Squirelly Emanuel Lying his Butt Off

While on CNN last week making excuses for our Hamlet-in-Chief, WH Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel claimed that the Bush Administration left Team Obama "nothing" useful re. a strategy in Afghanistan, adding that the U.S. was now "beginning at scratch" after eight years of war because of key strategic questions that "never got asked."

Oh really? After such incompetency, why keep the Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on, then- along with his entire strategy- lock, stock, and barrel?

Slow-Joe then promptly tried to prop-up this fairy-tale -which dovetails with Obama's dubious campaign narrative- by claiming what was left to them in January was irrelevant garbage, requiring Obama's crew to start from square-one. However, those who know better comfirm Dick Cheney's quite opposite version of events, that a complete new plan was handed-over to the new administration... and most of that was shamelessly unveiled as Obama's own plan on March 28th- sans credit.

But the politically-desperate Chi-Town thuglet Emanuel just couldn't resist taking yet another cheap shot on the Bush Administration... no matter how much it makes him look a liar... or a fool.

Ed Gillespie -who was certainly close the action in the final Bush Adm. days- said in an interview on CNN yesterday that Emanuel is either "uninformed or willfully misleading" on the issue of Afghanistan.

It's unlikely that Emanuel is a fool, and it seems that he would be familiar with Obama's co-opting of the Bush strategy- it was even reported that Team Obama asked them not to go public with it. So, that would leave "lying" as the only viable explanation for the habitually dishonest Rahmbo's latest blame-deflection.

Of course, this catapult-load of BS was launched by the same Alinskyite weasel who's been leading the charge against the credibility of Fox News.

Yeah, who needs Fox around, anyway- we'll just ignore those counter-revolutionaries and believe Emanuel's ever-morphing version of reality instead- he seems like a nice guy, LOL.

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Update: Gateway Pundit has a clip of Laura Ingraham giving-it-good to the mindless Obot drones at ABC, re. Afghanistan on This Week -here-

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"Mr. Turner- Mr Emanuel on Line 1"

How amusing it is -as noted by Van at Moonbattery- to see CNN promptly fact-checking a Saturday Night Live skit that actually dared to mock the Dear Leader. Sure don't remember this occurring while they were producing propaganda attacking Bush, Cheney, McCain... or the relentless full-court-press on Sarah Palin, which consists of at least 50% fiction. Then recall the Zogby Poll after the election indicating that millions took these SNL skits as based-in-fact.

Both Moonbattery and No Sheeples Here are on it with video and commentary today. And you just know that Turner -an early Obama supporter and lib wingnut supreme- got a call first-thing Monday morning from the rodent-like Emanuel.

And congratulations Lorne Michaels... you're on The List!

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CNN clip-art: Michelle Malkin

Time for the BIG Speech...

-Thanks to Our Allies at -iowntheworld.com-

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Michelle Malkin ROCKS on Fox

Fresh off a masterful dicing-and-slicing of the Obamapologist yentas on The View, Michelle told Hannity why the DNC/Team Obama's bizarre allegation -that the RNC was deploying "K-Street funded mobs" to disrupt town hall meetings and other events- is the epitome of hypocrisy... and why there is likely soon to be a huge public backlash against this mother-of-all-smear-campaigns.

Team Obama's latest Alinskyite political assault comes as some on the left have taken to labeling even nuanced opposition to the misguided Obamacare proposal as "disinformation", "far-right-wing", even "hate radio" [h/t: Stop Socialism Now].

Partisan bully-boy-ballerina Rahm Emanuel was called-out publicly by Rep Darryl Issa (R-Ca) for knocking Capital Hill heads together in a desperate effort to harvest political souls. Meanwhile, President Obama and the DNC were deploying an unsettling Orwellian campaign asking people to turn-in to a White House website any "fishy" emails or blogposts that dare to challenge the Dear Leader's omnipotence. [h/t: Maggie's Farm] The administration's desperation as Obamania implodes is palpable.

And it seems as though the hypocrites of the Democratic Party are merely projecting: you'd have to have been living in a cave in North Korea for the last year to have not noticed where the real paid-mobs are coming from... both on the ground, and on the internet. Team Obama's appalling Soros-seeded astroturf programs are a lot of things... but subtle isn't one of them. These faux-grassroots efforts -such as door-to-door Obamacare canvassing and battalions of internet trolls- have been largely ineffective in the face of growing popular resentment of The One's taking a sledgehammer to this society.

Hope-n-Change brownshirts of ACORN are now getting close to actual physical confrontation [h/t: Moonbattery] with what are just normal American citizens involved in healthy participatory democracy. You have to wonder how anyone could still believe Barack Obama as he purports to be "post-partisan", "bi-partisan", and "interested in listening to opposing views" -please. Rather, he's here to ram a heavily-seasoned crap sandwich down our throats as fast as we can swallow... while lying about most anything that suits his purposes and aggressively attacking opponents Chicago hardball style. Many are figuring this out as the ether finally wears off- and they come to realize that it's un-American the way the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate operates.



Ultra-liberal pedal-to-the-metal Obama has unecessarily aroused a largely silent opposition with his power grabs... betraying poor judgement and political instinct. We've got our new Patrick Henry's in Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, et. al.- and they're bringing the truth The Left try so hard to depress, deflect, and obsfucate. Those who felt resigned to their fate under an Obama Administration are starting to speak up- and as we see now, exposing themselves to the wrath of the disingenuous Obama machine. It wasn't enough apparently, simply attacking and painting with a broad brush right-leaning Obama critics in the media such as Hannity and Limbaugh- Obama has now turned the DNC character-assasination guns on the American electorate.... and it's not going to win him any new friends in this country.

This shameful episode should make clear to anyone still giving Obama the benefit of the doubt just what this far-left elitist thinks of your opinion. Note that whenever Obama, Emanuel, or Gibbs are asked about why polls show so many people oppose the Cap-n-Trade and Obamacare proposals, they always segue right-into "we need to educate the public...".

LOL- sorry Barack, Constitutionally-aware

patriots don't take lectures from Marxists.

And just keep digging- Americans have had just about enough of your wack-pack cabinet, dubious tactics, and habitual dishonesty... and after the failure of the Porkulus bill to stimulate anything but inflation, IMO the Democrats will be decimated in midterms 15 mos. from now. In short, you blew it... and are only making things worse by smearing good-faith opposition. Even Bill Clinton had the sense to hire Dick Morris and moderate his policies in 1994, working the the GOP in a way that got him re-elected easily... but not this crew- apparently it's Revolution-or-Death this time.

Barack and Rahm like to think of themselves as sharp-elbowed, street-smart operators always on the offensive- but this hubristic pair of Chi-Town hustlers don't handle the pressure so well now that they're on the other-end-of-the-hose. With the unprecedented goodwill he came to DC with, all Obama had to do was be mediocre really, smile alot, and play to the narrative that he's doing his best to fix "Bush's" mess. Instead, he has stepped-in-it big-time, his political momentum promptly evaporating... a monumental wasted opportunity for this myopic would-be revolutionary.

h/t for video: Government Mess

Michelle Malkin is on-a-roll. Her new best-selling book is titled

Culture of Corruption... debut @ #1 on the NYT Best Seller's list.

Congratulations Michelle- keep up the good fight!

Congressman Tells Rahm to Back-Off: "This Isn't Chicago-"

Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a heated letter to Emanuel saying:

“While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress.”

Issa went-off on Rahmbo:

“I and others have dared to bring these facts to the attention of President Obama, the Congress and the American people,” Issa wrote. “You’ve unfortunately reacted by once again resorting to the playbook of the Chicago political machine.”

The hectoring ways of ruthless Chicago thuglet Rahm Emanuel surely work better from a position of strength; he and Barack have no problem reminding you that they're "keeping score", either. But when Blue Dogs and other Democratic moderates sense a presidency in rapid decline -one that seems reckless, radical, and self-preserving above all- they start to think again about just what they're hooking their wagon up-to here... as they ride into mid-terms a mere 15 mos from now.

What a shame for the Bolshevik charlatans of Team Obama that they didn't get that planned civilian militia's boots on the ground before the country started to turn on them, eh?

With the habitual dishonesty, appalling Alinskyite tactics, and towering arrogance of Barack Obama -coupled to his complete inability to handle criticism of any sort- it was only a matter of time before the wheels came off this demented road-trip. The trouble is that Obama appears to lack any sense of self awareness, living in a world of delusion enabled by a fawning press and compliant party machine, while surrounding himself with obsequious bootlicks. Barack really seemed to believe that he was the new Elvis... and now seems genuinely bewildered as he faces opposition to his misguided leftist policies for the first time in his hollow career.

Anyone who's attended a town-hall meeting or read a presidential poll lately can tell you that the country is finally coming out of the ether. And the Dear Leader's default setting -blaming George W. Bush for everything- has surely jumped the shark at this point.

Great job, Congressman Issa- so proud to have the GOP stand up to this outrageous administration. It's about time we all called-out Team Obama on their lies, tactics, and hidden agenda- as this crew is way, way out-of-control.

Rep. Issa's letter can be read in Pdf form by clicking here-

-h/t: Drudge Report-

Spotted: Emanuel was just seen backing-up a U-haul at the Chicago fish market... then off to OfficeMax for 435 manilla envelopes...

Romney vs Palin: ANOTHER Fake Conflict from the Alinsky Left

Mitt Romney is a decent guy, a gentleman with character and class- particularly when compared to what we’re stuck with in the White House now. He said nothing offensive whatsoever against Palin, there was no "swipe" when he made a mild joke that implied she's attractive (which of course she is)- and IMO it is ridiculous to scrape for some sort of wrongdoing here.  This only benefits Team Obama and the Democratic Party... so it's easy to see that stoking the flames of this non-event is just more manipulation from the Obama sycophants of the MSM. They then will tell you that the GOP is at war with itself,  the leadership has disregarded Palin... and that Romney is an underhanded, fratricidal operator. 

The current abhorrent situation in Washington calls for GOP party unity… rather than foolishly playing into the Machiavellian Emanuel and Obama’s hands by engaging in unecessary and self-destructive  primary battles two years early.  There is no benefit whatsoever to the Republican Party in that- especially as the country is being dragged into the abyss by the Democrats.

Team Obama and the DNC have been employing despicable Alinsky-esque divide-and-conquer/character assassination techniques for months now… manufacturing synthetic “fights” like Rush vs. Steele, plus ceaseless ridicule of Jindal, Palin, even shameful distortion of the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Clearly, the strategy is to eliminate GOP rallying points and philosophical framework for 2010/12 and create the image of a party in disarray.

And what’s been done to Palin and her family by the MSM is beyond-the-pale. But the left is so self-righteous -ala USSR- that they feel any means justify the ends… even editing interviews disingenuously, digging through her closet, or and attacking her children in the national media. 

If Governor Palin’s so silly and irrelevant, why the obsession?

The fact is that Palin has been highly successful in life while ignoring the left-wing feminist model… this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in the attacks. She turns their nonsensical liberal world-view on it’s head... and with a smile.  Trouble for them is, if more people were like Palin, the Dems would have no reason for existing- and her success humiliates them.

The DNC is terrified of Palin coming-back at them in 2012 with a dynamic and complementary VP like Bobby Jindal… or visa versa.  And they have plenty of reason to fear her-

Palin is the most popular governor in the country; her 60+% approval rating exceeds that of the MSM-pumped Obama… are all those people up there idiots?

Alaska was a pretty corrupt system until she stepped in. Her reforms took on entrenched politicians (inc. Republicans), a mafioso-style union boss, and Big Oil.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if Obama had been principled and brave enough to confront the corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine?

Shady political operators like Tony Rezko?

Racist preachers?

Instead of doing business with every last one of them?

Go get em, Sarah and Mitt- we have a lot more in common that what divides us in the GOP- and I think we are all in agreement that either of these individuals would be a big improvement over the Bolshevik charlatan we've got now.  And don’t mind the press, nobody will be listening to them anymore after the pending Obamamania implosion... which is coming sooner than you think.

Yes-We-Can Internet Op Morphs Into Orwellian Thought-Control

What was accomplished by Team Obama in last fall's presidential campaign regarding the Internet has been widely considered to be historic- changing the way that political campaigns are organized, strategized,  financed, and implemented.   


Julius Genachowski -who worked on the Harvard Law Review with Obama- is the high-tech entrepreneur behind the use of  technology in the presidential campaign. He is the one that convinced Obama that the Web had powerful implications for his ideas about "empowerment" and connecting people. 

But Obama's 2008 campaign has never ended- it's now employed to to push-through massive spending programs and other initiatives, as well as keep real (and perceived) enemies back-on-their-heels.   Barack is still out there on the stump, on YouTube, in tightly scripted-and-'Prompted pressers... with continuing grassroots door-to-door operations and TV ads funded by the DNC. Of course, Team Obama web-based efforts continue as a high priority... and this seems to include a comprehensive and organized effort to control political discourse on the Internet-with a disciplined message and Obamamania cheerleading, coupled with Alinsky-style attacks and diversions when useful.  

According to Politico, "Obama for America, the fundraising juggernaut that powered Obama's ascent to the presidency, spent nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year", including on telemarketing and print and online advertising, event staging, money for the DNC, the Obama political group Organizing for America, and the Obama family. The report also shows that Obama for America contributed $4 million to the DNC.  Organizing for America is funded by the DNC... and operates Obama's continuing effort on the web.

Vladimir Lenin had said of the cutting-edge media of his day: "Of all the arts, for us (communists), the cinema is most important."  The Bolshevik was clearly not referring to artistic or cultural value of the film industry; rather, cinema's usefulness as a medium for propaganda and tool of agitation.  


Today's equivalent -the Internet- is more far-reaching, wide-ranging, powerful, and effective than Vlad ever dreamed of.  But it's also harder to control-  thus the unprecedented efforts we are seeing from Team Obama to both utilize and contain it.

And the Democrats appear to have all avenues covered:  far-left to moderate, as well as more innocuous Hope-n-Changey blogs supporting the President; systematic trolling on blogs' comments sections; manipulating political message boards; mass-rating of news items on aggregators such as Digg, etc.  Team Obama also installed tracking-cookies on the computers of those visiting the Obama '08 website to track their online history for use in a DNC data base.

And anyone reading message boards these days -such as Politico, Topix, or Yahoo!- can see what appears to be organized Obama-ites jumping on fresh conversation threads thoroughly and promptly, gaming the ratings-system with multiple IDs (I once had a message on Yahoo! rated over 100 times- curiously, with zero written responses)- as well as attempting any other imaginable manipulation perceived to be to their propaganda advantage.  Sometimes, the goal seems simply to clog the board with so many new posts and topics as to render conservative messages unreadable.

There are taunting statements and personal attacks on what they call the "cons"- burying their posts in gobbledygook.  Steer the topic.  Change the subject.  Deflect and divert. And they're at it all day long- in a comprehensive and systematic way.  It is hard to avoid the conclusion that there are organized trolls attempting to hijack and control all internet debate, all to maintain momentum for The One as he rams-through an ultra-liberal agenda while also focused on 2010... and 2012.

Using ID's as "Little Bam" and "USA_4_Obama", you see them on there spinning every reality like the Tasmanian Devil...  i.e.- the New Deal was just great (but perhaps not big enough), everybody loves Barack, all his opponents are retrograde racist/anti-progressives in the "Party of No"... or are somehow allied with the evil and greedy "rich".  

They interestingly stick tightly to DNC talking-points ala JournoList regarding Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, anything to trash Palin, Jindal... even shameful slander of Ronald Reagan's legacy, all in an obvious effort to distort the truth and destroy any potential GOP rallying-points for 2010/2012.  They seem to be working off the same list of accusations, targets, and historical revisionism as the White House and their media allies- as they display precious little variance that would indicate free-thinking, good faith discourse.   

And it's not difficult to see why the Democrats might prefer to banter playfully about made-up GOP "scandals" and irrelevancies like Meghan McCain's latest drivel than debate Obama's ongoing destruction of the country.  When most of his domestic and foreign policies are a carbon copy of serial-failure Jimmy Carter's, and there's no other historical prededent to suggest potential for success -and when today's Republicans demand proven solutions- might as well just attack them personally, or employ some diversion, eh? 

Breitbart.com actually polices nonpartisan newswire stories for such obviously coordinated attacks. According to Andrew Breitbart "Much of Mr. Obama’s vaunted online strategy involved utilizing “Internet trolls” to invade enemy lines under false names and trying to derail discussion.  In the real world, that’s called “vandalism.” But in a political movement that embraces “graffiti” as avant-garde art , that’s business as usual. It relishes the ability to destroy other people’s property in pursuit of electoral victory."  Other right-leaning sites such as Instapundit and Nadtional Review Online even refuse to allow comments, so as to not provide a platform for the mischievious activist left. 

Sadly, similar efforts from the Democrats have been with us for some time, and in various forms. During the Clinton impeachment scandal, a then-new leftist group out of California called MoveOn.org employed a plan to get its members to dial into right-leaning talk radio shows such as Rush Limbaugh with scripted talking points falsely claiming that they were Republicans. They then feigned revulsion and said they "would never vote for the GOP again if the case against Bill Clinton was pursued."  The same MoveOn.org is, of course, today in the vanguard of the web's leftist-activists.

"This is nothing more than the Internet version of Soviet disinformation," Human Events editor Jed Babbin told Brietbart. "MoveOn.org and the little boys from Lord of the Flies who run Media Matters want to make it appear that there's huge dissension within conservative ranks on issues on which we're most united."  

Breitbart continued:  "The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes. The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right's belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means."

I myself have received numerous hostile messages that ring similar and hollow on this blog, the Reaganite Republican Resistance- and I moderate them for that reason:  it's not the specious taunting, but there's a transparent focus and agenda.  This includes repeated messages by the same two or three of the same people attacking the GOP, Reagan, or myself; kindly reminding me that "Ronnie is dead, and so are his ideas"; "the GOP has no leader", I'm a "racist" and a "coward" not to post their messages;  then telling me what mental-problems I have (they obviously operate under the directive that no conservative message should go unchallenged- so do what it takes).  Note that one of Alisky's most valued techniques is "ridicule" to "provoke" the "target" into responding.

Creatively, one of these online charlatans has now taken to informing me that he has "Republican friends who complained that I wouldn't publish their messages"- which is, naturally, sheer fiction- I publish anything that doesn't reek of troll.  There have also been a dozen dubious "I'm a Republican", but shouldn't we all "just get along" and "give Obama a chance"- with almost identical scripts... while the real Obama we're supposed to try and get-along-with charges an ultra-liberal multi-trillion-dollar spending orgy to your great-grandkids' Visa-card.   Things that make you go hmmm.

Young and net-savvy Obama campaign manager David Plouffe has admitted that there is such a web-based effort in support of Obama... he runs it... and it's funded by the DNC:

"David Plouffe, who ran Obama's campaign, now runs "Organizing for America" out of the Democratic National Committee. It uses the same Web-based tactics that won the presidency to mobilize public opinion behind Obama's initiatives." 

The Yes-We-Can wolfpacks on the blogs and message boards may be paid by this program, but who knows-  Plouffe is notoriously stingy with campaign funds.  Regardless, there is surely a  residual supply of enthusiastic volunteers to staff any effort he has organized to flood the net.  Mr. Plouffe operates out of the DNC's offices-- same place the anti-Limbaugh ads came from (some even is Spanish) to dovetail with attacks from Obama, Emanuel, and their media allies.  The DNC is basically evolving into a propaganda ministry for Obama- now with Plouffe bringing ACORN-style community-organizing to the web to support Obama's agenda. 

But employing such a manipulation on blogs and message-boards serepticiously is really not clever, slick, or anything to be proud of... rather, it's underhanded, cowardly, and ethically dubious. If Obama's wisdom and moral supremacy are so self-evident, then why such fear of an open discussion of the issues? 

It's all pretty anti-democratic... un-American... and the whole thing stinks like trash-truck juice: an appalling mix of internet-savvy trickery and borderline fraud, Chicago-Machine thuggery, with a little ITAR-Tass mixed-in.  Such efforts to control public discourse are far more totalitarian-propagandist Stalin-Goebbels-Castro than the fair-play democracy of Washington-Jefferson-Lincoln.  The development and implementation of such tactics by Team Obama should be disturbing to anyone who values the good-faith discourse traditional in our country. 

President Obama is apparently not satisfied with just purporting false intentions and misleading, vague "plans" -like that he intends to halve the deficit while simultaneously spending like a billion drunken sailors-  he has also felt the need to fund a propaganda campaign to drill what he wants (and needs) you to believe into your head... and while neutralizing any opposing voices. But the recent TEA parties seems to have stuck a nerve with the President and his sycophants... they showed that many of the less-smitten amongst us are fast becoming wise to this habitually-dishonest closet socialist. 

Now we are told that pending legislation before the US Congress would allow Obama the power to shut down the entire Internet whenever he deems appropriate- talk about the wolf guarding the henhouse.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation "The group (EFF) is particularly worried about the Commander-in-Chief becoming Commander-of-the-Web. It says the bill gives the president “unfettered authority to shut down Internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure systems on national security grounds.” The bill would permit the White House to declare a "cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any network the president declares "critical." 

And it's uber-partisan and serial-opportunist Rahm Emanuel that will have the President's ear regarding just what constitutes such an emergency. After the disturbing, politically-motivated DHS report on "right-wing extremists" -in addition to relentless Team Obama online shenanigans- it's pretty difficult to make the case for why we should trust the Machiavellian Obama Administration with the most powerful communication medium that's the world's ever seen- one that ruthless revolutionary and pioneering-propagandist Lenin surely would have stood before in awe... and envy.