Video:Members of the Civil Rights Commission Discuss Coates’ Testimony With Megyn Kelly

Here is Megyn Kelly’s coverage from earlier today:

She had  two members of the commission on, Ashley L. Taylor, and Michael Yaki to discuss the case.

Michael Yaki is a piece of work. He’s a San Francisco lawyer who appears to be more concerned with protecting the Obamacrats, than with protecting American voters. Yaki, a former adviser to Nancy Pelosi, smears Coates and Adams as “politically polarized  and ideologically rigid” (project much?) remnants of the Bush administration, who are “mad about losing the election”, and are now “making wild accusations”. A truly disgusting spectacle. Yaki is a left wing political hack who has no business sitting on the United States Civil Rights Commission. Kelly afforded him more respect than he deserved, frankly.

J. Christian Adams has hinted that that there are others in the voting rights dept. who might also come forward. But then,  I suppose that the ‘sore losers still mad about the election’ trope could be used against them, too. My God, if they’ll use it against a former ACLU attorney, they’ll use it against anyone.

UPDATE:

Making a great point:

Bullet People: Lessons from Team Obama on King’s Legacy

Previously:

Christopher Coates Testifies to the United States Civil Rights Commission

New Records Prove High Ranking DOJ Officials Lied About New Black Panther Case

Obama Justice Dept. Files Another Lawsuit Against Arizona Authorities

Town Hall Erupts When CA Congressman Brad Sherman Admits He’s “Simply Not Aware of that (New Black Panther) Case”

Town Hall Erupts When CA Congressman Brad Sherman Admits He’s “Simply Not Aware of that (New Black Panther) Case”

Video: The Shabazz Brothers Comedy Hour

Video: NBPP Leader Malik “Zulu” Shabazz Lies and Spins Throughout Megyn Kelly Interview

The New Black Panthers’ King of Comedy

Whistleblower Details Lawlessness and Hostility Toward Equal Enforcement Of The Law In Obama Justice Dept.

New Black Panther Party Prepares For War Against Tea Partiers

Black Panther Malik Z. Shabazz Hits Back At Republican Critics

Is Obama’s legal team imploding due to New Black Panther voter intimidation case?

Why Would The DOJ Dismiss The Charges Against The New Black Panthers?

Voter Fraud/Intimidation Reports

The My Barack Obama Community Blograge

Radicals, Terrorists And Tyrants Of The World Root For Obama

New Black Panther Party Endorses Obama

Announcing This Week’s 10-Buck Friday Winner: Congratulations Jesse Kelly

Via Right Klik:

With a solid majority of the votes, Jesse Kelly wins this week’s Ten Buck Fridays poll.

Jesse Kelly is a enthusiastic Reagan Republican who has earned the endorsement of Mark Levin. In my estimation, there’s no more convincing evidence of one’s conservative credentials than a seal of approval from “the Great One.” But don’t take Levin’s word for it. Listen to Jesse Kelly speak for himself. You’ll be thoroughly impressed, I guarantee it:

Jesse Kelly beat a liberal Republican in the primary, now he faces an incumbent Obama Democrat in the general election.

If you haven’t started giving to conservative candidates on a weekly basis, now is the time to start, and Jesse Kelly is an exceptional candidate to start out with.

Donate here.

The election is almost here, folks…less than 40 days to go!

Bio

Jesse and his wife, Aubrey, live in Marana, a town just northwest of Tucson, Arizona. They are raising two sons, James and Luke. The family attends Alive Christian Church in Marana.

Jesse is a project manager of Don Kelly Construction, his family’s contracting business, where he oversees multi-million dollar infrastructure projects. As a project manager, Jesse has balanced budgets, made payroll and hired hundreds of people.

From 2000-2004, Jesse served in the United States Marine Corps. In 2003, he was deployed to Iraq, where he led a squad of infantry Marines in combat. Jesse was honorably discharged as a Sergeant. He was awarded a good conduct medal, and his unit was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.

Jesse made the decision to run for Congress the day President Obama signed the wasteful, $787 billion stimulus package. He will fight for solutions that work in order to create jobs and get the economy moving again. Jesse’s military leadership and business experience are exactly what we need in a Representative to Congress.

Let’s get to donating! There were 1,226 votes this week. That translates to $12,260 if everyone who voted donates their ten bucks. Not a bad haul.

Video: The Last Best Hope

I love, love, love  this inspiring video Caleb Howe posted at RedState - its effective use of music and imagery packs a powerful punch:

Created by Caleb’s big little brother, Ben Howe. (The bald one).

Christopher Coates Testifies to the United States Civil Rights Commission

Today, in the twilight of his career, former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates,  defying DOJ instructions, heroically stood up  for truth and justice, against the lies, corruption and racial bias that infests the Obama/Holder Justice Dept.

In what J Christian Adams, reporting for Pajamas Media, calls the end of “a very bad week” for the Holder/Obama Justice Dept and its apologists, Coates testified to the United States Civil Rights Commission that “Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion”.

And that was just the beginning.

In a dramatic hearing in Washington, D.C., Coates simply destroyed the year-long spin from the Justice Department regarding the dismissal. Coates is the former Voting Section chief, and served as lead attorney on the Black Panther case. He has practiced voting rights law longer than any other lawyer at the Justice Department. His testimony today was the worst possible nightmare for the Obama political officials responsible for the dismissal.

I testified before the Commission in July that Obama political appointee Julie Fernandes made it clear that the Voting Section at the Justice Department would not be bringing any more cases against traditional national racial minorities, like the members of the New Black Panthers. Under oath, Coates corroborated my testimony.

The public has been wondering for over a year why the case was dismissed. Coates testified why today.

[There is a] deep-seated opposition to the race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against racial minorities and for the protection of whites who have been discriminated against.

Coates verified that the DOJ is infested with racially motivated hostility towards equal enforcement of the law. Like me, Coates testified about the history of open and pervasive hostility inside the Voting Section to protecting the rights of white voters. This hostility first emerged in the case against Ike Brown in Noxubee County, Mississippi, going back as far as 2004:

The opposition within the Voting Section to taking actions on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, Mississippi, … was widespread.

Coates confirmed that senior managers didn’t even want to open the investigation into discrimination against white voters in Noxubee County:

The Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me: “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?”

Coates described how his memoranda were doctored by former Voting Section Chief Joe Rich, confirming my testimony as well as an article that appeared here at PJM this week.

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It is disingenuous for some in the media to ignore this spiraling scandal. It will be even harder for critics like Commissioner Abigail Thernstrom to ignore testimony like we heard today. Today offers reasonable people like Thernstrom a chance at a redeeming reversal of course. Coates said:

The final disposition of the NBPP case, even in the face of a default by the defendants, was caused by this incorrect view of civil rights enforcement, and it was intended to send a direct message to people inside and outside the Civil Rights Division. That message is that the filing of voting cases like the Ike Brown and the NBPP cases would not continue in the Obama administration. The disposition of the NBPP case was not required by the facts developed during the case or the applicable law, as has been claimed, but was because of this incorrect view of civil rights enforcement that is at war with the statutory language in the VRA and with racially fair enforcement of federal law.

Overall, Coates painted a picture of racially motivated lawlessness inside the Department of Justice. I testified about the same circumstances, and there are many others who could provide sworn accounts of the same racially corrupt state of affairs.

America has only heard from two of us, but there are many more who know the truth.

Coates is now taking questions from members of the commission.

LIVE: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights New Black Panther Party Testimony, here.

Read Adams’ full report, here.

Coates’ damning testimony can be read, here.

Does Commission member, Abigail Thernstrom still think this whole thing is “very small potatoes”? So far she’s been yielding her questions.

Here’s some background info on San Francisco attorney, Michael Yaki, who has been the most contentious and critical commission member during these proceedings. Among other things, he’s a former District Director and  a senior adviser for Nancy Pelosi.

PJ TV  interviewing Hans von Spakovsky: “The Potemkin village of the civil rights division was just torn down by Chris Coates.”

Von Spakovsky called Yaki’s attempts to call Coates’ integrity into question, “pathetic”.

Todd F. Gaziano, the Congressional appointee to the  Commission, being interviewed by PJTV says he found much of the testimony to be “shocking”.

J Christian Adams calls the DOJ policy of opposition to the race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, “evil and unconstitutional”.

MORE:

Verum Serum: Bombshell: Obama DOJ Enabling Voter Registration Fraud?

More from Coates’ testimony:

That means that we have entered the 2010 election cycle with eight states appearing to be in major noncompliance with the list maintenance requirements of Section 8 of the NVRA, and yet the Voting Section which has the responsibility to enforce that law has yet to take any action. From these circumstances I believe that Ms. Fernandez’s statement to the Voting Section in November 2009 not, in effect, initiate Section 8 list maintenance enforcement activities has been complied with.

***

Further, not to enforce the list maintenance provisions of Section 8 are likely to have partisan consequences as well. A number of the jurisdictions that have bloated registration lists are where there are sizable minority populations and are Democratic strongholds.

Michelle Malkin asked this question  on Sept 7: Voter rolls: We see dead people. Does the DOJ?

The Obamacrats have every intention of engaging in voter fraud. What can be done to stop it?

See also:

Powerline: Christopher Coates takes the stand

Coates’s testimony is a bombshell. It exposes a couple of Obama administration scandals at once. One involves the Obama administration’s attempt to cover up the rationale for burying the case against the NBPP. The other involves the Obama administration’s support for the racially based administration of justice.

Hot Air: Coates: Obama appointee told me to stop pursuing race-neutral enforcement of Voting Rights Act

AoSHQ: Coates’ Testimony: Yes, The Civil Rights Division Now Has An Explicit Policy Of Not Protecting White Voters

Michelle Malkin: Culture of corruption: New Black Panther Party voter intimidation hearing live at 10am Friday; Updated: “Culture of hostility” at Holder DOJ

Instapundit:

DISTRACTION: So, yesterday reader John Mark Williams suggested that the Colbert testimony was intended to distract from coverage of Christopher Coates’ testimony about the Justice Department’s racism scandals. If so, it’s worked. Front page of Daily Caller: Colbert. Drudge led with Colbert until the news of the Klein & Zucker firings came out. Limbaugh led off today talking about Colbert. NRO has covered Colbert at The Corner, but not Coates. Washington Examiner headline: Colbert. Looking around other sites, I see more about Colbert than Coates. Hot Air and Power Line did better.

John Nolte at Big Hollywood: Stephen Colbert: Dem’s Trained Clown Trotted Out to Distract From Obama DOJ Scandal

Personally, I completely agree with Glenn Reynolds that  having this idiot Colbert testify was nothing more than a Democrat stunt to take the media’s eye off the very real and important testimony also taking place today regarding the Justice Department’s racism scandals. So the more cringe-worthy and embarrassing Colbert’s appearance is, the better. Naturally, the MSM will be all too willing to play along. They fully understand how damaging the DOJ Black Panther case is to the Obama Administration and have no desire to come anywhere near covering it.

And of course, there’s Stephen Colbert, just as willing to play along — a narcissistic attention whore with no respect for the political process who thinks his schtick combined with a ten hour day he spent in the vegetable fields somehow makes him a compelling and important witness.

Oh, wow…I had forgotten about this – Andrew Breitbart reminds: Which Malik Shabazz Visited The White House In July 2009, Mr. President?

• July 8, Representative Frank Wolf sent a letter to Judiciary Chairman John Conyers and Ranking Member Lamar Smith demanding hearings before the House Judiciary Committee.
• July 9, Ten members of the House sent a letter demanding the DOJ Inspector General open an investigation.
• July 13, The Dept. of Justice replied but their letter contained factual inaccuracies about the case
• July 17  Smith and Wolf send a swift and pointed rebuttal
• July 20, Low-level DOJ staffers were sent to the Hill to brief Wolf on the Panther story, but Wolf threw them out of his office claiming they weren’t being truthful to him.
• July 22, Wolf sent another letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers.
• July 24, Portia Robinson, intergovernmental liaison at DOJ, sent a letter to the Civil Rights Commission trying to deflect attention.
• July 25, a man named Malik Shabazz visited the exclusive, private residence in the White House.
• July 30, the Washington Times broke the news that top political appointee, Tom Perrelli (the #3 official at Justice) was involved in the dismissal of the case.  Perrelli was also a top campaign bundler for Obama.

The White House has assured the American people that the Malik Shabazz that visited the White House at that time is not the same Malik Shabazz at the center of the New Black Panther story. But, the White House has not provided any information to verify its contention or who this “other” Malik Shabazz is.

Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks!

The Democrat Pledge To America

Since Democrats have been so vocal in their ridicule and contempt for the Republican pledge, Byron York was wondering  if maybe they had a similar pledge of their own to offer voters:

What are Democrats promising to do if the voters decide to return them to control of the House?

The answer is: There isn’t a Democratic agenda.

Shortly before the Republicans rolled out their plan in Sterling, Virginia, I called the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I asked spokesman Ryan Rudominer whether, since we now have the GOP agenda, there is a similar document laying out what Democrats will do if voters return them to power in the House. There was a moment of silence on the other end of the call.

“I’m sorry, you mean, like, a current one?” Rudominer asked.

Yes, I said.

“I don’t think we have, like, you know, a 21-page sort of infommercial-type package like this,” Rudominer said.

Well, any sort of agenda would be fine, I said.

“Look, you know, each race is going to have their own individualized message,” Rudominer answered. “So look, we’re not putting together a gimmicky package like this six weeks before the election. We’re talking about making each of these elections a choice.”

Well, they have an agenda, alright. They just don’t want to share it with the voters since there’s….you know…an election coming up. They’re busy running away from ObamaCare, or running as quasi Republicans.…which can be, (as Kathleen Sebelius would say) confusing to the voters.

Democrats really should have their own pledge…to offer voters a contrast between their agenda, and the Republicans’ “same old agenda” that “drove us into the ditch”, (as they keep telling us). The American voter is owed that much.

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Byron York had some good ideas in his piece:

In the absence of a specific Democratic agenda, perhaps the best way to guess at what Democrats would do if re-elected is to look at the unfinished portions of their 2009-2010 agenda. There is cap-and-trade environmental regulation. More economic stimulus. Comprehensive immigration reform. Union-favored “card check” legislation. And, of course, resisting Republican efforts to repeal or chip away at Obamacare. (Democrats recently beat back a proposed change to the health care law that would fix a tax reporting requirement that just about everyone agrees is terribly burdensome on businesses, which suggests they will try to stop any changes to the health care law, despite pledges to “fix” the legislation.)

I added a few more:

Now  compare that to the Republican Pledge:

•    Permanently Stop All Job-Killing Tax Hikes

•    Give Small Businesses a Tax Deduction

•    Rein In the Red Tape Factory in Washington, DC

•    Repeal Job-Killing Small Business Mandates

•    Act Immediately to Reduce Spending

•    Cut Government Spending to Pre-Stimulus, Pre-Bailout Levels

•    Establish a Hard Cap on New Discretionary Spending

•    Cut Congress’ Budget

•    Hold Weekly Votes on Spending Cuts

•    End TARP Once And For All

•    End Government Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

•    Impose a Net Federal Hiring Freeze of Non-Security Employees

•    Root Out Government Waste and Duplication

•    Reform the Budget Process to Focus on Long-Term Challenges

•    Repeal the Costly Health Care Takeover of 2010

Continued, here.

The GOP’s preamble to their pledge:

This has been a public service announcement.

UPDATE:

See comments for more Dem Pledge ideas.

Linked in John Hawkins’ Linkiest, and Smash Mouth Politics, thanks!

Sarah Palin: Lies, Damned Lies – Obamacare 6 Months Later

Ooh-wee!, listen to the ‘Cuda call out Bam on his all his  lies:

It’s now six months since President Obama took control of one-sixth of the private sector economy with his health care “reform,” and the first changes to our health care system come into effect today. Despite overwhelming public dislike of the bill, we were told that D.C. knows best, and there was nothing to worry about, and we’d be better off swallowing the pill called Obamacare; so, in defiance of the will of the people, the President and his party rammed through this mother of all unfunded mandates. Nancy Pelosi said Congress had to pass the bill so that Americans could “find out what is in it.” We found out that it’s even worse than we feared.

Remember when the president said, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”? Not true. In Texas alone a record number of doctors are leaving the Medicare system because of the cuts in reimbursements forced on them by Obamacare! The president of the Texas Medical Association, Dr. Susan Bailey, warns that “the Medicare system is beginning to implode.”

Remember the Obama administration’s promise that Obamacare would cut a typical family’s premium “by up to $2500 a year”? Not true. In fact, fueled by reports that insurers expect premiums to rise by as much as 25 percent as a result of Obamacare, Senate Democrats are contemplating the introduction of price controls.

Remember when the president said in his address to Congress that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions”? That turned out to be yet another one of those “You lie!” moments. We found out that Obamacare-mandated high risk insurance pools set up in states like Pennsylvania and New Mexico will fund abortions after all.

Remember the promise that Obamacare would “strengthen small businesses”? Not true either. The net result of Obamacare is that small businesses will face higher health care costs, new Medicare taxes, and higher regulation compliance costs, while the much-hyped health care tax credit for small businesses turns out to be almost impossible to obtain.

Remember the president’s promise that his bill would ensure “everyone [has] some basic security”? False again. Besides the great uncertainty that Obamacare hampers businesses with, companies now find it is actually cheaper to pay the $2000 per employee fine imposed by Obamacare than to keep insuring their workforce. This leaves millions of American workers at risk of losing their employer-provided health insurance.

And remember when the Obama administration said they would not be “rationing care” in the future? That ol’ “death panels” thing I wrote about last year? That was before Obamacare was passed. Once it passed, they admitted there was going to be rationing after all. There has to be. The reality of Obamacare is that it enshrines what the New York Times called “The Power of No” – the government’s power to say no to your request for treatment of the people you love. The fact that the president used a recess appointment to push through the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tells you all you need to know about this administration’s intentions. After all, Berwick is the man who said, “The decision is not whether we will ration care – the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”

By the way, when the administration was talking about that independent board that has the statutory power to decide which categories of treatment are worthy of funding based on efficiency calculations (that, again, sounded to me like a panel of faceless bureaucrats making life and death decisions about your loved ones – which, again, is what I referred to as a “death panel”), it was another opportunity for Americans to hear the truth about Obamacare’s intentions.

You can read the rest at Facebook.

RELATED:

Ace: Waterloo: The Democrats Doomed Themselves With ObamaCare

You.

Really.

Should’ve.

Listened.

You exercised raw political power without regard to our opinions, just to show you could. We’re stupid animals, you thought; these stupid animals will all fall in line when we tug on the leash hard enough.

No. And we’re not just tugging back. We’re going for your f***ing throats.

You exercised raw political power.

Our turn, b*tches.

Oh yes, November 2nd is shaping up to be quite the little bloodbath…

Mixed Reviews For The New Republican Pledge

The Republican Pledge to America is getting mixed reviews. (PDF is here, text at the Weekly Standard.) Dems, obviously,  offer nothing but ridicule and predictable lib talking points. At least the WH didn’t use their tired car/slurpie metaphor:

The White House immediately attacked the House Republicans’ election agenda rollout Wednesday evening, claiming the 21-page “Pledge to America” plan will “take America back to the same failed economic policies that caused this recession.”

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, writing on the White House blog, said Republicans “doubled down on the same ideas that hurt America’s middle class,” listing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, tax hikes for the middle class, “cutting rules and oversight” for financial services, health care and oil, all while adding to the deficit.

Some Republicans, like Erick Erickson at Red State think it reeks, too: Perhaps the Most Ridiculous Thing to Come Out of Washington Since George McClellan

A+ Rhetoric. C- Ideas.

The entirety of this Promise is laughable. Why? It is an illusion that fixates on stuff the GOP already should be doing while not daring to touch on stuff that will have any meaningful longterm effects on the size and scope of the federal government.

This document proves the GOP is more focused on the acquisition of power than the advocacy of long term sound public policy. All the good stuff in it is stuff we expect them to do. What is not in it is more than a little telling that the House GOP has not learned much of anything from 2006.

Ouch.

Doug Ross is not quite as hard on the pledge, but wishes it were shorter, and more boldly addressed real solutions to our overwhelming  problems:

But his (Erickson’s) point — that the GOP’s effort is mostly “dreck” — is valid. Washington’s so freaking broken that the usual platitudes and rhetoric can’t and won’t suffice.

21 pages? How about starting with two words: THE CONSTITUTION?

Ross provides his idea of what the pledge should look like. It’s all good stuff….but isn’t asking the Republicans to pledge to “ban public sector unions, which exist solely to wage war against the taxpayers who fund their operations“, a bit unrealistic? I understand that we are way past the point where “baby steps” in the right direction will be enough to get us back on track, but they have to get elected, first.

Doug Powers has a more positive reaction, with justifiable concerns about Republican fidelity to their pledge:

I love it, provided the words jump off the paper and into reality at some point soon. Sure, signing off on political pledges is a little like ordering X-Ray glasses from a comic book — you just know it’s not going to be nearly as good as advertised — but I like the GOP’s effort so far. However, it’s a real shame that the Constitution has to be re-branded once in a while — I kind of like the original.

The Pledge is somewhat similar to Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America, which worked wonders… for a while — until a few deals were reached, a couple compromises were made, and a number of handshakes across the aisle, pats on the back, and Republicans who caved in like third world mine shafts caused things to slip back to right where they were, and then some.

Michelle Malkin concurs, with her own suggestion: How about this pledge: “I will not swallow any more crap sandwiches”:

Making pledges is easy. Keeping them? Not so much. Just ask Mr. Hope and Change. The new GOP pledge is fine as far as it goes — especially the upfront acknowledgment that government’s powers derive from the consent of the governed, not from the penumbras emanating from the fingertips of all President Obama’s czars.

Here’s Paul Ryan on The Laura Ingraham Show, this morning:

And here he is on Good Morning America:

MORE:

Don Surber – Not happy: A pledge too long

I refuse to read that dumbass Pledge To America that the Republican Party in Washington came up with.

It is a load of crap.

21 pages?

If you cannot recite a pledge in less than 30 seconds — if schoolboys cannot memorize it — you do not have a pledge.

You have bureaucratic bilge.

How in the hell do you sell people on smaller government when you rattle on for 21 pages about your plans for health care and the like?

Are we just re-arranging deck chairs or are we saving the Titanic?

Here’s a pledge:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

He updates later after he’s read it to tell us he likes it, LOL. But it’s too long.

MORE:

Ace weighs in: Erickson Vs. Frum On The Pledge To America

I think they’re both wrong, and in ways that have become wearying predictable, each playing his cliched and exaggerated role.

I liked his pithy response to Frum.

Dan Riehl responds to Erickson point by point: GOP Pledge: My Strong Disagreement With Redstate

Legal Insurrection: GOP Pledge – A Thousand Points of Fight

Now that I have read it, I’m in agreement with the approach, which amounts to A Thousand Points of Fight.

The Pledge recognizes that the problem of an out-of-control federal government was not created overnight, and there are no handful of one-size fits all solutions.

There are thousands of problems, and it will take time.

The Pledge properly focuses on themes of smaller government based on constitutional principles, national security, and individual autonomy.
Linked by Michelle Malkin, Buzzworthy, The Hayride, (taking Doug Ross’ side on the public sector union thing), and Adrienne’s Corner, thanks!

Thursday Tab Dump.

Via Rush

Bear with me, as I clear some tabs before my ‘puter crashes.

First up:

What’s this I hear about the White House asking churches to “spread the word” about ObamaCare. These repeated attempts to use “God’s partners” to spread progressive propaganda are beyond disgusting:

PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN: POTUS, SEBELIUS ASK FAITH LEADERS TO OUTREACH – With health reform’s popularity steadily slipping, top administration officials turned to faith-based groups that supported the law to do their part explaining it. On an hour-long conference call Tuesday, they outlined the Patients’ Bill of Rights and asked faith-based and community groups to get the word out on the new provisions. “I wanted to have this call because we have a big day coming up, the six-month anniversary of health reform’s passage,” President Obama told leaders on the conference call, hosted through Health and Human Services’ Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Obama later added that, “The debate in Washington is over, the Affordable Care Act is now law. …I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors, to help explain what’s now available to them.” Joshua DuBois, head of the White House’s Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, got even more specific: “Get the word out there, get information out there. Make use of the resources described on this call: the website, door hangers, one pagers and so forth. We’ve got work to do.”

Separation of Church and State only applies when conservative issues are involved, don’t you know.

A history of RINO backstabbing going back to 1994 is compiled in one infuriating list: Party unity is for the wing nuts.

The latest on Panthergate at PJ Media: Bombshell: Defying DOJ Instructions, Christopher Coates Will Testify Friday on New Black Panther Case

Ten months ago, Coates, the award-winning former chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, was subpoenaed by the Commission to testify about the case. He was subsequently instructed by DOJ officials to ignore the subpoena. Within the past hour, commissioners were informed that Chairman Gerald Reynolds had spoken with Coates and that the chairman would reconvene the Commission’s ongoing hearing on Friday at 9:30 a.m. to hear Coates’s testimony.

The Civil Rights Commission has sought to obtain Coates’ testimony on Justice’s dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case in Philadelphia. In a recent request to Justice, the Commission agreed to limit initial questioning of Coates to accusations made by former career lawyer J. Christian Adams about statements and other actions by Julie Fernandes, an Obama administration political appointee, if DOJ produced Coates.

The DOJ refused.

Keep reading…

More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Uh oh: DoJ lawyer to testify tomorrow on voter-intimidation case dismissal

Expect some fireworks tomorrow. (Oh, yes.)

Also at PJ Media: Is Barney Frank Nervous? Bill Clinton Coming to Rescue in MA

Former President Bill Clinton will appear to endorse Barney Frank in Taunton, MA, on September 26. When he announced President Clinton’s visit, Frank attempted to deflect the inference that he is concerned about the election by asserting that the visit was President Clinton’s idea. Sean Bielat — the young, attractive Republican challenger — accused Frank of “running scared”.

Bubba and Bawny!

A Counter Rally Against Clinton and Frank is being planned. They’re asking people to keep the signs tasteful…..(’nuff said).

Some conservative blogs are speculating on what sort of “October Surprise”, the Dems have in store for us this year.  You know they’re desperate.

Ric’s Rulez:

With the soothsayers predicting a debacle, the minds of Democrats must be pretty sharply focused about now. They do have one advantage: virtually total control over the “news media”, which they can pretty well use to orchestrate most anything, raising it to enough of a crescendo to qualify as a spoiler for Republican chances. Against that, it isn’t a Presidential year. Axelrod and Rahm must be puzzling that one out. If they’ve got something really good, wouldn’t it be better to save it for 2012? Or do they let it off now and expect to get (or manufacture) something else for then?

Jim Geraghty at National Review Online suggests — or, rather, his invisible advisor “Obi-Wan Kenobi” advises — that Republicans hold a contest to see who can predict the October surprise.

If you have any predictions, leave them in the comments.

JUST GREAT: Connie Hair at Human Events: Senate Judiciary Vote Thursday for Five Fringe Obama Judges

PLEASE! The latest line the MSM is selling is Voters “Feel Sorry” for Obama?

In her essay, Marcus would have us believe that the nation’s voters are only upset with congress, and that a large number of voters actually feel sorry for President Obama.  Nothing could be further from the whole truth.  (and telling a half-truth is exactly the same thing as telling a lie).

In case you missed it, here’s Obama getting heckled again by AIDs activists at a NYC fund raiser Wed. night:

Obama has been stingy, compared to Bush, on AIDs funding, and they know it.

Lots of good stuff, here:

Ace: Chris Christie: I’m Going To Unite This Country Even If It Means I Have To Kick The Shit Out Of You

I do so wish he would run for President.

AGAIN???

Michelle Malkin: Once more: Stop the special-interest, speech-squelching DISCLOSE Act

Dr. Zero in the Greenroom has the LOL line of the day: Doubling Down on O’Donnell:

In the interests of full disclosure, I sized up the Delaware race and reluctantly concluded it was strategically wise to support Castle, who had a much better chance of taking the seat, and possibly delivering a Republican Senate.  I made this recommendation to play the odds, not predict the future.  Now that O’Donnell is the nominee, I support her candidacy without hesitation.  I dearly hope Senator O’Donnell and I can meet up in Hogsmeade someday, and have a laugh about my lack of faith over a butterbeer.

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No, Ms. Sebelius…Americans Are Not “Confused” About ObamaCare

Kathleen Sebelius appeared on Travis Smiley’s PBS Show a few days ago to talk about ObamaCare. He asked her why Republicans shouldn’t make an effort to repeal the bill given the fact that “poll after poll after poll” shows it to be unpopular. Her answer starts at the 3:00 mark:

” Unfortunately, a lot of the American people are still confused about what’s in the bill and what’s not in the bill…”

Okay, I admit I was confused when Obama said our premiums would go down 3000%….

…there was about eighteen months of intentional misinformation given out day in and day out…”

True dat! – but the misinformation was coming from Obama and his minions.

Sebelius even engaged in a little misinformation, herself,  on The Travis Smiley Show:

“Everybody admits that this bill lowers the deficit by about a $100 billion dollars the first ten years, and then by a trillion, the second ten years.”

Really??? Everybody???

I know the Obami love  to use the “everybody agrees with us” approach, but isn’t Ms. Sebelius a little old to be using the Alinsky hippy drippy 60s radical  playbook? As in:

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

We’re supposed to believe that 100% of us agree with them that Obamacare will lower the deficit?

The Heritage Foundation, for one, doesn’t buy it:

Contrary to a key intention of the legislation, the combination of mandates and taxes will not help to reduce the deficit. In fact, the PPACA will likely increase the deficit by an average $75 billion per year, and as a result, the nation’s publicly held debt will be $753 billion higher at the end of 2020. Such astronomical debt crowds out other productive investments and will lead to an estimated 670,000 lost job opportunities per year.

Dynamic Analysis Confirms Fears

It was the goal of health care reform to be deficit neutral—as scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—within the first 10 years of enactment. In order to achieve this goal, the new law immediately imposes a combination of new taxes on high-income individuals, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals and Medicare spending cuts. In addition, the PPACA delays subsidy payments to help make insurance affordable for those with lower incomes and Medicaid expansions to cover more of the uninsured.

However, the static budget analysis is limited in that it does not account for how the policy combination of spending and taxes alters the macroeconomic performance of the economy and feeds back onto the budget. A dynamic simulation shows that the higher initial costs are not an investment that pays off with a higher return in later years. Indeed, these front-loaded costs slow economic growth with higher inflation and higher interest rates, which overwhelm the benefits the proposal hoped to gain in later years.

The bill’s taxes, penalties, and fees on investors and businesses will decrease the amount of investment in the economy. This reduced investment will in turn lead to a decline in productivity, causing the economy to produce $706 billion less worth of goods and services. A smaller economic pie means that workers earn lower wages and salaries. Higher taxes on investment also put upward pressure on interest rates as investors seek to achieve their after-tax desired rate of return.[1]

Lower wages reduce the amount of taxable income that could otherwise have been achieved. This will both increase the deficit and grow the total debt—which in turn puts upward pressure on interest rates and crowds out some savings that could have gone to new productive business investments.

Higher interest rates mean that more American tax dollars will go toward paying the interest on the federal debt rather than paying down the principal. Simulations using dynamic analysis estimate that the government would spend an average $23 billion more per year on interest rate payments over the 2010–2020 year window than it would without the PPACA.

Once the government begins paying for health insurance for individuals through subsidies and bringing people into the government insurance programs in the latter half of the decade, this growing debt will balloon. By the end of the 10 years, debt held by the public will be $753 billion higher than it otherwise would have been.

Here are the Top 10 Failures of ObamaCare After Six Months according to Emily Miller at Human Events:

1. Premiums Have Gone Up.

2. You Can’t Keep Your Current Plan And Doctor.

3. National Budget Deficit Is Worse

4. More Children Are Uninsured

5. Small Business Taxes Increased

6. Small Businesses Health Care Burden Increased

7. More Government Spending

8. Senior Citizens Suffer from Medicare Cuts

9. Minorities Get Worse Health Care

10. Democrats Losing Elections

Hit the link for full details.

The truth is, the more people learn about ObamaCare, the more unpopular it becomes.That’s not confusion -it’s clarity.

George Soros’ 9 Most Despicable Acts

The original post at Newsreal Blog by Kathy Shaidle read, George Soros’ 8 Most Despicable Acts, but we get to add one more, since Soros sicced his lawyers on the Canadian because she isn’t protected by the same First Amendment, and libel laws, we Americans are.

Thus despite the fact that the information she presented has floated around the American blogosphere for years and was published in David Horowitz and Richard Poe’s The Shadow Party, because of where she lives Soros’ goons were able to target her with legal threats. That is the nature of the totalitarian personality we’re dealing with here.

Roger Simon has written:

…were I a biographer — an occupation for which I have nowhere near the patience or perspicacity — [George] Soros would be my first choice for a subject. He is a paradigmatic figure for our times, a kind of a monster created in the twentieth century, inexorably metastasizing into the twenty-first.

Everyone’s favorite “progressive” billionaire George Soros has been stomping all over us up here in the Not-So-Great White North this week. Even if you’ve followed the Soros saga for years, you’ll be forgiven for being a tiny bit shocked that his generously funded attack dogs are now going so far as trying to shut down a TV channel that hasn’t even aired yet — in a foreign country, no less.

So let’s review “George Soros’ Most Despicable Acts,” and not just in Canada– with help from his extensive entry in Discover The Networks…

Finish reading at Newsreal.

Woodward’s New Book, “Obama’s Wars” Exposes CIC’s Weak War Footing

Reading the first excerpts of Bob Woodward’s new book, “Obama’s Wars” in The Washington Post is an exercise in self induced nausea. You know it’s going to make you sick, but you read it anyway. There are no surprises here. We always suspected that the reason Obama spent so much time in 2009 deciding on a strategy for Afghanistan, was because, despite all of his pro-Afghan War bluster during the 2008 campaign, he just wanted us to get out of there.

That put him at odds with his Generals…

particularly Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command during the 2009 strategy review and now the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan.

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During a flight in May, after a glass of wine, Petraeus told his own staffers that the administration was “[expletive] with the wrong guy.” Gates was tempted to walk out of an Oval Office meeting after being offended by comments made by deputy national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon about a general not named in the book.

Ed Morrissey notes:

During the Iraq War, Democrats ripped George W. Bush for supposedly not listening to his generals about sufficient troop commitments and strategic and tactical decisions in the field.  Consider that when reading the Washington Post’s report from Bob Woodward’s inside look at the stewardship of Barack Obama in the Afghanistan war.  Not only did Obama ignore the recommendations of his generals, he wound up writing his own war plan to spite them:

President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.

Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in “Obama’s Wars,” to be released on Monday.

According to Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives. …

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops as part of an expansive mission that had no foreseeable end. “I’m not doing 10 years,” he told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009. “I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.”

The most important thing Ace took away from the piece was Obama’s flaming skull-worthy assertion that the country could “absorb” another terrorist attack:

Barack Obama To Bob Woodward This Past July: “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”

…the left is pushing this idea that we can safely “absorb” many new 9/11′s with an eye towards getting us to “accept” the greater bargain they fatuously offer — peace, and a general wind-down of post-9/11 security “overreactions” like the FBI tracking Muslims suspected of terrorist ties. If only we didn’t overreact to the occasional mass-murder, we could go about our business without war, without increased security measures, without “Islamophobia,” without the rest of it.

The problem, you see, is primarily within us, those being targeted for murder. If only we understood that this was a good bargain in exchange for living in a multicultural country and global economy, then we could be good citizens of the world and not lash out so terribly and uselessly when some of the more aggressive proponents of multiculturalism blow up a few of our buildings.

I’m not clear on whether the remark was made in July of 2009 or 2010, but it looks like most of the interviews took place in 2009..

From the The WaPo article :

Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”

We do know that since Obama took office,  there have been an alarming number of terrorist attacks on US soil that have been successful, or were only foiled due to the terrorists’ own incompetence:

May 2009, Binghamton NY: Taliban Chief Claims Responsibility for N.Y. Shooting Massacre

June 2009, Little Rock, AR: Military Recruiting Center Shooting Suspect Under FBI Investigation

November 2009, Fort Hood, TX: Fort Hood Gunman Who Killed 12, Wounded 30 Survived Gun Battle

December 2009, Detroit, MI: Fear and heroism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 after attempted bombing

May 2010, NYC: Holder: Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Attack

The fact that so many terrorists have been able to get around our national security apparatus, has prompted conservatives like AJ Strata to notice that Something’s Wrong Inside Obama Administration Concerning Terrorist Bombings.

That something may be a new attitude that puts preserving multiculturalism and “global good citizenry” above  preserving American lives.

We can absorb these attacks. We have absorbed these attacks.

Obama signaled his feelings on this in an April 2007 Dem Primary debate in which he said that he wouldn’t respond to a massive terrorist attack by “alienating the world” based on “bluster and bombast”. His focus was on first responders.

Clinton and Edwards had  both answered that they would respond militarily.

The left may push the idea, but most liberal pols know better than to promote it.

Not our President.

SEE ALSO:

RCP Video: Bolton On Fox News with Megyn Kelly: Obama Is “Cold-Blooded, Cynical” And Manipulates National Security

JOHN BOLTON, FORMER UN AMBASSADOR: “If the book is accurate … it is some of the most cold-blooded, cynical, grotesquely political manipulation of national security that I think we’ve ever seen.”

On “absorbing” another terrorist attack:

“The notion that a President would say that in that kind of callous and just utterly robotic way, I think is yet further indication that Obama is simply not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief,” Bolton added.

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Video: Sarah Palin Salutes The Tea Party

The Obamadems want to link these “tea party extremists” to Republican candidates. They should only be so lucky:

Via Sarah Palin on Facebook.

Ed (Genius Envy) Schutlz’s ‘One Nation’ March Being Sponsored by Communist, Pro-Islamist Groups And Other Assorted Extremists

As you may remember, Ed Schulz recently “accepted the challenge” to combat Glenn Beck and the tea party by announcing the One Nation rally, which is being held in Washington DC, October 3rd.

He had recently bragged that he could “outdraw” Glenn Beck - “No big shakes!”

Never-mind that the One Nation march to counter  “tea party racism” was made public on a Marxist co-sponsor’s website over a month earlier. If this turns out to be a  massive turnout of moonbats, Schultz will take credit.

Here’s a small sampling of the “partners” joining One Nation, which includes CPUSA, Democratic Socialists of America,  Answer, and Code Pink:

Big Peace reports:

The NAACP-led ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally coming up in Washington, D.C. on October 2nd to counter the Tea Party movement’s success is being sponsored by pro-terrorist and communist groups. Many of their logos are proudly and prominently displayed on the rally’s promotional website. One sponsor’s leader was fired this summer by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission for his ties to Hamas.

The rally’s sponsor list demonstrates how the Democrat party’s liberal establishment has mainstreamed treason and anti-semitism.

Included among large, traditional labor organizations sponsoring the rally: AFL-CIO; National Education Association; the union of federal government workers’ American Federation of Government Employees; United Auto Workers; and United Mine Workers .

Joining them are anti-American, anti-Israel groups: Stalinist ANSWER Coalition; and the terrorist supporting Obama funders Code Pink and United for Peace and Justice, which since its inception and until recently was led by noted communist Leslie Cagan. Listed on the sidebar as sponsors are anti-American groups Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

All have supported terrorists in Iraq who were killing American troops and liberated Iraqis.

Also listed as partners of the One Nation rally are the Communist Party USA; the Democratic Socialists of America; the International Socialist Organization; and the War Resisters League.

One Nation Working Together also lists as a partner the American Muslim Association of North America, whose leader Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout was fired this summer by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for his ties to Hamas and David Duke.

Finish reading Communist, Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Israel Groups Sponsor NAACP’s ‘One Nation’ Counter Rally, at Big Peace.

These are EXACTLY the people I’m talking about when I say It’s Time To Start Linking Democrats To their Extremists.

The MSM will report on the numbers  attending this rally,  but will not report on who they are. That’s our job in the conservative media. And Republicans should use the images that come out of this rally, and link them to the Obamacrats.

These are their peeps.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

It’s Time To Play “NAME THAT PARTY!”

Newsbusters reports:

Today, eight city council members were arrested in Bell, California for what Los Angeles County District Attorney labeled “corruption on steroids.”

“Corruption on steroids”? Sounds BAD! Which party do  the culprits belong to?….

OR….

Because if you have to ask…..it’s a donk.

ABC, CBS, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the San Francisco Chronicle all reported on the arrests today without mentioning party affiliations.

I am impressed! I would have thought at least one MSM outlet, at a time when they are becoming increasingly irrelevant because people expect unbiased news, would have seen fit to mention party affiliations, but nooo…

Can you imagine what the coverage would have looked like had Republicans been guilty of such blatant and disgustingly corrupt behavior as this:

Together, the eight city officials “misappropriated” $5.5 million in municipal funds. Robert Rizzo, the chief culprit, was arrested on 53 counts of various brands of corruption.

Before the scandal came to light, Rizzo had been making roughly $1.5 million per year, even though the per capita income in Bell is roughly half the national average.

I wonder how the MSM would cover a Republican who was arrested for doing something bad but nowhere near as awful and corrupt as Rizzo et al, like, say -  getting arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol ?

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Oh! Well lookie here!:

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In today’s MN Star/Tribune: State Rep. Buesgens accused of DWI

A Twin Cities state representative was arrested last weekend while driving drunk in a ditch in Wright County, authorities said Monday.

Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, was stopped shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday by a deputy who saw him driving a car north in the ditch to the east of County Road 8 in Maple Lake Township, said Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Howell.

Well, I guess that answers my question!

The MN Star/Trib used the AP version of the Bell CA corruption story.

MN Star/Tribune: Ex-city manager, mayor among 8 officials arrested in scandal-plagued LA suburb:

The mayor and ex-city manager of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were among eight current and former city officials arrested Tuesday in a corruption scandal that authorities said cost the blue-collar city more than $5.5 million in excessive salaries and illegal personal loans.

The district attorney’s office said several former and current City Council members were taken into custody along with ex-city manager Robert Rizzo and Mayor Oscar Hernandez.

No mention of party affiliations in the first, second, or any of the following paragraphs in the story.

Video: Top 20 Pro-Socialism Sound Bites of Obama, Advisers and Allies

This video was featured on Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze.

YouTube video via Constitutional Patriot

This is what Organizing For America protesters consider ” hate” and “lies”: Glenn Beck playing tapes of what Dem Socialists actually say.

He needs to stop doing that!

Hat tip: iOWNTHEWORLD