This time the victim is a Human Events reporter.
What is it with liberals incensed people are taking their picture on public property? Do they think people are stealing their soul? Or just their chances of retaining power?
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Today’s Liberal Assaulting Someone for Taking Their Picture Comes to You From the One Nation Rally
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Another Man Assaulted by Liberal Thugs for Daring to Film a Democratic Politician
Saturday, September 25th, 2010This time from a public John Kitzhaber for Governor in Oregon event.
Add this to Rep. Bob “Who Are You” Etheridge grabbing a student filming him and SEIU thugs assaulting Kenneth Gladney, and a picture emerges of a party that is willing to use violence to suppress the first amendment rights of their political opponents.
Edited to add: Just to be clear, if you blow up the invitation shown at 14 seconds into the video, it says “Open to the public and free of charge.”
Edited to add 2: For an update on the legal issues raised, see here.
(Hat Tip: The Corner.)
GM is Using Your Money to Reward Politicians That Gave GM Your Money
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010According to The Wall Street Journal
The Detroit company gave $90,500 to candidates running in the current election cycle, Federal Election Commission records show…The beneficiaries include Midwestern lawmakers, mostly Democrats, who have traditionally supported the industry’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.).”
Don’t you feel honored that a company owned by the Federal government is using your bailout money to reward those that supported a bailout?
According to WSJ, that list includes Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, the House Republican Whip. Mr. Cantor should know better, and should make it a point to give the money back. ObamaMotors shouldn’t be trying to bribe our elected officials with our own money.
(Hat tip Don Surber.)
Harry Reid’s Illegal Alien Amnesty Amendment Fails
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010With the economy still struggling and unemployment still high, you might think that Senate Leader Harry Reid’s top priority would be working on bills to get Americans back to work.
Of course, you’d be wrong.
No, even though 68% of Americans support stricter enforcement of immigration laws over an illegal alien amnesty, Harry Reid decided to go full steam ahead on his bill to provide an amnesty and college subsidies to illegal aliens 35-years old or younger by attaching it to the Defense appropriations bill. Thankfully, a cloture vote failed by an entirely-too-close 54-46. (Blanche Lincoln was among those voting against cloture, which is a slight surprise, since she’s so far behind her Republican opponent that it’s not like the vote could make things any worse.)
There are many theories about why Reid tried to push such an unpopular and divisive issue through less than two months before the election. One theory is that Reid, locked into a very close race against Sharron Angle, will need all the help he can get come November, and thus the need to pander to Hispanic voters. I think there’s an element of truth to that.
Another theory is that the Democratic leadership simply doesn’t care what American voters think. After all, they were more than happy enough to ram ObamaCare down the country’s throat despite widespread opposition, and the judicial arm of the Democratic Party has made it clear than voters will only be allowed to give their opinion on gay marriage if they approve it. They seem to regard the Nascar retards of flyover country (or should I say “Jesusland) with contempt, and “the consent of the governed” simply isn’t an important factor to Democratic congressmen when living in their natural home of Washington, DC. They know that none of their friends inside the safe reality bubble spun by The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, Salon and Media Matters would ever offer them anything but praise for their “brave” stance in favor of illegal alien amnesty.
And those panicked political consultants complaining about a coming tidal wave of Republican gains uneseen since 1994? Well, those are hard to hear over the clink of self-congratulatory champagne glasses, and the sounds of all your friends on Capitol Hill and in the MSM saying how awesome you are.
“There are no moderate Democrats in Congress”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010This Jim Geraghty piece up on NRO, in which he he interviews longtime GOP insider “Obi Wan” about the coming election, is well worth a read.
This is the quote I found most striking:
“There are no moderate Democrats in Congress, because when you vote for a supposed Blue Dog you are voting for the enablers-the ones who keep the House and Senate run by liberals”
For much the same reason there’s no such thing as a pro-gun Democrat.
Because Obama just wasn’t unpopular enough among gun owners…
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010…the EPA is considering banning lead ammunition. This would, in essence, kill off sport shooting entirely.
This is yet another example of why there’s really no such thing as a pro-gun Democrat. No matter how much they may personally swear up and down they respect the second amendment, the leadership they elect, the judges they appoint, and the bureaucrats they hire will inevitably tilt toward gun-grabbing causes far more than people chosen by Republicans. It’s simply their nature. After all, “clinging” to guns, like clinging to religion, is something those NASCAR retards do, not a fit preoccupation for fashionable liberal elites.
Between this and their refusal to enforce immigration laws, it’s almost like Obama and his minions want to turn off their few remaining supporters among moderate voters in advance of the November elections. Someone more prone to conspiracy theories than myself might surmise that Obama blames Reid and Pelosi for his unpopularity, and sees having them replaced by a Republican congress to run against (ala Bill Clinton in 1996) as the only way he can win reelection in 2012. But even I’m not quite that cynical.
Yet.
Because Democrats just weren’t unpopular enough in Texas…
Thursday, August 12th, 2010…some of them are now pushing (again) for a state income tax.
And they wonder why they’re out of power…
(Hat tip: Larry Gonzales.)
Illegal Alien Amnesty: Now Without All That Annoying Voting
Friday, July 30th, 2010With 68% of Aemricans supporting building a border fence, illegal alien amnesty even less popular than cap-and-trade (even when disguised as “comprehensive immigration reform”), and an overwhelming majority of Americans siding with Arizona’s new border enforcement law and against the Obama administration, you would think that Democrats would be scrambling to get on the same side of the issue as voters, or at least doing their best to ignore, so as not to be slaughtered come November.
You’d be wrong.
Instead, the Obama Administration has decided to an end-run around that whole pesky “consent of the governed” issue to have Immigration Services implement an amnesty without congressional approval.
Combined with the Democrat’s perpetual efforts to give voting rights to felons, it reminds me of that old Stalin-era joke: “The government has lost faith in the citizens, and has reluctantly decided that it must elect a new people.”