Category: Democrats

Rob McCord Democrat — And Corporate Connected

This morning’s (Jan. 31) The Philadelphia Inquirer has a huge front-page headline about the looming guilty plea of  Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord.Rob McCord Democrat -- And Corporate Connected Philadelphia Inquirer Rob McCord Headline

McCord attempted to extort money during his failed gubernatorial run last year by warning potential donors that they should not make an enemy of the state treasurer. He is charged with violation of federal campaign finance law as it is illegal to solicit campaign funds in exchange for official acts.

No where on the front page does it mention McCord’s party affiliation.

In fact, it’s not until the very last paragraph on the jump page that it is noted that McCord’s gambit happened in the Democrat Primary.

Compare that to how The Washington Post covered it.

McCord is from Montgomery County and like fellow Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf is a rich, white guy who made a fortune in the private sector, in McCord’s case as a venture capitalist with Safeguard Scientifics.

McCord founded the Eastern Technology Council in 1998 and ran it through 2007.  We think its safe to say that another spelling for the Eastern Technology Council would be “cronyism”.

What this illustrates is that not all capitalists believe in free markets.

McCord, who on Thursday (Jan. 29) announced that he would resign on Feb. 12, said he will now resign immediately. His successor will be appointed by Wolf.

Rob McCord Democrat — And Corporate Connected
Rob McCord Democrat although you’d have trouble learning that from The Philadelphia Inquirer story

Past Six Years Per Biden

Vice President Joe Biden once again demonstrated the inherent honesty in the specially abled  and spoke harsh words of truth this morning (Jan. 30) to the House Democrat Caucus at a retreat in Philadelphia at the Society Hill Sheraton.Past Six Years Per Biden

“To state the obvious, the past six years have been really, really hard for this country,” he told those responsible for making it so. “And they’ve been really tough for our party.  . . .They’ve been really tough for our party. And together we made some really, really tough decisions — decisions that weren’t at all popular, hard to explain”

Here it is as it happened on C-Span:

Past Six Years Per Biden

 Hat tip Weekly Standard.

Jeff Epstein Told You So

Jeff Epstein Told You So

Jeff Epstein, we warned you about this guy.

The Arkansas Love Machine (ALM) a.k.a Bill Clinton is still producing scandals even in his 68th year as the perverse acts of his party friend Jeff Epstein have now exploded onto the public.

Epstein is the mysterious billionaire whose properties include a New York townhouse a Palm Beach mansion and a private island.

He  served a short soft (county jail, day trips to his office, house arrest) sentence after pleading guilty in 2008 to a single charge of prostitution despite evidence of him  having numerous sexual encounters with girls as young as 12.

Clinton was among the rich and powerful who were close friends of Epstein. Clinton’s name was found in Epstein’s private phone book with 21 numbers at which to contact him.  Hey, the ALM can’t miss a party, right?

Anyway, we have been writing about Epstein since 2010. We have created an archive to let all know we were ahead of the curve. The archive can be found in the drop down menu on the side or here.

Jeff Epstein Told You So

Jeff Epstein Told You So

Jeff Epstein Told You So

 

 

Elizabeth Lauten And Media Priorities

Elizabeth Lauten, a Republican staffer, watched the White House’s annual Thanksgiving turkey pardoning and was less than enthralled with the behavior of Obama’s daughters.

So she posted this on Facebook:

“Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class. . . . Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.”

Oh, did the earth quake.

Ms. Lauten was forced to quit her job and her career was ruined.

The establishment media types are still chattering about it to the point where they couldn’t find much room to report on the indictment of Obama confidant Terry Beam for sexual assault of a minor or the conviction of Democrat player Donny Ray Williams for drugging girls and rapping them.

Hat tip Debra Heine at Breitbart.com

Elizabeth Lauten And Media Priorities

Elizabeth Lauten And Media Priorities

Google Democrat Tool

The Democrats have named uber-billionaire plutocrat Eric Scmidt to its election post-mortem group, Bloomberg.com has revealed.

It’s just something for those of you not inclined to automatically push the D button to think about the next time you use a Google product.

Do you really want the enemy to track your every move?

During the midterm election cycle, Schmidt donated $60,000 to Democratic congressional candidates and chipped in $250,000 to Senate Majority PAC.

We guess the joke is on the OWS types who voted for Obama et al to stick it Wall Street and the “crony capitalists”.

We suggest that for searches one use DuckDuckGo. Their politics may not be the same as ours but truthfully we don’t know as they don’t make an issue of it. Regardless, they don’t track you.

Further, they are based in the neighborhood, Paoli, so that’s a bonus.

For web browsing, avoid Chrome. We use Firefox. If you can’t overlook their recent political cravenness, try Opera or stick to Safari if you have a Mac.

But don’t give aid and comfort to something that is obviously the opponent of freedom and a friend to feudalists

Google Democrat Tool

Google Democrat Tool

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Top Dem Rips Obamacare

Sen. Charles Schumer of New York,  the third-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, just declared the “Affordable” Care Act —  that he twisted so many arms to get passed  — to be a big mistake.

He said it in a speech, yesterday, Nov. 25, at the National Press Club reports TheHill.com.

Schumer says the Ds  “blew the opportunity the American people gave them” in the 2008 elections,  a Democrat landslide.

“Americans were crying out for an end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs; not for changes in their healthcare,” he said.

Hey Chuck, when Republican leadership wants to turn the ship in a stupid direction members of the body have a reputation for seeing the iceberg ahead and starting a mutiny. Ask Mitch McConnell. What you did in 2009 and 2010 was meekly go along with a disaster. That you imply that you thought so at the time makes you look a whole lot worse.

You should write a book. Call it Profiles in Cravenness.

You note that 85 percent of all Americans get their healthcare from either the government, through Medicare or Medicaid, or through an employer. How is that any different that company housing in a company town? How is that any different than a company store? You think employers/government should be responsible for the food choices of 85 percent of the population? We suspect you do. Your crony-captialists puppet masters certainly do.

You want effective health care reform? End all employer health-care mandates. Actually go further: End all incentives for employers to provide health care for employees. Let workers treat health care just as they do food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

For those that fall through the cracks create a clinic-based system and bring back public free-service facilities like the old Philadelphia General Hospital.

You would end up with an efficient, just health care system in which the practitioners are fairly compensated — hence being professions  that attract quality people — and puts the crony capitalist insurance companies at a disadvantage.

And the poor would get better treatment than they would under Obamacare or the previous standard of free emergency room service.

And Chuck, regarding “better wages and more jobs”, when are you going to end your War on Energy?

Top Dem Rips Obamacare

Top Dem Rips Obamacare

Obamacare Deceiver Got Rich Off Obamacare

Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who has boasted about how he deceived the “stupid” American people to get Obamacare passed, has been paid  $5.2 million by the federal government and 12 state governments for consulting services to assist in the design and implementation of the “Affordable” Care Act, reports Breitbart.com.

Gruber  certainly  did deceive a lot of people who put their trust in traditional media authorities. These weren’t the conservatives though, and most of those he did successful deceive are of the “fooled me once shame on you,” types which bodes ill not just for the future of the old media establishment but for the Democrat Party itself.

Obamacare Deceiver Got Rich Off Obamacare

Obamacare Deceiver Got Rich Off Obamacare

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

A Democrat Pennsylvania state senator is telling opponents of energy to take legalities out of context to sabotage the  Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline plan.

The proposed pipeline would transport natural gas liquids from the shale fields of western Pennsylvania to the Marcus Hook refinery complex on the Delaware River.

Andrew E. Dinniman, who represents the 19th District in Chester County, told members of the Chester County Sierra Club to use  Section 27 of the state constitution to encourage local municipalities to harass construction of the line.

Section 27 reads “the people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.”

Well, yes. And it has been accepted that the state Public Utility Commission is the agency to ensure that the air and water et al are protected else if left  to every zoning hearing board between Marcus Hook and Houston, Pa., the project would be nickle and dimed into non-existence.

Refinery workers whose jobs and standard of living depend on the natural gas must be made to understand that it is their automatically deducted union dues that fund the campaigns of guys like Dinniman.

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

Truthy Was Fed Funded Speech Suppression

Tom Coniglia submitted this link to an article on FrontpageMag.com that describes a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to a data-mining project dubbed “Truthy” that cost taxpayers nearly $1 million.

The grant was ICES: Large Meme Diffusion Through Mass Social Media (Aware #1101743) and was intended, as per the grant’s abstract to “. . . create a web service open to the public for monitoring trends, bursts, and suspicious memes. This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate.”

That those with a vested political position seek the authority to declare what speech is “hate” and “subversive propaganda”  in the name of open debate is about as Orwellian as it gets.

The name “Truthy” comes from political satirist and Democrat Party supporter Stephen Colbert. The site itself targeted messages and commentary connected to the words “Tea Party” “GOP” and “conservative,” according to a letter from Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX21) to the NSF.

And Smith wants answers.

And he — along with the rest of us — deserve them.

Smith notes that some have had social media accounts terminated because of “Truthy”.

If government agencies are seen taking sides by much, if not most, of America, then much, if not most, of America will see the government as the enemy.

This is a consequence that would be readily apparent to a kindergartner, and it is a bad thing.

To have a unified nation, government partisanship must become a big taboo. A good, but small, first step would be in exposing those who approved this grant and removing them from their jobs and banning them from any other government job, forever.

Truthy Was Fed Funded Speech Suppression

Truthy Was Fed Funded Speech Suppression

Hillary Fired Due To Dishonesty?

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Was Hillary Clinton fired from the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigations due to dishonesty i.e. being a “liar” i.e “an unethical, dishonest lawyer” who “conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the Committee , and the rules of confidentiality” according to her then boss life-long Democrat Jerry Zeifman?

The below is being sent around the internet:

Hillary Fired Due To Dishonesty?

Is it true? Well Snopes.com — the protector of Democrats and self-proclaimed debunker of the World Wide Web  — says no.

It sounds to us, though, that they are grasping at straws.

Zeifman was really who he said he was— as even Snopes admits–  and he really did supervise Mrs. Clinton, and judging by the reader reviews, the book he wrote about Mrs. Clinton certainly indicates he had a rather low opinion of her integrity and regard for legal due process.

Here’s the Dan Calabrese column on the matter. Note, he points out that Mrs. Clinton was fired after the investigation ended.

We’ll have to judge this one as true.

Hat tip Judy McGrane

Hillary Fired Due To Dishonesty?