Video: "Obama Is Lying"

Most know that I'm not particularly a supporter of Sarah Palin. That said, in the short video below, Sarah Palin minces no words (hat tip to Gateway Pundit):


Whomever the GOP chooses as its candidate in 2012 needs to be aggressive in pointing out Obama's lies and misdeeds. Indeed, the GOP should be so doing right now and should be pointing out some of these details, too.

One more Sarah Palin video, this one of a different sort (hat tip to Mustang of Social Sense):

Chicago-Style Politics All The Way

From the Daily Caller:

Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district

Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.

That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved.

Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers....

Wikipedia's definition of Chicago-style politics:

Chicago-style politics is a byword used to designate a set of characteristics associated to the less commendable aspects of the recent political history of the American city of Chicago, Illinois, (i.e., corruption, patronage, nepotism, authoritarianism) which is often cited as an example of blatant corruption.

Will enough Americans see the Obama administration for what it is to vote him and his fellow Democrats out of office in 2012? Or will Obama succeed in handing out enough special favors so as to regain the Oval Office in 2012? The Chicago Political Machine was quite successful at holding power.

Politics Explained

Hat tip to Casting Pearls Before Swine:



The key for the allegory:

Water represents "the law". Banana represents God-given rights to pursue happiness, or your natural rights if you're atheist. These are rights you're born with, not "granted by government". We instituted our government (the constitution) to PROTECT our INDIVIDUAL rights - not "democratic rights" (majority rule). We're the monkeys. Evil men & women have turned it upside down and we've allowed it. Now, like the monkeys, we have been trained to think government is our master.

The Problem With Governor Christie (NJ)

Some Republican conservatives have been suggesting that Governor Christie could possibly run for President on the GOP ticket in 2012.

Now, along comes this problem with the governor. Sultan Knish tells us in the first paragraph of his essay:

New Jersey, the Garden State, has just taken its first step toward becoming the Sharia State, with Governor Christie's nomination of Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. The Sohail nomination continues Christie's unfortunate pandering to the American Muslim Union and the Islamic Center of Passaic County.

Read the entire damning essay HERE.

Governor Christie is very pleasing to most conservatives. But does he "get it" about the Islamic threat? Nope.

Simile For The Democratic Party

We need Warren to create a graphic for the following, a comment made regarding the Democratic Party's reaction to Loughner's shooting spree:

The modern Democrat Party? As graceful as a drunk hippopotamus in the middle of the rutting season.

The commenter, King Shamus, made that statement in reaction to this post over at Bunkerville, where the following videos were posted by way of contrast:






Bunkerville asks in his post:

Have times changed this much since George Bush and his moment of condolence at Virginia Tech?

See the entire post HERE.

Disrespect From Elected Public Servants

From Weasel Zippers:



Oligarchy!

Forget the live-mic issue. These so-called elected public servants think themselves untouchable. Why are they so disregarding the power of the ballot box?

Italy: Milan's new Muslim party

Muslims praying outside Milan's Catholic Cathedral, il Doumo.

From Hurricane_53 (Translation: T&P):

By now, every MSM will know about the new electoral lists to be presented at the next local elections 2011 Milan. The party will be called "The new Milan", Esar, in short, wnd it will be a party composed of immigrant Muslims, fellow citizens in Milan.

Though the leader of the Islamic center in Milan (and responsible party of the unborn -yet- party) Abdel Hamid Shaari (who was rejected from Egypt as "persona non grata", and who organised communal prayers on Friday in Milan, Piazza Duomo, Cardinal Tettamanzi is compliant and complacent with the idea, because he is sure it wouln't be an Islamic party (ie, religiously motivated). But there is however, a risk that can't be denied: that of electing someone who would ask at Palazzo Marino for the application of the Qu'ranic law, the Sharia.

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Will Nancy Lose Her Gavel?

From Fox News (hat tip to Karen of Eastern Right):

Even if Democrats retain a slim majority in the House this November, Speaker Nancy Pelosi could have an insurrection on her hands from moderate Democrats looking for a change in leadership.

Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., who two weeks ago threw a colossal insult at his party by joining Republicans in a pledge to repeal the health care law, stepped out of line again over the weekend by telling a pair of Capitol Hill newspapers he wants someone other than Pelosi leading the chamber...

The day of reckoning comes around sooner or later, one way or another.

A Second American Revolution?

From this editorial in Investor's Business Daily:

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

[...]

Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.

A President Obama intent on achieving his transformative goals despite the disagreement of the American people has powerful weapons within reach. In one hand, he will have a veto pen to stop a new Republican Congress from repealing ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank takeover of banks.

In the other, he will have a fistful of executive orders, regulations and Obama-made fiats that have the force of law.

[...]

A wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and, like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he leaves office, whenever that may be.

The overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward, punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that his re-election in 2012 is already assured — Chicago-style.

Read the whole depressing article.

If the first paragraph's assessment about the Internet is correct, Obama will have to shut us up.

But here's what really gets to me....Even if the Internet isn't shut up, BHO has a lot of damage he can wreak - never mind that we're typing our fingers off in protest.

Obama Losing His Box Office Appeal

From NationalJournal.com:

Pres. Obama is the best fundraiser the Dem Party has, but his drawing power is way down from its peak during the '08 campaign.

Obama is heading to MO and NV today to raise money for Sec/State Robin Carnahan (D), running for an open Senate seat, and Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid.

But Carnahan's campaign wasn't able to completely sell out the Folly Theater, where Obama will appear for a grassroots event on Carnahan's behalf, at the prices they wanted. Tickets once priced at $250 are now going for $99, while $35 tickets are half off.

National Review points out:

...Let’s be fair; it’s only natural to charge half price when Obama’s job approval is roughly half what it once was.

Also note the name, “Folly Theater.” The Foolishness Arena was booked, apparently.

Republicans are chuckling over BHO's drop in appeal. Dr. Jack Wheeler, however, warns of an October surprise:

...I have lost count now of the number of predictions being made of a GOP "tsunami" in November. Serious political analysts, soberly and without hyperbole, are saying that Dem losses in the House, Senate, Governor's mansions, et al, are likely to be of "historic" proportions.

And every one of them unfailingly comes with a caveat, something along the lines of, "barring some huge unexpected disaster for the GOP." Now, if you were Rahm Emanuel, what would that caveat cause you to think about?...

Read the rest HERE.

Many of us who oppose the present administration's policies are banking on November 2010 to turn things around. But is the GOP up to that challenge? And what could that "October surprise" be?

Obama Has Pissed Off Some Big Donors

From the front page of the July 6, 2010 edition of the Washington Post:

A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats' two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world's financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago.

Honestly, what did BHO expect?

And are we witnessing the coming demise of the Democratic Party?

On the other hand, the GOP isn't doing too well either with collecting donations. Read the article for more details.

Kesha Rogers: A Black Democrat Who Doesn't Fit The Obama Narrative

According to Big Government, Kesha Rogers is running for a seat on Capital Hill by using the poster pictured left.

Read about Kesha Rogers HERE. Note the following:

[J]oin with the majority of the population, which stands in opposition to the present course taken by the President, and reaffirm our Democratic Party tradition; or continue the course imposed by the British Empire, and embraced by the present administration, which bails out speculators, rewards corrupt bankers, insurance companies, and BP, but turns its back on the tens of millions of Americans in despair, due to the breakdown of the economy and our financial system.

And this:

The urgency of forcing Barack Obama’s early resignation

There is much to disagree with Kesha Rogers on, of course. Still, it is interesting to note her lack of support for Obama.

Gerry Connolly Speaks The Truth. For Once.

"Let me get this straight: If you think I can't win, you're not going to spend political capital on me, even though I spill buckets of blood for you?" Connolly said. "The White House can't be [keeping] distance from people who have walked the plank for them, even when they might lose. Loyalty matters in this business.

Occasionally, U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly does manage to utter the truth. He stated the above, directed at BHO, about BHO's needing to step up and help Democratic candidates in the November 2010 elections.

What Connolly doesn't seem to realize: BHO has become political poison. Endangered Democratic Party candidates this fall are going to go down in flames.

Recommended reading: Bloviating Zeppelin's "The Worm Turns?"

Quote Of The Day

Mustang of Social Sense left the following spot-on comment to this post I did a while back:

The fact is no elected official gives a damn. Hare is not at all unusual; one only needs to observe Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Hairy Reid, or any number of other ‘servants of the people’ to see that members of Congress, of either party, intend to do as they please. Why? Because they count on the fact that Americans have short memories. It was important for Obama/Congress to pass the health care fiasco in March because these legislators realize most voters will forget by the time November arrives. I can prove this, too … how many Americans who vote recall that under this present government, President Obama seized and nationalized the banking industry, the car manufacturing and marketing industry, and the home loan industry?

Honestly, I don’t know what disgusts me more … this Congress, the White House, or the people who elected them.

I couldn't agree more with my good friend Mustang.

Many conservatives are pinning their hopes on the electorate to vote out the current administration in 2010 and 2012. But how long is the memory of the electorate? Not very, in my view. Americans have a way, a sort of optimism, of going to bed at night and expecting to wake up to a better tomorrow. This optimism, a form of apathy, is what got us into this present political mess in the first place.

The American voter is not moving right, the left moving left is simply visible and undeniable

Salon (in another hysterical bleat):

Get ready for the Grand Old Tea Party takeover
The loony wing of the Republican Party prepares for a big day in Tuesday's elections

NYT, quoting a dem Iowa voter (in a somewhat absurd article):

"All my Republican friends -- and independents -- are sitting back saying, 'Oh, what did we do?" Ms. McAreavy said. "I'm not to that point yet, but a lot of people are."

US News:

The wide American mainstream is broadening to include fiscal conservatives--yes, some of whom have all sorts of opinions on social issues--but they are united in their concern about the growing size and scope of government

. Wasn't that the lesson of August's tea parties--that people of all stripes are concerned about massive government growth? Isn't that what's really threatening the left?

Yet Rasmussen shows that 73% of REPUBLICANS, a leaderless bunch to be sure, believe that whatever leadership there is, is out of touch with the party humans in the field.

"It's not the third-party candidate spoiling the race -- it's the traditional candidates who are spoiling the race for those who actually believe in something," Roecker said about Hoffman and Scozzafava. Though the name of his group was inspired by Beck's own 9/12 Project, Roecker said it's gotten better than just one talk show host. "[Beck] can't put in enough hours during his week to keep up with what all of us are doing," he said. "I don't think it's his anymore. We still look up to him, but I don't think it's his anymore -- I think it's ours."

Frank Rich and his ilk want to brand what's going on as a Stalinist purge of some sort. And looking at the wide varieties of hysteria, and attempts by media in lockstep with these democrats who would scare the hell out of Truman or Humphrey, they are all making it more and more obvious where they are on the spectrum. Or rather, demonstrating how many standard deviations left of center they are.

The people just are not that stupid over time.


Most Americans want the govt around to keep them safe from _______ (fill in the blank), and do only those things their state and local govt cannot do. And that's all.

The size of govt, the cost of govt the assumption of power by those who think they have a clue about your life ... Americans didn't vote for that. The dem leadership, which has now demonstrated where IT IS on the spectrum simply assumed that once elected it would all be ok. But they were elected because of a Republican party preaching church social moral conservatism was THIS and THIS (i.e. all too typical power seeking and keeping corrupters of the public mindscape), and a Republican president completely misjudged the war he was in, and turned out to be no conservative either. The Obama group was elected as a change FROM THAT. And now that what that change is TO is becoming visible, amid the fiascoes in overseas policy, and the lack of progress at street level in the economy (something THEY VOLUNTARILY PROMISED and are now trying to convince us has occurred) buyer's remorse is all too evident.

And with it, a bit of anger for having been euchred, is my bet.

So those republican leaders of the party which gave us Foley, Delay, Cunningham, Abramov as if that was actual conservatism need to FIND A JOB selling Yoplait or Columbo Light. As for the democratic leaders and pundits who are getting themselves wound up.... they are tomorrow's Foleys.

So we'll see about Virginia, New Jersey and NY 23 today.

And tomorrow we'll wonder about a Republican leadership which endorses a loser who cooperates with ACORN and who then withdraws endorsing the dem and THEN THE DEM LOSES. And pundits will talk about the whacko successes of the far right fringe.

And now this 'right wing fringe gun nut whacko' is going to vote to preserve some people's right to marry any goddamn other consenting adult they please.

And that is America.

Get a G.R.I.P.

Vote out the incumbents

Dr. Bulldog

GRIP = Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!!!!

The movement is growing!

Yessirree Just Cleaning Up The Corruption In D.C.

Breitbart:

AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened
Jul 27 04:46 PM US Eastern
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.
Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being written they didn't know they were getting unique deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., the company that went on to lose billions of dollars on home loans to credit-strapped borrowers. Dodd still maintains he got no preferential treatment.

Dodd got two Countrywide mortgages in 2003, refinancing his home in Connecticut and another residence in Washington. Conrad's two Countrywide mortgages in 2004 were for a beach house in Delaware and an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck in his home state of North Dakota.

Robert Feinberg, who worked in the Countrywide's VIP section, told congressional investigators last month that the two senators were made aware that "who you know is basically how you're coming in here."

"You don't say 'no' to the VIP," Feinberg told Republican investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press.

The next day, Feinberg testified before the Senate Ethics Committee, an indication the panel is actively investigating two of the chamber's more powerful members:

—Dodd heads the Banking Committee and is a major player in two big areas: solving the housing foreclosure and financial crises and putting together an overhaul of the U.S. health care system. A five-term senator, he is in a tough fight for re-election in 2010, partly because of the controversy over his mortgages.

_Conrad chairs the Budget Committee. He, too, shares an important role in the health care debate, as well as on legislation to curb global warming.

Both senators were VIP borrowers in the program known as "friends" of Angelo. Angelo Mozilo was chief executive of Countrywide, which played a big part in the foreclosure crisis triggered by defaults on subprime loans. The Calabasas, Calif.-based company was bought last July by Bank of America Corp. for about $2.5 billion.

Mozilo has been charged with civil fraud and illegal insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He denies any wrongdoing.

Asked by a House investigator if Conrad, the North Dakota senator, "was aware that he was getting preferential treatment?" Feinberg answered: "Yes, he was aware."

Referring to Dodd, the investigator asked:

"And do you know if during the course of your communications" with the senator or his wife "that you ever had an opportunity to share with them if they were getting special VIP treatment?"

"Yes, yes," Feinberg replied.

Bryan DeAngelis, Dodd's spokesman, said Feinberg has repeatedly made allegations of special treatment that were not true.

"As the Dodds have said from the beginning, they did not seek or expect any special rates or terms on their loans and they never received any. They were never offered special or sweetheart deals and if anyone had made such an offer, they would have severed that relationship immediately."

DeAngelis also repeated Dodd's statements from last February that an independent report showed the terms received by the senator and his wife were widely available at the time.

The ethics committee determines whether senators violated standards of conduct. The outcome of the investigation could hinge on whether the mortgage violated strict limits on gifts to lawmakers or ran afoul of other Senate rules.

Feinberg could face criminal prosecution if shown to have made false statements. He was questioned closely by three of the ethics committee's six senators: Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; the panel's senior Republican member, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, and Republican Jim Risch of Idaho, according to Elana Goldstein, one of Feinberg's attorneys who accompanied him to both closed-door committee appearances.

The ethics questioning was intense at times, and Boxer asked the bulk of the questions. When Feinberg described a conversation he had with Dodd, she demanded to know how he remembered it. Feinberg said he recalled Dodd saying he had to leave to make a speech.

Boxer asked whether Dodd and Conrad received VIP treatment because they were senators. Feinberg said that was not the case; they received breaks as other influential people in Countrywide's "friends" of Angelo VIP program.

Isakson, a onetime real estate executive, asked more detailed questions about the mortgage agreements' terms.

Countrywide VIPs, Feinberg told the committees, received discounts on rates, fees and points. Dodd received a break when Countrywide counted both his Connecticut and Washington homes as primary owner-occupied residences—a fiction, according to Feinberg. Conrad received a type of commercial loan that he was told Countrywide didn't offer.

"The simple fact that Angelo Mozilo and other high-ranking executives at Countrywide were personally making sure Mr. Feinberg handled their loans right, is proof in itself that the senators knew they were getting sweetheart deals," said Feinberg's principal attorney, Anthony Salerno.
Two internal Countrywide documents in Dodd's case and one in Conrad's appear to contradict their statements about what they knew about their VIP loans.

At his Feb. 2 news conference, Dodd insisted he didn't receive special treatment. The assertion was at odds with two Countrywide documents entitled "Loan Policy Analysis" that Dodd allowed reporters to review the same day.

The documents had separate columns: one showing points "actl chrgd" Dodd—zero; and a second column showing "policy" was to charge .250 points on one loan and .375 points on the other. Another heading on the documents said "reasons for override." A notation under that heading identified a Countrywide section that approved the policy change for Dodd.

Mortgage points, sometimes called loan origination fees, are upfront fees based on a percentage of the loan. Each point is equal to 1 percent of the loan. The higher the points the lower the interest rate.

Dodd said he obtained the Countrywide documents in 2008, to learn details of his mortgages.

In Conrad's case, an e-mail from Feinberg to Mozilo indicates Feinberg informed Conrad that Countrywide had a residential loan limit of a four-unit building. Conrad sought to finance an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck that he had bought from his brothers.

"I did advise him I would check with you first since our maximum is 4 units," Feinberg said in an April 23, 2004, internal e-mail to Mozilo.

Mozilo responded the same day that Feinberg should speak to another Countrywide executive and "see if he can make an exception due to the fact that the borrower is a senator."

Conrad's spokesman, Chris Gaddie, said Monday that the senator "never asked for, expected or was aware of loans on any preferential terms" and has "worked overtime to set the record straight."

"He went with Countrywide simply because they already had his financial information," Gaddie said. He added that a Countrywide official had told Conrad that "it is not unusual for them to make exceptions for good customers if they could sell the loan in the secondary market. We now know that they did sell the apartment building loan in the secondary market."

Feinberg said in his deposition with House investigators last month that exceptions for the type of loan Conrad received were not allowed for borrowers outside the VIP system.

"If there was a regular customer calling, and of course you say, 'No, we're a residential lender. We cannot provide you with that service,'" Feinberg said.

Feinberg also told House investigators that Countrywide counted both of Dodd's' homes as primary residences.

"He was allowed to do both of those as owner-occupied, which is not allowed. You can only have one owner-occupied property. You can't live in two properties at the same time," he said.

Normally, Feinberg said, a second home could require more equity and could have a higher mortgage rate.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the senior Republican on the House Oversight Committee, had his investigators question Feinberg as part of a broader investigation into Countrywide's VIP program.

Other names that have surfaced as "friends" of Mozilo include James Johnson, a former head of Fannie Mae who later stepped down as an adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and Franklin Raines, who also headed Fannie Mae. Still other "friends" included retired athletes, a judge, a congressional aide and a newspaper executive.

Conrad initially said in June 2008, "If they did me a favor, they did it without my knowledge and without my requesting it."

The next day, Conrad changed course after reviewing documents showing he got special treatment, and said he was donating $10,500 to charity and refinancing the loan on the apartment building with another lender. He also said then it appeared Countrywide had waived 1 point at closing on the beach house.

Gaddie said Feinberg has previously made statements to the news media that Countrywide waived 1 point without the senator's knowledge.

Feinberg testified that VIPs usually were not told exactly how many points were being waived, but it was made clear to them that they were getting discounts.

Jackass Party says GOP Can't Say Government Run Health Care to Describe Government Run Healthcare. . .

Foxnews:

GOP Charges Dems With Censorship Over Sign
Some Republican lawmakers suggested Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have prevented them from sending a chart to their constituents even though it is in the official record of the House Ways and Means Committee.

House Republicans suggested Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is standing in the way of Republicans who want to send constituents a chart that is in the official record of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The chart, recently submitted for the record during a Ways and Means hearing on the Democrats' health care reform bill, shows the Republican interpretation of the Democrats' proposed legislation. The Franking Commission, which is responsible for determining which mailings can be paid for with the congressional frank, or stamp, deemed the mailing unacceptable.

Republican members are scratching their heads at the ruling.

The chart is "part of the official record and now we're told it can't be communicated," said Republican Rep. Dan Lungren of California.

He suggested that the decision to prevent the publication of the chart came from someone higher than the House mail office, perhaps even as high as the speaker's office.

"I've been told it was above the Franking Commission and our committee. This is not accidental," Lungren said.

A spokesman for the House Administration Committee, which has oversight of the House Franking Commission, did not respond to the accusation against Pelosi, but said, "There are ongoing discussions to try and resolve the issue in good faith."

The author of the chart, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, alleged that Democrats are afraid of the purported visual representation of their reform plan.

"This is the most outrageous example of censorship I have seen in Congress," he said.

Lungren said Republicans were told they would be allowed to mail the chart if they added a disclosure at the top that states the chart "might be inaccurate."

"I would agree to that if it said that on the speaker's rostrum," he said.

The New Republicans

After reading the letter titled; GIVE ME MARRIAGE EQUALITY, OR GIVE ME DEATH on this post at The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog, I had to weigh in.

I am more than willing to admit that I am not a Republican from old. I was a Democrat for many years.

As I grew older, after 9/11, I discovered that I really did believe in a number of Republican principles. Capitalism, self reliance, a very strong military and domestic protection. I do not have a problem whatsoever with the so called "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", as I feel they were only used after "soft" interrogation had failed. I also feel that they prevented many deaths. And in my opinion, were not torture.

I want an extremely strong border. But, I am not opposed to immigration, done legally. We are a country of immigrants, our country was built from the ground up by immigrants and except for the Native Indians, every single citizen of the United States ancestors, came from another country.

I stand by our second amendment rights, as a necessary protection, in the event of a rouge government takeover. Yes, I do believe that is possible. We are no more immune to a dictator than any other country of the world. In the event this happens, I want to know that I and my neighbors have the ability to nip it in the bud.

And there are others that I agree with.

But, I disagree on the subject of abortion. I believe it should be kept legal. For extreme cases where the mother's life is in danger, a girl has been raped or a victim of incest and in some cases regarding domestic abuse. I absolutely oppose it's use as birth control. It is 100% possible to prevent pregnancy these days.

Gays? Read the above letter. I fully agree with him.

And there are others that I disagree with.

The government needs to stay out of our personal lives, if what we are doing is not hurting or infringing on others rights. (Isn't this one of our complaints about the Democrats?)

And those rights, do not include others "feelings". We have freedom of speech. The use of freedom of speech, hurts others feelings, all of the time. Are we going to eradicate freedom of speech?

Each of us have our own moral belief's. That is our right and I intend on keeping mine.

I do not believe in all of what Republican's believe in. So where does that leave me and the thousands of others out here like me? Without a right to a political party?

You see, by virtue of the fact that there are thousands of us out here and growing, it is telling.

How many of "us" are out here, as opposed the "them"?

Are we required to be force fed the extremely conservative belief's, just so we can vote? I'm certainly not going to vote for the Democrats. They have become a socialist party. And where socialism breeds, dictatorship is not far behind.

It is time for the Republican's to lighten up and change with the times. Or, you will lose many thousands of votes to that empty place, in the middle.

Of course, there will always be those people out there, stuck in their extremely conservative way's.

Then again, maybe it really is time for a third party.

From The Brookings Institute Six Years Ago

Excerpt from this link:

Europe's Muslim Street

March/April 2003 —

Islam may still be a faraway religion for millions of Americans. But for Europeans it is local politics. The 15 million Muslims of the European Union (EU)—up to three times as many as live in the United States—are becoming a more powerful political force than the fabled Arab street. Europe's Muslims hail from different countries and display diverse religious tendencies, but the common denominator that links them to the Muslim world is their sympathy for Palestine and Palestinians. And unlike most of their Arab brethren, growing numbers of Europe's Muslims can vote in elections that count.

This political ascendance threatens to exacerbate existing strains within the trans-Atlantic relationship. The presence of nearly 10 million Muslims versus only 700,000 Jews in France and Germany alone helps explain why continental Europe might look at the Middle East from a different angle than does the United States. Indeed, French and German concerns about a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq or Washington's blind support for Israel are at least partly related to nervousness about the Muslim street at home.

Whether Brussels, Berlin, Paris, or Washington like it or not, Europe's Muslim constituencies are likely to become an even more vocal foreign policy lobby. Two trends are empowering Europe's Muslim street: demographics and opportunities for full citizenship....

Fellow infidels here are just going to love the final paragraph. NOT!:

On the positive side, demographic growth and enfranchisement are already integrating European Muslims into the political mainstream and have the potential to produce a moderate type of Euro-Islam. Yet the implications of a more vocal Muslim lobby in Europe's Middle East policy offer no good news for the United States. Home to a minuscule Jewish minority and growing Muslim masses, Europe will only get better at confronting the United States at the game of ethnic-lobby influence—a small price to pay, perhaps, for the emergence of a truly multicultural Europe.

Read it all.

Wiki on the Brookings Institute. Excerpt, but you may want to read the whole thing:

Brookings claims to have contributed to the creation of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and the Congressional Budget Office, as well as influenced policies of deregulation, broad-based tax reform, welfare reform, and foreign aid.

Of the 200 most prominent think tanks in the U.S., the Brookings Institution's research is the most widely cited by the media,and the third most-cited of all public policy institutes by Members of Congress, behind only the Heritage Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.