"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, August 08, 2009

IRAQI: "OBAMA IS THROWING AWAY OUR COMMON VICTORY"

WZ:
It's not Just Obama, the entire left would like nothing more than to see Iraq devolve into choas....
"Why are the Americans throwing away our common victory?" asks Iraq journalist Maad Fayad. "It is absurd for [the Obama administration] to base its policy on Iraq on a weird desire to prove that Bush was wrong.

OBAMA AND THE LEFT ONLY LIKE CLASS WAR.

WARS TO DEFEND LIBERTY AND THE FREE WORLD? WELL... THEY'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE!

HAS ENGLAND'S VIOLENT BACKLASH AGAINST ISLAMIZATION - AND THEIR DO-NOTHING POLITICAL PARTIES - BEGUN?

Arrests at anti-Islamic protest

Police in Birmingham have arrested 33 people during protests by anti-fascists and a group demonstrating against Islamic fundamentalism.


RTWT.

  • WE'VE LONG MAINTAINED THAT IF THE TORIES AND NEW LABOUR REMAINED INEFFECTIVE ON ISLAMIZATION THAT THERE WOULD BE VIOLENCE AND A BACKLASH HELPING THE UKIP AND BNP.
  • I THINK IT HAS BEGUN.
  • I THINK IT'S NEEDED.

BOTTOM-LINE: IF THE BRITISH WANT BRITAIN TO REMAIN BRITISH THEN THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT TOOTH-AND-NAIL AND NOT WAIT FOR THE POLITICIANS.

VOTE DOUGM: GET A FREE FERRARI!


...
THERE ARE A FEW CAVEATS...

NOT 1000 PAGES OF THEM, BUT THAT'S WHY CONGRESSMEN MAKE THE BIG BUCKS!

(AFTER YOU CLICK OVER, BE SURE TO FINISH YOUR ASSIGNMENT!)

UPDATED: SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE A VIDEO CALLED "I AM THE GOP MOB"!


YOU KNOW THE TYPE I MEAN: JUST HEADSHOTS OF THE REGULAR FOLK LOOKING INTO THE CAMERA AND SAYING, "I AM THE GOP MOB! AND I OPPOSE OBAMACARE!"

IT ONLY TOOK A DAY:

MORE PROOF OBAMA SUCKS: THE EU IS CONDEMNING THE IRANIAN SHOW TRIALS MORE FORCEFULLY THAN THE USA!

BBC:

European nations have strongly criticised the latest trials in Iran over the unrest that followed the disputed presidential poll.

Iranian workers at the French and British embassies and a French national were among dozens of detainees to appear in court in Tehran.

The EU presidency said action against any EU national or embassy would be seen as an act against the whole bloc.

The UK and France also spoke out against the trial.

This is the second group trial of those accused of taking part in the mass protests that erupted after the 12 June

AND WHAT DOES THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THINK?!

HILLARY MENTIONED THEM IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION DURING A TAPED INTERVIEW: NYTIMES:

Mr. Zakaria also asked Mrs. Clinton about “show trials” for political protesters and journalists in Iran.

“It is a sign of weakness,” Mrs. Clinton said of the trials. “It demonstrates, I think, better than any of us could ever say, that this Iranian leadership is afraid of their own people, and afraid of the truth and the facts coming out.”

Mr. Zakaria interviewed Mrs. Clinton on Tuesday in Kenya. Their discussion will be broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

THAT'S IT. OBAMA IS SILENT.

WHEN THE EU IS MORE HAWKISH THAN THE USA THEN SOMETHING IS VERY VERY WRONG.

AND THAT THING THAT IS VERY VERY WRONG OCCUPIES THE WHITE HOUSE!

FOR THE TIME BEING....

YOU'VE HEARD OF KANGAROO COURTS, RIGHT? WELL, NOW THE OBAMACARE PRO-DEMOCRATS ARE DOING THE SAME THING WITH TOWNHALL MEETINGS!

TOWNHALL MEETINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WHERE AND WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

BUT SINCE THE PEOPLE ARE SO PISSED AT CONGRESS AND THE DEMOCRATS OVER OBAMACARE, THE DEMS ARE MAKING THEIR TOWNHALLS "BY INVITATION ONLY".

THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY DONE BY OBAMA - ALSO ON THE "HEALTHCARE" ISSUE:



IT'S INCREDIBLY DISHONEST. AND COWARDLY.

OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE DISHONEST COWARDS.

  • BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S REALLY WEIRD?

  • IF THEY CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE THEY'RE ALL GONNA GET THROWN OUT OF OFFICE! (UNLESS THEY'RE PLANNING TO STEAL THE NEXT ELECTION LIKE OBAMA PALS CHAVEZ HAS IN THE PAST AND LIKE ZELAYA WAS ABOUT TO DO!)

  • SHORT OF ELECTION THEFT, IT'S LIKE THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMS ARE WILLING TO COMMIT SEPPUKU FOR OBAMA AND OBAMACARE.

I SAY: LET THEM!

CITIZENS TO SEIU: IN YOUR FACE!

GATEWAY HAS THE STORY AND PIC'S.

AS OBAMANISTAS GET MORE DESPERATE - AND SEND OUT THEIR THUGS - MORE CONFRONTATIONS ARE INEVITABLE

BUT - LIKE THE IRANIAN PEOPLE -
WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED
BY THE LIKES OF OBAMA AND ALINSKY AND THE SEIU.


THE DADDY PARTY WILL LITERALLY
KICK THE MOMMY PARTY'S COLLECTIVE ASS:


WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING TODAY IN AMERICA - OBAMA'S ATTEMPT TO RAM SOCIALISM DOWN OUR THROATS BY USING THUGGERY AND INTIMIDATION - IS JUST HOW CHAVEZ AND HITLER STARTED OUT...

MORE ON OBAMA'S SEIU THUGS AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE DISSENT ON OBAMACARE


CLICK PIC FOR LINK TO VIDEO (VIA GLENN):



OBAMA AND THE CHICAGO WAY: DOUBLE-DEALING AND DOUIBLE-CROSSING: THIS TIME THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

OBAMA HAS ONCE AGAIN EXPOSED HIMSELF AS A MAN WHOSE WORD CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

  • HE DUMPED WRIGHT WITHIN WEEKS OF SWEARING HE COULD NO MORE DUMP WRIGHT THAN DUMP HIS WHITE GRANDMAMA.

NOW HE'S BROKEN HIS WORD TO BIG PHARMA: NYTIMES:

Caught between a pivotal industry ally and the protests of Congressional Democrats, the Obama administration on Friday backed away from what drug industry lobbyists had said this week was a firm White House promise to exclude from a proposed health care overhaul the possibility of allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices under Medicare.


WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, OBAMA LIES, CHEATS, AND THROWS THE LESSER ALLIES OF THE MOMENT UNDER THE BUS.

WHAT A FREAKIN' SCUMMER!
  • NOBODY IS IMMUNE - ALL YA GOTTA DO IS GET IN HIS EGOMANIACAL WAY!
  • I THINK THIS MAKES OBAMA IS UNFIT FOR THE OFFICE.
  • AND HIS UN-TRUSTWORTHINESS SENDS A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO ALL ALLIES OF USA; OBAMA IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
  • AND IT SENDS A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO OUR ENEMIES: YOU CAN GET OBAMA TO DO WHAT YOU WANT: JUST TURN UP THE HEAT!
  • SO IT MAKES US LESS SAFE!

WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP POTUS.

GOD HELP US, PLEASE!

HOT AIR ASKS: WILL BIG PHARMA TAKE THIS LYING DOWN!?!?


ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

10 CONGRESSMEN ON AN EXPENSIVE JUNK SCIENCE JUNKET - TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE DURING OUR WINTER!

SNORKELING, SCUBA DIVING, EXPENSIVE HOTELS ... ALL IN THE NAME OF JUNK SCIENCE, (AGW THAT IS!); WSJ:
When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole.

The 11-day trip -- with six spouses traveling along as well -- took place over New Year's 2008. Details are only now coming to light as part of a Wall Street Journal analysis piecing together the specifics of the excursion.

... The 10 members of Congress gathered at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on the morning of Dec. 29, 2007, along with several of their staff. Those who brought spouses were four Democrats (Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas, Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri, Rep. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana and Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee) and two Republicans (Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Texas and Mr. Lucas of Oklahoma). Spouses must pay for their own meals, but they don't have to pay for lodging and travel. ...

... The South Pole trip, led by Rep. Brian Baird (D., Wash.), ranks among the priciest. The lawmakers reported a cost to taxpayers of $103,000.

That figure, however, doesn't include the actual flying, because the trip used the Air Force planes, not commercial carriers. Flight costs would lift the total tab to more than $500,000, based on Defense Department figures for aircraft per-hour operating costs.

... For Mr. Baird, the trip was one of two such excursions in six months. Last summer, he went to the Galapagos Islands with several lawmakers, also to gain expertise in climate change.

THEY GET JUNKETS AND A GREAT HEALTHCARE INSURANCE PACKAGE WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO SELECT FROM A GROUP OF PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES!

WE GET CRAPOLA!

IT'S TIME THIS CRAP STOPPED.

IT'S TIME WE MADE THEM REALIZE THEY WORK FOR US. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

GIVING 'EM HELL: GOD BLESS THE CONSTITUTION AND CONSTITUTION-LOVING OBAMACARE-HATING CITIZENS OF THE USA!

  • LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN HALL: THEY'RE SICK AND TIRED OF THE DEMOCRAT BULLSH*T AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

  • THEY YELL SHAME ON YOU TO DINGELL - WHO'S BEEN REPRESENTING THEM FOR SEVERAL DECADES.



DINGELL IS A POPULAR FELLA IN HIS DISTRICT, BUT THEY LOVE THEIR FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION MORE THAN THEY LOVE DINGLELL.

AND WHEN HE SAYS THAT CONGRESS CAN'T HANDLE OBAMACARE AND TORT REFORM SIMULTANEOUSLY, THEY KNOW HE'S ABSOFREAKINLUTELY FULL OF SH*T.

  • THIS IS A SERIOUS MESSAGE TO DEMOCRATS: IF THEY RAM OBAMACARE DOWN OUR THROATS THERE'S GONNA BE HELL TO PAY!
  • AND THEY WILL BEAR THE COSTS: THEY WILL BE THROWN OUT EN MASSE.
  • EVEN PERENNIALS LIKE DINGELL.
  • EITHER OBAMA LOSES OBAMACARE OR OBAMA AND OBAMACARE WILL TAKE THE WHOLE DANG ENTIRE DEMOCRAT SHIP DOWN WITH HIM!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ice choking the "open" Northwest Passage - in midsummer!

Global cooling! Ice choking the "open" Northwest Passage even in midsummer

But top U.S. institute still prophesies 'extreme' melting

Despite predictions from a top U.S. polar institute that the Arctic Ocean's overall ice cover is headed for another "extreme" meltdown by mid-September, the Environment Canada agency monitoring our northern waters says an unusual combination of factors is making navigation more difficult in the Northwest Passage this year after two straight summers of virtually clear sailing.

In both the wider, deep-water northern corridor and the narrower, shallower southern branches of the passage, the Canadian Ice Service says pockets of more extensive winter freezing and concentrations of thicker, older ice at several key "choke points" are complicating ship travel.

The fabled trans-Arctic sea route, zealously sought by European explorers in centuries past as a shortcut to Asia, is increasingly seen in today's era of rapidly retreating sea ice as a potential highway to resources and Arctic tourist destinations.

A record number of vessels passed through Canada's Arctic islands last year, and experts have been predicting a steady rise in ship traffic in both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route, which connects Europe to eastern Asia along Russia's Arctic coast.

In the central part of the passage where the northern and southern routes merge amid narrowings around Prince of Wales Island, the CIS has observed "greater than normal concentrations of thicker, multi-year ice. This is the result of an increased flow of older ice from the Beaufort Sea into the Canadian Arctic archipelago last year."

The result, the agency said, is that ice conditions "are delaying any potential navigability of the Northwest Passage this year. This is opposite to what Environment Canada observed in the last week of July in 2007 and 2008."

While Canada's trans-Arctic sea route remains clogged with ice, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center is predicting another near-record meltdown by the end of this year's summer thaw. Scientists believe the retreat is being driven by several factors, including rising global temperatures associated with human-induced climate change, and the associated breakup and loss of thicker, multi-year year ice that is being replaced only seasonally by a thin layer of winter ice that disappears quickly each summer.

SOURCE

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OBAMA = SCARY COMMIE




AP REPORTING MESHUD IS STILL ALIVE

NYT/AP:
A Taliban spokesman and a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud claimed Saturday that the Pakistani Taliban chief was not killed by a CIA missile strike, contradicting another aide who confirmed Mehsud's death a day earlier.

The claims, made in calls to Pakistani and international media organizations, could undermine the growing confidence among U.S. and Pakistani officials that Mehsud died. They also could be tactical maneuvers to prevent defections as the Taliban leadership searches for a successor to Mehsud or even to delay a decision on naming an heir.

Pakistani intelligence officials acknowledged Saturday that the missile strike said to have killed the Taliban chief was carried out with Islamabad's help, indicating growing coordination between the two countries despite Pakistan's official disapproval of the strikes.

Mehsud deputy, Hakimullah, and Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar each called two separate Associated Press reporters Saturday to say that Mehsud was alive. They pledged evidence of his continued existence would be brought forth in the coming days.

  • WE WON'T KNOW HE'S DEAD UNTIL WE EXAMINE HIS CADAVER.
  • WHO KNOWS WHAT THE TRUTH IS IN THE FATA REGION?
  • IT'S A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY WRAPPED INSIDE AN ENIGMA.
  • WE CAN'T EVEN TRUST PAKISTAN'S ISI BECAUSE, SEPARATING PAKISTAN'S SELF-INTEREST FROM ITS IRRATIONAL ISLAMIST ROOTS IS AS DIFFICULT AS PRYING BARNEY FRANK OFF A PINKO-RENTBOY.
  • MY SOLUTION: DEMAND PAKISTAN EXTEND MILITARY CONROL OVER THE REGION - AND START APPLYING CIVIL LAW THERE, OR DECLARE IT A NON-NATIONAL TERRORIST-HAVEN AND THEN NUKE IT UNDER THE 2001 AUMF. (THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN 2001 - THEN THERE'D HAVE BEEN NO IRAQ WAR, NO GWOT, BECAUSE WW4 WOULD HAVE ENDED RIGHT THEN AND THERE!)


UPDATE; I SCOOPED HOT AIR AND LONG WAR JOURNAL ON THIS STORY.
AND SCOOPED MEMEORANDUM.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE BEAT THE BIG BLOGGERS TO STORIES ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD, BOOKMARK US, BLOGROLL US.

MUCKING-OUT RECENT AGW BS: A ROUND UP



ALL VIA DESMOG ME:

1 - GLOBAL WARMING IS GOOD:
More CO2 please -- 20% crop yield growth We are constantly bombarded by alarmist stories about how "global warming" (even though the planet is cooling) will cause crop failures and famine. Now the truth -- CO2 is plant food, the biosphere craves it, the more the better:

"Research carried out by the Department of Primary Industries in Victoria has shown that wheat crop yields could jump by up to 20 per cent under global warming.

2 - GLOBAL WARMING IS GREAT:

Warmth, water and more abundant carbon dioxide have been the main causes of the 20th century Green Revolution which has enabled farmers to feed the growing millions on earth.

All these beneficial developments are threatened by two things – the distinct possibility of a return to natural global cooling, and silly government policies all over the western world that will slash food production.

3 - THERE MAY BE TOO LITTLE ATMOSPHERIC CO2:
Award-winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken” and noted that the Earth was currently in a “CO2 famine now.” Happer, who has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, made his remarks during today’s Environment and Public Works Full Committee Hearing entitled Update on the Latest Global Warming Science.”

“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) – 280 (parts per million - ppm) – that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that,” Happer told the Senate Committee.

4 - THERE'S BEEN NO GLOBAL TEMPERATURE INCREASE SINCE AL GORE WON HIS OSCAR:
In the 42 months since An Inconvenient Truth was released, globally averaged temperatures have been over what they were in January, 2006 in only five of those 42 months (including this month), but tellingly, the same temperatures have been below the globally averaged temperature in January, 2006 a total of 37 of those 42 months!
5 - ACCORDING TO NOAA DATA, MOST OF THE USA HAS BEEN MUCH COOLER THAN AVERAGE THIS YEAR:



BOTTOM-LINE:

AGW=BS; THEREFORE DISSENT ACCORDINGLY!

OBAMACARE IS A CLUNKER WHICH DESERVES TO BE SMASHED!



MM:
The Obama administration is attempting to use the fact that the program was popular with consumers as evidence that it was a “success,” but that only serves as evidence of government incompetence. ... when we see those same people screw up a freakin’ car sale, the mask comes off and we don’t want them messing with our health too.
HA: The ObamaCare-CRA-TARP-Clunker lesson

Somewhere in here, there’s a lesson to be learned about government distortion of private markets. When government artificially inflate the value of a commodity in attempting social engineering, it usually either spends more money than they initially realize, leave the private sector holding the bag, and make themselves look foolish … at best:

The government suspended the explosively popular cash-for-clunkers program, fearing it would go broke before it could pay what it still owes dealers for a huge backlog of sales, according to congressional offices and a dealer group.

Suspension of the program was confirmed by Bailey Wood, legislative director for the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), which had been called Thursday night by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which administers the program. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., confirmed as well, saying she had been told by congressional leaders.

Why was it “explosively popular”? It made worthless cars valuable again. The vehicles got $4500 for a brief window rather than their previous real value, in many cases a fraction of the government payout. That inflated value prompted people to rush to their local dealers to use their government subsidy to buy new vehicles.

PJM: ObamaCare as a Moral Clunker

The moral arguments against Obama's health plan are overwhelming and need to take center stage.

Slowly but surely, the nation is waking up to the likelihood that the unwieldy state-run health care concoction known as ObamaCare will not achieve the cost savings the president and his supporters have promised.

... Health care should first and foremost be about whether those who need treatment get treatment. And guess what? In this country, those who need treatment not only almost always get treated, but they also almost always get treated timely. It is against the law for hospitals to turn away patients requiring emergency medical treatment regardless of whether they can afford to pay.

Yes, there are many who are not insured and who cannot afford medical care. And yes, they often delay doing something about very real medical problems until they become more serious. That is a real problem. But the answer, while elusive, most certainly should not involve jeopardizing the viability of everyone else’s medical coverage and access to care, as ObamaCare indisputably does.

... First, virtually without exception worldwide, state-run health care has led to rationing of care and long waits for even critical services. This has led to many needless deaths and disabilities, along with greatly diminished quality of life for many who eventually do receive care. Obama and the Congressional majority have presented no evidence indicating that serious rationing will not occur under its plan. In fact, under its progenitor known as CommonwealthCare (a.k.a. RomneyCare) in Massachusetts, serious rationing under the guise of fixed per-patient budgets is already on the horizon. How can any compassionate person claiming to have his or her moral bearings even consider supporting this almost certain result?

Second, virtually without exception worldwide, state-run health care has led to denial of care on age-based and so-called quality-of-life criteria. The Obama administration and Congress already opened the door for this abomination in the stimulus bill passed in February when it included funding for “comparative effectiveness research.” Michael Barone has accurately portrayed this attempt at final solutions that override doctor-patient decisions as “worse than junk science — it’s inherently deceptive.” How can someone claiming to have his or her moral bearings even consider supporting this?

Finally, the Obama administration is stacked with czars, cabinet officials, and others who are enthusiastic supporters of the first two items and who have frighteningly ghoulish outlooks on life and humanity. Take John Holdren (please).


TPC:

OBAMACARE IS TOO COSTLY, TOO COMPLICATED, TOO BIG, AND TOO MUCH "CENTRAL COMMAND POLITICS" ENCROACHING ON PERSONAL FREEDOM.

THE SOLUTION:



SMASH IT!

OBAMA: HOW TO FIX HEALTHCARE IN ONE EASY STEP

OBAMA KNOWS BEST!


SUBMIT TO OBAMA!

BESIDES, IT'S SO MUCH EASIER THAN BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE!

Friday, August 07, 2009

OBAMA'S ANSWER FOR EVERY PROBLEM FACING HUMANITY: GOVERNMENT!



MORE GOV'T DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK..

OBAMA THINKS HE CAN RAM OBAMACARE DOWN OUR THROATS ...


BUT HE'S WRONG: WE'RE NOT AS COMPLIANT AS MICHELLE - OR VERA BAKER!

USEFUL IDIOT BARENBOIM AIDING ARABS WHO WOULD DESTROY ISRAEL

NYTIMES:
Maestro Daniel Barenboim brought his troupe of young Arab and Israeli classical musicians to Geneva on Friday for a concert dedicated to the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said and the contentious choice of Jerusalem as this year's ''Arab Cultural Capital.''

In a news conference that featured the iconoclastic Israeli conductor's usual combination of humor and gravitas, art and politics, Barenboim said his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra offered another way of examining ideals of justice, humaneness and understanding that are often lacking in the Middle East conflict.


The 10-year-old orchestra founded by Barenboim and Said includes Israeli and Palestinian musicians, as well as performers from Arab countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and non-Arab states Turkey and Iran.


Barenboim said it was fitting that such a diverse group celebrate the Arab League's naming of Jerusalem as a cultural capital, even if the choice has angered Israeli authorities who say the entire city is the Jewish state's undivided and eternal capital.


...
In 2006, the Arab League quietly designated Jerusalem its 2009 ''Arab Cultural Capital,'' an honor that rotates among Arab countries. Winners typically use the occasion to showcase their attachment to Arab culture, sponsoring poetry, music, dance performances, lectures, school activities and sporting events.

UNREAL:

A CONCERT DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF EDDIE SAYEED - A LYING ARAB PROPAGANDIST (AND OBAMA MENTOR)!

AND HELD IN JERUSALEM AS IF IT WAS AN ARAB CAPITAL.


DISGUSTING.

And We're the Racists?

I called it yesterday. One does not become a 'community organizer' without being a parasitic thug through and through. It's October all over again. Also, note how the attackers are all morbidly obese. And they want me to pay for their health care? Ordinarily, under non-racist rationed care, the obese would be denied care outright, but under Obama's racist plan there's an Office of Minority Health to ensure that we keep parasites who kill themselves all day long alive just they can degrade our communities (which is both the intent and the effect of community organizations, obviously, since they expand socialism and give mortgages to people who can't afford them). Obama's plan also gives special preference to thugs via Community Health and Care Centers. Check the chart. Over my dead body will they euthanize my parents, both of whom were extorted for decades out of countless thousands for the failing socialist Ponzi schemes we already have in place and one of whom is a war hero several times over, for these monsters.

This is the one thing that differs between the Nazis' medical system and Obama's, and the Nazis had that much right. Those who lacked individual initiative and a work ethic, or who simply did not care enough about themselves to not kill themselves all day with food received no quarter. It had more in common with the free market in that respect.

Darwinism, the free market, and the law all dictate that if people like this are to exist at all they should be in prison. Under Obamacare, the lowest of the low are placed upon a pedestal while the best and brightest are treated like the victim in the videos below.

Note how clueless this poor, shaken-up guy is about community organizations, which serves to demonstrate which side is grassroots and which is is astroturf. Of course, individual initiative and principles were always what separated capitalists from socialists, weren't they?



Way to shape the agenda, Obama.

SUBMIT TO OBAMA - OR ELSE!



MORE HERE AT GATEWAY.

REMINDERS:

  • SEIU SPENT $65 MILLION TO HELP ELECT OBAMA.
  • AND SIBELIUS HAD A CONFERENCE CALLL WITH THEM TODAY.
  • OBAMA'S ASST AG DROPPED CHARGES AGAINST THE BPP WHO WERE VIDEOTAPED HARRASING VOTERS IN PHILLY.
  • ACORN - YOU KNOW THEM!!!

KRAUTHAMMERCARE: IMPROVING HEATHCARE IN TWO EASY STEPS - AND JUST NINE PARAGRAPHS (NOT 1000 PAGES!)

KRAUTHAMMER:

(1) Tort reform: As I wrote recently, our crazy system of casino malpractice suits results in massive and random settlements that raise everyone's insurance premiums and creates an epidemic of defensive medicine that does no medical good, yet costs a fortune.

An authoritative Massachusetts Medical Society study found that five out of six doctors admitted they order tests, procedures and referrals -- amounting to about 25 percent of the total -- solely as protection from lawsuits.

Defensive medicine, estimates the libertarian/conservative Pacific Research Institute, wastes more than $200 billion a year. Just half that sum could provide a $5,000 health insurance grant -- $20,000 for a family of four -- to the uninsured poor (U.S. citizens ineligible for other government health assistance).

... Abolish the entire medical-malpractice system. Create a new social pool from which people injured in medical errors or accidents can draw. The adjudication would be done by medical experts, not lay juries giving away lottery prizes at the behest of the liquid-tongued John Edwardses who pocket a third of the proceeds.

The pool would be funded by a relatively small tax on all health-insurance premiums. Socialize the risk; cut out the trial lawyers. Would that immunize doctors from carelessness or negligence? No. The penalty would be losing your medical license. There is no more serious deterrent than forfeiting a decade of intensive medical training and the livelihood that comes with it.

... (2) Real health-insurance reform: Tax employer-provided health-care benefits and return the money to the employee with a government check to buy his own medical insurance, just as he buys his own car or home insurance.

There is no logical reason to get health insurance through your employer. This entire system is an accident of World War II wage and price controls. It's economically senseless. It makes people stay in jobs they hate, decreasing labor mobility and therefore overall productivity. And it needlessly increases the anxiety of losing your job by raising the additional specter of going bankrupt through illness.

The health-care benefit exemption is the largest tax break in the entire U.S. budget, costing the government a quarter-trillion dollars annually. It hinders health-insurance security and portability as well as personal independence. If we additionally eliminated the prohibition on buying personal health insurance across state lines, that would inject new and powerful competition that would lower costs for everyone.

NINE PARAGRAPHS - NOT 1000 PAGES OF CRONY-CODDLING SOCIALISM AND BUREAUCRATIC BOONDOGGLESE.

WHO ARE THE REAL WELL-DRESSED REBELS: OBAMANISTAS VERSUS PATRIOTS

BLUE-STATE URINE-DRINKING SODOMITES

OBAMA WOULD LIKE US ALL TO LIVE LIKE BLUE-STATE URINE-DRINKING SODOMITES.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: ABBAS AND AHMADINEJAD




IT'S JUST THAT ABBAS IS BETTER AT PR.

AND THEN THERE'S OBAMA...




HMM..... I WONDER: WHO DOES HE ADORE???

Mayhem Breaks Out at St Louis Town Hall Meeting

It started out peacefully,...


Then some back door shenanigans took place, and...


After the town hall meeting took place, the beat downs began...


Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has now become hazardous to one’s health to attend a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.). Of course, much of the credit goes to the involvement of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

To see all of the gory videos, click here.

AND SEE GATEWAY.

SEIU BROWNSHIRTS - IN PURPLE - ATTACK OBAMACARE PROTESTERS

OBAMA'S BROWN-SHIRTS WEAR PURPLE, BUT THEIR TACTICS ARE THE SAME AS HITLER'S THUGS IN 1935. VIDEO.

MORE ON SEIU THUGGERY HERE.

Are climate skeptics psychologically maladjusted?

Psychologists are overwhelmingly Leftist. I know. I have a doctorate in psychology and used to teach it and have had many articles published in the academic journals of psychology. And psychologists have been trying to prove that conservatives are mentally inadequate in some way since at least 1950 -- with a singular lack of success if you insist on normal scientific standards of proof. See here, for instance. So it was only a matter of time before they attempted to tar climate skeptics with the same brush. The article below seems to be an attempt in that direction


Psychological barriers like uncertainty, mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight climate change, a task force of the American Psychological Association said on Wednesday.

Policymakers, scientists and marketers should look at these factors to figure out what might prod people take action, the task force reported at the association's annual convention in Toronto.

While most Americans -- 75 percent to 80 percent in a Pew Research Center poll -- said climate change is an important issue, it still ranked last in a list of 20 compelling issues such as the economy or terrorism, the task force said.

Despite warnings from scientists that humans need to make changes now if they want to avoid the worst effects of climate change, "people don't feel a sense of urgency," the association said in a statement.

Numerous psychological barriers are to blame, the task force found, including: uncertainty over climate change, mistrust of the messages about risk from scientists or government officials, denial that climate change is occurring or that it is related to human activity.

Other factors include undervaluing the risk. Even though an international study showed many people believe environmental conditions will worsen in 25 years, that could lead some to conclude that they don't have to make changes now.

Some people believe anything they do would make little difference and they therefore choose to do nothing.

Habit is the most important obstacle to pro-environment behavior, the task force found.

But habits can be changed, especially if changing saves money and people are quickly made aware of it. People are more likely to use energy-efficient appliances if they get immediate energy-use feedback, the task force said.

It identified other areas where psychology can help limit the effects of climate change, such as developing environmental regulations, economic incentives, better energy-efficient technology and communication methods.

SOURCE

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The Obama date

A report from an Air Force officer

First, let me say that I've moved three presidents up to now and I've seen incredible waste. But, the "new" guy really takes the cake. I don't have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out. But, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here's what you DON'T know.

Three days before "dinner" a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport . The day before "dinner" I flew the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport. Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square. My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).

We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short C-17's that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico. When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn't ready to transport or it was flying home.

After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE. We're obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the "fleet" and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment.

After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don't know where they came up with that)and the trip's total had to be about $1,000,000.

We heard that the President didn't use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757's. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.

So, date night consisted of: 2 C-17's flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.

These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO's for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona. Is this the 'change' we expected?

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

OBAMACARE IS A WIN-WIN FOR THE RIGHT-WING

OBAMACARE is classic OVER-REACH.

And despite Obama's personal charisma and despite the fact that Democrats control Congress and despite the cooperation of ACORN and the SEIU and other organized groups of THUGS (not unlike the Black Panthers who committed BLATANT voter intimidation but were let off the hook by an Obama appointee), the people will not ultimately be silenced.

Obama and his THUGS can shunt us aside now
(as they did Hillary supporters in the caucuses!), but not in 2010.

  • Either Obama wins Obamacare now (because of thuggery and intimidation and arm-twisting), AND HE AND THE DEMOCRATS SUFFER A HUGE BACKLASH AND LOSE BIG IN 2010)...
  • OR OBAMCARE GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT NOW, AND OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY IS MORTALLY WOUNDED.

IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR THE RIGHT-WING.

Ahhhhhhhh.......

IOW: HUBRIS STRIKES AGAIN!


[NOTE: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: THESE ARE THE SAME TACTICS OBAMA AND AXELROD AND RAHM USED IN THE CAUCUSES AGAINST HILLARY SUPPORTERS, AND THAT THE BPP USED IN PHILLY!]

OBAMA SEZ WE CAN HAZ CASH FOR CLUNKERS AND FREE HEALTHCARE NOW!



Obamacare Will Require You to Turn Your Bank Account Over to Big Brother

I linked to this earlier and should have done it as a separate post, but the horrors of what his administration are up to are just coming at me so fast that I can't keep up.

Think about that: Obama in your bank account. If Obama shuts down GM dealers who don't donate to the DNC and Rahmbo Dead Fishy threatens Jon Kyl because he dared to do some simple arithmetic (literally straight out of 1984), think what they'll do if you're so audacious as donate to the RNC or buy guns or send your kids to private school.

And if they make an honest mistake and clean you out? It's the federal government. You'll have no recourse. Will they put a government employee under your bed or just a camera above it? What else do they want from us? Oh yeah, just to lord the power of life and death over us and to control everything they can in-between.

OBAMA: MONSTROUSLY BAD, IN RECORD TIME

OBAMA IS AWFUL.

MOSTROUSLY BAD:



THE GOOD THING IS HE'LL DESTROY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

THE BAD THING IS HE MAY TAKE THE WHOLE DANG COUNTRY WITH'EM!


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AN "AGW = BS" UPDATE: A VIDEO AND NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER



AND THIS ... VIA DESMOG ME

Who the Real Nazis Are: The AARP Pisses on Their Members

Look, here's the deal: when it comes to health care, particularly government-run health care, the elderly own it. They own it because they worked for 40+ years for Medicare to extort them for obscene amounts of money. Look how the AARP treats their members. They insult them, shut them up, then flat-out walk out. If this is how special interest groups treat paying members just imagine how Obamacare will treat the elderly, who rightfully own this country.

Also note the lady around 4:45 who brings up the issue of illegal immigration. Her complaints are valid. Immigration reform, tort reform, DeMint's Health Care Freedom Plan, and cutting off all existing socialized medicine will solve every problem with American health care. Think how much cheaper it would be if everyone actually paid for what they purchased. It's about choice, respect for the law, and discouraging parasitism, not putting all your money into a federal government that will murder those who are most rightfully entitled to the best health care.

H/T: Fire Andrea Mitchell for the video.

We have seen who the real Nazis are and they work for the DNC.

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Pics from Sweetness & Light, who note:
Of course given that [Pelosi] was talking about Democrat town halls, her confusion is even more understandable given the overlap between Nazi programs and Democrats’ pet issues anyway, as we all know.

The Nazis being: against big banks and capitalism in general, against big department stores, against pollution, for two years mandatory voluntary service to the country, for make-work projects (such as the autobahn), against vivisection and cruelty and to animals, against smoking and all tobacco products, for abortion and euthanasia of the infirm and undesirable – and, of course, for cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare.

In fact, if you look really hard, you can sometimes even find a hint of anti-Semitism in the Democrat Party.

I Think We Might Be Breaking the Gestapo

I would feel bad about how fast we knocked them off their pedestal if not for the rapid pace at which they've tried to pass every piece of legislation and do everything else they could get away with under the table to destroy my country.

I don't know whether the Barbara Senator Boxer part or the Ariana Huffington is funnier. You decide.

H/T: ZIP

THIS WEEK ON THE GATHERING STORM

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our guest for the full hour will be Pastorius of Infidel Bloggers Alliance. He will give us a sampling of his new radio show, The After Party. A live fatwa will be declared then and there!

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UPCOMING SHOWS:
August 14: IQ al Rassooli and Z
August 21: Epaminondas and Ilana Freedman
August 28: IQ al Rassooli and Cassandra
September 4: Cinnamon Stillwell
September 11: Bill Warner

FATAH: INSANE TERRORISTS, NOT "PARTNERS FOR PEACE"

MORE PROOF EVEN FATAH PALESTINIANS ARE PSYCHOPATHS AND NOT "PARTNERS FOR PEACE":

Fatah adopts resolution blaming Israel for Arafat's death

The sixth General Assembly of Fatah unanimously adopted on Thursday a proposal calling for the establishment of a committee which would investigate the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat while abiding by the following guidelines: that Israel bears full responsibility for his death, that the issue continues to remain open, and that the investigation enlists international support.


The fact that they worship scum like Arafat - a thieving corrupt murdering fascistic tyrant who stole billions from them - is further proof that they are in total denial and they've become utterly dehumanized. Their cultural ID is one of death and terror and lies. And as long as this is true there CAN BE NO PEACE.

More Liberal Lies. McCaskill: I Didn't Do What You Saw Me Do

So shameless. Who do these people think they're kidding? Right on the heels of Obama claiming that his unedited words were edited and spliced together Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-emopath) claims to have sat and listened to her constituents.

untitled
ORLY? Roll the tape.

If 'listen[ing]' and not 'turn[ing] anyone away' involves shutting the blinds, locking the doors, and calling the cops on a bunch of senior citizens I would hate to see what dismissing people would involve.

Facts are indeed stubborn things.
H/T: Barenaked Islam for the video.

AN ODE ABOUT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS, DEDICATED TO TAX-PAYERS EVERYWHERE: WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TAXES GONE ?

WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TAXES GONE 

Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
Long time passing
Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
Long time ago
Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
To pork and earmarks, every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
Long time passing
Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
Long time ago
Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
To crooks and cronies every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Where has all our freedom gone?
Long time passing
Where has all our freedom gone?
Long time ago
Where has all our freedom gone?
Taken by politicians every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Where should all the politicians go?
It's long passed due
Where should all the politicians go?
Long overdue
Where should all the politicians go?
Get tossed out by voters EVERY ONE!
If we just ever learn
If we'd just ever learn.

(WITH NO APOLOGIES TO PETE SEEGER!)

Health Reform and Obama's Tax Pledge

Excerpt from Karl Rove

Public support for his plans shrank when Americans saw the trillion-dollar-plus price tag, recoiled from the intrusive expansion of government into patient-doctor decisions, and came to understand the plan was financed in part by huge cuts in Medicare and large tax increases.

So, after running into heavy opposition among Congressional Democrats and growing public hostility to his plan, Mr. Obama has now recast the debate as an attack on insurance companies, with the president serving as savager-in-chief. This would be more credible if he hadn’t surrounded himself with insurance CEOs and lobbyists when he kicked off his effort in March.

The corrosive effect of basing policy decisions on polls also could be seen in White House handling of the refusals on Sunday of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers to rule out middle-class tax increases. They got disciplined Monday by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said they’d “allowed themselves to get into a little bit of hypothetical back and forth.”

This dispute pits the economic team against the campaign team. The economic team awakens each day worried about reconciling two irreconcilable realities: The administration’s budget calls for huge, sustained new government spending, which threatens giant budget deficits. Being liberals, the economic team is inclined to raise taxes, not cut spending.

The campaign team is intent upon protecting a pledge driven by its 2008 campaign polls: Mr. Obama promised never to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year to avoid being labeled a tax-and-spend liberal.

Even so, Mr. Obama has already broken his no-new-taxes pledge. On Feb. 4, Mr. Obama signed a $33 billion cigarette tax increase, which fell disproportionately on lower- and middle-income individuals. And the “cap and trade” energy bill, approved by the House on June 26, is a tax on anyone who owns a light switch, uses a car key, or has bought anything manufactured, shipped or sold in the U.S.

The House version of Mr. Obama’s health-care—excuse me, “health-insurance”—reform already has four taxes that will largely be paid by people making less than $250,000 a year. There’s $8.2 billion in taxes for using health savings accounts and other tax-free medical savings vehicles to purchase over-the-counter drugs. There’s an 8% tax on employers who don’t offer insurance: The Congressional Budget Office says workers in those businesses would pay the $163 billion cost via lost wages.

There’s a 2.5% “Tax on Individuals Without Acceptable Health Care Coverage” in the House bill that applies to people who either don’t have insurance or whose policies the government deems inadequate. Finally, there’s a $2 billion “Comparative Effectiveness Research Tax” on all private and “public option” insurance policies.

If some version of ObamaCare is passed, the president will break his tax pledge several more times while adding trillions to the deficit, dismantling the best elements of our health-care system and slashing Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.

There are no polling data or focus groups on earth that can help Mr. Obama out of this jam. He has set in motion events he appears unable to control and commitments he cannot keep. Great communicators succeed when the ideas they are communicating are sound. Tax-and-spend liberalism doesn’t work, no matter how pretty its package.

More here

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HRW CONDEMNS HAMAS ROCKET ATTACKS

This left-wing organization has actually come out against the Hamas. Considering that they earlier apologized for another terrorist in Nigeria, this is surprising. However, even in this case, it's important to pay careful attention:
The international watchdog organization Human Rights Watch came out with an unusually scathing attack against Hamas on Thursday, accusing the Islamic group of violating international law and committing war crimes for its indiscriminate rocket fire into Israeli territory.

"None of these rockets can be reliably aimed," the report stated. "Such weapons are inherently indiscriminate when directed towards densely populated areas.

"The absence of Israeli military forces in the areas struck by the rockets, as well as statements from the leaders of Hamas and other armed groups, indicate that many of these attacks are deliberately intended to strike Israeli civilians and civilian structures," the report continued. "Individuals who willfully authorize or carry out deliberate or indiscriminate attacks against civilians are committing war crimes."
Okay, what's reliability or accuracy got to do with this? And a challenging question: does it only count as a war crime when civilians are the target? I think there are some serious questions to be raised here if HRW is still trying to shroud the fact that Hamas is and has always been a terrorist organization. And indeed, further in the article:
"To justify the attacks as appropriate reprisals for Israeli military operations and the ongoing blockade against Gaza, and as a lawful response to the Israeli occupation of Gaza…the "laws of war" do not support these asserted justifications," the report stated.

While previous reports published by the organization have condemned Israeli abuses and "war crimes" against the Palestinians, the group emphasized in the most recent publication that such behavior cannot warrant reciprocal Palestinian action.
Now granted, they're right that these rocket attacks against civilians are not justified. However, that is exactly why these blockades were erected, and military operations were conducted. And they seem to have succeeded in obscuring and confusing all that. The JPost article also notes how they've resorted to the blood libel cliches, and that's something for which they should be condemned, not just for spreading lies against Israel, but also for obscuring violent crimes committed by Muslims.

BHO VOTER: "I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN PUNKED"

Graphic credit

Excerpt from an article which appeared above the fold in the front page of the Washington Post on August 5, 2009:
The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake.

The Prince William County real estate agent was sitting at a long wooden table covered with paperwork. Her clients, a young couple who had brought their 2-week-old baby, were finalizing a short sale on a townhouse that they were anxious to unload, even if it meant ruining their credit, because they had maxed out their credit cards trying to make the payments.

For Cleland, it was another example -- one of many this day -- of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different. Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and instead lift families such as the one sitting next to Cleland out of their economic funk. Rather, she said, Obama has backed billions of dollars to banks that continue to "act like they're broke" and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class.

"He's just not as advertised," she said. "Nothing's changed for the common guy. I feel like I've been punked."...
Ms. Cleland isn't the only voter with remorse covered in the WaPo article:
Stephanie Slater, 44, a neighbor of Cleland's who leans Republican, voted for Obama on the strength of his character and because of his positions on education, energy and health care. She recalled brimming with confidence after Obama's historic inaugural address.

"When he gave that speech that day, I was in awe. I was really inspired and thought, 'Wow, this is a guy who can do it,' " said Slater, a medical transcriptionist and mother of three.

But she has been disturbed by the large Wall Street bonuses that Obama doesn't seem to be able to halt and his inability to rein in credit card companies that raise rates even on those with good credit. Although she is trying to be patient, she said she is losing faith in the Democrats running Washington.

"Honestly, at this point, I have to say I'm worried. I haven't come across one person that seems to have been helped," she said. "If I don't see a spark, a light at the end of the tunnel, I may be voting Republican [for governor]."
In November, we Virginians will head to the polls to elect a new governor. The present governor, Tim Kaine, is a Democrat Obamabot and, according to the our state constitution, cannot succeed himself. Furthermore, this gubernatorial election is regarded by most as a barometer for the 2010 midterm elections.

Creigh Deeds, the Democratic Party's candidate for November, is walking a fine line and, overall, trying to distance himself from BHO's policies. And that strategy might work - except that BHO insists upon injecting himself into the race:
The president will make his first appearance in the campaign Thursday, when he headlines a fundraiser for R. Creigh Deeds (D) in McLean..."The mood is becoming just as lousy for the Democrats as it has been for us the last couple of years," said J. Kenneth Klinge, a longtime Virginia GOP strategist. "It's evening the playing field."
No matter where you live, keep an eye on this November's race for governor of Virginia.