California state Senator Doug LaMalfa (North-Central CA.) provides further proof that the state of California is going to hell in a handbasket (via Memeorandum):
I’m a few days behind on this story, primarily because I spent the majority of my weekend monitoring and/or Tweeting about Hurricane Irene developments, but I think you’ll find it a fascinating case study in terms of the contrasts it portrays between well-behaved young children at a private school versus “gimme mine” unionistas petulantly protesting outside the school … because Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was visiting. The Wisconsin Reporter has the story:
I hesitate to write this because I don’t want to come off as personally attacking a President who is, to many – whether they think he’s doing a good job or not – a “likeable” guy, but I think it’s important to chronicle and document just what a prepackaged candidate Barack Obama was in 2008 and before, prior to his election to the US Senate, and even prior to that, as a State Senator in Illinois who cozied up to the likes of Chicago’s most influential public figures – like domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and the racist America hater Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as he climbed the social and political ladder in one of America’s most politically corrupt cities … a ladder he supposedly emerged from “unscathed.” Uh huh.
I think the pictures tell the story. More here.
Don Surber has a devastating take-down of two recent hypocritical Goracle assertions – one on his ridiculous, false claim that global warming alarmists do not manipulate climate data for financial gain, and the other on his silly, two-faced call for people to “ditch meat-heavy diets” — to ‘save the world’, of course.
Here lately pundits and other political commentators from Peggy Noonan to Karl Rove to Jonah Goldberg have been weighing in on the “form” of GOP candidates for President (and potential ones) – in particular those who have accents and plainspeaking ways about them, like Sarah Palin and Rick Perry. These pundits worry that these types of high profile politicians, though patriotic, well-meaning, good-hearted, and popular amongst certain segments of the GOP base, come across all wrong to the general public and thus present problems when it comes to the ability for Republicans to win elections, in particular the Presidency. To that, Dr. Melissa Clouthier responds:
