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Posted on 07/07/2010 1:12:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The Texas Democratic Party's executive director, Ruben Hernandez, has filed ethics complaints against Gov. Rick Perry over a house he bought in College Station.
..."For three years, the Governor failed to report over $200,000 in debt he owed on a house in College Station, as well as over $11,000 in rental income he received from the property," Hernandez said in a statement.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner responded, "This is nothing more than a desperate attempt by the Democrat Party to cover for Bill White's ethical scandals, failure to release his tax returns and profiteering during Hurricane Rita when he was mayor of Houston. Considering Bill White has failed to unveil one new policy initiative that would move Texas forward, it's not surprising all he does is attack..."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
We’ll be seeing lots more of this crap.
The right needs to buckle down and return the favor.
This is all coordinated. Just like Reid mirroring Angle’s old website, Obama attacking Boehner, and the DNC looking for the “next macaca moment.”
They are bankrupt of ideas. And no one’s buying their policies — so it’s on to the politics of personal destruction.
Who was it that prompted officials to lower the tax assessment on Bill White’s home by a million dollars when he was mayor?
They never did bother going to court with their show trial against Tom DeLay and they never bothered to drop the charges.
Partisan prosecutor Ronnie Earle left his job and fortunately didn’t make the general election for 2010 as Lt. Governor.
Republicans had better get used to this and be prepared for the dirtiest election in modern history. The left has hundreds of billions to spend on vote buying, that being the remainder of Hussein’s “stimulus” slush fund.
3/4s of the lamearse, idiot-ridden Jack Squat administration is filled with people who have had ethics waivers issued on their behalf.......but hey....just saying....
The “ethics” charges against Governor Palin also proved to be a bunch of macaca.
Filing fraudulent charges ought to itself be a prosecutable offense.
Try calling 911 on your neighbor to harass him and see what happens.
Yup! That is what they do. Moral relativists are very comfortable with lies and distortion. Anything goes with them.
Unfortunately, it frequently works. Especially with this dumbed down population of public school graduates who vote like lemmings for the Democrats.
Usually they find the original land deed, which can be centuries old, and pull up the clause that states the property can never be sold to a “negro” or runaway slave, because Texas fought on the side of the Confederacy. Then they can scream “Racist!” That’s what they did to GW.
Isn’t it the dems who decried the “politics of personal destruction?”
I miss Lee Atwater.
You are totally right.
For some reason Dems out trick us all the time
Elmer Fudd is as dirty as they come.
Acorn
etc etc.
He is in the Ken Lay model.
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Yes, and they hate it when you quote them and remind the public how they voted too.
But the New Democrats' playbook is Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals (a book dedicated to Satan).
They are permitted to lie like Stalinists with this text.
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."....
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
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(Alinsky continues by stating several rules of the ethics of means and ends...)
The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
In war, the end justifies almost any means.
Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.
Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
We have to push back and make THEM live by THEIR own rules too. Bill Clinton excused Robert Byrd's time as a KKK recruiter (he was a young man at 51) because he needed to get the votes (and suppress those black voters who might think about voting Republican...). And the media gave Bill Clinton a pass for this. So different than the media fabricated kerfuffle over Trent Lott's birthday comment to Strom Thurmond.
I want to see the hernandez jerks citizenship papers... I think he is a zeta boy.
LLS
A Democrat member of the KKK even once fabricated an “enrollment card” application under the name Phil Gramm. Texas Monthly did a lengthy article about it (and held off on revealing that the application was a hoax until late in the article).
The Rats will stoop to any trick to try to steal an election.
And this serves the public how????
Crapola like this is exactly why we need to completely rework the political system in this country. This is nonsense and a waste of time and money. Frivolous BS like this is why Gov. Palin resigned her political office - she was having to devote too much time and money to defending against frivolous ethics complaints.
I like Neal Boortz’s idea about frivolous lawsuits, they apply equally here. When someone files a frivolous lawsuit, if they lose, they get to pay ALL the associated costs. The same should apply here. If someone files a frivolous complaint and it is dismissed, they get to pay all the associated costs.
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