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Republican John Colbert on ‘Congressional Terrorism’ in California

Posted on | January 11, 2010 | 6 Comments

The GOP candidate challenging Rep. Adam Schiff in CA29 is profiled in my latest article for The American Spectator:

“If it was politics as usual right now, Adam Schiff would be untouchable,” Colbert said in a brief interview after Saturday’s event. Schiff is vulnerable because of his unstinting support of the Democratic leadership’s policy agenda.
“They’ve divided our nation . . . It’s tearing our country apart,” Colbert said, expressing a sentiment widely shared by dozens of Tea Party activists who crowded into a private home in Altadena for the weekend meeting.
California is the scene of one of the most spectacular failures of liberal environmental policy, the cutoff of irrigation to farmers into the Central Valley. Instituted by federal mandate to save a tiny endangered fish, the delta smelt, this policy has created a new “Dust Bowl” estimated to have cost $703 million in lost farm revenue and 21,000 jobs in California, already hard hit by unemployment and with a projected $21 billion state budget shortfall.
“It’s just obscene,” Colbert told the Altadena group Saturday, recounting his recent tour through the once-prosperous farming region. “It’s congressional terrorism.” . . .

You can read the rest of that and, with a hat tip to Chris Cassone, check out video of Victoria Jackson in the Hot Air Greenroom singing “There’s a Communist Living in the White House.”

C’mon, people: You didn’t think Dan Collins would ask you to fly me all the way to California just so I could cover a football game, did you? There are no accidents. The West Coast branch of the VRWC needed some help, and the BCS championship game was evidently God’s way of making sure they got it.

Besides which, Victoria Jackson is an Auburn fan and God wanted me to go taunt her about the War Eagles losing to the Tide the past two years. Remember that God wears a houndstooth hat and smokes two packs of unfiltered Chesterfields before lunch.

Exit question: Why does God want Tucker Carlson to talk to a janitor at the San Francisco airport?

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6 Responses to “Republican John Colbert on ‘Congressional Terrorism’ in California”

  1. Mark "Snooper" Harvey
    January 11th, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

    Question: when will America douse themselves of all liberal agendas? I suppose we MUST teach them -against the will of Congress – that the US Constitution is in fact REAL?

    Liberalsim…America’s downfall.

  2. Mark "Snooper" Harvey
    January 11th, 2010 @ 8:30 am

    Question: when will America douse themselves of all liberal agendas? I suppose we MUST teach them -against the will of Congress – that the US Constitution is in fact REAL?

    Liberalsim…America’s downfall.

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