Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday.
When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t.”
People deserve to know, indeed.
Via Detroit Free Press:
Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.
AdvertisementU.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, “The defendant now stands convicted.”
If you’ve followed the, shall we say antics, of Conyers at all, this part will be particularly amusing:
In court, Conyers’ combative demeanor was gone, replaced by soft-spoken resignation as the judge and his staff several times asked her to speak up.
If you’re not familiar with Conyers’ decidedly un-soft-spoken manner, watch and be amazed. Here’s the video clip of her famously calling a fellow council member “Shrek” during a Detroit City Council meeting…
And in response to criticism regarding that incident, she had a round-table discussion with a group of Detroit school children…and only managed to reveal that they had more maturity in one pinky than she could muster for her job heading up the city council.
If I lived in Detroit, I’d vote for that second little girl for city council before I voted for Conyers. In a heartbeat, as a matter of fact.
Earlier this week Michelle Malkin was accosted by Obamacare supporters at the airport in Denver. Dr. Baldchick diagnosed a bad case of progressivitis.
Yesterday Malkin echoed a challenge from Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi:
I’m on column deadline so I don’t have time to research this right now … but I was just wondering, if young people who wanted to collect signatures to, say, push for the repeal of Roe v. Wade asked, would they be welcome at DIA?
How about young people who advocate for bold new free-market solutions to help get us out of Obama’s fiscal mess?
How about young people who want to “educate” the public about Governor Bill Ritter’s disastrous “new energy economy”?
Or how about some kids just getting involved and gathering signatures to stop socialized, rationed, government-controlled medicine?
Some group should test out how open-minded and inclusive DIA is on the issue of petitioners. Surely, there would be no ideological discrimination.
If I still lived outside of Denver, I’d be on it like stink on poo. But I sure hope someone else will give it whirl, ’cause I’d sure like to read about what happens.
My bet, however, is on ideological discrimination.
Senator John Kerry on the Republican governor HE’D most like to see go missing…
“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’
I’m hoping that was an attempt at humor, but don’t quit your day job, jackass. Wait…on second thought…
Lest we forget in our exuberance over the Iranian people standing up to make their voices heard, Diana West gives a timely reminder…
I will say that my initial reaction to the euphoria I saw breaking out all over the West — especially the US? — to the obtusely labeled “green” revolution was, Why should we be so happy about Mousavi? When I learned that Mousavi was Mullah Rafsanjani’s boy, that A-jad was Mullah Khameini’s boy, my wonder deepened, as in: What’s the diff?
We must never give up on democracy, or defending it. But let’s not forget that Iran is still Iran. The videos of Iranians taking to the streets after the election are still frequently punctuated with cries of “Allahu Akbar!” And, as Ed point out over at Hot Air today, the man for whom they’ve taken to the streets isn’t exactly a friend of this country.
Did Mirhossein Mousavi play a leading role in the 1983 attack in Lebanon that killed more than 240 US Marines and caused Ronald Reagan to retreat? CQ Politics says yes, calling Mousavi the “Butcher of Beirut”. It serves as a reminder that the man whom the mullahs have suppressed was and perhaps still is of their regime.
Should we do all that we can to encourage functional democracy? Of course. But we can’t afford to forget that doing so speaks nothing to the outcome. Sometimes citizens of democratic countries make spectacularly awful choices.
And sometimes they don’t have much to choose from to start with.
On her blog today Michelle Malkin tells of being…
…accosted by two young people from an outfit called “Progressive Future.” They are standing with clipboards and propaganda pimping Obamacare.
Don’t have time right now to look them up, but I asked one of the young Obama-bots who funded his group.
He didn’t know.
Wouldn’t be surprised if stimulus dollars or AmeriCorps funding was subsidizing this.
The young man handed me a flyer using “right-wing Republicans in Congress,” “Rush Limbaugh and Fox News” to scare the sheeple into support the government health care takeover.
OK, for starters, I have to laugh at how prevalent the shorthand term “right-wing” is becoming. Of course, I’m used to hearing it aimed at me, personally, since I fairly regularly wade into the patchouli stench of leftist protests with camera in hand. But we’re not just talking people who wear Che t-shirts, battle capitalism by selling socialist newspapers on the street (oh, the irony!), and think that bathing is, at best, a bi-weekly event. At least not outwardly, as you’ll see by the pictures on this group’s website.
On their About Us page, Progressive Future shares its mission:
Our Mission
Progressive Future promotes progressive values through grassroots action. We are a nonprofit organization advocating for core progressive principles such as community, fairness, and security; and working for progress on critical issues such as providing health care for all Americans, promoting a clean energy economy, and ending the war in Iraq. We make the case for sensible policy solutions and hold politicians’ feet to the fire by activating citizens in their communities and helping progressive Americans make their voices heard.
Interesting, isn’t it, the language that those suffering from Progressivitis either instinctively or cunningly know they have to include in their message? Words like values and principles. Words that are most commonly associated with the dastardly “right-wingers” they so revile.
Perhaps they don’t realize that any thinking person will see right through the transparently purposeful use of those words when they are immediately followed by a naked statement of political agenda (like providing health care for all Americans).
And, lest you think the “right-wing” reference that Ms. Malkin saw in their literature was a fluke, I give you the organization’s final goal statement:
And, finally, we seek to tie our work back to a coherent framework of values that binds us together as progressives and differentiates us from right-wing conservatives.
I haven’t dug any further to try to find out where they get their funding. But I didn’t have to dig very far at all to be able to diagnose a bad case of Progressivitis.
Alas, I don’t think they make a cream for that.
“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” Sarkozy said to extended applause in a speech at the Chateau of Versailles southwest of Paris.
“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”
Because cultures have boundaries, too, and — just like nations — cultures can be defeated if they are not defended.