Day 2 of the Guerilla Congress was today and the GOP did not relent in demanding that Dems return from their five-week vacation to allow votes on how to solve our energy crisis. While the Dems are out sitting on beaches of lying to constituents, many GOP Members have chosen to stay or come back to DC to continue the debate on offshore drilling and energy policy in general.
Here’s a video caught by College Republicans of Rep. Marsha Blackburn from TN speaking today on the House floor:
Very interesting. I thought maybe this had begun to die down, but that is certainly not the case. The heavy-handed Obama machine continues to disrespect and exclude former supporters of Hillary Clinton.
The Wall Street Journal just released an editorial discussing McCain and Obama’s approaches to fixing the education system in the United States. One of the things that I found interesting was that Obama’s daughters do not attend a Chicago public school, but instead go to the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which range from $15,528 a year for kindergarten and $20,445 a year for high school.
Now, what bothers me about this isn’t that Obama spends more money than many of his supporters earn in a year to send his children to private schools. It is certainly his right to do so. What bothers me is his continued opposition to what he told the American Federation of Teachers was the “tired rhetoric of vouchers and school choice.
In other words, Obama thinks it is fine for his kids to go to private schools. For parents that can’t afford to spent tens of thousands of dollars a year, though—too bad, their kids are stuck in failing and often unsafe public schools.
This is blatant hypocrisy, and just goes to show how much of an elitist Barack Obama really is.
While regular Americans are doing double-takes at the pump and are scraping under the driver’s seat for some extra cash, the elitist Democrats have been accessing their cheap gasoline. Of course, these very same Democrats oppose legislation in Congress that would lower the price of gasoline for American consumers by drilling for more domestic oil, lessening burdensome regulation on oil refineries and nuclear facilities, and eliminating the federal gas tax.
But for now, I guess we’ll just have to live in the “Two Americas” the Democrats have setup.
Here are a couple of great videos/ads coming out in the last few days that I haven’t had time to post on (been moving apartments):
The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand
Troop Funding Ad - Played during the run-up to the “Great Obama Overseas Adventure”
“Pump” Ad - Placing the blame for high gas prices where it belongs - on the shoulders of Democrats who oppose drilling for more oil WHILE also pursuing alternative energy sources.
Over at OpenLeft.com, we see Matt Stoller (icon of the liberal netroots) is depressed about Barack Obama. He’s depressed because Barack Obama’s lead is slipping. He’s depressed because Barack Obama has recently soldout on a whole host of issues to pander to the political center. And he’s depressed because he seems to be realizing (like many other formerly enthusiastic supporters) that Barack Obama is just another typical politician.
My favorite lines:
Don’t expect great things from Obama. Don’t expect anything, really, except blame when he screws up. It’s our fault, since we didn’t clap hard enough.
Still, there’s the Supreme Court, so I’ll probably end up giving and volunteering at some point later. Not now, though, I don’t like being lectured by Ivy League wankers who tell me it’s my fault when Obama lies to me. That’ll have to blow over.
Ah, I love the Looney Left. Apparently, they don’t seem to love Barack Obama as much as they used to.
Rumor has it Obama’s campaign is in talks to sponsor a car at this years Pocono race. Two things bug me: first I have a very hard time believing Obama has ever watched a NASCAR race (after all I don’t think they serve his brand of Pinot at too many tracks these days). Secondly, didn’t he just call these same people “bitter” just a few months back to all his elitist friends? Does he really think he can buy off working class america with a logo splashed across the Sprint car? I think the Obama team is spinning there wheels on this one (bad pun intended).
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Karl Rove sees some incredible similarities in the Obama ground game and with the BC’04 operation. Utilizing the internet to allow volunteers to self-direct their activity, the effort to expand the electoral map, and creating an army of volunteers are all lessons learned from the Bush/Cheney campaigns.
However, Mr. Rove finds some faults with the program they are running:
There are problems, however. Mr. Obama’s people admit they want to sucker Mr. McCain into spending money. To be successful, a bluff must be credible. In places like Nebraska and North Dakota, Mr. Obama can’t rely on local issues – like Mr. Bush did with coal in West Virginia in 2000 – to unexpectedly win a critical state. Organization alone won’t suffice. And putting Obama dollars into Texas, for example, to help win five state House seats may simply cause Texan Republicans – not Mr. McCain – to raise money and work harder to counter.
In addition (and here’s where we come in):
Democrats don’t have the same large volunteer pool the GOP does with its Federated GOP Women, College and Young Republicans, and local party committees. In the primaries, Mr. Obama instead moved hordes of volunteers from state to state. It was a brilliant tactic, but Nov. 4 is different. The volunteers adequate for primaries held over five months will simply not be enough to compete in 51 separate elections (all 50 states plus the District of Columbia) all on one day.
Of course there is always Barack Obama’s problem with flip-flopping:
By taking Nixon’s advice, Mr. Obama is assuming such dramatic reversals will somehow avoid voter scrutiny. But people are watching closely, and by setting a world indoor record for jettisoning past positions, Mr. Obama may be risking his reputation for truthfulness. A candidate’s credibility, once lost, is very hard to restore, regardless of how fine an organization he has built.
It appears that the editorial board members at the University of Florida are fed-up with Barack Obama’s flip-flips on every issue from the Iraq War to FISA. Despite endorsing him way back in January saying, “We feel Obama’s message in the Oval Office will inspire young people and resonate with all Americans,” they now seem to feel differently.
Since clinching his party’s nomination for president, however, Obama has started to clarify, qualify and triangulate to such a degree that we can hardly recognize him from the inspirational “change” candidate he represented a few short months ago.
Barack Obama has been an inspiring figure for many youth voters up until this point. However, his profound tendency to waver in the face of political hardship has taken the shine right off of the sparkling image he has as something other than a typical politician, and this is beginning erode his support among youth voters.
Perhaps Obama isn’t the great change agent we thought he was. Perhaps no one can change the system. Or maybe we expected too much from someone who is, after all, just another politician.
Maybe these folks should look to someone who has stood up to say what he believes even when it wasn’t the easiest thing to do; someone who loves his country so much that he will do whatever it takes to protect it even if that means losing an election. Someone like John McCain.
