The White House confirmed earlier today that President Obama would indeed be attending the climate change summit in Copenhagen, along with a handful of his Cabinet members.

Recent setbacks had left Obama’s attendance in question. Just last week, many world leaders at APEC announced that a legally binding deal on climate change would be impossible to achieve. And the Senate has put off action on the bill passed by the House until next spring.

The goal of the Copenhagen summit involves striking a deal that would replace the Kyoto Protocol, the pact signed by more than 200 nations that set binding targets for greenhouse emissions. A pact which the United States never signed.

According to the White House press release, President Obama plans to outline his goals for reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade. And then by 83 percent by 2050.

Still, many Republicans oppose engaging in talks at Copenhagen or even addressing the issue of climate change to begin with. I’d like to think this sort of denialist nonsense was limited to the fringes of the party. But it’s not. Doubting climate change has become a litmus test for how strong and loyal a conservative you truly are.

Take the frontrunners for the GOP nomination in 2012, for instance: Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Bobby Jindal, and Haley Barbour. Of these seven, four deny that there is any scientific merit to the idea of climate change, while the other three are all opposed to meaningful action.

There are plenty more examples. A few weeks ago, every single Republican on the Senate’s Environmental and Public Works Committee refused to show up for a hearing about the Boxer-Kerry climate bill. Their goal was to stall the markup of the bill, based on a rule that says at least two minority members must be present for a markup to begin. But this rule is more of a nicety than anything, so Senator Boxer, the Committee Chair, chose to proceed without any Republicans present.

I think the refusal to engage in debate is much worse than simple opposition. You can disagree on things without being disagreeable, without actively trying to avoid and stifle a legitimate debate. The issue of global warming and climate change may be the defining struggle of our generation, yet the current leaders of the Republican Party are united in their opposition to any sort of substantial action.

Contrary to what Republicans may think, climate change is not some sort of dirty hippie agenda. There is a worldwide scientific consensus that it is real and caused by human activity. More than two thousand scientists over many, many years have provided us with a peer reviewed report (sponsored by the U.N. and the World Meteorological Association) on the threat of climate change.

I can only assume that some of the Republicans have swallowed, hook, line and sinker, the disinformation spewed out by fringe scientists who have no peer reviewed articles which have been published in scientific journals and who are directly or indirectly financed by oil, coal, car, asbestos, etc., companies or false institutes or organizations set up and financed by the same dirty energy corporations.

The truth is that they don’t have to win the debate. They’re not even trying to. They just have to muddy the waters and cause enough confusion to provide cover for those who want to avoid facing the hard task of deciding what to do to slow down and ultimately reverse the effects of climate change.

I’m glad President Obama hasn’t bought into this nonsense and refuses to cater to the whims of ignorant fools who think they know more about science than inter-governmental panels on climate change. I’m glad he’s going to Copenhagen, even though returning with any significant results may cost him a lot of political capital.

One of the great “B” stories of the 2008 Presidential campaign was the dog fight between Former Massachussets Governor Mitt Romney and Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Both candidates had their own place in the race: Romney had a good fiscal and economic record, but his “Road to Des Moines” conversion on abortion issues and former peddling to LGBT interests was too much for many social conservatives to handle. Meanwhile, Huckabee has a poor record on fiscal issues, having supported a number of tax increases as Governor, but the former Baptist minister simply could not be questioned on values issues. The end result? An extended fight between the two for conservative voters in which Huckabee eventually prevailed but was left too wounded to make a serious challenge to McCain in the final primaries (in retrospect, Virginia was the Huckster’s last stand).

Now, both are back in the running for the nomination in 2012. Romney is already generating buzz amongst establishment types, and he continues to maintain a high media profile. However, right now it would appear that his reputation amongst Republicans is declining. From Hot Air comes a PPP poll showing Mitt below 50%. Their take:

He’s at 48 percent this month after having hit 63 percent in June, before the fade began. Even PPP doesn’t have any explanation for it. I’ll give you two possibilities. One: Huck and Palin are in the public eye these days much more than Mitt is, even if it is for the wrong reasons. Romney had better be careful that he doesn’t become an afterthought and end up being seen as a “minor candidate.” Two: With Huck and Palin natural rivals for the religious conservative vote, the perception may be building that Romney’s the RINO in the race by default. He’s always had that rep to some extent, of course, but being the odd man out among the big three only cements it.

As I’ve said many, many times here, it’s very early. Romney still has a chance in this thing. I see his roadmap to victory being becoming a solid voice on conservative issues in the media and then surviving the aformentioned Palin/Huck fight. His big place to shine? Venues like CPAC, and by cozying up to Fox News as their “legit” commentator over Huck’s more showbiz orientation.

However, the big problem with that strategy is that right now it would appear that it is the moment for the confrontational conservative. Huck is drawing big ratings, and Sarah is dominating pretty much every media outlet from the blogs to Fox News, from People to Newsweek (they say that no publicity is bad publicity). The Chicago Tribune has a great article up about Huck and Sarah’s tours and the draws they’re bringing in.

“Team Huck” rolls into the bookstore like a NASCAR pit crew, red uniform shirts adorned with the corporate logos of Mike Huckabee’s website, his speaker’s bureau, his publisher, and “Huck” emblazoned on their epaulets.

They strip the protective wrappings off a large, heavy object — a podium they install at all such appearances. Mike Huckabee doesn’t sit at tables. He stands, as a president would, even to sign books.

And sign he does. And sign and sign and sign. As many as 600 copies of “A Simple Christmas” an hour with sales to match, and no time lost to opening remarks.

The contrast between Huck and Palin (subtle but important) would indicate that their fight is where the action is. However, as I said, Romney’s slow but steady effort has merit–if he can stick to it. As Palin and Huckabee have found, celebrity can be intoxicating.

Think Progress » Fox’s Fuzzy Math: 193 Percent Of The Public Support Palin, Huckabee, And Romney.

Michelle Malkin posted a 2007 chart design by ”Media Matters” titled “Locked Out: The lack of gender and diversity on Cable News continues” with a 2007 date.  Her intentions to mislead her readers is distrubing and selfish. She clearly leaves out the year the percentage chart was made and posted. Nor did she give credit to Media Matters.

Now, I must say she is correct when she points out the fact that the entire MSNBC News Channel Anchors & Co-Anchors are all white. This issue should be taken into consideration and she actually makes a good point. Her biggest mistake was decieving her readers with a “2007 PERCENTAGE/RACE/DIVERSITY CHART”. Malkoo-koo did not consider her followers in deciding to post such an old chart. Lazy, lazy, lazy! 

Malkoo-koo also posted pictures of the “all white news cast from AM – PM daily programs. Minus the chart, and name-calling, she actually nailed it. Can you believe it, Malkoo gets a 3 out of 5 score. The 2 strikes are the 1) name calling 2) the 2007 Percentage chart

Recently, Fox News was exposed again for attempting to deceive by playing video not associate with a story and then attempting to imply it was.  They have been exposed several times for reporting on republicans that have been disgraced but instead of putting the R next to the republicans name, they would but a D in an attempt to brainwash the foolish over time and associate negative things to the democratic party.  Typical Christian republican behavior.

Check out the Fox News Chart Below and add up the numbers.  If you are Christian Republican you are not likely to notice a problem but the rest of us will get a laugh out of the claims.

According to Fox News: “It looks as if the rogue route is helping Sarah Palin. Her book tour has meant new support. A new Opinion Dynamics poll for 2012 shows her on top when it comes to landing the nomination. Palin is at 70 percent, about a third higher than this past July. Mike Huckabee stands at 63 percent. Mitt Romney’s 60.”

Lets me see if my grade school math is still with me: 70 + 63 + 60 = 193.  WTF?

No wonder Christians prefer intelligent design over science, science involves too much math.   It be hard, it hurt brain.

Honestly, I hope Huckabee, Palin and Romney do end up going after the GOP ticket and I hope Palin wins.  If she gets elected, she is likely to quit half way through the job but then again, she won’t get elected president.  I have faith the majority of Americans are not that ignorant.

Before the 2008 election, almost nobody outside Alaska and Arkansas had heard of Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee. But in a long and crowded campaign season, they were the only Republican politicians who inspired any genuine enthusiasm.

They had other things in common as well. Both came from lower-middle-class backgrounds, and joined a soft-edged social conservatism to a strong populist streak. Both had been considered pragmatists, rather than ideologues, as governors of their home states. Both were untainted by the failures of the Bush-era Republican Party.

And both had the same Achilles’ heel: They seemed unready for high office, and owed their appeal more to personality than to substance.

This meant that both faced the same post-election choice. Did they want to take their newfound eminence seriously? Or did they want to cash in on their celebrity?

For Palin, the serious path required at least serving out her term as governor before returning to the national stage. For Huckabee, it could have involved anything from starting a think tank to running for the Senate in 2010. For both, it would have meant wedding their political identity to ideas as well as attitudes.

So far, they’ve chosen celebrity instead. Huckabee spent the last year hamming it up on a weekly talk show, and the last month hawking a book of inspirational Christmas stories. As for Palin — well, you probably know what she’s been up to lately.

Nobody should begrudge them their choices. Think tanks are a snooze; Senate races are a grind. Signing autographs for your adoring fans is more fun than rounding up budget votes in Juneau.

But they were the wrong moves if either wanted to become president someday. Huckabee’s gabfest is a weekly reaffirmation of the rap that he’s too lightweight for the Oval Office. Palin has sealed her identity as a culture-war lightning rod: she can inspire hysteria from liberals (ably catalogued in Matthew Continetti’s “Persecution of Sarah Palin”) and adulation from conservatives (visible at every stop along her book tour), but she’s unlikely to persuade anyone in the middle to trust her with the reins of government.

It’s possible to be a celebrity and a serious politician at the same time: Barack Obama’s career proves as much. But Obama’s celebrity status is frequently a political liability, and he’s (usually) wise enough to know it. That’s why he plays the wonk as often as he plays the global icon.

For now, no Republican leader projects a similar level of seriousness. Late in the Bush years, it was easy to dismiss conservatism as brain-dead. Among policy thinkers, that isn’t true anymore: the advent of Obama seems to have provided just the jolt that right-of-center wonks needed. But innovative proposals are useless without politicians willing to champion them.

When the Republican minority needed an alternative to the Obama administration’s sweeping stimulus proposal, for instance, a number of free-market economists were ready with an answer: a payroll tax cut. It was plausible, elegant and easy to explain — but there was no Republican leader with the wit to seize on it and sell it.

You could tell the same story about regulatory reform. A slew of conservative economists and think tankers, led by the University of Chicago’s Luigi Zingales and the Manhattan Institute’s Nicole Gelinas, have been working on ways to protect free markets from a re-run of last fall’s “too big to fail” fiasco. But most Republican politicians would rather rail against bailouts that have already happened than talk about how to prevent them from happening again.

In the health care debate, too, conservative and libertarian policy thinkers have floated a number of plans to expand insurance coverage. Some are incremental and some are sweeping; some build on the existing system and some would essentially replace it. But any of them would be better than that threadbare plan House Republicans actually put forward, which would hardly expand coverage at all.

True, these ideas won’t sell millions of books, or excite the crowd on Huckabee’s talk show. But they’re what the Republican Party needs if it’s going to be more than just a brake on liberalism’s ambitions. And they’re what voters are going to be looking for, in 2012 and beyond, as proof that conservatives can be trusted once again.

This means that there are substantial political rewards awaiting the politician who becomes the voice of an intellectually vigorous conservatism. It probably won’t be Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin. If Republicans are lucky, though, it will be somebody who shares their charisma — but who prefers the responsibilities of leadership to the pleasures of celebrity.

Ross Douthat, New York Times

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Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/opinion/23douthat.html

Recently, with me focusing so much on the 1984 and its relation to politics,  I remembered another topic that I was going to bring up.

This one, was something curious that has happened in my life.  I have had two major debates  my high school experience.

One was at the beginning of it, during Freshman year, one was at the end, during senior year.

Both was on the Iraq war/ the war on terror.

One came up because of a project…and I forget why the first one came up.

One was awesome and brilliant, with high fives being exchanged at the ability of the class to hold a civil debate.

And one got out of control, screaming, yelling, cutting people off.  And I ended it by leaving the room, after someone asked snidely, “and where did you get your information from…Huckabee?”

Now before I go on, let me just say that both were excellent teachers, truly admirable examples of their profession (for what it is worth).  Though one of them did like to call me ‘his radical conservative’ back when I was younger, a name I took a lot of pride in.

But several things happened in both debates that could have made the difference.

One way controlled, in the Socratic method, and was handled generally one at a time.

One was uncontrolled, a basic free for all that emotions went high on, with people cutting off each other…and the teacher did have some direct and actual participation in the debate.

Now other than one side will tend to get louder when they have the authority figure on their side perceived or otherwise, the lesson here I think is a simple one.

Controlled situations are…well easier to control, than non controlled situations.  The better the debate is for everyone, the better the ability for everyone to talk calmly with one another.  If things get out of hand, emotions run high, and that will not help anyone at all, no one will be convinced, everyone looks like morons, and the points aren’t really made because everyone is dealing with their own template of what happened instead of what actually did.

Which I will be more than happy to articulate my points in future blogs…many many blogs…and tell you what the rest of the class should have let me say, and then I would have given you your fair shake.  This is what should have happened, but it did not.

This is yet another example, of something from school, that has helped shapen my Conservatism.

I’ve never been a fan of Mike Huckabee. Sure, he’s friendly and amiable enough, but his views on social issues like women’s reproductive rights and marriage equality have always left a bad taste in my mouth.

I do think that credit should be given when it’s due, though. And earlier this month, the former Arkansas Governor harshly criticized his party’s habit of opposing anything President Obama does on principle.

There were two specific criticisms he mentioned. You may remember that President Obama made a surprise trip to Dover Air Force base to see the coffins of returning soldiers after one of the deadliest days for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many conservatives lashed out against the trip as purely political — a convenient photo-op.

But Mike Huckabee defended the decision to honor the fallen soldiers, saying: “I’m grateful that he did that, and I was proud of him for doing that. And I think we all — as Americans — should give him credit for doing that.”

I think it speaks volumes about how bitterly divided our political system is when our Commander-in-Chief can’t even pay tribute to the bodies and families of soldiers who have died in combat without facing criticism by such vile figures as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

The second criticism Huckabee defended Obama against was much more mundane. For some unfathomable reason, the President and First Lady were criticized for inviting young trick-or-treaters to the White House. Yes, that’s right. They were criticized for throwing a Halloween Party. Huckabee got it right when he said:

“…quit finding something wrong with that. Say “Good, I’m glad that he and the First Lady are treating children to an experience at the White House.” And I just find it deplorable that some people on my end of the aisle want to find everything wrong and nothing right about the man as a man.”

Good for him. Hopefully, more moderate Republicans will join Huckabee in speaking out against extremism of any kind.

Huckabee’s comments came during a speech at the Hudson Union Society.

Huckabee talks with Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King – Alveda mentions the film: Maafa21 - purchase it here and see a clip below: http://www.maafa21.com

Alveda, “Friends, African Americans have been targeted, to make us extinct, you need to see this film Maafa21</a>”

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For the past nine months, I’ve tended a small thread called “Fun with Republicans” on a local board. My efforts are simple: copying and pasting mainstream published statements by Republicans and listening to sane and not-so-sane voices in response. I’ve stripped away all but the published statements and frame them here as a months’ long dialogue.

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They are wild accusations and the paranoid delusions coming from the fever swamps. Like all conservatives, I am concerned about this administration’s accumulation of economic power. Still, you have to be aware that there’s a line where legitimate concerns begin to collapse into paranoid fantasy. -David Frum

I’m asking you to go out and ask your friends to wear our hat-the hat of an idea. – Michael Steele

March 2009
McCAIN (R-AZ): Spending freeze? You know, econ – economic things, I said this last night on Hannity, I said is my — I didn’t even take econ in college. I don’t completely understand it so I’d hate to make a comment one way or the other. That’s – truly of all the things – I keep reading and I just don’t understand it.

SANFORD (R-SC): What you’re doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don’t have and send it to different states, we’ll create jobs. If that’s the case, why isn’t Zimbabwe a rich place?”

WURZELBACHER (Joe the Plumber): God, all this love and everything in the room — I’m horny.

BACHMANN (R-MN): I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

STEELE (RNC): I would think about running for the White House but only if that is where God wants me to be at that time.

PALIN: So I’m looking around for somebody to pray with, I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra. And the McCain campaign, love ‘em, you know, they’re a lot of people around me, but nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray.

BACHMANN: Right now I’m a member of Congress. And I believe that my job here is to be a foreign correspondent, reporting from enemy lines. And people need to understand, this isn’t a game. this isn’t just a political talk show that’s happening right now. This is our very freedom, and we have 230 years, a continuous link of freedom that every generation has ceded to the next generation. This may be the time when that link breaks. And I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we keep that link secure. We cannot allow that link to break, because as Reagan said, “America is the last great hope of mankind.” Do we get into an inner tube and float 90 miles to some free country? There is no free country for us to repair to. That’s why it’s up to us now. The founders gave everything they had to give us this freedom. Now it’s up to us to give everything we can to make sure that our kids are free, too. It’s that serious. I hate to be dramatic, but–
HANNITY: It’s not — you are not overstating this case, Congresswoman, and you don’t need to apologize for it. And as a matter of fact, it’s refreshing. And I can tell you, all around this country, on 535 of the best radio stations in this country, people are saying “Amen,” “Hallelujah”, “where have you been?”

STEELE: Look, I like the president personally, even though I think he has got a little thing about me, that I haven’t quite figured out what that is.
CNN: You haven’t spoken to him?
STEELE: No.
CNN: You’ve reach out?
STEELE: Several times, and I’m done.
CNN: So there is no bipartisanship going on there?
STEELE: Not, not that I know of.
CNN: Is there any professional jealousy?
STEELE: Not on my part. What would I be jealous of?
CNN: He’s the president of the United States.
STEELE: I’m chairman of the RNC, so, what’s your point? We both have leadership responsibilities and roles. I’m not equating the two. My point is: you are on your track. I’m on my track. You do your thing. I do my thing.

April
LIMBAUGH: If the British Prime Minister keeps slobbering over President Barack Obama, he’ll come down with anal poisoning and may die from it.

HOEKSTRA (R-Mich.) I’m watching Neil Cavuto and I see [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner is talking about how he might be OK with a world currency. I don’t think Americans are going to be comfortable with that. You’re going to see things that people perceive as eroding American sovereignty—this is something that’s clearly un-American. I mean, here’s the secretary of the Treasury, and instead of defending the United States and defending our currency, he’s saying he might be open to a world currency. What does that mean? It means turning our currency over to the UN.”

BACHMANN (R-MN): It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. … I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.

GIULIANI: Sending a videotape message into Iran and the language and tone of that message, in my view, is the kind of thing terrorists look at and say ‘we can take advantage, we can push.’

SCARBOROUGH: Let me tell you that, I agree this is a successful trip. But Americans may not like it, a lot of elites in New York may not like it, people that live in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side may not like it, but you need a Dick Cheney also. You need somebody that scares bad people of the world.

BACHUS (R-ALA) Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists.

KING (R-NY) Republicans should shut down [legislative] activity across the board if any Bush-era officials are hauled into court. We would need to have a scorched-earth policy and use procedural means to bring the place to a halt — go to war.
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.’

BACHMANN (R-MN): I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.

FOXX (R-NC) I also would like to point out that there was a bill — the hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. This — the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.

STEELE: You wear your hat one way. You like to wear it, you know, kind of cocked to the left, you know, because that’s cool out West. In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys like to wear the brim straight ahead. Now, the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, you know, because that’s how we roll in the Northeast. But what do you recognize. We all are wearing the hat that says ‘GOP’ because that’s what we believe. That’s who we are.

May
SESSIONS (R-ALA): Obama’s plan is to diminish employment and diminish stock prices. By doing so, Obama intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it as part of a divide and conquer strategy to consolidate power. [On GITMO] They wouldn’t be treated any better in the United States, and they wouldn’t have the tropical breezes blowing through.

HENDREN (R-AK) When I referred to him [Schumer] as “that Jew” it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people. I shouldn’t have gotten into this Jewish business because it distracts from the issue.

LIMBAUGH: Have you ever had a genuine addiction to something? Well I have and let me tell you about it. It makes you entirely unreasonable and irrational. It is all you care about. Nothing else matters no matter how important…it doesn’t matter as much as the addiction. Feeding it, the fear of not being able to is what animates your existence every day. These people are addicted to power because they think it is their birthright. And I’m not just talking about the people in Washington, elected officials, I’m talking about some of — not all — but some of the rank and file, madcap insane liberals that you will find blogging, that you will find emailing, that you will find on the protest march. Their lives are basically meaningless, their addiction to power and dominance and control is what drives them.

BARTON (R-TX) I’m creating it as I talk to you. It’s in your Coca-Cola, your Dr. Pepper and your Perrier water. It’s necessary for human life. It’s odorless, colorless, tasteless, doesn’t cause cancer, doesn’t cause asthma. There’s nobody that’s ever been admitted to a hospital because of CO2 poisoning.

INHOFE (R-OK): (on GITMO) Anyone, any detainee, over 55 has an opportunity to have a colonoscopy. Now none of them take ‘em up on it, because once they explain what it is, none of them want to do it. But nonetheless it’s an opportunity that they have.”

HUCKABEE: The appointment of Maria Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is the clearest indication yet that President Obama’s campaign promises to be a centrist and think in a bipartisan way were mere rhetoric.

NARRATOR: The Republican National Committee removed a controversial video comparing Nancy Pelosi to Bond girl Pussy Galore from its YouTube account. The RNC asserted its copyright to the video to remove any trace of it from YouTube, asking the service to take a copy of the video down from the account of a Politico reader who had reposted it. An RNC spokesman yesterday wouldn’t explain why the committee took the video down.

MARCUS EPSTEIN had too much to drink and stumbled onto Georgetown’s scenic, shop-lined M Street, walking in no particular direction. At 7:15 p.m., he bumped into a black woman, called her a “******,” and struck her in the head with an open hand. An off-duty Secret Service agent was watching. Epstein “jogged away,” according to the agent’s affidavit, and when Epstein was finally chased down, he “continued to flail his arms while being taken into custody.” Epstein was, and still is, one of the utility players in the immigration restrictionist fringe of the conservative movement, the executive director of both PAT BUCHANAN’S American Cause and former Rep. TOM TANCREDO’s (R-CO )aide.

June
NARRATOR (CONT’D): South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered Gov. Mark Sanford on Thursday to take $700 million in federal stimulus money aimed primarily at struggling schools.

Legislative leaders say they appear to have enough votes to override Gov. Sarah Palin’s veto of $28.6 million in federal stimulus money for energy cost relief. Alaska is the only state to have rejected these funds, and that’s not sitting well.

Clearly, Norm Coleman isn’t exactly tech-savvy. After a speaking engagement in St. Louis this week, he told a video-camera wielding supporter that the key to success for Republicans “lies in the ethernet.”

PAWLENTY (referring to NBC’s “Inside the Obama White House” special, told the gathering of about 200 students): I haven’t seen something that staged since that half-naked Austrian fell onto the face of Eminem at the MTV music awards. Eminem was mad…and so, just like Eminem getting dumped on, we’ve got to kind of regroup. We’ve got to continue to fight. And we’ve got some things worth fighting for.

STEELE (at the College Republican annual conference, continues the “hat” metaphor): Regardless of how they wear their hat, the problem we had is that too many of our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family members, are taking the hat off because we have decided we don’t like the way they wear it. Let me ask you, what do they have in common? They’re all wearing the same hat. […] The difference is, Barack Obama has asked your generation to wear his hat, his hat — the hat of one man. I’m asking you to go out and ask your friends to wear our hat -– the hat of an idea.

BACHMANN: There’s a GM dealership in Minnesota, which was poised to be shut down, “that applied to their [sic] Democrat [sic] senator to appeal for help so that they could stay open.” There is [sic] no private corporations the way we used to think of GM.

NARRATOR: South Carolina GOP activist and former chairman of the state elections commission Rusty DePass has apologized for saying a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was an “ancestor” of Michelle Obama.

After an aide to state Attorney General Henry McMaster detailed the escape of the gorilla from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo, DePass responded with a comment: “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

DEPASS (R-SC): I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest.

NARRATOR: Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide to a Republican State senator in Tennessee, who sent a racist email to, as she puts it, “the wrong list of people.” The email depicts the Presidents of the United States with President Barack Obama as a pair of eyes in a black background. “I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth told NIT. “I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

GOP operative Mike Green posted a racist joke about President Obama on his Twitter account over the weekend. Green posted this, then deleted it some time later: JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT’S WHITE AND IT WORKS.

The Obama administration’s intervention in the economy mimics South American regimes of the 1980s that nationalized industries, a Republican congressman argued Tuesday.

STEELE: So if it’s a cost problem, it’s easy: Get the people in a room who have the most and the most direct impact on cost, and do the deal. Do the deal. It’s not that complicated.
If it’s an access question, people don’t have access to health care, then figure out who they are, and give them access! Hello?! Am I missing something here? If my friend Trevor has access to health care, and I don’t, why do I need to overhaul the entire system so I can get access he already has? Why don’t you just focus on me and get me access?
NARRATOR: Gov. Mark Sanford’s wife said Monday she did not know the location of the two-term Republican chief executive. Sanford’s staff declined to disclose where he was. The whereabouts of Gov. Mark Sanford was unknown for nearly four days, and some state leaders question who was in charge of the executive office. But Sanford’s office told the lieutenant governor’s office Monday afternoon that Sanford has been reached and he is fine, said Frank Adams, head of Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s office on aging. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he has been engaged in an extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman.

SANFORD (R-SC: I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone. [Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98]

The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything. [Sanford on Clinton, CNN, 2/16/99]

SANFORD (to Maria): Two, mutual feelings …. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details …

Got back an hour ago to civilization and am now in Columbia after what was for me a glorious break from reality down at the farm. No phones ringing and tangible evidence of a day’s labors. Though I have started every day by 6 this morning woke at 4:30, I guess since my body knew it was the last day, and I went out and ran the excavator with lights until the sun came up. To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the back ground, the tranquillity that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds – and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt.

Lastly I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before – so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know… In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.

LIMBAUGH: He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it. He lost the battle and said “What the hell? The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!”

SANFORD (R-SC): I have been doing a lot of soul searching on that front. 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 picked up the pieces and built from there.

TRACE GALLAGHER (of Fox News’ “Live Desk”) We just want to make a correction to something we put up on the screen during our coverage of the governor’s press conference yesterday. We briefly identified Governor Sanford as a Democrat. He is, of course, a Republican and we apologize for getting it wrong.

NARRATOR: At an event Thursday for the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity (one of the lead organizations behind the Tax Day Tea Parties), Wurzelbacher suggested Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CN) should be lynched.

Authorities arrested Mark Musselwhite, CLAYTON, GA mayor and charged him with public indecency last weekend after state Department of Natural Resources officers found him sitting nude at his Rabun County campsite.

Officers had received a complaint about a naked man walking along a nearby road earlier in the day, but the 43-year-old Musselwhite said he was not the same man. Musselwhite told the DNR officer he had been swimming in a nearby creek.

The Republican was elected to the Gainesville City Council in 2000, where he served for six years, including a stint as mayor. He lost a bid for a state Senate seat in 2006.

BOEHNER (R-OH) on the climate bill: Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of shit.

INHOFE (R-OK): The EPA absolutely buried evidence undermining policy on global warming after a researcher claimed that carbon dioxide has had little effect on the environment. They’ve been cooking that science since 1998.

NARRATOR: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she’d come out ahead if she went one-on-one with fellow jogger President Barack Obama in a long run, according to an interview published online Tuesday. “I betcha I’d have more endurance,” she told Runner’s World magazine.

When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

PALIN (R-AK): I went for a run at John McCain’s ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden. My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don’t get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb and my lungs were going to burn and that’s what I crave.

I like running alone and having the Secret Service with me added a little bit of pressure. I’m thinking I gotta have good form and can’t be hyperventilating and can’t be showing too much pain and that adds a little more pressure on you as you’re trying to be out there enjoying your run. Then I fell coming down a hill and was so stinkin’ embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me. My hands just got torn up and I was dripping blood. In the debate you could see a big fat ugly Band-Aid on my right hand. I have a nice war wound now as a reminder of that fall in the palm of my right hand. For much of the campaign, shaking hands was a little bit painful.

NARRATOR: Three House Republicans on the subcommittee overseeing the 2010 Census are asking Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to reverse her decision to boycott the national population count, fearing others will follow her lead.
“Boycotting the constitutionally mandated Census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” Reps. Patrick McHenry (N.C.), Lynn Westmoreland (GA.) and John Mica (FL), members of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Achieves, said in a statement Wednesday. Sources say the GOP Members approached Bachmann privately over the past few weeks and asked her to stop the boycott. They decided to go public because Bachmann appeared unfazed by their request, according to a GOP aide.

July
When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK’d 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.

Boehner told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that in “Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago,” as part of the economic recovery package, “there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge.”

VICTORIA JACKSON: Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn’t like. Hitler also controlled the media. (Where’s the public debate between scientists on “Climate Change/Global Warming?”) Hitler had the VW bug invented as the state car. What will O’s nationalized car be? So… kill off the weak. That’s the plan. Tax the workers to death. Erase the middle class. Sounds like the evil governments we studied in high school long ago. The evil governments were : kings, oligarchies, facist, socialist, and communist. Now it’s called the Obama Administration. Sounds like candy or a rock band.

DEMINT (R-SC) defending Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s recent removal from office by the Honduran military: In the course of defending the military coup President Obama has an ad hoc and personalized foreign policy that seems less about supporting the rule of law than it is about supporting particular rulers. Zelaya’s removal from office was no more a coup than was Gerald Ford’s ascendence to the Oval Office or our newest colleague Al Franken’s election to the Senate.

NARRATOR: Sen. John Ensign paid out nearly $100,000 to the family of his mistress out of his private funds, his lawyer says in an e-mail. The gifts, the statement says, are part of a pattern of “generosity” on the part of the senator to the family he nearly destroyed. In April 2008, Senator John Ensign’s parents each made gifts to Doug Hampton, Cindy Hampton, and two of their children in the form of a check totaling $96,000. Each gift was limited to $12,000. The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts and complied with tax rules governing gifts.

After the Senator told his parents about the affair, his parents decided to make the gifts out of concern for the well-being of long-time family friends during a difficult time. The gifts are consistent with a pattern of generosity by the Ensign family to the Hamptons and others.

Meanwhile, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) an ardent anti-abortion activist — is worried that the Obama administration’s loosening of restrictions on stem cell research will result in the creation of a new race of bio-engineered “human-animal” hybrid freaks.

BROWNBACK (R-KN): This legislation (the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009) works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life. Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to be human and is a violation of human dignity and a grave injustice.

NARRATOR: The Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids. Human-animal hybrids are defined as those part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species.

The following senators are orginal co-sponsors: Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Bob Corker (R-TN), John Cornyn (R-TX), Jim DeMint (R-SC), John Ensign (R-NV), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), James Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Mel Martinez (R-FL), John McCain (R-AZ), James Risch (R-ID), John Thune (R-SD), David Vitter (R-LA), George Voinovich (R-OH), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).

The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in American history classrooms.

The Texas Board of Education, which recently approved new science standards that made room for creationist critiques of evolution, is revising the state’s social studies curriculum. In early recommendations from outside experts appointed by the board, a divide has opened over how central religious theology should be to the teaching of history.

Three reviewers, appointed by social conservatives, have recommended revamping the K-12 curriculum to emphasize the roles of the Bible, the Christian faith and the civic virtue of religion in the study of American history. Two of them want to remove or de-emphasize references to several historical figures who have become liberal icons, such as César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall.

SOTOMAYOR: Please! I’m not. I don’t want anybody to misunderstand what I’m trying to say.
COBURN (R-OK): You’d have a lot of ’splainin’ to do.

NARRATOR: The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career. Leisha Pickering said in the lawsuit filed this week that her husband and the woman dated in college, reconnected and began having an affair while he was in Congress and living in a building where several Christian lawmakers reside on C Street near the U.S. Capitol. Chip Pickering is the third Republican with ties to the building at 133 C Street SE to find his personal life making headlines in recent weeks, after Nevada U.S. Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

BUCHANAN: White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built basically by white folks, who were 90% of the nation in 1960 when I was growing up and the other 10% were African-Americans who had been discriminated against

NARRATOR: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released Sunday that God will change him so he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader.

In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general. In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source. Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that “****** rigs” should now be called “presidential solutions.” Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: “Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin $1 million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer from National Geographic.” Frago admitted sending the e-mails, but showed no regret. “If they’re from me, then I sent them,” he said. “I have no disrespect for the president or anybody, they weren’t meant in any bad way or harm.”

JESSICA STEELE (owner, Beehive Hairdressers, twittering): I am Sarah Palin’s hairdresser in Alaska! The media is saying Sarah’s hair is thinning this is a lie!!! I never said this and it’s not true!

LYNN CHENEY (daughter of Dick): I’m saying that people are fundamentally uncomfortable and fundamentally I think increasingly uncomfortable with an American president who seems to be afraid to defend America, stand up for what we believe in.

DR. DAVID MCKALIP: Depicting the president as an African witch doctor, the artist who created the image was expressing concerns that the health-care proposals [made by President Obama] would make the quality of medical care worse in our country.

BACHMANN (R-MN): Why offer more people health insurance if they might lengthen waits for doctors and otherwise increase the hassle factor for me? That’s like having a mother bear protecting her little cubs, and she’s seeing that she has to move heaven and earth to get her child what her child needs, We’ll do it if we have to, but why put ourselves in that situation?

BIGGERT (R-IL): I think most all of us here have had the opportunity to take our kids to a fast-food restaurant. We want to get a good dinner, and you walk in and there’s 50 people there and it seems like everybody in line wants to buy food for their soccer team or whatever. The American people aren’t particularly good at standing in line, but that’s exactly what’s going to happen if this health care plan goes through.

NARRATOR: Back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration. “The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon’s domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government. With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. ‘I oppose it,’ Irving replied. ‘It subverts meritocracy.’ “

PALIN: Some straight talk for some — just some — in the media, because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press. And you have such important jobs, reporting facts, and informing the electorate, and exerting power to influence. You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession, that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy. Democracy depends on you. And that is why, that’s why our troops are willing to die for you. So, how about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit making things up.

INHOFE (R-OK): People complain that we are buying — importing from the Middle East — oil and gas. And then they find out that we have it all right here. We don’t have to do that. If their argument there is “Well, we don’t want to use oil and gas because we think it pollutes” — which it doesn’t — but if that’s their argument, then why are we willing to import it from Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East?

NARRATOR: A Tennessee lawmaker resigned from the state Senate on Tuesday after his extramarital affair with a 22-year-old intern was revealed by an investigation into an extortion case.

STANLEY (R-TN): Due to recent events, I have decided to focus my full attention on my family and resign my Senate seat effective August 10.

NARRATOR: Court records show that Stanley, 47, told agents investigating a blackmail case that he had a sexual relationship with intern McKensie Morrison. Her boyfriend, Joel Watts, is charged with trying to extort $10,000 from Stanley in April. Investigators say Watts demanded the money in exchange for not releasing to the media explicit photos of Morrison that Stanley had taken in what appears to be Stanley’s apartment.

BLUNT (R-MO): What I don’t know is why the president can’t produce a birth certificate. I don’t know anybody else that can’t produce one. And I think that that’s a legitimate question — no health records, no birth certificate.

NARRATOR: Sen. John Ensign told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his affair with a friend’s wife was different from former President Bill Clinton’s relationship with a White House intern because he didn’t lie about it under oath.

ENSIGN (R-NV): I haven’t done anything legally wrong.

August
RAND PAUL (son of Ron Paul): When you hear about the ‘Amero,’ a new North American money, you might say that those people are just conspiracy theorists. But if you said the same thing about the euro 30 years ago they would have said, ‘Oh, you’re crazy, we’ll never get rid of the pound and those currencies, and lo and behold we have a euro currency. So some of the fears of world government are legitimate.

FRANKS (R-AZ): There is conflicting evidence as to whether the president was born in the United States. Obama should produce his birth certificate. I may sue the president over the issue.

LIMBAUGH: Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.
NARRATOR: Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.VA.) called for health care reform legislation to be named in his honor.
LIMBAUGH: I predicted it, and I caught all kinds of grief for it out there.

NARRATOR: U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a “great white hope” capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama.

STEELE (RNC): It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person’s political affiliation. GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system. Does this possibility concern you?

NARRATOR: An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was joking when he said he’d buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.

FRANKS (R-AZ): I came within three days of launching an Obama citizenship lawsuit. The ironic part about this is I was one of the few Members of Congress that was willing, if I could come up with a way to prove that Barack Obama was not born in this country, I was willing to go into a lawsuit.

HUCKABEE: It was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don’t have as long to live might want to consider just taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them.

NARRATOR: Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama event in Arizona last week, attended a fiery anti-Obama sermon the day before the event, in which Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to “pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell. Anderson also said Broughton had informed the pastor about his planned show of arms-bearing, but “he planned out the AR15 thing long before he heard that sermon,” delivered Sunday August 16 at the fundamentalist Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ.

Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of former VP Dick Cheney, has thrown $1,000 behind Rob Portman, a Congressional candidate from Ohio who believes she should not be able to adopt children or marry her partner.

BACHMANN (R-MN): This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.

WSJ: As inconceivable as it may seem today, the 2012 election may end up turning on national security. Republicans would be wise to nominate someone with both toughness and experience. Under such circumstances, it’s hard to think of a better candidate–assuming, of course, that he could be persuaded to run–than Richard B. Cheney.

MARIA BARTOROMO (FOX): How come you don’t use it [Medicare]? You don’t have it. How come you don’t have it?
WEINER (D-NY) who turns 45 this week, tried to walk Bartiromo through it: Because I’m not 65
BARTOROMO: Yeah… c’mon

September
NARRATOR: The chairman of the Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday issued a statement to “condemn President Obama’s use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Jim Greer also accused President Obama of “using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda.” The state party chair issued the statement in response to a White House announcement that Obama would appear in a nationally broadcast address to primary school students around the country. The White House has said the president would be urging students to “(take) responsibility for their success in school.”

GREER (R-FL): As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology.

BACHMANN (R-MN): Also with women politicians, they want to make sure no women, no woman becomes president before a Democrat woman, and so they’re doing everything they can to, I think, sabotage women like Sarah Palin, perhaps women like myself, or similarly situated women, to make sure that we don’t have a prominent national voice. But the thing is, the people in our country, they don’t care who the voice is, they just want someone, they want to know that someone is speaking out for them against what will certainly bring about the destruction of our great country if we continue to go down the Obama path.

SANFORD (R-SC): Everybody is assigned their own secret-agent mission in life. And at times the tricky part, the hard part, is finding out what that is.

KIRK (R-NV): She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And? so, we had made love Wednesday–a lot! And so she’ll, she’s all, ‘I am going up and down the stairs, and you’re dripping out of me!’ So messy! So, I am getting into spanking her. Yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah! Because you’re such a bad girl!’ “

NARRATOR: The lawmaker [Mark Kirk] had received a 100 percent rating from Capitol Resource Institute, a conservative advocacy group, for his votes on legislation considered pro-family during the 2007-08 legislative session.

American Solutions for Winning the Future, Gingrich’s D.C.-based PAC, has named a porn purveyor its “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2009, according to representatives of the pornographer. Allison Vivas heads up Pink Visual, a DVD production and distribution company based in Van Nuys, Ca., that specializes in adult films.

LIMBAUGH: You put your kids on a school bus you expect safety but in Obama’s America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering ‘yeah, right on, right on, right on.’ Of course everybody said the white kid deserved it he was born a racist, he’s white.

NARRATOR: The chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Hispanic Assembly and member of the Republican Central Committee says he has quit the GOP because he was embarrassed by South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s address to Congress on Sept. 9.

PALIN: We got into this mess [recession] because of government interference in the first place.

INHOFE (R-OK): I think he’s right. I think what he’s saying is God’s still up there. We’re going through these cycles. … I really believe that a lot of people are in denial who want to hang their hat on the fact, that they believe is a fact, that man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, are causing global warming. The science really isn’t there.

LYNN CHENEY: Mr. President, in a ticking time-bomb scenario, with American lives at stake, are you really unwilling to subject a terrorist to enhanced interrogation to get information that would prevent an attack?

October
STEELE: The indoctrinating of the most impressionable members of our society is unbelievable unless you see it with your own eyes. Please watch the video of young school children literally singing the praises of Barack Obama that their teachers have taught them. Share it with your friends, family, neighbors or anyone you think may be concerned by this. Then make a donation of $10, $25, $50 or $100 to support the RNC’s efforts to fight this leftist propaganda and elect more Republicans this year and next. Thank you.

GLEN BECK: Vancouver lost, how much was it? They lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics.

GOHMERT (R-TX): If you’re oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that’s not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you’d have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you’re oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions, [...] pedophiles or necrophiliacs or what most would say is perverse sexual orientations but the trouble is, we made amendments to eliminate pedophiles from being included in the definition.

BROUN (R-GA): When I was sworn into the Marine Corps, I was sworn to uphold the Constitution against every enemy, foreign and domestic. We’ve got a lot of domestic enemies of the Constitution and one of those sits in the speaker’s chair of the United States Congress, Nancy Pelosi.

HUCKABEE: There will be an outcry from those on the right who will say that Obama’s nomination [for the Nobel], made two weeks into his presidency, is impossible to justify, but I think such an outcry will sound like right-wing whining. The better response is simply to allow those on the left to explain what he did in his first two weeks as President that merited such recognition.

STEELE: The Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control. And truly patriotic Americans like you and our Republican Party are the only thing standing in their way.

RNC: In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball in the United States, as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Not only was he a great athlete, Jackie Robinson was also a great Republican.

STEELE: Basically what we should be saying is that there are rules that you need to get into the country, go the right door, fill out the right form, have some apple pie, hum a few bars of the star spangle banner and get to work, God bless you, and I think that that begins to set us on the right road to dealing with this issue

MERWIN (R-SC): DeMint was just looking after the nation’s pennies — like a Jew would. There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.

HARPER (R-MS): We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.

LIMBAUGH: So we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway.

TONY PERKINS (Family Research Council): Obama’s program to help gay elderly is wasted since gays die young anyway.

JEB BUSH (R-FL): I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. That’ll make the news.

CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK: During this [Halloween] period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.

November
PALIN: “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins. Who calls a shot like that? It’s a disturbing trend.

SESSIONS: “Why should a woman pay more [for insurance] than a man?” Well, we’re all different. Why should a smoker pay more?

CURTAIN

Is John King as bad an anchor as Lou Dobbs? Let us hope not!

Fox News Rupert Murdoch, Laura Ingram & Glenn Beck! What can you say? Nothing! Just plain “IGNORANT”.

Laura Ingram- Monkey #1, she needs to cover her mouth when she speaks…..then she won’t make women look sooo IGNORANT!

Rupert Murdoch- Monkey #2, too old to realize what he is saying, so he expresses himself in disbelief!

Glen Beck- Monkey #3, doesn’t listen to his own garbage. He lives the life of a millionare (with excellent insurance, I might add) and preaches hate to middle class Americans that are just that “middle class”, while he is living in pure luxury! Americans wake up, pleeze.

Abby Johnson: Former Planned Parenthood Director speaks to Mike Huckabee !

Abby Johnson, ” I soon found one of their goals was to make money>” Speaking about Planned Parenthood’s abortions.

” I was called in to help and my job was to hold the probe on the woman – when I looked at the screen I saw a baby” ” at that time I saw the baby, moving away from the probe – I thought – it’s fighting for it’s life- I thought- It’s alive…I saw the baby just literally crumble and it it was over!”

UPDATE: 11-11-2009

Judge Rules Former Planned Parenthood Director Did Not Breach Confidentiality Contract

After working as the director for two years, Johnson said in early October she had a change of heart. Johnson said she decided to volunteer with the pro-life organization Brazos Valley Coalition for Life. Planned Parenthood alleged Johnson took confidential records with her, and wanted a judge to prevent her from releasing any confidential information.
District Judge J.D. Langley denied the plaintiffs request for a temporary injunction. If granted the injunction would have prevented Johnson from seeking any lawsuit until a trial or any other court action had been taken.
Tuesday, two Planned Parenthood employee’s took the stand. A health assistant who worked with Abby Johnson for a year and a half said she saw Abby make copies of two patient records and place the copies next to her purse. The health assistant said however, she did not see Johnson physically remove the documents from the Planned Parenthood building.

This is probably one of the most powerful interviews I have seen.  It is Abby Johnson, former director of a planned parenthood clinic discussing what went through her mind when she saw witnessed an ultrasound of a baby being aborted.  This is from an interview she did with Mike Huckabee, it left me breathless as my wife and I watched it.

Remember to vote NO to these Democratic’s on ELECTION DA
Y! The  percentage of “uninsured” in their states ares “terrifying” to say the least. I wonder exactly how many children are in that percentile?

1.       Rep. John Adler (NJ)-20.8%

2.       Rep. Jason Altmire (PA)-14.3%

3.       Rep. Brian Baird (WA)-17.6%

4.       Rep. John Barrow (GA)-24.3%

5.       Rep. John Boccieri (OH)-17.2%

6.       Rep. Dan Boren (OK)-24.3%

7.       Rep. Rick Boucher (VA)-18.7%

8.       Rep. Allen Boyd (FL)-28.6%

9.       Rep. Bobby Bright (AL)-20.9%

10.   Rep. Ben Chandler (KT)-22.3%

11.   Rep. Travis Childers (MS)-25.7%

12.   Rep. Artur Davis (AL)-20.9%

13.   Rep. Lincoln Davis (TN)-22.1%

14.   Rep. Chet Edwards (TX)-32.2%

15.   Rep. Bart Gordon (TN)-22.1%

16.   Rep. Parker Griffith (AL)-20.9%

17.   Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD)-16.1%

18.   Rep. Tim Holden (PA)-14.3%

19.   Rep. Larry Kissell (NC)-24.0%

20.   Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (FL)-28.6%

21.   Rep. Frank Kratovil (MD)-18.6%

22.   Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH)-17.4%

23.   Rep. Jim Marshall (GA)-21.3%

24.   Rep. Betsy Markey (CO)-21.5%

25.   Rep. Eric Massa (NY)-20.0%

26.   Rep. Jim Matheson(UT)-18.8%

27.   Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC)-24.0%

28.   Rep. Michael McMahon  (NY)20.0%

29.   Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA)-28.2%

30.   Rep. Walt Minnick (ID)-21.5%

31.   Rep. Scott Murphy (NY)-20.0%

32.   Rep. Glenn Nye (VA)-18.7%

33.  Rep. Collin Peterson (MN)-12.5%

34.   Rep. Mike Ross (AR)-25.8%

35.   Rep. Heath Shuler (NC)-24.0%

36.   Rep. Ike Skelton (MO)-18.7%

37.   Rep. John Tanner (TN)- 16.2% children,83.8% adults uninsured in his state.

38.   Rep. Gene Taylor (MS)-25.7% uninsured in his state.

39.   Rep. Harry Teague (NM)-17.6% children unisured, 3rd highest in Nation.

Call them, email them, let them know! You deserve healthcare!

http://familiesusa.org/issues/uninsured/

You sir, have demonstrated EXTREMECOURAGE!

THE MEDAL OF COURAGE….REP. JOSEPH CAO.

Shelly Blair,
co-host, Fair and Feminist on KEOS 89.1
Conducted this interview with Abby in September, One Month before her conversion to the Pro-Life Side

Blair writes on her blog that, “ A few short weeks ago, Abby was my heroine. When I first met Abby, I was touched by her stories about growing up in an anti-choice, Christian home, coming to feminism, and fighting for women’s rights in the most anti-choice town in the nation. We had similar backgrounds, similar stories, and I was inspired by her bravery.

It was then I asked her to appear on my radio show, Fair and Feminist, with my co-host and I to talk about the controversial clinic in town.

I remember that as Vandy and I conducted the interview, I started tearing up from the moving stories she told about being harrassed, about caring about “every person” who came in the clinic, and about her outstated commitment to feminism. It can be lonely being a feminist activist at Texas A+M, and a breath of fresh air filled the studio that night as we chatted with Abby. After the show, she gave me a sympathetic smile for the tears, and a nice hug..Its disheartening to me to see how the media is making her into a prolife darling.“

Abby Johnson- Former Planned Parenthood Director Pro-Choice Interview

Now Abby Joins the ranks of those she felt “Terrorized her “ : Quite a change of Heart from the above interview:

Planned Parenthood Director Leaves, Has Change of Heart
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned.
Posted: 11:23 PM Nov 1, 2009
Reporter: Ashlea Sigman

Video here

READ MORE HERE: Planned Parenthood Director Quites says, “The money was in abortion”

“I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Jonhson.

She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years.

According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.

“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that,” said Johnson.

In an interview with Fox News Abby Stated that, she had a “change of heart” after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility.

‘When I was working at Planned Parenthood I was extremely pro-choice,” Johnson told FoxNews.com. But after seeing the internal workings of the procedure for the first time on an ultrasound monitor, “I would say there was a definite conversion in my heart … a spiritual conversion.“

Johnson said she became disillusioned with her job after her bosses pressured her for months to increase profits by performing more and more abortions, which cost patients between $505 and $695.

“Every meeting that we had was, ‘We don’t have enough money, we don’t have enough money — we’ve got to keep these abortions coming,’…“It’s a very lucrative business and that’s why they want to increase numbers…For them there’s not a lot of money in education,” she said. “There’s as not as much money in family planning as there is abortion.“

Johnson estimated that each abortion could net the branch about $350, adding up to more than $10,000 a month.

“Ideally my goal as the facility’s director is that your abortion numbers don’t increase,” because “you’re providing so much family planning and so much education that there is not a demand for abortion services.

“But that was not their goal,” she said.

Abby also told World Net Daily that, “”Abortion is the most lucrative part of Planned Parenthood’s operations,” she said. “Even though they’re two separate corporations, all of the money goes into one pot. With the family planning corporation really suffering, they depend on the abortion corporation to balance their budget, help get them out of the hole and help make income for the company.”

She continued, “They really wanted to increase the number of abortions so that they could increase their income.”

Regarding the lawsuit Planned Parenthood filed: Abby Said:
“Planned Parenthood is an organization that really runs on fear. If somebody crosses them, they are quick to threaten that person. I’ve worked for them for a long time and seen them threaten lawsuits multiple times,” she said. “I’m not sure what they’re scared of. When I first got the restraining order, I was so surprised. My initial response was, what do they think I know? What are they feeling guilty about?”

Asked whether she believes Planned Parenthood is concerned that information about its quotas will become public, Johnson responded, “Probably, yeah. I think they’re just scared of the whole thing.”

She said she believes the injunction is simply a scare tactic meant to keep her quiet.
“Clearly, that kind of backfired,” she said.

Why she quit:
Johnson explained that she resigned after she saw an ultrasound-guided abortion in which an unborn baby was vacuumed out of a woman’s uterus.

“Ultrasound-guided abortions are not typically done in Planned Parenthood abortion centers because they’re more time-consuming, and that’s just not something that centers like that do,” she said. “I’d never seen one of those done before. For whatever reason, the physician had called me back to assist with the procedure. When I saw that, that was really when my heart was changed.”

“There’s no religion and there’s no spirituality in an abortion clinic. There can’t be…Whatever side you are on, pro-life or pro-choice, it is what it is – and that’s taking a human life.”

Update on Abby with Mike Huckabee Interview here

“Hannity Hatred”, Adolf Hitler’s Secretary  “Michelle Malkin”, and “Charles Krazy-Hammer” all sponsored by Fox News!

The Two Governor races don’t mean “squat” Obama is still the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:)

I have the privilege of speaking at a number of grassroots organizations, helping to educate the base on the roots of American Progressivism and sound a call to action to short-circuit what we view as the third – and perhaps final – wave of progressivism to grip our country.

Aw shucks.

In the Q&A sessions following my talk, my bride and I have noticed a recurring event:  Someone invariably speaks up asking, “what about Huckabee for 2012?” We hear Huckabee more often than we hear Palin, and to us, that’s curious, because if you study the issues, Governor Huckabee has less in common with conservatism than you’d think.

He’s a nice guy; as a matter of fact, he’s a great guy. There is no personality on the air that I enjoy watching more than Mike Huckabee, even though I don’t watch him all that much. You always, always, walk away feeling better about yourself – and him – than when you started. He’s so likable. Problem is, and we really should know better by now, we shouldn’t be voting for personalities. We should be voting for principles.

So, the short answer to the “what about Huckabee in 2012?” question, is:  I don’t think so. Allow me to explain where he stands on the issues; you can draw your own conclusions. Most data culled from On the Issues.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Three dirty words.

• While Governor, he supported scholarships for illegal aliens because he felt you should ‘punish people who break the law, but not their children.’ That sounds great, except that children of illegals who were not born here are also illegal and should not be entitled to special treatment or taxpayer provided benefits of any kind. This type of behavior promotes more illegal entry into our country and weakens our national security, burdens our healthcare system, etc. And what if they were born here? Well, we’re one of few countries that allow for anchor babies, and that ought to come to an end. Removing the loopholes reduces the activity.
• He believes some anti-immigration advocates are based on racism. It isn’t racist to expect immigrants to follow our defined laws to become legal, productive members of our nation.
• He believes we should change the rule that bars immigrants from running for President. This would have an incredibly high risk factor. Imagine what would happen if a Muslim-extremist where that immigrant. The drive behind the natural-born citizen requirement was to avoid the problem of dual loyalty.
• Huckabee believes illegals should have a path to citizenship if they admit guilt and pay a fine. First, it is unrealistic to believe an illegal alien could afford such a fine. Second, we are simply rewarding and encouraging bad behavior.

Torture

Huckabee opposes waterboarding and believes torture is unproductive. The term ‘torture’ is used very loosely these days, so it really depends on what he views as torture. I don’t believe making someone very uncomfortable is torture – like food or sleep deprivation. I can name examples of torture practiced in other countries, and that is certainly not something we would do here.

Regarding waterboarding, this has been a proven information gathering technique on terrorists that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. One such example was a planned attack on Los Angeles. Our safety and our national security should be top priority.

Smoking

Mike Huckabee supports banning smoking in public places. Again, on the surface it seems like a good idea. But it’s not about smoking, it’s about liberty.We are Americans and should be free to make our own decisions, even bad ones. We should also have the right to suffer the consequences of those decisions. When we start legislating one behavior, we open ourselves up to legislating all kinds of ‘negative’ behaviors, and there is no end in sight. Before you know it, we’ve legislated away our freedom. Shouldn’t we have learned the lesson of incremental progressivism by now?

New York 23rd District

Even at this late stage in the game, Huckabee refuses to endorse Hoffman, the only conservative in the race. Speaks volumes.

What about Huckabee?

What about him. I wish him the best in his private endeavors and hope his show is on for years, and years, to come.

Dear Mr. Krazy-hammer, you need a lot more envelopes. Bush left a lot of unfinished paperwork that needs to be mailed to the American people! Like an “APOLOGY” for the @#%* he left our country in.