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CCR Leadership Retreat in Simi Valley

By on August 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

Last weekend the California College Republicans met for their CR leadership retreat in Simi Valley.  The Executive Board covered the rooms and a tour of the Reagan Library.  Saturday was an intense day of trainings, including workshops on Fundraising, Media Messaging, Activism, among others.  State Senator Tony Strickland and his wife Assemblywoman Audra Strickland spoke on their experiences of running for public office.  On Sunday morning former NFL star Damon Dunn spoke on why he’s a Republican.  There were over 75 CR’s attendance.

CR's at Reagan Library

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CA Senate 2010: Carly Gets Closer to Jumping in The Race

By on August 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Carly Fiorina filed papers this morning forming an exploratory committee for a US Senate  run against Babs Boxer in 2010.

From the San Jose Mercury News:

“I have received a great deal of encouragement to make a run for the Senate in 2010 from people across the political spectrum,” Fiorina said in a news release. “Today’s filing … is a logical next step in the process of evaluating running for this office.”

Fiorina will face conservative Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the Republican primary before facing Boxer in the fall.

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The Joker Poster: A lefty playing around with PhotoShop

By on August 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

The creator of the now infamous Obama as The Joker poster is a Kucinich supporter from Chicago.

Still waiting for an apology from the “journalist” who said the artist must have been a conservative racist:

The Joker’s makeup in “Dark Knight” — the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world — emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking goes — don’t just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus. Scientific studies, which demonstrate the social consequences of living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, get processed and misinterpreted in the popular unconscious, underscoring the idea. Violence breeds violence.

It is an ugly idea, operating covertly in that gray area that is always supposed to be opened up to honest examination whenever America has one of its “we need to talk this through” episodes. But it lingers, unspoken but powerful, leaving all too many people with the sense that exposure to crime creates an ineluctable propensity to crime.

Superimpose that idea, through the Joker’s makeup, onto Obama’s face, and you have subtly coded, highly effective racial and political argument. Forget socialism, this poster is another attempt to accomplish an association between Obama and the unpredictable, seeming danger of urban life. It is another effort to establish what failed to jell in the debate about Obama’s association with Chicago radical William Ayers and the controversy over the racially charged sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama, like the Joker and like the racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which could erupt at any time. The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can’t be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he’s black.

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Have You Flagged Yourself?

By on August 17, 2009 in Uncategorized

Following Steven Crowder’s advice, I’ve been flagging myself and my fishy blog since the White House started collecting dissenters’ email addresses two weeks ago. The flag@whitehouse.gov email address is out of service now, but you can still flag yourself using the White House’s nifty “Reality Check” contact form.

So what are you waiting for? Go flag yourself!

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Reagan Spot: Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine

By on August 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

A new addition to The Dana Report’s “Reagan Spot“: Ronald Reagan speaks out against socialized medicine in 1961:

“Governments don’t tax to get the money they need, governments will always find a need for the money they get.”

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FCC appoints “Chief Diversity Officer” to Circumvent “Fairness Doctrine”

By on August 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

From Jillian Bandes at Townhall:

Mark Lloyd has recently been appointed “Chief Diversity Officer” at the Federal Communications Commission. Conservative groups believe his installation is merely another way to impose the dangerous principles contained in the Fairness Doctrine.

Lloyd is a longtime Democrat activist who has strategized about ways to censor conservative media under the guise of “local accountability.” In 2007, he co-wrote a report that called for, among other things, the restoration of local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations and fines for commercial radio station owners if their stations didn’t air enough “progressive” content.  [Read More]

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This appointment is just another way for the Democrats to interject unconstitutional policies into the lives of the American people.  If “progressive” talk radio was what Americans wanted to hear, it would be just as  popular as conservative talk radio; yet this has not been the case.  It is obvious that the Obama Administration knows that, like healthcare, Americans don’t want the fairness doctrine.  But just as the White House is shoving Nationalized Healthcare down our throats, they will persist to enact the “fairness doctrine” with or without our endorsement.

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MediaFAIL: The Origin of “Nazi” Health Care Protestors

By on August 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

Democrats’ townhall meetings have been all over the news this week as Congressmen and Senators return home to face constituents opposed to nationalized health care. The biggest story: Right wing whack-jobs are carrying swastikas, comparing Obama to Hitler, and calling for an end to “Nazi health care.”

I’ve been involved in conservative and Republican activism for a couple of years, and knowing conservatives, I suspected something fishy was going on that the media wasn’t getting right. Enter Lyndon LaRouche and his lunatic followers. The Nazi references aren’t coming from conservatives opposed to nationalized health care, but from a fanatical fringe group that thinks Obama Care isn’t going far enough:

More at Hot Air: “The Origin of “Nazi” References at Town-hall protests“

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Support for ObamaCare Drops to a New Low

By on August 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

From Rasmussen Reports:

Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June.

The President already started retooling ObamaCare at a “townhall” in New Hampshire.  President Obama came out to a crowd of seemingly hand-picked supporters to make a strong defense for his health care plans. Philip Klein at the American Spectator says the President is lying about a single-payer health system.  Klein cites at 2003 speech in which Obama clearly supported a single payer system, Jim Geraghty at National Review Online points to Obama’s support of a single-payer system as late as last year.

It looks like the Democrats’ push to unite voters behind ObamaCare, has actually united them in opposition.

UPDATE: The President claimed  at the townhall event that the AARP endorsed Obama Care. The problem: The AARP hasn’t endorsed it.

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A Medal of Freedom: Obama Endorses Anti-Israel and Anti-American Activism

By on August 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

John Bolton,  the gloriously mustachioed former US Ambassador to the UN and  a Senior Fellow at AEI writes about the President’s selection of Mary Robinson for a Medal of Freedom award in The Wall Street Journal:

Barack Obama’s decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson has generated unexpected but emotionally charged opposition. Appointed by then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as high commissioner for human rights in 1997-2002, Ms. Robinson had a controversial but ineffective tenure. (Previously, she was president of Ireland, a ceremonial position.)

Criticism of Mr. Obama’s award, to be officially bestowed tomorrow, has centered on Ms. Robinson’s central organizing role as secretary general of the 2001 “World Conference Against Racism” in Durban, South Africa. Instead of concentrating on its purported objectives, Durban was virulently anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and at least implicitly anti-American.

So vile was the conference’s draft declaration that Secretary of State Colin Powell correctly called it “a throwback to the days of ‘Zionism equals racism,’” referring to the infamous 1975 U.N. General Assembly resolution to that effect. President George W. Bush (whose father led the 1991 campaign that repealed the U.N.’s “Zionism is a form of racism” resolution) unhesitatingly agreed when Mr. Powell recommended the U.S. delegation leave the Durban conference rather than legitimize the outcome.

Ms. Robinson didn’t see it that way then, and she has shown no remorse since. In late 2002, she described Durban’s outcome as “remarkably good, including on the issues of the Middle East.” [Read More]

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Dems: Dissent is ‘Un-American’

By on August 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer penned a much talked about Op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday titled “Un-American Attacks Can’t Derail the Health Care Debate.”

The Speaker and Mr. Hoyer breeze through the obligatory caveat saying they believe  ”the dialogue between elected representatives and constituents is at the heart of our democracy,” just before slamming the actions of nationalized health care opponents as “Un-American.” To be clear, the column itself is not as inflammatory as the title, Pelosi and Hoyer voice their opposition to “drowning out” the debate with chants and boos, and call out a few cases of truly disruptive behavior. But, on the whole, opponents to nationalized health care have been calm and civil in expressing their concerns to their elected representatives.

What Pelosi and Hoyer consider “un-American” disruption, is an attempt at the substantive debate they claim to want. While the many congressmen who have been confronted at town hall meetings are the ones “drowning out opposing views.”

A reader of National Review Online’s The Corner blog wrote to Rich Lowry this morning about the Pelosi/Hoyer column:

Loved this line from your An Empire of Liberty, quote:”In January 1817 a chastened lame-duck Fourteenth Congress met to debate the issue of exactly what representation meant, and by and large it determined that the people had every right to instruct their congressmen.”

I think that’s the same exact disconnect that is occurring today. The servants have come to think of themselves as the sovereigns.

The NRO reader is right on target, Congressmen are as much servants of the public today as they were in 1817. When town hall meetings across the country  are full of angry constituents opposing a bill, chances are the bill is bad—if it’s not a bad bill, then it is the duty of the elected representative to answer constituents questions and persuade them. If he can’t, he should vote  the way his constituents choose, or get fired, he is their employee. That’s popular Democracy. . .Isn’t that what the Democratic Party claims to stand for?

For the last eight years Democrats claimed that President Bush and Republicans were calling them un-American, even-though it never happend. Now the same people are actually calling the opposition un-American.

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