| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
| Five things I admit I really don't care about |
Call me a horrible person if you want, but these are the things I could do without, news-wise...
1. Tom Daschle's tax problems. Sure, he was forced to withdraw his name from the HHS nomination spot, but why? Whether or not he paid taxes for a car somebody loaned him, has much less to do with the job he sought than Tim Geithner's tax problems had to do with his new job; in fact, they had nothing to do with it. Besides, Daschle was uniquely qualified for the job, which will involve muscling a universal healthcare plan through a Congress where he knows where the bodies are buried. Now that he's gone, next stop, (Dr.) Howard Dean? And does the New York Times now hold the whip hand over Obama nominations?
 2. Michael Phelps' drug use. Oooh, a 23-year-old guy who used pot? Knock me over with a feather. His endorsers are right to stick with him. There's a lot worse he could have done, given the state of professional athletics these days. Besides, the guy who caught the winning touchdown pass in the Superbowl? He sold drugs for a short time in the tough neighborhood of Belle Glade. Does that make him any less a football hero?
3. Bank failures. President Obama issued yet another dire warning this week about more possible bank failures. Well ... you know where I am right now? I'm at the "let them fail" stage. Americans forked out $350 billion to banks who spent the last two decades creating liars loans, worthless, overpriced derivatives, and ephemoral, paper "wealth" that sucked in scads of pensioners and 401K holders. Now that they have our money, the bastards are hoarding it, giving it out in bonuses and dividends, and even partying with it. So you know what? The next time a bank comes whining to Washington saying they're on the brink of failure, I think Congress and the president should tell them, "see ya. Wouldn't wanna be ya."
4. Ann Coulter. Why are major news outlets like NBC and CBS paying a whit of attention to her? She's obnoxious, not very smart, not very interesting, and damned if she's not a really skinny bitch...
5. Bipartisanship. What's the point? Barack Obama has done everything but buy wedding rings for the House and Senate GOP, and all he's gotten for his trouble has been a Super Bowl party dis from Arizona jerks John McCain and John Kyl, zero GOP votes for the stimulus bill in the House, and endless warbling for more and more and more tax cuts. Republicans need to learn a valuable lesson that they themselves taught Democrats for six years, from 2000 to 2006: he who wins the election rules the day. A majority of Americans voted AGAINST the endless tax cuts for the rich that the GOP is still hawking. They voted FOR Obama's and the Democrats' policies. So guess whose "ideas" should be implemented? Hm? Come on... you know which ones...! Bottom line: let it go, Barack. As Rachel Maddow said last night, they're just not that into you.
Labels: Ann Coulter, bank failures, bipartisanship, drug use, it's a man baby, Michael Phelps, Obama administration, Obama's cabinet, Republicans, taxes, Tom Daschle |
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| Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
| Coultergeist declares war on Kwanzaa ... with an old, used gun in her hand |
 Should someone call Bill O'Reilly??? On second thought, never mind. Ann Coulter's latest upchuck is a salvo against the African-American holiday Kwanzaa, over which he/she claims to have finally triumphed this year. Having declared victory, because the holiday hasn't been mentioned as much as in past years, and wasn't "happied" by President Bush, Coultergeist launches into a valuable "history lesson" (he/she, after all, knows more about black history than you do, having lived all her life as an African-American man-girl...man...) Commence!
My Triumph Over Kwanzaa!
by Ann Coulter
... It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)
She then goes on to say some stuff about O.J. ... Oh, and there's also a song:
(Sing to "Jingle Bells")
Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday! Clever girl...boy... whatever. Followed by more "history":
Kwanzaa itself is a nutty blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life -- economics, work, personality, even litter removal. ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village to raise a police snitch.
When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism" -- which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment of homosexuals and forced labor -- Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Worst Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- the exact same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto the black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves -- the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.
This is a holiday for white liberals -- the kind of holiday Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn probably celebrate. Meanwhile, most blacks celebrate Christmas. Blah blah blah blah blah. You get the idea. Well, it is true that most African-Americans celebrate Christmas. And Coulter's racist sideswipes aside (I don't know, dear, how many Jamals are there on death row? And while we're counting, how many "Ann's" are there with huge Adam's apples swinging purses and stumbling around in size 12 heels in the Castro?) he/she isn't the first curiously gendered winger to take a swipe at the holiday or to go all cookoo over the fact that it exists at all. But typical of Coulter, he/she goes on to use his/her increasingly irrelevant column to take shots not only at Black Americans, intimating that Kwanzaa adherents are a bunch of violent Marxists, but also at the right's favorite nemeses from the failed presidential campaign: Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers, and at Barack Obama, whom he/she dares to shun Kwanzaa as proof that the "Halfrican" president-in-waiting -- yes, he/she's still calling him that -- is more "American" than "African." Nice touch.
Why I'm bothering to comment on this fellow's latest attention-starved gambit may seem beyond you. I personally don't celebrate Kwanzaa and am on record as being a bit ambivalent about it. (That said, I also disagree with those who say Jesus is the reason for the season. I'm pretty confident that Santa Claus and Macy's share that honor...) But I think it's clear to most thinking people that whatever it's origins, Kwanzaa is not a black nationalist holiday designed to foment the overthrow of the white, Christian establishment. Rather, it's a holiday that attempts to reconnect black folk to the African continent, however tenuously, by encouraging African descendants to be proud of their origins, something many who grew up prior to the "I'm black and I'm proud" era of the late 1960s and 1970s struggled to be, and to work together to build better communities. Not a bad idea, I'd say.
However, I couldn't resist, especially when I discovered that Coulter's "new" column, was cribbed, almost word for word, from a column he/she wrote back in 2001 for the Jewish World Review. I'm thinking her syndicator might want to clip her paycheck. For instance, this is from the "new" column:
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. And from the 2001 piece:
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the violent '60s, the FBI encouraged the most offensive black nationalist organizations in order both to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. Despite public perception blending the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites and did not seek armed revolution. That was the trope of Karenga's United Slaves. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. "New":
Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Curiously, in a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. "was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.) Old:
hether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Interestingly though, in an 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. "New":
In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga publicly denounced the idea, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents." Old:
Also, in the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Nigerian newspapers were claiming that many American black radicals were CIA operatives. Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents." "New":
Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot to death Black Panthers Al "Bunchy" Carter and Deputy Minister John Huggins on the UCLA campus. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach. Old:
There is no question now that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves, leading in one outburst to the shooting of Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus by Karenga's United Slaves. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach. You get my drift. It's the same bloody article, rearranged slightly, and repackaged as new (though Mr. Coulter was kind enough to update the "new" article with a poem.) In essence, the Coulterbeast has "regifted." Perhaps someone should tell her syndicator. Or maybe, that's just the way the right operates. Meanwhile, Coulter's obsession with the Dartmouth Review seems to have been unearthed, along with the old, used article. Coulter, after all, founded a "review" while attending Cornell that was obsessively patterned after the Dartmouth Review. And it seems that back in 2001, the Review returned the favor, publishing a Kwanaattack on January 15th of that year that was suspiciously similar to Annie Boy's January 2 screed. The plot thickens...
Labels: Ann Coulter, coultergeist, holidays, it's a man baby, Kwanzaa, right wingers |
| posted by JReid @ 10:19 AM |
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| Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| Coulter Says: It's them damned darkies |
Mr. Coulter strikes again. His/her latest column? You're going to love the title:
They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority Yup yup. That's her headline. After that, s/he takes a moment to exonerate John McCain in the 1980s S&L crisis before getting to her point:
Even if McCain had been implicated in the Keating Five scandal -- and he wasn't -- that would still have absolutely nothing to do with the subprime mortgage crisis currently roiling the financial markets. This crisis was caused by political correctness being forced on the mortgage lending industry in the Clinton era.
Before the Democrats' affirmative action lending policies became an embarrassment, the Los Angeles Times reported that, starting in 1992, a majority-Democratic Congress "mandated that Fannie and Freddie increase their purchases of mortgages for low-income and medium-income borrowers. Operating under that requirement, Fannie Mae, in particular, has been aggressive and creative in stimulating minority gains."
Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001.
Instead of looking at "outdated criteria," such as the mortgage applicant's credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named "Caylee."
Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke -- it's a fact.
When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches, political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices.
In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the "hidden success stories" of the Clinton administration, saying that "black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded."
Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses.
A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off. The sad thing is, Coulter's racist views are shared by a broad swath of her party. The rest of them just don't have the balls this guy does, to put it in print. Even sadder: her attempt to inject racial hatred into the public's attitudes on the financial crisis will work with a fair number of people. Never mind the fact that most of the people I know here in Florida who have had to short sell were not "welfare recipients with a good jump shot," they were high income individuals who either got laid off (or had a spouse get laid off,) or who, in that middle American "get rich quick" dream kind of scenario, tried their hand at "flipping," but started the game too late.
Most of the homes here in South Florida that were bought at inflated prices were purchased by middle class folks who spent their Hurricane Andrew insurance settlements to get out of Miami-Dade County and build a brand new home in the Broward burbs. Many of them used too little of the cash for their down payment, kitting out their homes instead, and then got in trouble via multiple refinancings.
In fact, refinancing is a key component of this crisis, and I doubt that Section 8 holders were the ones using their homes like a piggy bank. Regular middle class folks leveraged their home values to the hilt, pushed by appraisers who were willing to value homes at two, three times the real value. If Coulter is correct, then how can it be that housing advocates have been screaming all these years about a low income housing crisis, as condos and expensive homes went up all over the sunbelt, while nothing new was built in the inner city? Both things cannot be true -- that "welfare queens" bought all these homes and that people on welfare had no homes available to them.
Coulter's rant also presumes, as so many of her ilk do, that all or most black and brown folks are poor. In fact, prior to Andrew Cuomo taking the helm at HUD, even middle class African-Americans faced red-lining into "certain neighborhoods" and higher interest rates even if they had comparable, or even higher credit scores than their white counterparts (my mother sold real estate in the 1980s, and quit doing it because of her disgust with the practices.) Outside of income, minorities haven't substantially increased their homeownership stake since the S&L crisis:
Per the U.S. Census bureau:
Homeownership Rates by Race and Ethnicity of Householder | | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | | U.S. total | 65.4% | 65.7% | 66.3% | 66.8% | 67.4% | 67.8% | 67.9% | 68.3% | 69.0% | 68.9% | 68.8% | 68.1% | | White, total | 69.1 | 69.3 | 70.0 | 70.5 | 71.1 | 71.6 | 71.8 | 72.1 | 72.8 | 72.7 | 72.6 | 72.0 | | White, non-Hispanic | 71.7 | 72.0 | 72.6 | 73.2 | 73.8 | 74.3 | 74.5 | 75.4 | 76.0 | 75.8 | 75.8 | 75.2 | | Black, total | 44.1 | 44.8 | 45.6 | 46.3 | 47.2 | 47.4 | 47.3 | 48.1 | 49.1 | 48.2 | 47.9 | 47.2 | | Other race | 51.0 | 52.5 | 53.0 | 53.7 | 53.5 | 54.2 | 54.7 | 56.0 | 58.6 | 59.2 | 59.9 | 59.2 | | American Indian, Aleut, Eskimo | 51.6 | 51.7 | 54.3 | 56.1 | 56.2 | 55.4 | 54.6 | 54.3 | 55.6 | 58.2 | 58.2 | 56.9 | | Asian or Pacific Islander | 50.8 | 52.8 | 52.6 | 53.1 | 52.8 | 53.9 | 54.7 | 56.3 | 59.8 | 60.1 | 60.8 | 60.0 | | Hispanic | 42.8 | 43.3 | 44.7 | 45.5 | 46.3 | 47.3 | 48.2 | 46.7 | 48.1 | 49.5 | 49.7 | 49.7 | | Non-Hispanic | 67.4 | 67.8 | 68.3 | 68.9 | 69.5 | 69.9 | 70.0 | 70.8 | 71.5 | 71.2 | 71.2 | 70.5 |
From 1999 to 2007, white homeownership jumped 2 percent, while black homeownership went up 1 percent -- meaning that the white race increased twice as quickly, if you're following "the math." and since fewer than half of blacks and Hispanics own homes, versus 75 percent of non-Hispanic whites, and combined, blacks and hispanics make up about one quarter of the U.S. population, it's statistically impossible for minorities to constitute the majority of delinquent homeowners, even if you're math skills are on the level of ... Ann Coulter.
(By the way, just as a sidebar, in 2006, some 9.8 million Americans received food stamps. Another 3.3 million received some form of public assistance. That included 3.4 million black people getting food stamps and 1.2 million receiving public assistance out of the approximately 11 million blacks classified as "in poverty" by the federal government. It included 5.5 million whites getting food stamps and 1.7 million receiving other public assistance, out of 56 million classified as at or near the poverty line.) Around 2.5 million white and non-white Hispanics received food stamps, plus another 980,000 who got public assistance (the numbers exceed 100 percent because Hispanics cross both racial lines.) All told,
Mr. Coulter also conveniently omits the fact that had there not been a junking of federal regulation in 1999 at the behest of John McCain's chief economic adviser Phil Gramm, even tens of thousands of bad loans wouldn't have infected the entire system, because there would have been no chop-shop derivatives flooding Wall Street; no loan selling and packaging, no appraisal hustling craziness. And the people shop and swapping those derivatives weren't a bunch of low income black people.
Coulter is clearly making a play to racialize the problem, the better to help the mostly white, mostly non college graduate, right wing talk radio consuming GOP base get excited about voting against the nigg... I mean, the "Democrat." She is one of those old-fashioned race baiters you read about in the history books, only Ann has the added cache of also being a hermaphrodite. Clever positioning.
Either way, Republicans who might wish to marginalize such a person have to contend with the fact that her view, in nearly as crass terms, has recently been articulated by such "mainstream" Republicans as Larry Kudlow and Neil Cavuto.
Go figure.
By the way, how anybody black can be a member of a party that contains Ann Coulter and her ilk, is beyond me.
Labels: Ann Coulter, economic crisis, racists, Wall Street |
| posted by JReid @ 8:07 AM |
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| Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| The Coulter-man for Hillary |
You've got to get a load of this exchange on Fox Noise between Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and that other guy who sits next to Sean and shines his shoes. Check it out:
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: And Senator John McCain is gaining momentum, but not all conservatives are jumping for joy. Senator McCain is a polarizing candidate for many. And critics point to his stance on immigration, his work with Russ Feingold. But with a potential Hillary Clinton candidacy on the Democratic side of the aisle, will true conservatives eventually fall in line and support the Arizona senator?
Joining us now, author of the "New York Times" best seller, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans," our friend Ann Coulter. How are you?
ANN COULTER, AUTHOR, "IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS": Fine, thank you.
HANNITY: I'm standing on substance here.
COULTER: Yes.
HANNITY: It's immigration. It's limits on free speech. It's not supporting tax cuts.
COULTER: It's Anwar. It's torture at Guantanamo.
HANNITY: Class warfare rhetoric. It's interrogations. It's Guantanamo. It's Anwar. These are not small issues to conservatives.
COULTER: No, and if you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or D after his name, manifestly, if our's candidate than Hillary's going to be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that.
HANNITY: That's the one area I disagree with you.
COULTER: No, yes, we're going to sign up together. Let me explain that point on terrorism.
HANNITY: You'd vote for Hillary —
COULTER: I will campaign for her if it's McCain.
HANNITY: If Hillary is watching tonight, you just got an endorsement —
COLMES: I just heard the word no.
COULTER: I was touched when she cried. That part isn't true. But the rest of it is true. He has led the fight against — well, as you say, interrogations. I say torture at Guantanamo. She hasn't done that. She hasn't taken a position in front.
HANNITY: Without interrupting you, let me give you one distinction — that's what liberals do to you. Let me give you one distinction, he did support the war —
COULTER: So did Hillary.
HANNITY: But he stayed with it. He supported the surge. I didn't like his criticisms of Rumsfeld, but he was right —
COULTER: OK, let's get to him supporting the surge. He keeps going on and on about how he was the only Republican who supported the surge and other Republicans attacked him. It was so awful how he was attacked. It was worse than being held in a tiger cage.
I looked up the record. Republicans all supported the surge. He's not only not the only one who supported the surge, I promise you no Republican attacked him for this. And you know why he's saying that, Sean, because he keeps saying it at every debate, I'm the only one. I was attacked by Republicans. He's confusing Republicans with his liberal friends. They're the ones who attacked him for it, his real friends.
HANNITY: Hillary Clinton, if she gets her way, will nationalize health care. She's going to pull the troops out of Iraq.
COULTER: I don't think she will.
HANNITY: That's what she's saying she's going to do. She says in a hundred days she's immediately going to begin to pull out.
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: She's running in a Democratic primary. He's running in the Republican primary, and their positions are about that far apart. When George Bush said at the State of the Union Address that the surge is working in Iraq, Obama sat on his hands, Kennedy sat on his hands, Hillary leapt up and applauded that we are winning in the surge and that the surge is working in Iraq.
She gave much better answers in those debates when Democrats like Obama and Biden were saying what do we do? What do we do if three cities are attacked. She said, I will find who did it and I will go after them.
HANNITY: You want to sit back.
(CROSS TALK)
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Can I just say something — Ann -
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: Hillary is absolutely more conservative.
COLMES: My work is done. My work is done.
COULTER: Moreover, she lies less than John McCain. I'm a Hillary girl now. She lies less than John McCain. She's smarter than John McCain, so that when she's caught shamelessly lying, at least the Clintons know they've been caught lying. McCain is so stupid, he doesn't even know he's been caught.
COLMES: Go. In fact, could you fill in for me next week? Let me get this straight, would you vote for Hillary Clinton?
COULTER: Yes.
COLMES: You would actually go in a voting booth —
COULTER: If it's close and the candidate is John McCain, because John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism, which he definitely is. He is bad for —
(CROSS TALK)
COLMES: Can I tell you the last thing that Hillary Clinton wants? Ann Coulter's endorsement.
COULTER: Even now he's running as a Republican, he won't give up on amnesty. At that debate the other not —
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: I'm serious. ... Now I'm not one to listen to Ann Coulter. He is, after all, a very, very bad man. But ... Coulter's sentiment is an indication of something serious going on within what's rather laughably called the conservative movement. "Movement" conservatives are being set aside by moderate Republican voters -- excised, as it were, whether it's the neocons or the social conservatives or the Dittoheads. They are being pushed aside by pragmatic, moderate Republicans who want to win the White House more than they want to overturn Roe v. Wade or torture some "Ay-rabs" for sport.
The pragmatists like John McCain. The wingers absolutely hate him (and his friend Huckabee, too...)
What's a GOPer to do?
Labels: 2008 election, Ann Coulter, conservatives, John McCain, Republicans |
| posted by JReid @ 2:45 PM |
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| Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| Girl talk, etc. |
So why does no-talent wonder Antonella Barba get to stay on Idol while Frenchie, from years past, got the axe for HER near-nudie online pix? It's called Googlability, folks. Barba is commercial with a "capital K"... still, that hasn't stopped one activist from taking decisive action...
And is there someone even dumber than the Coltergeist? Yes ma'am, and her-m...'s name is Shamela. Meanwhile Slate explains why Mr. Coulter is the dude in a skirt who will not be ignored...
Yee-haw! Hillary is dog-gone Kentucky frahd ... in Selma! But is her fake southern accent more hilarious than Madonna's phony British twang? It's a tough call...
Now this is wierd ... a drill sergeant accused of forcing recruits to dress up like Superman and submit to sex acts ... yeesh...
And for "worst persons in the world" ... Israel and Iran, followed closely by the U.S. and North Korea. Well, at least we didn't top the list this time.
Labels: American Idol, Ann Coulter, Antonella Barba, current affairs, Hillary, news, news and politics |
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