Organizing Against Those Right Wing Domestic Terrorists (This Means You)

September 3, 2009

Organizing For America, the same group that was sending emails to people who didn’t ask for them (like me), sent out an email yesterday, according to Townhall. (I’ve seen nothing that indicates this was an email other than the Townhall report; it appears to me to be a posting on their web site…which just happens to be Obama’s official site.) Apparently you people who are opposed to the health care “reform” being pushed by the Democrats are “domestic terrorists.”

This is disgusting on so many levels:

Our US Senators return to DC the Tues after Labor Day. That next FRIDAY, Sep 11, is Patriot Day, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the 9/11 attacks.

All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.

DO YOU WANT to ensure passage of the Public Plan? Since 75% of Americans support it, I guess it’s time for us Seventy-Five Percenters to be heard. Why Public Plan? = Because It’s American To Take Care Of Our Own!

And, according to White House Advisor-to-the-President with whom I spoke ten days ago at a DNC Panel: he said, “ON ONE DAY you ‘burn-up’ the Senate Switchboards – THE NEXT DAY you’ve got the Senator’s attention”. We will achieve that effect on Friday, Patriot Day 9/11. …

DEFEAT ANTI-DEMOCRATIC FORCES OF HATE WHO CONSPIRETO REMAIN HEALTH WEALTHY WHILE THE PUBLIC LANGUISHES UNDER THE BURDEN OF OUR PRESENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (sic)

There’s a really lame “explanation” here (apparently anyone can post an event on the site, including moronic fools who can’t spell or write), complete with swipes at the Heritage Foundation who had the temerity to highlight this unhinged nuttiness.

For anyone to make this analogy is repulsive, but let’s get past that. I won’t hold OFA responsible for every piece of mindless drivel that is posted on their site. The mindless drivel they sanction and officially post is more than enough. They did, after all, take down this posting. But I do want to address something in this email: This is not the first time I’ve seen the claim from Democrats that “75% of Americans support” the public plan. Some Democratic talking head on Fox News made the exact same claim, so clearly it’s got some mojo in the fever swamps. What poll are these people citing? The poll of trendy New Yorkers on Central Park West? The poll of all the President’s Czars? The poll of Acorn-enrolled voters? Every single poll I have seen…every one of them…has shown majorities of people opposed to the public option, but Dems are out on the news circuit now talking up poll results that are not just the opposite of the polls I’ve seen, but that indicate a massive majority of people support their position.

It ain’t true, folks, and they need to explain where (and how) they’re getting this number.


Reid: Open Mouth, Insert Foot

September 1, 2009

From The Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the death of Ted Kennedy:

I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re going to have a new chairman of that committee, it’ll be, I don’t know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He’s an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn’t get it done.

That’s really touching, Harry. Really.


Suffer The Little Children?

September 1, 2009

On September 8th, President Obama is going to give a speech to schoolkids all across the country. I don’t have any details on the content of the speech, though my guess is that it will be a mix of common sense (study hard, work hard) and completely risible balderdash about being called to service. Maybe he’ll apologize for America’s tardiness in enforcing child labor laws.

There is a document out now from the Department of Education that is designed to help teachers indoctrinate guide their charges.

Among other things, the suggestions advise teachers to have their students read books about Barack Obama and to keep track of what the students think about the speech and how they can help America.

When class is over, students will then sing their Obama theme:


Sorry, but I find this whole thing kind of creepy.


Michelle Malkin has weighed in with more information. So does Hot Air.

And more from Michelle Malkin in her syndicated column.


You Can Win A Tour Of The New Bethlehem!

August 31, 2009

Michelle Malkin is up on a new book written by Michael Huttner and Jason Salzman called 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America. Well, to each his own and all that. I happen to like the old America and don’t really want to see it banged out of all recognition, but that’s just me.

What I particularly like are the testimonials from brilliant thinkers like Jessica Alba who, in pure high school English essay fashion, rephrases the title of the book in the first line of her blurb.

Michelle believes that this book is being promoted very heavily in an effort to dislodge conservative books (like hers) from the top of the New York Times bestseller list. She may be right. The book comes complete with a contest: the grand prize is a trip for two to Honolulu for a private tour of the hospital where Obama was born. Oh my God! I can not even imagine the excitement of walking the halls of a hospital where 48 years ago Barack Obama was born! A private tour, no less! “This is the room where Baby Barack first spit up on his blankey!” “This is the maternity ward where he reached out and healed a preemie with his touch!” I don’t know how anyone could not want to enter this contest. And after the tour, you get to help out in a community service project! There’s no word on whether the other helpers will be misdemeanor offenders who have been sentenced to community service for the day.

Now, this may be some sort of bizarre rebuke to the “Birthers” who insist that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii, but to me it reads a lot like they’re offering a trip to the manger in Bethlehem.

All hail The One!


Obama Speaks Truth To Kennedy

August 29, 2009

In his eulogy, President Obama said that Teddy Kennedy was “the soul of the Democratic party.”

Not for nothing, but that explains a lot.