The Liberal Version of ‘Supporting the Troops”

I’d been hearing rumors about this, for a little bit.  I hadn’t wanted to mention it, because I couldn’t get it confirmed.

Washington Post- The unidentified substance that was found splashed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial earlier this month was the result of vandalism, the U.S. Park Police said yesterday.

Sgt. Robert Lachance, a Park Police spokesman, said that a detective made the conclusion but that officials would provide no more details because the investigation is continuing.

(Shake of the head)

Michelle Malkin, this morning, notes the story as well. 

From WDIV:

John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.

An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police.

It is interesting to me, the reaction of the Liberal blogs this morning.  They’re all out screaming for blood.  And perhaps understandably.  But just a short time ago, the were having all kinds of problems with the president for removing people from those positions, even though they ostensibly serve at his pleasure. Oh, well, I suppose there’s no satisfying some people.

Addendum:

Billy, I have no argument with any of all that.  

He SHOULD be removed… from the planet, when possible.  It just struck me as somewhat morbidly amusing, that the ones that are screaming the loudest about this case, are the ones who were screaming very loudly against the president, handling of such attorneys, at the beginning of his ten year the White House.  There seems something of a double standard being applied, there.  I took some pleasure and pointing that double standard out over at Shakespeare’s Sister… though I must admit I hold no one’s to their understanding what the hell I was talking about.

I wonder, too, about the kind of enforcement tactics being used in this case.  I notice that in this case, nobody’s bothering to ask whether that the investigation was wholly on the up and up.  Apparently, nobody gives a damn about whether his rights were violated or not.  Again, perhaps understandably.  I know I’m certainly not.  I appreciate the effort law enforcement has brought to this case.   I appreciate that law enforcement has the tools available to do the job they did.

But I wonder, sometimes, how many such cases (And in more than simply sexual assault) have been ruined by efforts to limit the tools available to law enforcement.

Well, just about everybody else on the planet has covered this one, I might just as well too:

Those who have been closely following the politics of the Democratic primaries may have noticed that someone is missing — and I’m not referring to Bob Shrum, the Rev. Al Sharpton or an as-yet-undiscovered “Gravel Girl.”

I’m talking about the white male voter, or at least a certain long-coveted variety thereof. He is variously known as “NASCAR dad” — that shirt-sleeved, straight-talkin’, these-colors-don’t-run fella who votes his cultural values above all else — or “Bubba,” as Steve Jarding and Dave “Mudcat” Saunders affectionately call him in their book, “Foxes in the Henhouse.” Start looking on milk cartons for Bubba because he has vanished, and not a moment too soon: The Democratic obsession with the down-home, blue-collar, white male voter, that heartbreaker who crossed the aisle to the Republicans many decades ago, may finally be coming to a merciful end.

The simplest explanation for Bubba’s absence to date is that none of the 2008 Democratic presidential contenders provides an obvious home for his vote. Despite accusations that Hillary Clinton is prone to dropping her “g’s” when talking to rural or Southern audiences, it’s difficult to imagine the former first lady making overt appeals to a group that regards her with something verging on rabid disgust. Barack Obama? The former Chicago street activist is not easily mistaken for a good ole boy. Ditto for Christopher Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson.

That’s Thomas Schaller, he of the book “Whistling Past Dixie “. the subtitle of the book is “How democrats can win without the south “.

And in the blurb, he is quite correct; the democrats have absolutely no redeeming value for the white male voter, anymore.  Or for that matter, about 60% of the white female vote, either.  Anyone, for that matter, with traditional American values.

The interesting part about all of this, particularly the reaction to it, is that most of the people who have been commenting on this little short blurb of his, haven’t bothered looking into this guy’s writing history, and specifically this book of his. Whereas I’ve actually read the bloody thing.  When viewed in light of the book, it becomes clear that what we are being treated two, is an attempt at self fulfilling prophecy.

Almost as amusing, remember the Democratic party split I alluded to last evening in a different thread?  Here you go.  Like I said, it’s already started.

The low down on HillaryCareII, it is not constitutional.  Mrs. Clinton analogies her plan to the several states requiring drivers to carry auto insurance.

Fine, states have such authority.  The federal government does not.  I am not interstate commerce, and Mrs. Clinton has no authority to regulate me as if I were a mere trade good.

Mark Finkelstein, New Busters, iilluminates the Orwellian angle.

Don Surber keeps it short and sweet.  Well… as sweet as Don can get.

And for details, the Sister has them.

Developing.

This is post 7100. That’s right, 7100 posts, officially, since BitsBlog started. Even GZipped, it comes out around 300mb. A lot of writing, these past 6 and a half years. OK, let’s get to it.

• It amazes me, Billy, how often someone in the remote family has to die before we get news of the family still with us. Perhaps discussing such matters is our way of saying to each other that life continues, despite the loss?
• Is anyone surprised, really, that O.J. Simpson was rearrested ?  I guess the only thing that surprised me was nobody got killed in the process. You know, the idea occurs, Britney Spears has been such a boil on the butt of the culture of late… what say we set her up with OJ, and solve BOTH problems?
• As I suggested, Michael Mukasey will now be nominated to the attorney general slot, he hasn’t been already by the time this makes it to the front page.  I suppose he seems reasonable, but I can’t get over the idea that Charles Schumer approves of him.  Schumer is one of the most reprehensible people in politics today.  He’s possibly one of the few people that smells worse than Hillary Clinton, metaphorically.  On that basis anything he approves of is immediately suspect.  On the other hand, and Morrissey is running a post right now that suggests that Chuckles has begun a retreat from his support for Mukasey. Says Ed: “Bush has managed to strip Schumer of his last pretenses of fairness and honesty, and the Alliance for Justice may be next. Uncle Chuck couldn’t give a fig for “consensus”. He used Mukasey as a club to beat Bush two years ago, and Nan Aron of AJ jumped on the bandwagon. Schumer just had his bluff called, and one can expect that the confirmation hearings will feature several Republican committee members read into the record over and over again Schumer’s endorsement of Mukasey for the lifetime appointment.” When the press came out making a lot of noise about how Schumer had supported Mukasey, I must admit I questioned Mr. Bush’s sanity.  I am still cautious, but I must admit it’s possible I underestimated Mr. Bush.
• Speaking of the wicked witch of western Arkansas, I see she has a plan afoot to spend $110,000,000,000.00, supposedly, on a universal health care plan.  Incidental to that discussion, comes word that Hillarycare as proposed during her erstwhile husband’s occupancy of the White House was not at all her idea.  She didn’t author it, she does not understand it, Her sole job was to SELL the thing. This strikes me as the left, as usual, attempting to have it both ways. Well, I suppose that doesn’t matter, now, because either she was lying then, or she’s lying now.  And let me refresh your memory, just a little; it was in fact government health care that caused the Democrats to lose both houses of Congress.  How does she plan on making it more palatable this time?  Simple; One by constructing it in bits and pieces, instead of the whole enchilada.  But let me tell you about that hundred and $110 billion… The figure is a lie.  She knows it’s a lie.  I am quite sure that both David and myself are going to be discussing this going forward.  This is, after all, an election year.  But remember this, above all else; she’s lying. Just as an example, she tells us in the article that are linked, that “this is not government run health care.” But then we see back on September 3 at the AARP legislative conference where she says “When I’m president privatization is off the table because it’s not the answer to anything “.  Do we still won a trust this woman with the white house?
• What’s this I see about Israel, foiling attempts to the Syrians to construct nuclear weaponry, based on material shipped from North Korea?  Look…the same rule we established for Charles Schumer, apparently, is in need of being established when dealing with middle eastern countries, or communist countries, such as North Korea.  If they’re doing it willingly, it’s because it’s to their advantage, for reasons you don’t understand yet.
• The BitsBlog site continues along its merry way, without incident over the weekend.  My head counters are reflecting some traffic from the place where the attack of last week and originate it from, but no ill effects.  I will assume the patch is sufficient to at least that attack, for the moment.
• I see ambassador Alan Keyes says he’s running for president. I see David has already made mention of it.  Frankly, I was reluctant to make mention of it myself, because the amount of political impact that’s going to have on the race is a whole, probably amounts to fly squeeze.  The only outstanding question on the whole deal, is why he’s bothering.  I guess he’s looking for some kind of a political appointment to some office in the service of whoever it is that does win the presidency.

Listen to O.J Simpson enrupt into a profane (graphic language) fury.

Now read Ed Morrissey’s, Captain’s Quarters,  great back story:

Simpson claimed that a former sports agent had stolen the items from him, and that he wanted to conduct a “sting” to get the material back. He openly admitted to conspiring to steal the items at least through intimidation, since he hadn’t bothered to notify the police, and he had a good reason not to do so. Simpson had moved these assets out of his possession to keep them from getting confiscated by the Goldman family to satisfy part of the $33 million judgment against him for Ron Goldman’s murder. An acknowledgment to police that these assets had been dispersed to keep them from the Goldmans would have amounted to an admission of fraud.

The First Law of Holes is to stop digging.   Simpson has dug himself into a deep one.    His defense for armed robbery amounts to confession of guilt for fraud.    Hope Simpson has lots of cash stashed away for lots of lawyers.   The the admission of fraud could get California interested in Simpson again.

Personally, I can’t wait for the Law & Order treatment of this.

Update:  Added Las Vegas PD mug shot.

Michelle Malkin has more on the bad idea that will not die – Shamensty;

Exactly one week ago, I warned about the return of the DREAM Act, which would confer special tuition benefits on illegal alien students despite federal prohibitions on such special treatment.

It was September 11 and no one was paying attention, I guess.

Hell no to Shamesty.

Or, so says a story Little Green Footballs has up.

Frankly, I guess I’m not surprised.  It had the look of being edited.

In any event, as I’ve told you previously, I’m not convinced the man is still alive.

BEIJING — (AP) Chinese authorities ordered the recall of tainted leukemia drugs blamed for leg pains and other problems, state media reported Sunday, the latest crisis to strike the country’s embattled food and drug industries.

Most of the drugs involved — methotrexate and cytarabin hydrochloride — have been recovered and authorities have traced the remainder, the Xinhua News Agency said. The report did not say if any of the drugs had been exported.

Looks like they were trying to find another outlet for the dog food and cat food.

Ok, I bash Susan Estrich a lot.   What can I say.  She deserves it.   However all cows must have their day, and this is Susan’s.    The ‘rats have a problem and his name is General David Petraeus,    Read her entire column.  

The Democrats, especially the Democrats running for president, have a problem, and his name is Petraeus.

In two days of hearings on Capitol Hill, he probably didn’t change any of the views held by members of Congress about the war in Iraq. But he almost certainly impressed a lot of people sitting at home by displaying all the traits Americans hope for in a military leader.

Common sense and common decency play well, outside the Beltway.

Gutfield does it again

Here’s my problem with MTV and bisexuals: They’re boring. Both pride themselves on “challenging the norm.” It makes me laugh to think anyone believes going bi is a mark of individuality, when it’s really the worst kind of indecision.

It’s today’s BitsBlog Snark Of The Day

Apparently out that he’s really worn out his welcome, Lincoln Chafee has withdrawn from the Republican party.

Mark Noonan, in noting the story, says:

 We could have backed a man last year against Chafee – I mean, as the Republican Party we could have. In other words, Chafee could have left the party last year and saved the GOP all the money and effort we poured into his re-election effort. Chafee’s opinions haven’t changed. The GOP hasn’t changed – things today are as they were when Chafee happily accepted GOP largesse for his re-election effort.

There are those who will point in duration to this story as compared to the story previous as regards Liz Edwards. And I could see the argument, but for one small thing… The amount of disagreements between Elizabeth Edwards and the democratic party are stored now a small as compared to the amount of disagreement between Lincoln Chafee and his former party.  Further, Elizabeth Edwards is only disagreeing with a small yet vocal corner on the far left of the democratic party.  Whereas, Lincoln Chafee is what is and always shall be bucking the values of the mainstream of the party he claimed as his own.

As such, the argument is comprised of comparisons of Apples and truck tires.

Mark is quite correct, in that the man should have been told in no uncertain terms that he was not going to be running as a Republican last year.  Win or lose, the party would have been better off for it.

The press twisting the story in its usual fashion, has decided to mark the downfall of Lincoln Chafee as the results of a wave of anti Republicanism.  However, the given the stands  Chafee had been taking, … mostly with the Democrats… one needs to seriously ask whether or not his loss of the seat wasn’t in fact a wave of anti liberalism within his own district.  After all, we are always told that all politics is local.  Yet, his lawsuit is blamed on a nationwide wave.  Somehow that doesn’t add up.

Lincoln Chafee, meanwhile, needs to get over himself. The values he brings to the table never WERE Republican values. He’s out of a job, today, because of that lack.

McQ at Q&O as reagrds Liz Edwards blasting MoveOn.ORG

Who said “you’re either with us or against us” was exclusive to George Bush? Certainly not the authoritarians on the left known as Netroots.
…

You’re a smart woman. You of all people should know about the asymmetrical intimidation problem that Paul Krugman talks about — the one where the media is afraid to go after Rudy Guiliani for claiming he’s a rescue worker, but they’ll try to demolish your husband over a haircut because they know that they’ll get swarmed by the right wing noise machine for the former and pay no price for the latter. That’s how it works.

[…]

So here’s the rule. You never repeat right wing talking points to attack your own, ever. You never enter that echo chamber as a participant. Ever. You never give them a hammer to beat the left with. Just. Don’t. Do. It.

…

It’s not about what is morally right. It’s not about principle. It’s about winning. Nothing but. So you never, ever do anything that hurts those chances.

Ever.

It’s not like that really surprises anyone, now, does it, really?  This is merely one more example of a long line of such attitudes emanating from the left, these days.  Bruce does a fairly decent job of documenting it, but please… don’t make out like it’s something new.

Hamsher concludes:

We love you. We want to love you.

Knock it off.

Or said another way, our “love” (support, money, etc) is conditional. Very conditional. Heed the warning or pay the consequences when the tribe kicks you out.

This is precisely what I was talking about recently, when I suggested that the price for such adulation from the far left, would eventually be too high for mainstream Democrats.  This is all part and parcel of the forthcoming split of the Democrats.  It’s already happening… and in it’s early stages. It will reach it’s high point on or about the election… as it did in ’72.

Well, the WaPo seems to think so, anyway:

By Michael Abramowitz and Dan Eggen

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 16, 2007; Page A02

Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge regarded as an expert on national security issues, has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general, several conservatives close to the White House said yesterday.

The sources said that President Bush is close to announcing his nominee, possibly doing so as early as tomorrow, and that Mukasey has vaulted to the top over other contenders, including former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, whose chances may have been damaged after the Senate’s top Democrat vowed to block his confirmation.

Personally, I would consider the idea of putting Olson in on a recess appointment.  Also, as I suggested yesterday, it’s about time the republican started laying down the law, credit ministration; no appointments make it through.  None. I would make the case that if you’re going to have a fight in the senate over this kind of thing, right now time to have it.

And I have my doubts, to be honest with you, about anybody that Charles Schumer, who is easily one of the most contemptible individuals in politics today, likes. It’s like I’ve always said, when your enemy goes well out of his way to agree with you, it’s time to seriously reexamine your position.

Mukasey would probably enjoy the crucial support of Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has frequently mentioned him as a good choice to replace Gonzales and reiterated that view in conversations with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding. Schumer’s backing, though, could prompt concern among conservatives, along with Mukasey’s inclusion on a 2005 list of possible Supreme Court nominees suggested by a liberal group, the Alliance for Justice.

But once again, the president will doubtless in an effort to be seen as accommodating, will once again bend over forward for the Democrats. (Sigh)

I’ll say it again, friends, Bush is no conservative, merely a centerist. Given the choices at the time, he was by far the better one. That doesn’t mean I have to like it when he leans left.

Ed Morrissey today gets into a long piece examining just how Norman Hsu got as far into the Democratic party’s inner circle… particularly Hillary Clinton.

The Los Angeles Times doesn’t do much better at unraveling the enigma. However, the Times does a good job of determining how Hsu ingratiated himself with the Democrats — lots and lots of gifts:

Last year, to celebrate New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s reelection victory, Norman Hsu capped an amazingly successful year as a Democratic fundraiser by treating members of her campaign staff to several days at the glitzy Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants.Among Hsu’s guests was Patti Solis Doyle, who now heads Clinton’s presidential campaign and has long been one of Clinton’s most trusted advisors….

By living on a lavish scale, he convinced associates that he was backed by great personal wealth. He also made a point of doing favors. He would provide hard-to-get dinner reservations at exclusive restaurants, or bestow elegant gifts on associates. Clinton confidant Solis Doyle got a coveted, and pricey, designer handbag — a gift that made her so uncomfortable she returned it. …

As they look back, Clinton staffers say Hsu’s efforts to ingratiate himself seem painfully, embarrassingly obvious. In addition to the post-victory trip to Las Vegas in November 2006 for Solis Doyle, two junior staffers and a New York-based fundraiser, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers in April 2006.

While at the Mandalay Bay, Hsu took at least some of his guests to a favorite bar, Red Square. It features a huge statue of a decapitated Lenin at the entrance, and the top of the bar is sheathed in ice to maintain the chill of the caviar and exclusive vodkas.

It’s a strategy that allowed Hsu to hoodwink Hillary and worm his way into the inner circles of the Democratic Party. Rather than ask themselves what Hsu wanted with the freebies, the Clinton camp and other Hsu clients just kept reveling in his largesse. That certainly has some bearing on the ethics of a potential Hillary Clinton administration, as well as its sophistication and judgment.

I think Ed is being too kind, here, and in more than just Hillary Clinton’s actions. Not only are we dealing with someone we were told is the smartest woman in the world, but we’re also dealing with the remainder of the Democratic Party… Barrack Obama, Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo and as Ed says, a host of other Democrats consistently acting as saps are coming up with other explanations for their greed. How can this man have gotten by ALL of them?  I mean, the smartest and most experienced at Criminal matters should have known, you’d think…

Let’s take Spitzer and Cuomo, as examples..the former and current attorneys general for the state of New York.  Spitzer, you may or may not know, made his reputation as a lawn order type, while in that position.  I think it will surprise nobody, to learn that fifteen minutes after taking office, he was acting in a very Nixonian like manner toward his political opponents.  The resulting scandal continues today, of course with Spitzer claiming innocence.  One there, too, the former attorney general who made his reputation of knowing everything that was going on in his immediate vicinity, claims now that he had no clue that his subordinates were acting in this fashion.

And then we have Andrew Cuomo.  The attorney general current, who after biding his time as an insider in Spitzer’s office of attorney general, goes after is former boss, in what would appear to be rather opportunistic fashion… (Does anyone really believe that Eliot Spitzer was squeaky clean during his tenure at the AG’s office?  It’s interesting how Cuomo was able to keep his mouth shut for so long.) … Cuomo, also, claimed to not know anything damaging about Mr. Hsu.

How can two people, so wrapped up in enforcement of the law, not know the degree of ucriminality Mr. Hse represented? perhaps they just turn their heads and looked away, as the money slid into their palms?

And those are merely two examples of the many many people to whom Mr Hsu showed his largess.  Here’s some of the rest we know about:

How is it that even with the huge pile of money being passed out to such a large group of supposedly intelligent people, nobody understood the criminality that Hsu represented? Perhaps they just didn’t care, so long as they got the money?

And let’s look closely at Hsu himself. He skipped out on two million in bail, and was running so he’d not have to testify in the matter, when he was hauled off the train at Grand Junction, Colorado.  He’s not moved from there, since. Word is, he’s been taken to the surgical wing. Suddenly the image of Vince Foster lying in Ft Marcy Park with a suicide note and a gun that wouldn’t fire, leaps to mind, unbidden. What would make someone skip out on that kind of money? It’s not an inconsequential sum, even if you’re on the payroll of George Soros.  Or, the Chinese government.

The democrats have been revealed as corrupt on a breathtaking scale with all of this.  Which, most likely, is why the mainstream media hasn’t dared touch the story, not really. Oh sure, they’ve touchdown is little personality quirks, but they haven’t touched the real story here, which is where he was getting his money from. 

And guess who is at the top of that list of people Hsu ‘donated’ to?

Um…. Yeah, that’d be her.