The Dems in Congress continue their dog and pony show. When will they invite Fannie and Freddie? Surely it will be before November 4th? Don’t hold your breath.
WSJ on AIG
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Archive for October 7th, 2008
OMGZ!!!!! Even CNN Reports that Obama is Lying About Ayers
October 7, 2008This is about 6 minutes and tells many of us what we already know, but may inform others on the relationship between Ayers and the Messiah
Chemerinsky on the Coming Supreme Court
October 7, 2008Erwin Chemerinsky may be a dyed in the wool lib, but one of his treatises was one of my best friends through law school. His opinion matters:
The issue of judicial appointments is particularly important in this election because there are almost sure to be vacancies on the Supreme Court during the next presidential term. It seems unlikely that Stevens will remain on the court until 2013, when he would be 93. Ginsburg is 75, and there is speculation that she might retire. It also has been widely rumored that David H. Souter wants to retire and go home to New Hampshire.
If McCain gets to replace any of these justices, let alone more than one, there likely will be dramatic changes in many areas of constitutional law. There are almost certainly four votes on the current court — Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito — to overrule Roe vs. Wade and allow the government to prohibit abortion. In light of McCain’s emphatic opposition to abortion rights, he likely would appoint the decisive fifth vote to end constitutional protection of those rights. Obama, by contrast, would almost certainly appoint individuals who would reaffirm Roe.
The disagreements between McCain and Obama about issues of constitutional law extend far beyond just abortion rights. McCain said that the Supreme Court’s decision in June protecting the right of those held as prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to have access to federal court hearings was one of the worst in history. Obama praised it for upholding the rule of law and ensuring compliance with the Constitution. Because it was a 5-4 decision that included Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg in the majority, McCain’s replacing even one of these justices could cause the court to reverse itself.
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Moreover, the candidates — especially Obama — seem to want to avoid the underlying constitutional issues. For example, Obama rarely emphasizes his support for abortion rights, being content to say that the goal should be to decrease the number of abortions. Nor does he see political gain in defending affirmative action or the rights of suspected terrorists.
The Court only got back into session in the past few days. Topics of debate stemming from the Court’s jurisprudence will come up either tonight or next week.
CBS: Obama 48 – McCain/Palin 45
October 7, 2008New poll shows a tightening race. I haven’t linked to polls recently because they are depressing. Things like this happen to intelligent people when you look at polls that show us losing badly. I still think that Obama will have a 2 or 3 point lead in the polls going to election day. The media and the Democrat party does not want to see a 12 point lead going in. While that may depress Republican voter turnout, it is much more likely to give lazy college students and the youth vote all across America a reason to stay home. There is no reason to go to the polls if the election is in the bag. Even a college student in a swing state that is 1 or 2 points either way would be more inclined to stay home if he or she thinks Obama will easily take another swing state.
Sarah-Cuda Manhandles Heckler With Charm and Grace
October 7, 2008It’s near the end, but awesome. “Bless your heart sir, but my son is over in Iraq fighting for your right to protest.”
Or for his right to be a douche
More on the SNL Bailout Skit Being Pulled
October 7, 2008I watched the thing as it was aired and had no idea that “the Sandlers: people who should be shot” were real people. I thought SNL just created random archetypes of people who took advantage of subprime. Apparently they are real. Todd Thurman at Heritage notes:
The best was saved for last. Wiig/Pelosi introduced Herbert and Marion Sandler (played by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson). Unlike the earlier composites, the Sandlers are all to real. They did build a mortgage company whose major product was subprime mortgages and they sold it to Wachovia for $24.2 billion in 2006. And what do the Sandlers do when they are not peddling subprime garbage? They are busy writing checks to leftist groups like the Center for American Progress, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Yes that ACORN.
One of this site’s cofounders, ratpacklaw, has been telling me over the past week that ACORN is going to hit the fan before election day. I have been skeptical thinking that such baseline election fraud was too tenuous a subject for the American people to digest. It had no teeth and more importantly, no face. Perhaps it will now have a face.
In addition, Michelle and HotAir have linked to a few more stories telling us just who these people are. Of the stories, Ed Lasky provides a good but scary picture:
The Sandlers have started to invest their billions of dollars politically, in the manner of George Soros, sugar daddy of many far-left wing groups and an early and prominent supporter of Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Soros has developed an empire of so-called 527 groups, putatively independent political activists groups that have influence within the Democratic Party. These 527 groups include the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.Org, Human Rights Watch, Media Matters and a slew of other like-minded groups…
Soros, Lewis, and the Sandlers form a core group of billionaire activists and Democrat partisans who have formed a group called The Democracy Alliance. They realized that they could magnify their power by working in unison and tapping other wealthy donors to further their agenda (the superb Boston Globe article “Follow the money” is a good primer on how money and 527 groups have come together to have a huge impact on politics in America).
The Democracy Alliance is a major avenue to help them achieve their goals. The roster of its growing membership consists of a list of billionaires and mere multi-millionaires who collectively hope to give upwards of 500 million dollars each year to further promote a left-wing agenda. A partial roster of the Democracy Alliance membership can be found here.
Half a billion dollars a year can purchase a great deal of influence.
The Sandlers certainly know quite a bit about leverage from their savings and loan days.
Among the beneficiaries of their largesse: Air America, ACORN (a group that has very close and long lasting ties to Barack Obama and has a long history of engaging in voter fraud. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (basically a private detective group focused on the private faults and foibles of Republicans), Media Matters, a media watchdog group that engages in harsh partisan attacks against media figures and articles it considers supportive of Republicans). The list goes on and on.
Here is a transcript of the skit. I thought it was funny, but mistakenly bookends this crisis over the Bush administration when it goes back to 1977. Even Democrat hegemony tells us this happened in the Clinton years. Let’s see if SNL gets pissed off and tries to mount a come back showing us that they won’t be pushed around
What happened to the SNL Bailout skit on the NBC website?
October 7, 2008It magically disappeared? The only negative thing about Democrats which was actually inaccurately balanced has been removed. In the bag for Obama they are, just as Michelle notes here.
