Yes, Liberals Really DO Believe They 

Shape Reality With Their Words

Otherwise, there is no possible explanation as to how Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner can say this without bursting into laughter: 

Yes, Tim Geithner actually said that on Meet The Press on Sunday morning, April 15, 2012.  

Liberals are not results/experience oriented. Their personalities are not wired that way.  They are instead intentions/theory oriented.  They are in love with ideas, with the sound of words, with nice theories that they push to prove they care more than others.  

Note also how Geithner tries to give himself some leeway by talking about just the last 5 months.  How does that help Obama? Any energy policy changes enacted 5 months ago wouldn't have had much of an effect by now.  And Obama & Co. have been running the nations energy policy since January 2009, a hell of a lot longer than 5 months ago.  


Gas was $1.85 when Obama took office.  Here in my part of Texas it's currently $3.69 a gallon.  Geithner saying the Obama Admin. should get credit for the fact that energy prices hasn't risen all that much in the last 5 months would be comically lampooned in the media if he had worked for Bush.  


Instead, watch how fast the mainstream media memory-holes this gaffe. 

They Only Tell You Voting Doesn't Matter

When They Are Losing

Now that the polls are coming out that show Obama trailing Romney expect full-blown WTF??!! panic moments on the Left.  


For almost a year they've been telling anybody who would listen none of these Republican candidates stood a snowball's chance in Hell of beating Obama in November 2012.  


Let's go to the polls taken since Rick Santorum dropped out: 


Fox News Poll: Romney 46 / Obama 44


Also from that poll, the killer question: 

Since many people know the economy is going to be the driving issue of this election, and Romney already has a lead on that issue, expect more misdirection from the White House on the 'contraception crisis' in America, 'War on Women', etc.  

Rasmussen Reports: Romney 48 / Obama 44

The divided Republican and Moderate voters that were dispersed behind different candidates are now unifying behind Mitt Romney. 


This means you can expect to see the Left pull one of it's most cherished Hail Mary plays out of their playbook and try to run it for the next 6 months: 


"It doesn't matter if you vote or who you vote for.  Mitt Romney =  Barack Obama, so we might as well stick with Barack Obama.  Washington is so corrupt, it doesn't matter who's in charge.  Left, Right, makes no difference.  Nothing ever changes in that town.  Voting is useless.  Wake up! You are wasting your time!"


You know why it's so exhilarating to hear that?  Because it means they know they are losing.  The only times in 30 years I ever see them try the 'but it doesn't matter!' strategy is when they know they are losing. 


They pulled this trick in 2000 and 2004, when they could tell the elections were going to be close.  If the Progressive guy is ahead and pulling away, all of a sudden the problem is Conservatives who won't go away, not Washington bureaucracy.  When they are winning they drop the mask and bask in the glow of embracing that Washington bureaucracy and using it to further their agenda for America.  


Only when they realize they could be about to lose control of Washington do they put the mask firmly back in place and then start muttering stuff about how corrupt Washington is and how voters can't change it.  


The goal is to disillusion and discourage people from voting.  They figure if they can suppress the voting turnout, they can keep it close enough to eke out a win.  


You are going to hear DOZENS of variations of that italicized paragraph above in the next few months.  


You just watch. As poll after poll comes out finding Obama not only trailing but sinking further back, the Institutional Left, the Media Left, The Net Left will all try the same tactics with the same goal in mind: convincing as many Moderate and Republican voters as they can that their vote doesn't matter.  


The funny thing is, there is a movement afoot to change Washington and prevent the same 'business-as-usual' BS that goes on there.  But wouldn't you know it, it's the same movement the Progressive Left just spent the past 3 years mocking, ridiculing and lampooning: the Tea Party.  


The Tea Party was instrumental in fomenting one of the biggest electoral ass-kickings in American history in 2010 when they threw a bunch of Republicans and Democrats out of Washington and flipped the House to Republican control.  


The movement Progressives back, OWS - what have they accomplished in 6 months?  Thousands of arrests, vandalism, assaults, piles of garbage, and crapping in the streets.  They don't talk about changing Washington or getting out and voting.  Instead they squat in parks and make demands.  


There is a movement to change Washington, but it's not OWS.  2010 was just the start.  There's a lot more coming.  


So remember this the next 6 months as one concern troll after another all over the internet shows up to 'inform' you that your vote is useless and if you do vote, you might as well vote for 4 more years of Barack Obama.  

What Do The Orchestrated Attacks On 

Ann Romney Prove?

If You Are Female And Republican, 

You Are The 'Wrong'

Kind Of Woman

Are you a Republican woman? Have a successful career and raise a family?  You're doing it wrong. 

Are you a Republican woman?  A stay at home mom who raised a family? You're STILL doing it wrong. 


Apparently, this is what the 'right' kind of woman looks like: 

Hilary B. Rosen - doing it right and being AWESOME about it! 

So all their attacking Palin for not being home with the kids in 2008 was just an excuse.  Because now they are attacking Ann Romney for choosing to forgo a career outside the home and instead be a homemaker and raise 5 kids while battling various illnesses.  


I'm starting to suspect the problem is the 'Republican Woman' part, not what they chose to do, stay home or have a career while raising a family.  

Since Hilary Rosen ignited this firestorm 3 days ago - in what is starting to look more and more like an orchestrated attack by the White House - many Progressives are doubling down on the rhetoric towards stay at home Moms instead of backing off: 


http://patdollard.com/2012/04/now-president-ann-romney-lacks-life-experience-and-imagination/


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/14/michael-tomasky-on-ann-romney-an-unrepresentative-woman.html


Uh, how many women out there in America reflect the beliefs and practices of someone like say, Gloria Steinem?  


Well Liberals make up about 21% of the population.  

Let's say just over half, 60% of Liberals are women.  That would make about 12% of the American population Liberal women.  


How much of the women in America reflect the beliefs and practices of someone like Ann Romney or Sarah Palin?  


Well since 75% of the American population is either Conservative or Moderate, I'm pretty sure we're talking about around half of that, around 20% of Conservatives, and 17% of Moderates.  Combined that's 37%.  

The key to how an attack strategy aimed at Ann Romney and Stay At Home Moms plays out is going to be Democratic women who are not Liberal and Moderate women.  


I do not think going after Ann Romney is going to help Obama's chances with these Democratic and Moderate women.  


But they launched this attack anyway, which I think shows how desperate they are. Ace at Ace of Spades showed how there's good evidence this whole 'Go after Ann Romney' attack by Rosen was orchestrated from the White House: 


http://minx.cc/?post=328358


Love the part about Obama helpfully stating they couldn't 'afford' to have Michelle not work at a time their combined income was over $450,000 a year.  


Just another theme in the class warfare strategy Obama has been pursuing. His two pronged attack this week was to get Ann Romney front and center in the public's attention as a liability to Mitt Romney rather than an asset, while at the same time plugging his Buffett Rule.  


Amazing how fast this strategy went awry this week, what with it coming out that the White House pays women 16% less than their male counterparts, Obama pays a lesser tax rate than his own secretary, and the Romney campaign quickly fired back with Ann more than ably turning the attack back on political operatives that launched it.  

"Uh, Joe? The War on Women thing? We're disowning that, man. 

You didn't get the memo?"

You know who's out of touch in America? Rich Liberal women, that's who.  I cannot believe the stupidity of this White House in thinking this was a great idea to try to marginalize Ann Romney early, and while the more savvy operatives like David Axelrod quickly tried to heave Rosen over the side, Joe Biden and others have apparently not gotten the memo, and continue to double down on these insane attacks.  


It's gonna be a fun campaign.  

We Just Could Be Watching 

The Duke Rape Case

All Over Again

How's Tawana these days, Al? Do you keep in touch? 

America, we have a problem. No, not the one Rev. Al's been whipping the mob up over in Sanford, FL for the past month.  


The Old Media is out of control.  Time and again it has sensationalized cases with racial overtones or attempted to try cases in the media. 


We are a nation of laws. Public pressure and media screaming for blood has no bearing on how justice is done in this country.


From what I saw at that press conference yesterday, Angela Corey had better remember Mike Nifong.  

Can't believe this national case just fell into my lap! 

What a boost for my career! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Nifong


In the Duke rape case, if prosecutor Mike Nifong had done his due diligence there never would have been any charges filed against the members of the Lacrosse team.  


And after all the facts came out, a lot of people were upset with Mike Nifong, and justifiably so.  


But let's remember who was urging - no, DEMANDING - that Mike Nifong punish these racist Lacrosse players?  Let's remember the atmosphere that was deliberately created at the time that case was being formed.  


The Old media quickly sensationalized the case in racial terms, tried the case in the media, found the Lacrosse players guilty and demanded that they be brought to 'justice'.  Even faculty at Duke wrote a public letter throwing the players under the bus and claiming this was a teachable moment for the entire country. 

Well Your Honor, I was just...uhm.....giving people what they wanted....

Nifong was doing what was expected of him by the mob.  He responded to the very public pressure to 'do something' to punish these obviously racist privileged white kids who had most certainly raped this young black woman.  


Prosecutors are human.  Their job is to be impartial and to carefully weigh evidence.  Public pressure  and mobs screaming loudly for a certain outcome are supposed to have no effect on the deliberations of justice and the law in this country.  This is how we know the rights of the individual cannot be subsumed to the desires of a mob.  


By the time Mike Nifong actually sat down and looked at the actual evidence of the case and realized there WAS no case, it was too late.  In his mind, he was caught.  He had filed the charges to give the mob what it wanted, and to boost his political career.  What was he supposed to do now?  Call a new press conference and 'fess up to what had happened? 


"Gee, I'm sorry folks. I let all the media hysteria and the mob howling for blood get to me, and I didn't carefully examine the evidence first, and uh, we actually CAN'T prove in a court of law there was a rape.  In fact, now that I've actually taken the time to study what the evidence actually shows, I should probably be filing charges against Crystal Gail Mangum for making a false accusation."

OK maybe not so great for my career after all.....

He couldn't do it.  Or to be more accurate, he wouldn't do it.  Instead, Nifong engaged in behavior that led to his disbarment. And 24 hours in jail.  


The Duke case was 6 years ago. That's been enough time for the dust to settle, the passions to subside, and for investigative journalists to carefully study how several innocent young men who certainly exercised bad judgment in hiring a stripper for a party ended up being nationally branded as a bunch of rapists and offered up to to a mob for 'justice' by an ambitious prosecutor seeking to boost his career.  


One thing that cannot be overlooked or stressed enough is the role the national media at the time played in fomenting a witch hunt: 

Nifong initially garnered strong support in some quarters such as the national media and feminist and African American groups for his willingness to pursue sexual assault charges made by Crystal Gail Mangum, a black woman who was working as an escort and stripper, against white members of the Duke University lacrosse team.^[9][10] 

In the early days of the case, Nifong received a particular boost from what seemed a partisan position taken by the New York Times.

In their 2007 book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case, KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. sharply criticized The New York Times for their editorial judgment and its effect on the case investigation. They argued that the original reports by Times reporter Joe Drape tended to exonerate the accused players, which contradicted the Times' editorial stance, and that this led to Drape's quick dismissal and replacement by Duff Wilson, who took a pro-prosecution stance.^[11] 

The Times also carried stories on the case by sportswriter Selena Roberts, who asserted that "something happened March 13" without acknowledging that this was taking the unproven charges of the prosecution and announcing them as fact.^[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_88#Media_coverage

Initial coverage (March-April 2006) 

The case attracted widespread media attention almost from the moment it became public. The apparent circumstances—three white males (David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty) from privileged backgrounds at an elite university apparently taking advantage of a student and single mother (Crystal Gail Mangum) from a crosstown black college (NCCU), trying to make ends meet by working as a stripper and escort—seemed tailor-made for wall-to-wall coverage. However, once the case deteriorated, critics saw it as a stinging showcase of bias in the media and the university system.

It fit the racial template of white men abusing a black woman. It fit what certain people believe about America, that there is racism here that is deep, endemic and systemic. It 'proves' something.  So they politicize it, nationalize it, and turn it into a 'teachable moment' for the whole country in order to bring about 'change' - usually some badly thought out 'hate crimes' law.  


Every criminal case has a period of time between which the event occurs, and the wheels of justice and the law begin to turn.  Eyewitnesses have to be interviewed, evidence gathered, forensics results returned, then District Attorney's have to carefully weigh all this and figure out what charges they can actually prove in a court of law, if there are any, etc.  


People used that gap of time between the publicizing of the supposed rape and the actual coming out of the real facts to push their agenda and push it loudly. They loudly wailed that their version of what happened 'proved' what America is 'really like' and unless you immediately give in and give the mob what they want, you were 'defending' racism.    


Even Duke faculty joined the mob hysteria when 88 members signed a letter that was published in a newspaper and made national news: 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_88#Duke_faculty_groups


The Duke case was just 6 years ago, and the lessons learned from it should be prominent in many people's minds and you would hope people would have learned something from that rush to judgment.  


Yet what have we been watching in Sanford FL for the past month?  We've watched the media and the racial hucksters do the same damn thing all over again.  


The number of walkbacks, errors and retractions the Old Media has had to make in just the past month on this story is damning.  A partial list can be found here: 


10 'Facts' About The TrayVon Martin Shooting That Turned Out To Be Wrong


I could not get over how many times Special Prosecutor Angela Corey smiled during her press conference yesterday as she announced she was charging George Zimmerman with 2nd Degree Murder: 

Free ice cream for everyone! Wheeeeee!!!!

Does that look like somebody enjoying herself? It does to me.  Early on in the Duke Rape Case, Mike Nifong was evidently also enjoying all the attention, delighting in the approval and applause of the mob as he gave them what it wanted.  Was she announcing a murder charge or having a national coming out party?  Both?  


Most disturbing to me is how Corey talked about having personal contact with Martin's family, even to the point of praying with them.  


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/04/chasing-george-zimmerman.html

“I will confirm that Mr. Zimmerman is indeed in custody,” Angela Corey, the special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case, said at a press conference on Wednesday night. She said that she had started the process of charging George Zimmerman with second-degree murder, and that before stepping up to the microphone she had spoken to “those sweet parents”—Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin—and told them what she was doing to get “justice for Trayvon.” The first time she met them, she said, they had prayed together, but she told them she couldn’t promise anything. This evening, she helped to deliver them some compensation for their tenacity and love in pursuing the case, if not—and this would have been impossible—for the loss of their son.

When has Corey scheduled her prayer with George Zimmerman and his family? 


As MacsMind points out at his blog: 


http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2012/04/witnesses-angela-cory-prayed-with-martin-family/

It’s not a secret that I believe that Angela Corey made not a decision not based on the law, but on politics. As I stated before Corey is up for a difficult reelection in November. Governor Scott’s selection of her has political reasons as well. But that’s circumstantial. I can’t prove it. However, the fact that she brought forth an unwinable case in selecting a second degree murder charge. Remember that Corey isn’t going to try the case, that wasn’t her mandate. The case will now be turned over to local prosecutors who will continue the case. She can now kick back run for reelection and always say, “Hey I charged him!”

This is correct.  Corey's work is now done.  She has likely dropped an unwinnable case into the laps of the local DA's office.  There were noises made about 'new evidence' that supposedly came to light that allowed her to file a 2nd Degree Murder charge, but what that evidence could be is still unknown at this time.  


There are plenty prominent examples in the past of the Old Media rushing to judgment and leading to all kinds of miscarriages of justice.  The Duke Rape certainly isn't the only one: 


1. Richard Jewell: The security guard at the Atlanta Olympics who found bomb and alerted everyone, only to be framed in the media as having planted the bomb himself: 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell


2. The Little Rascals Case: Innocent people became the victims of a media-driven modern day witch hunt. Several were actually sent to prison for long sentences before reason prevailed.  Just one of the child sexual abuse cases of the 1980's-90's where plenty of people were tried - and convicted - in the media.  


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals_Day_Care_Center


3. The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Old Media didn't even wait a day to begin charging that gunman Jared Loughner must have been a right-wing Tea Party-type driven to finally act because of an 'atmosphere of hate' supposedly created by people like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.  When the facts came out, it was revealed that Loughner wasn't Conservative, was politically Leftist, didn't listen to talk radio, and had had mental problems for years before the Tea Party even existed.  

Watch Jacob Weisberg at Slate laboriously try to connect the dots: 


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2011/01/the_tea_party_and_the_tucson_tragedy.html


Here's Debbie Wasserman-Shultz still repeating this narrative after all the facts had come out: 

They have a narrative.  They are just waiting for an excuse to use it. And when a case even remotely close to what they 'need' for their narrative comes along, they shoehorn it to fit even if it means trying to pound a square peg into a round hole.  


And when you point out what they are doing, they keep telling you what an awful person YOU are. 


George Zimmerman will get his day in court.  The evidence will be heard.  But my impression of the way the media has handled this case remains what it was from the beginning.  As Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over again."


UPDATE: Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has read the arrest affidavit filed by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey and said tonight on MSNBC's Hardball that: 

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/harvard-prof-alan-dershowitz-zimmerman-arrest-affidavit-irresponsible-and-unethical/

“Most affidavits of probable cause are very thin. This is so thin that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge,” Dershowitz said. “There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.” 

Dershowitz said that the elements that would constitute that crime are non-existent in the affidavit. “It’s not only thin, it’s irresponsible,” said Dershowitz.

Very strong words from a  man considered one of the top lawyers and defense attorneys in the country.  This reinforces my impression that this prosecution took a turn for the political thanks to mob rule, and it makes what is unfolding in Sanford even more like the Duke Rape case.  

Since Obama's Gonna Be Talking 

About It Non-Stop For The Next 

6 Months, Exactly How Much 

Would His Proposed 'Buffett Rule' 

Lower The Deficit?

The national debt and the deficit? No problem! I've got my 

awesome new 'Buffett Rule' right here, champ!

You may have heard the Buffett Rule being mentioned the past few weeks, what with Obama not being able to shut up about it.  Apparently this is going to be his Big Idea on handling the deficit during his push for re-election.  So let's deal with it.  


What is the Buffett Rule?  


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffett_Rule

The Buffett Rule is a tax plan proposed by President Barack Obama in 2011^[1] to alleviate income inequality in the United States between the top 1% of Americans^[2] and the remaining 99% of Americans, due to the income growth in the 1% group as compared to the 99% group. 

The tax plan would apply to individuals earning more than $1 million per year; this comprised the top 450,000 of Americans by income when the rule was proposed.^[3] 

The plan is named after American investor Warren Buffett, who publicly stated in early 2011 that he disagreed with the rich paying less in federal taxes, as a portion of income, than the middle class, and has voiced support for increased taxes on the wealthy.^[4] It would implement a higher minimum tax rate for taxpayers in the highest income bracket, to ensure that they do not pay a lower percentage of income in taxes than less-affluent Americans.^[5] In October 2011, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid proposed a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires to pay for new stimulus provisions, but the change did not go through.^[6] 

A White House statement released in January 2012 defined the rule as part of "measures to ensure everyone making over a million dollars a year pays a minimum effective tax rate of at least 30%... implemented in a way that is equitable, including not disadvantaging individuals who make large charitable contributions."^[7] The whitehouse.gov website has it stated as "No household making more than $1 million each year should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than a middle class family pays."^[8] The rule is not in the President's 2013 budget proposal and has been stressed by the White House as a guideline rather than a legislative initiative.^[9] 

The Buffett Rule was submitted as Senate Bill S. 2059, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012.^[10][11] 

A majority of Americans, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released in January 2012, support the change.^[12]

Here's how Obama For America defines it:


Obama For America

Middle-class families shouldn't have to pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires. 

So President Obama has proposed the "Buffett Rule," which would require the wealthiest Americans to pay a tax rate at least as high as the middle class. Republicans are already calling this "class warfare," and they will fight this plan with everything they have. 

But it's just common sense. Tell the President you've got his back on this one. 

That's a pretty damn good use of what I call 'fairness language'. Note how they totally avoid telling anybody how much actual new revenue the tax rate on those wealthiest Americans would raise. They don't need to let anybody know that because it's all about 'fairness'.

But note in the two examples of defining the Buffett Rule mentioned above, not one thing is said about using it to reduce the deficit.  Instead, it's being sold as a way to bring 'fairness' between the incomes of the richest 1% and the other 99% of Americans.  


Polls don't show Americans that concerned about the supposed pressing problem of 'income inequality' in America. What they concerned about is the massive amounts of new spending and the staggering amount of new debt being piled up by Washington.  


So people are about to spend the next 6 months trying to sell the Buffett rule not only as being a way to bring 'fairness' to tax rates between the rich and the rest of us here in America; they are also going to try to sell it as deficit reduction bill.  


So let's ask: has anybody crunched the numbers and found exactly how much the new Buffett Rule would reduce our deficit?  


The answer is........YES!  


Thanks to the guys at Political Math Blog, we know exactly how much this awesome new Buffett Rule would reduce the deficit!


http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1731

So for the next six months as  you see President Hope 'N Change relentlessly shill for this stupid Buffett Rule, keep in mind what he's really doing: 

He fomenting class warfare to whip up his base while he does essentially nothing to deal with the fact this country is sliding towards the financial abyss because Washington won't reign in it's insane spending levels and it's enormous debt.  

So every single time he brings up the Buffett rule when the deficit is being mentioned until this November, put up this graph with the hashtag #fiddlingwhileRomeburns


Because that's exactly what he's doing.  He's wasting our time and doing nothing while the problem gets worse.  Nobody should reward him with a second term when he wouldn't deal with this crisis in his first one.  

Pajamas TV Demonstrates Just How Stupid

NBC News' "It Was A Mistake!" Excuse Is

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=6825


Remember, NBC fired a 'senior producer' for this offense - while refusing to say who it was.


Watch the PJTV crew demonstrate just how laughable it is for NBC News to claim this edit was not deliberate.  


I've edited video and audio myself in a program very similar to what is shown there.  You have to deliberately select what words to cut out and then paste the different sections together to fill the gaps.  It is a very deliberate process.  


For NBC News to claim this process resulted in a 'mistake' that just accidently ended up creating the most racial inflammatory version of the call possible reveals they still are not owning up to what they did.  They are just counting on people not knowing the editing process and realizing they are being lied to yet again.  

Why You're Missing Out If You're Not Reading

Ace of Spades

Another destined-to-be-a-classic post today: 


http://minx.cc/?post=328259

I've been reading Ace's site since around 2006 or so.  And now you know why.  They don't just cover the day's news from a Conservative perspective. They do it with flair and style and lots of humor!