House GOP leaders Boehner, Blunt and Cantor just spoke to reporters about the failure of the bailout bill. Blunt said that at least a dozen Republican members who had been for the bill turned their backs on it after Pelosi delivered a very partisan speech on the floor of the House.

In her speech, Pelosi blamed the nation’s financial problems on “failed Bush economic policies” and “some in the Republican Party” (a barb aimed at congressional Republicans) who created economic “chaos”.

She has also blamed Republicans in her recent remarks, implying that they were late in coming “to the table” and actually characterized their actions during the crisis as “unpatriotic”.

Way to poison the stew, Madam Speaker…

• JP

A lot of us like Mitt, too. But John McCain did not ask him to be his running mate. Please get over it. It’s just a month before the election, for Tom’s* sake!

Meanwhile, your anti-Palin rants have been cut and pasted on virtual garbage dumps Democratic Underground, etc.

Aren’t you just soooo proud?

Regards,

• JP

*(Please Google “Tom Eagleton”)

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has taken enough heat to melt the Artic Circle over this exchange with CBS’ Katie Couric:

Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?


Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.


Couric: Mocked? Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.


Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.


Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…


Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?


Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Russia has a long history of probing the edges of U.S. airspace with flights of their TU-95 Bear bombers and other Soviet-era aircraft. These flights have increased significantly over the past two years. In one such flight in March, one of the Russian bombers buzzed an American aircraft carrier:

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LA Times media scribe James Rainey mocks Sarah Palin for her pointing out, in the Katie Couric interview:

It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border.

In his hit piece, Raines wonders:

Certainly, Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has demonstrated his willingness to invade its small neighbors. But have I missed news of recent provocations by Russian bombers over Kiwalik or Aleknagik?

Search engines are our friend, James:

Russia’s resurgent military is again making sporadic, unannounced bomber runs toward Alaska’s airspace, leading the Air Force to scramble jets to intercept and identify them, according to the commander of the Pacific Air Forces, Gen. Howie Chandler.


The most recent incident, involving two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers, occurred Tuesday, Chandler said during a meeting with reporters at Elmendorf Air Force Base on Thursday. Since July, there have been 16 such incidents, according to the Air Force…


The Tuesday intercept occurred outside U.S. airspace but within the air-control territory known as the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone.

h/t: Alaska Daily News and FReeper Chet99.


- JP

“Mainstream media” (MSM) never was an accurate representation of what this country’s major print and broadcast news sources are and what they do. “Mainstream” is defined, when used as an adjective, as “representing the prevailing attitudes, values and practices of a society or group.” The media, as a group, certainly has a set of prevailing attitudes, values and practices, but they are not those of American society, rather only representative of the more liberal elements of American society. It was when talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh eschewed the oxymoronic “MSM” appellation and coined the more appropriate term “drive-by media” (DBM) that we get a fitting label for today’s fifth column Fourth Estate.


According to a Rasmussen poll conducted earlier this month, a majority of those surveyed believe that the DBM is not only biased against GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, but it is actively working to do her in:

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In several debates with liberals, I have challenged them to produce any evidence of Barack Obama having run anything but his mouth. I maintained that he had no executive experience. The liberals countered by insisting that Obama had executive experience by virtue of having run his campaign for president. I responded that surely they couldn’t be serious. Obama doesn’t run his presidential campaign. His campaign manager and staff do. So the liberals took the fallback position. Obama’s work as a community organizer provided him with that elusive executive experience.


As it turns out, there was a kernal of truth in their last point of contention. Obama did indeed gain some executive experience, but not so much in community organizing as in the financing of it. This information has recently come to light thanks to the efforts of various researchers to obtain the release of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) documents from the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Once the documents were finally made available, the first to examine them was Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson voiced confidence in the long term fundamentals of the U.S. economy. According to Reuters:

Asked about the fundamentals of the U.S. economy, Paulson said, “I won’t bet against the American people … We will work through this.”

John McCain has taken quite a beating from the Left and its captive media for saying essentially the same thing:

“My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals, the American worker and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business, those are the fundamentals of America and I think they’re strong.”

Nice to know that Paulson has McCain’s six convered…

• JP

It seems that whenever I get to thinking that I’m getting pretty good at this writing thing, I read the latest… work (piece, article, column - those nouns are simply too trite to describe his creations) by Bill Whittle. The experience deflates my puffed up ego…

It’s the proverbial “must-read” - and it’s here.

• JP

How qualified to be vice president of the United States could a Republican be who:

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Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a non-partisan, non-profit organization on a mission to eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government, has published a background report on Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere” which finally clears the air surrounding what has become the poster child for federal pork projects.

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The nattering nabobs of nonsense are busy parsing Sarah Palin’s answers to Charlie Gibson’s questions in the first segment of the ABC News interview and proclaiming that she isn’t ready to be vice president, God forbid president of the United States.


“She wants to start a war with Russia!” and “She didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is!” they are sneering. Never mind that she never said that we should or would go to war with Russia.

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One of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes comes from my favorite Reagan speech. It is in his famous “A Time for Choosing” address where we find this memorable line:

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.

Like so many other things our 40th president said, that one has been proven to be correct on a daily basis since 1964.

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The latest mantra heard from the leftosphere, desperate as it is to make Obama morph into the Messiah, is “Jesus was a community organizer; Pilate was a Governor.” Obviously, these people aren’t clinging to their bibles, much less reading them.

News flash, liberals! Jesus was the Messiah, not a community organizer. Sorry Obamunists, that Messiah position has been filled for over 2,000 years, and it’s not likely to open up anytime soon. Barabbas, not Jesus, was the community organizer. Bill Ayers also held that job, if I remember correctly. Essentially, Obama is campaigning for Pilate’s job. No, wait… Make that Caesar’s job.

• JP

So the aging hippie-chick Wilson sisters of the 1970s-80s rock band Heart object to their song “Barracuda” being played at McCain Palin events. So what?


Why not use another Wilson’s (no relation, I think) song instead? Gretchen Wilson likely would not mind loaning her wildly popular country anthem “Redneck Woman” to Sarah Palin , I’ll wager. Gretchen was a Fred Thompson supporter early on and performed at last week’s RNC convention for the McCain-Palin ticket. She might even be intersted in re-writing a variation custom-tailored for the GOP vice presidential nominee.

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With each new bizarre slur the hard Left concots, the deeper it sinks into the cesspool of liberal lies. These people are Scared Mittless ^TM of Sarah Palin, and it’s all too obvious.


Here’s the latest, probably devised while viewing kiddie porn and feeling a tingle go up the left leg:

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It’s clear what major liberal media outlets such as the New York Times and CNN, driven by their more unhinged counterparts on the left end of the blogosphere, are trying to do.


They are slinging as much manure as they can wallow in at Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice to run with him as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, hoping enough of it will stick to force McCain to pull a McGovern. Some of the us older hands remember very well the campaign of 1972. The Democrats’ presidential nominee George McGovern had at the last minute picked Tom Eagleton, a young Missouri Senator, as his running mate. Less than two weeks later, Eagleton was off the ticket, replaced by Sargent Shriver, a member by marriage of the Kennedy clan.

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