: Read it. The lie gusting behind the blowback: Rove hits on something essential in his recent post at the WSJ - Now Americans are reacting to runaway government spending that they were not told about before last year's election... Poll: More nick names for M. O. from you guys... runoff later...remember this is not to be excessively mean to M. and/or B. O. but just so I can avoid writing "Obama" so much...okay, WAIT...let's be honest...it is also fun to be a bit mean to M and B...vote early, vote often...
Obit: Any book lover who has gotten lost in a big, messy, book store please take note: Glenn Goldman, owner of Book Soup on the Sunset Strip died this past weekend. Though, not a friend of mine - he was but once removed in my circle - and I mourn as well. Thanks Glenn for Book Soup! Losing time in the stacks at Book Soup is a delicious, nutritious pleasure. There are few big independent book stores left - and Goldman made sure Book Soup remained vital. Long may Book Soup Reign!
Newsflash: Obama releases actual Birth Certificate here. Controversy put to rest.
GOOOOOOOOODBYE already: I have very little love for Frank Rich after his open masturbation over Obama all year (via weekly column, thank god)- but this "See Ya!" to W is worth it. - H.T. to Jay.
Today's' Photo is of a hawk in my tiny backyard. He/She has just ripped a small family of birds to shreds and is now enjoying a moment to reflect. Los Angeles is weird in many ways. One is that you'll be living in the city, thinking it is a city, then all of the sudden - Wild Life!!! A coyote at the dumpster...a deer or two trotting across Mullolhand Drive...a hawk killing a very sweet bird family in Koreatown...
My favorite quote about marriage: Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was the time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. from Love in the Time of Cholera By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Frank Rich, returning from a long vacation in Kool-aid-i-stan, starts to nibble abound his beloved Barry's ankles here:When Obama defends Warren's words by calling them an example of the "wide range of viewpoints' in a "diverse and noisy and opinionated" America, he is being too cute by half. He knows full well that a "viewpoint" defaming any minority group by linking it to sexual crimes like pedophilia is unacceptable. Did Rich, or his sad sack cell mate at the NYTs, Ms. Dowd, ever give fact based reasons for their adulation of Barry? I don't remember these gassy gussies ever questioning Obama. Huh. Whatdoyaknow...liberals who forgot rule one: Question Everything.
Prayer: Dear Lord, what did we do to deserve THIS?
Music: THis is Not RoseMaRy ClooNy! Pop Song I never seem to get sick of #2: Is that a great song or what?
Frank Rich does a knife job on Senator Clinton today. It's horrible that she "lied" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Why would he mention that the pilot took evasive action to avoid sniper fire? Why would he mention that everyone on the plane was instructed to sit on their flak jackets to avoid sniper fire? There's really no point in Mr. Rich doing anything whatsoever to aid Senator Clinton.
The real-estate deal began when a Chicago couple (two doctors) took jobs elsewhere and put their property - a lovely, spacious home in Kenwood with a vacant yard -- on the market. The Obamas liked the house but lacked the money to buy both the house and vacant yard.
What happened next is where the questions arise. Obama recently acknowledged that he toured the property with Rezko. After that, Obama made a discounted offer for the house, and, at about the same time, Rezko made a full-price offer for the side yard. Both offers were accepted. So, the obvious question is: Was there any hidden link between Rezko's full price deal and the discounted price Obama paid?
First off, this happened in June of 2005. I sold my house in a day at full price in June of 2005. This was the tail end of the hottest housing market I can remember and he got the house at a discounted price? Something is up here and hopefully, when Rezko is found guilty he will sing like a canary and we'll find out more. Gosh, maybe even the press might look into it and do some investigating, wait, I must be day dreaming.
The Wright Stuff
Senator Obama is not a Muslim. And there would be nothing wrong if he were. My issue is him sitting a church for twenty years listening and allow his children to listen to bitter, hate filled speech. Then LIE about it. If, as the meme goes, Senator Clinton were willing to do ANYTHING to win this story would have come out sometime last January. It would have been goodbye, Barry. If Senator Clinton's "Lie" about Bosnia is deserving of a column by Mr. Rich why isn't this? First he said he never heard any of the controversial things Reverend Wright said, then he did, then he said that Rev Wright apologized though he didn't, then when you read his book, The Audacity of Hope, which gets it title from one of Reverend Wright's sermons, you learn that the first sermon he heard was rather controversial. And it made him cry.
Senator Obama has credited then Senator Jack Kennedy for bringing his father to America as part of the airlift to get Kenyans here to study. Barack Obama, Sr. came the year before Senator Kennedy got involved. Senator Obama also used the civil rights movement, saying that his parents met because something was stirring in the air when people walked across the bridge in Selma. Something that occurred four years after Obama, Jr. was born. It's a lovely story, but it's just that, a story. Why is he not called on the carpet for at least, mis-remembering?
Michelle Oh so angry
I'm just going to paraphrase Ed Koch
A woman who went to Princeton and Harvard who's husband went to Harvard, who's husband was elected to state senate and the US Senate is just now proud of her country? What does she expect? Exactly how entitled is she? Believe me when I tell you she will one of his biggest liabilities in a general campaign if it comes to that.
Kind of Blue
Senator Obama has won more states! He's won more states! Has he won enough blue states? Has he won purple states that we need to win in a general? If he can't win California or New York or Florida in the primaries how is he going to carry them in the general? Senator Clinton has won more Democratic votes than him and with the Rev. Wright he can count out much Republican cross over. Or independents for that matter. As he continues to push for Michigan and Florida to be disenfranchised any opportunity he might have had to win those states in a general are GONE.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually watch tv or read a news paper and get some hard information on the young senator from Illinois? Wouldn't it be lovely if Senator Clinton were not being shoved out of the old boy's club and we could talk about her grasp of the issues?
