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MA-4: Has Obama Taught Us About Electing Buffoons? NO To Joe Kennedy III, YES To Sean Bielat

Posted on | October 3, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Via Not Another Kennedy:

Sean Bielat, despite his impressive 2010 showing that drove the odious Barney Frank into retirement, faces an uphill battle this November to represent MA-4. Lesser Americans might melt; Marines thrive on the challenge.

In stark contrast to Sean’s leadership and managerial skills, Little Joe brings. . .name recognition. Also, an equestrian distaste for being asked questions by his subjectsconstituents.
Boston.com, reviewing the first of three debates to which Kennedy has condescended:

Bielat, 37, said his experience in private business and the military qualified him for the seat.
Kennedy, 31, strongly defended his qualifications, pointing to his record as a prosecutor in the Middlesex and Cape & Islands district attorney’s offices and before that as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic.

Peace Corps. Really. Read the whole thing.

Sean Bielat for Congress, MA-4?

It’s not true that the Peace Corps is filled with dope smoking Commies. But why chance letting one into Congress, MA-4?

Category: Massachusetts, Sean Bielat

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.03.12

Posted on | October 3, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE: 10.03.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
GOP Accuses Obama Of Ignoring Libya Warnings

Libyan security officer stands in front of security office attacked by civilian mobs

Issa, Chaffetz say Administration ignored pleas by diplomats in Libya to increase security
Related: Demonstrations in Tripoli demand militia disbandment

Senate Panel Rips DHS Fusion Centers
Billions wasted to gather intel on innocent Americans, no useful intel on terrorists produced

Ann Romney Takes Larger Role In Campaign
Pushing back against the defeatists



POLITICS
Border Patrol Agent Slain, Partner Wounded On Arizona Border

Border Patrol agents look over the fence into Mexico

Unknown gunmen sought by US, Mexican police forces

Warren Maintains Narrow Lead In WBUR Poll

Joe Biden: Middle Class Buried Under Obama (Video)

Was Obama’s Other Race Speech Ignored?

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Suspended For 2012


NJ To Order Spending Cuts In Newark As City Begins Tenth Month Without Budget

Obama Outspending Romney On TV

Outside Money Fills Airwaves In Tight Senate Races

Over Half Of California’s Asian-Americans Either Independents Or Nonpartisan



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Drift Lower On Light, Choppy Trading: NYMEX $91.89, Brent $111.57
The ECB’s Plan For Spain May Not Be Enough
US Manufacturing Sector Expands In September
ADB Lowers India’s Growth Outlook To 5.6%
Lenovo To Start First US Production Line
Soy, Grains Fall On Higher Harvest Estimates
LinkedIn Gets Serious About Content, Adds “Follow” And Blogging Features
Intel Spreads $40 Million Investment Love To Ten Companies
Logitech Harmoney Touch: Say Goodbye To Buttons
Samsung Claims Jury Foreman Lied About Past To Get On Apple v. Samsung Jury
T-Mobile In Talks To Buy MetroPCS



SPORTS
Dodgers Eliminated As Comeback Falls Short

Dodgers watch from dugout as playoff hopes evaporate

4-3 loss to Giants seals fate

O’s Survive Rays, Yanks Top Sox

A’s Tie Rangers For AL West Lead

Cardinals Clinch Playoff Slot Despite Loss To Reds

Tigers’ Cabrera Won’t Sit Out Triple Crown Race

Cubs Fall To Astros In Matchup Of 100-Loss Teams

Rays Waste 15 K’s From Shields, Fall To O’s 1-0

Adam Greenberg Returns For His Moonlight Graham Moment With Marlins

NHL Estimates Preseason Losses At $100 Million

LaRoche Hits 33rd Homer, 100th RBI As Nats Beat Phillies 4-2



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Not Chunky But Curvy: Lady Gaga Rocks Versace Dress In Milan

Lady Gaga in Milan

Weight gain controversy? What weight gain?

“American Idol” Auditions Scratched After Sparks Fly Between Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey

George Clooney, Stacy Keibler Nearing A Split?

Britney Spears’ Cell Phone & Internet Use Heavily Monitored, Restricted

First Look At Esquire Cover Girl Cameron Diaz

Antoine Ashley (Better Known As Sahara Davenport) From “RuPaul’s Drag Race 2” Dies At 27

Chris Brown, Rihanna Caught Making Out At NYC Club

HBO Renews “Boardwalk Empire” For Fourth Season



FOREIGNERS
Libyans Say Few Questions Being Asked About Consulate Attack
Car Bombs Go Off In Loyalist-Held Sectors Of Aleppo, Dozens Killed
Georgia’s Saakashvili Concedes. Goes Peacefully Into Opposition
College Students Slaughtered In Nigeria Attack
Ahmadinejad Admits Rial’s Freefall Partly Due To Sanctions
Kiwis Cancel Tyson Visa For Rape Conviction
Novelist Murakami Criticizes “Hysteria” Over Senkaku Islands
Suu Kyi: Burma Must Develop Its Own Democracy
Ukraine Moves To Criminalize “Promotion Of Homosexuality”
Hezbollah Commander Reportedly Killed In Syria
Golden Temple Raid’s Commander Subject Of Attempted Murder In London
Vile Brit, Lifelong Apologist For Murderous Communist Regimes, Dies At 95
Further proof that only the good die young



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: In Municipal Court, You’re Guilty Even If Proven Innocent
S.E. Cupp: Ask The Tough Questions, Mitt
Power Line: Obama’s Shout-Out to Reverend Wright
Protein Wisdom: Anti-America’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost
NRO Corner: Five Most Controversial Quotes From Obama’s Speech At Hampton U
Stanley Kurtz: The 2007 Obama Video
GayPatriot: Modest Mittmentum Heading Into Debate
Allahpundit: Hillary Tells Issa He Should Reserve Judgment On Embassy Attacks Until November
Lonely Conservative: White House Won’t Comment On Ignored Requests For More Security In Libya
Atlas Shrugs: Obama #EpicFail – US Embassy In Libya’s Request For Extra Security Denied
NewsBusters: Not A Parody – Politico Hypes Joe Biden As Sex Symbol
Jawa Report: Obama Campaign Reduces Women To “Lady Parts”
Robert Cost: Ringside With Romney
Weasel Zippers: Flying Pig Alert NYT Public Editor Says Paper Shouldn’t Ban Use Of “Illegal Immigrant”
Shot In The Dark: A Small Victory
John Fund: Pennsylvania Voter ID Ruling A Partial Victory
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Leads By 4 In Quinnipiac Poll With 24% GOP Sample


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Category: Live at Five

Above All Else, Remember: The Federal Reserve Has Gone Malignant

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | 42 Comments

by Smitty

The New York Sun:

“Bernanke warns congress to butt out of interest-rate policy discussions . . .” is the headline up on the Drudge Report following the speech today by the Federal Reserve’s chairman at Indiana. It sounds to us like the chairman is warning Congress against passing Congressman Ron Paul’s audit-the-Fed legislation and Congressman Kevin Brady’s Sound Dollar Act, both of which would open up Fed policies to inspection. The chairman’s speech marks another step in the Fed and the Congress moving into what might be called open, if polite, confrontation.
It’s an important story. The fear the Fed chairman is trying to instill is that by conducting an audit of the Fed that includes its interest rate policy discussions, the Congress would open the Fed up to political interference. It strikes us as an illogical reach. The Fed, after all, is running one of the most radical interest rate programs in the history of the central bank. It’s been many an election since we’ve seen the Fed so close to the center of the presidential campaign.

“Zimbabwe” Ben Bernanke is #2, after #OccupyResoluteDesk, on the list of people who Have. Got. To. Go. in my opinion.

And Ben himself may not be a bad guy; maybe it’s the office. But the Federal Reserve has been for too long the bi-partisan vehicle for funding federal irresponsibility. The madness will stop. The question is whether the sudden deceleration is going to snuff the economy with it.

Category: End The Fed

‘Demorrhoids’

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Category: PJTV

VIDEO: Paul Ryan Slams Obama’s ‘Tax Increase Which Would Cost 700,000 Jobs’

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

“The average tax rate in the industrial world on businesses is 25% and . . . our successful small businesses, a million small businesses, will get hit with a tax increase which would cost us 700,000 jobs if we go down the path the President wants us. We are not going to do that.”
— Paul Ryan, interviewed by Bloomberg News

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Paul Ryan, Taxes

VIDEO: Patrick Murray Explains The Need To Retire ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | Comments Off on VIDEO: Patrick Murray Explains The Need To Retire ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran

by Smitty

In remarks to supporters on 01 October, Patrick Murray offers some biographical detail about working with Ambassador John Bolton, and then offers praise and admiration for VA-8’s incumbent Congressman, Jim Moran. For ‘heaping abuse’ values of ‘praise and admiration’.




Patrick Murray for Congress

Jim Moran is the only human on record to get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield.

Category: Patrick Murray, Virginia

EXPOSED: Obama Administration Had Advance Warning of Libyan Terror Threat

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | 14 Comments

Eli Lake has the exclusive report:

In the five months leading up to this year’s 9/11 anniversary, there were two bombings on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and increasing threats to and attacks on the Libyan nationals hired to provide security at the U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Details on these alleged incidents stem in part from the testimony of a handful of whistleblowers who approached the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the days and weeks following the attack on the Benghazi consulate. The incidents are disclosed in a letter to be sent Tuesday to Hillary Clinton from Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the oversight committee’s subcommittee that deals with national security.

More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

[I]ncompetence and dishonesty go together hand in hand — and we’re seeing plenty of both from Obama and his team in the wake of the Benghazi terrorist attack. The White House and State Department were asleep at the switch before the 9/11 anniversary attack, and they’ve been lying ever since about the circumstances behind it, too.

UPDATE: One of the lessons you learn in life is that truth is constant, whereas liars will change their stories as their lies are exposed. An editorial in USA Today makes the point:

Three weeks after an attack in Libya killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, we now know that it did not spring from a spontaneous protest, spurred by an anti-Muslim video, as the Obama administration originally described it. In fact, every aspect of the early account — peddled most prominently by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice — has unraveled.

The first instinct of the Obama administration is always to lie.

UPDATE II: Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom provides excerpts of the letter from the House Oversight Committee leadership:

“Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador’s life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012. It was clearly never, as Administration officials once insisted, the result of a popular protest . . . In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington. . . .
“Put together, these events indicated a clear pattern of security threats that could only be reasonably interpreted to justify increased security for U.S. personnel and facilities in Benghazi.”

 

 

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Category: Barack Obama, Libya

‘Someone Trying to Breathe Life into a Three-Year Old Dead Horse’

Posted on | October 2, 2012 | 21 Comments

Thus does John Fund dismiss an attempt by Nadia Naffe to create controversy around James O’Keefe III over a planned “sting” video that never happened, as embarrassing as the details may be.

O’Keefe, as you certainly know, is the young activist who became famous for his collaboration with Hannah Giles in the 2009 undercover videos that destroyed ACORN, and which sparked the successful launch of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website. Naffe is a former Republican operative who worked with O’Keefe until, in March of this year, she accused O’Keefe of sexual harassment and worse.

Naffe had been “terminated” by the Florida GOP in 2004, which led to a lawsuit that, if O’Keefe knew about it before he hired her, should have given him pause. Who would knowingly hire anyone whose former employment resulted in litigation? And this is especially true of someone whose work would require a high degree of confidentiality.

So now Naffe has made herself a weapon with which O’Keefe’s enemies seek to destroy him. She has made league with Neal Rauhauser — assisting Rauhauser in an attempt, on behalf of Brett Kimberlin, to get access to e-mails that Naffe wrongfully obtained from O’Keefe — and is now apparently ready to file a lawsuit against Patrick “Patterico” Frey:

Rauhauser has been obsessed with Patterico for more than a year, going back to the 2011 WeinerGate scandal, when Rauhauser (under his “Stranded Wind” alias) published a series of posts at Daily Kos accusing Patterico of all manner of wrongdoing:

It was in the aftermath of the WeinerGate scandal that Rauhauser evidently joined forces with Brett Kimberlin and Kimberlin’s tax-exempt 501(c)4 group Velvet Revolution. Kimberlin had his own grievance against Patterico dating back to October 2010, when Kimberlin threatened a lawsuit against Patterico.

Similarly, both Rauhauser and Kimberlin had been striving for some time to destroy Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe, which is how Nadia Naffe’s complaints against O’Keefe brought this together with their grievances against Patterico. When Naffe made her accusations against O’Keefe in March, Patterico raised questions about Naffe’s story and subsequently discovered the public-record documents relating to her 2004 lawsuit against the Republican Party.

Patterico’s criticism of Naffe and his publication of those documents is, so far as I can tell, the only grounds for complaint Naffe has against him and I can’t imagine any court finding Patterico guilty of anything, but this lawsuit is just another typical product of the Kimberlin-Rauhauser “accuse the accusers” strategy. Once they target someone, the accusations proliferate endlessly as part of an orchestrated effort to discredit anyone who might accuse them of wrongdoing. (See my June 17 article, “‘Scrubbed’ Writings Show Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser’s Obsessions,” for some relevant examples.)

Remember that Rauhauser solicited the same California attorney, Jay Leiderman, in an attempt to get SWATting target Mike Stack to file a nuisance suit against Patterico.

It is most unfortunate that Rosie Gray of Buzzfeed has assisted O’Keefe’s enemies in what is, in fact, nothing more than the latest manifestation of a bizarre personal vendetta. “Dead horse” though the story may be, innocent people still suffer real harm from these deliberate attacks. Assisting sadists in the satisfaction of their depraved appetites is not properly the business of a journalist.

UPDATE: Linked by Jackie Wellfonder and Bill Hoge — thanks! — and thanks likewise to the commenter who points out that Jay Leiderman is also the attorney who represents imprisoned former “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown.

Brown’s involvement with Rauhauser became public last month when Barrett threatened me, then published a series of private online chats he had with Patterico, evidently in an effort to defame Patterico as being party to a (wholly imaginary) conspiracy.

Brown’s motives in that incident are impossible to determine, nor do we know what (if anything) connects that failed smear with Barrett’s subsequent public meltdown that led to his arrest. Absent such knowledge we can only observe that, in general, bad things happen to people who actively ally themselves with evil.

 

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Barrett Brown, James O'Keefe, Patterico, The Kimberlin Files
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