Frankly, I cannot blame her. How humiliating it must be to first work for the man that smeared you and your husband so boldly last year and then to be pretty much put on the shelf or sent on “diplomatic missions” to Ear Wax museums in places no one has heard of before.

From The Weekly Standard – Hat Tips to ACE and ASPF

From Michael Goldfarb

The boss hears from two sources that Hillary Clinton is considering stepping down as Secretary of State this fall in order to run for Governor of New York.

ACE weighs in:

And then…? After a coupla years as chief executive officer of a state…?

Oh my. Oh my oh my oh my.

I mean, think about it: By 2012, she will have served as Senator, Secretary of State, and Governor of a large state.

Why, she could parlay that into an ambassadorship or somethin’! Or some other big position, serving under President Obama!

This would be a hugely delicious piece of irony. As for Hillary, I am sure she knows of and is a follower of the old Klingon Proverb – “Revenge is a dish best served cold”.

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This is most interesting…

From AP via BreitBart:

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) – Former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says he is “thinking very seriously” about running for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat.

Card said Wednesday that he will announce his final decision in the next three to four days.

Card served in the White House under George W. Bush, as well as Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush.

If Card decided to go ahead and run, that could add a whole new and very interesting dynamic to this race. Especially after the mess that was left by Kennedy in terms of succession.

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Well, I suppose in today’s Stalinist NewSpeak this was probably to be expected, but it is still most regrettable.

From Politico: Rep. Wilson’s statement

“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility.”

I am sorry, but there was no reason for him to apologize when the President is up there lying through his teeth about the issue of coverage of illegals in any Democrat bill that is currently under construction and smearing those who dare raise a question about any of the rhetoric that passes for “fact”. He got called on it short and sweet and that is what should happen. I couldn’t give a damn about the venue. We are way past that line in the sand, thanks to the Left’s behavior over the last 40 years.

As for those “shocked” and “outraged” Dems in Congress and their stooges in the Obama Paparazzi. We do not need lectures from the likes of you when it comes to “decorum” and “decency”. We do not need lectures from those (paging Nancy “No Minimum Wage for my company’s workers” Pelosi) who call hard-working, taxpaying Americans “Nazis” and “swastika carriers” for daring to question their representative. We do not need lectures from a White House that calls opponents of their radical and unconstitutional takeover of the health care industry “domestic terrorists” on their own website. We do not need to be scolded by a President who personally calls out his union/Mafia thugs to disrupt and violently attack innocent citizens who are attacked for simply attending a Town Hall meeting. We do not need to hear lectures about “civility” from unvetted, unhinged people who call a previous President an a**hole or from dried-up Code Pink hermaphrodites who disrupt party political conventions. And on and on and on.

Also, do not throw stones…

I am sure that I am one of one of tens of millions that both applauded Rep. Wilson’s actions and wished that he had been joined by 200 other Republicans in that moment.

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Owned…

Hat Tip – News Busters:

Obama is going to be hearing a lot more of this as time goes on. The American people are sick of these blatant lies, distortions and smears coming from this Administration and the Criminal Enterprise known as the Democratic Party. And those reps heard an earful during the August recess.

Now it appears that even Congressmen are showing him little respect or patience either.

And that friends, is both great news and shows that the Obama “magic” is gone.

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A little bit of Tree Shaking in South Florida.

From FOX News (Hat Tips: ASPF and Michelle Malkin)

Arrest warrants have been issued in Miami for 11 people suspected of falsifying information on hundreds of voter registration cards — including registering the name of the late actor Paul Newman — the Florida state attorney’s office told FOXNews.com.

The FBI and state authorities took six people into custody Wednesday as it issued 11 arrest warrants for voter registration fraud in Homestead, Fla., in June 2008.

“Names were filled out on the registration forms that were not actual voters,” said Ed Griffith, a spokesperson for the state attorney’s office. Griffith said the names included people who were already registered voters, fictitious names, and the name of the late actor Paul Newman, who died in Sept. 2008.

Griffith said the workers being sought were hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. He said ACORN alerted the state attorney’s office after it reviewed hundreds of voter registration cards it suspected were fraudulent. Griffith said that none of the names in question actually voted.

In a statement sent to FOXNews.com. on Wednesday, Florida ACORN board member Leroy Bell said, “We want to commend the state attorney for taking decisive action. Today’s action demonstrates the seriousness we brought to the task of not only expanding the electorate, but also of protecting the integrity of the voting process.

How many of those fraudulent registrations had names that began, Jose, Donald Duck or Deceased?

They certainly bring “diversity” to the voting booth. You could make a movie about ACORN and call it, “The Dead, the Illegal and the Fictitious”

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Another day, another outrage.

Not that this latest puke reporting is it at all surprising, since we no longer have a news media in this country. Outside of a few brave souls and hard working reporters in the field, the so called MSM has become little more than a used up street whore, 10 day old makeup caked to her hair, breath as bad as sewage treatment plant and varicose veins running up and down her legs and with every STD in between them. Desperate to stay relevant in today’s society, they clan together in their own informational crackhouses, smoking their bongs and pipes that come in the flavors of Marx, Lenin, Chavez, Mao and Obama. They share such an enclave with the vermin and the roaches, but even those critters stop to clean themselves whenever they come in close contact with such filth.

As has been reported by many today, the AP, defying the the requests of a Marine’s family and the personal request of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, went ahead published a photo of Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, as he lay dying.

From Politico: (Hat Tip: Black Five and Michelle Malkin)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.

The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”

The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.

Gates wrote to Thomas Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “Out of respect for his family’s wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly. In one of my first public statements as Secretary of Defense, I stated that the media should not be treated as the enemy, and made it a point to thank journalists for revealing problems that need to be fixed – as was the case with Walter Reed.”

“I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard’s death has caused his family. Why your organization would purposefully defy the family’s wishes knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish is beyond me. Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling. The issue here is not law, policy or constitutional right – but judgment and common decency.”

Now, as if having the largest wire service in the country publishing this photo and having it blasted all over newspapers and sites that carry AP was not bad enough, one of their fellow proxies and a true vaginal wart on the body of the blogosphere, the Huffington Post, has decided to publish in Malkin’s words, “reprinting a massively large version of the image on its front page with an accompanying blog commentary praising the AP photographer’s work as ‘tasteful”. I can just see the lefties there now, getting orgasms and hard-ons just mentally jacking off to such an image. Just as many of these mouth breathing, sewer dwellers have been doing for over 40 years. The types that only want to see the American flag when it is draped over the coffin of a fallen hero or being burned by some Code Pink hermaphrodite.

I will not pollute my blog by giving the link and the traffic to such a vile and loathsome site. You can either go to Malkin’s site and click there or go the H&P home page. I am sure they now have it as their site background image.

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Well, you cannot even turn around in your own front yard without one of these Mafia-wannabe Purple Shirts trespassing on your property.

The newest Chicago/Union Extortion Scheme: Strong-arm home-based caregivers into joining their ranks.

From the Chicago Tribune: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

Kathy Keith has cared for a son with Down syndrome for 23 years and never dreamed that one day organized labor would consider her a prime candidate for a union card.

So she was skeptical when representatives from two of the nation’s largest unions began competing for her attention over the last few weeks with unannounced visits to her home, mailings and phone messages promising to fatten her state stipend.

The Bartlett resident is among about 3,000 people who receive state funding to assist someone at home with a developmental disability. As a result of an executive order signed by Gov. Pat Quinn in June that allows collective bargaining by “individual providers of home-based support services,” unions are now trying to sign them up in an unusual effort to boost membership.

The move has left some care providers angry and confused. Many are mothers, fathers or close relatives who are caring for loved ones, advocates say.

“Are you saying I can go on strike and not wipe my son’s rear end?” Keith said, questioning if union membership would pit her interests against her son’s.

Soon, she and others expect to receive ballots by mail that ask them to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) or the Service Employees International Union(SEIU). Or they may vote against representation.

Caregivers who vote against joining a union or don’t vote at all would get to choose whether to become members if SEIU or AFSCME receives the most votes, but even if they decline to join, they will have to pay “fair share” dues, according to union representatives.

That folks, is called extortion.

Those “dues” (aka protection money) will be draining what limited resources many of these families have for providing care for their loved ones.

Pam Harris of Western Springs said she will vote against joining a union and is angry over what she calls “strong-arm tactics.” She worries about what will happen if she is forced to join a union as a caregiver for her son, Josh, 20, who has a rare genetic syndrome that causes cognitive and physical disabilities.

“I need that money for my son,” said Harris, who spends $1,400 a month on medical insurance for her son.

Organizers showed up at her doorstep on a recent Sunday morning, she said.

“I am not an employee of the state,” Harris said. “I work from my home. I don’t want the union in my home. I can Norma Rae with the rest of them.”

And the most laughable line:

Anders Lindall of AFSCME addressed some of the fears that families have expressed.

“It is absolutely critical for people to understand that the union would not interfere in any way with their control over hiring or any decisions about the care made for individuals,” he said.

Oh, I am sure the same thing was said when the UAW was formed.

Once they get their foot in the door, the union goons will be dictating, at the government’s behest, who the caregiver can hire, what they can pay the employee etc. After all, since a lot of these caregivers receive government money either via stipends from the state and/or SSI benefits via the federal government, you can bet there will be a lot of hooks and conditions built in. The unions will basically just act as the musclemen for the government.

Purple shirts, brown shirts. It is all the same in the end.

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