If only CNN/MSNBC/NYTIMES/ABC/NBC/NEWSWEEK/NPR would report on news like the burgeoning deficit instead of stories like balloon boy.

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I had to read this post three times before the absolute insanity of what the DEMS are doing sank in.

First, the White House announces a $250 payment to every senior for inflation that didn’t exist. “In effect, a COLA was paid on inflation that no longer existed,” notes Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute.

Second, the White House in its desperate attempts to get its health reform passed, has tasked the all-too-willing Majority Leader Reid to walk the plank by convincing him to push a $247 billion portion of health reform as an off-budget item, in a separate bill, to be on the Senate floor this week before moving to the merged ObamaCare bill. Even the Washington Post editorial board said “Mr. Reid proposes not to pay for any of it, not even $11 billion, but simply to write a $247 billion IOU.”

Absolute madness.

Labels: connecticut post, democrats, left-wing media, obama, pelosi, reid

He also thanked China for financing the $800 BILLION stimulus and the $1.5 TRILLION national health care scheme. He also lauded the millions of jobs "saved or created" by fabricating these nifty signs along the Merritt Parkway.

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Biden stumps for Dodd, Himes: Parkway event touts benefits of stimulus
Unemployment rate rises to 9.8 percent in September, as employers cut 263,000 jobs

If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent.

It's Still the Economy, Stupid
Slow Joe Talks Straight About The Stimulus Package
Unemployment Rate With and Without the Stimulus
Rob Simmons for U.S. Senate

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Jim Himes (D-CT4) worked at Goldman Sachs like Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner

Labels: china, connecticut post, dodd

This is a work in progress and I still have to source the authors. I took some liberty with the bit about the liberal(s) lust for dictatorship.

I originally wanted to title the post 'Why Daddy is a Democrat' but this title fits better. This was an easy list to compile since liberals seem to exemplify cognitive dissonance.

(1) Liberals assume that their cosmic humanitarianism and brotherly egalitarianism exempt them from following mere mortal laws. [Victor Davis Hanson]

Example: Rangel Failed to Disclose $500,000 in Assets for ’07

(2) In order to enact state planning, and superimpose an overarching government plan onto our own messy agendas, we must bow to a technocracy. [Victor Davis Hanson]

Example: Find a copy of Liberal Fascism or The Road to Wigan Pier

(3) Mythologizing Guevara, Castro, and the Communist dictatorship must never end because some dismaying percentage of liberals actually like (prefer?) them. [Source Jay Nordlinger]

Example: "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." (Rep. Diane Watson [D])

(4) Embracing liberal policies grants a politician carte blanche in his personal or private life. [Andrew Breitbart]

Example: The Silky Pony (AKA John Edwards) and Ted Kennedy

(5) Liberals aren't good with numbers. [Commenter on Ace of Spades HQ]

Example: "We have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt"

(6) Liberals Love the Masses; They Just Don't Want to be Seen With Them [Ace from Ace of Spades HQ]

Example: "We won't smell the tourists anymore." (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D])

(7) Liberals need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend America’s promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around. [Andrew Breitbart]

Example: The Pledge

Labels: connecticut post, cuba, dodd, liberals, pelosi, rangel

I keep coming back to this quote from George Weigel:

...because, for a good postmodern liberal like President Obama, that progressive “consensus” is so self-evidently true that one can afford to be generous in acknowledging that others, less enlightened but arguably sincere, have different views.

I was also re-reading the chapter (22) on Reinhold Niebuhr in Mead's God and Gold and was reminded of how slimy E.J. Dionne and David Brooks are. I'll write more in the coming days but God and Gold is an opposition research must read. Needless to say, Dionne is positively giddy that "Obama has strengthened moderate and liberal forces inside the [Catholic] church." I surmise his feelings are similar to those the writers and editors have at the Connecticut Post when they exhaustively cover church scandals.

Source: Speaking of Dionne by Ramesh Ponnuru

Labels: books, connecticut post, obama

Dodd can't wash hands on bailout (Connecticut Post)

In a Jan. 12 interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America,"

U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd blamed the myriad bailout foibles on the Bush administration. Hitting your opponent as he is leaving the ring is generally considered unsportsmanlike, but Dodd confabulates with such conviction that the sucker punches go unnoticed every time.

Curiously, as a senator, Dodd takes no responsibility for the flawed bailout legislation for which he voted. More curiously, even though he is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd somehow washes his hands of his role in the recent financial collapse. Even more curiously, he implies that he was duped by a president that liberals claim has the IQ of a turnip.

Was Dodd asleep at the wheel? Was he too busy calculating the interest savings on his sweetheart mortgage deal that he, by sheer coincidence, received from Countrywide Financial, that he was absolutely shocked to discover could be construed as buying influence, and that in no way was related to any financial woes Countrywide might be having?

At least when the Emperor Caligula installed his horse in the Roman Senate, he sent the whole horse. Most curiously, Connecticut voters see fit to send only the hindquarters.

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Still ticking! It's the Dodd Clock

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"Nothing is ever achieved without bloodshed, lies, tyranny and injustice, but on the other hand, no considerable change for the better is to be expected as the result of even the greatest upheaval."
     - George Orwell

This is one of my favorite George Orwell quotes and a reminder to all those coffee house liberals with Wi-Fi blogging the revolution™ and waiting to change it and re-arrange it.

And some more Victor Davis Hanson (I thought it was apropos):

As I wrote earlier, the shrill Left is increasingly far more vicious these days than the conservative fringe, and about like the crude Right of the 1950s. Why? I am not exactly sure, other than the generic notion that utopians often believe that their anointed ends justify brutal means. Maybe it is that the Right already had its Reformation when Buckley and others purged the extremists—the Birchers, the neo-Confederates, racialists, the fluoride-in-the-water conspiracists, anti-Semites, and assorted nuts.—from the conservative ranks in a way the Left has never done with the 1960s radicals that now reappear in the form of Michael Moore, Bill Ayers, Cindy Sheehan, Moveon.org, the Daily Kos, etc. Not many Democrats excommunicated Moveon.org for its General Betray-Us ad. Most lined up to see the premier of Moore’s mythodrama. Barack Obama could subsidize a Rev. Wright or email a post-9/11 Bill Ayers in a way no conservative would even dare speak to a David Duke or Timothy McVeigh—and what Wright said was not all that different from what Duke spouts. What separated Ayers from McVeigh was chance; had the stars aligned, the Weathermen would have killed hundreds as they planned.

Russell Kirk predicted where this viciousness (anointed ends justify brutal means) would end:

"Ideology makes political compromise impossible: the ideologue will accept no deviation from the Absolute Truth of his secular revelation. This narrow vision brings about civil war, extirpation of "reactionaries", and the destruction of beneficial functioning social institutions."

Mission Accomplished

Labels: connecticut post, democrats, liberals, obama, pelosi

I wonder whether or not the fairness doctrine will protect Thomas Sowell from the lefty-driven antics of the Connecticut Post. The paper has once again changed the title of his syndicated op-ed column to disguise the critical nature of his subject matter [Obama]. His op-ed in the Connecticut Post was changed from Obama and 'The Left' to Democratic candidate again compared with Hitler, Lenin

Obama and 'The Left' as published in Jewish World Review and Town Hall

The more you know...

1. Usually, antics.
a. a playful trick or prank; caper.
b. a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture

Labels: connecticut post, left-wing media