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October 5, 2008

harkin's knowledge of history is depressing

I just caught a article this evening about Senator Tom Harkin's agonizing decision to vote for the bailout bill. For a man who votes for pork on a 24/7 basis it's difficult to believe Harkin would lose much sleep over $700 billion. Anyway, it appears Senator Biden isn't the only one in the Senate who doesn't know the history of the Great Depression.

In considering the so-called bailout package, Harkin said during a conference call with reporters Thursday that 32nd President Franklin Roosevelt's first action in office was to stabilize the economy.

"When he came into office, the first thing he did was to stop the bleeding," Harkin said. "It wasn't until a year later things got calmed down that they went to work changing the underlying structures so that it wouldn't happen again."

I guess Harkin doesn't know that things didn't "calm down" a "year later." The Depression lasted until the war and the bleeding continued for eight years after FDR was elected. Someone needs to give Biden and Harkin a history lesson. How can we trust our leaders not to make the same mistakes over and over again if they don't have a clear concept of history?

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August 25, 2008

health care, harkin, and medicare waste

Shockingly Medicare is considered by some a successful entitlement program. I know it's mind boggling. The program is headed towards financial insolvency and there are people out there asking for it to be expanded. It doesn't make sense. You know what else doesn't make sense? Senator Tom Harkin is the answer to that question.

Senator Harkin spent August 16 meeting some fellow socialists at the Health Care for America Now (HCAN). Perhaps a better name for HCAN would be Chapter 11 Now (C11N). Not daunted by the current fiscal problems facing that nation Harkin had some ideas on how to bankrupt the country even quicker.

Senator Harkin, who supports the establishment of a comprehensive national health care plan, mentioned two possible means of achieving this:
2. Expand Medicare to cover all Americans. It would be much more difficult to get Congress to pass the second, he noted.

I'm sure it was a happy event. Senator Harkin signed the symbolic HCAN's Which Side Are You On? pledge (he even got his picture taken). Evidently Harkin is on the side of bankrupting the nation. HCAN is like countless groups in the United State. They are full of good initiations but they completely ignore the fact that government intervention into health care is making things worse.

Let's just look at the waste of Medicare. The New York Times had an article on Friday that shed some light on Medicare fraud.

In one example, the inspector general's investigation found that Medicare -- working only off of a supplier's paperwork -- had bought a power wheelchair for a beneficiary who neither needed nor used the device. The beneficiary did not know the ordering physician or the supplier, and the supposed ordering physician denied placing the order or knowing either the patient or the supply company.

The inspector general's report pegged the rate of improper payments for medical equipment at 31.5 percent, an astonishingly high proportion that implies improper spending of some $2.8 billion, four times what Medicare had claimed.

31.5 percent of medical equipment claims are fraud! That's not a typo. I wouldn't be surprised if at least 20 percent of the entire budget is fraud. The Medicare and Medicaid programs cost the United States $627 billion in 2007 and the cost of the program is expected to double in the next decade. A 20 percent fraud rate would add up to nearly $125 billion dollars a year (that's a low estimate). How much is $125 billion? It's enough to cover costs in Iraq for a year and it's more than the GDP of Ecuador, Bulgaria, Lithuanian, and Croatia.

Sure, let's expand this program! It's unbelievable to me that people keep coming up with new programs when we can't afford the ones we already have. Good intentions are not an excuse for stupidity.

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May 22, 2008

harkin thinks mccain is unfit to serve

Oh you Tom Harkin! What a national treasure. The Senator from Iowa endorses loser presidential candidates, creates ironic campaign photo ops, introduces piss-poor legislation, panders to his constituency, eats pork, adds pork to aforementioned piss-poor legislation, and wants to take back the White House. Harkin now thinks having a military background is detrimental for a President. What in the name of George Washington is this guy smoking? Harkin endored John Kerry for president in 2004, I wonder why he didn't share these opinions during that election? Who knew Harkin even had time to comment on this year's election considering how much pork he's serving these days.

"He [McCain] has a hard time thinking beyond that," Harkin said, according to The Des Moines Register. "I think he's trapped in that. Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."

The paper also quotes Iowa's junior senator telling reporters, "It's one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that's just how you're steeped, how you've learned, how you've grown up."

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May 14, 2008

rich farmers get richer

Taxpayers hoping for a change in 2006 probably haven't noticed but there hasn't been much fiscal restraint. Actually spending has gotten worse. The new farm bill is an atrocious example of fiscal irresponsibility. The Iowa Kind of Pork, aka Senator Tom Harkin looms large when it come to farm handouts. Senator Harkin was a major part of the ethanol bill that is helping starve people throughout the world. At least Harkin is representing farmers in Iowa well. I wrote about sugar subsidies a couple of months ago. The new farm bill has more sugar subsides. Greg Mankiw posted the lowlights from the new bill.

The bill would make the government buy sugar for 2X the world price, store it, then resell it at about an 80% loss to the taxpayer. Sugar sells for about 11¢/lb on the world market. The US government would have to buy sugar for about 22¢/lb, store it, and then auction off the excess to ethanol plants. We estimate that such an auction would net the government about 4¢/lb. In addition, this new provision would require the government to guarantee that domestic sugar producers get 85 percent of the domestic sugar market.

Obviously Americans are too tuned out to really pay attention to these subsides. Rich farmers who are sucking at the teet of government handouts are the only ones who care. These subsidies are not helping the average American and they're making prices higher. Where is the outrage? Where is the leadership in this country?

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December 25, 2007

a tom harkin christmas

Lost in all of Senator Tom Harkin's communist sympathizing is the fact that he's one of the most influential farm subsidizers in Washington. The United States hasn't been an agricultural nation for almost a century. For whatever reason our government still subsidizes tobacco, sugar, dairy, and other things that make economists scratch their heads.

The Congress changed ownership in 2006 but the the free spending porkfest has continued. Voters are becoming increasingly fed up with the lies of Congress. The Left is upset about the war continuing and the Right is fed up with the fiscal situation. A year has passed and I'm wondering what all those democrat voters think who were all excited about the change. The war in Iraq is improving despite the fact the Majority Leader Harry Reid is hoping it fails. Meanwhile people like Tom "Santa Claus" Harkin are giving away tax dollars for the state of Iowa. I guess this is great if you live in rural Iowa, but I'm not exactly sure why I should be happy about my tax dollars being used for broadband internet in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, here's Harkin's love letter to Iowa.

Iowans also appreciate the urgent need to improve the nutrition and health of our children and low-income families. The Senate farm bill would enable up to 65,000 Iowa schoolchildren to participate in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which I authored in the 2002 farm bill. That's more than five times the current number. And this bill will significantly increase food assistance to most of the 225,000 Iowans who rely on these benefits to feed their families.

The farm bill is the single most important piece of federal legislation for promoting rural economic development. The Senate version of the bill will expand access to quality, affordable child care, extend broadband in rural Iowa communities and provide loans to rural hospitals so that they can acquire the best equipment possible. The bill will also continue the popular USDA grant program for farmer-owned value-added businesses.

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November 21, 2007

harkin wants to destroy more embryos

Finally the rest of the country is catching up with what many informed people already knew; there's no need for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The New York Times had a big splash on the development this week and it has caught a lot of the people in the party of death by surprise. Tom Harkin isn't going to let a little thing like a scientific breakthrough get in the way of destroying embryos.

'Our top researchers recognize that this new development does not mean that we should discontinue studying embryonic stem cells,' he said in a written statement. 'Scientists may yet find that embryonic stem cells are more powerful. We need to continue to pursue all alternatives as we search for treatments for diabetes, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries.'

This is not really surprising coming from Harkin. He's put a lot of work into crafting legislation that would increase funding for embryonic stem cell research. This has been a popular issue for Democrats and now that the cat is out of the bag they can't talk about it anymore. Politicians (mostly Democrats) have made a series of absurd statements about stem cell research the past few years. There haven't been any miracle cures and there's a great deal of skepticism about whether anything will ever come from the research. At least whatever research that follows now will not have the cloud of controversy following it around.

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October 2, 2007

harkin is a phony soldier

I'm not sure how I overlooked the most important part in my Tom Harkin update yesterday. Sometimes I forget key facts about the Kevin Bacon of politics. What makes Harkin's rant on the Senate floor even more asinine is the fact that he himself is a "phony soldier".

This has been covered on this site before, but current events warrant a refresh course in Harkinism. Three years ago the distinguished Senator from Iowa called Vice President Cheney a coward. This was despite the fact Harkin has lied about his military service. The pork loving Senator claimed to have spent a year in Vietnam flying F-4s and F-8s, but his military record shows he never served in that region and was in Japan. I don't expect Harkin to apologize any time soon about his apparent confusion about Asian geography. Senator Tom Harkin is a national treasure.

Update: Here's a tasty nugget I found today on the Campaign Spot blog which is part of the National Review Online. Tom Harkin's Washington staffers removed the Vietnam controversy from his wikipedia entry. How awesome is that?

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October 1, 2007

harkin: maybe limbaugh was on drugs again

I was going to pass on the whole Rush Limbaugh "phony soldiers" controversy. It's basically a non-story, but when has that ever stopped the Democrats? Perhaps this whole thing will shed some like on the real "phony soldiers" Limbaugh was talking about, but I won't hold my breath. Anyway, the legendary senator Tom Harkin has joined the fray and there's nothing better than Harkin news! Just as a reminder... not only is Tom Harkin a Senator (Tom Harkin), "he endorses loser presidential candidates, creates ironic campaign photo ops, introduces piss-poor legislation, panders to his constituency, eats pork, adds pork to aforementioned piss-poor legislation, and wants to take back the White House." There you go. Here's today's Harkin rant (see video) on the Senate floor.

HARKIN: I'll just close, Mr. President, by noting that in August, seven soldiers published an op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the current strategy in Iraq. Tragically, two of those soldiers were subsequently killed in action, making the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

I can only assume by Mr. Limbaugh's definition that they too were "phony soldiers." Now what's most despicable is that Mr. Limbaugh says these provocative things to make more money. So he castigates our soldiers, this makes more news, more people tune in, he makes more money.

Well, I don't know. Maybe he was just high on his drugs again. I don't know whether he was or not. If so, he ought to let us know. But that shouldn't be an excuse.

Is Tom Harkin really a good judge on who is on drugs? Let history decide...

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September 11, 2007

kucinich finds supporters in syria

Congressman, presidential hopeful, and raving lunatic Dennis Kucinich hasn't had much success finding a willing audience for his campaign. However, I think he's found some voters. Not only does Kucinich bash Bush in American (Tom Harkin), but he goes to Syria and does the same thing. It's unbelievable how naive he sounds in this interview. The magical answer is that the US will leave Iraq and the UN will send in peacekeepers and everything will be happy again. Kucinich speaks of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in higher regard than Bush. I guess it doesn't matter that Assad has been supporting terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Fatah al-Islam, and Islamic Jihad.

What do liberals on the far Left keep cozying up to enemies of the United States? During the Cold War liberals seized every photo op they could muster with communists. Now they're going on pilgrimages to the Middle East. Don't they find it a just a little bit frightening that every time Osama Bin Laden releases a tape it sounds like an advertisement from moveon.org? Kucinich may have received an invitation to meet the president of Syria, but no such luck securing a pass to Tom Harkin's Steak Fry in Iowa. Maybe the pork spending Senator from Iowa is jealous of the photo op.

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May 27, 2007

michael jacobson is smarter than you

The whole problem with freedom is liberty. If people are thinking for themselves no one is doing the thinking for them. What's the fun in that? The Kellogg Company is trying to fight of a $1 billion dollar lawsuit by limiting their marketing to children. Thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Commercial-Free Kids (CCFC) threatening to sue Kellogg and Viacom, the popular cereal company is changing its attitude towards marketing. These changes aren't enough for everyone.

Evidently evil Kellogg has a marketing tie in with the new Shrek movie. Guess who is unhappy about the tie in? Not only are CSPI and CCFC upset with the promotion (Tom Harkin), Senator Tom Harkin has been critical of past food tie-ins for "Shrek" that promoted sugary cereals. It seems American children are on their own in the fight against sugary cereals. We need government intervention before a whole generation of children are lost, or do we? When I was growing up I had a thing called "parents" that helped raise me. It was a radical idea at the time , but they practically made every decision for me. My Mom never let me eat sugary cereals and no one at the government told her it was bad for us. She just knew that something loaded with that much sugar cannot be good for a child. We have entered a new age; however, and it takes a village to raise a child. Parents are no longer a viable source for education because the thought police can't monitor what they're doing. That's why Michael F. Jacobson started the CSPI.

Jacobson argues that parents cannot control their children anymore. Now a child can run down to the convenience store and go on a "junk food" binge. In a matter of minutes a relatively healthy child can go into a diabetic coma. I wonder where these children are getting all this money? I guess it doesn't matter, if society cannot control the child, government must control society. It's a simple philosophy actually. Strong government control has always been a tenet for the great tyrants of our day. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Castro always knew what was best for their "people." These "child advocacy" groups cloak themselves with names that sound like they have society's best interests at heart and make tons of money suing corporations. I agree that sugary cereals are bad for children, but it's not the government's job to control what little Timmy Smith is eating in Omaha, Nebraska.

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May 5, 2007

tom harkin and the great society

I'm doing a little follow-up to my national call for a grassroots effort to get Senator Tom Harkin to run for President. It seems I'm not alone when it comes to respect and admiration for the pork serving Senator from Iowa. Bill Earl over at Dem Issues says Harkin was "really the last Democrat to be a really pit bull in my memory." Of course that sentence doesn't make sense, but that's beside the point. The point is he really like Tom Harkin, and that's all that matters.

Bill Earl represents a large portion of "Great Society" Democrats that aren't content with the failed socialist experiment that occurred during Johnson's presidency. Not ust content with the Welfare System that ruined generations of families and schools, they ask for more government intervention into our lives and and less free market solutions for problems. I have to admit this kind of nostalgic look at the past gets me all teary eyed, but the reality of the Great Society policies are freighting. The problem with Democrats isn't that they don't fight back (which is ludicrous statement in itself), but it's the socialist policies (or Dictators for Tom Harkin) they embrace.

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April 29, 2007

tom "juan valdez" harkin

In 1992 Senator Tom Harkin ran for President under a strong "build America" message. In the first campaign ad below Harkin states emphatically "I want to be the builder." He seems dead serious about this building thing, perhaps it's not too late to send him to Iraq to start building. All these road and transit systems he wants to build would be a great addition to the Iraqi infrastructure.

The second video strikes me as something that's relevant for our time. Little did Tom Harkin know in 1992 that the world would be changed by a Seattle coffee company named Starbucks. In some circles it's the greatest achievement in human history. The second video has a strong pro-coffee message. Harkin says "what we need, is a new economic agenda for America. No more trickle-down, let's have resourced based economics. Put it in at the bottom, let it percolate up for awhile." I love it when a populist politician reduces a complicated subject like economics to something tangible like coffee. I can't drink economics, but I can drink a delicious white chocolate mocha at my local Starbucks.

I can relate to coffee economics and it's a winning message for America. With a little work, Harkin could "rebuild" his rhetoric into a winning pro-coffee agenda. The terrorists don't hate us because of our religion, freedom, economy, or TV shows. They really hate us because we're willing to pay over four dollars for a cup of coffee (a vente jihad). That's right, I just said it. Just because I'm willing to put it out there doesn't mean it's not true. It's time for a grassroots effort to get Tom Harkin into the race for President, the American Juan Valdez. Ride that donkey all the way to the White House.

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April 17, 2007

harkin, hayden, and hanoi jane

This week in beautiful Sarasota is the annual Sarasota Film Festival. I'll go into more detail about the festival in a couple of days after I catch a movie. Today while I was looking through the film catalog to find a movie to watch one particular title stood out to me. The film is titled Revolution '67. I don't know much about the movie other than the brief synopsis. It's about the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid-July 67. Here's the Film Festival summery.

Like a single thread of light in the darkness of space Tom Harkin's name shines like the sun. Harkin truly is the Kevin Bacon of politics. Is Tom Harkin really the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? Just for the record the SDS was a radical New Left group from the 1960s that embraced people like Mao Zedong as enlightened philosophers.

Despite the fact that Mr. Harkin seems to be everywhere, it appears this occurrence is can simply be chalked up to mistaken identity... or is it? Is Tom Hayden just a simple alias for Tom Harkin? Well, no... unless Harkin is the master of disguise. Not only did Tom Hayden start the SDS (Tom Harkin), but he married Jane Fonda and made the famous trip to North Vietnam with her in 1972. Harkin and Hayden are like long lost comrades. While Harkin was in Vietnam (Japan), Hayden was driving the revolution forward. One little typo in the Sarasota Film Festival catalog, and I get to learn about Tom Hayden.

I have just one lingering question, how does someone mistake Harkin for Hayden? I mean, I understand their politics are similar, but those names are far apart. Some questions go without answers.

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March 2, 2007

kevin bacon, tom harkin, tom vilsack, and mr. cellophane

I couldn't let the Senator Tom Harkin reference in yesterday's Best of the Web on Opinion Journal go unnoticed. Harkin truly is the the Kevin Bacon of politics. To the casual observer he's in the background, outside the perception of the average American (just like Kevin Bacon). When Dean screams, he's there. When Wellstone's funeral turns into political event, he's there. When Kerry shakes the hand of a communist enemy of the United States, he's there. When there's pork to be served, he's there. Just the fact that Kevin Bacon's name has pork in it seals the deal. Then there's the time he called Vice President Cheney a coward.

On Monday the Iowa Senator lashed out at Dick Cheney, claiming the Vice President had no right to criticize Mr. Kerry's policies for the war on terror because Mr. Cheney had a deferment back then: "When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney, who was a coward, who would not serve during the Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil."

"Coward"? Such a comment would take chutzpah coming from anyone. But Senator Harkin is a proven fabricator when it comes to his own Vietnam-era record, as shown during his own failed 1992 Presidential bid.

I can't even imagine the fallout if a Republican Senator resorted to these kinds of slurs. The best part is that Harkin is repeatedly on record lying about his own military service. He claimed to have served in Vietnam, but the closest he got was Japan. Either he's a liar or he thinks all Asian people look the same. Perhaps he just assumed Japan was Vietnam; however, neither one of those options are optimal.

Tom Harkin's latest accomplishment is his recent endorsement of presidential hopeful, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack. Vilsak had huge shoes to fill after Harkin's disaster with Howard Dean, and the Govenor did not disappoint us. Not only did join the race a full two years before the election (Tom Harkin), he's the first to officially drop out of the race. Harkin responded to the shocking news by stating "this is certainly not the last we've seen of Tom Vilsack." That's reassuring, I just assumed that if someone wasn't running for president they disappeared like in those Left Behind books. Vilsak cited monetary constraints (please donate) as the reason he's pulling out, but I know it's really because of Harkin.

Little did Vilsack know, but Harkin was cheating on him by going on dates with the sexy Mr. Cellophane. I totally have the evidence. The photo below is sure to send shockwaves through Iowa.

It's difficult to decipher what they're eating, but I'm sure it's pork. They even have matching shirts, looks like true love to me. With so much time left before the primaries start, Harkin has a chance to doom another candidacy. Mr. Cellophane must be careful before he gets swept off his feet. A Harkin endorsement would likely be the kiss of death for the beloved Junior first term Senator from Illinois. At this rate the entire Democrat field will be out of the running before the conventions.

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February 15, 2007

tom harkin likes communists

It is utterly fascinating that a Senator from Iowa could be elected that has voted to give taxpayer money to communist Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia. In a compromise Harkin is opposed to all federal aid now. I guess if he couldn't help communist states he couldn't help anyone, besides securing pork for Iowa is a full time job. In the 80s Harkin met with Marxist Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Daniel Ortega is the current president of Nicaragua and ally with Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A few days after this lovely photo-op, Daniel Ortega hopped on a plane to Soviet Moscow. The idea that Marxism died with the fall of the Berlin Wall is naïve and dangerous, especially when crazy people like Hugo Chavez are embraced by the American Left. Typically the atrocities and bad policies by these Marxists are overlooked by the sympathetic lefties, because it's the United States who is truly at fault. Conservatives just don't understand the complexities of globalization and exploitation. See, according to Marxism, the United States' prosperity is not due to our ingenuity or excellence, but because we've exploited some other country. Nicaragua is not a product of their bad socialist policies, but because the United States is mean and Dick Cheney is Vice President. It's all quite simple.

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January 1, 2007

give us this day our daily pork

It has been a busy month for legendary Senator Tom Harkin. The pork serving politician was appropriately named Porker of the Month by the non-partisan Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). Evidently the wise people at the CAGW have seen this picture. The man loves his pork, and who can blame him it's delicious. Not only was Senator Harkin named Porker of the year (Tom Harkin), he has officially endorsed Iowa governor Tom Vilsack for President. Governor Vilsack hopes the endorsement works out better than Harkin's last foray into presidential politics. I'll be keeping a close eye on Vilsack because there's no doubt that Harkin can spot talent. Just ask the former governor, presidential candidate, and current screaming head of the Democrat party Howard Dean. 2008 is shaping to be to a great year to be a fan of politics.

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September 29, 2006

what is really at stake in november

Bob Woodward the "lap dog of the White House" (as labeled by many liberals) has a new book titled "State of Denial" that is a predictable hit piece on the Bush administration. Woodward has made a fantastic career out of his Watergate fame, but has offered little of in terms of reporting since the seventies (or since I was born). It was hilarious how many of the liberal blogs out there were so quick to throw him under the bus for just stating the obvious about the Plame non-scandal. Now he's a talking point for the Left.

Given the Mainstream Media's fanatical devotion to all things bashing Bush I am sure Woodward's book will be the talk of K Street this weekend. This whole situation in Iraq is disgusting. Bush's biggest mistake in Iraq was not paving the place when we invaded. He cowered to the pressure of maintaining low casualties. If this conflict is as serious as his rhetoric suggests we should have imposed our will on the people of Iraq. The liberals were always going to be unhappy; I will never forget Senator Clinton rolling her eyes during the speech before joint session of Congress two weeks after 9/11. That was at least an honest reflection of what liberals felt during that time. What do Democrats care about? I'll let Clinton speak for herself.

"Everything that we care about is at stake," she said. "On any issue you can mention" -from energy independence to global climate change and the cost of health care - "we won't deal with it if we don't have Democrats in charge."

There it is, no mention of the War on Terror, just like Tom Harkin's website. Fighting Global Warming and socialized health care, that's a winning ticket. Instead of offering any kind of logical plan to win this war, the ideological opposition blames all our problems on our country. Islamic fascism is a product of our support for Israel, and presence in world affairs. Has anyone thought about what would happen if the world's most powerful nation adopted a policy of isolationism?

The unfortunate truth is that the United States has adopted the role of world police. Sometimes the police do things they are not supposed to do, look at Los Angeles. The idea that our military is somehow perfect, and tragedies do not happen on the battlefield is naïve. Self-loathing has become so bad on the Left they are incapable of feeling any pride in our military. Is it any wonder that a draft dodging former US president who once said he "loathed the military" would be upset when asked could he "have done more to capture Bin Laden?" This same president's only comments about the first attack on the World Trade Center cautioned against an "over-reaction." History proves that this was not the proper "reaction" to the attack. This type of failure to understand the gravity of the situation is precisely why the Left is incapable of conveying a winning strategy for the threat the world faces. They not even sure there's a problem as Senator Clinton's remarks indicate. Fortunately there's a never-ending supply of reading material that fits their worldview; George W. Bush is the source of all the world's problems.

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September 21, 2006

democrats do damage control (tom harkin)

If you are wondering why John McEnroe's picture is included in this post, just read on, it all becomes clear. Some Democrats on the Hill are trying to distance themselves from the increasingly delusional and vocal liberal wing of the party. Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Charles Rangel condemned the remarks made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (video here). Rep. Rangel's logic is that the only people allowed to criticize the Commander and Chief on American soil are Americans. This is left speak for saying, "don't associate us with this crazy socialist." Unfortunately not all Democrats received the talking points.

Who would defend Hugo Chavez (beside extreme liberals), none other than infamous Senator Tom Harkin. Howard Dean's opening act decided to chime in on the whole issue.

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president's foreign policy.

Harkin goes on to say that after 9/11 "every Muslim country was basically on our side. Just think, in five years, President Bush has squandered all that." In the words of John McEnroe, "you cannot be serious!" Obviously Tom Harkin's definition of "basically" is a lot different than mine. It has been deeply entertaining reading the blogosphere's reaction to the speech. Most of the true socialist liberals cannot conceal their glee. Chavez's rhetoric in the speech before the United Nations was a toned down version of the type of stuff that can be read at the Democratic Underground or the Daily Kos. Those are a couple of the most popular blogs on the internet. The meltdown continues.

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September 14, 2006

tom harkin; the man, the myth, the legend

Over the last few weeks I have watched the Howard Dean Daffy Duck video a lot. It makes me laugh every time I watch. After countless listens one phrase has become a huge part of my vocabulary. It is all about Tom Harkin. For those that haven't had a chance to watch the funniest speech of all time Howard Dean starts off with this, "Not only are we going to New Hamshire, Tom Harkin..." then he launches into his famous nationwide scream-a-thon. The dramatic pause Dean uses before uttering Harkin's name is the best part. I now use it for every day conversation. "Not only am I going to play kickball, Tom Harkin..." "Not only am I going to work, Tom Harkin..." There are an infinite number of possibilities here to work with, when it comes to Tom Harkin. It's guiltless fun. There's no sin in using his name in vain.

Let's look closer at the man and his principles. Tom Harkin voted against the ban on partial birth abortions. If infanticide is your thing, he's your man. While he has no problem killing babies in the third trimester he does believe in faith healing (aka stem cell research). Many may forget but not only did Harkin jump on the Dean bandwagon (Tom Harkin), he also was part of the infamous Paul Wellstone eulogy. Never letting a political opportunity go to waste Harkin urged the crowd to "stand up for Paul." The eulogy picked up steam from there and became a Democrat convention hall. A stop by Harkin's website can find him hard at work in the war against "big tobacco." We all know that tobacco is the United States biggest problem. Good luck finding information about the War on Terror. Like many other Liberals he tries to ignore this existence of Islamic fascism. This head in the sand policy has been the bedrock of Republican success during the Cold War against Democrats that believe utopia is one UN resolution away. It is unclear if Harkin and Dean have ever gone to Washington D.C. to "retake the White House". Here's to you Tom Harkin, most americans will never know who you are, but you'll always make me laugh.

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September 13, 2006

olbermann jumps on the crazy train

Here is proof that Bush Derangement Syndrome isn't just for liberal extremists, former ESPN talking head and Countdown host Keith Olbermann spends eight minutes lambasting Bush on the 5th year anniversary of 9/11. According to this idiot Bush robbed us of our "Americanism." Olbermann rants and raves like a kid that lost his lollipop. He also accuses Disney of selling out, and mentions an episode of the Twilight Zone as proof of some kind of enlightened political philosophy (no, I'm serious). Count me in as a part of the "portable public chorus." As the comedian Craig Kilborn so eloquently stated, "Keith Olbermann wanted two things out of life, to grow up and be a sportscaster. At least he accomplished one of them."

The liberal meltdown is continuing. They would rather hurl vile comments at the president than offer a serious policy solution for anything. As the election draws closer good ideas always win. Bush's approval rating is now 45% and he's not even up for reelection. What can a person with BDS do? Here is the video of the angry white man. The only thing missing is Tom Harkin standing in the background.

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August 26, 2006

the end of kool-aid week

It's been a great week here at nemov.net and I found this video below to be a fitting end to Kool-Aid week. Although I'm sure anything Howard Dean related will be on this blog faster than he can name campaign destinations. This isn't as funny as Howard the Daffy Duck clip, but honestly, what is? God bless you Tom Harkin, you never knew what was coming.

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August 24, 2006

daffy duck does dean

Kool-Aid week is still going strong here at nemov.net. This video up on youtube.com is a classic. I think I could literally watch this for the rest of my life and laugh.

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