hypocrisy

Hey, Rahm, you can dish it out....

Remember when Rahm Emanuel was such a tough guy

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/

Rep. Rahm Emanuel is leading the Democratic charge to retake the House next year. Will his old-school combativeness rub off on his more timid colleagues?....

"He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala, who served with Emanuel on Clinton's staff. "The Democratic Party is full of Rhodes scholars — Rahm is a road warrior. He's just what the Democrats need to fight back."

Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. .........And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."

well, he isn;t now.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/12/rahm-a-drama-beet-red-and-pissed-with-the-msm/

ABC News says he’s “beet red” and “pissed” that he can’t go anywhere without someone asking question about his role in Blago-gate.

Oh, booo, freakin hoo

You know Rahm, you did a great job in '06 of targeting all the various reprobates in the Republican House caucus and making sure even the ones in safe districts had credible opponents. And one by one you picked them all off, the Curt Weldons, the John Sweeneys...it got to the point I e-mailed one editor here on the point , citing Queen....Another One Bites the Dust    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_One_Bites_the_Dust for Emanuel's strategy

Including one Mark Foley. And Emanuel is alleged to have scammed people about getting the goods on Foley http://www.memeorandum.com/061210/p37#a061210p37   as well as knowing his opponent was equally slimy http://www.thenextright.com/ironman/most-ethical-congress-ever. And don;t underestimate the damage the Foley flap had even in Blue States--GOP incumbent numbers that week went down a mineshaft.

So . Rahm, you've lived by the sword. Doesn't feel very nice coming back at ya, now does it? 

You also know, being a snitch like Whitey Bulger Go to fullsize image doesn't get you a lot of respect either from cops or robbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger

This is the life you chose to lead, Rahm. Hope you are enjoying it. 

By the way, where's that pair you are supposed to have?

Message to Senator Dodd: You first

Talking Head Chris Dodd appeared on Face the Nation this morning.  His statements will be remembered  for their breathtaking chutzpah

 A key senator says the nation's car companies should have to replace top executives in exchange for a long-term bailout package from Congress.

Sen. Chris Dodd heads the Senate Banking Committee. He says he is hopeful Congress will pass a short-term $15 billion aid package for the automakers in the next several days. But the Connecticut Democrat says the companies should have to restructure if they want a more significant bailout from Congress next year.

Dodd says the companies need quick cash to avoid collapse in the next several weeks. But over the long-term, Dodd says Chrysler probably ought to merge with another company and General Motors should be required to replace chief executive Rick Wagoner.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081207/congress_autos.html

Now, Chris, I'm with you on Wagoner walking the plank. After all, GM is hemorraging money and Wagoner failed to prevent this from happening.

But, shouldn't you be held to the same standard as Rick Wagoner? 

You've admitted the Wall Street bailout that you principally drafted largely failed http://thenextright.com/ironman/chris-dodd-on-the-bank-bailout-yep-i-pulled-a-plaxico

You spent the critical month of August 2008 at your vacation home in Ireland instead of working to prevent the financial meltdown http://www.thenextright.com/ironman/oh-doddy-boy-the-banks-the-banks-are-failing 

You were the number one recipient of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac  and your all time top contributor, Citigroup http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00000581 just got an early $20 Billion Christmas present from the Treasury, just like all the other friends you have on Wall Street going hat in hand http://thenextright.com/ironman/the-best-senate-banking-chairman-money-can-buy    (Funny, I don't recall the heads of Citigroup or Bank of America being asked to tender their resignation prior to getting taxpayer bailout money?)Then again, you've always been a "reliable friend' the banking industry http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501555.html

Your "reliable friends" at Countrywide Mortgage are being investigated by the G-Men http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/30/1613877.aspx 

You tried to enrich ACORN at the expense of the taxpayers when you drafted the Wall Street Bailout http://thenextright.com/ozarkguru/major-earmark-in-democrat-bailout-agreement

Now, I'm sure you are going to say that Rick Wagoner lacked vision since he failed to foresee the collapse of his industry. Well, how aren't you equally culpable?

You said your bill in July 2008 was the answer to the housing crisis http://blogs.courant.com/on_background/2008/07/housing-bill-finally-heads-to.html

This was after in March of 2007, you said legislation on foreclosures was unnecessary http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01EEDE1530F930A15750C0A9619C8B63

And before the complete meltdown of the global financial system you said you did not expect "many more banks to fail" http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/dodd-does-not-expect-many-more-banks-to-fail-2008-07-14.html and told people not to "panic" http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080715.htm

Rick Wagoner has gone through tens of billions of shareholder equity. What is the present estimate of the various financial bailouts out there? (I' ve seen $7 Trillion!) http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/26/news/economy/where_bailout_stands/index.htm?postversion=2008112615

Maybe had Dodd not lived in Iowa in 2007 this could have been avoided http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/ia08/doddiavisits07.html

On September 23 I called for Dodd to step down as Banking Committee Chairman

Does anyone think Chris Dodd's performance since September 23 as Banking Committtee Chairman has done anything worthy of his retention?

How has he proven to be any less incompetent than Rick Wagoner?

I await the Senator's response.

Force Democrats to Commit to a Particular Vision for America!!

 

 

There is any easy path back: Force Democrats to Commit to a Particular Vision for America.

To do this, consider a coalition between the Green and the Republican Parties.

Crazy you say?

Hear me out.

What is the best way to expose the basic fraud in the democrat appeal?

Force them to choose between the liberal base and the broad coalition.

What is the best way to do that?

Help the Green Party win those "safe" liberal seats tucked away in the inner cities.

Usually, the Republican Party doesn't even run a candidate in these seats. Why not contribute to Green Party victories in those Gerrymandered Liberal State Representative, State Senate, and U.S. Congressional seats?

How can you do that?

Prevent the democrats from blocking Green Party ballot access. Relax restrictions on ballot access. Contribute money to Green Party campaigns. At every opportunity, attack the hypocrisy of Democrat candidates in comparison to Green candidates.

Don't let the Democrats get away with installing another Baraka tHUSAME Obama in a nice safe State Senate seat like the one in Hyde Park, Chicago. Make the would be "liberal" democrats fight the Green Party for those seats. Make them prove their liberal credentials so that they can't run away from their commitments as soon as they see lobby money waived in their faces.

This is way better than the K-Street project. The Green Party project would actually work.

Think of the effect on the Democrat Party.

Democrats would have to choose between, on the one hand, an honest and straightforward socialist approach, or, on the other hand, a weasel-worded, flim-flam, Obama type campaign of deception in which they promise everything and deliver nothing but image.

How can Republicans continue letting the Democrats finesse all the major issues of the day, without forcing them to commit to their best solution?

Exhibit A: immigration policy.

Exhibit B: trade policy and globalism

Exhibit C: income redistribution

Force the democrat liberals to choose.

You really want "Choice not an Echo," then start by forcing the liberals to choose. It'll make your job easier.

If Green members take the liberal seats in the State Houses and Congress, the Green Party can form a coalition with the Republican Party, just as happens with third parties in Canada, Europe and Israel.

Coalitions allow the parties to unite to accomplish specific goals. It's not true that there could never be a project on which Republicans and Greens could agree. Starting with the selection of a Speaker of the House (state or federal), the opportunity to form a coalition with the Green Party could offer significant advantages to Republicans over their Democrat rivals.

The beauty of a multi-party system is that each party passionately represents it's own constituency. As the constituencies expand, the influence of the party expands. Each party negotiates on behalf of its constituency for the best government possible. There is less ideological fraud.

The Republicans have been trying to run on ideology since 1964 - as if Republicans were in a multi-party system. Instead of a straight up debate, Republicans keep using wedge issues and sleezy (Atwater type) campaigns in order to win. This must be frustrating to those who want to have a full opportunity to work out a functioning philosophy of government. How can you do this if the Democrats can't be pinned down?

Force the democrats to stick with a message. Force them to represent their constituents.

Force the democrats to face the Green Party.

Force liberal democrats to chose between the Democrat Party and the Green Party.

Liberal democrats will either disappear; or, the Democrat Party will accept a fixed ideological position. Either way, is good for Republicans. And, coincidentally, it would be good for America.

 

Chris Dodd on the Bank Bailout: Yep, I pulled a Plaxico

then.....

Dodd  Had Central Role In Crafting Bailout Bill

WASHINGTON — - He couldn't get far in his race for the presidential nomination, barely earning also-ran status. But Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is at the very center of what may be the most important piece of financial legislation the country has considered during his long political career.

For the moment — with the Senate's passage  of a $700 billion economic bill Wednesday night — Dodd's name has risen near the prominence of his Senate colleagues reaching for the White House. And whether you call it a bailout or a rescue of the U.S. economy, the Connecticut senator's fingerprints are all over it.
 

 

NOW....

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/04/Dodd_disappointed_with_financial_bailout/UPI-89491228431017/

Dodd disappointed with financial bailout

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Chris Dodd on the GM bailout: Profile in Cowardice

Chris Dodd, once again proving he is a strong voice of reason "leading" the Senate Banking Committee

Even a top Democrat in charge of evaluating their aid requests made it clear he was eager to avoid voting on a bailout. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday asking the central bank chief whether there was anything stopping him from using his considerable lending authority to help the automakers.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081204/congress_autos.html

There is a crying need for a legislative response to craft a new set of policies that will enable American manufacturing to survive in the hostile economic climate, and what does Chris Dodd suggest---just send them down to Bernacke to get some cash to tide 'em over awhile.

Chris: the Fed should not be:  a)lending to manufacturers and b) trying to do Congress's job. As is painfully apparent to anyone with working synapses, cash alone will not make Detroit healthy.

What is all the more galling about this is Dodd wasn't shy at all about trying to bail out ACORN. Or any of his well heeled Wall Street buddies http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-dodd0929.artsep29,0,1341992.story

Then again, punting from trouble is now a Dodd specialty. He spent August 2008, as Fannie and Freddie approached death's door, lounging around his vacation home in Ireland.  http://www.thenextright.com/ironman/oh-doddy-boy-the-banks-the-banks-are-failing Perhaps that is the politcal version of the "JOBS Bank".

It's past time for Chris Dodd to quit and someone who cares about the economy and has a clue to take over his committee. http://thenextright.com/ironman/the-bargain-for-the-bailout

  

 

Look in the mirror, Chris

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the automakers still need to prove they can survive and be profitable. "If these companies are asking for taxpayer dollars, they must convince Congress that they are going to shape up and change their ways," Dodd said in a statement

OK.

You First, Chris

 

 

Barack Orwell (con't)

H/T Michelle Malkin

Evidently what Joe the Plumber asked Barack Obama so bothered the Democrats running OH state government that the bigwigs ordered a full scale document review of his files.

New report: Ohio employee was ordered to snoop on Joe The Plumber

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/31/new-report-ohio-employee-was-ordered-to-snoop-on-joe-the-plumber/

Glad to see OH state employees have nothing better to do than run oppo for the Obama campaign.

There's a very sad commentary here. Obama claims to have taught constitutional law. Does he believe the 4th Amendment  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution applies only to terrorists making phone calls, or abortion providers, but not to plumbers from Toledo?

If anyone out there has any libertarian DNA in their blood they simply CANNOT vote for a collectivist like Obama 

 

CT Democrat uses saccharin overdose to counter GOP charges

So, how does a politician respond when his opponent complains he gave away $700 Billion taxpayer dollars to the same people who gave him $500,000 in campaign cash?

http://davidcappiello.com/dc/content/view/169/75/

You do what Chris Murphy did. You trot out your infant son!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXKps6L8Krc

The only printable term for this stunt is shameless.

There are some days you shouldn't do fundraising

Like the day you vote to give the tycoons on Wall Street  $700 Billion

It just might be the wrong day to put the hit on the American Bankers Association for three large. Especially when you lambasted your predecessor for soliciting cash from folks who worked with her committee, and now you sit on the Financial Services Committee. 

http://davidcappiello.com/dc/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

The bailout is NOT going to go away as an issue for awhile, I suspect.

Hush, Hush, Voices Carry (Part II)

A couple of days back I blogged about a CT Democrat lawmaker who thought a sex abuse allegation could be swept under the rug for $100K. http://thenextright.com/ironman/hush-hush-voices-carry

Well, we did not have to wait 'til Tuesday for this guy to hang it up, he smelled the latte tonight and announced he's quitting, effective immediately 

 http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20171365&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=665579&rfi=6

but the damage has been done to the CT Democrats, as this afternoon Speaker James Amann confirmed that his party's sernior leadership knew back in 2004 that Rep. Wilber was being sued over alleged abuse to a girl who was 11 at the time of the incident, and blithely blessed his re-election bids and contributed heavily to his re-election bids http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-20200022.apds.m0835.bc-ct--lawmoct20,0,3433000.story http://www.everydayrepublican.com/2008/10/20/breaking-news-wilber-to-resign-for-health-reasons/

What is even more sad is that the Democrats always had a huge majority in the state house; even though Wilber's seat leans Republican it's not like they'd have missed him had he stepped down and a new candidate lost. So much for caring about protecting children from abuse, eh?

But, the CT Democrats are really picking winners these days. Their candidate in a Bridgeport district, Auden Grogins, is representing (at taxpayer expense) the most heinous criminal in CT history, Joshua Komisarjevsky.  http://connpolitics.tv/index.php/2008/08/13/atty-for-cheshire-murder-suspect-wins-pr 

Given the moral compass of George Wilber and Auden Grogins, is there any surprise which political party traditionally opposes effective measures to protect women, children and  seniors in CT?

As for that other hush money scandal, Florida's Tim Mahoney is now out one spouse, http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7284e030-a7c2-461d-b456-ea593392c67f&rss=762 and one political party ad campaign http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Politics/story?id=6073940&page=1. Hey, there are a lot of nice tiki bars in Florida for guys in a midlife crisis looking for affection. Life could be worse. At least you won't have to worry about Rahm Emanuel anymore.

 

 

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