Barack Obama as David Dinkins? And 2012 as 1968?

I'm taking this from a post I wrote back in early 2008....a New York Times editorial endorsement:

"What no one disputes is his most evident characteristic. America knows Barack Obama to be, above all, a conciliator. His instinct is to unify. This decency can help the country confront its biggest forseeable problems: a sagging economy and tension between the races. The two go together. Mr. Obama seems better qualified to persuade all Americans to share the burdens ahead. That's also true for another reason: race. Mr. Obama would be America's first black president - a fact likely to instill a sense of pride and participation by blacks and other minority groups."

Well, almost..  Swap out "Barack Obama" and "President", insert "David Dinkins" and "Mayor", and you have the verbatim endorsement the Times gave Clueless Dave back on October 29th, 1989.

How did things work out?  Same link:

Delicately, ever so delicately, The Times made a point that was widely held that fall: that Dinkins would lower the crime rate because disempowered blacks would feel a sense of belonging.
Instead, Dinkins' election fired the starting gun for a racial free-for-all and the four worst years, murder-wise, in the city's history. It was Latinos vs. whites in Washington Heights (1992), blacks vs. Koreans in a heated grocery-store dispute (1990) and, in Crown Heights, four nights of unchecked rioting by blacks against Hasidic Jews (1991).

No, we have't seen race riots yet, but we have seen a lawless "Occupation" that most Democrats support and that liberal mayors seem loathe to stop. An "Occupation" that is rife with antisemitism, mind you. Could we see Crown Heights redux?

Mickey Kaus goes stream of consciousnesses:

Was Occupy Wall Street on the verge of Dinkinsizing Obama? After all, one social malady Obama hasn’t had to contend with, until now, has been a rising crime rate or, more broadly, a general sense of things spinning out of control in cities–something that is almost invariably toxic for incumbents (ask David Dinkins and Jimmy Carter, or Bill Clinton in 1994**). But now Occupy Wall Street has provided at least a whiff of authentic 1960s semi-anarchy, and the Democrats’ attitude toward the protests has been generally supportive (or “permissive”). I remember the President who got elected in 1968. Not a Democrat. …

One Richard Milhouse Nixon, if I recollect. The scourge of the left, of the universities, and of the media.  A man mocked & parodied by the Hollywood elite, and deemed un-electable by the cognoscenti.

History is going to repeat itself, although I am not altogether sure who will play the role of Nixon this time.  What I am sure of, though, is we can thank Occupy Wall Street, and the dumb-as-dirt Democrats who couldn't wait to throw their support behind them, for making it all happen...

Why Barack Obama Won't Let Jon Corzine Go To Jail

I called for jail time for Crooked Jon some time ago, as these facts were unfolding:

The $633 million in missing client funds from Jon Corzine’s now-bankrupt firm MF Global appears to be a result of a “massive hide-and-seek ploy,” a US Commodity Futures Trading commissioner said yesterday.

“This isn’t just a lost-and-found inquiry; it’s a full-on effort to get to the bottom of what appears to be a massive hide-and-seek ploy,” said CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton said in disclosing the MF investigation.

“It’s a distinct possibility, some would say probability, that somebody has done something with the money, and that it’s not going to be ‘all of a sudden discovered’ with an innocent explanation,” Chilton wrote. “If that’s the case, it’s patently illegal. I don’t know yet. Our investigation will uncover that, and we’re aggressively pursuing this.”



The New York Post's economist extraordinaire, John Crudle, reports on four honest family men whose livelihoods were destroyed by Corzine's brazen thievery at MF Global:

“We are just trying to eke out a living,” he added. Moe had to draw $75,000 from a line of credit on his house to stay in business after his firm’s money — which also happened to be his personal dough — disappeared into MF’s rat hole.

Two other traders I’ll call Meeny and Miney are middle-age guys, still paying for their kids’ college educations. Eeny, the fourth trader, is in his mid-30s and has two small children.

All of them were stung hard — not only because their money at MF disappeared overnight but also because they couldn’t even get on the floor of the exchange to conduct business.
Their IDs had been revoked.

Up to 30,000 of MF’s customers worldwide are said to be unable to access money they had in so-called “segregated” accounts at the company. And with the bankruptcy court and a trustee now involved, that money could be locked up for a long time.

“I want to see jail. I want to see one of these guys go to prison,” Moe said, with Eeny, Meeny and Miney nodding in agreement....

Corzine, who took over the sleepy brokerage firm after being defeated for a second term in the statehouse, is the one they hold most responsible.

The traders are now passing around the hat — collecting $500 from anyone willing to pay so they can hire a lawyer. Meeny explained that this wasn’t money lent to MF; it was just on deposit there. So he shouldn’t be considered a “creditor” by the court.

Sounds like exactly the kind of people - middle-class - that Obama swore to protect from thieves like Jon Corzine. And with Obama waging war on Wall Street with his smelly "Occupation" army as his front-line troops, one would think he would use this opportunity to hang Corzine high, to claim an easy, high-profile scalp by someone who is universally loathed.

"Excellent...."

Won't happen. We know that Obama went to the wall for Corzine in his failed attempt to spend his way to re--election as governor of New Jersey, and we know that Corzine was one of the Obama administration's chief economic advisers, and we know that Corzine was Obama's man on Wall Street, tasked to bundle campaign donations from the fat cats in exchange for the Treasury Secretary position in a second Obama term.

And yet despite all this, Obama could still win in our convoluted political calculus if he threw Crooked Jon under the bus, like he has done to some many others. It would show that Obama meant business, and no one was safe from his crusade on the little man, not even former friends and associates.

So why won't he?

...despite President Obama decrying ‘Wall Street Fat Cats' - Corzine has already helped to raise at least half-million dollars for President Obama's re-election.

As for that half-million? The Obama campaign says it will give the money back - if Corzine is convicted of a crime. But if history is our guide -the kind of Wall Street firms Corzine once ran became ‘Too Big to Fail.'

Maybe Corzine himself will be too ‘Big to Jail...

Not too big. Just too valuable to Barack Obama. $500 million in Barack's pockets is enough to let you get away with squandering - illegally - almost $700 million in innocent's people's money.

$500 million sounds like a lot, I suppose. But is it a high enough price to sell your values, your soul, and to undermine the justice system of the Untied States of America?

Apparently, our president thinks so...

Justin Timberlake Dates A Marine, Learns A Life Lesson

Corporal. Kelsey De Santis was the ballsy young lady who asked Justin Timberlake- via YouTube - to be her date to the Marine Corps Ball in Richmond, Virginia.



Well, Corporal Kelsey may have gotten a celebrity date, but she in effect did something more - made a member of the entertainment elite fully realize the sacrifices members of the armed services make so that they may ride around safely in limos filled with champagne, hookers, and menservants.

To his credit, Justin posted a long letter about the dinner/dance on his blog - it's heartfelt, sincere, and has the ring of a man who has seen the light. Hopefully he can shine it on some of his knee-jerk angry leftist Hollywood contemporaries...

Some excerpts:

I'm writing this out to all of you after attending an event that turned out to be one of the most moving evenings I've ever had...

I had the honor and privilege last night of attending The Basic School Instructor Battalion 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball at the Greater Richmond Convention Center with Corporal Kelsey DeSantis...

I knew I would have an evening that I wouldn't forget... Something I could tell my friends about. What I didn't know was how moved I would be by the whole experience.

She seemed to me to be so humble and honest... Very cool. She also simultaneously seemed like she was nervous about the whole evening and if I was going to enjoy myself. "Are you ok?" she asked 2 or 3 times. "I hope you are having fun. I know you will once my crew of friends get here to the table." I have to tell you, it's not every day that I meet a 23 year old girl and she's more worried about if I'm having fun or if I'm comfortable! It hit me all of a sudden that these were the type of people that look after us and our freedom... Humble, concerned for others before themselves... This was the type of person our Marine Corps was building. I was really blown away.

It seemed like all of a sudden I was surrounded by her great friends and fellow Marines as the closest ones to her made their way to our table. She again assured me that I was going to love all of her friends--that they were a "kick-ass" group of people.

She couldn't have been more right. I laughed and laughed with all of them almost immediately and felt very close to them... They reminded me of my friends (the ones I like, at least). Cool, un-affected, and real. This was going to be a fun night.

What happened then took me by such surprise that I was almost brought to tears. In fact, our whole table was...


Read it all.


...Thank you Corporal Kelsey DeSantis. Thank you for inviting me. And, thank you for being my hero.

In Which I Finally Realize Why Jon Huntsman Is Still Around....

Why is this guy, with no natural constituency whatsoever, even in the race?  Why is he invited to the debates, when his polling is at/around 1%?  Why does he continue to get media coverage, when he...

Ah.  It's really about the media.  And what is the media?  Liberal, hard-core.  And what is Jon Huntsman?  Also a  liberal, hard-core.  And the media, seeing the coming implosion of Barack Obama, is trying desperately to dress up another wolf in sheep's clothing, and this time is participating in Huntsman's fraud of a campaign in order to fill Baracky's shoes with an ideological doppelganger under the Republican banner.

Hey, it worked the first time - they got a hard-core Marxist elected by disguising him as a "moderate".  Why not try it again?

But Huntsman gave it away at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire:

"We are working this state like no one else," the former Utah governor told several dozen New Hampshire voters gathered in the Portsmouth Elks Lodge Tuesday night. "I don't care what the rest of the country thinks or feels; that's not important. I do care about what the people of New Hampshire feel."

Insult the nation while kowtowing to those immediately before you - gee, what president does that sound like?

He tried to backtrack, but only dug himself in deeper:

"Of course I care what people think in the rest of the country. Specific to the poll numbers is what I was referring to," he said.

So all you care about is how you are polling in early primary states? So us folks in New Jersey can go f*ck ourselves until you need us? Hardly an inspiring pitch, but one fairly typical of a liberal, who takes care of their core constituency (with other people's money) and lies just enough to the rest of a gullible electorate to earn election.

More honesty out of New Hanmpshire, this time from a voter:

"If he wants to break out of this pack, he's got to get the independent, progressive Republicans to support him," said Jameson French, a Portsmouth resident who attended the town hall and hasn't yet committed to a candidate. "He's got a chance, I think, to win that vote."

Can someone tell me exactly what the f*ck a "Progressive Republican" is? Oh, wait, I know - they're called "liberals".  Frenchy is right - if he does get the liberal vote, Huntsman will break out fo the Republican pack, and move all the way past such luminaries as Buddy Roemer and Vern Wuensche.  So why aren't they included in the debates?

Don't ask the media, they'll start to sweat...

More proof of the Hunstman-as-closet-liberal:

“The Jon Huntsman I know supported Barack Obama and President Obama’s recovery act, but said it should have been larger,” said Wayne Holland, chairman of the Utah Democratic Party, on a recent conference call with reporters.

The Jon Huntsman I know worked with Democrats to pass the cap-and-trade program and said at the time it was the only alternative to a carbon tax. The Jon Huntsman I know signed into law a health insure exchange and proposed an individual mandate for Utah. It now appears that has all changed.”

More insulting of the electorate here..  And there is this beauty from Hunstman as well:

On the campaign trail, Huntsman often dwells on how America is viewed from abroad. “From 10,000 miles away, folks, let me just tell you that we lack humanity, we lack civility, we lack basic respect for which this country should be known,” Huntsman told one crowd.

More on Huntsman:

“Huntsman is a liberal’s idea of what a Republican ought to be..."

More:

Huntsman doesn’t represents any particular Republican faction. Rather, he represents a point in time — late 2008 through spring 2009 — when a lot of ”smart” people in the GOP seemed to believe that the Obama ascendancy was more or less permanent. The way to succeed as a Republican in the Obama era, these people believed, was to cooperate in the patriotic spirit of Bipartisan Compromise.

Obama Cedes Hawaii To Asia, Insults Chinese & Embarrasses Japan - All At One Conference

It was the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Hawaii, held over the weekend, and apparently Barack Obama left the Gaffe-O-Matic 5000 turned up to maximum. All of the president's ignorance, intellectual laziness, and diplomatic sloth were on display for the whole world to see.

While holding a press conference on his "birth island" - Ko Olina - he offered up the annexation of Hawaii to the Asian hordes:

When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia -- the kinds of fundamental reforms and changes both on the revenue side and the public pension side that other countries are having to make are so much more significant than what we need to do in order to get our books in order.

Next, he embarrassed our Japanese allies:

International media broadcast a U.S. government report on Saturday that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told Obama that he is willing to “put all goods, as well as services, on the negotiating table for trade liberalization,” or free trade deals.

Japan’s foreign ministry quickly denied the claim on Sunday. “Prime Minister Noda never said this,” the ministry wrote in a statement.

On Monday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest affirmed the U.S. report during a press conference...

Just how dumb is the Obama administration? Free trade is a sensitive issue in Japan, and most likely the Japanese PM was trying to quietly work out a deal with us. But Barack Obama and his cronies, desperate for any appearance of a diplomatic victory, just had to open their fat traps and crow about it. And blew the whole f*cking deal up in the process.

And how's this for smart diplomacy - praising China, our biggest creditor and most dangerous competitor, for being - get this - "grown up":

...the Chinese government reacted sourly to Obama’s Nov. 13 statement that China has “grown up,” and should end its long-standing “mercantilist” practice of artificially lowering the value of its currency to boost domestic growth by spurring exports and constricting imports.

“Now they’ve grown up, and so they’re going to have to help manage this process in a responsible way,” Obama said during a press conference.


But trust me - Obama is just getting started! Now he turns his stupidity on his own people, while making this now-infamous remark:

“We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades,” he said during a scripted conversation Saturday in Hawaii with Boeing’s CEO at a summit for Pacific region business leaders.

Obama said the cure is an increased recruitment effort by the federal government — not, as conservatives urge, lower taxes and reduced regulation.

Sigh. The tonic for everything is more government. That, and Bush-bashing:

Obama also took time in the Saturday press event to disparage former President George W. Bush’s foreign policy in the Pacific.

“Obviously, having gone through a couple of tough years, having been engaged in a decade of war, we recognize all the challenges that are out there for the United States....

“The news I have to deliver for the American people is American leadership is still welcome.”


I am sure that's true. It's just our current leadership that the rest of the world wishes would just stay home....

Obama's Hubris: Amazingly, The Only Thing That Has Grown During His Term In Office

Rich Lowery, writing in today's New York Post, talks about how disappointed the president appears to be in us, and how easily he shifts the blame from himself and his own policies onto the American people, who apparently are the cause of the obvious failure of his presidency:

Obama’s “lazy” comment ("America has gotten “lazy” in the last few decades at attracting foreign investment")is one of a series carrying an undercurrent of disapproval of the country he is so luckless to govern. A few weeks ago, he observed that Americans had gotten “a little soft and we didn’t have the same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades.” At a San Francisco fund-raiser, he lamented that “we have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.”

...It never seems to enter his mind that he might’ve disappointed us, but he certainly seems to think that we’ve disappointed him. We’ve been lazy and soft in our practices going back decades, hopeless until the advent of one Barack H. Obama, the would-be Redeemer President frustrated by the recalcitrant national material with which he’s forced to work, Michelangelo with a bum piece of marble.

The president's accusations against the American people are Freudian projection at its finest. Ambition?  Obama shows no desire for hard work, save on the golf course.  Imagination?  Obama doesn't have a new idea in his head, presenting repetitive, recycled liberal polices - all of which have already failed in practice as "bold new ideas", when they are nothing of the sort.  Competitive edge?  Dude, you're the one who just blocked a pipeline that would have created thousands of jobs and lowered the price of oil considerably, because it didn't fit your selfish political calculations.

Sigh. All I have left are two questions:

Is Barack Obama's psyche any different than the children who "Occupy" the parks of various cities across the nation, accusing the world around them of not working hard enough to fulfill their dreams?

And...Is Michelle Obama still proud of her country?

Whose House? Michael Moore's House!

You need a lot of space to park an ass that fat...or, then again, the 1% do live differently than we po' folk do...

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present...Michael Moore's lakeside mansion, valued  - even in these trying times  - in excess of $2 million dollars:

...'Cause I'm the best, I'm def, ask the rest, they left
That's my name my game and we don't need the rep
To get the booze you lose, you suckers close your mouth

I set a trap for rap that's crap
It's Run's house!
Whose house? Say what Run's house!
Whose house? Say what Run's house!
Some underestimate and miscalculate
My intent to create what I call the great...

In Which Scott Pelley Does Us all A Favor....

You've probably seen the video clip from Saturday night's Republican debate by now. CBS "moderator" Scott Pelley attempted to lecture Newt Gingrich on the “rule of law” regarding American citizens who join with enemy forces in order to wage war against the US.  Pelley thought he had embarrassed Gingrich, and elevated himself, when he (Pelley) declared that killing terrorists overseas is not consistent with the aforementioned “rule of law”.

Just look at Scott Pelley's face after launching his verbal attack on Newt Gingrich:

The smug, self-satisfied look of a liberal who feels they have all the answers.  Note the head tilt, slightly askew and towards the audience, as if he expected a thunderous ovation to follow his inane utterances.

Well, he got some scattered applause.  The thunderous ovation was reserved for Newt's smackdown of this little liberal bitch:



And yet it seems that Pelley did us a favor, by revealing to any remaining Americans still unsure on the issue that yes, the media is exceeding liberal,  as well as exceedingly hostile to all viewpoints countering their own.  The Corner's Michael Walsh:

The MSM just did every conservative, including the candidates, a huge favor by letting the mask slip and flashing its true ugly face for the cameras....

But let’s also understand how they look at it. By Pelley’s lights, he was only doing the Lord’s work, holding the Right’s feet to the fire on basic principles in a way that journalists generally would never do for the Left.

That’s because they’ve internalized the Left’s Manichean world view — not simply that Right=wrong, but that there’s no real discussion to have regarding the other side’s basic philosophy, which they regard as outmoded and/or malignant.

What Newt is doing — finally — is showing the Right how to fight back, by turning the Left’s own weapons (in this case, of sneering disdain) back on them.

Peter Wehner is less kind:

Unlike his able and informed co-moderator, National Journal’s Major Garrett, Pelley came across as schoolmarmish, smug, arrogant, unlikeable, clumsy (he tried to cut off Mitt Romney when Romney still had plenty of time left to answer his question) and at times ignorant.

...Pelley doesn’t understand — as, say, Jim Lehrer does — the role of the moderator is to take a back seat in debates, to move the discussion along as seamlessly as possible, to illuminate rather than hector, and not to become a focal point or advocate for a particular point of view.

In addition, and in general, Pelley treated the candidates like they were unruly children. As for the audience, he didn’t instruct it not to applaud; he lectured it.

Scott Pelley, then, came across as unprofessional and biased, tendentious and out of his depth, and he confirmed many of the stereotypes conservatives have of the press.


Disrespectful of the candidates for the highest office in the land, scornful of the audience who had come to view a debate between the candidates, not involving the moderator, and completely out of his intellectual depth. That's Scott Pelley, representing CBS before America.

And do you know what? He did it perfectly.

Frank Miller Unloads On "Occupy Wall Street"

This must be a crushing blow to the OWS crowd.  Frank Miller is a legendary graphic novelist ("Sin City", "The Dark Knight", and of course"300"), and since the reading level of the average 'Occupier" seems not to be very far above comic book level, well...this is a trashing they can understand:

“Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH!  Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.

Wake up, pond scum...

In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.


Your humble blogger will add nothing to this commentary, as it would be nothing more than the extra, unnecessary brush-stroke that destroys a masterpiece...

"I literally picked up the phone and called Jon Corzine...

...and said 'Jon, what do you think we should do' ?

The reason we called Jon is because we knew he knew about the economy..."

That's Clueless Joe Biden speaking on behalf of Crooked Jon Crozine. The man who, after almost destroying New Jersey by digging a bottomless bit of irretrievable debt, went into the private sector and destroyed a 100 year old company (and who knows how many lives), by buying an irredeemable amount of irretrievable debt.  All of which - both times - Corzine did with other people's money.

Which of course explains why the nation as a whole is where it is now.  Did Obama intentionally seek out the worst advice he could find?  Or was he simply willing to only listen to the counsel of his ideological siblings (and his #1 Wall Street campaign bundler)?  Or, did every sane economist hop into their cars and drive away as soon as the White House came up on their caller ID, leaving Obama and Clueless Joe with only Jon Corzine and Paul Krugman?

Here's the video, via  JWF.  We can ponder the reasons as we dress in pickle-barrels and warm ourselves with refuse fires in garbage cans...




UPDATE: I, for one, will not be happy until Crooked Jon is in prison. Wonder how hard the Obama administration will try to prevent that from happening? But it may be too late to close the barn door on this animal:

The $633 million in missing client funds from Jon Corzine’s now-bankrupt firm MF Global appears to be a result of a “massive hide-and-seek ploy,” a US Commodity Futures Trading commissioner said yesterday.

“This isn’t just a lost-and-found inquiry; it’s a full-on effort to get to the bottom of what appears to be a massive hide-and-seek ploy,” said CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton said in disclosing the MF investigation.

“It’s a distinct possibility, some would say probability, that somebody has done something with the money, and that it’s not going to be ‘all of a sudden discovered’ with an innocent explanation,” Chilton wrote. “If that’s the case, it’s patently illegal. I don’t know yet. Our investigation will uncover that, and we’re aggressively pursuing this.”

Political Animals At Occupy Denver Elect The Wrong Dog...

I really thought the reports weren't serious, that is was all a joke....but it appears the folks at Occupy Denver did in fact elect a dog to be their leader.  And even stranger, they did it as some kind of protest against would-be ally/closet 1%'er Michael Moore:

...it began with Michael Moore. Stung by the documentarian's refusal to follow general assembly guidelines at his recent visit to Occupy Denver, the idea of electing a symbolic (if hairy) leader struck him as an opportune statement.

"(Moore) walked in with security and made everyone listen to him in the center of the circle with a bullhorn like he was our leader, even though he said out loud it's a leaderless movement," says Nesby, a recent Westword profile subject. He and a few fellow occupiers gathered to contradict the misconception that the group needs an end-all representative....

OK, whatever that means. I just thought they elected the smartest mammal present...

But while Shelby seems to be a sweet, kind dog, I'm not sure she really has what it takes to lead a socialist rebellion.

The Occupy Denver group should have looked to the home of whiny, needy fascists, and gotten a clue. If you are going to rebel against society with a dog at the helm, he or she had better be a...Riot Dog:

...fearless, and at the front lines...

With the troops before battle...

Leading the anarchist army through the fog of tear gas...

Not afraid of mace, baton, nor firearm, Riot Dog charges the enforcers of the status quo, as they quail with fear....

A mocking strut before his vanquished foes...

This is a protest dog.  This is a leader, with guts, brains, and apparent military acumen.

And he likely smells better than anyone at the Occupy Denver camp as well...

Laid-Off MF Employees Have a Message For Jon Corzine

“F--k you, you f--kin’ f--k!”

That was on a t-shirt worn by one of the 1,066 hard-working people who were laid off yesterday from Jon Corzine's MF Global. Laid off because Jon Corzine went all-in with their company's(and their customers?) money on a bad bet - that sovereign debt would always be bailed out. A bet made with a 2008 mentality. A bet made by a man who thought the private sector was indistinguishable from the public, who treated customer accounts as if they were no more than taxpayer money, funds he could squander with no accountability.

A man who was Barack Obama's #1 Wall Street bundler, and was on the president's very short list to replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary.

More words from the people who's lives were destroyed by Jon Corzine:

“Happy holidays, Corzine, from all your employees who’ve been fired without severance packages!” a worker fumed at her former company CEO as she left the firm’s building at 717 Fifth Ave.
“I have two little kids, it’s almost Christmas, the economy stinks -- how am I gonna find a job?” said another worker who just cleaned out his desk...

 “It ended like this because of one man,” said Anthony DiMatteo, who worked for MF for 16 years. Corzine is “selfish, greedy,” he said.
If Corzine were around, DiMatteo told Bloomberg News, “I would punch him in the face.”

“He placed bets with people’s lives.....Anybody coming out of grad school could have told him not to make those bets,” said Desparois.
And, though he figured the layoffs were coming, Desparois said he wonders, “How long can I survive?”

Jon will survive - he's a billionaire, and a friend of Barack's to boot. His former employees at MF Global are not so lucky:

The 1,066 employees will be paid through next Tuesday, and health benefits will run out at the end of November. Bonuses and other financial perks won’t be paid, workers said.Out on the street. Broke, jobless, in an economy that goes further south every day. Maybe Corzine should reach out to those whose lives he ruined in an act of selfishness and stupidity, and offer them a bailout out of his own pocket. Giving 1,000+ people $100K each would hardly put a dent in his pocketbook, and may save the families of many he so recklessly put in peril.

But I don't think Jon will be redistributing his money in such a fashion. You see, as far as Democrats are concerned, redistribution is taking the money out of other people's pockets and putting it into theirs, not the other way around.

And why haven't the Republicans been all over this - a Democrat's destruction of jobs, lives, and families, all in the name of Wall Street greed, all while working closely with Barack Obama, who is running his re-election campaign based on opposition to these very same themes?

If they can't capitalize on this, we might just lose in 2012 after all...

Media Pushes False Narrative on 2011 Elections

If you read the papers, you would have thought the Republicans took a beating on Tuesday no less than what the Democrats suffered in the 2010 midterm elections.

EJ Dionne, always a reflection of the liberal media's thought processes:

This week's elections around the country were brought to you by the word "overreach," specifically conservative overreach. Given an opportunity in 2010 to build a long-term majority, Republicans instead pursued extreme and partisan measures. On Tuesday, they reaped angry voter rebellions.

Really? True that in Ohio, the governor's attempt to mimic what Walker had done in Wisconsin backfired on him tremendously, but was there really an "angry voter rebellion"?

Short answer - no. The Corner:

...it now looks like Republicans won control of the Mississippi house and Virginia senate on Tuesday — the first by an outright majority of 62 out of 120 house seats and the latter by achieving a 20–20 tie with Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor tipping the balance as the presiding officer of the senate.

Going into the 2011 election cycle, there were 25 states where Republicans controlled both chambers of their legislatures, 15 states where Democrats were in power, nine states where the chambers were split or tied, and one state (Nebraska) with a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature. With the addition of Mississippi and Virginia, there are now 27 fully Republican legislatures, 15 Democratic ones, and seven splits. The last time the GOP had this much legislative power in state capitals, most motion pictures were still being produced without sound...

And that's not to mention the massive Republican sweep in my little hometown in Jersey...

Bottom line: A few high-profile losses, but more significant low-level victories.  In other words, on balance, we won, as the nation turned slightly more towards the right.  And in response, the media is trying to paint this not just as a loss, but as a backlash against our policies, when in fact the voters, overall, strengthened them by maintaining and adding to our legislative control.

But since we know Barack Obama gets all of his guidance via the opinion pagers of two newspapers, it wouldn't surprise me to see him campaigning next week on his 2011 "victories".

Good luck with that.  Take a closer look at Virginia and you'll see the president's fingerprints all over the fail...

The Last Pair Of Balls In Europe

Nigel Farage is the leader of what will soon be the third largest party in Great Britain, UKIP, as they sit one percentage point behind the Liberal Democrats. They are of a libertarian bent, and created basically in opposition to the European Union.

Already, he sounds prescient. But what's best about him is that he tells it like it is - not to adoring crowds, but directly to the face of his adversaries.

This first clip is classic. To EU president Herman Van Rompuy in the Brussels chamber:

"You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a bank clerk."

"Who are you? I've never heard of you, nobody in Europe has ever heard of you...who voted for you?"




Addressing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the successor to poor Van Rompuy

Mr Orbán, welcome.

After the six-month farce of the Belgian presidency it's nice to see an elected prime minister from a proper country...

And how I enjoyed your denouncement of communism as a dangerous ideology, and I noted the pride that you took in the fact that Hungary were the first country to take up arms against the Soviet Union.

Well 20 years after you won back your ability to govern yourselves democratically you are now part of a new European Union that increasingly shows similarities with that old Soviet Union. In fact you're going to meet lots of communists over the next six months, including the boss of the Commission here, old Barroso, who was an advocate of Chairman Mao.

You will see centralised economic planning and control. And above all what you'll see is a desire to impose a political union upon the peoples of Europe without their consent....




And one more...."What is the most commonly used word in association with the Euro? No, it's not 'failure', though it could be..."




Of course, the BBC hates him, and has labeled him as shifty-eyed, xenophobic, right wing nut. Which they try to reinforce pretty much very night. And while the people of England have been slower to realize the biases of their media outlets than we have on this side of the pond, they are beginning to awaken.

Truth be told, I'm jealous. We can use a man like Nigel Farage here in the states. The best we can do, apparently, is Mitt Romney. Sigh...

More here...

Representative Joe Walsh Answers Elizabeth Warren

The left is calling it a meltdown, but it is no angrier, and much more reality-based, than Elizabeth Warren's ugly rant against the private sector.  Rep. Walsh (R-Ill.) tries to explain to his constituents that it is the government that got us into this housing crisis, while they argue back with the Obama-generated, blame-the-banks class warfare trope.  Joe gets a bit...animated, but who doesn't when they are dealing with the one-track mindless muddle that is the liberal intellect?

The fact that it looks and sounds like it is about to break into a bench-clearing bar brawl makes the whole scene even more surrealistic....still, he'd liven up the debates.  Herman Cain without the sex rap, I suppose...

My favorite part:

Joe: "I need more coffee"
Constituent: "I think you've had enough"

Republican Win In Old Bridge, New Jersey Holds National Lessons

I'm so giddy, I need to show the results again:

Old Bridge
Mayor One 4-Year Term
Patrick M. Gillespie (D)* 4,505
x Owen Henry (R) 5,057

Old Bridge
Council-At-Large Three 4-Year Terms
Edward Testino (D)* 4,160
John F. Gillick (D) 4,121
Kelly Ellis-Foster (D) 4,104
x Brian J. Cahill (R)* 5,232
x Eleanor "Debbie" Walker (R) 5,035
x James H. Anderson (R) 4,955


A surprise in Old Bridge and a narrow victory in Franklin highlighted Tuesday’s election results.

It was a sweeping victory for the Republicans in Old Bridge.

Republican mayoral candidate Owen Henry received 5,330 votes, defeating Democratic Mayor Patrick Gillespie, who received 4,780.

The Republicans also will take control of the Township Council. Republicans James H. Anderson, Eleanor “Debbie” Walker and incumbent Brian J. Cahill defeated Democrats John F. Gillick and incumbents Kelly Ellis-Foster and Edward Testino.

Henry said the Rebublicans are thrilled with the election results.

“The Democrats have been in control for 14 years and now the Democratic octopus has been broken,” Henry said... .The residents came out and spoke loud and clear. We had a tremendous amount of support....

“We were on the right side of the issues and ran a clean campaign and I think people saw that. We came with a simple message that we were business people and would take a commonsense approach to government. I am ecstatic and honored to be part of the process.”


What lessons can be applied nationally here?

-Voters understand the facts - perhaps the biggest issue in the campaign was the recent vote by the Democratic mayor and Council to give full pension and retirement benefits to any municipal employee who works a mere 15 years for the Township, down from 25. That's a bribe to the municipal employees that will come out of the townspeople's pocket, and everyone knew it. Pensions as an electoral game-changer? Uh-huh...

-Thuggery doesn't scare off honest Americans. You can shatter windows, abuse women, and engage in childish vandalism as the Old Bridge Democrats did, but it is a useless tactic against a free and strong people. Worse - it is counterproductive. Are national Republicans still too scared to tie the Democrats to their beloved "Occupy" movement yet?

-inspire the grassroots. I am a grass root. So root, that I have no dealings with my local Republican party whatsoever. I just talk to my friends and neighbors about the importance of voting and why I vote Republican, and how their choices affect their own lives. Personally, I likely got 10-12 people to the polls, maybe more. A lot in an election decided by 500 votes.

-Jon Corzine must -  must -  be tied to Barack Obama. He's electoral poison here.  Listening to the radio call-in shows last night, New Jersyans voiced overwhelming disgust with their former governor, with more than one Democrat coming out of the closet on the air to admit they had voted for Chris Christie and were glad. Wanna win New Jersey in 2012? Remind the voters what butt-buddies Corzine and Obama were. That's worth a few points in the polls, I guarantee it.


Which is why, if the Republicans nominate a wishy-washy compromiser to run for President in 2012, one who is afraid to point out the thuggery of the Left, one who vows not to tear down the system but to work within in, one that does not excite the ever-growing Republican base - Obama could win re-election. Without a clear, distinct choice, folks will go for the one they know - the one that carries their party affiliation.

The national Republican party ought to look at my little town in Jersey to see how it is done...

More "upset" Republican victories in Jersey here and here...

Old Bridge, New Jersey: A Clean Sweep For the Republicans!

Facism fails in Old Bridge - Read it and weep, you tax-hiking, brownshirted bullies :

Old Bridge
Mayor One 4-Year Term
Patrick M. Gillespie (D)* 4,505
x Owen Henry (R) 5,057

Old Bridge
Council-At-Large Three 4-Year Terms
Edward Testino (D)* 4,160
John F. Gillick (D) 4,121
Kelly Ellis-Foster (D) 4,104
x Brian J. Cahill (R)* 5,232
x Eleanor "Debbie" Walker (R) 5,035
x James H. Anderson (R) 4,955

Every single key Township Democrat tossed out of their office, on their ass.

I love my little town in Jersey...

"OWS" Racists Taunt, Mock Black Security Guard

Yeah, just like the Tea Party did.



From the comments:

I bet that girl in the red shirt hasn't showered, brushed her teeth or shaved her armpits in about two weeks.

...Funny how the language of racist hatred comes so easy to the 99%.

#OWS are a bunch of animals. If the4 Republicans aren't gutless cowards, they'll remind the voters which Democratic politicians stood up and supported these brain-dead, hate-filled thugs...

Jews & "Occupy Wall Street": Just Digging Their Own Graves...

Is it that important to the American Jew to be seem first and foremost as a liberal that he would join forces with those who wish to destroy him?

Short answer: Yes.

You cannot claim ignorance, not with the preponderance of evidence, not when they march on the Israeli consulate in Boston in an attempt to shut it down.

American Jews are Jews second, liberal first.  And they prove it every time they support people like Barack Obama, or join movements such as #OWS.

Johnathan Tobin has a warning:

The outrage in Boston also ought to remind liberal Jews who might otherwise be inclined to sympathize with OWS that the far left in this country is a cesspool of anti-Zionism. Liberals who make common cause with OWS are making a deal with an anti-Semitic and radical devil.

Will history repeat itself? Matthew Ackerman reminds us of the fate of Solomon Mikhoels:

Mikhoels actively supported Stalin against Adolf Hitler, and in 1942, he was made chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In this capacity, he travelled around the world, meeting with Jewish communities to encourage them to support the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany.

While this was useful to Stalin during World War II, after the war, Stalin opposed contacts between Soviet Jews and Jewish communities in non-Communist countries, which he deemed as "bourgeoisie". The Jewish State Theater was closed and the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested – all except for two were eventually executed in the purges shortly before Stalin's death.

Mikhoels was the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, and a show trial would have cast aspersions on Stalin's rule. Thus in January 1948, he was assassinated on Stalin's personal orders in Minsk. His death was disguised as a hit-and-run car accident....Mikhoels was bludgeoned to death along with his non-Jewish colleague Golubov-Potapov and their bodies were dumped on a road-side in Minsk and run over by a truck.

Good liberal, dead Jew

Ackerman begs his fellow Jews to remember...

...Jews who cast their lot with the villainizers of capitalism only to find themselves ultimately cast as the villains.

All of this should be so well-understood by now that it doesn’t require repetition. Unfortunately, many Jews still seem driven by the conviction that radical politics will somehow, this time, provide them and the world the salvation it always promises but never delivers. It’s no small thing then that we ask they at least do us the favor of not wearing their kippot like badges of honor as they walk once again down that ruinous path.

Let's see if the Jews are as smart as we think we are.

But being oft surrounded by them, I despair...

Sharon Bialek: The Best Thing To Happen To Herman Cain?

So after all the innuendo and code words (but no actual details besides a "uncomfortable gesture"), the media was thrilled that a women had finally "stepped forward" with the exact details of the sexual assault she endured from Herman Cain.  But not only was Sharon Bialek's tale a bit over the top ("he suddenly reached under my skirt and grabbed for my genitals"), it seems as if our accuser has a bit of a shady past herself.  Andrea Peyser in the New York Post gives us a glimpse at the real Sharon Bialek, and labels her a gold digger:

I love a good romantic farce as much as the next bored housewife. But the question remains: Why sit on this seeming sexual assault for 14 years?

According to someone who knows Bialek: “She has a very infectious personality. It’s easy to see how she won [Cain] over. But the reality of her situation is -- she’s a complete gold digger. It’s all about the money.”

"I feel like I just won the lottery!  

The friend said she comes from a lower-middle-income family, but lives in a posh apartment running from bill collectors. “Most of her jobs ended in termination. It’s always the employer’s fault, not hers.

“This is a lady who lives off the system. She is hellbent on finding a way of never having to work and living the lifestyle she wants to live, a very affluent lifestyle. In my next life, I want to come back as her.”

The sad part is that Bialek has a 13-year-old son who must live with the shame and media scrutiny.


More at The Corner:

The public record on Bialek begins in 1991 when she filed personal bankruptcy for the first time while living in Des Plaines.

Between 1993 and 1996 Bialek worked for four different companies in promotion and marketing positions.
In 1999, Bialek’s son Nicholas was born and a paternity lawsuit was filed by the father, a media executive.

In 2001 came Bialek’s second personal bankruptcy, filed after sizable legal bills. That year she was hired by WGN radio where she worked until 2004 when she took a marketing job and then a job at WCKG radio.


What would you call a person who would interfere with the entire national political process in order to earn some fame for herself, and maybe a quick payday, regardless of the shame she might accrue?

Yeah, "whore" was the word I was thinking of as well. And whores don't have a lot of credibility with the public (though the media loves them - remember the Duke "rape case"? Uh huh...), so I doubt Sharon Bialek's story will carry much weight with the voting public.

But if ever a time was ripe to create a backlash against the media - for hanging an innocent black man on the word of a fallen women - this might be the moment...

"Sharon darling, try to wipe the smirk off your face....it's not playing well...."

UPDATE:  Seems as if Ms. Bialek has quite a litigious history:

In the courts, Ms. Bialek has had a lengthy record in the Cook County Court system over various civil lawsuits. The following cases on file in Cook County are:

· 2000-M1-707461 Defendant against Broadcare Management

· 2000-M1-714398 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management

· 2000-M1-701522 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management

· 2005-M1-111072 Defendant in lawsuit against Mr. Mark Beatovic.

· 2007-M1-189176 Defendant in lawsuit against Midland Funding.

· 2009-M1-158826 Defendant in lawsuit against Illinois Lending.

Ms. Bialek was also sued in 1999 over a paternity matter according to ABC 7 Chicago..