The Great Speakers and the Failure of Nancy Pelosi by Gregory Hilton

The Republican Party did not realize it then, but they were about to give up power in the House of Representatives for 60 of the next 64 years. On March 4, 1931, Speaker Nicholas Longworth (R-OH) approached the rostrum for the last time. The first person on his feet was Jack Garner (D-TX) who would be his successor. Then every Democrat and Republican stood up and the applause was thunderous.

After November: GOP Will Compromise But Liberals May Defeat Obama by Gregory Hilton

At 11 am tomorrow President Obama will announce the departure of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel described the “professional left” as “retards,” and denounced their unwillingness to compromise on issues such as health care reform and global warming. The departure press conference is being held in the East Room to provide maximum exposure for Emanuel’s campaign for Mayor of Chicago. The President will name a new Chief of Staff and is also seeing the departure of his top political aide (David Axelrod) and three of the four members of his economic team.

Howard Dean: “We Are Now in Danger of Losing Everything” by Gregory Hilton

Former Gov. Howard Dean (VT) knows Democrats are headed for a significant setback in November. He is nevertheless actively campaigning for liberal candidates who are certain to lose. Dean is appearing in a variety of Congressional districts around the nation in his role as Chairman of the left wing lobbying group Democracy for America. The organization was originally established as Dean for America to promote his 2004 presidential campaign, and his current goal could be challenging Barack Obama for the 2012 nomination.
The former Governor is a medical doctor and the immediate past Chairman of the Democratic Party (2005 – 2009). He can claim credit for their huge success in both the 2006 and 2008 elections. Prior to the 2004 Iowa caucuses, Dean was considered the frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination. He was endorsed by the top two candidates from the previous election, former Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley (NJ), as well as powerful labor unions. He was the first major candidate to largely finance his campaign from the Internet, and his major issue was opposition to the Iraq war.
His 50 state strategy later proved to be the road map for Barack Obama’s 2008 victory. Dean wanted to serve as HHS Secretary in the Obama administration, but his battle with Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel prevented the appointment. Dean said “I made it pretty clear I wanted to be HHS Secretary.” He was also passed over for Surgeon General. In a snub to Dean, he was not even invited to the White House press conference when Governor Tim Kaine (VA) was announced as his successor at the DNC.
The theme of Dean’s current speeches is that President Obama has abandoned his liberal base on Afghanistan, the health care public option and gay rights. Dean is telling liberal groups “This is not joking around time anymore. You caused a revolution in this country two years ago. We are now in danger of losing everything you worked for.”
Many liberals are dismayed with the White House and the feeling is mutual. On August 9th, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said: “The professional left will not be satisfied until we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality. I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it’s crazy.” Rahm Emmanuel says many liberal activists are “retarded.”
If Dean does challenge Obama he is likely to have the support of left wing activists such as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, as well as filmmaker Michael Moore. All of them are major left wing critics of the White House.
The former Governor does not want Obama to endorse an extension of the Bush era tax cuts and says “I don’t agree with supply-side economics. Reagan proved it was wrong. George H.W. Bush proved it was wrong, and George W. Bush proved it was wrong.” Dean also says:
“The biggest danger is not Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives. It’s that we’re not talking to each other.”
“I wasn’t that happy with the health care bill, and we should have done more. . . Democrats can not be blamed for health care reform. It was a bipartisan bill. The biggest problem is that it can’t work in the present system.”
“I don’t think the majority of Republicans are haters, but there is a significant hate wing of the Republican Party, including the talk show hosts like Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh and people like that and they don’t dare cross them.”
Surprising Comments:
Dean surprised many of his supporters by opposing the construction of a mosque near the ground zero site in New York City. He said: “We have to understand that it is a real affront to people who’ve lost their lives.”
“The best way to decrease the federal deficit is to change programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. I think everything has to be cut. Everyone needs to put something into the pot.”

Elizabeth Warren and Another Dumb Liberal Prediction

TARP Congressional Oversight Panel chair Elizabeth Warren with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

At his press conference today, the President broadly hinted he will soon appoint Liz Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Liberal columnist Brent Budowsky of The Hill foolishly predicts: “The Democratic base will erupt and turn out to vote in far greater numbers than any current poll suggests. …
This campaign is in the ninth inning, the bases are loaded, and if the president hits the ball out of the park and names Elizabeth Warren, it will be the single most powerful inflection point in many months, to the Democrats’ advantage, and change the campaign of 2010 to a rousing fight to the finish that could well save the Democratic House of Representatives.”
Liz Warren is a star in Michael Moore’s world, but the public does not know her. She will never be confirmed before the election. Budowsky wants us to believe “the Democratic base will erupt” because of a bankruptcy law professor from Harvard? The President could name 10 liberal activists from the Harvard faculty to senior positions but that would have no impact on the midterm elections. If they are not already motivated by significant GOP leads in a wide range of Blue states, it is going to be very difficult to get them excited.

Mayor Daley Retires, Liberals Take Aim at Rahm Emanuel by Gregory Hilton

Mayor Richard Daley (D-Chicago) announced his retirement earlier today. He will not be seeking re-election to a 7th term and the Daley era which began with his father’s 1956 victory is coming to an end. Also coming to an end is the excellent reputation the city once had. In half a century it has gone from “the city that works”, to a Worker’s Paradise as Mayor’s have continually caved into the demands of public employee unions. The first Mayor Daley was regarded as a conservative Democrat but now the city is as liberal as San Francisco and the decline is apparent. One example is the steep loss of convention business because of union wages and rules. The school system is not well regarded and the corruption is generations old.

Even Liberals Are Making Fun of the Recovery Summer

Even liberals are now making fun of the $862 billion in stimulus spending. The link below is to a contest being conducted by the left wing Huffngton Post. They “asked HuffPost readers to come up with a more appropriate name for the last few months, which the Obama administration rather hopefully dubbed ‘The Recovery Summer.’” They did not pick the best choice which was Bummer Summer.
Vice President Joe Biden first spoke of a Recovery Summer last April and said the stimulus would spur the economy by adding half-million jobs every month. The reality is that initial unemployment claims jumped a half-million last week, the worst since last November. The President says unemployment is increasing because the Congress will not pass his jobs bill for small business. Someone needs to tell Obama that Democrats have controlled the Congress since 2007.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/huffpost-readers-rename-t_n_689551.html

Israel Continues to Lose Support From Liberal Democrats by Gregory Hilton

Liberals are continuing to abandon the Jewish State, acccording to a new Israel Project survey which appeared in the Jerusalem newspaper, Haaretz. The results were analyzed by Adam Horowitz, a founding member of Jews Against the Occupation. He covers the Middle East full time from “a progressive Jewish perspective.” Horowitz says “The section of the American public where Israel is most rapidly losing support is among liberals who align themselves with the Democratic Party.”
The news was cheered on the website Open Left which today says “Collectively, news about the continuing ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestinian lands, and the inhumane Gaza siege is taking its toll on liberal Democratic support of Israel under the right wing Likud party.”
The poll asked “Does the U.S. need to support Israel?” In August of 2009, 63% of Americans polled said that the U.S. does need to support Israel. In June of this year, 58% of respondents shared the same view; by July only 51% of respondents said the U.S. needed to support Israel.
Another question posed by the pole was “Is the Israeli government committed to peace with the Palestinians?” In December of 2007, 66% of respondents said that the government, then led by Ehud Olmert, was committed to peace with the Palestinians. In June of 2009, a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House, only 46% of Americans said they believed the Netanyahu government was committed to peace.
According to the liberal publication Slate, “various polls document the liberal disenchantment.” The Gallup Poll reports that 80 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Israel, compared with only 53 percent of Democrats. The Zogby numbers are even worse. They found 42% of Democrats had a favorable rating of Israel compared to 92% of Republicans resulting in a 50% gap between the parties.
Only 54 percent of Jews under 35 who aren’t Orthodox are “comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state” (as compared to more than 80 percent of those over 65). Among younger Jews, only 20 percent rated as “highly attached” to Israel in another poll.
Slate says “It’s hard to see this as good news for either Israel or Democrats. . . Obama won nearly 80 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008. I doubt he will get as much of it in 2012.”
Other Observations About Jews
Helping the down and out, and doing charitable acts, is an essential part of being a Jew. They consider this a Mitzvah. That is perhaps why liberalism was, and is attractive to Jews. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said “Israel’s worst enemies are not Arabs or Palestinians, but liberal American Jews.” Other surveys have demonstrated that some 30% of Jews do not support Israel, find the concept of “Israel” an anachronism, and find Judism a “tradition.” There are religious Jews who say there will be no Israel until established by the Messiah.
On a related topic, it is often falsely claimed that the Jews killed Jesus. This comes from the New Testament which was written by Jewish men who had become Christians. They wrote of ‘The Jews’ in a negative way. The Christian Church has been quite clear about this. We killed Jesus – all of us – through our sins. Jesus died in order to redeem us from our sins. He died for us. If we were not sinners he would not have needed to die. Therefore, we collectively killed Jesus – not any one group of people.

The Return of the Conservative Isolationists: Right Wing Pundits Denounce “Obama’s War” by Gregory Hilton

Several high profile conservative pundits have recently turned against the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. The group includes columnists Ann Coulter, George Will, Tony Blankley and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. These pundits support RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) who now refer to Afghanistan as “Obama’s war.”

Liberal Activitist Groups Enter Arkansas Senate Race by Gregory Hilton

I do not interfere with the opposition when they are in the process of destroying themselves, but conservative Republicans owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to liberal activist groups Moveon.org, Progressive Change, Daily Kos and Democracy for America. They are behind liberal Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s (D-AR) primary challenge to moderate Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR). He announced his candidacy on March 1st and had raised over $800,000 the next day from these organizations!
TV ads are already on the air and all of this money is being used to attack Senator Lincoln. It is a dream come true for the Republican Party and the conservative agenda. This Senate seat will soon be in GOP hands. If Halter does upset Lincoln in the primary, he would be an even easier target in November. President Obama’s approval in the poll is 37%, versus 61% disapproval.
The past month was a good one for Senator Lincoln. She picked up 7 points and was making the race more competitive. Thanks to the national liberal organizations, an avalanche of negative attack ads are beginning and Republicans don’t have to pay for them. This is the change we can believe in.

The Congressman The New York Times Calls “A Wing Nut” by Gregory Hilton

President Obama calls Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) an “outstanding Member of Congress,” and liberal pundit James Carville says “We need more lawmakers like him.” Grayson has been a frequent guest on left wing talk shows where he has been praised by Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher.
The New York Times is more accurate when they call him “a wing nut” and “The liberals problem child.” On Wednesday night the Congressman spoke to MSNBC about former Vice President Dick Cheney, and said “On the Internet there’s an acronym that’s used to apply to situations like this, it’s STFU. I don’t think I can say that on the air, but I think you know what it means.” He earlier told MSNBC “I have trouble listening to what Cheney says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking.” He also claims Cheney “likes to shoot old men in the face.”
Grayson is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School who represents Florida’s 8th district and is known for crying on the House floor. He becomes very emotional over his own speeches. He not only opposes President’s Obama surge in Afghanistan but wants the present American troops removed immediately. “We have to get out, we can’t afford it any more,” Grayson said, adding that troops there “don’t make us any safer.”
When asked about a new web-site promoted by GOP critics, http://www.mycongressmanisnuts.com, the Congressman said: “They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly, but that’s not what is important. It’s not about me. It’s about the people who I represent.” Grayson wrote to Attorney General asking that the woman who produced the website be sent to jail for five years.
Grayson also believes:
* Republicans who oppose Obamacare “want you to die quickly.”
* A female adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (Linda Robertson) is a “K Street whore.” The exact quote is: “This lobbyist, this K street whore, is trying to teach me about economics”.
* He calls our present health care system as a “holocaust.” He said “I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t acted sooner to end this holocaust in America.” The United Jewish Appeal said the Congressman was wrong to refer to the holocaust in this manner.
* He says the Republican Party deserves the Nobel Prize for “fear, hatred and racism” and the GOP is composed of “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.” There is one Republican Grayson frequently does praise, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX).
* Bill O’Reilly asked the Congressman to be a guest on his program but the lawmaker responded by calling the Fox Network “The Enemy Of America.”
* On a Netroots Nation panel, he said that his 2008 Republican opponent, former congressman Ric Keller, “did all his hiring at Hooters.”
* At a fund raiser with Joe Biden, Grayson invited the Vice President to “go water boarding” with him.
* He called conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh a “has-been hypocrite loser” who “was more lucid when he was a drug addict.”
* Before he was elected to Congress, his car sported a bumper sticker with the slogan “Bush Lied, People Died.”
* Liberal Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) says the Florida Democrat is “one fry short of a Happy Meal.”
Grayson represents a marginal district but he should not be counted out. Liberal activists throughout the nation are thrilled by the Congressman’s antics. During its first week the website for his re-election campaign brought in $234,375.
Grayson does not have a top tier GOP challenger and the current front funner is businessman Armando Gutierrez, who has an MA from Harvard. Gutierrez calls Grayson “The poster-child for all that is wrong with Washington. His overblown rhetoric demonstrates that governing is not his forte. Listening to Grayson almost makes you feel embarrassed for him. From runaway spending to hyper-partisanship, Grayson has demonstrated he is among the worst members of Congress.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has told Grayson to tone down his behavior which is contributing to an atmosphere of incivility, and the Congressman responded by apologizing to Linda Robertson. However, Grayson also said he doesn’t plan to rein in his bombastic rhetorical style one bit.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) reacted in a similar manner concerning Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). Less than an hour after Wilson shouted “You lie!” at President Obama he was told to apologize by the GOP leadership.
In the current Orlando Sentinel poll, 89% of the respondents said Grayson is “nuts.” The Orlando Weekly endorsed Grayson, but his screaming and strange behavior made the paper rescind its backing.