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Once the SEIU said they were going to send their enforcers to townhall meetings this was inevitable.

The key info from the link:

Shortly thereafter, violence erupted, where there were 2-3 big goons came out and started pushing those in line, and roughing up one in the corner (see top left screen) as well as another being put in a choke hold. Directly in front of the gentleman in the plaid type shirt, is one of them in a flower print. (eleven o’clock from the camera phone in the scene.) To right of the phone, another in a white shirt. Keep your eye on him, as he then goes for the choke hold on one of the people.

For all Pelosi’s complaints about protesters bearing swastikas, it’s pretty easy to see which side is actually employing brownshirts.

Welcome to Barack Obama’s America.

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Remember all those “independent” ethics filings against Sarah Palin? We were told they were all private citizens who were just concerned about good government. Turns out: not so much:

This is the Kos crowd coordinating with first the Obama campaign and now administration trying to smear Sarah Palin repeatedly.

Remember this the next time they tell you they’re not afraid of her, that’s she just some dumb snowbilly, and that they’re realling just laughing at her.

Yeah. That’s why they brought an Alaskan guy into Obama’s inner circle to coordinate attacks against her. But remember, they’re not afraid of her at all.

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If there is one consistent message coming from the Democratic Party today, it is that the so-called “public option” for ObamaCare is NOT, repeat NOT inevitably going to lead to a single-payer system. Any claims that it is are, of course, just Republican lies and spin.

Someone needs to tell Barney Frank that:

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This incredible picture from the MailOnline shows just why this argument for man-made global warming is just a bunch of garbage.

Try to imagine, if you can, the amount of carbon dioxide, ash, pollutants and other harmful chemicals are inside a cloud so big it can be photographed from space. Mankind just isn’t capable of producing the amount of “greenhouse gases” and other pollutants that Mother Nature has been doing for millenia on end before the time of the dinosaurs. Not even a nuclear bomb can produce that level of destruction.

And yet here we are. The polar ice caps haven’t melted. The sea hasn’t swallowed the land. Huh.

How about that?

Could it be that their secular religion which elevates man far above his actual place in the ecosystem and in the cosmos is responsible for the hysteria? That maybe, even with all of our history and technological advances that we are still small, insignificant blinks in the span of time that Earth has existed? Would that cause the entire Leftist ideology to collapse in on itself if it were forced to admit it?

The answer to all of the above is: yes.

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Kevin Hassett over at Bloomberg is speculating that Obama’s strategy is to effectively bankrupt American businesses so that he can nationalize them. It’s one of those theories that six months ago people would have dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory, but with the track that the Democratic Congress and Obama are taking it’s seemingly more plausible every day.

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Obama’s problem is that he doesn’t have a core.

The reason for the “uhs” and the “umms” is that he’s trying to do lawyerly parsing in his head on the fly, and he’s not parsing fast enough to keep up with his mouth.

The conversation goes something like this:

He thinks: “I think…no wait, that’s not strong enough…We believe..yeah, that’s it…”

He says: “We believe…uh…”

He thinks: “Now what? What do you mean now what? Don’t you know? Know what? What was the question? Oh yeah…”

He says “um…”

He thinks “What did Axelrod tell me our position was? He didn’t. Wasn’t there something about ‘Hope’ in the answer? I’m sure there was..’

He says “that we are the hope…”

He thinks “Hope for what? Well I can’t say anything specific, people would be able to nail me down on one side of the issue or another. Better say something noncommittal and give myself plausible deniability no matter what they say I said. What should I say though?”

He says “uh…uh…”

He thinks “But it was a yes or no question…Shut up…Only a racist would ask a yes or no question. Damn racists, trying to bait me like that…”

He says “umm…”

He thinks “I’ll show them who’s smarter. I used to organize communities for God’s sake. I’ll give them the answer I want. What do I want? To not lose, Michelle would be soooo pissed! And she’s not that nice when she’s in a good mood…Yeah, but I mean besides the obvious…”

He says “err…”

He thinks “Hope and change. Axelrod says that’s our message. Forget the policy: if they found out what the policy was they’d never vote for us…Stick with the hope and change, and let ‘em chew on that for a while.”

He says “and change that we’ve been waiting for…”

He thinks “HA! Let ‘em try to figure that one out…::smug internal grin::”

He says “Next question?”

(I originally posted this in the comments at Althouse..)

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The Jawa Report has done a great job of connecting the dots between the Obama campaign and video hit jobs against Sarah Palin that were uploaded to YouTube and Google Video as well as e-mailed to Leftist websites like DU and dKos.

David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager, is one of the most vicious, disgusting and vile human beings ever to walk the face of the earth. To even think of some of the smears that have been launched against Sarah Palin, let alone be responsible for spreading what he knows for a fact to be outright lies, takes a level of human depravity that few are capable of.

I state this as fact. If Obama and Axelrod want to challenge me, then let’s take it to court. We’ll go to discovery over their communications with the Winner family, open up the client lists of his AstroTurfing company, and follow the dots throughout the Democratic leadership. Go ahead, I triple dare you….

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I know it’s thin gruel, but I can’t help but speculate if Andrew Sullivan’s bosses at The Atlantic have suggested that he take a few days off - whether he likes it or not…

After a week of breathlessly “reporting” every kind of speculative slur against Sarah Palin at the behest of David Axelrod and the Obama campaign - each and every one of which was subsequently debunked with some actual fact-checking, his blog has gone uncharacteristically silent for over 24 hours now. His last post was a view from a window with the simple title “The View From Your Window” - reminiscent of the kind of pouting a child does when his mother grounds him and sends him to his room.

The Atlantic has been taking some well-deserved abuse from bloggers for continuing to write paychecks for a guy whose writing tends to remind one of a gossipy teenage girl engaged in a verbal slapfight with her rival over the star quarterback (that is when he’s not indulging himself in outright anti-Semitism or narcissistic back-patting). The only thing which separates him from those anonymous Kos diarists whose work is periodically disappeared down the memory hole after it becomes an embarrassment even to them is The Atlantic masthead.

It would show the first moment of good judgment from The Atlantic’s management since the Palin onslaught began if this is indeed the case, but only time will tell if this is anything more than rank speculation on my part…

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…so says an article in the Baltimore Examiner….

OK…”thugs” was my word not theirs, but isn’t that actually a nice way to describe unionized violence-advocating communists who support foreign terrorist groups and think that terms like “any means necessary” should be a part of union negotiations?

Questions need to be asked of both the University of Minnesota which employs these thugs as well as the AFL-CIO and AFSCME who these people represent. I’ll give them a momentary benefit of the doubt and say that they didn’t know what was going on under their noses (I know…I don’t believe it for an instant either), but let’s give them the opportunity to purge these kinds of people from their ranks. If they choose not to, then they can fairly be called to account for the actions of those within their midst…

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Roger Simon, who is a Hollywood writer by trade and ought to know, does the best job ever of explaining why fabulously wealthy celebrities often take up leftist causes which, by their very lifestyles, expose them to regular folk like you and me as complete and total hypocrites:

Much of this public liberalism of the excessive knee-jerk variety stems from a form of self-loathing. These same people do not want to be bastards – life just put them in that position. But, at the same time, they do not want anyone to take away what they have – the vast acclaim and fortune – even if deep down they wonder if they are worthy. What to do? What to do?

The solution is to create another self, a kind of mini-me, who goes out and loudly proclaims what a fine liberal humanistic person he or she is- a public projection to obfuscate the private self. Sometimes this results in actual good works, but usually it is basically blather (see Streisand’s website) or dopey showing off like Sean Penn putting in an appearance with Hugo Chavez.

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