uh-oh – Nearly One-Forth of the House got donations from corrupt firm connected to Murtha

I suspect there will be some sort of fallout from this here:

More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm — The PMA Group — known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.
“It shows you how good they were,” said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.”
PMA’s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers.
No matter what the outcome of the federal investigation, PMA’s earmark success illustrates how a well-connected lobbying firm operates on Capitol Hill. And earmark accountability rules imposed by the Democrats in 2007 make it possible to see how extensively PMA worked the Hill for its clients.
In the spending bill managed by Murtha, the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriation, 104 House members got earmarks for projects sought by PMA clients, according to Congressional Quarterly’s analysis of a database constructed by Ashdown’s group.
Those House members, plus a handful of senators, combined to route nearly $300 million in public money to clients of PMA through that one law (PL 110-116).
And when the lawmakers were in need — as they all are to finance their campaigns — PMA came through for them.
According to CQ MoneyLine, the same House members who took responsibility for PMA’s earmarks in that spending bill have, since 2001, accepted a cumulative $1,815,138 in campaign contributions from PMA’s political action committee and employees of the firm.
via CQ Politics | Firm with Murtha Ties Got Earmarks From Nearly One-Fourth of House.

I will simply say this, that ALL of the members of the House and Senate involved with this should resign immediately. This is a disgrace to the political system and should be dealt with harshly; that goes for Democrats AND Republicans.

Update: Here’s the list of people with their hands in the cookie jar:

Bold = Member Did Not Receive PMA Money between 2001 and 2008
* = No Longer Serving in the House
# = Member of House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the 110th Congress

Democrats

Requesting Member	State	$ Secured Solo	$ Secured w/Others	Total Credited	PMA campaign $ since 2001
Peter J. Visclosky#	Indiana	$21,400,000	$2,400,000	$23,800,000	$219,000
John P. Murtha#	Pennsylvania	$31,705,000	$2,400,000	$34,105,000	$143,600
James P. Moran#	Virginia	$8,400,000	$2,400,000	$10,800,000	$125,250
Norm Dicks#	Washington	$11,330,000	$800,000	$12,130,000	$91,600
Bill Pascrell Jr.	New Jersey		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$73,200
Mike Doyle	Pennsylvania	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$69,400
Loretta Sanchez	California	$3,200,000		$3,200,000	$60,118
Tim Holden	Pennsylvania	$3,200,000		$3,200,000	$57,275
Tim Ryan	Ohio	$1,000,000		$1,000,000	$54,250
Michael E. Capuano	Massachusetts	$2,000,000	$800,000	$2,800,000	$54,000
Chet Edwards	Texas	$6,040,000		$6,040,000	$48,734
Silvestre Reyes	Texas	$800,000		$800,000	$42,300
Christopher Carney	Pennsylvania		$5,900,000	$5,900,000	$38,500
Paul E. Kanjorski	Pennsylvania	$1,600,000	$3,200,000	$4,800,000	$37,150
Marcy Kaptur#	Ohio	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$34,500
Carolyn McCarthy	New York	$1,000,000		$1,000,000	$31,500
Patrick J. Murphy	Pennsylvania	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$29,250
Allyson Y. Schwartz	Pennsylvania		$800,000	$800,000	$25,000
Jason Altmire	Pennsylvania	$2,600,000		$2,600,000	$24,500
Brad Sherman	California	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$15,500
Susan A. Davis	California		$800,000	$800,000	$13,750
Allen Boyd#	Florida	$6,400,000	$2,200,000	$8,600,000	$12,000
Sanford D. Bishop Jr.#	Georgia	$1,200,000	$2,400,000	$3,600,000	$10,500
Jane Harman	California	$2,400,000		$2,400,000	$10,500
Jim Matheson	Utah		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$10,000
Steve Israel	New York		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$8,500
Jerrold Nadler	New York	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$8,500
Joe Sestak	Pennsylvania	$1,280,000		$1,280,000	$8,500
Jim Marshall	Georgia		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$7,000
Mark Udall*	Colorado		$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$6,533
Michael H. Michaud	Maine		$800,000	$800,000	$6,500
Tom Allen*	Maine		$1,800,000	$1,800,000	$5,750
Danny K. Davis	Illinois	$295,000		$295,000	$5,500
Robert E. Andrews	New Jersey		$1,500,000	$1,500,000	$5,000
Gene Taylor	Mississippi	$800,000		$800,000	$4,750
Nancy Pelosi	California	$2,000,000		$2,000,000	$4,500
David E. Price	North Carolina		$800,000	$800,000	$4,000
Steven R. Rothman#	New Jersey	$800,000	$2,400,000	$3,200,000	$4,000
Brian Higgins	New York		$3,400,000	$3,400,000	$3,000
Brad Miller	North Carolina		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$2,250
Brad Ellsworth	Indiana		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$2,000
Ed Perlmutter	Colorado		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$2,000
Phil Hare	Illinois		$6,800,000	$6,800,000	$1,500
Martin Meehan*	Massachusetts		$2,800,000	$2,800,000	$1,500
Howard L. Berman	California	$800,000		$800,000	$1,000
Carolyn B. Maloney	New York	$3,200,000		$3,200,000	$1,000
Ben Chandler	Kentucky	$2,400,000		$2,400,000	$250
Shelley Berkley	Nevada		$2,400,000	$2,400,000
Dan Boren	Oklahoma		$2,000,000	$2,000,000
Leonard L. Boswell	Iowa		$1,650,000	$1,650,000
Baron P. Hill	Indiana		$1,600,000	$1,600,000
Gwen Moore	Wisconsin		$400,000	$400,000
Christopher S. Murphy	Connecticut		$400,000	$400,000
Mike Thompson	California	$1,000,000		$1,000,000

Republicans

Requesting Member	State	$ Secured Solo	$ Secured w/Others	Total Credited	PMA campaign $ since 2001
David L. Hobson*#	Ohio	$3,500,000		$3,500,000	$70,050
Jerry Lewis	California	$4,000,000	$4,000,000	$8,000,000	$34,649
Rodney Frelinghuysen#	New Jersey	$2,500,000	$4,800,000	$7,300,000	$29,129
Ander Crenshaw	Florida	$1,000,000		$1,000,000	$27,300
Zach Wamp	Tennessee	$2,800,000		$2,800,000	$23,900
Todd Tiahrt#	Kansas	$5,000,000	$2,000,000	$7,000,000	$21,250
Tom Reynolds*	New York		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$12,000
Jack Kingston#	Georgia	$4,000,000	$2,400,000	$6,400,000	$11,500
H. James Saxton*	New Jersey	$2,000,000	$1,500,000	$3,500,000	$11,500
Jo Ann Emerson	Missouri		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$11,000
C.W. Bill Young#	Florida	$16,000,000	$4,400,000	$20,400,000	$10,750
Howard P. “Buck” McKeon	California	$1,000,000	$4,000,000	$5,000,000	$9,500
Heather Wilson*	New Mexico		$6,500,000	$6,500,000	$9,000
Jim Walsh*	New York	$2,400,000		$2,400,000	$8,500
Mark Steven Kirk	Illinois	$390,000		$390,000	$7,750
Todd Akin	Missouri		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$7,500
Ray LaHood*	Illinois		$7,800,000	$7,800,000	$7,450
Jeff Miller	Florida	$1,600,000	$2,200,000	$3,800,000	$7,000
Duncan Hunter*	California	$15,200,000		$15,200,000	$6,500
Chris Cannon*	Utah		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$6,000
Kay Granger	Texas		$3,600,000	$3,600,000	$6,000
Joe Knollenberg*	Michigan		$2,800,000	$2,800,000	$6,000
David Dreier	California	$3,000,000		$3,000,000	$5,000
Jim Gerlach	Pennsylvania		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$4,500
Tom Latham	Iowa		$5,150,000	$5,150,000	$4,500
Joe L. Barton	Texas	$2,400,000		$2,400,000	$4,000
J. Dennis Hastert*	Illinois		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$3,500
Roscoe G. Bartlett	Maryland		$400,000	$400,000	$3,000
Peter Hoekstra	Michigan		$3,700,000	$3,700,000	$2,500
Howard Coble	North Carolina		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$2,000
John T. Doolittle*	California	$2,400,000		$2,400,000	$2,000
Kenny Hulshof*	Missouri	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$2,000
Steve Pearce*	New Mexico		$6,500,000	$6,500,000	$2,000
Bill Shuster	Pennsylvania	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$2,000
Frank A. LoBiondo	New Jersey		$1,500,000	$1,500,000	$1,500
Rob Bishop	Utah		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$1,000
Geoff Davis	Kentucky		$6,800,000	$6,800,000	$1,000
Virgil H. Goode Jr.*	Virginia		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$1,000
Doug Lamborn	Colorado		$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$1,000
Kenny Marchant	Texas		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$1,000
Christopher Shays*	Connecticut	$1,600,000		$1,600,000	$1,000
John Sullivan	Oklahoma		$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$1,000
Tom Tancredo*	Colorado		$1,600,000	$1,600,000	$1,000
Michael C. Burgess	Texas		$2,400,000	$2,400,000	$500
Ralph M. Hall	Texas		$2,400,000	$2,400,000
Doc Hastings	Washington	$1,600,000		$1,600,000
Sam Johnson	Texas		$1,200,000	$1,200,000
Todd R. Platts	Pennsylvania		$4,400,000	$4,400,000
Rick Renzi*	Arizona		$2,400,000	$2,400,000
Pete Sessions	Texas	$1,600,000	$4,800,000	$6,400,000

Wow. Can’t wait for the fallout.

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New AG Eric Holder is nothing more than a race baiting shill for the left

Maybe it is just me. But am I the only person that see’s a alarming similarity between this video here:

….and this video here: (Content Warning)

Just sayin’

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Grim Local News – GM, Chrysler seek more money and will cut more jobs…

Kind of a depressing local story for me:

Video:

The Story:

Billions of dollars in government loans to prop up General Motors and Chrysler won’t be enough. The companies, which have received $17.4 billion so far, filed plans with the government more than doubling that request to a staggering total of $39 billion.
The requests, made in government-required restructuring plans filed Tuesday, were accompanied by plans for thousands more job cuts, slashing of models and brands, union concessions and the prospect of even further expense cuts.
In a dramatic acknowledgment that conditions in the U.S. auto industry have grown significantly worse in just two months, GM alone said it would cut 47,000 jobs globally by the end of the year — 19 percent of its work force. It also said it would close five more U.S. factories, although it did not identify them.
Chrysler said it will cut 3,000 more jobs and stop producing three vehicle models.
The grim reports came as the United Auto Workers union said it had reached a tentative agreement with GM, Chrysler and Ford Motor Co. on contract changes. Concessions with the union and debt-holders were a condition of the government bailout.
GM said it could need up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department, up from a previous estimate of $18 billion. That includes $13.4 billion the company has already received. The world’s largest automaker said it could run out of money by March without new funds and needs $2 billion next month and another $2.6 billion in April.
“We have a lot of work to do,” General Motors Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said. “We’re still going at this with a great sense of urgency.”
via The Associated Press: GM, Chrysler seek billions more, to cut more jobs.

I think I’ll just refrain from public commentary on this one. There’s family, my family involved here; so, I’m totally biased. I just do not think those Conservatives who opposed this money to these companies really get it. All I am going to say. Anyone that’s read this Blog, or wants to know what I think. Do a search on “Tarp Loans” and you’ll see why I feel the way that I do.

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Republicans now supporting nationalization of banks

It looks like the party of Freedom is selling the American people up the river:

Nationalization, long regarded in Washington as a folly of Europeans, is gaining rapid ground among US opinion-formers. Stranger still, many of those talking about federal ownership of banks are Republicans.
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator for North Carolina, said that many of his colleagues, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agreed with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be “on the table”.
Mr Graham said that people across the US accepted his argument that it was untenable to keep throwing good money after bad into institutions such as Citigroup and Bank of America, which now have a lower net value than the amount of public funds they have received.
“You should not get caught up on a word [nationalisation],” he told the Financial Times in an interview. “I would argue that we cannot be ideologically a little bit pregnant. It doesn’t matter what you call it, but we can’t keep on funding these zombie banks [without gaining public control]. That’s what the Japanese did.”
Barack Obama, the president, who has tried to avoid panicking lawmakers and markets by entertaining the idea, has recently moved more towards what he calls the “Swedish model” – an approach backed strongly by Mr Graham.
via FT.com – Bank nationalisation gains ground with Republicans.

Nationalization is nothing more than Communism. We are being sold up the river. Remember this come 2010.

(H/T Drudge)

Obama signs the Generational Theft Act and Promises Another, Markets Tank…

I figured this was coming:

The Story:

President Obama has not ruled out a second stimulus package, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said on Tuesday, just before Mr. Obama signed his $787 billion recovery package into law with a statement that it would “set our economy on a firmer foundation.”
The president said he would not pretend “that today marks the end of our economic problems.”
“Nor does it constitute all of what we have to do to turn our economy around,” Mr. Obama said at the signing ceremony in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. “But today does mark the beginning of the end, the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the way of playoffs.”
Mr. Gibbs, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Denver, said, “I think the president is going to do what’s necessary to grow this economy.” While “there are no particular plans at this point for a second stimulus package,” he added, “I wouldn’t foreclose it.”
Mr. Obama began the first leg of a two-day trip, using the museum ceremony to spotlight the bill’s clean-energy provisions. The president will also visit Phoenix, where he will unveil his new housing plan on Wednesday.
After a bruising legislative battle on the stimulus bill, which drew only three supporting votes from Republicans in the Senate and none in the House, the White House is trying to recapture the debate over the economy. Mr. Obama’s message is that the bill will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.
While the bill has been criticized by conservatives as bloated with pork-barrel spending, it has also been criticized by the left as too tepid and not bold enough to jumpstart the economy. Mr. Gibbs’s remarks on the plane seemed to echo that concern.
In describing the package, the press secretary called it “a strong start towards economic viability” and “the beginning of getting our economy back on track.”
via Signing Stimulus Bill, Obama Does Not Rule Out Another – NYTimes.com.

I figured Obama would do this, sign one porkus bill into law and say, “This is not the end, but just the beginning of the pork!”

Meanwhile, the markets basically tanked, even more so than last week: (Via the New York Times)

From Hong Kong to eastern Europe to Wall Street, financial gloom was everywhere on Tuesday.
Stock markets around the world staggered lower. In New York, the Dow fell more than 3 percent, coming within sight of its worst levels since the credit crisis erupted. Financial shares were battered. And rattled investors clamored to buy rainy-day investments like gold and Treasury debt.
It was a global wave of selling spurred by rising worries about how banks, automakers — entire countries — would fare in a deepening global downturn.
“Nobody believes it’s going get better yet,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor’s. “Do you see that light at the end of the tunnel? Any kind of light? Right now, it’s not there yet.”
At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 297.81 points or 3.7 percent to 7,552.29 points as losses in General Motors, Bank of America and American Express dragged the blue chips lower. The only Dow stock in positive territory was Wal-Mart, which rose after reporting better-than-expected profits.
“If we get substantially below 800 then look out below,” said Marc Groz, chief investment officer at Topos, a risk-advisory firm in Greenwich, Conn.
The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index slid 3.7 percent to drop below 800, which analysts said was an important trading threshold.

Investors know what this is, it is basically nationalization of our Economy, our banks, everything. They are just not going to invest money in a Government owned banking system. I believe this drop is just the beginning. Wait till it totally collapses and the world is thrust into chaos. It will be an interesting time, indeed.

Some Funnies…

Stock Advice

From Patriot Post:

Many people are looking for financial advice during these hard economic times. Normally, however, we avoid offering advice regarding buying or selling stocks. But as President Obama prepares to sign the stimulus bill today, the market fell 250 points by noon, and we thought it best to warn investors concerning a few specific companies. Please review any holdings you might have in the following stocks:

American Can
Interstate Water
National Gas Company
Northern Tissue Company

Due to uncertain market conditions, we advise you to sit tight on your Can, hold your Water, and let go of your Gas. You may be interested to know that Northern Tissue touched a new bottom today, and millions were wiped clean.

It’s a tough market out there!

If the Bill Fits:

and a Cartoon:

Rolling on the floor

Stupid: H-S Precision hires former FBI sniper who shot and killed Randy Weaver's Wife and Son in Standoff

This is absolutely sick and disgusting…. 😡

An American gun manufacturer has hired a professional killer to tout the merits of its weapons. What better spokesman could a company have than one who has shot and killed a young mother with her baby in her arms?
The South Dakota company’s Internet website has proudly published a letter attesting the greatness of its new sniper weapon.
“Pound-for-pound, component-for-component, dollar- for-dollar, you will not find a better rifle,” says the new spokesman for H-S Precision in Rapid City. His name is Lon Horiuchi, a government assassin who retired from the FBI in 2006. AFP called to ask him if this was also the weapon he used to blow away the face of Vicki Weaver at the remote area of Ruby Ridge in Idaho in 1992, but he did not return the calls.
On Aug. 21, 1992, U.S. marshals perpetrated a sneak attack on the mountain cabin of the Randy Weaver family in northern Idaho. When the family dog, Striker, a docile and loving golden retriever, began to bark at the agents, they shot him dead “because he was giving away our position,” one said later. Sammy Weaver, 14, saw the incident and screamed, and the agents nearly blew his arm off (the impact of which spun him around), and then zippered him through the back with a three-round blast from automatic weapons. The boy was dead before he hit the ground. His father, Randy, later told this writer that when he got to him, “his chest was blown out and his heart was like raw hamburger.”
The marshal directing the raid, Bill Degan, was also killed, maybe by his own men.
During the afternoon and night, all sorts of deceptive information was being transmitted from the scene to the FBI headquarters in Washington. The marshals, desperate after being caught in the act of breaking the law, had made up all kinds of cover-up stories—the most outrageous being that the Weaver family had them pinned down for eight hours in an all-day shootout in which Randy’s 16- and 10-year-old daughters had been holding them off with high-powered weapon fire from the windows of the cabin.
via americanfreepress.net – Gun Company Hires Mother’s Assassin. (Yes, I know what kid of books they sell, but that doesn’t take away from this story at all.)

No matter one’s opinions of what happen during the Ruby Ridge stand off or of Randy Weaver, this has to be one of the worst P.R. Disasters in modern history. Hiring a man as a spokesman for a company, who basically murdered a child and a man’s wife. Someone somewhere made a huge bad marketing decision.

Please, keep in mind, that I do know the full history behind the “American Free Press”, and sometimes the Anti-Government and Anti-Zionist tone of much of their news, but this does shine through that, very much so. I think someone needs to rethink a marketing strategy, and fast!

(H/T Freedom’s Phoenix)

Allan Keyes still whoring for attention

Allan Keyes still does not get it, after all these years. After he was basically chased out of the Republican Party because of his outlandish behavior, he is still trying to garner some sort of spotlight.

Alan Keyes, a 2008 presidential candidate who now is a plaintiff in one of the many lawsuits seeking to verify whether Barack Obama qualifies under the U.S. Constitution’s requirements to occupy the Oval Office, says the tactics adopted by lawyers for the president confirm there is an issue for the courts to investigate.
Keyes, who was the candidate of the American Independent Party, cited a recent exchange with lawyers representing Obama in which they warned they might seek monetary penalties against those raising the question of Obama’s eligibility under the Constitution’s requirement that the president be a “natural born” citizen.
“It confirms the common sense suspicion that he won’t act forthrightly in this matter because he has something to hide,” Keyes wrote on his blog after WND reported the warning about “sanctions” was raised by Obama’s defense lawyers.
The onetime U.S. ambassador explained on his posting that those raising questions over Obama’s eligibility so far have simply been ignored by courts.
“In effect, the courts are refusing to admit plaintiffs on this matter into the courtroom, thereby denying them justice,” he wrote. “Madison wrote, ‘Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It will be pursued either until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.'”
via Keyes: President ‘has something to hide’ on eligibility.

From what sources tell me, the only reason Alan Keyes was ever offered a position in Reagan’s Cabinet is because Ronald Reagan felt sorry for the man. Also because Reagan wanted to make points with the Black Republicans at the time. Ever since then, Keyes has tried to garner the spotlight and has tried to make himself a so-called rightful heir to Reagan’s legacy; All the while being laughed at, by the rest of the Republican Party. One would think that this uppity fool would get the message that nobody, and I mean nobody wants this religious zealot in politics, but still he keeps on trying to get the spotlight. It is truly one of the tragic legacies of the Reagon era.

Stay Classy William Teach AKA Porter Good

First off, as a rule, I do not get myself involved with what other people write on their Blogs. I believe in freedom of speech, Freedom of Expression and so forth.

However, this morning, I happen to come across something that caught my eye. If you’re following the headlines, there is a woman who’s a columnist at the Tennessean. Her name is Gail Kerr. She wrote a piece on some Tennessee lawmakers who are pursuing the Obama birth certificate issue.

Now let me say from the outset that I respect her opinions; I do not agree with them, at all. However, I happen to read a blog reaction to what she had written over at pirate’s cove, which is owned by a one William Teach, who’s real name is Porter Good. As I suspected, it was of the usual Conservative affair, criticize the piece and take gentle pokes at the author. However, there was a small bit in this piece that I found to be most offensive and I thought I would blog about it, and possibly inform Mr. Teach, that there are others out there that read his Blog. The offending part is underlined:

After eight years of the Left accusing Bush of everything that they don’t blame on anthropogenic global warming, and sometimes they blame both, with little to no proof, lefties, still riding high on hopeNchange, and probably the fumes from their black velvet Obama paintings, just do not like it when anyone asks for simple proof of Obama’s citizenship. Witness barking moonbat, and member of The Tennessean, Gail Kerr take on the subject of Barry’s birth certificate (and, hopefully, Jenny Craig)

The picture of the Woman in question:

Mr. Teach, let me remind you sir, that there are people in this world, who are not of perfect physical condition. As someone who is overweight and has struggled with weight gain for my entire life. I found your crass, asinine, dig towards this woman’s weight to be totally uncalled for, over the top and quite frankly immature, and most unbecoming of a Conservative Blogger. While I wholeheartely agree with you on your assessment of B. Hussein Obama, I do not believe that the personal insult of this woman’s Physical appearance was even remotely needed in the context of this discussion.

While I realize that a Blogger of any sort of integrity would ‘Man Up” and apologize, I do not expect this of teach at all. As I have observed, he has spent the good part of his Blogger career, cheerleading for George W. Bush and kissing the ass of the Podhoretz clan; so, one can only expect so much.

Update: Porter Good posts in the comments section says, verifying his true depraved nature:

And, yeah, I defended W when he deserved it, and attacked him when he deserved that, particularly on illegal immigration. As far as the Podhertz crack, that sounds vaguely anti-semetic on your part. Are you a Jew hater? Sounds like you owe me an apology. Oh, I misread your intent? Goodness!

It’s quite funny, when confronted with the truth, Neo-Con’s resort to playing the race card. Just like their Democrat counterparts. (There are those who would say that Democrats and Neo-Cons are one in the same, but that’s out of the scope of this discussion…) Identity Politics is such a tragic thing, on the left….. and the Right.

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