Political Frog

Ah yes dear reader the fight is on. Right now Hillary Clinton is at home feeling quite comfortable. False is the premise that Clinton is on the edge of the cliff ready to fall off into a void of obscurity. She hasn’t lost. She hasn’t begun to fight yet. The Clintons are only truly alive when they are in the trenches flinging poo and taking names afterwards.

Barack Obama, the Jim Jones without all the death and fruit punch has been ona roll. The pied piper of the hopeless and depressed. Life has passed these pathetic people and their only hope is hope. To hope is ten times easier than to actually do. Mediocrity has happened to each and every one of us. The difference between the Liberal and the Conservative ideologies is what is done about it. Our Liberal counterparts look for scapegoats to assuage their guilt and invariably it turns out to be America that is to blame. Senator Obama had harnessed this belief system and turned it into a political movement. For this reason alone Barack Obama has put together an impressive string of small state victories.

Yet the campaign season is young…

The Clinton war machine consisting of all the usual suspects is working over time to discredit Obama. This time around they have looked more schoolyard than politically savvy. Accusing Obama of plagiarism has backfired. Not because he did not steal a speech but because he who gives empty speeches can’t even write his own empty speeches. And the empty speech he stole had whole paragraphs stolen from speeches dating back to JFK. It’s more sad than scandal. Yet the depressed masses still swoon over the man with the big teeth.

Lets face facts. The Clintons are the DNC. To be more specific Bill is the DNC. Hillary is more of an annoyance that is tolerated because of Bill. Sort of like a hangover. You know if you drink you’ll have one but you drink anyway. The Election process the Democrats have put in place ensures that they party elites can override the wishes of the voters and Hillary is fully aware of this. She has already admitted she is going after Delegates pledged to Obama. More to the point she is willing to take votes that were cast for Obama if it nets her the nomination. Regardless of what the public wants. This is about as Democratic as Joseph Stalin.
So…

Is it really a shock that Hillary Clinton could buy the super delegates even if she had less pledged Delegates that Obama? The candidates have given a combines $840,000 dollars to the Superdelegates. Obama has the upper hand in campaign money to spend but who has the political capital? That’s right folks Bill Clinton. The Clinton’s influence is waning and Bill will exhaust what capital he has left to get a third term but the fact remains he has the clout. Obama just has some seriously pathetic voters and a cold wife that spouts things usually reserved for Chris Mathews. The DNC elites are just that, elites and they believe they know better than the voters.

What will happen now?

The Clinton Machine will drag Obama through the mud. Obama will start laying out his record to combat claims he is thin on substance. His plans will scare independents and moderates. Old Bill will promise the farm and twist a few arms to secure the needed Superdelegates. Clinton will win and the voters will be screwed. The DNC will implode in John Kerry like fashion.

The Clintons are just getting warmed up…

-The New Stereophonic Bert Spivey…

What a spiffing title for a blog entry. Much better than Jews on Parade or Colonic irrigation for beginners. And what makes it extra specially spiffing, even excrementally spiffing is the fact that it has sent Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried into hiding to plan their adaptation of the last hours in the life of Adolf Hitler. I think this falls under the category of Executively spiffing. And I have Ryan Crocker to thank.

Ambassador Crocker was of course referring to the recent flurry activity in the Iraqi Parliament which not only resulted in meeting of some of those tiresome benchmarks but coincided with our own Democratic led Congress decision to spend a few days doing an extra amount of nothingness. When the dust cleared and the votes were counted the Iraqi Parliament Passed three laws designed to bring the minority Sunnis into the political picture on an even footing. These are the very same Sunnis who have been boycotting this very same Iraqi Congress.

So what exactly have the Iraqis gotten themselves into? Well firstly they have allocated power to the provinces and have called for elections slated for the first of October. Secondly a sort of Amnesty bill John McCain should get behind. Amnesty for thousands of Sunnis who have not been charged with crimes but have been jailed. This particular morsel of legislation could not have been enacted until the violence had been stopped and Al Qaeda demolished.

Thirdly and the least exciting is the passage of an oil sharing revenue bill. I say least exciting because the Sunni and Shia have been sharing the oil revenue without a bill for months. Rather civilized for people who according to Democrats are more comfortable with blowing each other into tiny little bits.

Meanwhile our very own Congress led by Senator Harry Ried and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been equally busy. Not only have they made sure that terrorists can phone their mates in the US unmolested but they made sure that the country will be forever protected from Roger Clemens should he decide to attack and single handedly inject every American with Human Growth Hormone.

So….

Will Hillary Clinton and Americas new Messiah Barack Obama acknowledge the political success in Iraq or will the continue to claim all is lost? I don’t want to put any pressure on Obama but at some point the is going to need to actually say something that does not involve the word “change“. The left bet against the military, they bet against the United states, and they bet against the Iraqis. It looks like they are going 0 for 3 and when they trot onto the field next inning their star players will be too busy fighting over the last foam finger while Pelosi and company will be busy looking for something else to bet failure on.

The New Stereophonic Bert Spivey

Barack Obama is all the rage right now. Even though Hillary Clinton has won the uncontested and non delegate state of Florida (by the way Democrats, if you see Hillary Clinton as the candidate of change please explain to me what Alcee Hastings was doing on stage next to Mrs. Clinton last night). The media is tap dancing in unison with stories about the Clinton’s campaign, in peril, on the ropes, and or deader than Jerry Garcia.

Bollocks.

One needs to look at the big picture, or more precisely the very delegates the candidates are fighting, and in some cases smearing for. Obama has won Iowa and South Carolina. Hillary Clinton won new Hampshire. That puts the delegate count in Hillary’s favor by a good 75 - 256 to 181.. now 75 delegates is not a large deficit going into super Tuesday yet you have to look at the even bigger picture. Obama has not shown he can win in a big state. Take for example six states with the larger delegate counts. California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Senator Clinton leads Senator Obama by an average of 22 percentage points. That’s 1228 delegates. is she guaranteed to win them all? no but Pennsylvania where she leads by 20 has 188 delegates, Ohio where she leads by 26 has 161, and New York has 281. She leads by 23.

Now the question is if you are Obama “where do you concentrate on in the next six days? one state a day? that is not enough saturation. Clinton has the luxury of not having to worry about her national numbers when her state by state numbers are strong in all the right places.

The New Stereophonic Bert Spivey…

It had it’s bollocks handed to them on a rented platter. That is what happened. The candidates for theGOP know this, digested this and now that are doing what all good Conservatives do. We look for the candidate that best represents our ideals and beliefs.

This campaign season has been all about the issues for the Republican candidates. more importatntly they are really working over time to show which one of them is more Conservative. For this reason there has not been a clear cur front runner to emerge. Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and John McCain have all won a caucus. For this reason the traditional media has deemed the GOP broken, splintered and in worse health than Britney Spears.

Meanwhile……

The Democrats, the party of tolerance and racial equality are rehearsing a scene that looks like it will take place in Archie Bunker’s living room. All that is left is for Bill Clinton to refer to Barack Obama as “That colored guy”. The Clintons have done their best to make this about Obama’s race and Obama has done his best to subtly fan those racial flames. The closest they get to policy is debating such trivialities as whose healthcare plan is actually more universal.

Meanwhile…

Bill Clinton is goose-stepping up and down the east coast waving his smelly digit and making claims that are debunked 15 seconds later. All the while half the DNC has fallen out of love with the Clintons and are risking massive bodily death by coming out in favor of Obama and criticizing Bill Clinton’s heavy-handed roll his wife’s campaign.

Meanwhile…

Dennis Kucinich is spotting UFO’s on his lunch hour and has sued to remain relevant. I am not sure if Chris Dodd has dropped out or if he has simply forgotten where he is. John Kerry swift boated himself this week but that is nothing new…And James Clyburn gave slick Willie the beat down but he was not listening. To further solidify her double digit defeat in South Carolina Hillary Clinton embraced the good reverend Calvin “Go to hell white man” Butts.

The best the boring old GOP could do is have John McCain call Mitt Romney a desk jockey . And mislead us on a statement he made about the War in Iraq. That is sort of the 700 Club versus Falcon Crest.

-The New Stereophonic Bert Spivey

Debates hosted by MSNBC. Well, anything involving MSNBC really. Poor Tucker Carlson. Destined to mediocrity thanks to a third rate public access-esque network. Joe Scarborough? He whines to much to be heard or seen by anymore than 9 persons sentenced to house arrest.

There has been some “outrage” on the right regarding Chris Mathews attempts to marginalize the candidates. The Irony here is that the Candidates were marginalized. just not by Mathews. More people watched FOX news talk about the debate than those who actually watched it. So any attempt by Mathews to sabotage the debate was all in vain.

The questions Mathews asked led me to believe I had suddenly entered the realm where cartoon characters live. Out of left field come this gem “Would you hire Karl Rove?”. Now this is the first GOP debate 18 months before the election and Mathews expects them all to have their cabinets picked out? Besides that Mathews biggest downfall in life is he thinks he is smarter than the rest of us. He’s not. Although no one saw that one coming because not even Chris Mathews could get so desperate, they easily brushed it aside with the obvious “No”. Not knowing when to stop he asked a question about Scooter Libby. Now last I checked none of these people had anything to do with the man.

Then the gnome from politico asked what might be the dumbest question since Joan of Arc asked “Do you have a light mate?”. “What do you dislike most about America”. Now what was the gnome expecting Mitt Romney to say? “Well I really hate all them Jews” Maybe Mathews was hoping he could catch Rudy in some off handed remarks about “Darkies”.

I was however disappointed when Mathews refrained from asking each candidate their sign. He refrained from asking Ron Paul anything because he fell asleep.

Mathews goose stepping around the stage like a bleached blonde Georg Von Trapp shouting Zeit! Turned the debate into a musical version of the Nuremburg Trials. Rudy Giuliani playing the part of Martin Bormann was hammered for his poor answer to the Abortion issue. Mathews However was beating a dead horse with an even deader llama. everyone knows Rudy is pro choice. Plenty of Conservatives have already announced they will not be voting for him. Chris Mathews is attempting to reveal something everyone already knows. That’s how news is done at MSNBC?

Mathews decided to avoid asking tiresome questions about the economy, moral values, immigration. The sort of questions that usually stump the Liberals. Instead he focused on important issues such as their fave on American Idol and who has the best potato recipe.

The most disturbing part of this spectacle was the post debate recap where everyone used their time to express how brilliantly Mathews moderated the debate. Joe Scarborough was in full sycophant regalia literally drooling all over himself. Maybe he wants Mathews’ Hardball timeslot so he can have the extra 5 viewers for his own show.

All that was missing was Jack Cafferty asking the candidates “Ona scale of 1 to 10, how big of a bastard is George Bush”

-Bert

It’s amazing what the left in this country considers skill or prowess. The Chicago Tribune said today in a column that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demonstrated considerable prowess this week. She and her aides whipped Democrats into line to pass a bill in the House that would bring U.S. combat troops home from Iraq by no later than Sept. 1, 2008.

Tom Delay was known as “The Hammer” during his tenure in the House. he could negotiate backroom deals and keep the party together. That was prowess. Nancy Pelosi has seen here party fracture into several factions. All with their own idea of when we should surrender in Iraq. Where is the prowess.

She enticed conservative Democrats, who fear such a deadline would tie the hands of U.S. commanders, largely by loading the bill with billions in pork-barrel spending.

To the rest of the world this is known as a bribe…. A 24 billion dollar bribe. A 24 billion dollar bribe of taxpayer money. This bill was so popular Pelosi needed to bribe Democrats to support it.

$25 million for spinach. Now unless you can use spinach as body armor this will not help the troops at all.

$74 million for peanut storage. Now let me see if I have this correct. The troops in Iraq are so inundated with peanuts that they no longer have anywhere to store them so they need 74 million to build sheds to put the peanuts in….

$120 million for shrimp. I suppose shrimp may be an effective tool against the terrorists if they all have allergies to shellfish…

One of the lefts talking points for the anti war argument is the troops in harms way are not sufficiently protected. This bill was to directly address such things as body armor, tanks, logistics, training, all the things that make a war run smoothly. Yet the Democrats sought to bog down the passage of the bill with earmarks and provisions that will make it impossible to pass. So much for having the soldiers well being at heart.

In a comical twist to this sad story New Hampshire Representative Paul Hodes defended the bill in the Democrats weekly radio address with this little gem..

“With our vote this week, we’re helping our troops, protecting our veterans, and fighting to end the waste, fraud and abuse,”

I’ve seen less manure in a stable. Protecting the troops should not come with provisions. The Democrats bill is loaded with them. How is 120 million dollars for peanut storage not an abuse of public money? Not to mention the fact it was used to bribe Democrats into supporting a terrible bill. I thought the Democrats were going to cut back on all the pork?

-Bert

Well they did it. They finally turned their backs on the Troops in Iraq, and the military in general. The Democrats narrowly passed a military spending bill with more pork attached to it than Rose O’Donnell’s thighs. The bill is also loaded with benchmarks that were designed to be impossible to meet. The bill also sets a date for withdrawal without regards to conditions on the ground.

let’s look at what the Bill really is because it is not a bill to finance the troops in Iraq. It’s about the total disarray and moral vacancy of the Democratic party.

The AP reports that the passage of the bill is a triumph for Nancy Pelosi. How so? She had to bribe, threaten, and twist arms to get this bill passed and she only got it passed by 6 votes. She had to bribe her party to get the majority on an issue the majority does not believe in. She had to bribe her party to secure defeat. 24 billion in pork to bribe her party to stab the troops in the back. This was not a win. This could be however the turning point on the Democrats. Just two months into their majority. Even the Washington Post is writing and publishing scathing article on their conduct.

One other interesting little nugget is this…The Liberals have been saying for years that the battleground for the war on Terror is in Afghanistan. We should be there not Iraq. . The Democrats are trying to secure defeat in both countries because this bill also provides funding for the troops in Afghanistan.

So Pelosi was able to bribe the bill to passage. What about the Senate? Harry Ried has been schooled by Mitch McConnell for two months. This will never pass as it is written. Ried does not have the power Pelosi seems to wield.

George Bush has promised to VETO the bill. Too many attachments, too many earmarks. The bill needs to be approved by April 8th to avoid the suspension of training new soldiers, and the training of Iraqis. Upgrades to current military units already deployed will be suspended as well as repairs to vehicles. Now The Democrats are banking on the April 15 deadline to pass so they can blame the president for the stoppage in funding because he vetoed it. This won’t fly with the American people. The people want the troops protected. They expect a bill for funding to be passed on it’s own merits without any strings attached. The people want the bill to be about funding. Nothing else. They will pay the price. Not the President. Spinach subsidies and Shrimp subsidies have noting to do with protecting the troops in Iraq. Yet several vacuous Democrats changed their position and voted for this bill for monetary gain. And they squeal when we claim they do not support the troops.

-Bert

I hope this does not insult or enrage any of the military that have served and survived war but I want to bring the Liberal position into perspective for the liberals. We have to force them to look at their own positions because deep down they know they are wrong.

The left needs to judge the progress of the Iraq war by the number of body bags that arrive in the US every month.

Time after time I have called the left on this and as always the counter with ‘Have you served?” “Do you know what it is like?” Having received this reply from actual Vets I decided to play ball within their rulebook…

We lost Vietnam. We lost big. Our military, supposedly the finest in the world failed to do it’s job. You guys failed to defeat a third rate enemy. You lost and communism won. 47,378 of our soldiers died for nothing. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are war criminals for sponsoring an illegal war amongst a free and sovereign nation.

Our soldiers went into Vietnamese homes and raped and pillaged and generally terrorized the population not unlike Genghis Kahn. 15 years of utter violent futility…

How do I know this?

Well, if Iraq is a loss after three years and 3000 casualties (1000 casualties a year average), then Vietnam (3158 casualties a year average) was an even worse defeat.

Why are we losing? Well George Bush of course. He an idiot. He’s dumb. He doesn’t have a plan. We also do not think his plan (which he does not have) is working. 3000 dead soldiers told me so…

We need to leave Iraq now because we have lost 3000 soldiers. Don’t tell me about the consequences, I don’t want to know. We lost 3000 soldiers. The evacuation of Vietnam set off a virtual genocide but it does not matter. We lost 47,378 casualties. Yes Victory was in grasp in Vietnam but it did not matter. We lost 47,378 soldiers and there is no way those 47,378 would want their sacrifice to be vindicated because….we lost 47,378 people. Defeat is a must. We deserve it. We earned it.

Since we have set a precedent someone needs to grab a shovel and dig up George Washington. We may have gained our independence from the United Kingdom but we lost 4435 men. That’s more than Iraq. Go to any pub in the UK and you my over hear “Sure they got their independence but they lost 4435 soldiers.” Washington needs to be impeached. Where’s John Conyers?

So what do we do now? Iraq is 80% secure. Do we surrender that 80 percent to the 20 percent that have been successful at hiding in mosques and behind women? Or do we fight on and finish the job? The left says we surrender because we have lost 3000 political talking points. the right says we’ve had three elections, we’ve formed a government, and the Iraqi army is taking the lead. Let’s finish. It’s what we do best when left alone to do what we do best.

-Bert.

I love Joe Biden. He’s good for at least one “Kerryesqe” sound bite every six months. They’re usually race related. Last time it was something about Indians and 7-11. I never understood that one. This time it is about black people. Or to be more specific Barak Obama. To be even more specific it was about the clean, articulate, sharp Barrack Obama.

Now Joseph Biden is not a racist by any means. Racially insensitive maybe but not a racist. He is a person whose mouth works faster than his brain. This is all exacerbated by his belief that he is the smartest thing since Hermann Einstein who came up with the idea of creating an Albert Einstein. Just look at his performance during the Samuel Alito nomination. He had 20 minutes to question Judge Alito and spent 19 minutes of it telling him how he should answer the questions. Trouble was there were no questions. He seems to think that everything that comes out of his mouth is absolute gold.

What do the Indians think about that?

So instead of spending the day talking about his announcing he is running for president he spent the day trying to play down his remarks about Barak Obama. Obviously he has shot any chance of the Democratic nomination in the proverbial left foot. This has to be some sort of record. He lost any chance of getting the nomination on the day he announced he was running.

Ironically if he said this 20 years ago no one would have paid it any attention.

In 1988 the Democrats realized they could blame their election losses on Race. The Willie Horton ads the Bush team ran were unfairly accurate. Coupled with Michael Dukakis and his ego which was curiously taller than he was, the American public decided they did not need a commander in chief that insisted on releasing non parole inmates into the free world every weekend.

By the new millennia they had expanded it from using race to explain why they lost an election to using race to prevent losing one. By the time Strom Thurmond realized he was retiring years after he died they figured out how to use race to kill a Republican’s political career.

It’s all about race with them. The latest victim is George Allen. If you listen to them Senator Allen laid awake at nights thinking of an obscure word that demeans a foreigner. (I’m not even sure what nationality the guy was). George Allen will always be connected to the word “Macaca”. Does anyone believe George Allen would stare into a camera and hurl racial slurs at an opponents staffer a few weeks before an election?

Republicans never get a pass when they say something dumb. Democrats pounce on each and every one of these gaffes with a zeal we wish they reserved for the terrorists. Meanwhile when a Democrat does a Biden the mainstream media simply ignores it or excepts a really weak excuse. (Sandy Berger was simply unorganized. He’s messy and Chris Mathews is okay with that).

So what is happening now is Republicans jump on every minor infraction. outraged not necessarily because the remark was wrong or obscene but because if it was one of them they would have been strung up.

So in a sad twist of Irony Joe Biden who is always at war with his own vocal chords is the victim of his party’s own need to create a racial situation out of nothing. Other than the now (in)famous quote he said some pretty intelligent things about John Edwards and Hillary Clinton’s plans for surrendering in Iraq.

But what did he say anyway? He said Barak Obama was articulate. Well he is. Senator Obama never really says anything but he says it so well. Was Biden saying it’s nice to see a black man run for president that something other than Ebonics? Perhaps Biden expected Barak to sound like Snoop Dog. I just don’t know.

He also said Barak was clean. How often Senator Obama takes a bath I do not know. I’m also not aware of any unusual hygiene habits of Senator Biden. Biden claims he meant Obama is clean cut. Well if you are comparing Obama to other black Presidential candidates like Al Sharp ton and Jessie Jackson then Senator Biden was spot on.

Joe Biden is probably safe until the election heats up and he is forced to make several statements a day. Lord knows what he will say next. I’m waiting for the Clinton camp to fabricate a story about John McCain’s family owning six slaves and a Peruvian butler.

-Bert

Weekly Frog

This weekends rally on the Mall in DC was just the spectacle I thought it would be. A pathetic display of aging hippie Dinosaurs, rabid Socialists, and Tim Robbins. It was cheesy chants, bizarre rallying calls, badly worded protest songs and a trumpet.

This was not your parents Vietnam shindig.

First of all this war’s Walter Cronkite, Bob Scheifer listed the total attendance at over one hundred thousand. In reality it was just shy of 9,000. this wasn’t San Francisco. This was recreation time at the retirement home. Let’s do some math. If 9,000 aging hippies showed up that means 91000 aging hippies checked into reality after 1970, got jobs and became productive members of society. Jane Fonda’s contribution to Society has been Ted Turner and “Barbarella”

We had the hip hop caucus. They had trouble getting their show off the ground and asked to start over in mid Rap. They were a bit miffed when they were not allowed to give speeches. I’m not surprised. They couldn’t get their rap organized there wasn’t enough time to let them get their speeches together.

Of course there were the ‘Aging Grannies”. What rally is complete without them. These are someone’s grandmothers and they are out there singing this Country Joe McDonald type stuff…badly.

Then there was this Mexican guy. In pulverized English he explained the we need to get all the “Gringos” out of Iraq. He didn’t seem to worried about the American troops. He apparently said we need to “stop the funding in the Iraq” and “get the Gringos out of Iraq”. I say apparently because it sounded like he said “stop the fun in Iraq” and “Get the Gringos our Iraq”

Of course Tim Robbins was there. It’s not like he has any movies to make. Jane Fonda made an appearance saying she had not attended an anti war rally in 35 years. Translated she meant she had not spat on a Military Vet in 35 years.

John Conyers spoke. He again called for Bush’s impeachment. I though Ms. Pelosi said impeachment was off the table. they should have coffee. Anyway I wonder if Conyers took notice of who he was celebrating anti Americanism with. These are the people the Democratic party is beholden to. Fat enraged hippies who struggle to get into their bellbottoms. These are the people who sit behind their keyboards and give credence to the far left websites. This is the moveon.org crowd.

What should have been more telling is the total number in attendance. 9,000. In the late 60’s and early 70’s every rally attracted hundreds of thousands. Vietnam was a different scenario. By exiting Vietnam we did not put ourselves at immediate risk. Americans know Iraq is a different story. Not being careful how we leave Iraq we will put ourselves at greater risk. Sure the majority of Americans want the troops home now but they don’t want an immediate withdrawal if it will make things worse.

In other words the Democrats are afraid of a small percentage of the left that has moved farther to the left. These people were spitting on Iraqi Vets that attended the rally to offer a different point of view and these are the people that John Conyers and most of the Democratic party feel they need to represent. A small but fanatical minority.

Nobody listens to stupid people. Why do the Democrats? This group trashed the Capital steps and trashed the FOX news van. I thought they were for peace. They’re anarchists. They defaced the Capital steps by spray painting anarchist symbols while John Conyers and Maxine Waters looked on. Is this what the Democratic demographic wants in their party?

-Bert
Weekly Frog