When the amazing is predictable: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it would be un-American to investigate a mosque that is planned for construction near where the World Trade Center once stood. I’m listening hard for his condemnation of Nancy Pelosi’s call to investigate the mosque’s opponents, but I can’t hear it over all these damned crickets. Thanks to Dana.
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Michael Bloomberg: Unamerican to Investigate Funding of Ground Zero Mosque
Let me summarize this Dallas Morning News article about Lisa Blue: if your husband (Fred Baron) is a millionaire and multimillion-dollar Democratic Party fundraiser – John Edwards’ bagman , in fact – and also dying of bone marrow cancer, then you can not only get away with smuggling into the country experimental cancer medicine of dubious efficacy; you can get the Speaker of the House herself to lean on the FDA to let your husband get the medication in question – despite the fact that it didn’t actually work. And then you get to brag about it, while piously talking about how awful it is that regular families don’t have your ability to violate federal regulations on access to experimental and untested medicines*. Which is irrelevant, of course: because it’s not going to get any easier for people to get that access in a system where private health insurance is eliminated. In fact, as the Avastin controversy demonstrates, access to experimental or possibly-marginal medicines will decrease under an universal health care regime. Not that it matters to people like Lisa Blue, Fred Baron, and Nancy Pelosi – after all, they live in the other one of the Two Americas that Edwards liked to so pontificate about. The one where you can publicly call in a marker like this to the Speaker of the House and not be shunned afterward. It takes a lot to erode my instinctive sympathy for both anybody dying of bone marrow cancer, and their families. Being lectured on the need for universal health care coverage by a person who successfully evaded an intolerable medical regulatory regime that her own husband helped spawn will do it every time, though. Moe Lane *Regulations, by the way, that are in place partially because of unscrupulous tort lawyers like… Fred Baron. You see, drug companies are terrified of lawsuits, because they’ve been taught to be by a generation of lawyers. And those lawyers get away with it because many of them are heavy contributors to the Democratic party, like… Fred Baron. Crossposted to RedState .
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Got cancer – and millions of dollars? Nancy Pelosi can help!
Since the moment she stepped onto the national scene, the Left has mocked Sarah Palin. The loathe her and everything she stands for. She is an offensive creature that they just can’t seem to destroy. Now, they’re begging for someone with the Palin Power they’ve mocked for so long – someone who inspires them. Anna Holmes and Rebecca Traister write in the New York Times: The left should be outraged and exasperated by all this — but at their own failings as much as Ms. Palin’s ascension. Since the 2008 election, progressive leaders have done little to address the obvious national appetite for female leadership. And despite (or because of) their continuing obsession with Ms. Palin, they have done nothing to stop an anti-choice, pro-abstinence, socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast from becoming the 21st century symbol of American women in politics. Imagine that: a woman who places real value on life, sex and freedom – SHE MUST BE STOPPED! She can’t be a real woman! She wants to cut taxes and repeal ObamaCare! The things that make her appealing to conservatives and Republicans are the things that make her public enemy #1 for the Democrats and feminists. You can say a lot of things about Sarah Palin, and I have been known to disagree with her frequently, but I am grateful that she has brought strong, conservative, feminine women into the spotlight. There are more Republican women running for office than ever before – 129 GOP women are running for House seats this fall and 17 for Senate. We will see in November if this will translate into wins for Republican women, but the point has already been made: Americans are embracing conservative women running for political office. And that is in no small part because of Sarah Palin’s willingness to throw her support behind them and give them national exposure. For all the talk of their support for women, there is no one on a national level doing for liberals what Sarah Palin is doing for conservatives in this election. Who is helping the Democratic women win seats? The highest ranking woman in the Democratic Party? No, Nancy is focused on investigating the Ground Zero Mosque detractors and still trying to sell a health care plan that has already been passed. The Left has been focused on gay marriage, abortion, and massive entitlement spending. Instead of finding better candidates to run against the fresh crop of small government advocates, Nancy Pelosi is cherrypicking the candidates she can throw under the bus this fall. The left’s failure to nurture and celebrate female politicians has had a significant effect on its policies. In recent years, Democratic majorities and progressive legislation seem to have been built on steady trade-offs of reproductive rights, culminating this year when the first female speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was forced to push through health care reform with a compromise on abortion financing. The assumption here is telling: If they just had more women, they’d have more funding for abortion. Because a woman is nothing but her uterus. If they are so certain about their hold over women, why are they struggling so much? Wouldn’t women respond? The country is changing. Americans still value life, and they value liberty. The legislated equality worked with we were fighting for our right to vote – but we aren’t there any more. Women are rejecting the notion that they are nothing but a protected class of big spending, pro-abortion liberals. I, for one, hope that trend continues.
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Lefties Beg For Their Sarah Palin
Whether you believe in God or not…whether you are a Christian or not…today mattered! This phrase in the Declaration of Independence is the real key to today’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial: “Endowed by Their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights…” Try to substituting “Endowed by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi with Certain Rights…” and you will instantly
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Why the “Restoring Honor” Rally Mattered
This cropped up at one of Phil Hare’s events. Some background (you can see the raw video here ): Phil Hare was doing his best to ignore his constituents’ rather pointed questions about Hare’s lack of awareness when it came to Constitutional law; eventually Hare fled to an area where said constituents could not follow; they turned to leave; and then a Democrat called one of them a seven letter obscenity. And that’s when the fun started (starts with a swearword). Turns out that the guy is apparently Charles Giger, the husband and the chief of staff of DK Hirner, who has been tapped to lose the IL-18 Congressional election to Aaron Schock . Which leads to an interesting question: did Giger try to hide his wife’s campaign button to protect her , or to protect Phil Hare? – Because Hirner’s not only far too progressive for IL-18 (R+6); these days she’d be iffy for IL-17 (D+3). The last thing that the Hare campaign needs right now is any sort of association with left-wing extremists. After all, isn’t Nancy Pelosi enough? Moe Lane PS: Bobby Schilling’s campaign manager probably doesn’t hide his campaign buttons from the cameras. Jsut saying, that’s all. PPS: A bit of an in-joke, but funny: Crossposted to Moe Lane .
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Democrats Acting Badly Watch: IL-17 AND IL-18!
