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Video: Republicans To Read 2,000 Page Health Care Bill Aloud On House Floor

Chris Jones — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35:52 +0000

(hat tip Breitbart TV)

Video: SC GOP Candidate Offers AK-47 In Fundraising Sweepstakes

Chris Jones — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:09:56 +0000

I like this guy…

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Arlen Specter Proves He’s A Scumbag

Chris Jones — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:55:50 +0000

This from Politico:

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.), who’s looked at POTUS from both sides now, was just on the Bill Press radio show suggesting the South Carolina firebrand Joe Wilson be censured for his heckle heard round the world.

Said the Republican-turned-Dem:

"He apologized immediately afterward but I don’t think that’s adequate… If an apology is the consequence of an outburst I think we can expect more – that’s not a sufficient penalty that’s not a sufficient price to pay.. I’m not saying the guy should be kicked out of the House… But there ought to be some rebuke, reprimand, censure — something that will discourage that kind of conduct in the future. If you do that to the President, it’s open season."

Only in Washington could a sleazy scumbag like Arlen Specter have any credibility left with which to comment on anything ever. Facing a primary defeat against a republican challenger, Specter decided to become a democrat without a second thought.

Arlen Specter is exactly the kind of person you don’t want representing you. He’s the very embodiment of a sleazy politician. He has no core principals or beliefs. His one and only motivation is holding on to power by any means necessary.

This jackass was adamantly opposed to the union card-check legislation when he was a republican. Now that he’s a democrat he turned up at a f*cking union rally on Labor Day with none other than Joe Biden in support of union card check. Are you kidding me?

Are we really supposed to take anything this jerk says seriously? Specter is going to learn all about “rebuke” when the voters of Pennsylvania throw his phony ass out of office.

Conservatives need to OPEN THEIR WALLETS to Joe Wilson. He stood up to the Liar-In-Chief and we need to support him.

-Chris Jones

John Cornyn Accuses White House of Compiling ‘Enemies List’

Chris Jones — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:26:51 +0000

This via The Dallas Morning News:

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.

Cornyn, who leads the Republicans’ Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he’s concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.

"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.

Cornyn makes a great point about the double standard. If Bush had pulled something like this the left would’ve been outraged and compared him to Nixon.

Senator Voinovich Attacks Southerners In The GOP

Chris Jones — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:18:43 +0000

Republican Senator George Voinovich will be retiring soon and as a result he’s letting fly what he really thinks about his colleagues — from the South:

Too many conservative senators like Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are to blame for the GOP’s downfall, one of their retiring Republican colleagues complained Monday.

"We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. "It’s the southerners."

Voinovich, a native Clevelander who retires after the 2010 election, continued after the southern elements of the GOP.

"They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,’" he said. "People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’"

It’s interesting that Voinovich singles out the two best republicans in the Senate as examples of how not to behave. Coburn and DeMint are the only two guys that actually stand for something.

The problem with the GOP is that we have too many fools like Voinovich running around trying to be popular with democrats instead looking out for the American people.

Instead of being a principled leader like Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn you should be blubbering, weeping, disgrace who tries to sabotage a great man like Ambassador John Bolton:

(hat tip Ace)

Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged

Marcus Gadson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:13:07 +0000

Just two weeks ago, almost no one knew who Mark Sanford (R-South Carolina) was. Now everyone does. Normally that would be a good thing for a politician. Unfortunately for Sanford, he is infamous instead of famous.

There has been almost nonstop coverage of every last, tawdry detail of Sanford’s affair with his mistress in Argentina. A South Carolina newspaper even posted the e-mails that went back and forth between Sanford and the Argentine.

No doubt, Sanford has brought much of this on himself. He cheated on his wife, left his job without telling anyone where he was, and flew to another continent, all he tells us, because he needed to cry. His argument for why he shouldn’t resign was plain wacky. Said Sanford, “what I find interesting is the story of David, and the way in which he fell mightily, he fell in very very significant ways. But then [he] picked up the pieces and built from there.”

Translation: David had an affair with Bathsheba and didn’t resign, so why should I? Fair enough, but David also slew Goliath and was ordained by God to be king of Israel. Comparing himself to David hardly projects an image of humility that would be helpful for him. And certainly, he could have done without providing us every last detail of his extra-marital activities as he did in his ill-conceived press conference.

Still, this whole saga raises useful questions. Should we force Sanford and politicians who have similarly sinned to resign? How harshly should we judge them? I’ve come to the conclusion that we are often too quick and too harsh in our judgment of politicians in these instances. Many observers claim that politicians who have strayed in their marriages are unfit for public office.

A lot of people then, are unfit for their jobs. Infidelity is hardly limited to politicians. Plenty of law firm partners, hedge fund managers, teachers, and police officers commit adultery. Moreover, traditional morality is eroding in society-at-large, and not just in Congress. About half of all new marriages end in divorce. Premarital sex, cohabitation, and having children out-of-wedlock have become accepted behaviors. So perhaps we should take the log out of our eyes so we can see clearly to take the speck out of Mark Sanford’s.

Essentially, many critics of Sanford argue that we should hold politicians to a higher standard than we hold ourselves. They’re supposed to be role models for society. If we can’t trust a politician to be faithful in his marriage, how can we trust him to conduct public affairs well? Besides being unfair, that attitude could deprive of us of the service of a lot of talented politicians. People who can write a good tax code or create an efficient health care scheme would be kicked to the curb because they weren’t perfect.

Politicians today aren’t any worse than they were fifty years ago. FDR, JFK, and LBJ all had extramarital affairs. The only difference between them and Mark Sanford is that Sanford got caught, largely because the media has no respect for privacy anymore. Despite their misdeeds, you’ll find no pundits bloviating about how we shouldn’t have trusted Kennedy or Roosevelt.

As for the bit about role models, I doubt that seeing Mark Sanford committing adultery will cause someone else to also have an affair. The sad truth is that they are more likely to think such behavior is acceptable from seeing all the adults they know personally engage in it. They think of divorce as normal not because some politicians got divorced, but because their parents did. Instead of outsourcing the responsibility to be good role models to politicians who already have difficult tasks, we should take it upon ourselves.

-Marcus Gadson

check out my blog: http://thegadsonreview.blogspot.com/

Voters Now Trust GOP More On 8/10 Key Issues

Chris Jones — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:09:33 +0000

Republicans now lead democrats on issues such as the economy, taxes, social security, national security, war in Iraq, immigration, abortion, and ethics & corruption.

(hat tip Ace)

The Ugly 8: The 8 Cap and Tax Republicans

Chris Jones — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:57:50 +0000

The democrats in The House were able to get their gruesome “cap and trade” bill passed on Friday.

It was a razor thin victory thanks to a small but stupid group of republicans.

The following 8 republicans are a disgrace and should be thrown out of office in the next election.

These “ugly 8” don’t give a damn about the American people and chose to vote in favor of the most hideous job killing bill in history.

John Boehner: Climate Bill A Pile Of Sh*T

Chris Jones — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:26:06 +0000

Republican Minority Leader John Boehner on the “climate change” bill:

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 shit."

Well said.

(hat tip The Hill)

Mark Sanford Admits To Chasing Skirt In Argentina

Chris Jones — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:02:49 +0000

I had a sick feeling that whatever the hell Gov. Mark Sanford was doing when he supposedly “disappeared” wasn’t good.

When I heard his phony story about disappearing to Argentina to “clear his head” I knew with absolute certainty this wasn’t going to end well.

Sure enough, Sanford held a rambling press conference (thank God without his wife present) and admitted to having an affair with some broad in Argentina. (I hope it was a broad)

“I have been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with what started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina,” Sanford said in a rambling and often emotional news conference at the state capital in Columbia.

“I’m a bottom line kind of guy I’m just gonna lay it out. It’s gonna hurt and I’m going to let the chips fall where they may,” Sanford said.

He does say his wife was aware of the affair prior to his leaving for Argentina and that they’re pretty much separated.

He went on to apologize to his family, blah, blah, blah:

Sanford apologized to his wife, Jenny, and his children. “To Jenny, anybody who has observed her over the last 40 years of my life knows how closely she has stood by my side in campaign, after campaign, after campaign,” he said.

I’ve got no sympathy whatsoever for this charlatan. If he really cared about his family he wouldn’t be cheating on his wife and causing them public humiliation.

Thank God, we discovered Sanford’s true colors before he ran for president. I can’t believe this guy was dumb enough to pull a disappearing act and think no one would notice.

Secondly, if he and his wife really were separated then why not just say that publicly long ago? It wouldn’t have damaged his republican credentials to have a failed marriage — look at Newt Gingrich.

Our country’s economy is on life support, the republican party is in shambles, and Mark Sanford is chasing skirt in Argentina?

What a disgrace.

-Chris Jones

UPDATE: Here’s the uncomfortable press conference…

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