Dick Cheney is unpatriotic pond scum. His latest round of Obama bashing has taken him down to a new level. It’s one thing to disagree with policy, but Cheney has resorted to the lowest level of personal attack on the President.

Cheney addressing the latest attempt by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab to blow up an airliner in flight said in his acerbic statement:

He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”

Cheney also said Obama outwardly “pretends we aren’t at war” and he repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America “less safe.”

Cheney also asked in his patented sardonic way:

Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency: social transformation, the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney seems to think we are at war with a state. Wrong. We are at war with an ideology. There are no western fronts to line up the artillery and blast them to smithereens, or unload the latest 30,000 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb on the communication center. Even Patton couldn’t pull this one off.

These guy’s communication center is a cave somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Cheney blasts the current administration for the exact same decision the Bush administration made with Richard Reid, you know, the shoe bomber? Bush was on vacation when that incident happened. 6 days later he made a comment.

Reid was tried, convicted and sentenced in Federal court. Same with Zacarias Moussaoui.

Apparently, Cheney doesn’t have any faith in a U.S. Justice Department when he is not pulling the strings. I guess he is also still pissed that Scooter Libby didn’t get off scott free.

Cheney is trying to put the Obama administration in as bad a light as he can so he hopes the public will forget just what deep shit the Bush administration (with his blessing, of course) put us in. Their administration drove us to the brink of financial insolvency, started a war with a country that had zero to do with the 9/11 attacks, and alienated the U.S. from all but our stanchest allies.  

9/11 happened on the Bush/Cheney watch. We should never forget that. They had the intelligence that Bin Laden was going to try something, but they sat on that. Then they blamed Iraq, and started that war and basically forgot about Afghanistan.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the official White House blog:

It is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the attackers…

For seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq — a country that had no al Qaeda presence before our invasion — Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States…

Meanwhile, al Qaeda also regenerated in places like Yemen and Somalia, establishing new safe-havens that have grown over a period of years. It was President Obama who finally implemented a strategy of winding down the war in Iraq, and actually focusing our resources on the war against al Qaeda…

Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the president.

Strangely off-key indeed. Turn in your U.S. lapel pin Mr. Cheney. If you think our government isn’t doing all that’s humanly possible to protect you, then leave. Your vitriolic partisan bullshit is no longer relevant.

So, the Republican Party has no where else to go but…down.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), the front-runner in the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate is being tagged as gay by one of his opponents in the race, Andy Martin (aka Anthony Martin-Trigona).

Who?

You know, Andy Martin. He has run for numerous elective offices over the last three decades in Illinois, Florida and Connecticut. Hasn’t won anything I don’t think, but he sure has a solid source when it comes to the subject of Rep. Kirk’s sexual orientation. He has taped an ad with the shocking “truth”:

Illinois Republican leader Jack Roeser says there is a ‘solid rumor that Kirk is a homosexual’.  Roeser suggests that Kirk is part of a Republican Party homosexual club. Lake County Illinois Republican leader Ray True says Kirk has surrounded himself with homosexuals. Mark Kirk should tell Republican voters the truth.”

Maybe Andy should tell the Republican’s the truth…He doesn’t have a shot at winning so he falls back to the old Republican playbook, make shit up and hope it sticks!

Kirk, a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer, was unavailable for comment because he is on active duty serving our country.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Patrick Brady had this to say about Martin and the ad:

The Illinois Republican Party disavows the statements made today by Mr. Andrew Martin in his statewide radio advertisements. His statements today are consistent with his history of bizarre behavior and often times hate-filled speech which has no place in the Illinois Republican Party. Mr. Martin will no longer be recognized as a legitimate Republican candidate by the Illinois Republican Party.”

Kirk began his candidacy with an endorsement from his ex-wife who he had just recently divorced.

What?

She stepped to the podium and said, “I support him 100 percent. He’ll make a great senator.”

Stand by your man girlfriend! Uhhh, paydays are on Friday.

Martin has never won elective office. He completed law school and passed the bar exam, but the Illinois Supreme Court’s Character and Fitness Committee refused to grant him a law license.

The Chicago Sun Times has more interesting tidbits about Mr. Martin:

• Martin objected at one committee meeting when staffers retrieved a document from his Selective Service file labeling him unfit for military service because of a “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” Martin called committee members “scum.”
• When reporters report these facts, Martin sometimes sues them alleging libel. His penchant for filing so many lawsuits later dismissed as frivolous has enraged some judges who have held him in contempt of court over the years. Some of his court filings have included anti-semitic comments.
• Martin garnered some national attention for pushing rumors that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that the Hawaiian birth certificate Obama posted on his Web site early in his campaign was a fake.

Rumor monger, a birther, and has a “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” Oh, anti-semitic too.

God love the Republican Party…

And for the people of the great state of Illinois -

Please vote responsibly.

A close call on Christmas Day. An attempt to blow up an airplane in flight over a major American city. Thank God for the passengers (especiallyJasper Schuringa, the civilian hero of the day). The screening process failed, the electronic tracking (databases, watch lists, no fly lists) failed, and human intelligence failed. The suspect’s own father called authorities to warn he might be a threat!

 And the government officials are out trying to calm the masses.

Here’s how you can calm us. Anyone that is on any list (other than the no fly list of course.  If they get on an airplane, then we are all sunk anyway), or in any watch database gets intensive screening, Israeli style. Pat downs, put through the “puffer” machine, interrogate them, let the dogs have a sniff…the whole nine yards. I guess the argument would be that there are ~1 million people on the various lists. The counter to that is how many at any one time are attempting to fly? 1%? 5%? Put the mechanism and people in place to make sure anyone who is deemed a threat at least gets properly screened.

Who knows, you might even get enough information to take them off the list.

“Massive” databases and lists shouldn’t be the excuse. My PC can sort through a million records in a couple of seconds. The key is the proper management of the information, and the execution of the plan once one of these folks try to get on a plane.

It’s time to meet the airliner terrorist threat with overwhelming force.

Nuts you say? Rep. Alan Grayson is accusing blogger Angie Langley (http://www.mycongressmanisnuts.com/) of lying to federal elections officials and requests that she be fined and imprisoned for five years. Her lie, according to Grayson, is that she claims to be one of his constituents.

Grayson, D-Fla., is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to launch an investigation into mycongressmanisnuts.com launched by Langley (a Republican activist) that parodies his own re-election site (http://congressmanwithguts.com/).

Ms. Langley has deliberately masqueraded as a constituent of mine, in order to try to create the false appearance that she speaks for constituents who don’t support me,” Grayson writes in his complaint. “[She] has chosen a name for her committee that is utterly tasteless and juvenile.”

Honestly Rep. Grayson. Don’t you have better things to do, like help govern the country?

She has every right to her opinion, just as you do. Just like when you called a female adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a “whore”  or when you call the current health care system a “holocaust in America.” The health care system is broken in this county, no doubt, and it does need reform. But even the coldest insurance executives aren’t leading the insured to death camps. They want to maximize profits.

What we need is national leadership to change the motivation of insurance companies from the current for profit model to one of providing coverage for all Americans.  Let’s hope the reform bill gives us a start on that goal.

So I guess this means that Tiger is a Republican? Sorry, couldn’t resist that.

It is just sad that he fell morally short of the cup, so to speak. It’s one thing when you’re single, and out for a “good time”. No one would really care. But once you are married, and with kids no less, then it’s time change the game. Unfortunately, Tiger couldn’t overcome his desires to have it both ways. That picture of him with the family, the dog licking his face, was published to show what? That he was the golden boy with the golden life. Beautiful wife, cute kids, loads of money, What else could you want?

Sex in the graveyard , apparently. And presumably putting his wife at risk for any kind of sexually transmitted disease.

Oh well, another one bites the dust. I guess he will eventually get back to playing golf, get divorced, see his soon to be ex-wife move back to Sweden with the kids, and be a free man again, only $500 million or so poorer. No problem, those sponsors will come back once he starts winning again.

So, with all the double entendres fully in play (18 holes, birdies, came up short, strokes, good lay/lie, etc.), here’s the list so far:

1. Rachel Uchitel – New York and Vegas VIP party organiser – the girl who triggered Woods’ bust- up with his wife.

2. Reality star Jamie Grubbs, who met him at a Vegas nightclub.

3. Single mum and ex model Cori Rist.

4. Brunette Kalika Moquin, Vegas hostess.

5. MGM party favourite Jamie Jungers.

6. Diner waitress Mindy Lawton.

7. Former VIP cocktail waitress Julie Postle, who has an Orlando lawyer.

8. Sexy married British TV presenter who was single at the time.

9. Blonde former cocktail waitress from Orlando, now also represented by lawyer.

10. Porn starlet Holly Sampson, who bedded him at his birthday party.

11. Blonde “cougar” Theresa Rogers, 49, now represented by lawyer Gloria Allred.

12. Ex Playboy cybergirl and Hawaiian Tropic model Loredana Jolie.

13. XXX porn star Joselyn James, whose family confirm their fling.

14. Movie star Jessica Simpson named by US magazine as a close “sextexter” of Tiger.

15. Twenty-something Atlanta party planner.

16. Sexy Illinois student who loves partying in Vegas.

17. Blonde party planner from Orlando, who had links to the UK.

18. Single mum San Diego dancer called Star.

I hear that Carrie Prejean is looking for a “dance” partner. Maybe Tiger should give her a call. I’m sure she would love to get the shaft from Tiger.

Oh, and Tiger, the world is waiting for the sex tapes. Go ahead and put them on your website. At least that way you will have some control.

Rebuilding the site…please be patient

So, what do you do when you can’t move forward? Well, you move back, of course. And that’s exactly what the RNC is doing in their latest attempt at sobriety. A  new resolution that calls on party members to stand up to President Obama’s “socialist” agenda and would prohibit RNC funds from going to GOP candidates who disagree with elements of a proposed ten plank ideological platform. Oh, is that what you call it?

Well, here is the latest version of the aforementioned resolution in all its resplendent glory, with my observations notated in-line, bolded & italicized:

Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend [Just not as good a friend who agreed with 10 out of 10 times ], not his opponent; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life [That is if our health care holds out ]; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party [By keeping our collective penises in our pants] and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan’s belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates [Read: you better agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill [Except for fact that Bush signed off on the 1st stimulus package, cause well, we were dying out there at the time.];

(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare [Because the market did such a great job with the banking and financial industries];

(3) We support market-based energy reforms[Because the market did such a great job with the banking and financial industries] by opposing cap and trade legislation;

(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check [Because we like secret in general];

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants [Except for those that perform the menial labor tasks so we can eat];

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges [Man, we love that word - surge. Just makes you feel, well, virulent - Hey, penises in the pants!];

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat [Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...you know how the rest goes];

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act [Because homosexual activity should be kept where it belongs - in the public restrooms of the Minneapolis Airport];

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion [Because the market will take care of it]; and

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership [Because Dick Cheney says so...QUAIL! PULL!]; and be further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee;[And will be subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques personally by Dick Cheney] and be further

RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.

Chief Sponsor:
James Bopp, Jr. NCM IN

Sponsors:
Avie Axdahl NCW MN
Donna Cain NCW OR
Cindy Costa NCW SC
Demetra Demonte NCW IL
Peggy Lambert NCW TN
Carolyn McLarty NCW OK
Pete Rickets NCM NE
Steve Scheffler NCM IA
Helen Van Etten NCW KA
Solomon Yue NCM OR

So let it be written, so let it be done.

And it’s about time.

The Senate voted to move ahead with a floor debate on the $848 billion bill by a vote of 60-39.

All 58 Senate Democrats supported bringing the measure to the floor, as did independent Sens. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Here are some of the comments from the pros and the cons:

Tonight’s historic vote brings us one step closer to ending insurance company abuses, reining in spiraling health care costs, providing stability and security to those with health insurance and extending quality health coverage to those who lack it.”

-White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

Today we decide whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation. Whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all.”

-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

The Republicans are frightening people. Now is not the time to go wobbly in the knees. Now is the time to stand strong … and move this country forward.”

- Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa

This bill… is a massive monument to bureaucracy and spending. It imposes punishing taxes on almost everyone. … A vote in favor of proceeding to this bill is a vote in favor of adding to the tax burden of the American people in the midst of double digit unemployment.”

-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

The bill does worse than nothing. It threatens the economic recovery. … Changes to the health care system must be responsible and not break the backs of the taxpayers.”

-Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa

Letting the debate go to the floor was the absolute right thing to do. Get it out there and then let the gloves come off. Nobody wants to bankrupt the country for health care reform, but the current system is bankrupting the average “Joe”, and it’s getting worse by the day. It’s time to take the profit motive out of health care and restore it to taking care of people because it’s the right thing to do.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that Reid’s 2,074-page bill would extend health insurance coverage to 31 million additional Americans.

The CBO also estimates that the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $130 billion over the next 10 years, through 2019. Any effect on the deficit in the following decade would be “subject to substantial uncertainty,” but probably would result in “small reductions in federal budget deficits,” according to budget office analysts.

That doesn’t sound like a bankrupting plan to me…

Carrie Prejean. The former Miss California - alone in a sex tape that TMZ says was too ‘racy’ to post. Now that’s family values at its best! Love between two people of the same sex is wrong, but sex with presumably inanimate objects, on video no less, well that’s just peachy keen.

C’mon TMZ - go ahead and post it! Let the world see Carrie in all of her wholesome splendor!

Oh, and all the lawsuits, counter suits and the dispute over the breast implant money have all been resolved/dropped. I guess her privacy issues weren’t that important.

Prejean’s lawyer, Charles LiMandri, responded with a short statement issued through an employee at his law office:

It’s a confidential settlement, and he can’t discuss it.”

But did he see the tape? Was it totally awesome?

I’ll bet those folks at Values Voter Summit are thrilled that she spoke to them about “values”. Just check out the speakers list for this year! She’s “right” in there. I wonder if they are going to show Carrie’s video at the summit next year?

Where the "right" is "right"

And here are some more of her friends:

Now that's a motley crew!

Where’s Glenn Beck? Analyzing the facade of 30 Rockefeller Center no doubt.

Well, here’s a synopsis of her speech:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/carrie-prejean-speaks-values-voter-summit

She says she was called by God during the pageant to stand for truth and so “even though I didn’t win the crown that night, I know that the Lord has so much of a bigger crown in Heaven for me.”

And we can presume you do like them bigger…

Several calls and e-mail to Prejean’s publicist by CNN were not returned Wednesday.

Prejean’s tell-all book hits bookstores next week, and she is scheduled for media interviews to promote it. What a coincidence!

I’ll betcha that video has some references to God…Ohhhhhhhh God, Ohhhhhhhh God, Ohhhhhhhh GOD. Ummmm.

But, was she faking it? C’mon Carrie, lyng is a sin you know. Oh, and Mr. Cucumber says hi and to call him…

The all knowing and all powerful Rush Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama is “pursuing a ‘radical’ agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril.”

And who should know more about pursuing a radical agenda than Rush Limbaugh. The man can’t even properly vet “news” stories. He reported the “story” of President Barack Obama slamming the Constitution in his college thesis as fact on his show. But after Limbaugh found out the piece was a fake, he didn’t apologize for his mistake, he just said something like “well, it sounds right.”

He calls Obama a “child” driven by his “out-of-this-world ego.”

Rush, I thought you were off the Oxycontin.

Rush goes on to say that “And when they get this health care bill — if they do — that’s the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior, because it will all have some related cost to health care — what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do — and there will be penalties for violating regulation. It’s going to be the biggest snatch of freedom and liberty that has yet occurred in this country.”

I guess it does make sense that a fat, drug addicted person might be nervous of the ramifications of health care reform. It might tighten up “doctor shopping”. I can see where Rush might be upset about that. Personally, I can’t wait for the regulation of insurance companies. They have been ripping off the average consumer for years.

Rush, take a look back at how well the “free market” regulated itself in the banking industry. And look at the rate of increase of health care premiums and services over the last 10 years. The average person doesn’t have the millions of dollars like you do to be able buy the best health care. $12,000 a year for premiums is just out of reach for the average worker.

And it’s the average worker who keeps people like you in business.