Team Obama Hiring Attorneys

The media and the blog world have proclaimed Obama's innocence in the Blagojevich/Chicago corruption scandal. The essence of the story is that Obama's lawyer claims Obama and his staff did nothing wrong. What a shocker, eh? Maybe Blagojevich should just put out an email memo from his attorney saying he did nothing wrong?

Read the report/memo/email here. It is sort of hard to find and you may be disappointed about the information presented. It certainly sounds like it was written by a lawyer as it quite brief. He justifiably seems to be careful not to incriminate Obama and his cronies.

Meanwhile Obama and his future (?) White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are out of the country and refusing to answer questions. Remember the promise of an open and transparent administration? If you believed that to begin with, have I got a Senate seat in Illinois to sell you.

And, Obama's top aide (Rahm) is busy hiring the best legal advice money can buy because of his entanglement in this corruption. You would think these guys would look to New York for guidance in this mess and give the darn Senate seat to an unqualified Democrat with the proper name.

There is a lot of talk about cleaning up the corruption in the Chicago rat's nest. I guess if all the rat's move to DC that might help Chicago?

Democrats...Intent on Stealing Ohio Election

Certainly we are seeing an attempt by Democratic groups to steal the election in many of the battleground states across the country. It appears they are having quite a bit of success.

You have undoubtedly heard of the illegal activities of a group called ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that is conducting fraudulent voter registration, for the purpose of ultimately illegal voting, in many states. This is just one of the groups that is trying to steal the election and they have been quite prominent in Ohio. The group ACORN actually has quite a lengthy record of voter fraud in Ohio. As an added note, the Obama campaign has paid them (ACORN) for these activities. Of further interest, this is an organization of which Obama used to work for.

Another aspect to this story though is the coordination of this attempt to steal the vote by ACORN and other groups with the Democratic Party in charge of the election in Ohio. Specifically Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner who on Thursday (10/9) has yet another court ruling against her activities in running the election in this state.

From the Ohio Republican Party's web site:

Friday, October 10, 2008

Secretary of State appeals ruling, fights effort to validate registrations

(Columbus) - A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown "a serious problem" and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with "an effective way to access and review mismatches." She immediately appealed the ruling.

"For some reason, Jennifer Brunner does not want these new registrations checked," said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine. "Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It's especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group's stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio."

Brunner's effort to fight the court order comes just two days after the Democrat activist group ACORN admitted to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity.

Ohio ACORN officials "blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN's suspicious cards," claiming the group "can't be expected to catch everything."

ACORN is facing similar inquires in other Ohio counties as well as 10 other states. Members of the group's "voter-mobilization arm," Project Vote, regularly advise Brunner on election strategy, even recently issuing a news release that claims credit for Brunner's directive restricting challenges to suspected fraudulent voter registrations. Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama also has strong ties to ACORN, working previously as an attorney and "leadership trainer" for the group.

Unfortunately, the media is in the tank for Obama, and the Democrat Party, and has done very little reporting of this story to aid in the concept of an honest election.

Michelle Malkin has done quite a bit of blogging on this topic and I have seen her a few times on TV.

It appears that the results of this election are already in serious doubt in Ohio and probably many other states.

Democrat Congress...Scorecard

Well, here we are about 16 months into that new Democrat controlled Congress. The media sure seemed excited when they were running for office in the 2006 election. It was a revolution for sure. Imagine if we could rein in some of the recklessness of Bush. What a wonderful world it could be.


And these guys had such lofty.....promises.

Aren't promises wonderful? People walked in polling booths all over America and threw the bums (read...republicans) out. Democrats were given control of both houses of Congress. I remember four main thrusts of their promise to "change" the way we do things here in America.

Number one of course, was the promise to end the Iraq war. How are they doing on that? Well, they have since voted twice to fund increased levels of troops. Oh well, so they lied about their biggest and best reasons to be granted the power to govern. And of course they are still continuing to lie saying they can't stop the war without the President and other Republicans helping them. If the spending bills are not brought up and voted on the war has to stop. It runs out of money, plain and simple. Hopefully you realize how bad you've been swindled.

The goal never was to stop the war. The goal was to continue the war, bash Bush, and use the war to campaign for the next election.

They promised to end corruption in government. That bit the dust with Nancy Pelosi's very first law on minimum wage that exempted companies that she and her husband own from being part of the law. Certainly not an end to corruption. Maybe what Ted Kennedy would simply call "new management". Oh yeah, earmarks and pork barrel spending? Now at their highest levels in history.

Hillary Clinton said if you want lower gas prices you need to elect Democrats. Well we did. Screwed again eh? Gas prices now at their highest levels in history.

Do you remember these Democrats just ranting and raving and promising to rein in the Bush spending? Anyone noticed how we are doing on that? It would appear that we are going to have the largest deficit in the history of the country this year.

So every promise broken and even worse governance then we got under the Republicans.

On the bright side of things we got that minimum wage bill and congressional oversight of....baseball!!!

How Big Government Really Works, Clinton Style

If you have been following the Hsu story lately you can really get a glimpse into how the government functions, and particularly how the Democratic Party is a master at using your paycheck to fund their elections. Oh you thought those were voluntary contributions to people with big hearts? Perhaps you think John Edwards really does care about poor people? Hillary is just a dedicated public servant?

This is just one small tale of corruption, and certainly typical associated to the name Clinton.

The story goes like this:

Joel Rosenman, one of the original promoters of the original Woodstock concert, and a major fat cat Democratic contributor, loans a guy named Norman Hsu, $40 million. Yeah, that $40,000,000.

Now, Norma Hsu, besides being a fugitive from justice and a major Democratic fund raiser, is really focused on fund raising for one former First Lady's run for the White House, Hillary Clinton. I know that some well informed Katie Couric follower's are going to find this hard to believe but there is a deep suspicion out there that Norman Hsu actively worked to get some of the $40,000,000 into the Hillary for President campaign. Hillary has already agreed to give back $850,000. And, of course, the amount he has laundered into her campaign is so enormous that he has to "bundle it" through other donors in a highly illegal operation.

Imagine how shocked Bill Clinton was when he learned of this? Oh, and by the way, Norman Hsu last year gave $75,000 to the University of Arkansas's Clinton School of Public Service. I guess I'm just hangin' with the wrong people. These are real friends.

Anyway, here's the real kicker.

Currently the Congress is putting together the Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill. This bill has 1,016 earmarks totaling nearly $392 million. Yeah, that $392,000,000. A lot of money to anyone that has to to earn it. You can download the entire list here. I warn you though in advance, this is not for the faint of heart when you see the government boondoggling borrowed money with such reckless abandon. Just as an aside, if you go through this list you will notice that the University of Arkansas's Clinton School of Public Service has an earmark of $1,000,000. Yee Haw.

Anyway, in this earmark list, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer have put in a request (one among many) for $1,000,000 for....something important?

A Woodstock museum. Kinda anti climatic huh? I mean you would think that the party that is doing away with corruption, cleaning up earmarks, and deeply offended by the national debt would probably resist borrowing money for something as ridiculous as a Woodstock Museum.

But, and here is where the circle closes, it makes Joel Rosenman happy. You know, the guy that loaned Norman Hsu the $40,000,000 of which a substantial part of ended up in the Clinton's pockets. And, one of the original promoters of the Woodstock Music Festival.

Recap:

1. Democrat crony Rosenman loans Democrat crony Hsu $40,000,000.
2. Fugitive Hsu distributes money to Democrats to give to Democratic campaigns.
3. Criminally inclined Hillary Clinton receives large amounts of money from the $40,000,000.
4. Master lawbreaker Hillary Clinton spends taxpayer money on Rosenman cause as payback.

In effect, taxpayer money has been laundered into the Clinton campaign.

Now you know how big government really works.

Rudy Giuliani.....Unacceptable

I've already made up my mind. No way will I ever vote for this guy. Not now, not ever.

Rudy Giuliani is currently leading in the polls, among Republicans, in what appears to be the biggest bunch of misfits ever assembled in history trying to be President of the United States.

This guy is not a Republican. If he is, I'm not a Republican. He's a liberal that was mayor of New York City on 9/11 and somehow this makes him uniquely qualified to be President of the United States. By the way, don't even bother with his website. If you are looking for his position on issues he has a few lines on each that sound so non-committed they could have been written by Bill Clinton. All right lets get down to a few specifics.

1. Gun Control - Rudy was a firm gun control liberal as mayor of New York. He jumped on the band wagon with the Brady Campaign to sue gun makers out of existence. Rudy claimed he supports hunters rights though. That's always the clue to a John Kerry position on gun control which is ban as many as you can and then go duck hunting when you run for office. I have never mistaken the Second Amendment for a declaration of hunters rights and any candidate that does just doesn't get it.

2. Abortion - Rudy is a pro choice Republican. And he's quite confusing on the issue. Again, he borrows a page from the Bill Clinton "speak out of both sides of your mouth" book. From the 2007 debate at the Reagan library:

Q: You became very well known for standing up against the use of public funds for what many people considered indecent exhibits at the Brooklyn museum and places like that. Why do you support the use of public funds for abortion?

A: I don't. I support the Hyde amendment. I hate abortion. I wish people didn't have abortions.

I supported it in New York, but I think, in other places, people can come to a different decision.

If you hate it, why support it?

3. Illegal Immigration - Believe it or not Rudy doesn't even address this critical issue on his website. That alone is quite telling. He doesn't want to tell you where he stands. That means he stands with, you guessed it, the Democrats.

In April 2006, Giuliani went on the record as favoring the US Senate's comprehensive immigration plan which includes a path to citizenship and a guest worker plan. So if you are in favor of an open southern border, any person passing back and forth at any time, the American taxpayer paying their medical, education, and welfare bills while they are here Rudy is your guy.

And here you thought the main reason to vote for him was defense of the United States.

If you can hold your nose enough to look past these positions for long enough to pull the Rudy lever you are a better person then me. What's going to get me enthused about voting is a difference in the candidates, besides their party title.