Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on March 25, 2009 by Allahpundit
“No, things have changed,” she continued. “But complaining? Or whining? Absolutely not. But I am going to call it like I see it. It doesn’t do any good to whine about any of this. But I can call it like I see it. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble when I speak candidly, and I speak from the heart and I do such a thing. But I am going to.”
“And there was that media slant this go round,” she said. “And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, ’cause we got that on the battlefield also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complaining, but dealing with reality.”
“Those are the cards that are dealt us,” she said, “and we had better learn to play that hand and do things right and do things better.”
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Jindal described the premise of the question — “Do you want the president to fail?” — as the “latest gotcha game” being perpetrated by Democrats against Republicans.
“Make no mistake: Anything other than an immediate and compliant, ‘Why no sir, I don’t want the president to fail,’ is treated as some sort of act of treason, civil disobedience or political obstructionism,” Jindal said at a political fundraiser attended by 1,200 people. “This is political correctness run amok.”
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Palin will have no problem if this is what liberals consider
“smart power”:
U.S. to blame for much of Mexico violence: Clinton
Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:54pm EDT
By Arshad Mohammed
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52O5RF20090325?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Apparently “smart power” involves blaming America for other countries failures.
Next we will hear how illegal immigration is America’s fault because we have higher paying jobs that “Americans won’t do”.
That was before unemployment hit double digits under Obama
though,so we are making progress in that area.
You would think that people who call themselves “smart” all the time would not have constantly fought against a policy that shows a high percentage of success,like building a wall/fence.
Ask the Israelis, it worked for them.
This propaganda from democrats about the US being the big supplier for Mexico concerning guns is not backed up by the facts,as usual:
Testimony on Violence in Mexico
Posted by:Sebastian on Mar 19th, 2009 |
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=503d6378b0e7bbf4f5488ec58d1fd50d&url=http%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F
Drug cartels’ new weaponry means war
Democrats need to worry about how idiotic they are looking more and more on the domestic and world stage than constantly whinnying and crying about Palin and Rush.
Baxter Greene on March 26, 2009 at 7:37 AM
Gawd, I would still love to see them debate! She’d wipe the floor with him!
misslizzi on March 26, 2009 at 7:41 AM
Big Al craps way bigger than Bambi! Bambi would take out his sword to cut the Gordian Knot, wind up, and then miss and cut off his own…well…let’s just say Michelle Ma Bell wouldn’t have to worry about having anymore kids. Bambi couldn’t cross the road without TOTUS–much less cross the Hellespont.
Alexander had more than mere persistence–Big Al had TALENT. Bambi has TOTUS.
Matt Helm on March 26, 2009 at 7:41 AM
The real Del Dolemonte commented regularly at Power Line. He’s an intelligent conservative. So this is someone else or an attempt at sarcasm.
One of the problems with the Obama administration is that they are so incompetent, and yet so arrogant, they are hard to satirize.
Basilsbest on March 26, 2009 at 7:41 AM
Flipper Kerry has youth fascists whipped hands down on being democratic. As if a pimple on the ass amounts to the Kerry Democrat; it’s self delusion to claim superiority to him when you have contributed NADA to America but more ignorance and bigotry. Along with Obama, his devotees are pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility. Earn your classical education through the application of your mind retracing history to personally discover why you have prostituted the word ‘liberal’ so misapplied to yourself.
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 7:45 AM
Another great post Baxter!
Marcus on March 25, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Del is a rock solid Conservative, very articulate and bright. The comment you have referenced, was sarc directed at that thing calling itself getalife; if I’m not mistaken.
Keemo on March 26, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Matt Helm
Personally, I’m fond of Phrygian cadences, so a bit of ancient history from the Phrygian king catches my interest. That Alexander dismissed all diplomatic and traditional protocol, forcing his own will on every world leader and people, intolerant of conservation by pain of death, in order to rule all so briefly, Obama should take note of Alexander’s early demise as the result of over-reach and intolerant domination. For God’s sake, Alexander burnt the world’s library!!!
As with “Orion,” Obama had no idea what the Patriarch was saying; it all went over his head. We’ll have to wait the 2 day lapse before Obama figures out what he should have said at the time; being Blackberry fluent doesn’t help Obama find the right words on the spot!
I’m going out on a limb for the Patriarch’s intent to prod Obama via allegory. But true to form, The arrogant One thought the challenge was mere flattery, AS IF Obama were being equated to Alexander the Great. What else could the Patriarch have possibly meant with the allusion to cutting the Gordian knot?
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 8:01 AM
I believe you’re mixing Alex up with Julius Caesar if you’re referring to the burning of the Library at Alexandria. Alexander died so young really as a result of his failure to master his own internal demons more so than intolerant domination–one of the reasons posited for his death is alcohol poisoning following one of his more memorable drunken debauches. Also, remember, he showed respect for the Egyptian gods and also even for the God of the Jews and tended to be quite merciful towards those he conquered once they submitted.
Matt Helm on March 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM
“But I can call as I see it”
It is easier to defend the TRUTH, that make up excuses to cover up lie.
seabee1 on March 26, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Clinton blames America for Mexico.
Either she thinks we should have wiped them off the map, absorbing them before Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency, or she’s harping at Bill Clinton’s bad habits by brow beating all Americans.
Either way, as a blame America for everything wrong Secretary of State, how do PUMAs take her latest gaff redistributing guilt and ultimate responsibility?
Unable or unwilling to curb her husband’s illicit habits, this stupid overstatement should place Hillary at odds with feminists who know how to take charge of a situation and cut off bastard balls. Is Hillary swiping at the wrong population, pressing the Obama Doctrine of self loathing as if that’s the motivational cure, more negativity on top of deep depression? Last I checked, her approach of pushing people over the edge spawns suicide, OR REBELLION.
So again, PUMA ladies, how do you take Hillary now?
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Wow. That is seriously messed up.
Associating “Potato Day” with a traditionally Irish holiday only brings to mind the Great Potato Famine. If I had a child there, I’d ask if the liberals were celebrating the famine and why they were encouraging hate against Irishmen.
(It’s nice to use their own political correctness against them!)
dominigan on March 26, 2009 at 8:20 AM
You are correct, and my mind knew that Alexander by name would not have burnt the Alexandrian Library. Thanks for clearing my confusion, Matt.
Conquerors who destroy libraries by flame share similarity with those who revise all meanings, destroying literacy via newspeak. Furthermore, Obama, like Caesar, would abolish the people’s representatives and bury the Senate, having declared himself divinity. Apply water to Obama and watch his sugar mass dissolve.
Nothing about Obama washes well. In his dreams he sees himself as victor. There’s nothing in him, though, to measure up to great conquerors who spread “civilization”. Actually, that parallel applies better to GWB who established a peaceful democracy of indigenous tribes now organized in the alliance of the Iraq government today. How that must sting to young Obama fascists; disillusionment hurts.
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 8:35 AM
I went to the Orlando Tea Party and a nut job with a camera got up in my face spouting off his crap and I told him to get out of my face and when he persisted with his camera in my face, I snatched his camera and I am a strong women so he couldn’t get me off him, and I told him I ain’t playing, I’m not one of these passive compassionate conservatives.
He got scared and left.
I am sick of getting ran over by leftist. So I stand up and fight back.
Mercy4Me on March 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Just following your lead Keemo.
I am also sure that Del appreciates you guys getting his back.
The real Del is sharp,knowledgeable,and conservative.
Watching liberals whine and show their fear on a daily basis concerning Palin,Rush,and the tea parties while their Messiah makes an a$$ clown out of himself is hilarious to watch.
The Post ran a good piece on the Salesman and Chief showing
how weak and ineffective he has been so far:
O’S FOREIGN FAILURES
By RALPH PETERS
March 25, 2009 —
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_foreign_failures_161154.htm
AMERICA’S enemies smell blood and it’s type “O.”
But please liberals,keep yammering on about future election fantasies and bringing ridiculous legal complaints against
Palin so you don’t have to pay attention to the absolute failure that is transpiring in the White House.
Baxter Greene on March 26, 2009 at 8:47 AM
The BLIGHT on Potato Day. Damned the coerced starvation of the entire working and subsisting native population in Ireland.
Of course it HAD to be p-o-t-a-t-o
-eday, not even cabbage day. How appropriate, that theliberalfascists running the school system who insist on false prompts to stimulate false responses also elevate the administrative decision as a governing force to inflict starvation and call it God’s will–”god is dead, long live the state.” Big Brother knows best how to never let a crisis go to waste. Fewer natives leaves all the more for the invading opportunistic aggressors, aka Socialist elitists wannabe/wannastay aristocrats ruling ignorant slaves, serfs, and illiterate indentured servants.maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Type O-negative!
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Way to go. Given Hell. Screw the Rats.
Clyde5445 on March 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Obama surrounds himself with pointy-headed Ivy League weanies who are simply too dumb to live. If you’ve spent years in Cambridge or New Haven among the spoiled elite and rotten Marxist faculty–especially if you’ve come from a not-so-perfect background and your skin color is off-off white, then your point-of-view on the world changes. For the worse.
These people are so insular and set in their ways that years from now, when we look over the wreckage of America, we’ll look back at this period when the elite drove this country, and a good part of the West, into the ground.
If the Conservative Counterrevolution is to succeed, people like Palin should make a virtue of not coming from that world. The Wall St.-Cambridge mafia needs to go back to the Ivory Tower and take a nice leap off the roof.
EMD on March 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Thats what needs to be done imo. The lefty puppets and stoners have gotten used to conservatives being polite to the extent of passivity. This has made them bold and obnoxious. Show some teeth, and I’ll bet most will back away, and the experience will dampen their pushy personalities.
Itchee Dryback on March 26, 2009 at 8:55 AM
If you don’t stand up for yourself, who else will?
I won’t be attending our Tea Party alone. Gov. Perry will attend and address those of us who gather in April at Austin City Hall and the State Capitol south steps.
Don’t mess with Texas.
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 9:00 AM
EMD
lol. Climb that ivory tower and take a flying leap of faith. Make that CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM
damn, to be in the Republic of Texas.
and see if you can get those lefties to punch you first.
i might go to the Tea Party in charlottesville virginia which is the home of the Univ of Virginia (liberal academia) plus the neighboring county has all those liberal movie stars–sissy spacek, sam shepherd. i might go there just for fun.
kelley in virginia on March 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM
kelley in virginia
For sure, show up.
Bring a friend!
Like Charlottesville, VA, you know that Austin is the liberal drain of Texas, well suited for a Tea Party protesting what sucks our blood dry (it ain’t nature’s own bats). I stick with my better half who was born here back in the day represented by the late Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock when Texas Democrats were Statesmen, the last of his breed remaining in that party to the bitter end. United we stand against tyranny FOR LIBERTY.
maverick muse on March 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM
disappearing posts?
portlandon on March 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM
People need to watch the entire speech—although the audio is terrible. A 12 year old with a Sony camcorder could’ve done a better job. The quotes posted are not exactly verbatim….she often pauses with another thought and then continues, so don’t put too much stock in the “translation.”
At the end she reads from a book about Lincoln…wish I could’ve heard that part more clearly as was quite interesting and captured the crowd’s attention. Very good. She also told a couple self-deprecating jokes that went over very well.
I have heard Palin twice say that we “must secure our borders.” As far as how to deal with illegals currently in the country, I only heard her response to that question during the campaign from a Univision interview, and it was exactly the “McCain policy” on the issue, which you would expect. Don’t know her personal view.
howIroll on March 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Unreal, isn’t it. I suppose the good news is that they didn’t call it “Irish Whiskey Day”, or whatever it is Irish are rumored to drink in large quantities.
Buy Danish on March 26, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Just saw your comment. D.F.L. Day sounds good. Although they may have to extend a hand to transgendered and questioning D.F.L.s
Buy Danish on March 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM
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