Bloggin' on down the Rogue...

The "Nuge" is touring for Bouchard...

[I knew there had to be another good reason, besides Mike being a career lawman, that I liked him. Ted "The Motor City Madman" Nugent is headlining the Bouchard political tour!]

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Source: Escanaba Daily Press
Author: Alicia Holmes

Nugent Headlines Bouchard Political Tour

Many Upper Peninsula residents are far too apathetic, said rock-and-roll “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent during a visit to Escanaba Monday. But with the Aug. 8 primary right around the corner, residents must shake off their apathy and get out to vote, he said.

Nugent, a rock performer and well known outdoorsman who lives in Michigan, was working to raise voter support for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Bouchard. The two took part in a rally at the Delta County Airport Monday. Nugent told residents to scold those who don’t vote.

Nugent and Bouchard visited Escanaba as part of their “Quality of Michigan Life Upgrade Attack Tour,” which brought them statewide Sunday and Monday.

Bouchard said one of his top priorities is improving the economy. Wherever he travels in Michigan, he meets residents who’ve lost jobs, he said. “This is the time for a dramatic change,” said Bouchard, who aims to make Michigan more friendly to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

“We need to live within our means,” said Nugent. “It’s so simple it’s stupid.”

Bouchard said a second main concern is homeland security — securing the borders and protecting the country.

“We really need a change in Washington,” said state House Rep. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, who attended the rally to support Bouchard.

Carol Stock, Ensign Township, attended the rally to learn more about Bouchard, she said.

“With the primary election coming up, we need to find out more about the candidates,” added Escanaba Mayor Judi Schwalbach, who was also in attendance. “For Republicans, a decision needs to be made. When we cast our vote, it should be an informed vote. The more we can find out, the better our vote will be.”

For many residents in attendance, Nugent was an obvious highlight of the rally. Nugent’s passionate speech gained applause several times. “Do I or do I not speak for you when I speak,” he asked residents.

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Keith Butler says...

MICHIGAN POLITICS

US Senate candidate Keith Butler:

In his television ad he says "When I am in the senate, I won't be controlled by anyone! I'll follow my conscience."

[That "anyone" includes you, the voter. We should be used to that with two pro-amnesty Democrat senators who routinely ignore us. Considering that Keith is pro-amnesty (he favors allowing the illegals who are here to get citizenship) that is a big admission and is a good reason to vote for Mike Bouchard, the career law man.]

Carl Levin is starting his 2008 reelection campaign early

From the newsletter of Saul Anuzis...

Senator Levin launches a web page for his re-election two ½ years before he is even up….I think he’s getting a little worried…a little early! Things are changing in Michigan and the Michigan Republicans are getting ready to lead the way!

http://www.carllevin.com

Check out this page:

http://www.carllevin.com/news/2006/04/16/americas-10-best-senators/

Carl Levin: The Bird-Dogger

No one would accuse Carl Levin of looking like Hollywood’s version of a U.S. Senator. He’s pudgy, balding and occasionally rumpled, and he constantly wears his glasses at the very tip of his nose.

Levin, 71 and first elected in 1978, says he considers congressional hearings a critical part of his job, spending as much as 20 hours prepping for each one so an evasive witness won’t outwit him. The former civil-rights lawyer is known for forcing embarrassing admissions from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other Bush Administration officials through his precise questioning. “You’ve got to be very blunt and truly listen so you know when the b.s. is flying,” Levin says.

[Except when Democrats are pouring it into the whirling blades... No one slings bullshit like a Democrat! ]

Although admired by many Republicans for his diligence, Levin rarely sides with them. He opposed the Iraq war, and as the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, he has become one of his party’s leading voices in criticizing President Bush’s conduct of the invasion, arguing that the Administration didn’t have enough troops in the early stages and, more recently, hasn’t focused enough on training Iraqi troops. But his carefully researched, thoughtful remarks carry great weight with his colleagues. “Nobody in the Democratic Caucus says anything on national-security issues without talking to Carl Levin,” says a top Democratic Senate staff member.

[Carl is VERY pro-illegal alien. Forget "Rule of Law", Carl is very "Rule of Pander". When an issue of citizen workers versus illegal aliens comes up, the citizens lose every time with Carl as they do with every other hard core leftist Democrat. Carl has morphed over the years from a civil rights lawyer to a hard core socialist ACLU type.]

Where is the IRS? Millions dissapear into...

Thanks and a salute to Saul Anuzis "That's Saul Folks!"

Where is the Grand Jury investigation into the dissapearance of millions of political dollars?

Jenny just made millions go away with no accountability? I can not believe that the IRS or the US Attorney General is uninterested.

How is any of this possible?

Where is the MSM outrage? If a Republican did this, there would be an organized lynching party.

Some interesting side questions...

Who are the Partners?

What favors and politicians did they purchase (aside from Granholm)?

Will Google! save Granholm?

Pledge Protection Act HR 2389 - Note to Vern Ehlers (R-MI3)

Representative Ehlers,

I just received an email that lists the most recent votes by my Senators and Congressman.

You voted for the "Pledge Protection Act" HR 2389 to amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance.

You voted to Protect the Pledge of Allegiance. Earlier you voted against the Flag Protection Amendment. In your view, people may urinate, defecate, and otherwise disrespect and physically destroy the symbol of the USA, but they must include the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. One seems to be an "in your face" attempt to rile citizens to extreme anger and the other seems to be a freedom of speech and choice issue.

Please explain to this Vietnam vet why!

You speak out of both sides of your mouth, saying different things!

[NOTE: I support both issues but I am trying to get at why Vern is so two faced.]

Michigan Independents miffed at having to declare party affiliation

Thanks and a tip 'o the derby to Saul Anuzis "That's Saul Folks!"

From an editorial at the Flint joUrinal...

permalink:
The fLINT joUrinal

GO to the listed URL above to read the editorial...

My commentary:

Awwww poor pointy headed inane liberal pseudo-intellectuals...

[Flint joUrinal excerpt: Independent (Michigan) voters particularly should be upset over the plan that would make them declare publicly at the polls whether they want a Republican or Democratic ballot.(in the August 8th primary election) This is a step backward for Republicans who for years put the Democrats to shame by allowing all comers in their presidential primary, risking that nonparty members - even Democrats - might produce outcomes not in line with the GOP's base.]

I guess these "independents" do not understand that if they do not want to declare as a Republican or a Democrat in the Auguest 8 Primary Election, maybe they should see what other party best suits them and vote in that party's primary election.

What?

[] Green Party

[] Libertarian Party

[] American Communist Party

[] Etc.

...are not having a primary? Your party picks were made the day after the previous election?

Then why should we allow you to anonymously stack the deck for us? You helped fool everyone into thinking that John McCain was the Michigan GOP choice last time and he is only favored by the Yobs and a few other McCainiac toadies! He is a wacko RINO who shows signs of a seriously unstable personality disorder. He is not the type person we would want to have control of the "Football". When McCain makes that big jowly smile he does radiate a charisma though. Fortunately it has a very short half-life.

Tell ya what... go hold a "Gloom and Doom-fest" somewhere and get the MSM to cover it. Many of you normally vote Democrat anyway. Or better yet, go back in your closets until the day before the general election so you can be as clueless as you normally are. Most independents can not tell you who is running on what ticket unless they acquire a poll piece the day of the election. The general election on November 7th is open and independents can vote any way that blows their hair back as long as it is legal and either absentee or at their registered polling location.

[The italics inserted in the excerpt are comments of mine, not of the Flint Jourinal editorial author.]

Run, Newt, Run!

Thanks and a tip of the hat to Saul Anuzis "That's Saul Folks!" blog...

original article permalink: National Review

Run, Newt, Run!

Gingrich 2008?

By Rich Lowry

The casual TV viewer has probably noticed two things during the past few days — there’s a war in the Middle East, and Newt Gingrich is commenting on it.

Gingrich has been a ubiquitous analyst on the war — ubiquity being one of the tireless, outsized former House speaker’s favorite qualities. In between appearances in his role as a commentator for the Fox News Channel, Gingrich announced on Meet the Press that we are in the midst of World War III. A few days later, Hezbollah declared that it welcomed World War III, nicely capturing the moment: Simultaneous with its shooting war with Israel, Hezbollah is in a war of words with Newt Gingrich.

[Click the permalink above to read the full article]

[The democrats would love to try to smear Newt, but their darling is far worse than anything that Newt did. I hope that Newt does decide to run in 2008.]

Keith Butler Watch - 19 days to the primary

Keith Butler is still maintaining his silence about deporting illegals. He makes all sorts of wild gyrations about how he is against amnesty (just like Bush, Frist, McCain, Brownback, Hagel, Martinez, et ilk) but steadfastly refuses to say that the long term illegals who have thumbed their noses at the law for many years must go. In truth, Keith is PRO-AMNESTY because he favors a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for illegal aliens.

We do not want to replace one pro-amnesty senator ("Dangerously Incompetent" Debbie) with another who can not be honest about his position. Just like liberal Democrats, if he publicly announces his pro-citizenship for illegals, then he would not even have a prayer (other than his own as a Reverend). We need to be weeding out the pro-amnesty "bad apples" in the senate from our side of the aisle, and the Democrats need to reclaim their party from MoveOn/DailyKos/Dean and give the socialists a steel toed boot.

Sorry Keith! As a man of the cloth, your lack of candor is dissapointing and it disqualifies you as our candidate.

You might be good at Detroit politics, but we are not ready to inflict you on the USA.

Bouchard For US Senate!

Senate rejects funding for Mexican Border Fence - Roll Call Vote

Once again senate RINOs drop the ball. The fence that was authorized by the senate for the Mexican border is really just a figament of their imagination. They proved it by rejecting the funding to build it.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Sessions Amdt. No. 4659, As Modified )

Vote Number: 200 Vote Date: July 13, 2006, 03:44 PM

Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 4659 to H.R. 5441 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 )

Statement of Purpose: To appropriate an additional $1,829,400,000 to construct double-layered fencing and vehicle barriers along the southwest border and to offset such increase by reducing all other discretionary amounts on a prorata basis.

Vote Counts:

YEAs 29

NAYs 71

[Who could avoid being cyninical about RINOs joining with Democrats to defeat funding for legislation that they have authorized. Nearly all of the usual suspects are in the NAY column. Frist, Graham, Hagel, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, McConnell, Sununu, Voinovich, and more. Looks like DeWine voted against the grain this time. ]

Before you vote Democrat (or just walk away)...

Before you vote Democrat (or just walk away)...

...to punish those wascally RINOs in the senate and that pro-amnesty dude in the White House, think about this. Giving the Democrats a majority will accomplish the following:

• Assured amnesty for multimillions of illegal aliens. This is EXACTLY what the Democrat Leadership wants, a new minority group to own.

• Social Security will go down the toilet because it will be extended to the new minority group by the Democrats. AARP is a Democrat drone, so don't look for help there. They will toe the line and tell the silver hair crowd whatever MoveOn.org and DailyKOS tell them is the current party line.

• Do you think the rebel RINOs didn't pay attention to you? Guess what? The new Democrat majority will give you the finger too.

• All assurances aside, by this time next year, Bush will have been impeached and removed from office (some say this is the only desirable side effect).

• We will have to wait at least 2 years to retake the House, and even longer to do the same with the Senate. It might take another generation to undo the damage that the Democrats can inflict in that short period of time.

The thoughts of revenge and giving Bush and the RINOs in the senate a good ass-whoopin' are tempting. [for their total disregard of citizens demands and the abject pandering to criminals that the senators and Bush did.]

Somehow we have to get the word out that the focus of this is the DEMOCRAT party line vote (39 of them) combined with 23 Republicans [in name only] to try to flush away the sovereignty and borders of the USA. The only fly in the ointment is the pseudo-conservative Republican president who is cheering all of this on. For all the high sounding words that spew from their mouths, none of them [Senate Democrats and Republicans] really give a damn about the safety and security of the USA, or they would have already done something about the illegal alien issue and securing the borders. Same for Bush. He has the example of how President Eisenhower handled illegal aliens 50 years ago. Instead, Bush says it is impractical to enforce the existing laws, forget about what the house passed. They all have stars in their eyes envisioning a glorious "North American Union" [Canada/USA/Mexico or CUM for short]. The citizens of the USA are the losers because this eliminates our borders and you can forget any good paying jobs staying here. Any manufacturing that does stay will have an all low wage work force, just like the maquilladoras in Mexico.

If the grassroots Democrats do not throw out their pro-amnesty representatives (House and Senate) then the country is lost. Democrats are the party of the ignoramuses who claim to be looking at who can give them the best deal right up to election day. When in doubt, vote for the yellow dog. Mostly they are too uninterested to learn anything about the candidates and just repeat the Democrat talking points. If the workers do not wise up, their union bosses and the willing management will have them all replaced by cheap alien labor. The union bosses are too deeply in thrall to the DNC and will do whatever they are told. They will get a cut of the wages of whichever group is under their thumbs, citizens or illegals.

The country's welfare safety net is another point of concern. It was instituted to help CITIZENS in their time of need and it has evolved into a primary support for illegals after they hit this side of the border. Their usage of a citizen safety net dilutes and overloads available services for citizens. The income tax situation is rigged as a support system for them too. They get to file for the Earned Income Credit and get a refund with nothing paid in. Guess who is footing the bill for this? It beats me how this can happen but it does.

If you are a Republican, please do NOT stay home. If you can not bring yourself to vote for the anointed one(s) of the party, you can still do a write-in.

PLEASE exercise your franchise and vote in the primary and general elections. If you do not, then the next time, it might be the illegal aliens voting and taking away your rights!

Here in Michigan, the Republican primary is AUGUST 8, 2006, and the general election (aka the midterm election) is November 7, 2006. Both are on Tuesday.

Democrat elections are held the next day.      

Somewhere Over The White House...

Hey, check this out... this is a hoot!

This is from:
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-walt-handelsman-story,0,6454031.htmlstory

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Check out this political ad!

We need more of this type of representative! Vern Robinson from North Carolina...

http://vernonrobinson.com/twilightzone3.shtml

Keith Butler is still PRO-AMNESTY

Amnesty 101 (continuing education)

A carefull check of his campaign web site shows that Keith Butler is still very carefully and studiously avoiding any mention that he is in favor of a path to citizenship for the 10-20 million illegal alien criminals that infest the USA. He tries to use strong language to say that he is very much against amnesty, just ths same way that McCain, Frist, Martinez, and even Bush have done. In a previous face to face contact with Scott Greenlee, Keith's roving talking-head, I found out that Keith supports a path to citizenship for these criminals. He favors letting them stay and earn citizenship. [hint: AMNESTY] Since that time, nothing has changed. I have been singularly unsuccessfull at getting any word about DEPORTATION directly from Keith.

Keith Butler is PRO-AMNESTY

A vote for Keith Butler is a vote for citizenship for illegal aliens!

[So far, Keith has appeared at some BIG BUX fund raisers but is shy about showing up in person at the Kent County GOP monthly meetings. I think he is waiting until after the primary election to avoid any questioning face to face about his pro-amnesty position of earned citizenship for alien criminals.]