The Bush Crime Family is Behind the Attacks on Rand Paul and Jack Hunter

MSM is buzzing with fresh attacks on Rand Paul and more specifically his association with Jack Hunter.  Suddenly, both Paul and Hunter are now being portrayed as racists and white supremacists and not just any old run of the mill racist but diehard neo-Confederate racists who never cease opining that the South lost the Civil War or the War of Northern Aggression as they say in the South.  The race baiting is timely, especially in light of the monumental race baiting extravaganza post  George Zimmerman acquittal.  Jack Hunter was a significant component of Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign and at that time the race baiting was solely focused on demonizing Ron Paul.

The Washington Post is the most vile and disgusting newspaper in the world.  It's a 'go to' tabloid for statists, peddlers of government programs, bureaucrats, fascists and totalitarian thugs of all political stripes. Centralized power may destroy liberty but it also makes a ton of insiders filthy rich and very powerful. WaPo has always been controlled by CFR Nazis and the globalist New World Order crime syndicate.  WaPo consistently defends every dastardly deed of the government and has always been its primary spin machine where the truth gets laundered in a vat of feces and coal.  To dub Wapo shameless and disingenuous would be a grotesquely misleading understatement as WaPo is indeed pure concentrated evil.

WaPo's Michael Gerson penned another savage attack on Rand Paul because, well, Rand Paul makes the NWO and establishment elites very nervous.  Who is Michael Gerson?  Besides being a WaPo propagandist, Gerson is also a former Bush speechwriter with close ties to the Bush Crime Family; Gerson is fiercely loyal to the Bush gang.

It's no secret that Jeb Bush is running for president in 2016 and its also no secret that Republican voters are so fed up with establishment elitist Republicans that they are embracing Rand Paul's message.  In fact, the entire GOP establishment greatly fears the rise of Rand Paul because of his famous name as well as his advocacy for the Constitution, limited government, a non-aggressive foreign policy and opposition to NDAA and the Patriot Act.  While the American people cheered Rand Paul's historical filibuster, the Republican elites and their media pals cringed. With Rand Paul's popularity continuing to rise, he poses a clear challenge to Jeb Bush and Bush Crime Family ambitions to get another Bush in the White House as Emperor of Planet Earth. Accordingly, the Bush gang is using its enormous and far reaching  political and media muscle to crush Rand Paul and Bush loyalist, Michael Gerson and Lincoln worshiper, is one of its vicious and rabid attack dogs.

Rand Paul can never be a mainstream Republican by Michael Gerson

To this point, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has been the Republican flavor of the year. Events from the IRS scandal to NSA revelations to the Obamacare train wreck have corroborated libertarian suspicions of federal power. And Paul has shown serious populist skills in cultivating those fears for his political benefit. For a while, he succeeded in a difficult maneuver: accepting the inheritance of his father’s movement while distancing himself from the loonier aspects of his father’s ideology.

But now Paul has fallen spectacularly off the tightrope. It turns out that a senior member of his Senate staff, Jack Hunter, has a history of neo-Confederate radio rants. And Paul has come to the defense of his aide.

Another WaPo statist psycho, Jennifer Rubin, has also attacked Rand Paul and Jack Hunter.

Jack Hunter and Rand Paul ‘playing the game’ by Jennifer Rubin

This week we learned that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had hired Jack Hunter, an avowed secessionist with a history of anti-minority statements. Not only does Paul continue to employ him and refuse to renounce or even to comment on Hunter’s views but, according to Hunter, Paul was fully aware of his views and reputation when he first hired Hunter to co-write a book.

Even worse for Paul was Hunter’s accusation that his extremism has found a home with the senator, who has “learned to play the game,” such as declaring that an attack on Israel would be an attack on the United States. With a few “rhetorical flourishes,” he said, Rand Paul is more respectable than his father, Ron, and can thereby get farther in politics. That is precisely the concern that many center-right observers had in trying to decipher Rand Paul: namely, that he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

What is interesting is the reaction of those who supported, cheered and hired Hunter for his avowed views — views from which he is now trying to distance himself.

It shouldn't surprise anybody that the Bush Crime Family OWNS the Washington Post as well as other MSM print and broadcast venues.  Yet, the best the Bush family and the media can come up with is nothing but a shabbily concocted false allegation of racism.  They must be channeling Al Sharpton.

The Bush family is not popular and many conservatives blame the George W. Bush years for abandoning conservative principles with its extravagant spending, deficits, debt, endless wars and government growth. Indeed, government did grow under George W. Bush who along with Republican Congress Critters gave us another multi-trillion dollar entitlement, Medicare Part D, and No Child Left Behind, a disastrous education bill written by Ted Kennedy.  Bush and the Bush era Republicans increased the national debt by $5 trillion. These days, Republicans are blaming the gargantuan pile of debt all on Obama and the Democrats as Republicans run from their own sordid record.

As unpopular as the Bush Crime Family is, it's still a formidable force within the Republican Party, the media-industrial complex and possesses an extraordinary ability to raise big special interest money.  Bush loyalists may be dwindling but the power of one of America's most enduring, evil and corrupt political families cannot be underestimated.

To be sure, Wapo isn't the only barf studded statist political and policy propaganda rag in America.  The Atlantic has definitely earned a prestigious rank in the hierarchy and its quite common for such publications to affectionately slobber over each other with outpourings of praise and undying love for members of their exclusive club that is considered so sacred it's a religion.  Not surprisingly, The Atlantic penned a puff piece on Michael Gerson, here.

It's not just the media elites that are attacking Rand Paul and Jack Hunter.  The Republican Party is swimming with nasty neocon websites that have declared war on Rand Paul.  The Washington Free Beacon is Republican neocon rag dedicated to the GOP base that gets off on wars, statism and the wholesale destruction of civil liberties.  I covered this issue at LibertyCalling.net, my news website, here (Washington Free Beacon vs. Jack Hunter).  As the vitriolic attacks on Rand and Jack blossomed from the left and right, Judge Andrew Napolitano and one the most respected voices in the liberty movement defended Jack Hunter in a piece titled A word about Jack Hunter…by Andrew Napolitano.  Jude Nap wrote: 

Yesterday you saw some hawks, whose ideology is dying and whose worldview is being discredited every day, launch an attack on Senator Rand Paul by attacking one of his brilliant aides, Jack Hunter.

Jack’s sin in their eyes was having spoken favorably of states’ rights, and negatively of Lincoln. They can’t seem to recognize that states’ rights--even secession--does not equal racism; it constitutes a brake on the feds’ march to totalitarianism.

One thing is certain.  The War on Rand Paul has been declared.  There can be no question that the Bush Crime Family as well as establishment Republican elites are behind it and they will absolutely continue to escalate their war on liberty, the constitution and those who defend it.  The Republican base got suckered into blessing off on John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.  If Republican voters continue to allow themselves to be influenced and even intimidated by the Republican elites as they did in 2008 and 2012, they will be rewarded with President Hillary Clinton.  The GOP elites really don't care - Hillary Clinton is very much their man and she will continue the wars, the march to statist hell and the American Nazified NSA Police State.  The elites win and the American people lose yet again.

Why a Creep Like Lindsay Graham is Sitting Pretty and Probably Won't be Challenged in a Primary

Liberty activists are constantly frustrated by the fact that they can't unseat worthless, warmongering and despicable incumbents in primaries.  Lindsay Graham is a prime example of all that is wrong with our primary and election system, the Republican Party and Republican voters.  Politico did a puff piece on Graham that disclosed a bitter truth, a truth that applies to nearly 100% of Republican incumbents who are nearly impossible to dislodge from their solidly anchored thrones.

Lindsey Graham faces down primary challenge

Graham has repeatedly poked his finger in the eye of the GOP base..... 

Yet a year out from his primary, Graham is in surprisingly good shape. He had over $5.4 million in the bank at the end of March....

Some South Carolina conservatives loathe Graham, and will express as much next year, but right now they’re outnumbered by the ranks of those who like him or at least respect his leadership role. “The 30 percent of the Republicans who don’t like him really don’t like him, but generally speaking Lindsey is very highly regarded back home,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C).

Precisely because the Republican voting base is exceedingly accepting of big government statists and warmongers who stomp on civil liberties, folks like Lindsay Graham are never really threatened.

Then there's the money.  Few challengers have the financial resources or the ability to compete with Graham $5 million plus campaign war chest. MapLight.org reported that the average cost of a US Senate seat is a staggering $10,476,451, or an average of $14,351 that was raised every day during the 2012 election  cycle, here.

Who funds campaign coffers?  Special interests dough owns US elections.  According to Open Secrets, an organization that tracks campaign finance money, Lindsay Graham's top campaign contributors by industry are:

Industry                             Total     Indiv.   PAC

Lawyers/Law Firms	$1,026,779	$894,529	$132,250
Electric Utilities	$434,562	$225,110	$209,452
Real Estate	$371,130	$341,630	$29,500
Lobbyists	$309,379	$302,015	$7,364
Retired	$301,664	$301,664	$0
Securities & Investment	$286,208	$265,208	$21,000
Leadership PACs	$233,500	$0	$233,500
General Contractors	$196,538	$106,038	$90,500
Insurance	$194,800	$83,800	$111,000
Health Professionals	$173,362	$104,862	$68,500
Commercial Banks	$147,710	$52,560	$95,150
Business Services	$146,199	$135,699	$10,500
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$141,619	$86,619	$55,000
Misc Finance	$141,163	$127,663	$13,500
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing	$137,380	$66,980	$70,400
Defense Aerospace	$132,100	$24,600	$107,500
Hospitals/Nursing Homes	$129,936	$51,936	$78,000
TV/Movies/Music	$121,143	$44,467	$76,676
Railroads	$107,250	$6,250	$101,000
Textiles

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00009975&newMem=N&cycle=2012

While it's true that the American people are mostly clueless about campaign finance, they also fail to comprehend that our election system is rigged for the exclusive benefit of special interests and corporations and certainly not for the benefit of We the People.  We the People haven't been a part of the process for decades.

Once you understand campaign finance, you also understand why folks like Lindsay Graham can give We the People the birdie.  After all, he's been bought and paid for and all with the blessing of the Sheeple People voters.

For more on our corrupt to the core election system, see:

The Rot, the Stench and the Filth of Campaign Finance & How to Fix It

A Republican Autopsy and the Changing Conservative Media

If anything, the rise of the youthful Ron Paul movement that also includes many old Libertarians has decisively and justifiably harmed the Republican Party by delivering painful ballot box defeats. As one who abandoned the Republican Party after 2004 because I viewed the GOP as statist, interventionist, fascist and and anti-civil liberties, separating myself from the goons and loons comprising conservative mob was a most liberating experience.

Can the Republican Party ever get back to its conservative small government roots?  While the GOP's definition of conservatism has certainly become shamefully twisted over the years and decades, there really is nothing conservative or even constitutional about the Republican Party as it is presently constituted.  The Republican Party is a party that must change or die.  It really is that simple.

The conservative media is taking notice because, well, the painful medicine of GOP election losses has taken effect.  The Washington Examiner, a website I consider a cheerleader for all things statist Republican neocon, is suddenly changing its tune and actually raising the foreign policy issue.

Tim Carney, who has actually done excellent work on the issue of crony capitalism, directly confronted the Iraq War.

The mistake of Iraq and the education of the Right

Then Philip Klein let loose with a piece blaming Republican foreign policy for Obamacare.

Iraq War made Obamacare possible

Both Carney and Klein are right.  Foreign policy is killing the GOP and is directly responsible for back to back presidential election losses.  That said, the Republican Party does indeed have problems besides its non-stop interventionist wars.

Few folks even understand the conservative base, least of all Republicans and the RNC/GOP machine that engineered the disastrous defeat of the Republican Party.  Although liberals and Democrats do indeed plunge themselves into endless tirades on Republicans and the Republican Party, it took a well known liberal election pundit to nail it.  Stu Rothenberg penned an extraordinary piece.

The GOP: A Party Increasingly at Odds With Itself

The Republican Party continues to fracture more seriously than I expected following last year’s re-election of President Barack Obama.....

Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee entered the discussion with a lengthy report that dealt with everything from message to campaign mechanics and the presidential nominating process....

But while the report proposes a big tent strategy, others in the party — Rush Limbaugh, the Club for Growth, Sean Hannity, Tea Party Express and Jim DeMint — have a different agenda. Bliss did not have to deal with similar non-party groups 50 years ago, and their existence today undercuts the authority of the national party.

Allies of Ron Paul and “movement conservatives” have already criticized the RNC report, portraying it as little more than the establishment’s attempt to remake the party in the image of the Democratic Party.

Because the RNC cannot dictate message or mechanics the way it once could...

Since the GOP brand is damaged, it has little credibility with certain voters....

That the Republican brand is badly tarnished is no understatement.  In fact, it's a glaring and bitter truth.  Daniel McCarthy at The American Conservative also nailed it.

The GOP’s Vietnam

How Republican foreign policy lost the culture war—and a generation

America doesn’t really have a two-party system. It has a one-and-a-half-party system, where one party at a time tends to dominate the national agenda while the other becomes a half-party—one that might hold onto the House of Representatives and some state governments, but that isn’t trusted by voters to run the country.....

The root of the GOP’s problem now is the same as that of the Democrats in 1969: the party’s reputation has been ruined by a botched, unnecessary war—Vietnam in the case of the Democrats, Iraq for the GOP. This may sound implausible: every political scientist knows that Americans don’t care about foreign policy; certainly they don’t vote based on it. But foreign policy is not just about foreign policy: it’s also about culture.

The Vietnam War cost the Democrats dearly, just as it is costing the Republicans dearly.  The 'WAR PARTY' label doesn't win elections.  In fact, the 'WAR PARTY' label is a ballot box loser.

As for Republican styled fiscal conservatism, it's a total farce and a joke.

The Tea Party Republicans Spent More Than the Dems They Replaced.

The Republican Party has big problems because it doesn't stand for anything except endless wars, bigger government, more deficits and more debt.  The RNC's pathetic autopsy on itself was one whopper of an exercise in delusion and it's a delusion that can no longer be sold.

Meanwhile, the message of the rising Libertarian/Paulite elements within the GOP actually stand for something that does appeal to voters:  peace, liberty and prosperity.  Will Republicans drink the medicine that is the antidote to the poison they've been ingesting for decades?

Can Sista Sarah the Caribou Barbi Revive the Tea Party and Smack the Republican Establishment?

As liberty activists and Paulites ponder Rand Paul and the implications of his now infamous senate filibuster, the future of liberty could very well depend on Sarah Palin.  Liberty activists and Paulites don't especially trust or respect Rand Paul but Rand did score some very significant points last week and he scored them across the political spectrum by garnering kudos from well respected liberal civil liberty activists like Glenn Greenwald.

Like it or not, Sarah Palin got behind Rand Paul early in the Kentucky primary, praised him, endorsed him, campaigned for him and raised money for him.  There can be no doubt that Rand Paul would not be sitting in the US Senate today had it not been for Sarah Palin.  What is so magical about Palin?  Very few folks are trusted or deemed credible when it comes to the rambling wasteland known as the convoluted conservative base.  Clearly, Ron Paul had a lock on the liberty factions within the GOP.  However, nobody is more trusted and respected than Sarah Palin when it comes to the grassroots religious right Republican neocons.  She draws HUGE crowds when she speaks and she's simply adored, loved and trusted on a level that few have achieved.

I'm not sure what motivated Palin to get behind Rand Paul and help get him elected to the US Senate.  In fact, Palin even praised Rand's famous father, Ron Paul, on Fox News in January 2012.

Sarah Palin Defends Ron Paul: He’s The Only One ‘Doing Something About Reining In Gov’t Growth’

Last night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke with Fox Business Network’s John Stossel about how GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul “hit the nail on the head” when he warned Barack Obama to be careful when interjecting us in other countries’ business.

Palin did note that, for all that she supports Paul on, his almost “isolationist” stance on international relations gives her pause. That said, on the domestic front, “he’s the only one who’s been so adamantly passionate about doing something about the suffocating debt, about doing something about reining in government growth and actually slashing budgets.”

Palin has also earned the label 'The Queen of Neocon' and her support of a muscular interventionist foreign policy is well known.   A Youtube video of the Evangelical Sarah Palin saying in church that the Iraq War is God's plan has gone viral on the Internet.

Has Palin changed her neocon stripes or is she just another shameless fraud attempting to capitalize on the ever increasing anti-war sentiments within the GOP? Well, the answer is yes to both.  If anything, Palin is an astute political weatherman who knows which way the political winds are blowing and and she loves keeping herself out in front as a player.  Before she became mayor of Wasilla, the governor of Alaska and ultimately the Thrilla from Wasilla as McCain's feisty running mate, Palin and her hubby had been involved in an Alaska secessionist movement because they opposed Fedzilla, who owns or controls nearly all the land in Alaska, making all the decision on Alaska land use, especially the oil and gas resource rich lands.  Palin is a tenacious fighter with a long history of enjoying a political fight.  As one who spent most of her life as an ordinary person devoid of power and money, Palin personifies rugged individualism.

When she signed on as McCain's running mate, she wasn't ready or sufficiently savvy to deal with the mostly nasty media blitz that immediately descended upon her.  She fumbled badly.  What I admire about Palin is that through it all she managed to stay Sarah Palin and absolutely nobody could mold her into their vision of what Sarah Palin ought to be.

However, there is a dark downside to Sarah Palin, namely that she so craves power and celebrity that she will haphazardly mine the opportunities wherever they are so long as they advance her quest for fame and fortune.  Moreover, Palin does indeed have some nasty ideological baggage.

I'm no fan of Palin.  In fact, I smacked her hard on an old blog.

The Crimes of Sarah Palin

For those Palininsta’s out there who consider Sarah Palin the magical elixir for a conservative revival, I want to caution that she is very much bought and paid for by the anti-sovereignty gangs that includes the United Nations, the CFR, the Bilderbergs and every other sovereignty slashing initiative devoted to global governance and the utter destruction of the Constitution of the United States of America. Simply put, Palin is an absolute fraud. Conservatives have been deceived for far too long by the likes of Bush 41, Bush 43, McCain, Palin and ilk.

Palin is on record supporting ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), a sovereignty slashing UN global governance treaty that puts 70% of the earth’s surface under UN taxing authority and control. Moreover, LOST is also the equivalent of OPEC on steroids because it actually creates a global energy cartel.

The global governance group, Citizens for Global Solutions, specifically praised George Bush and Sarah Palin for their endorsement of ratifying LOST.

A Palin Truth: Alaska's Welfare Queen and Redistributionist

As the Palinistas attempt to crown Palin the latest Republican version of an American absolute monarch, let's examine some truth.

Palin claims to be a supporter of free markets and low taxes. But in 2007 she raised the taxes on Big Oil operating in Alaska because she wanted to transfer wealth from Big Oil to Alaskans who actually get a direct annual cash stipend ranging from $1,500 to $2,000 depending on how much money is in Alaska's Permanent Fund.

Palin did what Democratics do best - redistribute wealth and this message is ballot box gold. However, instead of calling Palin's act of oil wealth confiscation an act of socialism, Republicans praised Palin for cutting a better deal for Alaska. When the Dems do what Palin did, they get bombarded by Republicans with vicious and accursed accusations that scream "socialism" and "Marxism".

Palin's oil tax has backfired because exploratory drilling in Alaska has slowed with negatiive economic consequences. Moreover, Alaska now seeks to tweak its oil tax by handing out special tax benefits.

It's fair to say that I used beat up on Palin all the time on Facebook when her supporters were trying to win her the Republican nomination.  In fact, I beat her up so badly that those who were attempting to get her nominated as the Republican nominee ganged up on me, reported me to Facebook and my account was shut down.

But moving along to the here and now, we must deal with the basic rule of politics:  We are all useful idiots unto one another.

Undoubtedly, Palin has witnessed the success of Rand Paul, the Rand Paul that she endorsed and got elected.  Palin is also well aware of the success of Ron Paul's liberty movement that took enough votes away from Romney in critical swing states that the Republican Party lost another presidential election.

Personally, Palin has been evicted from the highest echelons of Republican power.  Fox News has ditched her, she's been marginalized as a kook and now the powerful Bush/Rove machine is 100% committed to squashing the Tea Party movement, the Rand Paul's within the Republican Party and taking control of the entire GOP machine for the exclusive benefit of raising Jeb Bush as the next Republican messiah.

I used to say that the Republican Party was like a 3 legged table consisting of the social conservatives, the Rockefeller Republicans and the constitutional liberty activists.  Take one of those legs away and the table falls, as did indeed happened on election day 2012.  However, the paradigm consisting of the Republican battlefield has changed.  It's now the Bush/Rove machine, heir to the Rockefeller Republican statist NWO legacy, vs. Paul/Palin and the rest of the Republican base.

Palin is well aware that Bush/Rove played a critical role in dethroning her.  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Palin fully intends to extract her pound of flesh from those who wronged her.  Palin sees OPPORTUNITY knocking and she's not the kind of gal to pass up an opportunity.  Palin is now hitching a revival of her star power to the liberty train and she doesn't care how many establishment Republicans lie dead on the battle field.

Palin reminds me of the famous Delacroix painting hanging Louvre titled Lady Liberty Leading the People.  I can see Palin's head on the heroine of the partially nude woman brandishing the American flag as she charges forward and tramples the fallen bodies of establishment Republicans and the Bush/Rove machine.

Yeah, Palin's got baggage but she can once again rise above it.  Besides, nobody has more ugly and hideous baggage than the Bush Crime Family but that's another story.  However, I did smack the Bush Crime Family by exposing their big Democratic spending ways as well as their stupendous contribution to the big $16.6 trillion pile of debt.

Can the Big Spending Bush Crime Family be Stopped, and Jeb's Love of LBJ

George H. W. Bush contribution to the mountain of debt: $1.6 trillion

George W. Bush contribution to the mountain of debt: 4.9 trillion

George W. Bush Deficit inherited by Obama: 1.3 trillion

Total contribution to debt of 2 Bush presidents: $7.8 trillion with nearly half (47%) of the $16.6 mountain of debt attributable to Bush 41 and Bush 43.

American really can't afford another Bush president.

It's always the people vs. the establishment and if Sarah Palin can strike an enduring blow at the establishment, that's a big plus for the people.  Sarah Palin isn't standing with John McCain.  In fact, she is standing with Rand and proudly tweeted: Proud to #standwithrand since 2009. GOP, we need more courage like this!

Go Sarah!  

The Delusional and Whacky World of Wing Nut Media

The Republican media world is simply bizarre.  From 2008 when the right wing media expected and predicted a McCain victory and through election day 2012, the entire wing nut media was ablaze with high fives in anticipation of a Romney victory.

WSJ's Republican pundit Peggy Noonan wrote "All the vibrations are right....Romney's slipping into the presidency...".  Whether it was Karl Rove begging Fox News not to call the election for Obama or crazy Dick Morris predicting a Romney landslide victory, the right wing media was cocky, confident and convinced that Obama would be decisively defeated.

The Republicans were right about one thing - the election results were indeed decisive and Obama smacked Romney with 332 electoral votes to 206 for Romney.  The Republicans lost the 3 critical swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia with cumulative electoral votes of 60, and still nowhere near enough to overcome the 126 electoral vote difference.  To win, Romney needed to flip some purple-blue states to the red column.  That never happened.  Why?

I don't think that voters necessarily despise the Republican Party so much as they intensely despise Republican voters.  After all, voters who vote Republican will get big government, big spending and endless entitlements in the welfare-warfare state.  Republicans really don't govern any differently than Democrats and the Republicans have done absolutely nothing over the decades to rein in spending, deficits and the debt.

What is it about Republicans voters that totally creeps folks out?  It's the religious right and social conservatives who have fallen from ballot box grace.  From candidates like Akin of the 'legitimate rape' fame to Mourdock who echoed Akin on rape by suggesting that rape doesn't exist to a 'human being is created at the precise moment of conception' folks demanding constitutional protections for a freshly fertilized zygote, to demands that all abortion under any circumstances be outlawed, to hatred for homosexuals, the Republicans are generally viewed as theocratic Nazis on issues of social tolerance, gay marriage and abortion rights.  Toss in the Republican worship of endless wars and the mix becomes even more toxic.

Nowhere were the sentiments of the Republican base more clearly evident than in the 2012 SC primary debate.  Oddly, most in the angry Republican mob audience had just left the prayer vigil tent that was set up adjacent to the debate site.  Prayer and reflection didn't stop the rabid Republicans from booing Ron Paul when he suggested that America invoke the Golden Rule on foreign policy.  The Republican prayer infused audience cheered loudly when somebody suggested that uninsured folks should just die and Newt Gingrich got a standing ovation for shouting 'kill em'. Gingrich went on to win the SC primary as he shamelessly pandered to disgraceful, hideous and repugnant Evangelical crowds.

The wing nut media will never criticize these folks for being the arrogant and insufferable jackasses that they really are.  In fact, the wing nut media actually cheers them on to greater heights of absurdity and lunacy.  Furthermore, wing nut media is never about solving big problems but always and exclusively about beating up on the Dems, Obama and gang.  It matters little to the wing nut media that the Republicans pretty much mirror the Dems in policy, growing government and big spending, all of which is only evil when the Democrats do it but never evil when the Republicans do the exact same thing.  Go figure.

The Huffingpost recently chirped in on the state of wing nut media, not that its vigorous defense of all things Democrat and Obama in anyway elevates the Puff Post to the moral high ground.  That said, the Puff Post did make some decent points.

Conservative Media Struggles For Credibility, Amid Coverage Of Hookers, Hamas And Hagel

The National Review, a leading voice in the conservative movement since 1955, isn't cutting back on opinion writing or strong editorial stands. But Costa and his team of three reporters are gaining recognition inside Republican circles and among the Washington media establishment for actually making calls, staking out the Capitol and breaking news. Costa recently reported the inside story of the attempted House GOP "coup" against Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and scooped that former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will speak at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.

It's the type of shoe-leather reporting that many political observers and even some prominent conservatives claim is sorely lacking on the right. Their critiques seemed confirmed this past month as several conservative media-driven stories fell flat, from speculation that Chuck Hagel wouldn’t be confirmed as defense secretary to reports that he’d spoken to a shadowy (and fictitious) group called "Friends of Hamas." On Friday, a prominent conservative writer and commentator was found to have been heavily involved in a paid propaganda operation funded by the Malaysian government. And over the past 24 hours, both The Washington Post and ABC News have called into question an explosive Daily Caller story alleging that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) slept with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

And so, while outlets like The Daily Caller, Breitbart News and the Washington Free Beacon have sprouted and, in some cases, prospered during President Barack Obama's administration, concern is mounting that they and others in the conservative media universe are shedding their credibility by focusing more on supposed scandals than reporting the basics of who, what, when, where, why and how.....

RedState editor Erick Erickson argued last week that conservative outlets have been "failing to advance ideas and stories" beyond their ideological borders. "The echo in the chamber has gotten so loud it is not well understood outside the echo chamber in the mainstream press and in the public," Erickson wrote. "It translates only as anger and noise, neither of which are conducive to the art of persuasion."....

Conservative media made noise during the 2012 election but had little impact on the news cycle. Both The Daily Caller and Breitbart News hyped old videos of Obama, which despite being amplified on The Drudge Report and Fox News, received more mockery from the national press than follow-up. In response to Romney’s infamous "47 percent video" –- a clearly newsworthy recording –- Fox News attempted to equate his remarks with a 14-year-old Obama quote about wealth "redistribution."

Personally, I find Red State and Erick Erickson vile beyond comprehension because Erickson and his site engage in a ton of pandering that incites anger and rage.  However, Erickson does make a valid point. Moreover, the anger that fires up the Republican base definitely isn't the kind of anger that fires up voters in national elections. All those angry Republicans really aren't angry over what Obama actually does but just the fact that the Republicans can't claim the credit for doing the precise same thing.

Republicans may be long on anger and short on solutions but they've definitely succeeded in alienating the youth vote, the female vote and the Independent vote, 3 big voting constituencies that determine general election outcomes. The socially tolerant young have no use for theocratic Nazis who bash homosexuality. The female voters are terrified that a Republican in a Nazi uniform will show up and put a gun to their head to prevent them from taking the morning after pill or having an abortion. Even worse, the rants of some Republicans who suggest that violent rape really isn't a crime at all but consensual sex has left Republicans looking like gang of whackjobs. The Independents, by far the smartest and most informed group of voters, have no use for Republicans or its gang of social conservatives.

Meanwhile, the wing nut media dances on as if all is well but opine that things would be be a whole lot better if the Republicans could just find the right candidate. But alas, any decent candidate with wide appeal across party and independent lines will never get passed the Republican base. Those who ask the questions that need to be asked, address the issues that need to be addressed and speak a truth that needs to be spoken are shunned like the plague.

Are the Neocons Changing their Stripes? Don't count on it and here's why.

Like the Bob Dylan song, Times They Are a-Changin, Senator Rand Paul struck a raw nerve in GOP circles with his famous, media and Twitter viral filibuster.  Rand Paul didn't succeed in stopping John Brennan, the godfather of murderous drone strikes, from being confirmed as the new head of the CIA but he definitely succeeded in bringing drone use and US foreign policy out of the GOP's closet. For that he was cheered and jeered but mostly cheered by civil libertarians on the right and left.  The jeers flowed from old guard neocon whackjobs like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and their reliable partners on the left.

The Jeers:

McCain, Graham Attack Rand Paul for Anti-Drone Filibuster, Antiwar.com that stated "Paul's question about Obama's authority to kill US citizens doesn't deserve an answer, Graham said".

James Carville: Rand Paul’s ‘Nutty’ Concerns About Drones Akin To Birtherism, Evolution Deniers Mediaite

MSNBC Hosts Mock Rand Paul: Made Serious Issue Of Drones Sound ‘Absurd,’ ‘Crazy,’ ‘And On The Fringe’  Mediaite

It should come as no surprise that the far left and far right were at the forefront in attacking Rand Paul. These bat shit crazies have no respect whatsoever for the constitution, civil liberties or peace.  They are a pox upon humanity everywhere.

The Cheers:

While the cheers were loudest among civil libertarians, the cheers also hailed from some surprising places like the traditional standard bearers of neocon foreign policy.  Rush Limbaugh, the icon of Republican talk radio, actually smacked McCain and Graham while defending Rand Paul.

Limbaugh Hits McCain And Graham For Opposing Rand Paul, Dining With Obama: ‘Who Are They Siding With?’

Laura Ingraham, another popular neocon icon of Republican talk radio wasted no time praising Rand Paul and promptly interviewing him on her radio show.

Laura Ingraham: Neoconservative view has clearly hurt the GOP (Rand Paul interview 3/08/13)

The neocon armor is slowly cracking. With both Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham standing with Rand, the foreign policy debate will be brought out of the Republican closet and this will not bode well for Republican foreign policy hawks. It's not that either Limbaugh or Ingraham even care about peace, liberty or the constitution but they are apoplectic over back to back Republican general election losses. Folks like Limbaugh and Ingraham are not motivated by ideology; in fact, they are merely weathermen who sense and follow the political winds. Right now in America, the political winds are strongly blowing away from costly foreign interventionism and non-stop wars.

Despite all the glowing and supportive tweets, as well as the right wing media professing its undying love for Rand Paul, we have to ask ourselves if any of this in any way signals that the Republican Party and its pundits are serious.

Or is it more like a stealth date when the guy has a romance strategy to get in her pants because he really only wants to screw her?

Despite the barrage of poetic wing nut words, the neocons can never be trusted.  Every conservative, constitutionalist and small government advocate has been down this road many, many times and drank the Koolaid with the flavor FOOL.

How will we ever know if they are serious?  That's not difficult.  Just look back in history and how the Vietnam War finally ended.

How Congress Ends Wars, It always comes down to money

As the Democratically-controlled 110th Congress searches for a way to end the Iraq war authorized by the Republican-controlled 107th Congress, it seems appropriate to recall how the U.S. Congress ended the Vietnam War, and more recently, further U.S. military combat involvement in Somalia. At the end of those dark days, ending the battle came down to ending the money.

On Aug. 5, 1964, Congress enacted the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, authorizing President Lyndon Johnson to use "all necessary measures" to repel armed attacks against U.S. forces in Vietnam. The resolution passed easily, 466-0 in the House and 88-2 in the Senate, with the only dissenting votes coming from Democratic Sens. Wayne Morse (Oregon) and Ernest Gruening (Alaska).

Unlike the resolution authorizing the use of U.S. military force in Iraq, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution contained language allowing Congress to repeal it at any time. Unsuccessful congressional efforts to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution began as early as 1966, just two "quagmire-ish" years after its passage. Finally in January of 1971, Congress succeeded in passing a measure repealing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. While he did not veto it, President Richard M. Nixon refused to honor the measure and continued to wage the war, claiming presidential authority to do so as commander in chief of the military. But, another far more effective act of Congress would ultimately end the Vietnam War by closing the federal purse strings.

In December 1970, Congress reacted to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia by passing the landmark Cooper-Church amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Bill. The amendment, named for and sponsored by Sens. John Sherman Cooper (R-Kentucky) and Frank Church (D-Idaho), prohibited the use of any funds already appropriated for military spending on the introduction of additional U.S. troops into Cambodia. While President Nixon denounced Cooper-Church as harming the war effort, he failed to veto it. Today, the Cooper-Church amendment is regarded as the first congressional action taken limiting presidential powers during a war.

Following Cooper-Church, and even after the Paris cease-fire agreement, Congress literally dropped the hammer on the Vietnam War with its passage in 1973 of a joint resolution (H.J.Res. 636) prohibiting any further appropriation or expenditure of any funds for any "combat in or over or from the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia.

And that's precise how wars end.  When Congress finally refuses to fund them through appropriations, they are over.

Let's get back to the GOP.  What Republicans are willing to defund the current wars?  For that matter, the same question also applies to the war friendly Democrats.  It would be nearly impossible to find a Republican or Democrat who would agree to defund the wars, let alone reign in executive powers.

When Republicans and their pundits start demanding that the wars be defunded along with military spending, that's when you know somebody is serious about ending the wars.  If a candidate is unwilling to vociferously and loudly campaign on ending war funding, then they are still fully committed neocons.

Who is talking about the cost of the wars?  Absolutely nobody but I blogged about war costs.

The Cost of America's Wars - $3 Trillion, $4 Trillion, $5 Trillion, $7 Trillion, $8 Trillion, Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD

If Americans want to understand why America is bankrupt and why the economy lies in ruins, look no further than war spending.

Meanwhile, it's definitely not time to start singing Bob Dylan's song, Times They are a-Changin.

When Was the Word "Taxes" Replaced with the Word "Revenues"?

Taxes used to be called precisely what they are - TAXES or the plunder forcibly extracted from citizens to fund government and all that government does. However, lately the word TAXES seems to have disappeared from the discourse and the hot new media term is REVENUES. Moreover, the raising of taxes (revenue) is now dubbed comprehensive tax reform by Democrats and progressives because the accurate and meaningful term "tax increase" tends to cause folks to angrily freak out. But heck, so long as the debate is camouflaged in deceptively benign terms like revenue and comprehensive tax reform, the folks just aren't deemed smart enough to notice the truth about what is really going on.

The Huffington Post  had a big blazing headline.

NO MORE REVENUE!

The headline links to an article complaining about how Sen. Mitch McConnell proclaimed that there will be no more new taxes.

Mitch McConnell On Future Debt Deals: 'The Tax Issue Is Finished'

There will be no more increases in tax revenues as part of any debt or deficit-reduction deal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared in several interviews on Sunday.

“[T]he tax issue is finished, over, completed,” said the Kentucky Republican, during an appearance on ABC’s "This Week."....

The comments represent a deep line in the sand as Congress and the White House approach the debates over replacing the $1 trillion in sequester-related cuts, the raising of the debt ceiling, and the passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government. And they foreshadow another major showdown between congressional Republicans and the administration.

The president has said that he will not make major entitlement reforms or spending cuts during those negotiations unless it is part of a balanced approach. On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi echoed that view.

“No, no, it is not,” she said, when asked by CBS’ Bob Schieffer if the revenue side was now taken care of. “I mean, the president had said originally he wanted $1.6 trillion in revenue, he took it down to 1.2 as a compromise in this legislation. We get $620 billion dollars, very significant, high-end tax, changing the high-end tax rate to 39.6 percent, but that is not enough on the revenue side.”

The hope, among Democrats, is that another $600 billion in revenue may be raised through comprehensive tax reform.

There can be no question that the Dems are bitterly complaining about how unhappy they are because they didn't get $1.6 trillion in new taxes.  Clearly, the crusade to plunder Americans of every cent they ever earned will continue unabated because the thought of reducing government spending is just too horrifying a thought for the confiscating totalitarian thugs who thrive on folks being forcibly impoverished by the government and reduced to pathetic beggars.

The Republican Party is Like an Ugly Peeling Wallpaper, Circa 1950....

The Republican Party resembles an ugly and peeling wallpaper, circa 1950's. While the Republican pundits are scratching their heads in disbelief over election losses, they all saying essentially the same thing: we are a great party, we have a great platform, we have a great message and we have a great plan to solve our problems. In other words, the Republican Party thinks that it's perfect just the way it is and, hilariously, their only problem is falling down when it comes to getting their message out. Romney Iowa strategist David Kochel said “First of all, we’ve got to improve our mechanics and our organization,” and “We got beat on data collection. Our polling was off. I thought that we spent way too much time in a defensive posture with our messaging.", here. Kochel also admitted that money was not a problem and the RNC/GOP machine had plenty of money “We certainly raised enough money. We don’t have to fix that,”.

The RNC has even launched a study to figure out why Romney lost and named the initiative the Growth and Opportunity Project.

RNC Launches New Initiative to Grow the Party and Win

The effort, known as the Growth and Opportunity Project, will be chaired by five GOP leaders and is charged by Priebus with initially reviewing past practices and also making critical recommendations for the future in these eight key areas: 1.) campaign mechanics and ground game; 2.) messaging; 3.) fundraising; 4.) demographic partners and allies; 5.) third party groups; 6.) campaign finance issues; 7.) presidential primaries; and 8.) lessons learned from Democratic campaign tactics.

The group will reach out to hundreds of individuals including RNC Members, grassroots activists, donors, elected officials, community leaders and other important partners to gain insight and help the Republican Party form a solid path going forward. These leaders will be involved in one or more of these critical areas.

The Growth and Opportunity Project is co-chaired by five prominent Republican leaders:

Henry Barbour, National Committeeman from Mississippi

Zori Fonalledas, National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico

Glenn McCall, National Committeeman from South Carolina

Sally Bradshaw, Veteran senior strategist in Florida and national politics

Ari Fleischer, Former White House Press Secretary

They will report their findings to Chairman Priebus and make recommendations for a long-term strategy for the future.

The Republican Party will be making a big play to win over Hispanic and African American voters.  However, it's a flawed strategy that is doomed to fail.  Hispanics and African American voters who aren't already diehard Democrat loyalists are liberty activists, constitutionalists and Ron Paul supporters who have no use whatsoever for the GOP or the Democrats.

Non-conservatives and liberals think they perfectly understand the Republican Party -  the Republican Party is nothing more than a party divided by radical Tea Party types and moderate Republicans in the mold of McCain or Romney.  Liberals tend to view the election triumph of the Democrats as a sign that America has taken a hard left turn so their incessant gloating is intensely festive.  CNN chirps in, here, "Listening to Republicans try to explain what went wrong in their worse-than-expected election thumping reveals a party struggling to define itself amid continuing change in the nation it seeks to lead."

The Republican Party can no longer define itself because it doesn't stand for anything except bigger government, bigger deficits, more wars, more corporate welfare and more bankster bailouts. Still, the GOP hopelessly clings to the spectacularly false legacy of Ronald Reagan as the real conservative Republican model while it searches endlessly for the reincarnation of the ghost of Reagan.  A lot has changed since the days of Reagan.  Blindly worshiping Reagan and Nixon as a gods will not bring back those good old days when the GOP racked up impressive victories.

1972: Nixon defeats McGovern 520 electoral votes to 17 electoral votes
1980: Reagan defeats Carter 489 electoral votes to 49 electoral votes
1984: Reagan defeats Mondale 525 electoral votes to 13 electoral votes

In many ways, the Republican Party is like a 3 legged stool.with 3 constituent legs - the social conservatives, the Rockefeller Republicans and  constitutional liberty activists.

1.  The social conservatives endorse big government and endless wars.

2.  The Rockefeller Republicans endorse big government and endless wars but are very uncomfortable the social issues which they don't care about.

3.  The constitutional liberty activists oppose big government, the damn wars, the trillion dollar a year foreign policy, the Federal Reserve and they really oppose the federal government meddling in the social issues because it's not a power specifically enumerated in the constitution.

What is killing the Republican Party is that the constitutional liberty activists will no longer hold their noses and vote Republican as they once did and this is a trend that surfaced in 2006 and was considerably magnified in 2008 when the Democrats took back the House of Representatives and won the presidency.

In fact, the liberty activists are so angry with the GOP that they are determined to guarantee its defeat by voting 3rd party for however long it takes for the liberty activists to takeover the GOP from the warmongers and fascists.  The Gary Johnson vote delivered critical swing states to Obama in 2012.

Yet, the archaic Republican Party views itself as a party that can win elections just by firing up the intolerant social conservatives, beating the war drums for perpetual bankrupting wars and sprinkling some cold dead words like 'capitalism' in the toxic mix to camouflage the crony capitalist fascist economy.  Here's how the GOP view itself and its base.

The Republican game plan has finally failed.  In fact, it's a BIG fail but instead of embracing traditional Republican conservatism and the agenda of the constitutionalists and liberty activists, the Republican Party is absolutely determined to vigorously pursue the Democratic model of romancing the Free Shit Army while growing government, slashing civil liberties and pursing endless wars - all traditional Democrat ideals that dumped America into the statist cesspool without a life jacket.

Who got America into WW I, WW II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the Balkan Wars? - all progressive liberal Democrats that were perennially obsessed with their divine right to rule over everybody and every nation.  Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson and Clinton were all hardcore warmongering statists, although Clinton's appetite for war was downright squeamish compared with the overt addiction to mass human genocide of the most intensely worshiped luminaries within the Democratic Party.

Interestingly, the anti-GOP establishment website, The American Conservative, posted a piece on the anti-war and anti-foreign interventionist roots of the Republican Party.

Why Conservatives Hate War

One of the odder aspects of present-day politics is the assumption that if you are antiwar you are on the left, and if you are conservative you are “pro-war.” Like labelling conservative states red and liberal states blue, this is an inversion of historical practice.

The opposition to America’s entry into both World Wars was largely led by conservatives. Senator Robert A. Taft, the standard-bearer of postwar conservatism, opposed war unless the United States itself was attacked. Even Bismarck, after he had fought and won the three wars he needed to unify Germany, was staunchly antiwar. He once described preventive war, like the one America is being pressured to wage on Iran, as “committing suicide for fear of being killed.”

Conservatives’ detestation of war has no “touchy-feely” origins. It springs from conservatism’s roots, its most fundamental beliefs and objectives. Conservatism seeks above all social and cultural continuity, and nothing endangers that more than war.

In the 20th century, war brought about social and cultural revolutions in the United States....

Russia’s involvement in World War I gave us Bolshevism. Germany’s defeat made Hitler possible. As the First World War shows, if a conflict is costly enough, the victors’ social order can suffer nearly as badly as that of the vanquished. Not only did the British Empire die in the mud of Flanders, but postwar Britain was a very different place from Edwardian Britain.

The plain fact is, conservatives loathe unpredictability. They also know that vast state expenditures and debts can destabilize a society, and no activity of the state is more expensive than war. America’s adventure in Iraq, driven in no small part by the quest for oil—which will now mostly go to China—has already cost a trillion dollars, with another trillion or two to come caring for crippled veterans. Even the peacetime cost of a large military can break a country, as it broke the Soviet Union. American conservatives used to be budget hawks, not warhawks.

Exactly how the Republican Party managed to transform itself from the party of peace and constitutionally limited government into the Big Spending Progressive War Party is open to considerable debate and speculation.   Somehow, the Republican Party became a wholly owned subsidiary of defense contractors, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, crony capitalism and the Banksters.

If the Republican Party thinks that it can romance the Democrats into voting Republican, the GOP is delusional beyond comprehension.  The DNC has a solid and historically documented monopoly on big government, endless wars and statism.

Maybe it's time to just seal the GOP's coffin because it's a party that is ideologically, socially and morally irrelevant, as well as indistinguishable from the Democratic Party.

The GOP Moves to Further Alienate and Infuriate Liberty Activists

As if the Republican Party isn't in enough deep dodo over it's criminally shameful treatment of the liberty activists, it's now hatched a new scheme to win elections.

GOP Plans Attempt to Change Electoral Vote System Politicalwire.com

"Republicans alarmed at the apparent challenges they face in winning the White House are preparing an all-out assault on the Electoral College system in critical states, an initiative that would significantly ease the party's path to the Oval Office," National Journal reports. 

"Senior Republicans say they will try to leverage their party's majorities in Democratic-leaning states in an effort to end the winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes. Bills that will be introduced in several Democratic states would award electoral votes on a proportional basis."

"Already, two states -- Maine and Nebraska -- award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district... But if more reliably blue states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were to award their electoral votes proportionally, Republicans would be able to eat into what has become a deep Democratic advantage."

Is this not a hoot?  This is the same Republican Party that used Winner Take All Rules in the primary to knockout and disenfranchise Ron Paul and the Ron Paul delegates.  Now the GOP wants to utilize its state GOP legislative powers to go proportional in general elections, through not proportional in Republican primaries!

This is also the same GOP that changed its rules at the RNC Convention to make ALL elected delegate selections subordinate to an RNC Committee approval of 10-12 elitist GOP party hacks.  Supposedly, the entire purpose of a primary is for We the People to vote on candidates and nominate delegates.  The Republican Party has once again proven that We the People don't matter when it comes to Republican primaries.

I'm totally in favor of ending ALL Winner Take All Rules because they substantially weaken We the People power.  The Republican Party selectively picks and chooses the rule and laws it wants to guarantee that their hand picked elites will prevail.

Why Boehner Needs to GO! He's a Drunk, Corrupt and His Voting Record Sucks.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is symbolic of everything that is wrong the the Republican Party. He's corrupt to the core, lobbyist owned, an advocate for big spending and debt, plus a staunch defender of the militarized police state and endless wars of empire.

That Boehner is atrocious is only mildly relevant and what is significantly more relevant is that Republicans overwhelmingly supported Boehner as Speaker. Boehner was elected Speaker and not selected. That alone speaks volumes about the integrity and character of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Boehner is suddenly in the news because the House Republican Leadership under Boehner removed several conservative representatives from key committees for refusing to toe the party line on spending and debt which, of course, translates to genuflecting before and licking the boots of Boehner and the GOP/RNC machine. But the arrogant, corrupt and autocratic Boehner is taking his threats to new heights.

Boehner Says Members Will Be Punished for Their Votes

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) warned his conference that GOP leaders are "watching" how the rank-and-file vote to determine committee assignments, The Hill reports.

This is no veiled threat.  In fact, it's explicit, overt and even reeks of Nazi styled authoritarianism.   That such despicable tactics are now routine in the Republican Party is deeply disturbing on many levels.  Meanwhile, the conservative base has been extremely irate with the Republican Party and its leadership for years.  In fact, they were sufficiently irate to NOT vote Republican in the general election.

What do we know about Boehner?  Former Representative Joe Scarborough let loose with his thoughts on Boehner.

Scarborough: House minority leader John Boehner a lazy drunk? (Video)

According to Joe Scarborough, House minority leader John Boehner is a lazy bar fly, and maybe worse. On Wednesday's "Morning Joe" Scarborough went off on Boehner, a fellow Republican, leaving many viewers wondering if the Republican congressman suffers from alcoholism.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough said:

"I hear it on the Hill, I'm sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it's not reported. But so many Republicans tell me that this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world."

"After five o'clock, six o'clock at night he's disengaged -- at best," Scarborough continued. "You can see him around town. He does not have, let's say, the work hours of Newt Gingrich. ... Every Republican I talk to says that John Boehner, by five or six at night, you can see him at bars."

Scarborough is not the first to notice Boehner's taste for the sauce. Boehner is well known to Washington insiders for his drinking.

The Raw Story reports:

When he was chosen House minority leader in 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "Boehner is famous for the lavish parties he throws, including an annual 'Boehner Beach Party' fundraiser. At the GOP's 2004 convention in New York, Boehner hosted a party that raged all four nights of the convention at Tunnel, a West Side nightclub."

In 2007, Politico took a more pointed dig, in an item headlined "Boehner cries again, getting a rep as a 'weeper,'" which pointed out, "This is getting to be something of a habit for the Ohio Republican. One of his GOP colleagues noted that Boehner cries more often later in the day. Go figure, eh."

Perhaps it is time Republican colleagues staged an intervention for House minority leader John Boehner. Watch the video. What do you think - is Boehner a lazy drunk - or just another good time Charlie?

Boehner being a lazy, partying drunk is only part of the Boehner story. That Boehner is wired into lobbyists and serves their exclusive interest is well known in the DC District of Crime.

Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist in D.C.  2006

Boehner's primary residence is in West Chester, Ohio, but for $1,600 a month, he rents a two-bedroom basement apartment near the House office buildings on Capitol Hill owned by Milne, Boehner spokesman Don Seymour said yesterday.... In the weeks preceding last week's GOP leadership elections, Boehner acknowledged his close ties to the lobbying community...

Boehner isn't just a lazy drunk with close ties to the lobbying industry, it's been reported that this married Republican Congress Critter even sleeps with lobbyists.

Yes, John Boehner Sleeps With Lobbyists-- And Not Just Figuratively

"Everyone" (but the voters) knew Mark Foley (R-FL) was molesting underage boys and "everyone" (but the voters) knew Larry Craig (R-ID) was trolling the Washington, DC public toilets looking for love and "everyone" (but the voters) knew John Boehner was an inveterate skirt-chaser who's had numerous affairs. His poor wife, Debbie, never leaves the gated community of McMansions he has her stashed away in. But what makes the Boehner sex scandal more compelling is that he's doing it with a lobbyist-- and everyone, even the voters know he's one politician infamous for his shady relations with lobbyists-- and that he had warned Republican caucus members back in July that they weren't allowed to screw the whores attractive young female "lobbyists" that the big K Street firms hire specifically to get on the good side of legislators-- at least not until after the elections.

How about John Boehner's congressional voting record? Boehner's voting record would rival that of any big spending Democrat.

How Republican House Speaker Boehner Helped Grow the National Debt

On 5/1/2008 Republican Congressman John Boehner voted for the Student Loan Provision Changes. HR 5715 was a Democrat introduced Bill that significantly increased government loan guarantees for student debt, yet Boehner and most of the Republicans voted for this anti-free market big Government bill.....

On 2/7/2008 Congressman John Boehner voted with the majority of Congress (380-34) for HR 5140, the Economic Stimulus Plan. No fiscal conservative pro-free market politician would vote for this bill as it not only provides a certain demographic with a welfare check but in addition this bill increased the FHA loan limits. By increasing the FHA loan limits for certain real estate to $633,500 and the GSE loan limit to $729,750 the Federal Government guarantees more debt and therefore puts itself at even greater financial risk of loan defaults. Not only is this fiscally irresponsible but it is also anti-free market as the government guarantees non-sense loans that the private market would not even make without such guarantees in place. This type of market interference greatly contributed to the Real Estate Bubble.

Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul who warned about the Housing Bubble in 2002 was one of only 34 Congressman voting against the Economic Stimulus Plan.

On 06/28/2002 Congressman John Bohener voted to massively increase government spending with his Yes vote on the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act which authorized $350 billion in spending for the Medicare program....

On 5/23/2001 Boehner sponsored the No Child Left Behind bill. This bill was passed 384-45 with the support of most of Congress. “Limited Government” Republican Boehner sponsored this bill that increased not only the size of the Federal Government but with that increased the cost of it by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Throughout his political career in Washington D.C., John Boehner also voted for hundreds of billions in foreign aid. Being the “limited Government conservative” that he is, Congressman John Boehner also voted for billions of dollars for socialist programs. In 1997 Boehner voted for $54.42 billion in mostly socialist spending, with $25 billion going to the Food Stamp Program, $7.77 billion for Child Nutrition Programs, $3.92 billion for Nutrition programs for women and children. In 2002, with his Yes vote on HR 4743 John Boehner voted for an additional $16.6 billion in socialist spending through Temporary Aid for Needy Families and hundreds of millions of dollars to promote marriages. These are hardly votes that are fiscally conservative and in the interest of limited Government… 

Not surprisingly, limited Government Hypocrite Boehner joined the GOP and many Democrats with their bailout for Wall Street with a Yes vote for HR 1424, the Financial Asset Purchase Authority and Tax Law Amendments which authorized $700 billion in bailout spending.

The fraud known as the Republican Party is downright laughable as well as pathetic and immoral.   The GOP has become a grotesque caricature of the remnants of the conservative movement that was hijacked by neocons, theocrats, commies, statists, oligarchs and Nazis.

That a man like John Boehner was elected Speaker of the House attests to the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party, its leadership and its insidious corruption.

Really!  The Party of Family Values elects as Speaker a man who is a well known drunken partying cad about town, a man with notorious deep ties to the DC lobbyist establishment, a man who cheats on his wife and sleeps around, a man who spends taxpayer dough like a drunken sailor (sorry, didn't mean to insult sailors) and man whose personal and professional morals are lower than whale dung.

Hollywood and the realm of fiction couldn't concoct a more bizarre plot.

Tow the party line?

Yeah baby, hook, line sinker.

This GOP and its arrogant elites must be sunk if conservatism stands any chance whatsoever of surviving.

Republican Leadership Declares WAR on Conservative Members of Congress and Conservatives

It's rare when a Huffington Post Headline thrills me but it happened today.

REVOLT! CONSERVATIVE FURY HITS GOP LEADERS

The Huffington Post piece links to John Boehner Faces Conservative Fury For Booting Members From Key Committees.

Conservative groups are furious with GOP leadership for stripping several lawmakers of spots on powerful committees after it was deemed that they were not toeing the party line.

On Monday, the Republican Steering Committee, which is chaired by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), voted to remove Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) from the House Budget Commtitee. Reps. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) lost their positions on the Financial Services Committee.

The four members are known for occasionally bucking leadership and voting against Boehner's wishes. Amash, Huelskamp and Schweikert are popular with the conservative movement, while Jones has made a name for himself by speaking out against U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Huelskamp and Amash were also the only GOP votes against Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan this year, arguing that it didn't cut spending enough. The Steering Committee recently recommended that Ryan stay on as Budget Committee chairman.

When asked for comment on the changes, Boehner spokesman Michael Steel replied, "The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors."

Grassroots conservatives, Tea Party folks, Libertarians and fiscal conservatives are waging a long overdue revolt against the GOP leadership. The revolt reached a pinnacle this week when former House Majority Leader Dick Army resigned from Freedom Works, a Tea Party group that is increasingly under the control of the Koch Brothers, 2 very wealthy Republicans who are perceived as being advocates for big government and statism as well as Romney styled Republicans.

DICK ARMEY RESIGNS FROM FREEDOMWORKS

In a surprise move, former House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, the conservative Washington based group that has been strongly identified with the Tea Party movement.

Based on early press reports, Armey's departure does not appear to be a harmonious one.

On a more salacious note, the Washington Post reported that Dick Armey received an $8 million payoff for his resignation from Freedom Works, here.

Also, Boehner and the House Republican Steering Committee booted key fiscal conservatives off of key congressisonal committees.

Boehner Purges Conservatives From Committees

On Monday afternoon John Boehner quietly ejected some of the most conservative members from their posts on influential congressional committees. David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Walter Jones (R-NC) were expelled from the Financial Services Committee, and Justin Amash (R-MI) and Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) were jettisoned from the Budget Committee. They were given the boot in part because their "votes were not in lockstep with leadership," as Rep. Schweikert was told.

Rep. Huelskamp, elected in the 2010 Tea Party surge, responded with a passionate screed against his party's leaders: "The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is...a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement."

Boehner's stealthy coup has been met with dismay on the right. For some groups it's signalled the start of outright warfare. Heritage Action, FreedomWorks, and Club for Growth all condemned Boehner and promised to redouble their support for the booted congressmen.

And last night conservative activists on Twitter were baying for the Speaker's blood via the hashtag #PurgeBoehner:

@BernardKingIII: Boehner is teaching the principled tea partiers that the small gov't & cutting spending is all a lie for election season. #PurgeBoehner.

@niceninja: As a Conservative...THIS makes me TOTALLY SICK...and makes me wonder what EXACTLY the new GOP is up to!! #PurgeBoehner.

The House Republican Steering Committee who made the decision to evict conservatives from key committees appears to be a secret committee (names not disclosed) that was selected in secret by the House Republican Conference.

House GOP Backs Secret Ballot for Steering Committee Spots

The House Republican Conference decided Thursday to hold secret ballot votes for regional and class representatives to the Republican Steering Committee.

The House Republican Conference is heavily dominated by establishment Republicans who endorse socialism, big spending, endless wars, fascism, crony capitalism, corporate welfare, bankster bailouts and just about everything that decent conservatives despise about the Republican Party.

So long as such folks dominate the ranks of the Republican Party, conservatives will continue to get more of the same until the day dawns when the Republican base has the will and commitment to just vote them out of office.

Meanwhile, this epic battle continues between establishment Republican statist slime and the fiscal conservatives and liberty activists.

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