Way to go Joe….

Nice…. Joe Scarborough breaks the law on National TV and it’s funny…

Joe Scarborough, on “Morning Joe” just now, was talking about the “steady nature” of Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and Robert Gibbs, and how new chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will fit in.

“These are good, decent, steady men that don’t go around flipping people off or yelling f— you at the top of their lungs.”

“The chances are good that Rahm Emanuel is going to have to become a member of the Obama campaign,” he continued.

Scarborough later corrected himself, saying he didn’t realize he said the full word.

“Great apologies if I used the word instead of the letter,” Scarborough said, adding that his wife was going to kill him.

Had this been Keith Olbermann, the right wing media would have been asking for his head.

Real nice Joe, a good way to make the Republicans look even smarter than they do now. 🙄

Update: Think Progress has a better clip:

The reaction is hilariously funny. 😛

Kids…Kids….

Play nice…

The election is over with for goodness sakes… Let’s work on rebuilding and not on the killing of one other.

…and for goodness sakes stop with the damned navel grazing already! 🙄

We lost, big deal, life goes on, we became the minority. It isn’t the end of the world ya’ll.

Don’t make me come outta this bunker…. 😛

Reality Bites for the Neo-Cons

P.J. O’Rourke is having a bad case of reality handed to him.

Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone–gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that’s headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.

An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble. The progeny of the Reagan Revolution will live instead in the universe that revolves around Hyde Park.

Mind you, they won’t live in Hyde Park. Those leafy precincts will be reserved for the micromanagers and macro-apparatchiks of liberalism–for Secretary of the Department of Peace Bill Ayers and Secretary of the Department of Fairness Bernardine Dohrn. The formerly independent citizens of our previously self-governed nation will live, as I said, around Hyde Park. They will make what homes they can in the physical, ethical, and intellectual slums of the South Side of Chicago.

The South Side of Chicago is what everyplace in America will be once the Democratic administration and filibuster-resistant Democratic Congress have tackled global warming, sustainability, green alternatives to coal and oil, subprime mortgage foreclosures, consumer protection, business oversight, financial regulation, health care reform, taxes on the “rich,” and urban sprawl. The Democrats will have plenty of time to do all this because conservatism, if it is ever reborn, will not come again in the lifetime of anyone old enough to be rounded up by ACORN and shipped to the polling booths.

None of this is the fault of the left. After the events of the 20th century–national socialism, international socialism, inter-species socialism from Earth First–anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions. No, we on the right did it. The financial crisis that is hoisting us on our own petard is only the latest (if the last) of the petard hoistings that have issued from the hindquarters of our movement. We’ve had nearly three decades to educate the electorate about freedom, responsibility, and the evils of collectivism, and we responded by creating a big-city-public-school-system of a learning environment. – More at The Weekly Standard

One thing that O’Rourke fails to realize is that the polices advocated by the Kristol’s that basically were the foundation for the “Bush Doctrine”; were, in fact, the reason that the Conservatives lost this election in the first place. Yes, the economy was factor, John McCain’s rather stupid campaign was a factor, but one cannot escape that the main underlying reason for the ass kicking that the Republicans received in this election, and that was the FAILED polices of the Bush Administration and the many scandals that came out of it. Neo-Conservatives tried like bloody hell to spin the scandals, but the American people are just not that stupid. They saw spin and they voted accordingly.

Until the Republican Party literally casts out the Neo-Conservatives out of their party and gets back to the old school Libertarian Conservatism of Barry Goldwater, of which O’Rourke tries to rather lamely dismiss; the Republican Party will become a thing of the past. Neo-Conservatism of the Bush stripe, just does not work in America and in the context of a modern Democracy; It has been tried and it has failed miserably. Further more the Republican Party needs to tell the Evangelical Conservative Christian movement to tend to their own affairs in the Church, and stop meddling in the affairs of Government. it is this writers opinion, that one of the worst things that ever happened to the Conservative movement, was the inclusion of the Religious-Right movement. It ended up costing us the election this time and was more of a liability than an asset.

It is time for the Republican Party as a whole, to rethink their message or face extinction. For the good of the Republic, we cannot afford the Liberals that victory.

Others: Little Green Footballs, Right Wing News and Jules Crittenden

World News: Monks brawl at Christian holy site in Jerusalem

Just more signs of the times….

Via the AP:

Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity’s holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus’ tomb.

The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

The brawling began during a procession of Armenian clergymen commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus.

The Greeks objected to the march without one of their monks present, fearing that otherwise, the procession would subvert their own claim to the Edicule – the ancient structure built on what is believed to be the tomb of Jesus – and give the Armenians a claim to the site.

The Armenians refused, and when they tried to march the Greek Orthodox monks blocked their way, sparking the brawl.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police were forced to intervene after fighting was reported. They arrested two monks, one from each side, he said.

My Thoughts:

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! (Jeremiah 8:11-15 KJV)

The Final solution:

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 1:7 KJV)

Even So, Come Lord Jesus.

A very good point

Daniel McCarthy makes a very good point over at @TAC:

Phil Klein of the American Spectator reports on the recent not-so-secret conclave of conservative-movement mavens at Brent Bozell III’s chateau:

TAS Publisher Al Regnery and editor in chief R. Emmett Tyrrell were on hand, along with leaders from policy groups and grassroots organizations representing each pillar of the conservative coalition, from Christian conservatives to libertarians, and everybody in between.

Any antiwar conservatives? Critics of the Federal Reserve and the loose money policies that led to the mortgage meltdown? You know, the issues that cost the GOP control of Congress two years ago and sent McCain down to defeat earlier this week?

Morton Blackwell of the Leadership Institute, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, pollster Kellyanne Conway, and direct mail guru Richard Viguerie were among those present.

As expected: no Ron Pauls or Pat Buchanans need apply.

A very excellent point indeed. As long as we Anti-War, old-school or Paleo-Conservatives are shut out of the Republican Party, that party will be what it is now and that is totally irrelevant. (As John Amato called the Neo-Conservative talkers.) The problem is that Amato does not realize that not all Conservatives, this writer included, embrace the “Bush Doctrine”. Yes, I believe that America should defend itself. But only if it is attacked. Bush’s doctrine believes that one should attack, if they think someone is going to attack them. it’s a preemptive stance; something that I am, and will always be against.

Further more, Bush did something that no other President has ever done. He used the September 11’th attacks, as a excuse to invade a country that had ZERO to do with the attacks at all. All based on a piece of faulty intelligence that was never fact checked at all. This was done all so Bush could further the Neo-Conservative agenda to bring western style of democracy to the middle east and possibly to upstage his father who stopped short of invading baghdad in the first gulf war.

Until the Republican Party admits that George W. Bush was wrong for pursuing this agenda, the Republican Party will be what it is now to the rest of America, what it is now; irrelevant.

That is NOT the point Andy….

Andy McCarthy writes over at the Corner and as usual for those people over at that formerly great Magazine, he misses the whole point. 🙄

C’mon folks, let’s not be a bunch of mirthless wusses here. Mark Steyn’s cover story for NR’s April 21 edition on Mrs. Obama’s America was laugh out loud stuff, and we all howled over the unintentionally hysterical New Yorker cover that depicted Michelle as a militant. First families and their eccentricities, real or imagined, have never been off-limits. What Obama said, whether you think it was funny or not (I thought it was kinda funny) was not offensive — it didn’t come close to John McCain’s infamous joke (at a 1998 fundraiser) at Chelsea Clinton’s expense, and I don’t recall too many protests around here about our candidate’s occasional low-brow jape. Let’s not act like a bunch of Lefties just looking to be aggrieved over this or that slight. This is likely to be a tough stretch, and we’ll need to be able to laugh — at ourselves and at the other side — to get through it.

Andy, that is not the point. The point is that the man was elected President; with that office comes some great responsibilities and one of them is the respect the Presidents that came before you. So far, B. Hussein Obama has demonstrated that he lacks the class of a true statesmen. I happen to think that Ronald Reagan was one of the Nation’s greatest Presidents, outside of FDR. Ronald Reagan had more class than this jerk will ever have.

If this is the start of utter stupidity to come, I tend to believe that we Conservative writers will have plenty to talk about, come the next four years.

The Blind Leading The Greedy by J. J. Jackson

The Blind Leading The Greedy
By J.J. Jackson

When you look at the 2008 Presidential Election, American was screwed either way and no matter who won. That is exactly why I neither supported nor voted for either of the two major candidates. I refused to play a game where we either elected a man in John McCain, who while at times talks a good game, really has embraced the socialism that has infected America or we elected a man in Barack Obama who does not think that socialism goes far enough and has talked extensively about full blown Marxism. Although listening to your typical newscast you would not know of the later.

When the dust settled, America decided to give enhanced socialism and Marxist principles one more whirl despite its dismal track record, and to redistribute wealth at the point of the government’s gun. Khrushchev was right when he predicted that we Americans would eventually embrace communism (or at least what passed for communism in the Soviet Union) after years of being slowly forced fed bits of socialism.

The political leaders of this nation who are preparing to take over this nation are blind to the truth that whatever shade of socialism they give to us to vote for fails. Whether it is communism (Marxism), fascism, Nazism, Corporatism or some other version, they are all just different flavors of the same ice cream and all taste just as bad. They are all the same with only minor differences in texture and sweetness. They only vary inasmuch as in whom the power to dictate from the top down rests. The only real difference between them is the fine details. But all have the same overarching goal; to control and punish by government force those that are not deemed worthy and to inhibit inalienable rights. And the greedy have supported them in droves.

The greedy are those that think someone else should work hard for their benefit without any say in the matter. They are the people who want to tax other citizens so that they can be given a check by the government for money they did not go out and earn. These are the people at the top of corporations that work hard to punish their competition through the tax code and crush them by flooding them with regulations while seeking tax breaks, government favors and subsidies for themselves. There is no starker example of greed if ever there was one.

Now America is going to get what they think is “change” that they have “hoped” for. But rather than actually listening to what Obama has promised, those Americans that voted for him, mostly out of their own greed, are going to be surprised to learn that the “change” they expect is really just more of the same.

The “change” America can expect is more federal welfare programs. But we already have such things though. We will just have more now. The “change” America can expect is higher and more progressive taxes on the successful. We already have those though as well. The “change” America can expect is more vilification of hard working and successful entrepreneurs. Yes, we already have that in spades. The “change” America can expect is big corporations gaming the socialist system to punish their competition that they see as doing things better and cheaper. Oh … yeah … that’s right … we already have that too.

We have been promised a lot of “change” by president-elect Obama. He has promised a new tone in Washington and to bring in new faces so as not to get locked into doing the same old thing in the name of “change.” But in one of his first official acts he has named Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff. This is a man who has ties to Freddie Mac and served on the board of the institution while it was underwriting the bad loans that eventually lead to its collapse and while the government run enterprise was misreporting profits by the billions. This is a man who after Bill Clinton was elected to his first term repeatedly stabbed a steak knife into a table as he rattled off a list of political enemies and labeled them as “dead.”

So much for “change” and “hope” huh?

So if “change” means more of the same then I guess we have indeed gotten our “change”. Amazing how the meanings of words evolve isn’t it? Change, for example, used to mean something different. Now “change” means more of the same. And the greedy would have it no other way. They clamor for what they have decided is theirs because of some imagined harm visited upon them by people they have falsely vilified.

The same thing has happened with the term “greed” as has happened with the term “change”. Its definition too has been redefined. Greed use to mean, “a selfish desire for more of something than is needed” (Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The term “selfish” though has been completely removed from the definition to assuage the consciousness of the truly greedy who clamor for the productivity of others and think that they are not greedy.

Being selfish means of course means, “concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.” Now, with these smooth reworking of definitions, “greed” is no longer defined as such. Being concerned with one’s self at the expense of another (like greedily demanding money from the American taxpayer) has become a virtue. The term “greed” never meant simply “a desire for more of something than is needed,” as it does today and is now used to vilify hard working Americans paying the freight for the majority of America.

But I will continue to use the term as properly defined as must we all despite the howls of those that do not want to be labeled as greedy while they scramble for the wealth of others.

I weep at the thought of the blind leading the greedy with false promises everyone knows are false promises. But that is where we are at this point in time in America. We will be lucky to survive and I will not sugar coat the bitter pill that must be swallowed. Because the greedy, those that believe they are entitled to what others have for their own advantage, have destroyed every nation that has ever attempted such policies. But the blind spouting platitudes to appease the masses of the greedy continue to lead on regardless because their eyes cannot, or will not, see the lessons of history.

And for those of you that still do not understand, stay tuned for next week’s article: “Welcome to Obamaburger! May I Take Your Money Please?” For those of you cannot understand the simple and failed principles Obama promotes, you will get a spoon fed example that even you can grasp.

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J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the lead editor contributor to American Conservative Daily and also the founder of SignalCongress.com. He is the owner of The Right Things – Conservative T-shirts & Gifts (http://www.cafepress.com/rightthings). His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at http://www.libertyreborn.com

Obama says, "I sorry Nancy!"

Seems like the “Magic One” has already stuck his rather large foot in his rather large mouth.

This comes via Ben Smith’s Blog:

President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan this afternoon to apologize for a joke about her having held “séances” in the White House, an Obama aide said.

“President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan today to apologize for the careless and off handed remark he made during today’s press conference,” said transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter. “The President-elect expressed his admiration and affection for Mrs. Reagan that so many Americans share and they had a warm conversation.”

Obama was asked at his press conference today if he’d spoken to all the “living” presidents.

“I have spoken to all of them who are living,” he responded. “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances.”

He was apparently confusing stories about Reagan’s consulting with an astrologer with those about other First Ladies — from Mary Todd Lincoln to Hillary Clinton — who tried to make contact with figures from the past.

Here’s the video:

I’m just going to call him what he is; A classless Negro. There was a time in this damned country, when Barack the Magic Negro would not be even allowed in or near the White House. There was a time, when the only thing Barack the Magic Negro would be allowed to do, would be to shine Nancy Reagan’s shoes or work in her garden.

That idiot had better learn some respect for people like Ronald Reagan. Because we Conservatives will not stand to be insulted like this. Remember Barry, We brought down Bill Clinton, We brought down Dan Rather, we can and will bring you down too, Mr. Floppy ears, if need be. Before anyone screams and says that I threatened “The one”. I am talking about bringing him down Politically, not by any sort of violence at all. .

Others on the Right: NewsBusters.org, Riehl World View, Macsmind, JammieWearingFool, Michelle Malkin, Althouse, Patterico’s Pontifications, Babalu Blog, The Jawa Report, Hot Air, HillBuzz, BizzyBlog, Scared Monkeys

The more things….."Change"

The more they stay the same.

Via ABC NEWS:

President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.

According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.

Emanuel was not named in the SEC complaint but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.”

In a statement to ABCNews.com, a spokesperson said Emanuel served on the board for “13 months-a relatively short period of time.”

The spokesperson said that while on the board, Emanuel “believed that Freddie Mac needed to address concerns raised by Congressional critics.”

Freddie Mac agreed to pay a $50 million penalty in 2007 to settle the SEC complaint and four top executives of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation were charged with negligent conduct and, like the company, agreed to settle the case without admitting or denying the allegations.

The actions by Freddie Mac are cited by some economists as the beginning of the country’s economic meltdown.

The federal government this year was forced to take over Freddie Mac and a sister federal mortgage agency, Fannie Mae, pledging at least $200 billion in public funds.

Freddie Mac records have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of its investigation of the suspect accounting procedures.

Emanuel was named to the Freddie Mac board by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and resigned his position when he ran for Congress in May, 2001.

A new kind of Government? I highly think not. He’s going to bring the same damn buffoons in that caused this meltdown to happen in the first place. I’m already thinking that I am going to have plenty to write about here in the coming years. This moron President-elect is going to be even worse the the previous one. I guess my career as a political writer is pretty much guaranteed.

Hope and Change…… Yeah right……. 🙄

Others: Hot Air, NewsBusters.org, Atlas Shrugs, Wake up America, Flopping Aces (Via Memeorandum)

Quote of the Day

Ultimately, however, the Beltway Republicans are losing Middle America because they are ideologically incapable of addressing two great concerns: economic insecurity and the perception that we are losing the America that we grew up in.

Economic insecurity is traceable to NAFTA-GATT globalization, under which it makes economic sense for U.S. companies to close factories here, build plants in China and export back to the United States. Manufacturing now accounts for less than 10 percent of all U.S. jobs.

Social insecurity is traceable to mass immigration, legal and illegal, which has brought in scores of millions who are altering the character of communities and competing with U.S. workers by offering their services for far less pay.

These are the twin causes of death of the Reagan coalition, and as long as the Republican Party is hooked on K Street cash, it will not address either, and thus pass, blissfully addicted, from this earth. – Patrick J. Buchanan