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Posted on 08/02/2009 12:29:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
There's such a cornucopia of delectable items to choose from this week, so where does the HFR begin? How about with the increasing awareness that the corruption within the Democrat Party is so pervasive that the entire party should be RICO'ed?
What more perfect case for prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act could one ask for? The Democrat Party is no longer a political organization - it is a criminal conspiracy.
Yet another example was provided this week (7/27), when it was disclosed that two of the most powerful Dem Senators, Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad, got sweetheart loan deals from Countrywide Financial, the company substantially responsible for the housing crisis.
The same day (7/27), the Wall Street Journal vividly described the immorality of Charlie Rangel, chairman of House Ways & Means - and noted the House Ethics Committee is investigating him on six separate issues. Yes, six.
The corruption of John Murtha, chairman of Defense Appropriations, is so blatant that even the New York Times now supports (7/18) for a FBI criminal investigation of him.
The evidence of Murtha's criminality is mounting so fast that odds are he'll be in prison rather than Congress by next term.
Nancy Pelosi has been engaged in a criminal conspiracy with her millionaire husband Paul for years. She refuses to have Murtha investigated by the Ethics Committee because they are partners in crime.
Then there's William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, whose bribery trial went to jury yesterday (7/30).
These examples could go on and on, with more to gain wide public notoriety so that by November 2010, Jack Abramoff and Pelosi's label of "the GOP culture of corruption" will be long forgotten and replaced by the Democrat Criminal Conspiracy - the DCC.
When you add to this the mind-blowing level of arrogance by Dem leaders, you're looking at massive voter rejection. Take House Judiciary chairman John Conyers, who this week (7/27) dismissed the necessity of Congressmen actually reading a bill before they vote on it.
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The media will not be able to bail the Pelosicrats out because of the latter's failure to revive the economy. Pelosi has a popularity rating of 25% for good reason. She is despised in most every Blue Dog district, which means she has little leverage with them. To survive in 2010, the Blue Dogs must run against her.
There are 52 members of the "fiscally conservative" Democrat Blue Dog Coalition, many of whom won their seats last year with razor-thin majorities in normally GOP districts. The NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) will be targeting every one who can be tied to Pelosi.
(The NRCC just announced it's going after 80 Dem seats next year - a gain of 40 means a GOP majority.)
So the Blue Dogs have no choice but to tear their party apart. The anger and hatred the Dems in the hyper-leftie coalitions (CPC, CBC, CHC - Congressional Progressive, Black, & Hispanic Caucuses respectively) harbor for the Blue Dogs has become volcanic.
Thus any bill on ObamaCare or Cap 'n Tax the Blue Dogs will agree to, the lib caucuses won't and vice versa. The Pubs can just sit back and enjoy the internecine carnage.
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Speaking of driving the lib moonbats crazy, you won't believe the spleen they're venting on their websites like Daily Kos and Huffington Post - against Hillary and Zero for backing off on support of Zelaya in Honduras.
What's completely freaking them out is the new Honduran government was smart enough to hire major Clintonista Lanny Davis (Slick's White House Counsel) to lobby the Dems in DC (State, Capitol Hill, the White House) for them.
Lanny is why Hillary characterized Zelaya as "reckless" for his one-toe-across-the-border stunt, and the moonbats can't stand it. They are totally enraged that the Chavez-Castro communists may not take over Honduras after all, that the pro-freedom Hondurans may pull this one off.
To placate them, Hillary revoked four visas for Honduran diplomats as a sop. What really mattered is that Zelaya was disinvited to come to Washington this week. He is bitterly disappointed to be stuck in Ocotal, Nicaragua when he expected to be garnering world attention by meeting Hillary and Zero in the White House. Thanks, Lanny.
(Oh, and check out this stunningly anti-Chavez editorial in this morning's Washington Post written by Lanny's friends. Note the anti-Zelaya mention at the end.)
If Honduras succeeds, the entire Moonbat Left will focus their hatred on Hillary. The HFR is a big fan of civil wars between America's enemies - foreign and domestic.
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The HFR also has a confession this week - it's developing a strange sort of fondness for Joe Biden, like folks have for their crazy uncle in the attic.
In an official visit to (former Soviet) Georgia last week, he told Georgians on their national television that "Russia used a pretext to invade your country," and that the US supports NATO membership for Georgia.
Then he concluded his trip with a press interview in which he said:
"(The Russians) have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable."
As a wag asked, "Who slipped Joe the truth serum?" The Kremlin got all bent out of shape over Biden stating the unmentionably obvious, and Zero had to say that Joe didn't really mean what he said.
The HFR says, good for old Joe. This goofy guy is becoming endearing. Yes, he's a Dem whose only solution to any problem is higher taxes - but he's not an evil man and doesn't hate his country like his boss. We'll take him when his boss goes cuckoo and resigns - at least until we get Palin in 2012.
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Nonetheless, the HFR Hero of the Week Award does not go to Slow Joe, but to Jairam Ramesh, the Environment Minister of India. Day before yesterday (7/29) in a speech to the Lok Sabha (Parliament of India), he announced that India will not cooperate in any way with eco-fascism's global warming scam. Ever.
"We will not accept any cap on (CO2) emissions" said Ramesh. "We will not accept any legally binding caps. Not now or later."
This dooms the "Cap and Trade" bill of the Fascist Midget, Henry Waxman (D-CA), one of Zero's major legislative goals which would have resulted in the largest tax increase in world history. India has come to our rescue.
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The HFR offers two "must reads" this week. One is a short essay in the London Daily Telegraph that describes Obama's Nightmare. It observes that:
"America is the only major country in the Western world whose leadership is dramatically moving to the left."
As a result, it predicts:
"Barack Obama may end up as one of the least popular presidents in American history."
The second is Mark Steyn's The Nationalization of Your Body.
The left argues that government health care is a "moral enterprise." Yet, Mark asks:
"What's so moral about relieving the citizen of responsibility for his own health care? If free citizens of the wealthiest societies in human history are not prepared to make provision for their own health, what other core responsibilities of functioning adulthood are they likely to forego?"
That's why "government-directed health care is a profound assault on the concept of citizenship" and must be prevented. This is worth reading carefully.
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It may go down in history as one of the classic put-downs of Zero. When asked what the president's contribution was to the "beer summit" yesterday (7/30) between police officer James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Gates at the White House, Crowley said:
"He provided the beer."
Which prompts me to extend the length of this HFR beyond normal and tell a story.
Some time ago, I signed up to participate in National Geographic's Genographic Project. I scrubbed the inside of my cheek with a swab and sent it to Family Tree DNA to trace my paternal ancestry via my Y-chromosome.
This revealed that my genetic "haplogroup" is R1a1 and that my paternal ancestors are from the British Isles (mostly English, then Irish, then Scottish). This combination means I am descended from the Vikings who invaded Britain in the late 8th century AD.
My DNA shows some 50 matches with other people who have signed up for the project. There is a direct match using 37 genetic markers, for example, with an R. D. Wheeler, giving an over 99% probability we have a common paternal ancestor within 12 generations.
Sure enough, our independent genealogical research before we communicated determined that we share the same 9th g-grandfather, Thomas Wheeler from Cranfield, Bedfordshire who sailed to America in 1635 and founded Milford, Connecticut.
The other matches show varying genetic distances and have various surnames. Among those surnames I just noticed that several are variants or different spellings of the same name: Cralley, Cralle, Crawley, Crowley.
Crowley? Could I be related to Sgt. James "He provided the beer" Crowley? Evidently so.
Perhaps you've seen the story this week claiming that Crowley and Henry Gates are related.
(The story is a con, however, because Crowley's DNA has not been analyzed as Gates' has. It just assumes that Crowley is Irish because of the name - an Anglicization of the Gaelic "O'Cruadhlaoich," descendant of "Cruadhlaoich," a personal name composed of "cruadh," hardy, and "laoich," warrior.
Yet Crowley and its variants is also a common name in England derived from Old English "crawe," crow, and "leah," a clearing in the woods.)
Gates' DNA shows he is part Irish. "I'm descended from a white man," he says. "A white man who slept with a black slave."
And he hates himself for it. That's why he's a professional black racist. Anti-white black racism is what he teaches at Harvard. And here's the hilarious irony:
The Chairman of the African-American Studies Department at Harvard University, Henry Louis "I'm descended from a white man" Gates, is one of the foremost advocates of slave reparations - that vast amounts of taxpayer money be paid as compensation to the descendants of black slaves in pre-Civil War America.
Gates could not be a better example of who owes whom in "reparations," as discussed way back in early 2004 in We Owe Us:
The substantial majority of black people in America are only partially black. They are also partially white, and are so because they are of mixed white slave-owner and black slave owned ancestry.
"If justice requires that the descendants of slave-owners compensate the descendants of slaves, this means that people of such ancestry - again the vast majority of American blacks - must compensate themselves. They are virtually the only folks in America of whom there can be no reasonable doubt that their ancestors owned slaves.
Blacks owe reparations to themselves... But the reparations shouldn't be paid in cash.
"t should be paid by swearing off their addiction to whining, begging, and victimizing their lives with anti-white racism. It should be paid by standing up and facing the reality of their slave/slave-owner heritage. It should be paid by a conviction to be proud of themselves for what they accomplish as individuals and not for membership in a racial group. It should be paid by being proud to be an American with no reservations.
No where in the world, no where in history, have black people accomplished more and flourished more than in America. No where else on earth do black people have the opportunity and freedom to prosper more than America. All Americans have a right to be proud of these achievements. The celebration of these historical achievements would be the best reparations of all.
Needless to say, such a celebration did not take place at the "beer summit," nor will it ever at the Zero White House.
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Culture of corruption Ping!
The Democratic Party has become like the mob and we the people need to start acting like “The Untouchables”.
Its not PC to refer to the communist party here in the USA,
so we have to fall back on just referring to the democratic party.
Dead on the mark!
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Thanks for linking Zer0’s reception in Raleigh, great video.
7734, I’ve know that for 10 years! I’ve tagged them “The Democrat Crime Syndicate” for as long as I’ve been a FReeper, although Dr. Jack Wheeler does a much better job backing up the assertion.
Thanks for posting this OUTSTANDING article. BTTT!
Democrats do not unite around any foundational idea. Instead, their common purpose is to rip off government for everything possible, and to misuse political office to achieve that.
The first lie a democrat office-holder is likely to commit is his oath of office, in which he swears to uphold the Constitution.
Well said, and they’re good at it.
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They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections. By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty.
Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power.
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)
Anyone old enough to remember the '50s and '60s should agree, I reckon.
I heard Apostle ???? say very much the same thing about the Democratic party being anything but, at the Conroe, TX tea party.
The great Lady might have dozed off for awhile, but I bet she will be fully awake by next Nov.
Not even the media can out run what is coming.
I heard Apostle ???? say very much the same thing about the Democratic party being anything but, at the Conroe, TX tea party.
The great Lady might have dozed off for awhile, but I bet she will be fully awake by next Nov.
Not even the media can out run what is coming.
I heard Apostle ???? say very much the same thing about the Democratic party being anything but, at the Conroe, TX tea party.
The great Lady might have dozed off for awhile, but I bet she will be fully awake by next Nov.
Not even the media can out run what is coming.
Sadly, I’m afraid you’re correct. Our schools deserve much blame for the dumbing down of our younger people, homeschooling has helped but will not reach the bulk of children which will have to be done. With leaders like Obama and the marxists that support him it’ll be a steep hill to climb.
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