Monday, February 29, 2016
Trump The Wreck
3-1-2016 Trump The Wreck
Trump says the US “looks weak” to the rest of the world, so his prescription...
"When the students poured into Tienanmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world" – Donald J. Trump
This is coming from a man promising that Republicans who don't vote for him will face some kind of reprisals. The thin-skinned narcissist has already made it known he wants to “open up” libel laws to make it easier to sue people for saying mean things on the internet.
This comes after he vow to shut down parts of the internet to “fight ISIS”. His comments on Apple shows he also believes the government needs to be able to spy on smart phones, all of them.
Now he complains that Iran is buying their missiles from Russia and not from the US.
“They (Iran) just ordered missiles. I didn't know they could buy missiles with their $150 billion. They just ordered missiles from Russia, nothing from the United States...”
Trump has also advocated a policy on terrorism of finding the wives and children of the terrorists and killing them. This is not just evil and immoral, it is an internationally recognized war crime.
Donald Trump is a liberal fascist dictator wanna-be.
If Trump is nominated to lead the Republican Party, there will be irrevocable damage to the party that can never be undone. The conservatives, Christians and others have always maintained an uneasy alliance within the party. His pro-big government interventionist, pro-union, protectionist, vulgar politics will be the new face of the party.
That will be a bridge too far to many people.
A Trump nomination will split the Republican Party. The best scenario for the GOP is that these groups simply sit out the election and Trump loses bad. The worst case scenario is that millions of conservatives and Christians leave he party for good, joining one or more third parties or staying independent instead.
The Constitution Party looks like it would be the best option for disaffected conservatives and Christians. Its platform is similar to the one the GOP pretends to follow. Except that the Constitution Party actually means it.
Right now the Constitution Party is like a small club, controlled by a few people without much money. But the mechanics are in place for a real party to rise up should millions of people flood in. Watching or taking part in a new party rise up to replace the dying Whig Party, I mean Republican Party, would be exciting.
Hopefully Trump is not the nominee and none of this need happen. People should consider what all of this really means when they vote.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Homeless Conservatives...
-- Alexander Hamilton
- James 1:14-15
Ted Cruz vs Donald Trump (No Contest)
Since 2008, and even long before, the conservative movement has been longing for another Ronald Reagan. Someone who can represent the best elements that conservatism has, all in one package, and can unite voters from across the right-leaning spectrum.
The conservative movement has not been very successful in breaking through the left-wing media monopoly in this country, or its control of much of the culture, to elect conservative politicians. Instead the Republican Party has tended to discount conservatives and placate them with nothing but talk through election campaigns. We have seen this time and again.
Ted Cruz is the real outsider. Even as a Senator he was far outside the Republican leadership. He had defeated a sitting moderate Republican Senator David Dewhurst, a friend of the establishment.
In 2012, and the election of Ted Cruz, brought a full-spectrum conservative warrior to the United States Senate. His battles and victories in front of the Supreme Court such as his taking a part in the Heller case on gun rights, he helped win a case involving the 10 Commandments (Thomas Van Orden) and also along with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott beat back the World Court and protected American sovereignty while keeping heinous killers locked up in Medellin vs Texas.
This reputation got Ted Cruz past the vicious attacks of Dewhurst and his Texas Conservatives Fund PAC. If only Dewhurst had fought the left as hard as he battled Ted, maybe something different would have happened.
While in the Senate Ted Cruz fought against Barack Obama, the left and even the Republican establishment. He fought lonely battles against ObamaCare and other outrages while the rest f his own party did nothing. Most Republican members of the US Senate do nothing but talk about opposing the left while doing nothing of substance.
He led the charge for tough new immigration laws and battled Marco Rubio and the Gang of 8 that tried to position itself as a “centrist”, middle of the road alternative. Although only a few conservative Senators exist they managed to fight long enough for the American people to see and hear what the Gang of 8 was peddling, otherwise it would have passed before we knew what was really in it.
In fact, the Republican establishment truly hates Ted Cruz more than they hate Barack Obama. The GOP establishment wants to get along with the left, making DC into one big club. It is those few pesky conservatives that keep getting in the way. It is no surprise that establishment Republicans would flock to candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who get along with Democrats.
Enter Donald J Trump. The billionaire has been a longtime supporter of the left. In fact he has donated to many of the most liberal Democrats. He claims to donate to “both sides” but the facts show he has only donated to liberal Republicans, some of whom have since become Democrats like Charlie Crist in Florida. In fact he only seems to donate to people like McConnell and Boehner when they are challenged from the right in primaries. He is no outsider.
Donald Trump has boasted about buying political favors from politicians. In 2014 he donated to Rahm Emmanuel's mayoral bid who had served as Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, and later received millions in tax breaks from the city.
Donald Trump has boasted about his numerous affairs. After her death he claimed he could have “banged” Princess Diana. In truth, she had found his advances to be quite disturbing. He also once told a journalist he could take his wife away. His present and fourth wife is a former porn model.
On political issues Donald Trump has been all over the map, often changing positions completely in a single day. Even his signature, ever-morphing, proposal to expel illegal immigrants and build a wall along the southern border rings hollow when one reads the fine print where he promises to let the “good ones” back in. his first position on Syrian refugees was to let them come to America but within a short time this had changed to being a very anti-refugee position.
Donald Trump is clearly still a liberal. His first instinct on every issue has been liberal. What comes afterward is all political expediency. Even his rallying cry of being an outsider has morphed to being a deal-maker who can negotiate with the Democrats and “get things done”.
This is exactly the attitude of the establishment.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Headlines from NY-NJ
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/11/01/Obama-Celebs-Party-in-Manhattan
Power outages could last 10 days
Exasperation builds on day 3
http://news.yahoo.com/exasperation-builds-day-3-storm-stricken-nyc-202314418.html
Looters Target Coney Island
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/looters-target-coney-island-sandy-article-1.1195080
"We need food, we need clothing" State Island residents plead for help 3 days after Sandy
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Politics Caused Benghazi Tragedy and its Cover-Up
It was Obama himself who denied additional security to the embassy in Benghazi, Libya not Hillary Clinton as many had suspected. New emails and documents have shown that not only did the President and the administration know that this was a terrorist – while it was still happening – bit that absolutely nothing was done about it. The security was denied only because it would be admitting that the world was a more dangerous place. There was an election coming up and if they admitted this, it might hurt his re-election chances.
The State Department had even issued a traveled advisory warning people that Benghazi was dangerous with real threats of political violence and assassinations in August. Yet the White House continued to allow the Benghazi mission to be almost completely undefended. Intelligence e-mails before and after the attack have surfaced that show that the situation was well known.
When Barack Obama was informed of the violence at the Benghazi mission he went to bed. The attack lasted between 6 and 8 hours. During that time, an unarmed drone was reportedly launched, allowing real-time images and video to be seen by intelligence officials and the White House. Still, nothing was done through the assault and murder of 4 Americans including Ambassador Stevens.
The next morning challenger Mitt Romney openly wondered why the administration was silent on the attack and condemned the terrorism in Benghazi Libya and why the Cairo embassy seemed to apologize to the attackers. The White House went after Romney, saying he didn't know what he was talking about. This was the first instance where the administration seemingly denied that an attack took place.
For days the Obama administration kept the attention of a compliant press on the Romney “gaffe” as they worked on their next distraction. They could not politically allow the issue to become a foreign policy disaster.
The President then boarded Air Force One for a trip to Las Vegas for a multi-million dollar fund-raiser, giving the President hours to review the information on Benghazi. If the reports of the drone over Benghazi are true, then he likely had access to that aerial video as well.
Within days the administration would be openly castigating the Youtube video “Innocence of Muslims” and blaming it for causing a large protest that turned violent in Benghazi. We now know that there was no protest in Benghazi before the attack.
On September 16, five days later, UN Secretary Susan Rice on CBS saying …
“But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy–
BOB SCHIEFFER: Mm-Hm.
SUSAN RICE: –sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that– in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution. And that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.”
Two days later Jay Carney said “MR. CARNEY: No, I’m saying that based on information that we — our initial information, and that includes all information — we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned or premeditated attack; that we saw evidence that it was sparked by the reaction to this video. And that is what we know thus far based on the evidence, concrete evidence — not supposition — concrete evidence that we have thus far”
“Based on the information that we have now, it was — there was a reaction to the video — there was protests in Cairo, then followed by protests elsewhere, including Benghazi, and that that was what led to the original unrest. The other factors here — all factors — but the other factors here, including participants in the unrest, participants in the violence, are under investigation”
The President himself, in front of the United Nations, continued the theme almost two weeks after the attack. “The future does not belong to those who blaspheme the prophet of Islam” - a clear reference to the Youtube video.
So why did the administration continue to go down that road when they clearly knew it was not true? Their actions and accusations about the video likely sparked deadly riots in other countries, like Pakistan. 23 people reportedly died in Pakistan riots while a paid TV ad by Obama and Hillary Clinton apologized to them for the offensive video.
So the admin had to keep downplaying the events and the impact. The four deaths were simply “bumps in the road” or it was “not optimal”. Anything to keep from having to answer the hard questions of why it had spiraled out of control.
Was it all a cover-up of their failure to provide more security to the embassy, which might affect his chances at being re-elected?