While We’re Talking Resignation Let’s Not Leave Out Dodd, Rangel, Feinstein and Some of the Other Crooks Who Could Benefit Us All By Retiring

Sarah Palin has resigned as governor of Alaska and the dinosaur media are acting as if it is some big scandal or something. But if Sarah were to heal our racial divisions Huffpo’s coverage might be along these lines: “In a blatantly racist move the slutty Sarah Palin has caused the unemployment of thousands of civil rights leaders. In what must be an attempt to draw attention away from the true maternity of Trig Sarah Palin, who is stupid enough to quote the Bible, has dramatically increased friendship and cooperation between the races. If we let her get away with this slap in the face of our trusted leaders she is bound someday to do something unethical for which somebody will find objectively acceptable evidence. She has been investigated dozens of times for unethical acts. Yet people still listen to her. Americans are so stupid. The smartest thing Michelle Obama has ever done was to develop a healthy shame for her American roots.”
As near as I can tell Sarah Palin is an honest person. So I can accept her explanation for why she is quitting. If Barack Obama or Harry Reid had given me that explanation I’d be wondering what the truth is. Since they have no history of honesty. With these con artists the default setting is to take everything they say as a lie or cover up.
I have liked Sarah Palin all along. But my initial reaction to her resignation was not positive. It caused me to wonder if it didn’t make her look less serious. And caused me to wonder if she can be trusted to go the distance when needed. But more reflection has caused me to be much, much more accepting of her decision. Her situation is unusual. In my life I have never seen the pack of rabid dogs that the dinosaur media have become descend so destructively and with such unprincipled abandon on one individual. And there has been an unending stream of frivolous and groundless ethics complaints that have cost Ms. Palin too much time and money. Maybe as a private citizen she will be better placed to deal with these attacks. Maybe she might even be able to forge tactics that will neutralize these Alinsky inspired attacks from the DNC so that public discourse can begin a return to civility.
Yes, Sarah Palin has many reasons to resign. Which got me to reflect on the many office holders who should resign for the good of the country. Starting close to home is my own senator, Diane Feinstein. She was chairperson of a subcommittee that gave a half a billion dollars in contracts to her own husband. I don’t care if that doesn’t bother the senate’s so called ethics committee. It is unethical and should be criminal. And she should resign for the good of the republic. Charlie Rangel has three or four rent controlled apartments for his own private use. I doubt that he could get away with this if he was not at the center of political power. To me that is abuse of power whether or not the local authorities and the house committee that should be over seeing ethics let him walk on this. How about Chris Dodd? He gets sweetheart deals from companies he is charged with oversight of and apparently the senate ethics committee is giving him a pass. I am sure the common good would be well served by Dodd and Rangel resigning. These three and others like them have truly questionable ethics yet continue to wield power. The media doesn’t seem particularly bothered by these gaping wounds at the heart of the body politic. No, they would rather squander resources on treating Sarah Palin like a pariah while there are real ethical problems that they are ignoring. And they endlessly assail Ms. Palin just because she rubs them the wrong way and might be threatening to office seekers they prefer. Compared to the bands of thieves and clowns in Congress Sarah Palin merits minimal coverage. Between the Congressional Record and all the legislator’s financial disclosure statements there are probably enough crimes to keep the press corps busy for years. I’m not even going to get started on Geithner and the rest of the cabinet. But instead they chase empty and baseless rumors in Alaska. One more time Sarah P. and the American public are mugged by Bizarro Journalism (a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC with all of the protections and next to none of the benefits of authentic journalism).
The media have no respect for someone who will not lie to them. They see it as an attack on their self worth: in their twisted world, if you think they are powerful you will lie to them and manipulate them to gain control of some of their great influence. There is the old myth of the backward, heathen tribe that will be insulted if the visitor will not sleep with their wives or daughters. In this style of magical thinking, the journalist sees honesty as an insult and tantamount to a denial of value to his work. Some of this perversity in reporters is probably a defense that they naturally construct to deal with the lower class of people political reporters are so often dependent on and spend too much time with. I suspect that another cause is the unresolved guilt that accrues from sacrificing professional and personal standards for political expediency.

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h/t: MsUnderestimated

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Access to White House Staffers and Congressmen Openly for Sale: For Those Wondering When Change Was Coming, IT'S HERE

A piece by Mike Allen and Michael Calderone at Politico says about the flier from WaPo promising for $250.000 to put lobbyists, White House staff and congressmen together:
“The flier promised the dinner would be held in an intimate setting with no unseemly conflict between participants. “Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No,” it said. “The relaxed setting in the home of Katharine Weymouth assures it. What is guaranteed is a collegial evening, with Obama administration officials, Congress members, business leaders, advocacy leaders and other select minds typically on the guest list of 20 or less. “


h/t: Hot Air.com

The Good News of Brother Purdom Is Preached To The Chior

Brothers and Sisters I come before you today on a blessed mission. I know the whole choir hates wrong and evil. But do you hate evil sufficiently. Have you kept your hate at the white hotness that our Great Barack needs? I think not! I have felt a great back sliding of hate and contempt. And that sorely grieves me. But I bring great news for wavers. Brother Todd Purdom works for one of the Great Barack’s magazines. And he has brought forth the word on how to perfect your hatred. And if it is not your fervent desire to perfect your hatred of the enemies of The Light of Chicago you don’t belong in the choir. Nay, you should die an ugly lingering death. But rejoice, Brother Todd is here to help the helpless and lead the lost.
If all of you could hate as perfectly as Brother Todd I would worry less about the future of socialism. Brother Todd has reached perfection in his hate of the Great Satan. He knows Sarah Palin for what she is and hates her perfectly to her ugly core. Brother Purdom is not fooled by a pretty face and a sensual body. Brother Todd is a true soldier of the Great Barack and so he hates the evil Sarah unto her evil ovaries. And make no mistake about how evil Sarah’s ovaries are. That great sinner uses her ovaries to deny sustenance to Lord Barack’s much loved and holy abortionists. What makes this uppity sinner imagine she has the right to have five children? This stiff neck sinner has a Down’s baby. Yes, Brothers and Sisters she took the food out of the mouth of an abortionist’s child so she could give birth to this Down’s baby. Some of that money would have gone to Our Revered Brother Barack. But, NO, sinner Sarah just had to have her Down’s baby.
But Brother Todd can help us. We can join in Brother Purdom’s hate to sway the masses. In his perfection Brother Todd is subtle. He wisely hides his hate behind the innuendo and the unnamed source. If you were to just say, “I hate that evil bitch,” you might be honest but it would startle and scare the sheep. And we must have the sheep on our side. If we can trick and wheedle the poison of hate into the sheep every evil plan of that witch Sarah will die. Amen!
If a sheep asks, “Who said that about Sarah?“ Don’t ever give a name. The sheep do not need information. They need the right feeling. They need hate. If The Light of Chicago is going to continue to get his rightful share of union dues we must spread the hate. If the sheep become troublesome, just say, “There have been many, many formal inquiries into ethics violations by Sarah.” It sounds intelligent and informed. Give a slight emphasis to the word ’formal’ The sheep don’t know that it means nothing. The fact they fall so easily for the mere word is proof they are sheep. And sheep need to be lead and you must lead them to truer hate of Sarah. The Massively Great Barack will not thank you in public. But his inner thankfulness should be reward enough for you.
Never forget that her daughter’s ex-boyfriend’s mother pleaded guilty to narcotics charges. Yet this evil Sarah roams our streets freely? I cannot contain my disgust. And her husband’s half-sister has been in jail. And her best friend’s daughter’s former mailman’s niece once had a substitute teacher who was late paying his taxes. Never let the sheep forget this web of evil and sin.
If Sarah is not stopped the union dues will not continue to flow to The Great Barack as His Blessedness deserves. I want to believe in the iron pipe of the union goon. Truly I want to believe. But Brothers and sisters, why leave something this important to chance. We know the dead, the holy and blessed dead will always vote for Our Great Barack. But Dear Brother Barack needs money. And we need the living, yea even the sheep to provide the money. I know that in spite of your wavering you all have the true inner love for Barack. Now our Great Leader needs you to prove your love to him. For the sake of Great Barack you must spread the hate and sway the sheep. If you just get your hearts right and let Brother Purdom teach you perfection in hate the Great Barack will not need to waste his time in fear and worry. The Great Barack will not need to fear a quarterly decline of the union dues, the coldness of the lobbyists or the laughter and lies of Helen Thomas and Jake Tapper.
Brothers and Sisters, remember that, “Everyone hates Sarah.” If you continue to repeat that your sheep will soon believe it. It will help if you make a face of exasperation once and a while as you remind your sheep how hated Sarah is. They respond better to gentle nudges than to quick moves. Listen to me, Brothers because I had to study human psychology while I was an organizer and while training for this ministry.
Brothers and Sisters this is probably as much as you can absorb now. But we will meet again. There will be more lessons on how to teach the sheep to more perfectly hate the evil Sarah. When the Huffington Post or the Los Angeles Times or the Washington Post or CBS or Keith Olbermann or Peggy Noonan next sandbag that great sinner, Sarah, we will gather and see what we can learn about perfecting our hate and subtly passing it on to the sheep.

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h/t: Stop the ACLU

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Hey, ya know like love is hate and war is peace, dude.


And if you don't believe Barack, he and his teacher's unions will continue the dumbing down until the evening news is just too intellectually challenging.

h/t: Pundit and Pundette

White House Reporters Discover Journalism; Gibbs PlaysDumb

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