Congratulations, Phil.

John Kerry has set a new political record….

….breaking campaign promises 7 months BEFORE an election….

The hits just keep on coming. Last week, in another speech where John Kerry was bashing the strong economy and trying to convince Americans that his fantasy economy is the one we should really be concerned with, John Kerry made this amazing revelation:

Kerry said that, if he is elected president, he will not let government programs outside of security and education grow beyond the rate of inflation, even if it means cutting money from some of his own campaign promises and existing government programs. source

So there you have it folks. Straight from the horses mouth. Kerry is finally acknowledging what the Bush campaign has been saying all along - Kerry’s numbers just don’t add up. When you promise a billion dollars in social programs, you’re going to have to explain where that money will come from and admit you’re going to raise taxes - and not just on “the rich”. Instead of admitting that we’d see across the board tax increases to pay for his tax and spend liberal ideas, Kerry’s forced to reconcile the numbers by saying his campaign promises really are ridiculous and there’s no way he can actually do what he’s claiming he can do.

Congratulations, John Kerry, you’ve established a new low in American politics.

Is your blog therapy for you or does it exist as an on-going op-ed piece for you to express your views to the world, and why?

It’s a combination. While it’s an ongoing op-ed piece for my own views, the ability to post them out for the world to see is therapeutic. It beats yelling at the idiots on my car radio, or cursing at the retards on television incessantly. All that does is raise my level of disgust and since I’m not into gardening, quilting or other similarly strenuous activites, I must log onto my blog and tell the liberals of the world how stupid they are.

Occasionally one reads my blog. There’s nothing more relaxing than responding to liberal talking points. It used to get me heated up, but I’ve come to realize that there are less than a dozen liberal mantras that get repeated over and over, so now that I’ve perfected my responses, it’s just a matter of formality to treat each one as a red-headed step-child.

Sample of the “non-partisan” 9/11 hearings….

BEN-VENISTE: I’m going to ask you some questions…. but first, I’d like to take a few minutes to bash the current administration, while ignoring the faults of the previous adminsitration, I’d like to make some statements that my liberal brethren would like to hear, and hopefully will generate applause from the activists in the audience. I’d like to begin with a non-partisan statement endorsed by Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Republicans are bad, very bad.

(applause)

RICE: Is there a question you’d like to ask?

BEN-VENISTE: Just answer the question, Brown Suga’.

RICE: But you haven’t asked any.

BEN-VENISTE: I realize that, but by not answering you’re giving the impression you and the administration have something to hide.

(applause)

RICE: We have nothing to hide.

BEN-VENISTE: Come on, honey, I only have a limited time to be on television, and your diatribe has wasted much of it.

RICE: I’ve said 13 words.

BEN-VENISTE: Seventeen, dammit! You’ve said 17 words and that’s just like a Republican to spin the facts. Now let me ask you about the title of a paper I wrote in college that should’ve led this administration to taking steps to abolish all thing evil in this world. Do you know it?

RICE: Of course, I do. It was called, “Bad things will happen to Americans.”

BEN-VENISTE: So why didn’t you prevent 9/11? I laid it out for all to see.

RICE: But your paper only detailed the dangers of wild tumbleweeds and severe thunderstorms in the Midwest, what does that have to do with national security?

BEN-VENISTE: Look, little woman, will you just answer my question? I’ve prepared a proper answer if you’d like to read it into the record instead of answering with facts and other mumbo jumbo truths.

RICE: No thank you.

BEN-VENISTE: Again, you’re taking too much of my time with your rhetoric and talking points. And again, you’re refusing to cooperate. Would you agree to make all national security documents public so we can openly discuss all strategies and tactics of the U.S. intelligence agencies and military?

RICE: No.

BEN-VENISTE: Well I have no more question to axe you.

RICE: Thank you for your time.

GORELICK: You caused 9/11 didn’t you?

RICE: What kind of question is that?

GORELICK: Look, I’m asking the questions here. Now you’ve wasted all my time and I only have enough time during this meeting where we’re supposed to be asking you questions, to offer my own prepared statements on the evil Bush administration.

(applause)

RICE: I’d be happy to answer questions, if you have some.

GORELICK: No, thank you, we’re quite content with hearing our own voices and this is my only shot for my kids to record mommy on television with our new TiVo system. It’s quite interesting, it’s like a VCR, but you can record shows….

(applause)

KERREY: Let me jump in here and…

(applause)

…remind everyone that Republicans are evil…

(applause)

…and let me ask you, Dr. Clarke, err…Mister Rice….err, Sweet, Sweet Condi Baby….

(applause)

…ignoring that the previous administration was in office for nearly 3,000 days and endured half a dozen bombings, attacks and other acts of terrorism, why did you not rid the face of the earth of all evils in your 233 days prior to 9/11?

(applause)

RICE: We were developing plans, trying to undo the do-nothing policies of the prior administration…

KERREY: Answer the damn question, woman!

(applause)

RICE: I am….

KERREY: Yeah, but you’re answering the question I asked, I want you to answer the questions I have NOT asked yet!

(applause)

RICE: How do I do that? I’m not a mind-reader.

KERREY: You’re the National Security Advisor, you should be able to see a minimum of 12.7 years into the future. Are you telling me you’re incapable of doing your job?

(applause)
(applause)
(applause)

RICE: With all due respect….

(booooooo)

KERREY: Look, why do you focus on Iraq, instead of going after bad guys?

RICE: Iraq WAS bad, in fact in your own speech a few years ago, you said exactly the same thing and said anyone who disagreed should be shot on site.

KERREY: Don’t use my own words against me, I had a different reason for saying what I did then. Now I’m trying to help a friend win the White House….er, I mean…..um…. SHUT UP, HO.

RICE: Excuse me?

KERREY: Look, I’m almost out of time, and since you’ve failed to answer my questions, I will now call myself Condoleeza and enter a statement into the record on your behalf….

(applause)
(party favors twirling)
(balloons popping)
(fireworks exploding)
(audience breaking out in song)

….we have determined in a non-partisan way that President Bush is a bad, bad man. We have also determined that despite all economic indications to the contrary, he’s killed the economy, despite the lack of attacks on our own soil since 9/11, he’s failed to protect the country, despite the fact that he’s a Christian, we’ve determined, through documents we’ve authored ourselves, that he is, in fact, the Devil.

Thank you and good night.

Welcome back, Double Standard, it’s been at least 15 minutes since we last saw you….

So on April 1, 2004, Senator Robert C. Byrd cast his 17,000th vote in the Senate. This is an achievement as grand as reaching one’s 100th birthday. An esteemed, lifelong public servant reaches a milestone and others are there to offer praise and congratulations.

For example, Senator Ted Kennedy offered these words of praise:

For me, Bob Byrd personifies what our Founding Fathers were thinking about when they were thinking about a United States Senate. He brings the kind of qualities that the Founding Fathers believed were so important for service to a state and service to the nation

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followed up by Senator Christopher Dodd:

It has often been said that the man and the moment come together. I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment. Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time.

source

Now why should anyone questions these sentiments? Why should anyone think these are anything more than simple congratulations and thanks to a man who has served so long, cast so many votes?

Well, let’s just rewind the clock back 16 months. At his100th birthday celebration, Trent Lott, praising Senator Strom Thurmond’s service to America said, “We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either…”

What was the response?

BET, Black Entertainment Television published a poll where over 75% of respondents said Trent Lott should resign. source

Sen. Kennedy, called the Lott comments “a salute to bigotry.” source

In addition, the Congressional Black Caucus released a statement calling for a “formal censure of Sen. Lott’s racist remarks.” And two Democratic senators called on Lott to resign his leadership post. source

Why did they have such a response? Because Strom Thurmond had run on a Segregationist platform in the 40s.

So now here were are, April, 2004 and the Left is noticably silent on the remarks of Senators Kennedy and Dodd, despite the fact they have said, “He brings the kind of qualities that the Founding Fathers believed were so important for service to a state and service to the nation, ” and “Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time”…

…about a man who:

- was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and not just your everyday run-of-the-mill member, he was a “Kleagle”, a recruiter for the KKK

- said in 1946 that: “The Ku Klux Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth in West Virginia”.

- casually used the phrase “white nigger” twice on national TV in 2001

- filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act (sponsored by evil Republicans) for more than 14 hours

- opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court’s two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas

- vowed never to fight “with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

source

So, Double Standard, we go down a familiar path, with the same questions, the same answers and the same feelings of disgust and amazement. Is it time we just accept that no liberal can be called racist? Is it time we just accept that no conservative can do good? Is it time to give up the good fight and just let this double standard continue to spoil the beauty that is the United States of America?

HELL NO. Get real, it’s time to wake up!

HOT AIR AMERICA

“It was off the charts in terms of how much ballyhoo and hoopla it generated, considering what it is,” says Michael Harrison, the editor and publisher of Talkers magazine, which tracks the talk radio business. “It’s a modest startup, and it was treated like some kind of revolution.”

So they got their mainstream media fanfare and unprecendented publicity…. then it was put on the air where the true test of success is measured - a listening audience. Excluding the chirping critics and in-studio assistants, the station has debuted to a audience smaller than the population of the Brady Bunch.

Here’s my take on it. They’ve launched the station in the midst of the FCC crackdown on inappropriate and vulgar programming. So as they watch their ratings stall and flounder, they’ll turn up the vulgarity and raunchiness. Then when the FCC cracks down on their nonsense and obscenity, they’ll claim the Bush administration is trying to stifle their voice. It’s a pretty creative strategy, if you ask me. The only problem is its transparency. If I can see it coming today, April 6, 2004, what will they do when it actually happens and we point to this post to show them we knew their plan all along?

Don’t ya love being a part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy…..

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Click here to see news about our “terrible” economy…

Demand a recount!

Gore TV Deal Is Stalled At The 11th Hour; Major Investor Pulls Out
by Joe Hagan

The Observer has learned that the deal for former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to acquire digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI) has hit a major obstacle and may have fallen through in the 11th hour of negotiations.

Sources familiar with the situation said that one of Mr. Gore’s crucial investors got cold feet in the last stage of the deal and that Mr. Gore’s group and the channel’s owner, Vivendi Universal Entertainment, could not agree on a price.

But I’m sure it had nothing to do with the lack of interest in a another liberal television station. Afterall, the existing liberal stations (also known as “the major networks”) are lagging in ratings to stations like Fox, or as the Left calls it, “Right Wing Faux News”. Perhaps the investors, those who invest for the purpose of making money, realize that there aren’t enough people interested in Gore’s proposed station to warrant an investment. Imagine that. Maybe the liberal ideas aren’t as popular as the major networks would have us believe. I mean, when all is said and done, money talks and BS walks.

I’m sure Gore’s got the lawyers heading to town, though. He’s gearing up for a legal challenge to force the investors to give him their money… in the spirit of liberalism. You know, it’s not about what’s fair or just, it’s about his right to own a station. Maybe he can rustle up some hanging chads. Maybe the deal fell through because the investors weren’t as bright as he thought and they filled out the wrong paperwork. Yeah, that’s it. Perhaps there is some vast right wing conspiracy behind the “big corporations” maliciously plotting against Gore and his liberal friends. Maybe this was some scheme cooked up by the Bush family on a Texas ranch 30 years ago. Or could it be that Karl Rove is behind this? Oh, it’s gotta be the work of Hannity or Limbaugh! Maybe it’s a plot by people who believe in Jesus and go to church. Perhaps it’s a scheme by the richest one percent of America….

Or maybe, just maybe, there really aren’t that many people interested in Gore’s ideas…..

Nahhh…..it’s gotta be a conspiracy…

It’s alive!!!

I’ve been receiving alot of requests for some of my older articles, and until now, have been unable to recover the archive files. Well, they’re back up!

Just click on the links to the archive files over on the right….

Enjoy…..

The direction of America…

Some say that they don’t like the direction of America. This ought to tell you something about their “view for America”.

Here’s what America looks like today, April 2, 2004.

-Interest rates are at historical lows
-Home ownership is at an all-time high
-759,000 new jobs created over the last 7 months
-308,000 new jobs created in March alone
-the average refund sent to nearly 63 million taxpayers is up 5.1 percent over last year
-the DOW is up almost 30% from last year
-the NASDAQ is up over 50% from last year
-the S&P is up over 30% from last year
-There are charges pending against 354 defendants and another 250 individuals have been convicted or plead guilty to corporate fraud charges, including executives at Enron, Worldcom, ImClone, Dynegy and more

So the group who can, in the face of the information above, accuse President Bush of being a “miserable failure” or complain about the “direction of America” has some ’splainin’ to do. Effectively they’re saying they don’t like low interest rates, increased home ownership, expanding stock markets, increases in jobs and the prosecution of corporate criminals.

It must be tough when you’re having to root for job losses at home and deaths abroad to win in politics…

Maybe they just have a different Amerika in mind.