Category: Democrats

‘Red Blog Needs Food Badly’ #GauntletRef RT @BarackObama: What’s your reason for voting Obama-Biden?

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by Smitty

So, yeah, I’ll be off to Room 101 for this. . .

Political Chick Flick In A Nutshell

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by Smitty

This is great:

The larger question is, Why. Are. People. Voting. Hormonally?

If I’ve gleaned anything these last years, it’s that the more simple, boring, rational, and close to a mathematical proof that politics are, the better. Sure, appeals have to be made to the testosterone and the estrogen; we are humans after all. But less is more.

via Dr. Sanity, with more at The National Review (via Insty).

Could The Families Of Woods & Doherty Go On Fox To Comment?

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by Smitty

Via The Corner. . .

The President earlier today issued a proclamation recognizing November as Military Family Month. It notes:

We each have a solemn duty to serve our Armed Forces and their families as well as they serve us…This month, we reaffirm that we will always lift up our military families – not just when their loved are away, but also long after the welcome home ceremonies are over.

Yeah, that’ll sure swing the military vote next Tuesday. Technically, Woods & Doherty were not part of a DoD mission per se, but their fate epitomizes the subtext of disdain this President seems to feel for all ‘corpse men’.

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder.

BOYLE: SEN. MENENDEZ REFUSES TO RELEASE TRAVEL RECORDS

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The prostitution allegations against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez have caused the Democrat’s challenger, Republican Joe Kyrillos, to demand that Menendez release his travel records. There are important questions about Menendez’s trips to the Dominican Republic — where two prostitutes have claimed they were paid to have sex with him — and yet the senator’s staff will not respond to the Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle’s questions about the records:

Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright has refused to answer any questions on the subject. . . .
Enright has not answered when asked if Menendez will release his travel records.
Menendez’s 2012 public schedule shows no events listed for Easter or the following three days. On Easter Sunday this year, aircraft records obtained by TheDC show that Menendez donor Salomon Melgen’s private plane left Florida the morning of Easter Sunday, stopped at the Teterboro private airport near Menendez’s home in New Jersey, and flew on to the Dominican Republic.
Two days later it returned to the United States, from a private airport near Casa de Campo.
Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida, appears to have lent Menendez the use of his plane on several occasions and it is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic.
On at least one occasion, according to a news account, Menendez has been a guest at Melgen’s Casa de Campo home.
Melgen has donated $14,700 to Menendez’s campaigns since 1993, with the bulk of it coming since he became a U.S. Senator, according to Federal Election Commission data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Smoke, fire, some assembly required. If Sen. Menendez has nothing to hide, why is his office refusing to address Boyle’s questions?

UPDATE: Ace of Spades:

Maybe he’s afraid his travel records were #hacked.

Christie/Obama Caption Contest

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by Smitty

Things Christie might be saying to tighten Obama’s jaw:

 

  • “Did you read that book I sent you by Walter Mondale, Psychological Strategies for Dealing with a Crushing Election Defeat?”
  • “If you need coaching for how to deal with actual media, I can help wean you off of MTV and Strolling Drone.”
  • “Has your wife stopped beating you?”
  • “I find that, when throwing the weight around, it is helpful to have some weight.”
  • “We went under the Hurricane Sandra bus like she was a pack of Benghazi jihadis doing their impression of Keenau Reeves in Speed.”
  • “You know that Lincoln bit about fooling some of the people some of the time? Yeahhh, that’s kinda up for ya.”
  • “I’m curious what dirt you have on Bruce Springsteen to get him to prostitute himself for your campaign like that.”
  • “Isn’t it ironic that a guy as anti-British as you sits at a desk made from the timber of the H.M.S. Resolute?”
  • “Have you figured out the pricing structure for presidential pardons yet?”
  • “What if it turns out that the people are far less stupid than you treat them?”

via Breitbart

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder

Update II: linked by Daily Pundit, who accuses me of being too nice. I’m wiling to commit to a definite maybe.

BOB MENENDEZ AND HOOKERS?

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Dominican hookers, to be specific. This is what we’re hearing about the sex scandal involving a “powerful senator” in a headline being touted by Drudge, with a story by the Daily Caller promised late tonight.

UPDATE: Shortly after the Drudge Report headline went up, my associate Ali Akbar got a tip that the story involved Sen. Menendez of New Jersey and at least one prostitute with whom he trysted on a taxpayer-funded trip to the Dominican Republic. Within one hour, Akbar had confirmed this with other sources, and we understand that numerous reporters in D.C. have heard similar reports.

UPDATE II: Some online sources are saying underaged Dominican hookers, but Ali’s sources cannot confirm the age of the alleged partner.

UPDATE III: Menendez’s Republican challenger is Joe Kyrillos who, unless I’m mistaken, suddenly became a serious contender.

UPDATE IV: The Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle:

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.
In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa. Both asked that their identities remain obscured for fear of reprisals in the Dominican Republic. . . .
Asked about the allegations, Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright refused to answer any questions on the subject. “We’re not going to respond to a completely false accusation,” she wrote by email.
It is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic. On at least one occasion, according to a news account, Menendez has been a guest at the Casa de Campo home of a friend and campaign donor named Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida.

What would Lilly Ledbetter say?

UPDATE V (Smitty): Thank you to our linkers!

UPDATE VI: The story moves forward:

 

Unborn People With An Interest In Life May Have A Conflict With Eric Holder

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by Smitty

Workin’ hard, tryin’ to muster some surprise:

Just cleared in the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning debacle, the nation’s top lawman now faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder’s failure to prosecute abortion providers who run afoul of federal law.
Critics say it also may explain why Holder has been eager to prosecute pro-life advocates who counsel women outside abortion clinics.

Read the whole sordid thing. Is Eric the kind of guy who’d withhold support if you were locked in a firefight that could cost you your life? Sure wish I could answer that in the negative.

Update: linked at Hogewash.

Shorter Gingrich: ‘Benghazi Fertilizer On Collision Course With The Air Circulator’

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by Smitty

 

“There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down,” Gingrich said. “But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines and C-130s and the fighter aircraft, and they were told explicitly by the White House stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action. If that is true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that is true and comes out, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, and Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that he said don’t go. And that is, I think, very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do everything they could to secure American personnel.”

By next Tuesday, anybody still deciding to vote for #OccupyResoluteDesk shall have achieved ‘dishonorable chump’ status.

For a special twist, I hope there is an unveiling of the emails from a big manila envelope marked ‘Sealed Court Records’. This adds no value whatsoever to the information; it’s just that #OccupyResoluteDesk deserves to have all his perfidy rubbed in his smug face both now, and for decades to come.

More at Bluegrass Pundit.

via Daily Caller and Breitbart