In a move that would have been hard to imagine in previous years, the GOP has launched multiple fundraising efforts in the wake of the failed attack on Flight 253, seeking to turn the Christmas Day event into not just a political attack on the Obama administration, but also a boost for their year-end fundraising.
Here’s Pete Hoekstra’s fundraising letter…
“My promise to you, as your governor, my first duty and most solemn responsibility is to keep Michigan safe! … If you agree that we need a Governor who will stand up the Obama/Pelosi efforts to weaken our security please make a most generous contribution of $25, $50, $100 or even $250 to my campaign.”
And that folks, is your Republican Party where raising money by selling fear is always deemed a noble act.
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These guys believe in nothing – nothing – but regaining power.
Some of the same Republican lawmakers currently criticizing the President for softness on terrorism voted back in July 2007 against legislation that, among other reforms, provided $250 million for airport screening and explosive detection equipment.
And who exactly are the two-faced dicks?
Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Tom Coburn (R-Okl.) Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), James Inhofe (R-Okl.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ari.).
That’s the same Jim DeMint who said this week that America is…
“…at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe.”
That’s the same Lindsey Graham who believes the country will be less safe with the transfer of Gitmo detainees to American soil.
Politics Before Country should be the new Republican motto.
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If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, stable engine for growth it’s meant to be. It’s neither Left nor Right — it’s populism at its best. Consider it a withdrawal tax on the big banks for the negative service they provide by consistently ignoring the public interest. It’s time for Americans to move their money out of these reckless behemoths. And you don’t have to worry, there is zero risk: deposit insurance is just as good at small banks — and unlike the big banks they don’t provide the toxic dividend of derivatives trading in a heads-they-win, tails-we-lose fashion.
Think of the message it will send to Wall Street — and to the White House. That we have had enough of the high-flying, no-limits-casino banking culture that continues to dominate Wall Street and Capitol Hill. That we won’t wait on Washington to act, because we know that Washington has, in fact, been a part of the problem from the start. We simply can’t count on Congress to fix things. We have to do it ourselves — and the big banks are the core of the problem. We need to return to the stable, reliable, people-oriented approach of America’s community banks.
“…what Peter King said, what Pete Hoekstra said—I mean there is no room for racial profiling in this country. Every study that I have seen—and I’m a former prosecutor too—every study I have seen has shown that it’s far more effective to follow what it is that people do rather than what they look like. And if we think about the broad picture now—let me see if we get this right. If we’re going to racially profile, we racially profile everybody across the Middle East. Now we find that this young 23 year old man from Nigeria—most of Nigeria is Christian by the way—so I guess what we’re going to have to do is include all of the people of Africa. But now let’s contemplate al Qaeda in the Philippines, so now we have to include people in Southeast Asia, so now we have about four billion people.”
“Look, I think when people make an argument for racial profiling they’re either lazy, they’re either arrogant, or frankly they’re racist. This is a foolish idea and the worst part of it all is that what we’re going to do is alienate about 1.5 billion Muslims. We desperately need these people on our side. If we go down that path we’re in a very, very serious problem.”
The system failed. Period. Investigate, find where the mistakes were made and fix them. What’s with the panic and hyperbole from conservatives? Is every incident concerning Muslims going to be a call for spreading racism and hatred?
Let’s hope that a leader soon emerges from the right with the intelligence and character to instill some calm and reason within the current and ridiculous version of the Republican party. They can’t get more divisive and destructive than they’ve been.
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“As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.
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“President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war.”
Republic Rep. Pete Hoekstra is milking the issue as much as he could and is even raising money over it.
“They just don’t get it,” Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, wrote in a fundraising letter to supporters. “These are the same weak-kneed liberals who have recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!”
More from Hoekstra…
President obama “needs to explain” the decision “to stay silent for 72 hours,”
Rep. Peter King expressed the same sentiment in that he is…
“disappointed it’s taken the president 72 hours to even address this issue.”
Senator Jim DeMint…
[America] “at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe.”
Really. President Obama stayed on vacation in Hawaii and spoke out on the attempted bombing three days later. In 2001, President Bush stayed on vacation and spoke out only six days later in regards to the attempted shoe-bombing by Richard Reid. The two attempted acts of terrorism are remarkably similar and yet no one complained about Bush’s lack of urgency back then. Somehow, conservatives feel justified in denouncing Obama as weak on terrorism and we’re supposed to take these phony hypocrites seriously?
These assclowns are getting really tiring.
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Tucker Carlson will be launching a conservative leaning website in the style of Huffington Post. He’s calling it DailyCaller.com. Its focus will be coverage of the Obama administration because…
“There just aren’t enough people covering this administration and telling the people what’s going on.”
Beautiful. It’s exactly what the country needs – one more wingnut ‘news’ outlet to go along with Fox News, RedState, HughHewitt, Michelle Malkin, The Drudge Report,WorldNetDaily, Newsmax, Free Republic, TownHall, Hot Air, Newsbusters, Lew Rockwell, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlas Shrugs, Reason, The American Spectator and a zillion others.
You can never have enough lying trustworthy and delusional levelheaded fools conservatives covering the Obama administration and misinforming telling the chumps people what’s going on.
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