Daily Thought Pad: The Tide is Turning… Finally! There is Hope and Real Change in the Air!!!

There is Hope and Real Change in the Air!!!

Apparently, the latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of leftist James Carville (shaved head Clintonista) and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.

Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”

On “too liberal,” 35 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 21 percent say “well,” 21 percent say “not too well,” and 17 percent say “not well at all.” In other words, 56 percent of likely voters consider Obama too liberal.

When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”

In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.

Read the story below my comments and the stolen election story from 2009… (Jared Law)

Now do Americans openly yearn for a "socialist" nation? I believe that we do not, as a nation, approve of 'Socialism,' and that in fact, this is great news for America! Now some will say that we won't even have elections this fall...and while I realize, and acknowledge that this is a distinct possibility, I'm not convinced that this will be the case. Barack Hussein Obama's masters have invested too much, been too patient, to leave as much of a chance of failure if they begin to seize full dictatorial control of this nation prior to an election. That would awaken too many Americans, and they know it.

The way I see this playing out is that they'll spend $Billions doing their best to either keep a majority in one or more houses, and then they'll try to cheat, as they have done for years, now, in every single close election. Remember Dino Rossi vs. Christine Gregoire for Washington State's Governor race in 2004? That election was STOLEN by Gregoire & the Democrats in Washington. He was ahead in the ballot counts at first, but since it was close, the Democrats were able to blatantly steal the election using the strategy of finding more and more 'lost' ballots that always count out heavily in favor of the Democrat. Most conservatives who watched that outcome thought he should have fought back harder. His main fault was that he wasn't willing to fight hard enough to preserve the close win, so the Republicans were able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in that race.

Then there was Al Franken & the Democrats' seditious, revolting theft of the election of Norm Coleman to the United States Senate in 2008/2009:
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JULY 2, 2009

The 'Absentee' Senator

Franken wins by changing the rules.

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.
But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact.

This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team.
Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.

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I guess my point is that the Democrats have a history of attempting to steal elections, and they've been successful with every attempt since their most spectacular failure to steal an election, in the 2000 Presidential election.
But I digress. Here's the story which originally prompted this discussion thread, and I must say, I'm very encouraged at our chances this fall, of not just re-taking the House, but also the United States Senate, assuming elections are not cancelled due to an "Emergency," this fall (pray they will happen, and we will re-take the House & Senate!):

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PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR AMERICA!

We should all just take a few moments to pat ourselves on the back... say Amen and thank you God!... and then take renewed strength from this for the fight ahead. We have a long way to go... but everyone who has been praying for America; joining patriotic groups of all kinds; talking, writing and emailing to get the word out; and becoming involved is finally paying off!! This is a good start and a good turn... Let's keep, working, fighting and praying!!!!!!!!!!

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Palin: 'Mama Grizzlies' Will Take Back U.S.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says "mama grizzles" will punish Washington in November's midterm elections.
Palin on Friday told an anti-abortion rights group that women will lead a Republican wave and stop the Democratic agenda. She also criticized President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Palin said female activists — "mama grizzlies," she calls them — will help the party "take this country back." Palin decried Democrats' position on abortion rights and said Obama is "the most pro-abortion president ever to occupy the White House."
In fact, Obama's health care law would not allow federal dollars to pay for elective abortions. Catholic hospitals and organizations of Catholic nuns backed the measure. U.S. Catholic bishops and major anti-abortion groups opposed it.

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The Elite Turn Against Obama… And Kagan

POSTED AT 10:45 PM ON JULY 7, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY

Zuckerman added that he detects in the Obama White House “hostility to the very kinds of [business] culture that have made this the great country that it is and was. I think we have to find some way of dealing with that or else we will do great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.”

Ferguson added: “The critical point is if your policy says you’re going run a trillion-dollar deficit for the rest of time, you’re riding for a fall…Then it really is goodbye.” A dashing Brit, Ferguson added: “Can I say that, having grown up in a declining empire, I do not recommend it. It’s just not a lot of fun actually—decline.”

Ferguson called for what he called “radical” measures. “I can’t emphasize strongly enough the need for radical fiscal reform to restore the incentives for work and remove the incentives for idleness.” He praised “really radical reform of the sort that, for example, Paul Ryan [the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee] has outlined in his wonderful ‘Roadmap’ for radical, root-and-branch reform not only of the tax system but of the entitlement system” and “unleash entrepreneurial innovation.” Otherwise, Ferguson warned: “Do you want to be a kind of implicit part of the European Union? I’d advise you against it.”

This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!”

Reuters – President Barack Obama holds a town hall meeting about the economy at the Racine Memorial Hall in Wisconsin, …

Lloyd Grove – Wed Jul 7, 7:46 am ET

NEW YORK – Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, isn't Obama country anymore. Lloyd Grove on the president's waning support among the intelligentsia.

You’d think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen Ideas Festival—which is running all week in this fashionable resort town with heady panel discussions and earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders—would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own.

In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave pairing the Aspen Institute think tank with the Atlantic Monthly magazine might even be seen as President Obama’s natural base.

Apparently not so much.

“The real problem we have,” Mort Zuckerman said, “are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.”

Obama’s top economic adviser, Larry Summers, and his departing budget director, Peter Orszag, can expect heavy weather when they land in Aspen later this week to make their case to this civic-minded clique of wealthy skeptics.

“If you’re asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I’d say it’s actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we’ve already experienced in Western Europe,” Harvard business and history professor Niall Fergusondeclared during Monday’s kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obama’s economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness.

“The curse of longterm unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, they’ll find themselves doing nothing for very long periods of time,” Ferguson said. “Long-term unemployment is at an all-time high in the United States, and it is a direct consequence of a misconceived public policy.”

Ferguson was joined in his harsh attack by billionaire real estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Both lambasted Obama’s trillion-dollar deficit spending program—in the name of economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the 2008 financial meltdown—as fiscally ruinous, potentially turning America into a second-rate power.

“We are, without question, in a period of decline, particularly in the business world,” Zuckerman said. “The real problem we have…are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.”

Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.”

In a session Tuesday morning, Silicon Valley guru Michael Splinter piled on. “From an industry standpoint, it’s below what a lot of people in industry have viewed as the solution to the jobs problem,” Splinter, president of the Applied Materials solar energy company, complained about Obama’s economic performance. He was speaking to an agreeable audience in an interview with Atlantic Media owner David Bradley. “When I talk to venture capitalists, their companies are starting to move their manufacturing operations out of the United States…Our corporate tax rate, on a worldwide competitive basis, is just not competitive. Taiwan is lowering their rate to 20 to 15 percent in order to stay competitive with Singapore. These countries have made it their job to attract industry. You don’t get that sense here in the United States.”

The consensus was similar in an afternoon panel discussion on the decline of the American middle class. “He said jobs were going to be his No. 1 priority—there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and what’s going on out in the country,” nominal Obama supporter Arianna Huffington said. “The president’s economic team kept talking about a ‘cyclical’ problem. Larry Summers said jobs were a lagging economic indicator. All these things are simply wrong. The president put all his trust in the wrong economic team—an economic team that didn’t understand what was happening.”

Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.

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Comment:

Calling these people “intelligentsia” is laughable; if that’s the brain trust that is supporting this hapless administration, then we’re in more trouble than I thought. For Brolin, Streisand, and company, it’s as if they are hearing this for the first time. Haven’t we been screaming this from the roof tops for the past two years? Where have they been? If Obama’s support slips among these reliably far left Richie Rich folks, maybe the rest of the country (except those who are entrenched in the welfare mentality) will wake up and smell the money before it’s too late. Dare we hope?

College Prof on July 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM

Why Elena Kagan Makes Hollywood Nervous

The embarrassing excuse for a hearing that our representatives recently held for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is now over.
It appears as though it’s a lock for the nonjudge to get her own seat on the highest court in the land.

Interestingly, though, Hollywood is a bit apprehensive over the Supreme Court wannabe.

Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee never got around to covering some of the key legal issues that weigh heavy on the minds of Hollywood executives and artists. Too busy sidestepping and yukking it up, I guess.

Hollywood’s trepidation comes from Kagan’s thin-yet-revealing record on a subject near and dear to entertainment industry hearts: copyright law.

In the late 1980s, Kagan was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She wrote a memo urging the Supreme Court to accept the appeal of a lower court case decision.

The case was one in which author J.D. Salinger had successfully stopped the publication of an unauthorized biography that had quoted at length from his letters. A lower court, the 2nd Circuit, had summarily rejected the fair use defense that the publisher of the unauthorized Salinger biography had asserted.

As owners of intellectual property, members of the Hollywood community loved the lower court’s decision. But Kagan slammed the ruling while trying to persuade the high court to give the appeal a hearing.

Kagan also had a previous gig as dean at Harvard Law School. While she was there she made a speech in which she expressed her admiration for the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

But the Berkman Center happens to be quite hostile to Hollywood, and the feeling is mutual. It typifies the academic view that seeks to limit copyright protection.

The Center was founded by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson. Nesson defended Internet pirate Joel Tenenbaum in an infringement suit, which was filed by multiple entertainment companies. The professor was unsuccessful in the case.

Another instance in which Kagan heightened Hollywood tension happened in 2009. In her current capacity as solicitor general, she filed a brief asking the Supreme Court not to hear a case in which major Hollywood studios were pitted against Cablevision. The case was about the cable company’s proposed use of what has been termed “remote-storage DVR.”

Kagan asked the Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling, which severely limited the rights of owners of creative intellectual property to demand permission to use their property.
With Hollywood in the fight of its life over Internet piracy, Kagan’s positions aren’t providing much in the way of Tinseltown comfort.

James Hirsen, J.D., M.A., in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, commentator, media analyst, and law professor. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. Hirsen is the co-founder and chief legal counsel for InternationalEsq.com. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood.

Tuesday, 06 Jul 2010 09:26 AM - By: James Hirsen

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