Soros And the Democrats Digging Up the Bush is Hitler Meme Again

February 18, 2007 -New York Post- George Soros is at it again. The Democrats’ favorite financial fat-cat clearly isn’t feeling comfortable unless he’s comparing the United States to Nazi Germany.

He just did it again, telling a group of reporters over lunch recently that America’s future will be determined by the “extent it recognizes the mistake” that was made by waging war in Iraq – and purging those responsible.

“America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany,” said the Hungarian-born hedge-fund billionaire, according to The New York Times. “We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.”

Yes, you read right.

He said “de-Nazification.”

 

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Democrats like Hillary Clinton, for example, who has said: “We need people like George Soros, who is fearless and willing to step up when it counts.”

Voters have a right to judge would-be presidents by the company they keep. Hillary Clinton – indeed, all Democrats – sully themselves by continuing to use George Soros, with his obscene pronouncements, as a benefactor.

The answer is they will not seperate themselves from Soros… not only because of his money, but because they agree with him on this. This kind of non-thinking, this kind of slur, is part and parcel of the Democratic Party today.

Like what you see, America?

Mrs. Clinton has confirmed the the New York Post story, we reported on Thursday, she pays cash for campaign endorsements:

FLORENCE, S.C.-(AP)– Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denied that her campaign traded money for an endorsement from one of South Carolina’s most influential black politicians

In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton responded to questions about the consulting contract her campaign negotiated with state Sen. Darrell Jackson, who last week endorsed her candidacy rather than of top rivals

Mr. Clinton denied that B.J.’s were sex.  I guess, by the logic, Mrs. Clinton can deny buying campaign endorsements is corrupt.

More, Ed Morrisey, Captain’s Quarters:

This comes courtesy of the political party that ran on a platform of reform and “draining the swamp”. Now it appears that the Democratic frontrunner has positioned herself as chief alligator. The green certainly has flown around the campaign trail, if this is any indication.

It is time for Mrs. Clinton come clean with her entire list of endorsements she has bought.

By Ken Silverstein and Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times (June 2005)
WASHINGTON — When Congress passed the $417-billion Pentagon spending bill last year, Rep. John P. Murtha, the top Democrat on the House defense appropriations subcommittee, boasted about the money he secured to create jobs in his Pennsylvania district.

But the bill Murtha helped write also benefited at least 10 companies represented by a lobbying firm where his brother, Robert “Kit” Murtha, is a senior partner, according to disclosure records, interviews and an analysis of the bill by the Los Angeles Times.

Clients of the lobbying firm KSA Consulting — whose top officials also include former congressional aide Carmen V. Scialabba, who worked for Rep. Murtha for 27 years — received a total of $20.8 million from the bill.

Oh, it gets better…

One of the clients, a small Arkansas maker of military vehicles, received $1.7 million, triple its total sales for 2004. Several other clients received money that represented more than half of their annual sales from last year.

KSA directly lobbied the congressman’s office on behalf of seven companies that received money from the bill. And a defense contractor based in Pennsylvania said he hired KSA on the recommendation of a top Murtha aide.

And this is the one that’s fronting the Democrat’s effort against the war?

Forgive me if I’m less than impressed.  And why is this not being investigated as a criminal matter?  Why is John Murtha not in jail, awaiting trial and conviction? Why are the democrats, who have been so high on the question of “ethics and integrity” when Republicans are involved,  not seeking to remove this man from office and arrange for his criminal prosecution?

I should have noted this the other day….  Charlie Norwood has passed on. He was 65.

I see Neal’s book is out.

Needless to say, I don’t agree with everything the guy says. But he’s worth listening to.

And reading. 

Jason Pappas on the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.. (106-43 B.C.).

With the possible exception of Jesus of Nazareth, the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is the central figure of Western civilization. Cicero’s republican political theory influenced both the American and French revolutionaries — and through them, contemporary democracies everywhere — far more than Greek democratic thought or practice. As a moral thinker, Cicero bequeathed the idea of natural law to both Christian theologians and secular philosophers. His influence on the ideal of liberal education is equally profound; he popularized, if he did not coin, the Latin words rendered by our terms “the humanities” and “liberal arts.” The list of the cardinal virtues — wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance — comes from his De Officiis (On Duties), probably the most-read secular essay on ethics in Western history. …

Such a man will doubtless have somewhat to bring to the table today, in this global war on terror we now find ourselves engaged in… and so he does.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

And to whom would this apply to, today? I would think that much to be rather obvious.

Forget,the catchy headline,‘McCain Comes Alive in Iowa.”    If you actually read Dan Batz’s Washington Post article, unlike the headline writer, you will note the McCain comes across as anything but alive:

In interviews, the Arizona Republican has spoken almost in monotone, defending his support for sending more troops into battle in Iraq. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently, his body language conveyed distinct discomfort with the constant attention he receives about the war’s potential impact on his presidential aspirations.

Paul, at Powerline, offers an accessment, written without benefit of the ethanol:

Jonathan Martin at the Politico reports on John McCain’s campaigning in Iowa. According to Martin, McCain’s campaign events are dominated by questions about Iraq, and McCain’s somber answers are undermining his ability to project the ebullience, and perhaps to generate the enthusiasm, that marked his 2000 presidential bid.

The lights are out John.  Time to go to bed.

I see that Bill Sammon is reporting that there are a number of people mumbling about Bill Clinton serving out Hillary’s Senate Term.

My initial reaction to Bill Clinton being the Senator from my home state is one of disgust. But upon due consideration I don’t suppose there’s much difference between them… we here in NY likely won’t notice the difference. They’re BOTH disgusting.

Addendum:  (David L)   This is a Washington rumor and one seemingly intended to stoke of the democrat base.    Should an opening occur the Senate from New York State, B.J. Clinton needs only one vote to get appointed the Senate, and he is not getting it.   The only vote which counts belongs to New York State Governor, Elliot Spitzer, and the last thing the ego maniac Spizter wants is B.j. sucking up all the state’s political oxygen.

If Spitzer were to appoint a white male, look to Cuomo Junior, Andrew.   With one stroke of the pen, Spitzer would  get rid of his prime intra-party challlenger.

Then, look at how having Mr. Clinton in the Senate would play with Mrs. Clinton.   Does B.J. content  himself to the back bench of the Senate llike his wife does?  Not likely.   B.J. would want to Senate democrat leader, shoving aside dirty Harry Reid.

Mrs. Clinton sure does not want to compete with her husband, or by then ex, for the poltical oxygen in Washington.  Besides, I don’t think B.J. wants a day job.

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So, McCain thinks Roe v Wade should be overturned?

Good for him. I agree.

See also, blind pig, acorn.

 Now comes the question of how to accomplish this, and does the senator have anything of a practical nature to bring to the table toward that end. Absent that,  is this just a case of dancing to the right to attract those on the right who are afflicted with memory loss?

Captain Ed makes the point this monring…

 If the Democrats in Congress think that forcing failure (in Iraq) will help them in the next election, they may be in for a shock

Of course, this is exactly what we’ve been saying here at BitsBlog, all along.

What is it about the tenets of Islam which make violence so readily acceptable?

Yet another Moslem tries to kill in the name of his religion.  Michelle Malking is asking, “I wonder what religion they were arguing about”

Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.

Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft. One of the passengers, Andrew Nelson, managed to outrun the cab but Jeremy Invus was taken to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with serious injuries, said police.

Expect yet another whinny denial from CAIR.

Some rather large problems cause me to re-post this link… the formatics in the original, and the conversion to the new template, are a killer.

Here’s the “Who is John Edwards” post as it appeared in 2003.

Interesting note from Russell Roberts, in the Los Angeles Times: (Not exactly a right-wing outlet…)

LABOR UNIONS’ importance in the workplace has fallen steadily since 1950, when roughly a third of American workers were unionized. Today, that number is well below 10% in the private sector….

But maybe unions aren’t so crucial to worker well-being. When more than 90% of the private-sector labor force isn’t unionized, why do 97% of us earn above the minimum wage? If our bargaining power is so pitiful, why don’t greedy employers exploit us and drive wages down to the legal minimum?

The simple answer is that bargaining power comes from having alternatives. Even in the absence of unions, employers have to treat workers well to attract and keep them. In a workplace as dynamic as that of the United States, where millions of jobs are destroyed and created every quarter, a company’s ability to exploit workers is greatly limited by how easy it is to find another job.

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Somehow, as unions’ strength dwindled over the decades, employees’ share actually grew. And it’s a share of a dramatically larger pie, the result of the incredible economic boom of the last half a century.

… and the places where Unions are still in force? How are THEY doing? Apparently, not so well.an Let’s take the UAW, as an example… all three domestic car companies loosing money by the boatload, and 90% of the blame, resting on the Unions and their overly costly contracts. The costs involved with them..(The salary demands the Healthcare costs the retirement expenses) are simply too large for any company to fund, and particularly one under the kind of governmental constraint that the automakers are within the past 25 years.

There are those who will suggest that the problem is that the cars being designed are inferior and there’s some validity to that claim. Trouble with that assessment is, with the operating expenses they need to deal with, designs have to be scaled back to keep the price points for each model within sight of its competition.

Let’s also examine the other major player in the world of unions today; the government worker.Which would include the government run schools.  I posted to this point most recently back in 2004, and I’m not even going to bother going there today, other than to suggest we’re dealing wityh what amounts to PAC’s that use thugs to enforce their income methods.  BitsBlog readers are smart enough to figure that out on their own.

I’ll say it again, my freinds, Unions are killing America.

It is fortunate indeed, that they have less power, and are therefore doing it more slowly, of late.  But it still comes down to a very predictable end, assuming they have any power at all .

But at least now, we have working proofs that they don’t provide the societal benfits they claim.

Mrs. Clinton is not a very smart person.   In a campaign web video, she has threatened to end the war:

“Now it’s time to say the redeployment should start in 90 days or the Congress will revoke authorization for this war,”

There two major problems with Mrs. Clinton’s bold assertion.   One it is not constitutional.   Two, she does not have the political support to get such a bill passed.   She is merely spitting into the wind.   It is not smart to make empty threats.

It takes sixty one votes to get a bill of the Senate and sixty-seven to override a veto.  Mrs. Clinton does not have sixty-one votes, much less sixty-seven.   If Mrs. Clinton does indeed introduce such a bill, it will never make it out of committee.

Mrs. Clinton later rattles,

“If George Bush doesn’t end the war before he leaves office, when I’m president, I will,”

This is the same war, Mrs. Clinton said she will end over a year before the next president takes office.   That is if Mrs.. Clinton’s first threat is valid, then her second would be utterly pointless.

See the video, here

The democrats need to call Bill Richardson,  Their top tier canidates are doing a Howard Dean.?

Think Progress is up in arms again.   This time over a comment made by Britt Hume, on Fox News Sunday. Hume describes John Murtha as  “naivete at large.”  In the segment, Juan Williams did not challenge the veracity of Hume’s statement.

Listen to Murtha here, and here.

Murtha has got down the art of being an angry old man.   Alas, it is anger short on facts.   What does it say about Team Pelosi when her hand picked choice for majority leader is a dotty old man?

Addendum I:  I found the Washington Post editorial, to which Hume referred:

Mr. Murtha’s cynicism is matched by an alarming ignorance about conditions in Iraq. He continues to insist that Iraq “would be more stable with us out of there,” in spite of the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies that early withdrawal would produce “massive civilian casualties.” He says he wants to force the administration to “bulldoze” the Abu Ghraib prison, even though it was emptied of prisoners and turned over to the Iraqi government last year. He wants to “get our troops out of the Green Zone” because “they are living in Saddam Hussein’s palace”; could he be unaware that the zone’s primary occupants are the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy?

The liberals seem to get made at conservatives, even if they quote a liberal Bible, the WaPo.

Addendum II:  directorblue of Doug Ross @ Journal has Murtha’s original remarks to whiich Hume refered, here::

REP. JOHN P. MURTHA, D-PA.: People tend to say well, if we leave, there’s going to be chaos. I don’t believe that. Seventy- eight percent of the Iraqis say that’s not going to happen. Seventy- eight percent of the Iraqis say it will be — we’re the ones that are causing this, and Al Qaida is going to be — Al Qaida’s going to disappear.

I have noticed no defense of Murtha’s remarks. ?