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-Lurid Crime Tales-
State launches fraud investigation into voter registration group
[WSBTV] Channel 2 Action News has learned Georgia's secretary of state is investigating allegations of forged voter registration applications and demanding records from a voter registration group with ties to one of the state's highest ranking Democrats.

A subpoena was sent to the New Georgia Project and its parent organization Third Sector Development on Tuesday.

The organization is a project of the nonprofit organization Third Sector Development, which was founded and is led by House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams.

The subpoena demands all documents be turned over to the State Election Board's Sherlocks by Sept. 16.

In a memo sent to county elections officials, Secretary of State Brian Kemp said in recent weeks his office has "received numerous complaints about voter applications submitted by the New Georgia Project."

Kemp wrote, "Preliminary investigation has revealed significant illegal activities' including forged voter registration applications, forged signatures on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information."

A front man confirmed Kemp's office was contacted by officials in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Bartow, Butts and Muscogee counties.

"We're just not going to put up with fraud. I mean, we have zero tolerance for that in Georgia so we've opened an investigation and served some subpoenas," Kemp told Channel 2 political news hound Lori Geary. "At the end of the day this is not going to be about politics. This is about potential fraud which we think happened."
Geary went to the location where the subpoena was served and found a UPS store inside the lobby of a Sheraton Hotel in downtown Atlanta.

The New Georgia Project's website describes it as "a non-partisan effort to register and civically engage the rising electorate in our state."
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DA Union member's wife drove witch hunt against Scott Walker
[BREITBART] A former Wisconsin prosecutor has come forward to charge that Milwaukee DA John Chisholm was goaded by his union-member wife to keep the pressure on Walker as he carried out his campaign promises to cure the budget problems that he faced when he was elected Governor.

The prosecutor, who wishes to stay anonymous to protect himself from retaliation, says that the partisan animus he saw in the Milwaukee DA was shocking. "I admired him [Chisholm] greatly up until this whole thing started," he said. "But once this whole matter came up, it was surprising how almost hyper-partisan he became... It was amazing... to see this complete change."

The former official also noted that after Walker's election, the DA's office became extremely partisan against him--with many of the employees siding with unions, even to the extent of attending anti-Walker rallies sponsored by unions.

The former prosecutor said Chisholm "had almost like an anti-Walker cabal of people in his office who were just fanatical about union activities and unionizing. And a lot of them went up and protested. They hung those blue fists on their office walls [to show solidarity with union protesters] ... At the same time, if you had some opposing viewpoints that you wished to express, it was absolutely not allowed."

The prosecutor also claimed that the reason for the continued John Doe investigation--even after Walker won the recall election and successfully enacted his budget policies--was that the wife of the DA pushed the issue with her DA husband.

The source said the DA's wife, Colleen Chisholm, took Walker's policies "personally," and that she "frequently" broke down in tears over Walker's union policies. As she continued her alleged histrionics, the DA began to feel that "it was his personal duty to stop Walker from treating people like this."

These revelations may finally shed light on the many unanswered questions about the nature of these Jon Doe investigations.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 10:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Headline changed from all-caps
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/10/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Placate the wife to have a quiet life...even if she is a screaming, hysterical, evil loon.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/10/2014 12:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Tis better to sleep on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a spiteful woman...Proverbs
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/10/2014 13:38 Comments || Top||

#4  so it was a Bitch Hunt
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2014 20:09 Comments || Top||


Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Arrives at Prison to Serve 10 Years
[NBCNEWS] Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrived at a federal prison in Texas on Monday to begin serving a 10-year sentence for corruption. Nagin arrived at the Texarkana Federal Correction Institution at 11:45 a.m. Monday, according to NBC affiliate WDSU. The facility is a minimum security prison reserved for non-violent white collar criminals. Lou Pearlman, the former producer of boy bands like N-Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is also housed there for money laundering.

Nagin, a Democrat who was mayor for two terms from 2002 to 2010, was found guilty in February of 20 out of 21 charges, including including bribery, conspiracy and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors said Nagin accepted bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars before Hurricane Katrina, and during the city's recovery after the storm.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No worries, he'll not be thrown under the bus. Pardoned and released by February 2017 would be my guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it a Chocolate Prison?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2014 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Nagin accepted bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars before Hurricane Katrina, and during the city's recovery after the storm. Couldn't blame all this on Bush? A pardon is in his future if he has the fix in with the Donk Party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Couldn't blame all this on Bush?

C'mon. You know better than that. It is always Bush's fault.
Posted by: Caesar Gray1629 || 09/10/2014 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I nominate Frank G for snark of the day.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 09/10/2014 19:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Interesting.... the word "Democrat" is used in the article..........
Posted by: Sherry || 09/10/2014 23:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cuomo wins Democratic primary
[NYPOST] Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo won his Democratic primary fight Tuesday -- but not without getting bruised by little-known leftist krazed killer Zephyr Teachout's surprisingly strong showing.

With 94 percent of the ballots counted, Teachout had 34.6 percent of the vote to Cuomo's 61.7 percent -- even though she ran a shoestring campaign against a well-financed incumbent who outspent her 10 to 1.

And a third candidate on the ballot, Randy Credico, got about 3.7 percent -- meaning that almost 40 percent of Democratic voters cast their ballots against the gov.

Teachout -- whom Cuomo tried to have booted from the ballot -- won about two dozen upstate counties. In a major embarrassment, she easily won Albany County -- the capital and seat of state government.

"Cuomo lost everything tonight except the nomination," said former city Public Advocate Mark Green, who supported ­Teach­out.

Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio said, "This is very surprising. This has to be a shock to Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo took a hard shot here.

"Zephyr Teachout's protest candidacy was successful. Her candidacy served as a catalyst to Democrats unhappy with Cuomo. There's no way for the Cuomo camp to positively spin this."
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 11:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oddly enough, the guv'nor of Connecticut is/was also facing a hard-left insurgent candidate.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2014 20:32 Comments || Top||


Jay Carney joins CNN
[POLITICO] Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney will join CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday.

He will start Wednesday night as President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
makes a prime-time statement about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
, Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief said in a statement.

"Jay's unique experience as both a journalist and a White House press secretary make him an invaluable voice for the network as we cover the final two years of the Obama Administration and look ahead to the coming campaigns," Feist said. "We're fortunate to have Jay on our air tonight to provide analysis and insight surrounding the President's address to the nation."
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 11:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...make him an invaluable voice a reliable shill for the network Democratic Party..."

FIFY, CNN.
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/10/2014 12:34 Comments || Top||

#2  When was he ever NOT working for CNN ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 12:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Now we know he didn't quit the White House because he was tired of lying.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/10/2014 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Excellent! Another Mainstream Media imbedded agent of the regime. The addition of this sophomoric twit should drive CNN's rating even further into the ditch. Nicely played Team Obama.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Jay's unmistakable charisma, impeccable honesty and legendary journalistic integrity add up to ratings gold for the first name in television news, CNN.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/10/2014 13:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Who?

Oh yeah. That assclown.

Another reason not to watch CNN thrown on the ever increasing pile of reasons.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/10/2014 13:40 Comments || Top||


Scott Brown Wins New Hampshire Republican Senate Primary
[BOSTON.CBSLOCAL] Former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Downtown Scotty Brown won New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, moving forward in his attempt to get back to Washington from another state.

Brown faced nine opponents in the primary, though only two mounted serious campaigns, and he was the front-runner from the start. He'll face Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen in November in one of a handful of races that will decide control of the Senate for the final two years of President Barack Obama
If you have a small business, you didn't build that...
's term.

This is Brown's third U.S. Senate campaign in five years. One of the original tea party favorites, he shocked the nation by winning a special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, in 2010. After getting soundly defeated by consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, in 2012, he moved to New Hampshire, where he had a vacation home and had lived as a toddler, seeking an alternate route to Washington.

If Brown is successful, he would become only the third U.S. senator to serve multiple states.

During the primary, Brown touted himself as an independent problem-solver willing to work across the political aisle. He spent much of his time trying to tie Shaheen to the increasingly unpopular Obama, particularly in her support for Obama's health care overhaul law.
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Rep. Tierney concedes defeat in Mass. Dem primary to political newcomer
[FOXNEWS] In a stunning defeat, nine-term incumbent U.S. Rep. John Tierney
...Representative-for-life from Massachusetts, first elected in 1997. His priorities include green energy and more student loans...

...perhaps not quite for life, but long enough to grow old, send his kids to college and collect a pension...
on Tuesday lost a bitter Democratic primary contest to political newcomer Seth Moulton in the state's 6th Congressional District.

Tierney is the first sitting Massachusetts congressman to lose a primary since 1992, when former U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan beat then-incumbent Chester Atkins in the Democratic primary.

Moulton, a former Marine and Iraq war veteran from Salem, will face Republican Richard Tisei in the November election. He credited his win in part on voter frustration with Congress.

"It's time for a new approach to end the gridlock in Washington," Moulton told supporters Tuesday night. "It's not enough to blame the Republicans for the lack of progress at a time when our country faces so many challenges. And it's cynical to think we must accept it."

Tierney, in a brief concession speech, said he was proud of "an amazing 18 years" in office.

"It was always about making sure that people had opportunity, that our children had at least the same opportunity that we had," Tierney said.

Moulton ran a well-financed campaign and suggested Tierney had been ineffective in Congress. By mid-August, Moulton had raised $1.6 million compared with the $1.9 million raised by Tierney.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 01:55 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tisei would have likely won two years ago against Tierney, but a libertarian siphoned off just enough votes for Tierney to win.
Posted by: Raj || 09/10/2014 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Any chance the newcomer is a sane and ethical Democrat?

I know, I know. I can dream can't I?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/10/2014 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  I haven't seen one of those in a long, long time--sane and ethical that is.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 15:22 Comments || Top||

#4  After graduating from Harvard , Moulton joined the Marines in 2001. He served in Iraq and was part of the first Marine company to enter Baghdad, despite opposing the war, according to his campaign biography. "While I believe that the war was a mistake, I don't regret doing what I could to serve our country," Moulton said in his introductory campaign video. These days, with Iraq back at the center of the national conversation amid the rise of the Islamic State, Moulton opposes a new ground war there.
His parents were Vietnam war protesters.

Boston Magazine has the details:

As students at Brown University in the late 1960s, Lynn and Tom opposed the Vietnam War. During her senior year, Lynn joined students at campuses across the country who, as an act of protest, refused to take their final exams. Later, as a law school student at Boston University, Tom marched in an antiwar demonstration. After marrying and starting a family, they wanted to raise Seth and his younger siblings, Cyrus and Eliza, to be independent thinkers. "They had a teacher who preached leftist values," says Lynn, a gregarious woman who wears glasses and her hair cropped short. "I wanted to say, ‘I agree with you, but I don’t want you to tell them what to think.’"

As parents, Lynn and Tom’s own open-mindedness had its limits. While the children were growing up, Lynn prohibited them from playing with toy weapons, even squirt guns. ("I gave them plastic fish to squirt at one another," she says.) When Seth informed his parents that he planned to enlist in the Marines, Lynn says, her first thought was: "There was no career choice he could have made that would have made me more unhappy, except if he had chosen a life of crime."

3. He's backed by Stanley McChrystal.

The retired Army general, who was dismissed as the top commander in Afghanistan in 2010, bestowed his first political endorsement on Moulton.

4. He probably gives Democrats a better chance at holding the 6th district.

Tierney was a lackluster campaigner who was still carrying baggage from his family gambling scandal. Democrats are probably better off with Moulton as their nominee. Republican nominee Richard Tisei, who narrowly lost to Tierney in 2012, would have been able to tie the congressman to the Obama administration and hammer his long stay in Washington at a time when voter fatigue with Congress is rampant. With Moulton, he's running against a fresh face in a district that handed Obama 55 percent of the vote in 2012.

5. That said, Republicans will try to cast him as a Tierney clone.

"Seth Moulton may have defeated John Tierney in the primary, but if elected to Congress Moulton would be a less effective carbon copy [than] the inept Tierney. As Moulton said, he agrees with Tierney ‘on all the issues’ and that is exactly what makes him so wrong for Massachusetts families and small businesses," said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ian Prior in a statement.

Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/10/2014 15:25 Comments || Top||


Garcia wins GOP 2nd District race
[WMUR] SALEM, N.H. -- Marilinda Garcia won the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District. With 79 percent of precincts reporting, Garcia had 50 percent of the vote, compared to 26 percent for Gary Lambert and 19 percent for Jim Lawrence. Garcia will face U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster in the general election.
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Dem Sen. Udall: Beheaded Journalists Would Tell Us Not To Be Impulsive With ISIS
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic Colorado Sen. Mark Udall said that beheaded journalists Steve Sotloff and James Foley would recommend a cautious approach to fighting ISIS, the terrorist group that killed them.
Knew 'em pretty well, did he? I'll be he's really sad that they're gone.
Props are props...
"I can tell you," Udall said in his re-election debate with Republican Cory Gardner, according to National Review. "Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, don't be impulsive. Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don't be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a dick.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/10/2014 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Udall has no idea what they would tell us as they have been beheaded. I know the answer to this question but I'll state it anyway. How did we get so many moronic people in government?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  "Another long night with the Ouiji board, Senator?"
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2014 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Wes Welker must have slipped some Molly in his whine cooler.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/10/2014 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Have they started the self destruct sequence yet?

Yet another liberal coward hiding his limp dick cowardice inside a contorted liberal buzzword filled speech.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/10/2014 13:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don't be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.

Call me an optimist, but maybe a back-handed smack at the CiC, given he doesn't have a plan?
Posted by: BA || 09/10/2014 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Beheaded Journalists Would Tell Us Not To Be Impulsive With ISIS

Yep, loosing your head isn't smart.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/10/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||


Dem Senate Candidate Dodges Questions About Ties to Communist Group
[FREEBEACON] The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana last month dodged questions about her ties to a group that explicitly advocates the abolition of capitalism in the United States.

"That sounds like contemporary communism," said Montana Public Radio news hound Edward O'Brien of the Industrial Workers of the World, a labor group for which Montana politician Amanda Curtis' husband is a representative.

Her ties to the group have come under scrutiny since she won the Democratic nomination for Senate. She replaced disgraced Sen. John Walsh (D.) on the ticket after it was revealed that he plagiarized his final paper at the Army War College.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't recall the last time the Wobblies were in the headlines.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/10/2014 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't either, Ship.

Apparently they're still around.

Then again, so are quite a few of the SDS/Weathermen folks from the '60s.

I remember meeting a couple IWW guys at some labor relations function in the early 70's. They were pretty strange, even in those days.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/10/2014 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks are still scared of being openly Communists? They no longer hide the redistribution part why not admit it? Inner Party, outer party, proles, it's about it now.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/10/2014 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Mullah, they're not only still around one of their sould mates is president.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/10/2014 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  A Democrat dodges questions about ties with the Communist Party. The Democratic Party is the Communist Party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  IIRC, the Wobblies aren't Communist, they're Anarcho-Syndicalist. Which means they used to get into open street fighting with Stalin's true believers, but couldn't really be called "Trotskyite". They haven't been a real threat to anybody since the Spanish Civil War, and the Wobblies neither had the money of Comintern-funded outfits, nor the intellectual cachet and the prestige of the Trots. The IWW organizes the occasional hapless food co-op, until their general idealistic imbecility drives said operation out of business. Usually on the "very slowly, then all at once" model of bankruptcy.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 09/10/2014 11:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Mitch H says "general idealistic imbecility ".

Is there a better, brief description of leftism in all its varieties? The internal bickering about the number (and type) of angels that can dance on the head of a pin has been forever captured by Monty Python in Life of Brian.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/10/2014 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Since the Socialists of America nor the Communist Party USA no longer run a cndidate for any office, but instead donate to and actively support the democrats, the goals and policys are the same. Ask comrade Obama.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 09/10/2014 16:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Wobblies were bigtime in southeast Arizona mining town of Bisbee 100 years or so ago. The Feds put them in boxcars and unloaded them in the neighboring New Mexico desert. Not very effective anarchists (that would be an oxymoron) but highly romanticized to this day by the left.
Posted by: borgboy || 09/10/2014 18:40 Comments || Top||


A Crook as the Face of the Democratic Party
[NATIONALREVIEW] By the standards the establishment media set in covering Todd Akin in 2012 and Christine O'Donnell in 2010, the new national face of the Democratic party should be an 87-year-old, crude, crass crook who sold snake oil to his state's poor while leaving them impoverished.

In an action of gobsmocking amorality, the Louisiana Democratic Party officially has endorsed the felonious former governor Edwin Edwards for Congress in Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District. This was not a reluctant acceptance of a popular vote, mind you, but a deliberate choice by the party's state committee, even though two other Democrats are running in the jungle primary and the party was not obliged to weigh in at all.
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#1  He's no more crooked than most politicians - probably less - but he's a lot more entertaining, and in a way, honest about it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/10/2014 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "Has he been caught in a motel room with a live boy or dead girl? No? Well then he's fine. Let's do it"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2014 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Some of the Donks have been caught with a dead girl (Ted Kennedy) or a live boy and still continue. O'Donnell was demonized as a witch. Akin as a dumbass. Nearly all the Donks fall in one-two-or both of those two categories.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:50 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin prosecutors seek ruling to restart Gov. Walker probe
[Chicago Tribune] Wisconsin prosecutors on Tuesday are asking a federal appeals court to allow them to restart an investigation into possible illegal coordination between Governor Scott Walker's campaign and special interest groups during elections in 2011 and 2012.

The investigation was halted in May by U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Randa, who ruled in favor of Wisconsin Club for Growth, which filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to halt an investigation launched in 2012 by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat.

The conservative organization in February accused Sherlocks of sidelining them from political activities, violating their rights to free speech, association and equal protection.

Lawyers for special prosecutors and for the Wisconsin Club for Growth will argue the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday afternoon in Chicago.

Neither Walker, a potential Republican White House hopeful in 2016, nor anyone else has been charged in the investigation launched in August 2012 under a Wisconsin law that requires such probes to be conducted in secret.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wisconsin prosecutors seek ruling to restart Gov. Walker probe

And the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the Madison State Journal (plus the local TV minions) will be the prosecutors' standard-bearers.

Walker IS up for re-election this fall against their D-MoonBat Limo-Liberal Sweetheart, Mary Burke.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/10/2014 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  One of those made up scandals to knock him out of the running such as with Gov. Perry in Texas. It is what the left does--it is in their playbook--maybe in their genes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Mr Walker should make it the law than convicted drink drivers cannot be employed by the state.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/10/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||


Scott Brown Wins NH Republican Senate Primary
[BOSTON.CBSLOCAL] Former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Downtown Scotty Brown won New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, moving forward in his attempt to get back to Washington from another state.

Brown faced nine opponents in the primary, though only two mounted serious campaigns, and he was the front-runner from the start. He'll face Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen in November in one of a handful of races that will decide control of the Senate for the final two years of President Barack Obama
Dreams of My Sainted Father...
's term.

This is Brown's third U.S. Senate campaign in five years. One of the original tea party favorites, he shocked the nation by winning a special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, in 2010. After getting soundly defeated by Cherokee princess consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, a lying, cheating Democrat, in 2012, he moved to New Hampshire, where he had a vacation home and had lived as a toddler, seeking an alternate route to Washington.

If Brown is successful, he would become only the third U.S. senator to serve multiple states.

During the primary, Brown touted himself as an independent problem-solver willing to work across the political aisle. He spent much of his time trying to tie Shaheen to the increasingly unpopular Obama, particularly in her support for Obama's health care overhaul law.
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Home Front: WoT
Dem Congressman: 'Forces That Will Rise If ISIS Is Destroyed Are Nearly as Evil as ISIS'
"Better the evil you know than the evil you don't?"
[CNSNEWS] Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca. ), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Tuesday that destroying ISIS would only empower those fighting against the terrorist group -- who are almost as evil as ISIS.
I know this evil. "Be very, very quiet. You might make them mad!"
"If you destroy one power in the Middle East, you empower the other side, and the four groups that are fighting ISIS now are in many ways nearly as evil as ISIS itself, and in fact, those who are fighting against ISIS today on the ground have killed far more Americans than ISIS has," said Sherman, top Democrat on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee.
I know that evil, too: "You can't fight them! There are too many of them and they're braver and smarter than we are!"
Obama is planning to lay out his strategy for defeating ISIS on Wednesday. Sherman said Obama should explain to the country "how complex the situation is and how you cannot just waive a magic wand and have ISIS disappear," because, "the destruction of ISIS "doesn't mean that truth and justice just emerges from the soil of the Middle East."
I know that evil, too: "Let them fight it out among themselves."
In an interview on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Sherman was asked what strategy he would endorse if he were advising the president. "I would say his cautious approach has been a good one, and caution is called for," Sherman said.
"Be vewwwy vewwwy cautious!"
"I think he has to respond to his critics who oversimplify the situation dramatically and play to an American public that's used to watching old Western movies where you have only the black hat and the white hat in the Western movie."
"The world is made up of shades of gray! There's not that much difference between them and us. First we should try talking to them. Give them money..."

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca.) is an evil little person.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2014 11:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Obviously, Brad is a "strength in diversity" advocate.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 09/10/2014 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not that I'm afraid of ISIS or that we have to be cautious with them. I think they'll be good target practice for our pilots but I hope we don't have to spend too much money on it when we're already having to pay for ObamaCare.

Maybe I wouldn't be so cynical about this whole ISIS thing if there weren't so many more immediate threats to which our illustrious president is not responding at all. The biggest threats I see are the Mexican border and Iran and he isn't doing squat about them. So how can I trust him when he all of sudden says ISIS is such a big deal?

I'd like to know a little more about how they got started and where they get their guns and money. They didn't just pop up out of the sand one morning. Aren't they some of the same people we were helping to rebel against Assad? No? Are we so sure that among those so called "moderate" muslims in Syria there were no future ISIS bad guys? I find that difficult to believe.

I'm sorry, there is just too much that I don't know about this thing and the bottom line is I don't trust Obama to tell me. I don't trust him to fight a proper war either. I don't trust him to execute a proper kinetic action. I have so little trust in this guy that I seriously believe the best possible place for him is on the golf course.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/10/2014 13:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Harvard Grad - nuff said. Represent CA's 30 Dist
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2014 20:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Robbing APPOLYON, BAAL or BEELZEBUB to pay LUCIFER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2014 23:58 Comments || Top||


More critics piling on: "a fundamentally misguided view of the world"
[NewYorkTimes] Original title: A President Whose Assurances Have Come Back to Haunt Him
Ouch.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Obama has a problem in this regard because his rhetoric has often gone beyond his capacity to deliver, especially on Syria.”

Syria, or anywhere else for that matter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 3:45 Comments || Top||

#2  His? How about the entire Left's distorted view of the world? Just like the failed global warming models that the acolytes adhere to even in their demonstrated failure to accurately predict measurable events. For over a generation the Left has damned the 'elders' in their handling of events. Now they're in charge and abjectly failing. Do they take responsibility for their actions - No. They whine about it being 'ungovernable' that the world is 'chaos'. Strange how those they so deeply despised and criticized never got it this screwed up. Never will they admit it was their bigotry, bias, and distorted view of the real world that lead to action/inaction that feed the chaos.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/10/2014 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ditto P2k, ditto.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/10/2014 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Dr. Keith Ablow (the normal or nuts shrink) stated the following regarding "O's" speech tonight.

Mr. President, I know this consult is uninvited. But, Wednesday you will address the nation about the threat ISIS poses to the world.

You must not let your own psychology (Read as "issues") interfere with the message you send to our mortal enemies.

I believe you feel ambivalent about the decency of America. But if you let that ambivalence be known by ISIS, they will be emboldened.


Is this shrink saying Obama is nuts in a psychology manner of speaking?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Dr Ablow has a way of speaking, on occasion, that is not Politically Correct.
Posted by: tipover || 09/10/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  I believe you feel ambivalent about the decency of America.


Yep Doc, Zero hates America and Americans. What clued you in?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/10/2014 10:26 Comments || Top||


Government
US Atty Gen's Aide calls wrong Congressional office; asks for help in spinning IRS scandal
A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder. Issa believes the call was intended to be made to Democratic Rep. Elijah Cumming's staff, the ranking member on the oversight panel, the letter said.

According to the letter, Fallon " who is not named in the letter but confirmed he made the call " asked if the aides could release the IRS scandal documents to “selected reporters” to give Fallon an “opportunity to comment publicly on it.” Fallon explained to Issa aides that the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs had not permitted him to release the documents to the public and he wanted to get ahead of the story “before the Majority” " meaning Issa " could share it, according to the letter.

Issa aides " who had placed the call on speakerphone " were “caught off guard by the unusual nature of the call and the odd request” and asked Fallon to “e-mail the material for evaluation.”

“At this point,” Fallon “abruptly placed the call on hold for approximately three minutes.” When Fallon returned to the call, “he was audibly shaken. He immediately stated that there was a 'change in plans' and that there would be no effort” by DOJ to release the material early.

Fallon, however, said in a written statement that nothing untoward occurred.

“There is nothing inappropriate about department staff having conversations with both the majority and minority staff as they prepare responses to formal inquiries. That includes conversations between the spokespeople for the Department and the committee,” Fallon said. Other than confirming he made the phone call in question, Fallon did not respond to any of the details of what took place during the call.

Copy of Letter
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fucking dumbasses... they can't even do corruption and coverup properly.

Get some rope.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/10/2014 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  They are at it again, too. Now going after Breitbart News Network with a massive audit. Drudge, Breitbart, and Senator Cruz came out today with an extensive demand themselves on why apparent political persecution by the IRS is still ongoing, with Cruz hinting at criminal charges against the IRS.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 09/10/2014 2:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Simply deduct 15% from everyone's pay and forward it to the Department of the Treasury. The IRS is no longer needed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2014 3:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not abolish federal taxes too? The Fed can just print whatever the government needs. 40% of the federal budget already comes from borrowed/printed money anyway. Why not just make it 100%?
Posted by: RandomJD || 09/10/2014 7:22 Comments || Top||

#5  No, Besoeker: the goal is to deduct EVERYTHING from everyone's pay and then send back to them what the government thinks they should get.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/10/2014 7:24 Comments || Top||

#6  If this doesn't speak to IRS corruption and coverup, I don't know what does. Time to abolish the IRS as these people are so crooked they have to screw their socks on in the morning. Better take a look at a few other agencies at the same time. DOJ, State, EPA have all been politicized against the interests of the American people. Probably could add a few more to the list.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/10/2014 9:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Sounds more like Mr. Fallon (hired by the Atty General after the disclosure of the DOJ's subpoenaing phone records from the AyPee, among other things) is still moonlighting for his old boss, Senator Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2014 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  ...with Cruz hinting at criminal charges against the IRS.

As much as I would like to see that, I don't see it happening until there is a Republican President. And I have doubts it would happen even then. The Republicans, have turned into the Republican'ts.
Posted by: Sonny Glarong6820 || 09/10/2014 14:10 Comments || Top||



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