Democrats think we are stupid

Many Democrat leaders, led by President Obama, have a low opinion of Americans. They are trying to trick us into believing our local Congressmen and Senators are not his enablers. They are and should be treated as such in the voting booth.

Jay Cost has written a column for the Weekly Standard titled “The Rubes’ Revenge,” outlining the strategy Democrats are using to sprinkle pixie dust and transform Obama allies in Congress into your allies.

He calls it “sneak it pass the rubes theory” politics.

Democrats vote with liberal leadership once they win their elections but revert to lying about it when they address voters back home. Cost writes:

Then you hope that the “rubes” back home can be sufficiently distracted by the “war on women” or some other phony issue that they’ll return you to office. And if they choose not to, there will be a consolation prize: a cushy, well-connected job as a lobbyist (Blanche Lincoln) or law firm adviser (Byron Dorgan) or association CEO (Ben Nelson) or strategic adviser in PR (Kent Conrad) in Washington, where you are more at home anyway, or even a job out of town as an ambassador (Max Baucus).

Given their vast money advantage and media bias, Democrats can flood the airwaves and fill the newspapers with propaganda. Their Get Out The Vote Effort can tailor-make their approach to individual voters to misrepresent reality and fool voters.

Cost mentions Kansas as an example where Democratic leadership is hoping Kansans do not vote for Republican Pat Roberts but vote for the supposed “Independent” Greg Orman. In reality, Orman is as Democratic as Barack Obama:

Over the last decade, Orman has contributed overwhelmingly to Democrats, he briefly ran in 2008 as a Democrat to try to unseat Roberts, and a perusal of his positions—especially on abortion—suggests he is to the left of the average Kansas voter. Perhaps needless to say, he will not commit to repealing Obamacare. 
Bottom line: Greg Orman is a Democrat running as an independent. So this is a variant of the game Democrats have been playing for years now, with an extra layer of deception: Find a candidate who can win over Republican voters in red states by talking about his independent-mindedness, and when he gets to Washington he’ll be there when you really need him. It’s “sneak it past the rubes” minus the party label.

They win and what do we get in return for our votes?

Violations of the Constitution; record levels of debt; welfare spending; food stamp and disability payments; massive levels of joblessness; ObamaCare; and the overwhelming rise of federal power over our lives and our futures.

At times, Democrats have even contributed financially to Republicans, Libertarians and Independents during primaries to defeat the Republican they feared could beat them in the general election. That is how Claire McCaskill was re-elected Senator from Missouri, despite being an enthusiastic Obama (and now Hillary Clinton) supporter.

Your humble correspondent has repeatedly written columns that show how often Obama and other Democrats ridicule Americans for being stupid (see, for example, Obama Thinks You Are Stupid, That’s Why; What Obama Thinks of Americans; President Put-Down; The Abuser-in-Chief and he thinks that that Americans need to be talked to with simpler words because, I suppose, we are simpletons).

Bruce Braley, Democratic candidate for the Senate in Iowa, has recently shown his particular contempt for farmers by insulting Senator Chuck Grassley as a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.”  Obama shares that contempt for the “average” American: small town people are, after all, bitter people, who cling to guns and God, who fear foreigners; Obama does not think much of people who live in suburbs either, by the way. He’s not interested in them and they bore him.

Obama and his fellow Democrats will ransack suburbs for money to send to cities (see his “regionalism” plot against the suburbs, as covered by Stanley Kurtz).
Red-state Democrats need to be taught a lesson, Cost writes.

They cannot be allowed to defy their constituents on such a high-profile issue and get away with it. Otherwise, they will only be emboldened to do it more often in the future. (Little wonder, incidentally, that McCaskill, who held on in 2012 in Missouri even as Romney trounced Obama there, was a key operator behind the scenes in getting Taylor off the Kansas ballot.)
Similarly with Greg Orman: If Democrats think they can sneak liberals into the Senate from red states by walking away from their party label, it is an easy bet that they will try to do so again. If Orman wins, look for mass replication of this strategy in 2016 and beyond.
Winning in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kansas, then, is an imperative for the Republican Party at least as important as taking the Senate majority. Regardless of how the rest of the races flush out on November 4, Democrats ought not be allowed to walk away from the upcoming midterms believing that “sneak it past the rubes” is a viable strategy. 

Obama disgracefully told Hispanics that voting gave them the power to “punish their enemies” 

and later, told all Americans to “vote for revenge.”  No American should have ever voted for a man who holds those “principles” to become president.
But that should be a piece of advice that Americans should consider when they vote in the midterms. Are we going to allow ourselves to be tricked again by Democrats trying to fool us into giving them power? Are we going to reward their strategy of lying and deception? It is up to you, American voter, to show them we are not rubes.
Teach them a lesson.

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Obama: US better off but people aren't 'feeling it'

The president is delusional. Or misinformed. He also has a short memory. How else do you explain his statement that the US is better off since he took office, but citizens just aren't feeling it because we haven't spent hundreds of billions more in stimulating the economy.

Washington Free Beacon:

President Obama firmly believes the United States is better off now than when he took office, even though the American people cannot “feel” it.
During an interview with 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft, Obama said, “the country is definitely better off than when I came into office.”
“When I came into office, our economy was in crisis,” Obama said.
The president then cited lower unemployment, private sector job growth, and deficit cuts as evidence of his administration’s success. “I can put my record against any leader around the world in terms of digging ourselves out of a terrible, almost unprecedented financial crisis,” Obama said.
When asked if the president thought the American people could feel that economic success, Obama said, “They don’t feel it.”
“The reason they don’t feel it is because incomes and wages are not going up,” he said. Obama suggested raising the minimum wage, rebuilding infrastructure, and investing in American business to continue strengthening the economy.

Yes, things were very bad when he took office in January, 2009. But the rest of us remember, even if Obama doesn't, that his policies made things worse. Unemployment shot up above 10%, while the deficit cracked $1.7 trillion, after the $900 billion stim bill and the $3 trillion pumped into the economy by the Fed,

The president will say that his policies helped avoid a depression. That is certainly debatable. As for economic growth since then, try as he might, the president couldn't keep the US economy from struggling to recover from his mistakes. Record numbers of workers have given up or left the work force. The lowest labor participation rate on record. Wages barely able to keep pace with the "official" rate of inflation, while the Middle Class has to deal with prices rising far faster than their incomes.

This is Barack Obama's legacy and we may be a decade or more recovering from it.

 http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/obama_us_beter_off_but_people_arent_feeling_it.html#ixzz3EkipH9g1  

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/motto_of_the_obama_administration_a_nation_of_cowards.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/the_obama_doctrine_freedom_for_whom.html

 

Dem rep in CT arrested for crime that 'doesn't exist'

Holy Crap We have another Case of Democrat Voter Fraud!!! Who would of thought!

Democrats and the dominant media assure us that vote fraud doesn’t exist, so we certainly don’t need voter ID, and in fact it would be racist to demand as much proof of identity as is necessary to board an airplane or buy a drink.  Nevertheless, a Democrat state representative in Connecticut was arrested for allegedly voting 19 times.

The New Haven Register (hat tip: Weasel Zippers) reports:

State Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges.

Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

The arrest warrant affidavit also alleges Ayala provided fabricated evidence to state Election Enforcement Commission investigators that showed she lived at an address in a district where she voted while actually living outside the district, according to the release. (snip)

Ayala allegedly voted in various Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee elections, a municipal primary election and a state primary election between 2009 and 2012 in districts inconsistent with the location of her residence, according to the release. She is also accused of voting in the Bridgeport state general election in 2012 in a district where she didn’t live.

According to the Connecticut Post, Ayala’s mother, Santa, was also investigated by the Elections Enforcement Commission. The commission also recommended criminal charges be filed against Santa Ayala, the Democratic registrar of voters in Bridgeport, but none have been filed as of Friday.

The registrar of voters has been recommended for arrest, but vote fraud doesn't exist, eh?

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http://www.nhregister.com/government-and-politics/20140926/bridgeport-state-rep-christina-ayala-arrested-on-19-voting-fraud-charges

Obama blames intelligence officials for the rise of ISIS

Obama the Blamethrower strikes again This time our president says that American intelligence is at fault for underestimating the threat of ISIS. It is never his fault-never ever.

 As Ronald Reagan would say, there he goes again.

Barack Obama, in an interview aired on 60 Minutes (one of his favorite shows because it fawns on him and, in the words of Steve Kroft, one of its talking heads, won’t ask him tough questions) casts blame on intelligence officials for the rise of ISIS 

President Barack Obama said that U.S. intelligence officials "underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," and that several years of political chaos in the country had created an environment for Islamic State to thrive in Syria and Iraq.

 Oddly, when the intelligence officials gave George W. Bush bad information about Iraq’s WMD program there was no attempt by Bush to shift blame onto long-serving career officials. It was the same intelligence that led the majority of US Democratic Senators (including then-Senators Hillary Clinton and John Kerry) to vote to give President Bush authority to launch military operations. Of course, when things went south they tried to revise history and whitewash their own responsibility by claiming that Bush “lied” and people died.

But, as is customary for Obama, he lays off blame for his failures on others who are in no position to object since they serve at his beck and call. Who would take on the president of the United States who has shown he has no problem using the full force of the powers -- including illegitimate ones --  that he has to make life miserable for Americans who earn his ire (the IRS is just one agency he can use; so is the Department of Justice, EPA, and Homeland Security, for starters)?

Obama has been derelict for so long as President that even liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus has all but declared him AWOL -- and that was in 2011.

As has been reported by Marc Theissen, at the Washington Post, President Obama routinely skipped daily intelligence briefings over the years;

The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.

After all, it is more fun golfing, vacationing, playing with NBA superstars and watching ESPN than actually working.

The former head of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has said that bad decisions by Obama on Syria and Iraq led to the rise of ISIS and that Obama ignoring the advice of his national security team to arm moderate rebels helped ISIS grow. Panetta said Obama decided to overrule his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey.

In other words, Obama ignored the advice of his entire national security team and his habit of voting “present” facilitated the rise of ISIS and the deaths of many thousands of innocent people, including Americans.

Now Obama is trying to revise history and doing what comes so naturally to him, blaming others for his failures (for other examples, see Obama The Blamethrower).

Who will he blame when Iran gets the nuclear bomb? Probably Israel or George Bush.

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Midterm Elections: Oberweis Attacks Durbin in 'Dick Nixon' Radio Spot

I don't like negative ads. When I hear all the Quinn ads against Bruce, they make him look like a criminal. If he did anything illegal I am sure he would have been charged or convicted. This ad is somewhat different. Durbin actually threatened to use the IRS to go after his opponent. With all this current IRS Crap going on I Wonder how knee deep in Sh*t this Clown is. All the lies and secrecy with this 'regime".  So this is a pretty good ad that shows the "corruption" side of the Liberals! I also don't blame anyone to move to save money! Its human nature. 

Durbin's GOP rival compares the U.S. Senator to the Watergate-era president

 Jim Oberweis has launched his most negative attack yet on U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, releasing a radio ad that compares the Illinois Democrat to Richard Nixon.

Earlier this week, the Illinois state senator and dairy magnate accused Durbin of bullying Walgreens CEO Greg Wasson into keeping company headquarters in Illinois instead of relocating overseas to save money on taxes. But on Friday, Oberweis went a step further in his anti-Durbin campaign game, comparing the Senate's second-ranking Democrat to one of the famously paranoid Republican president whose abuses of power begat the Watergate scandal which begat Tricky Dick's resignation in 1974.

"Did you know Article 2, Section 1 of the impeachment against Dick Nixon was for using the IRS against his political enemies? Did you know Dick Durbin asked the IRS to investigate a political opponent about the same time the IRS began illegally targeting American families?" says the ad's narrator, referencing Durbin's 2010 letter urging the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a conservative political group. (The IRS controversy over the bureau's discriminatory reviews of tea party outfits requesting tax breaks continues to escalate in Washington, with Republicans voicing outrage over the missing Lois Lerner emails.)

Continues the voice: "Did you know Dick Durbin refuses to reveal any other correspondence he may have had with the IRS? During the midst of the scandal, did you know Dick Durbin took thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the IRS union and refuses to return the money? Do you know that Dick Durbin refuses to answer whether he supports a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the IRS mess even though most Americans want one?"

Then Oberweis chimes in, closing out the ad with a vow to "make sure we get those answers and that the IRS will never again be used as a weapon against American families. It was wrong when Dick Nixon did it and it's wrong when Dick Durbin does it."

Responding to his senate seat opponent's radio take-down Friday afternoon, Durbin's spokesman told Ward Room: "Did you know that people who listen to this ad won't get their 60 seconds back? Once again tea party extremist Jim Oberweis in the minority. Earlier this week he was one of the few pouting that Walgreens is keeping its headquarters in America and now he's one of the few that find this ad remotely believable."

The full audio, below:

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Jim-Oberweis-compares-Durbin-to-Richard-Nixon-radio-ad-270482501.html#ixzz3EkcEw2vY
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Durbin's Staff Trying to Silence Critics, Group Says

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/durbins-staff-trying-silence-critics-group-says

Conservative Group Claims Durbin Threatening IRS Audit

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/conservative_group_claims_durbin_threatening_irs_audit/

http://www.bobbyschilling.com/newsroom/press/116-bustos-knew-about-veterans-cuts-still-voted-for-ryan-murray-budget

Spoiled Biden Attacks CEOs

Joe Biden is smugly wrong about everything.  He says, “We’re asking all the wrong questions. … We should be asking the question why CEO’s make 333 times more than their average employee.”

Well, Joe, what’s the right multiple of earnings for a CEO who is responsible for the company and everyone else’s salaries versus a clerk or the cleaning man?  Should it be ten times or ten thousand times?  How is Biden stupid enough to think that he can dictate worth and merit?

While we’re at it, why does God or heredity give athletes the skills to make millions or actors the empathy to make twenty million dollars per movie?

Where is Biden’s merit, that he does so well?  He rides around in limos, eats sumptuous dinners, dines with dignitaries, has all the respect in the world as he gets in and out of private planes.  And when he retires, he gets a magnificent pension and big book contracts.  Not to mention millions of dollars for ghostwritten speeches.

If Biden is going to attack CEOs, he should go after vice presidents.  

The worst part of Biden’s philosophy is that he is secretly praising socialism and communism –  forms of government that have ended up in disaster with bread lines, murders, and lowered standards of living.  He is willing to stuff America down the toilet in order to gain votes by pandering to the poor.  He tells these people that the CEOs instead of the politicians are cheating them.

With his long white pasty face, Biden looks like the vice president of an ad firm in the fifties.  He’d do well in Mad Men.

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DNC's Donna Brazile calls for new Constitution to 'save American democracy'

Caution, More genuine Liberal Stupidity on Display here!

On Saturday, Donna Brazile, the vice-chair of voter registration and participation for the Democratic Party, said on Twitter that the United States needs to scrap its currentConstitution and replace it in order to save American democracy. She linked to a Salonarticle that claims the current Constitution is "shaking in its boots."

"We need a new constitution," Brazile tweeted. "Here’s how we save American democracy from charlatans, loudmouths and the 1 percent."

Brazile did not specify what her ideal Constitution would look like, but Andrew Burstein, a professor of history at Louisiana State University and author of "Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud," did. According to Burstein, mandatory federal service, higher taxes on the rich and environmental radicalism -- among other things -- are needed to save American democracy.

In short, Burstein and Brazile want a Constitution codifying every aspect of liberalism. Although neither said it, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms would no doubt be eliminated, and free speech rights for some would, in all likelihood, be severely curtailed.

While some supported Brazile's idea, most did not. Some called Brazile "scary," while others called her idea ludicrous.

"You've been a part of the political elite your whole life," one person told Brazile. "We need to be saved from the likes of you."

"We need to start abiding by our current constitution," another person added. "We don't need a new one."

"Pardon me while I ignore this utterly ludicrous proposition from a charlatan and loudmouth," said another Twitter critic. Others suggested Brazile find another country and take her fellow leftists with her. One person suggested the best way to save American democracy from "charlatans" is to vote for Republicans.

It's not the first time liberals have argued that the Constitution needs to be replaced. In December 2012, we reported that Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, said the United States should "give up" on the document, "with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions."

In 2010, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., derided the GOP "Pledge to America" because itquotes the Constitution, and called it a revolutionary plan by extreme Republican "Tenthers,” or those who support the Tenth Amendment. Ironically, she -- along with every other elected official -- swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

It's clear, however, who it is Brazile wants to see silenced. As the conservative blog Weasel Zippers noted, her real target are those who fall to the right of center.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dnc-s-donna-brazile-calls-for-new-constitution-to-save-american-democracy