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GOP Senators Killing Energy Issue for Republicans and America

GOP Senators Killing Energy Issue for Republicans and America

cross posted from GOPUSA - The Loft

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=757

Posted by Bobby Eberle

August 12, 2008 at 6:26 am

Excerpts... go to the link above to read the whole article.

Last week, I wrote on efforts by House GOP members to draw attention to the fact that Nancy Pelosi sent House members home for the summer without a vote on domestic oil drilling. The American people want it, and the GOP House members are fighting for it. I also wrote on how big the energy issue is. It could be THE issue of the upcoming elections... an issue upon which Republicans could run AND win.

However, this is a new week, and whenever too much time passes, there is bound to be a new effort by the GOP to stall momentum and stab conservatives right in the heart. Who needs Democrats when so many GOP "leaders" act just like them? Now, we have the "Gang of 10." This group of senators (5 Republicans and 5 Democrats) claims to have forged a "bi-partisan energy compromise." In reality, we have a group of five GOP senators who are set on taking the winning issues of drilling and energy off the table and selling out to the liberals.

A report in Investor's Business Daily (IBD) sums up the situation perfectly: "If you thought Republicans were no longer 'The Stupid Party,' then you haven't met the senators who may have just destroyed the GOP's biggest hope this election year: the drilling issue."

IBD summarizes the issue as follows:

Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Thune of South Dakota — remember their names if things go badly for the GOP this November.

With the issue of domestic drilling to provide relief for suffering consumers landing right in the laps of embattled congressional Republicans, those five — none of whom faces any immediate danger of losing his seat — decided to join with some crafty Democrats and smash to pieces that gift from the heavens.

The "compromise" they are promoting is actually a wholesale giveaway to Democrats. Touted as a drilling plan, it actually imposes about $84 billion in new taxes on oil companies and keeps the offshore and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling bans.

[read the whole article]

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We could expect no less from the RINOs in the senate, always eager to sink the GOP or complete the conversion to the Republican Neo-Democrats. After all, they will want to be able to caucus with the Democrats.

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Vets for Obama? Say it aint so...

I just received an email from an Obamessiah support group calling themselves, "Vets for Obama".

http://vetsforobama.org/

How can this be?

John McCain is supposed to be the POW super-vet, loved by the veterans organizations and active duty military.

It turns out that he voted against funding increases for the veterans four years running and doesn't want to talk about it in any townhall setting.

It's just his maverick side coming out to piss off another of his constituencies that should be a gimme.

John, it is getting down to just you and your illegal alien buddies, at least those who have wangled a state drivers license and false voter registration.

Is John McCain going to turn out to be the Republican Neo-Democrat version of socialist Democrat John Kerry?

I can not support either of the two stooges (Moebamessiah and CurleyCain) still standing.

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note: I did a quick google search and found out that there is a Vets for McCain too. We all know what socialist Democrats do to military funding, rules and regs, personnell, etc. They bury morale. Today's socialist Democrat Party is not your grandfather's Democratic Party, the party of Thomas Jefferson.

Vets For McCain

http://vets4mccain.com/

...and finally, remember the Vietnam Vets against John Kerry? There are the Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. And many of the names are still the same.

Vietnam Vets Against McCain

http://vietnamveteransagainstmccain.com/

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Taliban Allies in Congress Embolden New Fighters To Join

McCain's terrorist bill of rights, and actions of all in government and judiciary (including the supreme court) to extend citizen rights to terrorists and enemy fighters held at Club Gitmo and elsewhere, are heartening and encouraging others to step in and volunteer to fight the devil Americans in Afghanistan. They get a call from Allah (or is it Osama Obama?) to come join the fun, they get uniformed soldier rights from the US for terrorists acts, thanks to traitorous spineless weenies in the USA that care more for terrorists than the soldiers in battle.

Travel Brochure for Foreign Islamist Terrorists entering Afghanistan by way of Pakistan "Come fight , then join your Al-Qaeda and Taliban brothers for an all expense paid vacation at sunny Club Gitmo, US Marine servants, top quality FREE food, Korans and prayer rugs supplied, free health care, free room and board, free legal representation courtesy of the communist brothers of the jihad in the USA. If you should die before reaching the Gitmo Resort, you still receive your 72 virgin goats. We ran out of sheep, women, and little boys a long time ago. It is goats or nothing... sorry. The Management"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/ 20080730/ts_nm/afghan_security_dc

More foreign fighters join Taliban in Afghanistan

By Jon Hemming, Al Reuters Correspondent [and Honorary Talibani at the front]

KABUL (Reuters) - More foreign fighters are joining the ranks of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan as militants increasingly cross the border from Pakistan to attack Afghan and Western troops, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Afghanistan has kept up a barrage of criticism against neighbor Pakistan in the last three months, accusing Pakistani agents of being behind a string of high-profile attacks and allowing militants sanctuary along the long and porous border.

"The presence of foreign fighters is increasing, and increasingly the operations of the terrorists are led by foreigners," Defense Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zaher Azimi told a news conference.

Afghan, NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces are struggling to contain a sharp surge in violence as the traditional summer fighting season gets into full swing.

[For more info go to the link above. If it doesn't work, cry to Yahoo. The are notorious for dead links.]

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McCain - 2nd George HW Bush term (Daddy Bush)

psssst - flip-flop alert

If McCain wins (minus conservatives), it will likely be a second George HW Bush term (Read My Lips, No New Taxes).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ ap_on_el_pr/ mccain_taxes_1;_ylt=ApByIeJfCaj6mI9I08RXWCrCw5R4

McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge

By CHARLES BABINGTON AP Writer

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.

Speaking with reporters on his campaign bus on July 9, he cited a need to shore up Social Security, saying: "I cannot tell you what I would do, except to put everything on the table."

He went a step farther Sunday with his reponse on a nationally televised talk show to a question about payroll tax increases.

"There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions, and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table," McCain said. "I don't want tax increases. But that doesn't mean that anything is off the table."

Indeed, McCain frequently has promised not to raise taxes.

At a July 7 town-hall meeting in Denver, he said voters faced a stark choice between him and Democrat Barack Obama.

"Sen. Obama will raise your taxes," McCain said. "I won't." [LIAR!]

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His supporters try to say that there are glaring differences between McCain and Obamessiah. One of those differences just went "POOF", up in smoke.

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Pssst (quietly - Lieberman Alert)

Just between you, me, and the fence post....

McCain is still acting very coy about VP choices, but he has been a maverick all along.

He will be a maverick in this too.

I will not be surprized if he announces his choice is Joe Lieberman. Joe has said he is not in the running but I think this is what McCain will do to pull the Clinton delegates into his camp including that excommunicated Wisconsin Hillary delegate.

The McCain campaign planning and strategy is to pull enough disaffected Hillary supporters and win without a conservative base.

He really has no intention of apologizing to conservatives. He doesn't need us.

Conservatives can cave and join the McCainiacs or to hell with us.

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Choosing Lieberman will finalize the switch from GOP to New Deal RND.

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The Obamessiah and Bush Derangement Syndrome

The Obamessiah is still touring and blessing his faithfull acolytes and converts. This is bringing showers of money from those who hope to vote for him in November. He is raking in cash from people who can not be held accountable because they are not living inside the borders of the USA. FEC says Obamessiah's collection plates have brought in over a million that they know of. When the Clintons sought cash from the Chinese and other foreign sources, those were below the radar and I would bet that Obama cash handlers have plenty of that brand of action too. Here is an excerpted (and commented by me - comments in italics) report from one of Obamessiah's press release distributions, AP via:

http://www.620ktar.com/index.php?nid=46&sid=909813&r=1

Obama beats McCain in Europe donations

July 25th, 2008

By GREGORY KATZ AP Writer (and Obama Spear Carrier)

LONDON (AP) - Barack Obama's campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival... as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presumed...(ed: [] Democrat nominee [] Messiah of the world.)

Federal Election Commission reports show Obama has raised at least $1 million... The European totals include contributions of $200 or more from each individual as election laws do not require campaigns to itemize lesser amounts. So it's possible Obama has received money from smaller donors... (ed: who are not US citizens and not US registered voters). (ed: How is the FEC able to closely track this on contributions made in foreign countries? Are the Obamessiah acolytes counting the collection plate and giving a daily tally to the FEC?)

Obama's many backers in Europe say they are motivated by a yearning for America to once again be viewed with respect by the rest of the world. (ed: This means that they want us to join the growing number of countries under socialist rule to become a World Union of Socialist Republics.)

The disparity between the two candidates underscores the Democratic candidate's appeal on a continent where Obamamania seems to have taken hold of expatriates and Europeans alike.

Obama has been much more sophisticated about Internet usage, and when you live overseas that's the easiest way to contribute. (ed: The internet makes election year fraud much easier to do and harder to trace. Thank Algore.)

Each donor is permitted to give a maximum of $2,300 for each election, but since the primaries are regarded as a separate election, a person can make two separate donations of $2,300 before the general election in November. While some gave the maximum, others made contributions in the $10 and $25 range.

(ed: This kinda makes you sit back and say "hmmmmm" as you ponder the fact that now we have the Fieger Precedent. Geoffy was able to get underlings and associates to donate large sums of cash (over $100,000) to Democrat causes and then reimburse them to disguise the source. This was held to be legal by a jury of HIS peers. Thus we have the Fieger Precedent for a way for Democrats to mask large cash contributions.)

Only U.S. citizens are permitted to contribute to presidential campaigns. (ed: But in light of the Fieger Precedent, that is no barrier to the Democrats.)

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What is driving the soul deep yearning for the Obamessiah here and overseas? Three words describe it best: Bush Derangement Syndrome

BDS - The expressed naked hatred of Bush and that fear of a McCain presidency as Bush 3. Flip the coin and an Obamessiah presidency is Jimmy Carter 2. I say he would be MUCH WORSE. He doesn't have a brother Billy Bob, which would at least give some comic relief (Remember Billy Beer?)

Europeans are being given a chance to express the BDS and possibly get a vote if the Dems can figure a way to manufacture enough fake expatriate voter registrations to allow for absentee ballots for all of them. Be alert for them to try to block ballots from overseas serving airmen, soldiers, sailors, and marines.

We have illegal aliens here who managed to get registered before the drivers license/motor voter easy portal to voter registration was clamped down. We have heard an estimate that up to 3% of the vote is illegals and it is enough to sway the results one way or the other. In this years election it almost doesn't matter because both sides are belly crawling panderers to illegals, and will give legal status to these criminals. I just want to block the illegal vote.

How will the illegals, that have managed to register to vote, accomplish the deed this year? Absentee Ballots, now that they are registered they can vote where no one can challenge their vote. The absentee ballot is the means that Democrats use to manufacture graveyard votes, pet registration votes, New England-Florida Snowbird votes. They are endlessly creative at ways to defraud the voting public. The absentee ballot offers the easiest means to manufacture large numbers of fraudulent votes. Electronic, non-paper, voting machines are right in the mix now that butterfly ballots are no longer used.

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Health Care For Illegals - Part and Parcel of Obama and McCain Amnesty Dreams

Remember back to the big panderfests of the 2006-2007 legislative years when our elected representatives were clawing and scratching to see who could grovel the lowest before the illegals. Senate Bill 2611 was one of the results. We have the list of all those who voted for it. Obama and McCain are on the list. Both voted to give social security to illegals. The votes are part of public record. Obama and McCain are on record voting to give fake background checks to illegals, then allowing them to stay with benefits without having to wait for citizenship.

On this topic when you point a finger at one candidate, you must include the other.

http://www.newsmax.com/morris/obama_healthcare/2008/07/21/114994.html

Obama: Healthcare for Illegals

Nobody wants to die waiting in line - especially not behind someone who snuck in ahead of us.

Excerpts from the article by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

posted: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:06 PM

Democrats' single most important domestic proposal — universal health insurance — may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details.

Obama has said, proudly and often, "I am going to give health insurance to 47 million Americans who are now without coverage." But are they "Americans?"

That 47 million statistic includes illegal immigrants, who virtually all lack insurance. In fact, about one in four of those lacking insurance is here illegally.

Care for illegals is the biggest unmet medical need in our nation, and Obama's program targets it squarely. But do we really want to give them federally paid coverage equal to what US senators get, as Obama proposes? (...and as McCain also hopes? He is letting Obama be the lightning rod, but he too holds this as a fervent desire.)

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McCains self image: In the mold of Theodore Roosevelt

Meanwhile, if you examine positions taken by McCain, he is more closely in the mold of Teddy's cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He envisions himself holding a big stick, riding roughshod over the corpses of conservatives while retooling the Republican brand in his own image, a wobbly moderate large government politician. McCain dreams of shifting the conservative paradigm to straddle the line allowing Democrats to also claim membership. This will be his marriage proposal gift to Joe Lieberman to entice him to accept the vice presidency.

"Little Johnny" McCain surrounds himself with New Deal liberals and moderates and is reforming the Grand Old party into the New Deal Republican Neo-Democrats.

Here is an article about McCain's Teddy Roosevelt delusion:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/13/america/mccain.php

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Obama wants to CHANGE our language to Spanish

Change, change, change, change, change, change, change...... gets a little tired hearing the Obama buzzword when you look at what he wants to change.

The latest revelation of Obama's changing desires is our national common language, English. He wants it to be Spanish. (note: this is a common trait with McCain and many of the pandering a-holes in congress who are being revealed as New Deal Republican Neo-Democrats).

Source Permalink: http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/wp-print.php?p=739

Obama Tells American Kids to Learn Spanish

By Bobby Eberle On July 10, 2008 at 6:17 am

I hope the American public is watching. For months, Barack Obama was a blank slate. The only thing people knew about him was that he gave a good speech and that he wanted "change." This apparently was enough to garner him the Democratic presidential nomination. (That should be a clue to most Americans NOT to vote for him.) But now, with no help from the media, the real Barack Obama is starting to appear.

The media won't write stories about what he says, but they don't need to. With today's technology, we can see for ourselves, and this latest incident is a doozy! Our education system is crazy enough with all these liberal, feel-good programs. Forget adding, subtracting, spelling, and grammar. Now, despite the fact that the rest of the world is learning English, he says that American kids should learn Spanish? What? Learn Spanish? Yes, and it shows just how out of touch and far left Obama is. We need a president who will put America first, not push for our culture to be forgotten.

We need to make sure our kids can speak Spanish? Why? That is the question. Oh, and I have the answer. It's because the liberals [ed: this includes soft liberals like McCain and his New Deal Republican Neo-Democrats] are quite happy seeing millions of illegal aliens pour across our border and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it. Rather than solve the problem of illegal immigration by enforcing laws and securing our border (after all, if we did that, liberals would call us racists), the far left would rather Americans simply learn Spanish. That is their solution to the problem.

And it is definitely becoming more and more of a problem. Example... during these very nice summer months, my kids love to go swimming with me at our neighborhood pool. We go in the late morning and spend an hour or two there. Afterward, we come home for lunch. On some days, we go out, and they love it when we get sandwiches at Subway. Getting the sandwiches, however, has become more and more of an ordeal. In fact, the last time we went, it took forever simply because I couldn't understand the attendant, and the attendant couldn't understand me.

"I'll have a six-inch ham sandwich on wheat with lettuce and tomato..." All I got was a blank stare. I repeated the order, with my daughter looking on. The lady finally grabbed the wheat bread and then selected turkey. "No... I said ham."

[ed: Bobby, was the Subway employee wearing a full body condom and mask? This person was handling food that you and your family were going to eat. They are not vaccinated and immunized like you have been since birth and carry diseases across the border such as tuberculosis, whooping cough, etc. All the little beasties that you thought were eradicated in this country are BAAAACK! Thanks to illegal aliens and our belly crawling pandering politicians - Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Clinton, Specter, Obama, Brownback, Levin, Warner, Kerry, Martinez, Lieberman, and more! Socialist Democrats and Republican Neo-Democrats who have been waiting for the confluence of fellow travellers...]

Now, this being a Subway restaurant in AMERICA, one would think that I could place my order in English. Wrong. This must be a Barack Obama Subway restaurant, and the only way to place an order is to do it in Spanish. Hmmm... I guess I should thank Obama for his speech. What he was trying to get across was the idea that we should teach our kids Spanish just so we can order a sandwich at an American restaurant. Thanks Obama for looking out for me!

Sarcasm aside, Barack Obama continues to show that he is not ready for the presidency, and more importantly, America is not ready for him. Our kids should not be told to learn Spanish. Our kids should be told to learn English and math and science, so they can become contributing American citizens. Obama's example in his speech is that Americans sound silly when they go to France because they can only say a simple phrase. What's his point? Is he saying that we should all learn French for that day that we spend thousands of dollars to travel to France?

English has become the language of international business, commerce, science, and technology. Other nations learn English, because English is the "universal" language in which things get done. Only in America (an English-speaking country) would left-wing Barack Obama tell Americans that their kids should learn Spanish.

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McCain and Obama shared dreams = amnesty and other liberal issues

McCain has decided to forego support of conservatives as we would polute the purity of his Republican Neo-Democrats, the support coalition that has fueled his campaign to be the figurehead of the ex-GOP, now RND.

On the other hand, The DNC has issued a call to their party weedroots faithfull to help write the party platform. There are some 600 or so platform committees across the country. Does anyone seriously believe that the Socialist Democrats will actually listen to Joe Sixpack about what he wants? Rush Limbaugh has just issued new orders for Operation Chaos operatives to join the fun.

This truly is a strange campaign year. McCain has done all in his power to push away conservatives including the religious right. Obama, supporter of homosexuality and abortion, is trying to convince Christians that he is also a Christian and wants them to vote for him. Unfortunately there are a sizable number of Christians that are politically ignorant sheeples who do not look past the surface appearance. They will vote for Obama because Rev. Pfleger, the pro-abortion Catholic priest of the Chicago diocese's Saint Sabina RCC, and other liberal pseudo-Christian reverends says to vote this way. The Cardinal of Chicago turns a blind eye to most of this activity in his backyard.

Amnesty for criminal border jumpers, drug dealers and mules, and terrorist OTMs is what John McCain scrambled, scratched and fought to achieve during the 2006 and 2007 legislative years standing hip to hip with Senator Kennedy. McCain and Obama passed the terrorist bill of rights with affirmative votes from Senators Clinton and Lieberman (and a majority of Socialist Democrat senators), which would fit in with a general amnesty for all illegals, if enacted. McCain and Obama voted to give away social security (which is already going broke) to illegals. McCain is travelling the same road with Kennedy, Feingold, and other Socialist Democrats. McCain is the secret weapon of the socialist Democrats in this election. McCain holds hands with Algore in his quest for global dominion, forcing everyone to start riding bicycles so the elites can have all the fuel for their jets. Obama is a YES MAN for this issue. If elected, McCain will take over the global warming issue as his own. Fortunately, McCain is so old that he cant ride that horse for many years without a pact with the devil.

Senator Obama is right in there trying to show how socialist he is, voting for everything pushed his way by the Socialist Democrat party. He wants to remind everyone of his street agitator/organizer roots in Chicago. In the Illinois legislature, he was preparing for higher office, voting "present" over 70% of the time rather than leave a back trail to look at. Senator Obama is 100% pro-abortion and is lauded for this by the National Abortion Rights Action League.

That is, for what change is left in your pockets...

Will we reward either Obama or McCain? Apparently the answer is YES.

Below is a pictorial essay about the criminals they both want to convert into citizens, voters, and social security recipients..

AZTLAN as El Presidente Jorge Bush, Juan McCain, and Eduardo Kennedy have envisioned it. See the moebius strip flag showing that the US and Mexico are one and the same.

Mexican demonstrator burning the stars and stripes. This is the kind of display to make any US military veterans blood boil... except for McCain, Kerry, Murtha, and members of the pander squad.

You convinced me... I can't go without my daily burrito fix!

This is the McCain and Obama vision of America, cheered on by El Presidente Jorge Bush. Both need a new underclass to dominate.

Citisenship for a CHEAP price, more than made up in benefits (food stamps, free health care, lower in-state college tuition rates, free public schools in language of choice, much more...) once criminal illegals are given legal status.

This is the McCain dream for America!

This is the Barack Hussein Obama dream for America!

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This pictorial essay is just a reminder of what the real John McCain will attempt to foist on us once he is firmly seated in the White House. Obama will do this and more...

Thus far, McCain has refused any form of a "no amnesty pledge", and he has very carefully avoided it when asked, by saying that he is now for secure borders because he heard us and thinks that will satisfy our demands. No one thought to ask Obama to sign because he is hardcore socialist and his signature would be a lie anyway.

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McCain's GOP: FDR's coalition of true liberals and Southern Democrats

The Republican Party of John McCain (RND):
"FDR's coalition of true liberals and Southern Democrats"

This was the comment from an opposition observer at The Smirking Chimp. He may be correct.

Hold your nose, read the article (about the end of conservatism), and then read down the comments...

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14827

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RND (Republican Neo-Democrats)

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2008: The Year of the Liberal

This election year, we have seen it solidify into a choice of Ultra-Left Winger Obama against Soft Left Winger McCain, both with funding coming from George Soros through various 527 channels. The DNC is now wholely owned and operated by the socialists and the takeover of the GOP is nearly complete. The GOP is being transformed into the RND (The New Deal Republicans also known as the Republican Neo-Democrats).

In celebration I suggest we have a rousing chorus of the McCain Litany that I published back in January 2008.

The McCain Litany (of reasons why he is not a conservative)

By James Foley "Bloggin on down the Rogue"

[note: The choir sings the refrain and the cantor sings the verses. The rest of the population can hum along.]

Refrain: [repeated after each verse]

"I am a war hero so you can't cri-ti-cize me"

Verses:

"John McCain...

1. ...has built a reputation as a maverick by stabbing his party in the back...
   
   ... and his acolyte toadies say he is conservative. [refrain]
   
   
2. ...delights in sticking it to his colleagues while winning accolades from the mainstream liberal media...
3. ...defenders forbid us from criticizing him because he is a war hero...
4. ...joined liberals in slandering the truth-telling Swift Boat veterans as "dishonest and dishonorable"...
5. ...changed his position on immigration to shore up support in South Carolina, then after that primary arrogantly denied to Sean Hannity that he'd flip-flopped...
6. ...crusades against Guantanamo...
7. ...favors constitutional rights for terrorists but opposes tough interrogation techniques...
8. ...was the ringleader of the Gang of 14...
9. ...legitimized the filibustering of judicial nominees...
10. ...is the godfather of political speech-suppression and Democrat-favoring campaign-finance reform legislation [McCain-Feingold]...
11. ...has displayed contempt for conservative evangelicals...
12. ...co-sponsored the abominable McCain-Kennedy illegal immigrant-forgiveness/open-borders/Social Security zapping bill...
13. ...voted for the Specter amendment, to confer consulting rights on Mexico concerning the erection of a southern border fence...
14. ...sold out on global warming...
15. ...opposed reversal of Roe vs. Wade...
16. ...took campaign contributions and vacation trips to lobby bank regulators for Charles Keating...
17. ...has a campaign staff paid for by George Soros through the Soros funded Reform Institute...
18. ...surrounds himself with New Deal Republican Neo-Democrats...
19. ...says "Concervatives? I dont need not steenkin' conservatives!"...
20. ...only has to look over his left shoulder to Joe Lieberman for a VP running mate...
21. ...promised La Raza Hispanic leaders in Chicago that if elected, he would give amnesty for all illegal aliens...
22. ...is a more centrist version of socialist messiah Barack Hussein Obama...
23. ...opposed the Bush tax cuts before he supported them...
24. ...supported tougher anti-gun laws before he opposed them...
25. ...voted for and supports Social Security for illegal aliens...

... and his acolyte toadies say he is conservative." [Refrain]

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note: I used my editorial powers to revise and extend the McCain Litany. It is becoming a living document.

note: I added in the last verse about McCain's participation in the Keating 5 bank scandal because it also shows how he was closely tied to Democrats while taking large cash contributions plus vacations and jet trips from Charles Keating, all for a little lobbying of the bank regulators to back off while Keating's bank was going under. This cost taxpayers over TWO BILLION dollars.

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A Shared GOP and DNC Boiler Plate Issue

Here is GOP and DNC boiler plate:

[If you want to use this image, copy it to a free image hosting site.]

Over the past two years (2006-2007) we have seen a variety of supposedly rock solid Republicans come out of the closet on the issue of softening the immigration laws, giving some form of amnesty to illegal alien border jumpers and those who have overstayed visas that expired. They want unrestricted immigration in the form of multi-millions of easily gained green cards which will morph over time into permanent residency papers, followed by easy fast track citizenship to get them into the voting booth.

It turns out that approximately half the Republicans in the US Senate and virtually ALL the Democrat senators are belly crawling amnesty panderers.

We have been recruiting the best and brightest legal immigrants but what the politicians want is the lowest, uneducated, disease carrying peons that Mexico is more than willing to ship to us, their welfare class.

This year, our choice (Republican or Democrat) is a LOSE-LOSE proposition, The Lesser of Two Equal Evils.

The choice is between a pair of "Boll Weevils". [This is a little play on words. There is a band called The Presidents of the United States that did a song "Boll Weevil"]

When the choice is so equally bad that we have to compare down the laundry lists, what can we do?

[a]Hold you nose, close your eyes, and vote for a bad candidate,
[b]Toss the McCain- Obama lose-lose coin and hope it lands on its edge,
[c]write-in a candidate or
[d]check out the available third parties.

Items a and b are unacceptable, so check out your options c and d.

This year, Bob Barr, ex-congressman from Georgia, changed from the Republican Party and is running as the Libertarian candidate for president.

I will not tell you what he stands for. You go take a look for yourself and decide whether you want to choose a real American patriot or between the lesser of two weevils.

http://www.bobbarr2008.com/

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BoA buying Countrywide, pays off Dodd

In a RedState.com email alert:

In breaking news, the Washington Examiner is reporting this afternoon that Bank of America, which is buying Countrywide Financial, gave Senator Chris Dodd $70,000.00 in campaign contributions over the past year.

According to the Examiner, after Bank of American paid Senator Dodd, the Senator let Bank of America's lobbyists write the mortgage bailout legislation.  Senator Dodd already received a sweetheart deal from Countrywide Financial.

and from the Washington Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/a-1449448~Bank _of_America _PAC_money _behind_Dodd_s _Countrywide_loan.html

Commentary - Bank of America PAC money behind Dodd's Countrywide loan

By Timothy Carney, Examiner

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - "We call it the 'Bank of America bill on steroids.'" A House staffer told me that, demanding anonymity, but speaking on behalf of aides to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee.

He was talking about the bill whose Senate version has been brought to the floor this week by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CN, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-AL. Dodd-Shelby would let mortgage lenders off the hook for bad loans, shifting the burden ultimately to taxpayers. Dodd has received approximately $70,000 in campaign contributions from Bank of America in the last year-and-a-half.

Dodd-Shelby hit the Senate floor this week amid controversy over sweetheart loan deals Dodd and other powerful politicians received from Countrywide Financial, the lender with the most exposure to subprime mortgages at risk of default.

Some journalists and Republican lawmakers are asking if Countrywide bought a bailout bill with its VIP loans to Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. But when asking cui bono? about Dodd's bill, we need to look to Bank of America.

Bank of America agreed in January to buy Countrywide, and the deal is near completion. House and Senate staffers opposing the measure say Bank of America operatives wrote that chamber's version of the bailout.

One Senate staffer was told by a lobbyist, "the bailout section is exactly what Bank of America and Countrywide wanted." The Senate staffer added "its obvious they got what they asked for."

Bank of America was able to buy Countrywide for around $7 per share. Countrywide's exposure to default is why Bank of America would benefit so acutely from a subprime mortgage bailout like Dodd-Shelby.

Countrywide's VIP loan to Dodd, which saves the Banking Committee chairman $75,000 over 30 years, smells like a potential quid-pro-quo now that Dodd has pushed a bill that will save the company from itself, but what about Bank of America's behavior?

These aren't bank tellers funding Dodd, either, as contributors include Bank of America's director of government affairs John Collingwood and Barbara Desoer, who oversees the merger with Countrywide and will "run the combined companies' mortgage operations," according to The Los Angeles Times.

Only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have received more Bank of America money than Dodd during the current election cycle. Republican nominee John McCain slightly trails Dodd, with $64,000 in reported Bank of America contributions.

[go to Examiner to read the whole story]

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Okay, I am convinced that BoA is buying votes of every available politician wherever/whenever. In McCain's case, he has a proven track record with involvement in bank scandals and giving political cover to Democrats. The bases have been covered, millions spread around liberally, and politicians bought. The "fix" is in.

I have a question: What is Shelby's involvement beyond giving Dodd (very little) cover? How much money did Shelby take from Countrywide/BoA to be the GOP frontman for this bailout? It is another shakedown of the taxpayers. Crooks in government line their pockets at taxpayer expense. SSDD

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An interesting parallel: McCain and Dodd, two peas in a pod

John McCain is showing us where he is politically in the Republican Neo-Democrats (the new creation out of the ashes of the Grand Old Party by McCain and his McCain Democrats and independents). The RND was formed when McCain carefully excluded conservatives from the party, except for those who crawled to him on his terms. The show at CPAC2008 was where he told conservatives to come to him with no preconditions. On to the story: First, McCain and his bank scandal connection (Keating Five)...

McCain received campaign contributions, transportation on private jets, and vacation trips from Charles Keating Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, to look the other way and even lobby the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to look away. The bailout cost taxpayers over a billion dollars. McCain received a mild slap on the wrist for his participation along with four Democrats in this debacle. He also has historical recognition as a member of the "Keating Five" (other participants - Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, and Riegle). All served out their terms with Glenn and McCain being re-elected. The "fix" was in.

Second: Democrat Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee (seeking to bail out Country Wide Financial for lucrative preferential loans he received from Countrywide)...

Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, knew he was in a "V.I.P. program" at Countrywide Financial, but he denies that this meant he was getting special treatment from Countrywide Financial. That's like being a member of the United States Senate and thinking you get treated just like everybody else.

Senator Dodd is now trying to bailout Countrywide Financial with billions of taxpayer dollars. How many billions is Dodd seeking for his buddies at Countrywide?

Summation: It is amazing how the US Senate attracts the creme de la creme of the crooks and fixers for crooks (or is it the scum de la scum?)...

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Lieberman joins McCain against Obama

McCain has been a long known maverick that runs free rather than toe the party line[1], not due to party policy but John's wild, carousing, maverick tendencies. This caused his divorce from Carol and marriage to his current moneybag. John has always embraced some Democrat ideals. This is why he sits so close to the center of the aisle, to be able to embrace his compadres of the left.

Joe Lieberman on the other hand is, was, and will always be a Democrat even though he is currently operating under the Independent flag. Since the DNC tossed him under the bus in the last election to try to replace him with a more amenable, compliant yellow dog faithful follower. Joe couldn't run as a Democrat because the party had assigned that label elsewhere so he was re-elected as an independent. Joe is OLD SCHOOL Democrat which the current DNC has lost. Senator Lieberman is happy to join with McCain in hopes of converting the Republican Neo-Democrat Party into Old School Democrats, the party of Thomas Jefferson. The Socialist Democrats try to lay claim to him by heritage, but Jefferson was no socialist and would not recognize his party today.

YOOOOO... MoveOnKoSoroStryker and DNC, why are you angry at a candidate for doing to you what you did to him? [2]

In the words of a well known comedian Bill Engvall, "Here's your sign!"

It's all on the wheel! What goes around, comes around!

Lieberman irks Democrats by criticizing Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080615/ap_on_el_pr/lieberman

By ANDREW MIGA, AP Writer

The four-term Connecticut senator, who came tantalizingly close to being Al Gore's vice president in 2000, not only has been campaigning for his pal, presumed Republican nominee John McCain, now he's publicly criticizing the Democrats' standard-bearer, Barack Obama. Lieberman has strayed before, most notably switching from Democrat to independent in 2006 to hold onto his Senate seat after a Democratic primary loss. [...because the Dems gave him the heave-ho under the moving wheels of the party bus. Lienberman-1, DNC-0 Joe won the election as an Independent.]

But the latest betrayal has upset Democrats, who often answer in clipped but polite tones when asked about Lieberman. The reason: The independent still caucuses with the Democrats on most issues except the Iraq war, and he holds their slim political majority in his hands. [In the DNC, betrayal can only be allowed to run one diirection, toward candidates and party members, never directed back toward the DNC as a whoile. Lieberman has been a loyal lifelong Democrat who was abandoned by the party, as it swerved into hard core socialism. That is supposed to make Joe's loyalty stronger?]

"There's a commonly held hope that he's not going to be transformed into an attack dog for Republicans," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., an Obama supporter.

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Please do not try to parallel the Lieberman/DNC and McCain/Conservatives. The GOP has always had its coalition of squiishy moderate pro-abortion, anti-religion moderates. They have taken over party leadership positions and are using it to solidify their holds by recruiting unaligned moderate independents and disaffected Democrats shifting the GOP to the left to be more closely in line with many Democrat positions, making them into the Republican Neo-Democrat Party, the RND replacing the GOP.

[1] "toe the line" - A phrase used in old time bare knuckle prize fighting. The two bare knuckled fighters would stand facing and punching each other across a line drawn in the dirt, each with the toes of one foot on the line.

"toe the party line" - To literally adhere to party rules and politics, something that McCain has never done except when it suited him. The party center shifted to the right under Reagan. McCain is pulling mightily to move it back to the left, where his comfort zone is. If McCain succeeds, conservatives will be left homeless.

[2] What the DNC did to Lieberman has no parallel in the Republican Party with John McCain. John has always gone his own way and when he returns to the party, he is welcomed with open arms and rewarded.

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Random thoughts on a McCain presidency

McCain is a good imitation of a centrist Democrat, next to the center aisle... hey that is like his Republican position, left, up against the center where he can reach out to hug a fellow traveller! Expect temporary rightward shifts until after the election.

What can we expect if McCain is elected?

McCain is no conservative and will prove it once elected, a meld of "Brave New World" and "1984" [Surely you jest? No and dont call me Shirley!]

Four more years of Bush? Hah! People will look back on the Bush presidency as the "good old days" after McCain is done with the US

Tax cuts ala Bush... don't you believe it. It is a McCain campaign ploy to mollify weak conservatives [aka linguini spined moderates] - Remember politicians promise everything, deliver little on campaign promises

Gun control... tyrants fear an armed populace and what McCain plans will have people up in arms [Keep your powder dry and stock up now]

Further erosion of freedom of speech going beyond (McCain-Feingold) political speech. Expect attacks and restrictions on internet and talk radio to start.

An improved and expanded Terrorist Bill of Rights [The supreme court is already working on this in anticipation of McCain's election, giving terrorists more legal rights before federal courts than citizens have.]

Reparations for all Iraq and Afghanistan POWs from Club Gitmo and other compounds that claim to have been tortured [More Whacko McCain nuttiness, I wont speculate to what levels he will take this.]

A new as yet un-named CONSERVATIVE party as McCain drags down the Republican Party morphing it into the RINO Neo-Democrat Party

Joe Lieberman thumbing his nose at the Socialist Democrat Party from his VP office

Rick Davis as White House Chief of Staff [and still drawing a $110,000 a year consulting fee from Reform Institute/George Soros]

Billionaire George Soros will have a hotline installed to McCain [He funds McCain's Reform Institute]

Algore as Secretary of Global Climate Change [We know that McCain is a global warming whacko nutball.]

Dr Juan Hernandez as Secretary of Hispanic Affairs [dual citizen (US and Mexico) McCain campaign advisor and former advisor to Mexican El Presidente Vincente Fox. He will be laison and inside man for La Raza.]

Amnesty for all current illegals that can prove that they have been here for at least 30 minutes, with super-citizen status after a 10 second background check [ Habla ingles? Si? You are a citizen.]

McCain: "Borders? What borders?"

Elevation of the usage of words "illegal alien" to hate crime status

Other select cabinet positions (existing and new) for Democrat colleagues as a "reach across the aisle" gesture of friendship [Can't we all get along?]

Depending on how far McCain's insanity goes... Civil War [Really! McCain is Insane! So are those who want to give this escapee from the cuckoos nest the football.]

This election year, both parties are royally screwed, thus the country as a whole.

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Lieberman as VP?

The GOP is becoming the Neo-Democrat Party

...and is moving away from the party of Abraham Lincoln with the McCain-Lieberman marriage and takeover of the Republican party. The GOP is dead.

Welcome to the NEW "Republican Neo-Democrats" [RND replacing GOP].

The Democrat party has become the Socialist Democrat Party. Old style Democrats have been looking for a new home. With John McCain, they have found a new home and leader in an as yet unannounced Neo-Democrat party along with the faux-conservatives.

Lets put it on the table. John McCain wants Joe Lieberman as his VP choice. He also is looking for a way to keep the borderline conservatives (those with a resemblance religious convictions but willing to compromise on those and other conservative principles) that have come crawling to him. Having a pro-abortion moderate old-style Democrat on the ticket might be the tipping point to send them running away for a few of his borderline conservative converts, but the faux-conservatives will not be swayed and will keep their adoring eyes on McCain.

[Faux-conservatives - Those weak principled believers in a few conservatives ideals that are willing to compromise all to support McCain after pulling John's finger out of their eyes. McCain pokes 'em in the eye and they say "That's OK, we will support you regardless! You claim to be a conservative, close enough for us. We are desperate!" ]

Lieberman's Senate record -- which includes support for abortion rights, gun control, gay civil unions

From Bloomberg News comes this report:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= newsarchive&sid= aYX3pnd.taTY

Lieberman's Abortion Stance May Preclude Spot on McCain Ticket

By Hans Nichols

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain might like to give Joseph Lieberman another shot at the vice presidency, this time as a Republican.

The two senators have grown close in this election year. They are joined at the hip on foreign policy, staking their political futures on support for the war in Iraq. They also share a reputation as mavericks.

For his part, McCain, 71, has built his campaign around his appeal to [McCain Democrats] independent voters. "You can't win with Republican votes alone,'' said Mark Salter, a senior campaign adviser.

While picking Lieberman as his running mate would allow McCain to reaffirm his identity as a trans-partisan politician, it also would burn the social conservatives who have propelled every Republican victory since 1980 and who may bolt the party.

"If he picks a pro-choice candidate, it will suppress the base,'' said Richard Land, a leader of the 16-million-member (pro-amnesty) Southern Baptist Convention, based in Nashville.

The McCain campaign has tried to use Lieberman as an emissary to Democrats.

The phones at McCain's campaign headquarters "have been ringing with disaffected Democrats,'' Lieberman wrote in an e- mail earlier this month on behalf of a new group, Citizens for McCain. [aka Democrats for McCain]

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FAUX [foh] - adjective artificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls.

The picture above [joe.gif] is copied from the McCain campaign site and is part of his current SWF campaign site banner. Little Johnny is not-so-subtly telling everyone who he REALLY wants for VP of the Neo-GOP/Neo-Democrats saying "COME JOIN OUR TEAM". C'mon now does anyone really believe otherwise? This is the coalition McCain feels he needs to be able to rid himself and the GOP of conservatives PERMANENTLY.

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