Chip Saltsman Is An A-Hole

A-holes like Chip Saltsman remind us again of why the GOP has a hard time getting Black people to join their ranks:

The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he was "appalled" by a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" on a CD distributed by one of his political rivals.

"The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party," RNC Chairman Mike Duncan said in a statement reported Saturday afternoon by Politico.

"I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate, as it clearly does not move us in the right direction."

Chip Saltsman sent RNC members the parody CD "We Hate the USA" for Christmas, which includes the controversial tune. He defended his decision Friday, telling CNN the song was clearly intended as a joke.

"I think most people recognize political satire when they see it," Saltsman told CNN. "I think RNC members understand that."

Saltsman, a former chair of the Tennessee Republican Party, was a top advisor to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign.

I'm all for political satire when it's funny and is clearly making a point. But this is nothing but a display of racial ignorance that does nothing to help the GOP. There are so many ways to oppose Barack Obama without being racist, it's amazing that in 2008 there are still that many dumb asses out there who still don't get it.

Michelle Malkin Has Bush Derangement Syndrome

It's one thing to constructively criticize the President over an administrative policy you don't like or disagree with, but when you go overboard and ask your readers to come up with derogatory names for him, you come off as a hypocrite:

Kosovo shows its appreciation by naming a street after President Bush.

It’s better than a sewage plant.

Sorry to be a Grinch, but with his massive government bailout legacy hanging overhead, perhaps someone should name a bottomless pit after W.

Your suggestions?

This shouldn't surprise anyone who regularly reads Malkin's blog as one might recall the blatant disrespect Malkin showered on the President after he attempted to reach a compromise on our nation's illegal immigration problem last year. Indeed, too often it's far-Right pundits like Malkin who engage in the same, bitter, mean-spirited, fallaciousness that they criticize their counterparts on the Left for. Any wonder why it's hard to take any of them seriously?

When It Comes To Pardons President Bush Is Still No Bill Clinton

Once again proof that even when he does the right thing, President Bush just can't win with the loony Left. After having the wherewithal to reverse a mistake in pardoning convicted New York mortgage fraudster Isaac Toussie, the inept New York Times still goes out of its way to criticize the President:

President Bush changed his mind on Christmas Eve, pulling back a pardon he had extended a day earlier to a Brooklyn developer at the center of a Long Island real estate fraud case and adding a bizarre twist to the episode.

The developer, Isaac R. Toussie, who was listed Tuesday as one of the beneficiaries of the president’s constitutional power to wipe away a criminal record, is not being pardoned “based on information that has subsequently come to light,” the White House said late Wednesday afternoon.

The terse White House statement did not elaborate, but officials familiar with the case said that presidential aides — and perhaps President Bush himself — were concerned about appearances, because Mr. Toussie’s father, Robert, donated $28,500 to the Republican National Committee last April, for what apparently was his first political contribution. He also donated $2,300 to the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

Regardless of how Mr. Toussie is perceived by Republicans in Washington, the name of Isaac Toussie is detested by many working-class people in the New York metropolitan area. In 2001, several hundred of them sued in Federal District Court, accusing Mr. Toussie and his father of masterminding a scheme in which inexperienced or first-time buyers were promised affordable and comfortable suburban houses but instead were sold shoddily built homes in poor neighborhoods and saddled by mortgage payments that shot up surprisingly.

The Times insinuates it, but the Toussie case had nothing to do with party affiliation. If that was the case Bush wouldn't have withdrawn the pardon. The President simply saw that he made an error and quickly reversed himself. If anyone's ever abused his pardon privileges it was ex-Prez Bill Clinton, who issues 140 pardons and 36 commutations on his last day in office alone, including fugitive Marc Rich, whose ex-wife was a prominent donor to Clinton. Indeed, liberals are so desperate to paint Bush as a pardon abuser that they're still holding out hope that the President pardons Scooter Libby before he leaves office. Yet, even if Bush does pardon Libby it still wouldn't be tainting the pardon process as Libby, improperly fingered in the Valerie Plame hyperbole created by the Left, is nowhere the slimeball that Marc Rich, Almon Braswell, Peter MacDonald and the many other scum that Slick Willie pardoned on his way out of office.

Merry Xmas And Happy Holidays To All of You!

Happy Holidays! Now eat, drink and be merry. Enjoy your family and friends! Hopefully you were good this year and Santa brought you something nice.

I leave you with the late, great Nat King Cole singing one of my Xmas favorites. Peace and Blessings to you and yours.

Ann Coulter Names Sarah Palin 'Conservative of the Year'

I concur:

Right-wing Web site Humanevents.com has awarded Palin its "Conservative of the Year" Award for 2008, for what syndicated columnist Ann Coulter in a new column calls the former Miss Alaska's "genius at annoying all the right people. The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar would have been … let's see now … oh, yeah: Me!"

Coulter continues, “When McCain chose our beauteous Sarah as his running mate, the maverick was finally acting like a real maverick -- as opposed to the media’s definition of a ‘maverick’ which is: ‘agreeing with the editorial positions of the New York Times.’

“Pre-Palin it had been one race -- boring old “You kids get off my lawn!” John McCain versus the exciting, new politician Barack Obama, who threw caution to the wind and bravely ran as the Pro-Hope candidate. And then our heroic Sarah bounded out of the Alaska tundra and it became a completely different race. This left the press completely discombobulated and upset. They didn't know whether to attack Sarah for not having an abortion or go after her husband for not being a sissy.”

I don't agree with all of Sarah Palin's views such as guns as well as abortion (Palin is adamantly pro-life while I have libertarian views on abortion) and she did make it too easy for liberals to criticize her when she couldn't come up with a single name of a newspaper or magazine that she reads. But besides all that, John McCain picking Palin as his running mate literally moved me beyond comprehension (or as Chris Wallace might say: "sent a thrill my leg"). Sarah Palin was a game changer who made the McCain campaign interesting, fun to watch and quite honestly gave me hope that McCain could overcome all of Barack Obama's minion's in the press and win the presidency. Better than all of that was watching how this one woman, who literally came out of nowhere, was able to elicit so much ire, contempt and hatred from liberals. I hadn't seen that such a collective mosh of hate and acrimony from liberals since Bush beat Gore in 2000. That, in of itself made Sarah Palin a superstar.

Entitled Princess Caroline Kennedy's Anti-Family Views

Caroline Kennedy, a woman who rarely votes, has a thinner political resume than Barack Obama and has never governed a tea party, much less a political office, yet feels that her surname alone entitles her to a soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat, finally speaks on some of her views. Not that anyone should be surprised at which way she leans:

Caroline Kennedy has gone public with her stance on the issues in response to a wave of media inquiries after Kennedy, virtually unknown in the political world, announced her interest in the New York senate seat Hillary Clinton will leave open when she becomes Secretary of State.

As was widely suspected, Kennedy emerged as firmly entrenched in favor of abortion and same-sex "marriage" in keeping with a strongly left-of center persona. In email responses to questions from the New York Times, Kennedy's spokesman Stefan Friedman described her as supporting "full equality and marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples."

Answering the question "Would she oppose legislation that would require minors to notify a parent before obtaining an abortion?" came the response: "Caroline believes that young women facing unwanted pregnancies should have the advice of caring adults, but this should not be required by law."

On the question of late-term abortions, Kennedy was said to "support Roe v. Wade, which prohibits third-trimester abortions except when the life or health of the mother is at risk." Kennedy told the Buffalo News that she opposes the death penalty. A Roman Catholic, Kennedy has no public service record and largely avoided the spotlight until she joined Barack Obama's pre-election team earlier this year, and has since consistently expressed a very high opinion of the President-elect and his policies.

Gov. David Paterson is an idiot if he picks Kennedy for the Senate seat. As New York Congressman Gary Ackerman summed up best: “Everyone knows who she is, but I’m not sure what she is,” Ackerman said. “Eventually she has to get in the ring and face the public.”

“DNA in this business can take you just so far,” said the congressman, before joking, “Rembrandt was a great artist. His brother Murray, on the other hand, Murray Rembrandt, wouldn’t paint a house.”

Nancy Pelosi And Harry Reid Congress Approval Rating Hits Single Digits Again

It's the dirt that the liberal media refuses to talk about: a Democratic-led Congress that has been an utter disgrace:

Approval of Congress’ job performance has plunged to single digits again for the first time since early September, says the latest Rasmussen Reports.

In the wake of the on-again, off-again auto bailouts, only 9 percent give Congress good or excellent ratings, while 54 percent give the legislature poor marks. Just 2 percent think Congress is doing an excellent job.

The last time the ratings were this low was on September 9. In late November, 12 percent gave Congress good or excellent ratings. This is now the fifth time congressional ratings have fallen below 10 percent since June 1, says Rasmussen.

In other new Rasmussen survey findings:

Only 14 percent of Democratic voters rate the performance of the Congress led by their own party as good or excellent, compared to 5 percent of Republicans and 6 percent of unaffiliated voters. Thirty-five percent of Democrats say the legislators are doing a poor job, and 69 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of independents agree. Sixty-six percent of men give Congress poor ratings, only 43 percent of women do the same. Eight percent of men give Congress positive ratings, along with 10 percent of women. Thirty-four percent surveyed believes most members of Congress are corrupt, while 39 percent disagree. In last month's survey, 36 percent saw most members as corrupt.

And yes, for doing absolutely nothing these idiots are still about to get a raise!

Actor Lillo Brancato Cleared Of Murder In Cop's Death

Yahoo.com:

Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos," was cleared Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman during a drunken, late-night search for drugs.

The jury convicted Brancato of a lesser charge of attempted burglary. He faces a minimum of three years in prison on that count, but the former actor could get credit for time served because he has been behind bars about that long.

Brancato showed no reaction as the verdict was read — his face impassive, his fingers pressed together. His mother, seated a couple rows back in the gallery, began sobbing.

Prosecutors say Brancato and accomplice Steven Armento broke into a basement apartment to steal prescription drugs after a night of drinking at a strip club. Officer Daniel Enchautegui, who lived next door, came out to investigate.

Armento blasted the 28-year-old officer with his .357 Magnum, hitting him in the heart. The dying officer fired back, wounding both men. Armento was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Since it involved a cop and a B-list actor this case has been getting a lot of play here in NYC. Personally I believe that the jury made the right decision. Having followed the case from the get-go, I could never buy into the idea that Brancato, an actor whose never had a history of violence and who had a lot of potential before he fell victim to drugs, had any idea, in his drug-addicted haze, that someone might be killed the night he went out looking for his friend to score some drugs. Brancato's accomplice shot and killed the cop and now he's doing life without the possibility of parole because of it. Enough people have suffered here. Brancato can either choose now to learn from this whole, tragic experience and get his life together or continue down the same dismal path he's been on. If he picks the latter, one can only hope that no one else will suffer from it. Lastly, as a Sopranos fan, I think it's insulting that the media keeps linking Brancato to a show he appeared in like 3 or 4 episodes of, at most.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/22/08

Hillary Clinton Campaign Debt Now At $6.4 Million

Princess Caroline Wants To Be Anointed

Sarah Palin Church Burning - 'Hate Crime' Virtually Ignored?

Paul Weyrich Cast Long Shadow In Conservatism

CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory 'Arrogant'

Courteney Cox: Divorce Is Not An Option

Dangerous Foes Await The Obama Administration, Gaffney Warns

Why Are Female Teachers So Hot For Students?

Obama Names Two Global Warming Nutcases To Cabinet Posts

The Huffington Post Slammed For Content Theft

Dick Cheney Doesn't Give A Damn What Liberals Think

I admire the man for his consistency alone: he flat out has never allowed the naysayers views of him to make him sweat:

Cheney, speaking less than a month before he and President Bush leave the White House, was blunt and unapologetic about his central role in some of the most controversial issues of the past eight years, including the invasion of Iraq, warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, and harsh interrogation tactics. Cheney also said he disagreed with Bush's decision to remove embattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in 2006, saying that "the president doesn't always take my advice."

"I was a Rumsfeld man," Cheney said. "I'd helped recruit him and I thought he did a good job for us."

The interview was the second in less than a week for the normally reclusive vice president, and it comes as part of a broad effort by Bush and his aides to focus attention on issues that they consider major accomplishments of their two terms in office.In an interview with ABC News last week, Cheney suggested the administration would have gone to war with Iraq even without erroneous intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction. Cheney also said in that interview that he approved of the administration's use of coercive interrogation tactics, including a type of simulated drowning known as waterboarding, against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and others.....

......Cheney expressed no regrets in today's interview, vigorously defending the Bush administration's war and counterterrorism policies and saying he was untroubled by opinion polls showing that he and Bush are among the most unpopular White House occupants in modern times. "Eventually you wear out your welcome in this business, but I'm very comfortable with where we are and what we've achieved substantively," he said.

In discussing his views of broad executive power on national security issues, Cheney said Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt "went far beyond anything we've done in a global war on terror," and said that all U.S. presidents since 1973 have viewed the War Powers Act -- which gave Congress the role of declaring war -- as unconstitutional.

Bush and Cheney have nothing to apologize for. They've kept us safe for 7 years. The world is a better place without Saddam Hussein in it. The U.S. engaging in waterboarding has been vastly overblown by the liberal media and only in pre-9/11 world would any sane person not want to know if terrorists are plotting to harm American citizens. Liberals are not sane people so why should Dick Cheney give a damn what they think?

Jim Brown Quote of the Day!

"A liberal is arrogant enough to think he can do you a half-assed favor. He is superior enough to think he can give you something that you don't deserve. A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch."

- actor, activist and NFL Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown