North Carolina Democrat Party Considers Anti-Israel Resolution

I’m sure no one is surprised nor shocked by the blatant anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian terrorist leanings of the NCDP

(Daily Caller) The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is seriously considering passing a resolution that would criticize Israel for its “illegal occupation” of Palestine, the latest in a long line of controversial moves coming out of one of the major battleground states President Barack Obama’s team is banking on to win re-election.

The resolution didn’t pass at this weekend’s NCDP state convention, but was tabled and referred to the executive committee for further consideration later. It attacks the United States for providing Israel with “$3 billion annually in military aid,” while the “Israeli occupation, disenfranchisement and impoverishment of significant numbers of the Palestinian population, and Israel’s overwhelming military might and its role as the only nuclear power threaten stability in a region witnessing increased demands for democracy and an end to autocratic rule.”

Apparently, those voting probably realized that this would look bad, but rather than dump it, they are going to keep it around and try again. It says something about the anti-Israel leanings of Democrats that they even brought it up for a vote. Much like al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups, the far left, both here in the United States and around the world, think Israel is the root of all problems in the world, and wouldn’t mind seeing the nation destroyed.

If it ends up being passed, the resolution would mean the NCDP “would hold its elected congress members and senators accountable for helping end our government’s role in continuing the Israeli Palestinian tragedy by making the human rights of both peoples central to U.S. foreign policy by ending Israel’s illegal occupation, by advocating for a viable Palestinian state, and membership of that state in the United Nations.”

It would also, if passed, mean the NCDP would advocate its congressional delegation bring “all parties, including Hamas, to the table to negotiate an end to the Israeli Occupation and a secure peace based on the 1967 borders,” among other things.

All blame is placed on Israel, and they even want to negotiate with a terrorist group which consistently attacks Israel’s civilian population. Not a particularly surprising notion, what with Obama administration signaling that the Egyptian military should accede to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has vowed to destroy Israel, and hand over power. The MB has stated that they would do away with the peace treaty with Israel. You have Commentary Magazine and the NY Times stating the same thing. In their anti-Israel hatred they support hardcore Islamists.

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ObamaEconomy: Underemployed And Underpaid

Even the NY Times is forced to admit what everyone else except President “The private sector is doing fine” knows: the economy under Obama’s stewardship stinks at all levels

Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle-class and working-class people who are fortunate enough to have work are struggling as well, which is why Sherry Woods, a 59-year-old van driver from Atlanta, found herself standing in line at a jobs fair this month, with her résumé tucked inside a Bible.

The article describes the issues Ms. Woods is having, which include seeing her hours cut back and her pay cut, so she’s out there at a jobs fair, and the Times even mentions that she looks to her Bible for comfort.

These are anxious days for American workers. Many, like Ms. Woods, are underemployed. Others find pay that is simply not keeping up with their expenses: adjusted for inflation, the median hourly wage was lower in 2011 than it was a decade earlier, according to data from a forthcoming book by the Economic Policy Institute, “The State of Working America, 12th Edition.” Good benefits are harder to come by, and people are staying longer in jobs that they want to leave, afraid that they will not be able to find something better. Only 2.1 million people quit their jobs in March, down from the 2.9 million people who quit in December 2007, the first month of the recession.

We’re going into our third wreckovery summer, with no relief in sight, except the notion of a President Romney enabling economic policies that inspire prosperity. Right now, polls show that people think future generations will be worse off. Household income is way down. Expenses are skyrocketing. Recent college graduates are working low paying jobs with part time hours. If they can find a job. Baby boomers can’t afford to retire, leaving less jobs for younger people.

Though inflation has stayed relatively low in recent years, it has remained high for some of the most important things: college, health care and even, recently, food. The price of food in the home rose by 4.8 percent last year, one of the biggest jumps in the last two decades.

Remember when Sarah Palin was ridiculed by the media, including some conservative outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Fox Business Network, for saying food prices were going up?

People are looking for second jobs at places that pay minimum wage. They’re seeing their costs go up while their wages go down. And what is Obama doing? Offering work visas to some 800,000 illegal aliens, further eroding the job pool for American citizens, which would also lead to a reduction of wages. For political gain amongst Hispanics.

This is what happens when you elect an incompetent hyper-partisan with no real world experience, particularly in business.

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UN Wants Americans To Pony Up $1,300 A Year For “Climate Change” Fund

Isn’t it strange how the “solutions” always seem to revolve around redistributing Other People’s money? (via Junk Science through GWPF)

(Washington Examiner) Another proposal would spread the cost of investing in other countries throughout society. “We call for the fulfilment of all official development assistance commitments, including the commitments by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product for official development assistance to developing countries by 2015,” the draft says. The proposal would provide “a target of .015 to .020 percent of gross national product for official development assistance to least developed countries.” That plan would cost $1,325 for an American family of four, according to CFACT.

So a bunch of unelected, non-representative, and un-accountable bureaucrats have decided the want your money to stop AGW while flying off to the exotic vacations spot of Rio (can’t wait for the news reports about all the private jets taking up all the space at the airports). And serving meat, which is evil, as you know. I’m sure they will stuff themselves while the huge number of poor in Rio starve. Meanwhile, the poor in the 3rd world shitholes developing nations are once again being told that they must follow the dicates of the UN, and aren’t allowed to develop like the 1st world. Only barely viable power for them!

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If All You See…

…is a flooded world causing humans to grow gills, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Right Wing News.

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Shocker: California Looks To Use Cap And Trade Revenue For Non-climate Purposes

Is anyone surprised? Climate Realists have long said that one of the purposes in pushing “climate change” is to put more money in government hands. California is exposing that agenda (Tom Nelson)

And you thought the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) was all about limiting greenhouse gas emissions, didn’t you? Think again.

There is a brewing fight in Sacramento over how to spend the gold expected to start pouring in when the Golden State starts its carbon cap and trade program. The original intent of AB32 was to use the proceeds from the carbon permit auctions to invest in technologies and programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Makes sense, right? (Snip)

California’s mega-millions winning ticket is Governor Brown’s 2012-2013 State Budget proposal to take 80% of the carbon tax revenue or about $500 million per year to reduce the budget deficit for the coming two years. The quarterly carbon credit auctions are expected to produce $660 million to $3 billion per year. The Governor’s budget assumes California will net $1 billion from such auctions to start. The $500 million of revenue take assumed in the first year proposed budget will be used to offset existing General Fund costs for current emissions regulation activities, and the remaining revenues will be used on new programs to reduce emissions.

So the Democrat governor is going to take the money raised by skyrocketing the cost of the citizens energy and goods to fix the idiotic spending hole the Democrat led government of California has dug itself instead of on “solving globull warming” and reducing GHGs. Realists have been saying for a long time that so much of the AGW legislation will create a slush fund for government spending. But, hey, who cares if the unemployment rate skyrockets because companies abandon CA.?

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Excitable Juan Williams: Killing The Mandate Will Harm Voter Trust Of Supreme Court

We last saw Juan Williams getting beaten like a rented mule by Michelle Malkin. He now has an article out proclaiming that if the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare they will damage the trust of the voters who, um, don’t vote for the Supreme Court in the first place

(The Hill)Every political strategist working the fall elections sees a game changer coming by the end of the month.

That’s when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.

The Democrats have a nuclear option in this political game if the high court throws out the healthcare law as unconstitutional.

That blowup-the-system button, not pushed since FDR’s attempt to stack the court with Democrats during the New Deal, is for Obama to use the bully pulpit of the White House, and the national stage of a presidential campaign, to launch a bitter attack on the current court as a corrupt tool of the Republican right wing.

It couldn’t possibly be that the high Court found that the health insurance Mandate was an unconstitutional power grab by the Federal Government. No, they have to be tools of the GOP.

It is a move that could energize Democrats and independents even as Republicans celebrate a major legal victory.

Must be nice to live in La La Land. The majority of Independents are against Obamacare as a whole, and the Mandate in particular, as are most Americans.

After oral arguments at the Supreme Court, he signaled his willingness to target the court’s conservative majority during the presidential campaign. Obama told reporters that if the court overturns “a duly constituted and passed law,” the justices will be guilty of “judicial activism.” With words that sounded like a threat he added: “I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.”

The hardball political fact is that attacking the court will help the president’s campaign and it will damage the court for years to come.

Ah. So if the court rules that the Mandate violates the Constitution and Obama attacks the court for daring to perform their Constitutional duty, it’s not Obama’s fault that the Court could be damaged, it’s the Court’s fault. Liberal logic.

The bottom line is that public confidence in the Supreme Court, after controversial and political decisions in Bush v. Gore and Citizens United, is the most fragile it has been in a generation. And remember, the same polls have shown most Americans are not convinced the healthcare reform law is a good idea.

Liberals just can’t let go. Seriously, Bush v Gore? A decision that deemed that Florida cannot retroactively create election law, and had to abide by the existing laws.

The relevant point is that the court may do irreparable harm to its reputation with another highly political split between justices appointed by Democrats and justices appointed by Republicans. A 5-4 defeat of the healthcare law will erode trust in the justice system.

Well, then perhaps the Liberals on the Court should vote in accordance with the Constitution of the United States rather than what their political leanings tell them for a change.

Obamacare was passed using legislative shenanigans after 10 months of debate while the economy burned around our ears. It was unpopular then and just as unpopular now. It will raise prices and reduce service. Doctors are fleeing the healthcare system now and the law invests entirely too much power to the head of HHS. It interferes with the free market system and delves into what happens within the states in contradiction to the Commerce clause. It can destroy the contract system, since individuals and companies are being forced to enter into a contract, rather than voluntarily entering into a contract. It adds huge sums to the US debt and deficit. It’ll stifle medical device invention and raise costs along the way for existing devices. And it gives the Central Government too  much power over our individual health decisions.

If the Court rules against the Mandate, I’m of the opinion that the decision will bolster the opinion of the Court in the eyes average Americans who are tired of government mandates and expansions of power, and any attacks by Obama on the court will show the People that Obama only cares about his personal power rather than the Will of the People and the Constitution he swore to uphold.

More: The Lonely Conservative wonders what Juan has been smoking.

Prairie Weather is lost in La La Land with Juan.

Jammie Wearing Fool points out that Juan is not playing with a full deck.

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Politico: Please Stop Investigating Elizabeth Warren’s BS Past

Barbara Lee (different Barbara Lee than the Senator) has penned an op-ed for The Politico entitled Fighting dirty against women. What’s dirty?

The debate swirling around Elizabeth Warren’s heritage is maddening. Not because it is a sideshow to pull focus from real issues in the Massachusetts Senate race and not because negative attacks are just politics as usual. It is maddening because Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign attack on Warren’s “honesty” is not about integrity at all. It’s about strategy.

We’ve researched voters’ attitudes toward female candidates and studied women in politics, so we know this is a well-worn campaign strategy to discredit and knock women off their political pedestals. It’s upsetting not only because it is a cheap shot, but also because it is a tactic that disguises political games as a genuine push for transparency.

The ridiculous attention given to the question of Warren’s bloodline is reminiscent of Alex Sink, Florida’s former chief financial officer, who ran a close race against now-Gov. Rick Scott in 2010. Sink looked at her cellphone during a TV debate, launching a frenzy of negative attention. It far outweighed her opponent’s entire record. Yet Scott had previous experience running a health care company that was charged with the largest Medicare fraud settlement in U.S. history.

The only problem is that it is about integrity. It’s not a cheap shot. From everything that we’ve seen, Warren has no documentation or proof that she has American Indian heritage, yet she has used that family lore to gain prestige amongst liberals and universities. But, Lee doesn’t want this discussed, because it’s mean or something.

Knowing women have an advantage in this, opponents try to knock them off their political pedestals by launching negative attacks early in their campaigns. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley faced allegations of infidelity when she ran in 2010, and Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) combated accusations of attending a “secret fundraiser” with a political action committee called the Godless Americans. Cheap shots, indeed.

Yeah, they were cheap shots. And much like Elizabeth Warren’s story about being an American Indian, they were BS stories.

Question for Barbara Lee: where were you when Republican women were being slammed with BS allegations? The “attacks” on Warren pale in comparison to those used against Sarah Palin, for one.

This distraction from the important real issues that voters face is nothing new. It isn’t exclusively relegated to women candidates. They, however, often pay a steep price with voters when they fall off their perch. Because voters, especially women voters, expect a woman candidate to be different from typical politicians.

When a Democrat trots out the “distraction from the important issues line” you know they are losing, a stage 6 defense.

Instead of manufacturing phony drama about Warren’s ethnicity, Brown should stick to the facts and make his case about why voters should rehire him. Let’s break this pattern of hyperscrutiny of female candidates and focus on what matters — who the voters believe can best lead.

Interesting. Perhaps Ms. Lee could give that advice to Obama, who seems to want to avoid making a case about why voters should hire him.

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Top 10 Failed Warmist Predictions

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Silly Campaign Tricks: Will Those Who Blasted Romney Blast Obama?

I linked to Proof Positive earlier in the Patriotic Pinup post regarding this story from the LA Times

Like buzzing flies drawn to the center of a room, two small planes with trailing banners circled in the blue sky above Mitt Romney as he kicked off a five-day tour of small-town America at a New Hampshire farm.

The unfriendly plane – “Romney’s Every Millionaire Counts Tour,” its banner screamed – seemed to be chasing the friendly one with a more mundane message: “Romney for President 2012.”

Round and round they went.

Let’s remember, many on the Left, and a few on the Right, had fits over Romney’s Bus taunting Obama supporters. The Mahablog, one of my favorite Lefty blogs, mentions me in a post entitled The Children Are Easily Amused

I realize most of us would look on the circling bus episode and think, “WTF?” It looks silly and desperate. But Josh Marshall nails this — what looks like a pointless, juvenile stunt to most people speaks to the very heart and soul of movement conservatism. Because, basically, all movement conservatism amounts to any more is a great acting-out of juvenile rebellion. And the children are eating it up.

At Outside The Beltway, Doug Mataconis had a fit over the bus issue

If you’ve spent any amount of time working on a political campaign, you’ll know that much of on-the-ground campaigning can often involve juvenile idiocy.

Waiting for Maha and Doug, among others, to call out Team Obama in 3..2…2…..2….2….

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If All You See…

…is land that should be converted into a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Camp Of Saints, especially since I swiped the photo from Bob.

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