The Democrat Strategy for 2010: Bye Bye, Bayh

Senator Evan Bayh’s decision not to seek re-election this November makes him just the latest among numerous Democrats who announced they are quitting. They have looked at the Obamacare debacle, the crippling debt, the millions of lost jobs, and the looming national security disaster heralded by the increase in jihad terror attacks on American soil, and they’re getting out. They know that Americans are waking up to how the big government policies of the Democrats are continuing to hurt our economy, and are ruinous for America.

Swindling Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) will not seek re-election; the drug-addled Congressman Patrick Kennedy will not be seeking re-election in Rhode Island; Arkansas Congressman Marion Berry and Senator Byron Dorgan are leaving. Then there’s Michigan Democratic Lt. Governor John Cherry’s decision to end his floundering bid for governor. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter is also retiring. Not to mention the stunning late December party switch by freshman Alabama Representative Parker Griffith — just to mention a few.

And in Bayh’s whiny withdrawal speech, he made sure to take parting shots at the Republicans under the guise of the well-worn canard of their “lack of bipartisanship.” As if the Democrats worked with Bush.

The Party of No? Hardly. It’s the Save-America party, it’s the Say No to Communism party. Bayh didn’t speak of the irreparable damage the Democrats are doing to this country. He whimpered that only the Republicans said no to a jobs bill (although the government doesn’t create jobs, the private sector does) and that the Republicans wouldn’t sign off on another bloated, useless, cost-prohibitive commission to investigate bloated, useless, cost-prohibitive government spending. Funny how even a Democrat who is thought of as honorable and measured showed no honor in his parting remarks. He went out like an ankle-biting Democrat, pathetic and small.

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Tags: bailout, Barack Obama, byron dorgan, Chris Dodd, collectivism
Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 2:39 pm in Congress, Culture, News, Obama, Politics | 75830217 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/02/15/the-democrat-strategy-for-2010-bye-bye-bayh/The+Democrat+Strategy+for+2010%3A+Bye+Bye%2C+Bayh2010-02-15+22%3A39%3A35Pamela+Geller

White House Orders: No Terror Trials in NYC

From the New York Daily News:

The White House ordered the Justice Department to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The White House took the action hours after Mayor Bloomberg called Attorney General Eric Holder to say he would “prefer that they did it elsewhere.”

“It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that’s too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood,” Bloomberg told reporters.

“There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City.”

State leaders have railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.

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Tags: eric-holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Manhattan federal court, Mayor Bloomberg, Mohammed
Posted Jan 28th 2010 at 7:41 pm in Defense, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics | 66802134 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/28/white-house-orders-no-terror-trials-in-nyc/White+House+Orders%3A+No+Terror+Trials+in+NYC2010-01-29+03%3A41%3A56Publius

Which Senators Are Terrorists, SEIU?

Following up on our post yesterday, the Workforce Fairness Institute has this video asking SEIU boss Andy Stern which Senators does he think are terrorists.

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Tags: Andy Stern, Ben Nelson, health care negotiations, health care reform, Joe Lieberman
Posted Jan 28th 2010 at 8:32 am in Big Labor | 6623469 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/01/28/which-senators-are-terrorists-seiu/Which+Senators+Are+Terrorists%2C+SEIU%3F2010-01-28+16%3A32%3A28Bret+Jacobson

Scott Brown Win Is a Victory For Bush Foreign Policy, Defeat For Ron Paul Isolationism

Lost in the pre and post-election analysis out of Massachusetts has been the major policy differences between Martha Coakley and Scott Brown over foreign policy and defense.  The issue garnered some attention briefly during their final debate, when Coakley erred saying terrorists “were gone from Afghanistan.”  But then the attentions of the media quickly turned back to the health care debate.

In campaigning with Brown in the final days, Rudy Giuliani mapped out the battle lines: “This election will send a signal, and a very dramatic one, that we are going in the wrong direction on terrorism, and we need to change it, and change it now.”  Giuliani added: Scott’s background in the military speaks volumes about his understanding of what we face.  And frankly his opponent’s ignorance about the issues facing us is astounding.”

From the start candidate Brown was unequivocal on defense matters.  A 30-year Veteran of the National Guard, still serving as a lt. colonel, Brown unashamedly backed the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.    It’s notable that not once did he seek to separate himself from the Bush foreign policy agenda.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Christmas Bombing, Christmas terror attack, Ft. Hood Shooting, George W. Bush
Posted Jan 24th 2010 at 10:22 am in Defense, News, Obama, Politics, State Politics, Uncategorized | 64674703 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/edondero/2010/01/24/scott-brown-win-is-a-victory-for-bush-foreign-policy-defeat-for-ron-paul-isolationism/Scott+Brown+Win+Is+a+Victory+For+Bush+Foreign+Policy%2C+Defeat+For+Ron+Paul+Isolationism2010-01-24+18%3A22%3A24Eric+Dondero

GW Bush: Rock Solid Under Fire

“I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

When President George W. Bush spoke through a bullhorn to emergency rescue workers at Ground Zero just two days after 9/11, he put the world on notice: We are coming to get those who did this, and we will not stop until we do.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 underscored the gravity of threats posed by international terrorist organizations. Responding to the attacks, on October 7th President Bush declared a “war on terror” and identified Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network responsible. Within weeks, as opposed to our current Commander in Chief’s dithering for months, a US-led coalition launched air-strikes against targets in Afghanistan, where Bin Laden was believed to be sheltered by the Taliban regime.

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Tags: 9-11 attacks, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld
Posted Jan 20th 2010 at 9:07 am in Defense, Obama | 61542109 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kinglogan/2010/01/20/gw-bush-rock-solid-under-fire/GW+Bush%3A+Rock+Solid+Under+Fire2010-01-20+17%3A07%3A05Andrea+Shea+King+and+Dave+Logan

War Through Weakness: How the Terrorists Win

For those who were expecting the election of Barack Obama to yield a peace dividend in the war on terror, the resurgence of Al-Qaeda has come as a surprise. Obama’s obsequious diplomacy was supposed to be a tonic to the aggressions of the Bush years, but his appeasement seems to have only encouraged more war. Rather than calm the Islamic world, Obama’s passivity has invited attack.

As in the Cold War, the current battle of ideology takes place in proxy wars. Unlike in the Cold War, the war on terror is largely fought through symbolic actions. Islamists do not make tactical attacks. They do not bomb Boeing factories or destroy highways and rail lines. Instead they destroy iconic buildings, trains, and airplanes. They use the spectacle of destruction, carried out in a diabolical way by suicide agents, as their means of waging war. That is the definition of a terror campaign.

The proper response to terror is not appeasement but counterattack. Islamists wage their terror campaigns in order to cow American influence abroad, especially in the Gulf. The answer to such attacks, if we hope to avoid them in the future, is to increase American involvement in Muslim countries both through soft influence and force of arms. Such a strategy was one of the best but least articulated justifications for the Second Gulf War.

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Tags: Containment Policy, islam, Islamists, Obama, Sanaa
Posted Jan 10th 2010 at 1:03 pm in Defense, Obama | 57042400 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jpanero/2010/01/10/war-through-weakness-how-the-terrorists-win/War+Through+Weakness%3A+How+the+Terrorists+Win2010-01-10+21%3A03%3A12James+Panero

Obama Funder ‘Jodie Evans’ In White House Visitor Log days after Code Pink Hamas Trip

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

The name of Obama funder and terrorist sympathizer Jodie Evans turns up twice in recently released White House visitor logs.

Buffy Wicks, center, 2008 photo by St. Louis Argus

The logs show that a ‘Jodie Evans’ met with Buffy Wicks, the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) on June 19, 2009. The meeting came just days after Evans’ group, Code Pink, visited the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza from May 28th to June 14th and was given a letter by Hamas to deliver to President Barack Obama.

On December 30th, the Obama administration released 25,000 records of visitors to the White House complex from the latter half of September. Mixed in those records were visits from other dates, including two by ‘Jodie Evans’ in June.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama, Bertha Lewis, Big Journalism, Bill Ayers
Posted Jan 8th 2010 at 6:07 am in Defense, Featured Story, News, Obama, Politics | 56930114 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/08/obama-funder-jodie-evans-name-in-white-house-visitor-log-days-after-code-pink-hamas-trip/Obama+Funder+%27Jodie+Evans%27+In+White+House+Visitor+Log+days+after+Code+Pink+Hamas+Trip2010-01-08+14%3A07%3A04Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Obama’s World Peace Offensive Yields Few Peace Dividends

On the foreign policy front, the Democrats for years have blamed America for the actions of rogue nations and dictators.  Indeed, as Mona Charen pointed out at length, in her book Useful Idiots, the Democrats have been all too willing to Blame America First for the actions of others.  So the storyline goes, when Russia armed itself, it was a justified response to the American arms buildup – as if Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev were otherwise peace loving souls.

No mere academic cheer for Democrats, they have campaigned on their Blame America First theme for years.  In the minds of those Democrats, rather than display arrogance, America must be more humble, except blame for World troubles and not seek to impose its view on the world.  The latest iteration of that, of course, was Obama’s campaign.

According to Obama, following 9/11:

Millions around the world were ready to stand with us. They were willing to rally to our cause because it was their cause too – because they knew that if America led the world toward a new era of global cooperation, it would advance the security of people in our nation and all nations.” According to Obama, however, the Bush Administration “squandered that opportunity . . . [and]  . . . World opinion has turned against us.

What is the cure for such “mistakes,” according to Obama? As we have seen, it is to apologize on his world tours for American actions, to promise to talk directly to dictators, to abandon missile systems, to speak softly in the face of phony Iranian elections and crack downs on dissent, to bow in front of dictators, wear a thin mustache in front Middle Eastern leaders in Egypt, preach global responsibility, promise to close Guantanamo, give rights to Interpol over US territory, and on and on.

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Tags: Al Qaeda, apology tour, blame america first, Christmas terror attack, Detroit terror attack
Posted Jan 6th 2010 at 7:07 am in Culture, Defense, News, Obama, Politics | 5592280 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/01/06/obamas-world-peace-offensive-yields-few-peace-dividends/Obama%E2%80%99s+World+Peace+Offensive+Yields+Few+Peace+Dividends2010-01-06+15%3A07%3A40Thomas+Del+Beccaro

Democrats’ Worst Nightmare: Terrorism On Their Watch

From Politico:

From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch. His fellow Democrats had been thinking about the moment even longer – since the September day in 2001 when attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon defined George W. Bush’s presidency and gave Republicans a decisive advantage on a defining political issue.

And yet the White House’s response to last week’s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit could rank as one of the low points of the new president’s first year. Over the course of five days, Obama’s Obama’ reaction ranged from low-keyed to reassuring to, finally, a vow to find out what went wrong. The episode was a baffling, unforced error in presidential symbolism, hardly a small part of the presidency, and the moment at which yet another of the old political maxims that Obama had sought to transcend – the Democrats’ vulnerability on national security – reasserted itself.

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Tags: 2008 campaign, 9-11, Barack Obama, Bob Schrum, Christmas terror attack
Posted Jan 2nd 2010 at 1:08 pm in Defense, News, Obama, Politics | 54754361 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/02/democrats-worst-nightmare-terrorism-on-their-watch/Democrats%27+Worst+Nightmare%3A+Terrorism+On+Their+Watch2010-01-02+21%3A08%3A59Publius

A Path to Jihad: From Gitmo, To Saudi Arabia, To IRAN, To Yemen

Americans fancy the idea that while we might have been asleep prior to 9/11/2001, now our eyes are wide open and we are on alert. This is a pipe dream.

If people’s eyes were truly open, they would be closely examining the path Gitmo detainee Said Ali al-Shihri took to Yemen, where we are now learning he helped plan the Christmas Jihad.

Said reportedly left Gitmo, went through “rehabilitation” in Saudi Arabia, then moved to Iran before ending up as a leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

For example, Said Ali al-Shihri left Gitmo in 2007 and became a patient in Saudi Arabia’s terrorist rehabilitation program. Upon graduation, he went to Iran, and then became the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Abdullah al-Qarawi following a similar path, also traveling to Iran after finishing the program, where he know oversees over 100 Saudi Al-Qaeda operatives. Mohammed al-Oufi, a former Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander, also was released from Gitmo. Luckily, he defected later and informed the Saudis about Iran’s secret involvement with Al-Qaeda in Yemen and a plot to bomb the Saudi oil infrastructure. [READ MORE...]

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Tags: 9-11 attacks, Al Qaeda, Camp Gitmo, Christmas terror attack, Gitmo
Posted Dec 31st 2009 at 6:47 am in Culture, Defense, News | 5373098 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/31/a-path-to-jihad-from-gitmo-to-saudi-arabia-to-iran-to-yemen/A+Path+to+Jihad%3A+From+Gitmo%2C+To+Saudi+Arabia%2C+To+IRAN%2C+To+Yemen2009-12-31+14%3A47%3A04Andrew++Marcus

Barack Obama and the Exhausted Presidency

In a recent puff piece, The New York Times reports that our President is tired. This is not the first such report. Back in May, when he treated England’s Gordon Brown so shabbily, the excuse given — according to The Daily Telegraph – was that wrestling with the economic crisis had left Barack Obama too exhausted to be able to focus on foreign affairs.

We should perhaps discount what was said in May. For, as I have attempted to document in detail here, here, here, here, here, and here, President Obama is a gentleman, and, as such, he is never unintentionally rude. He is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture, which he seems to reserve for political opponents, such as Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin, and for political leaders in countries, such as England, France, Germany, Israel, and Poland, which were closely associated with the United States prior to the Age of Obama.

This time, however, Barack Obama may be genuinely tired, and he may be depressed as well. He certainly has warrant. In public, he may claim that he deserves a B+ for his first year in office, but the polling data suggests that he has earned a failing mark, and he has to know better.

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Tags: Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Beijing, Chinese relations, Christmas Attack
Posted Dec 31st 2009 at 5:41 am in Congress, Defense, Featured Story, Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 53670353 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/prahe/2009/12/31/barack-obama-and-the-exhausted-presidency/Barack+Obama+and+the+Exhausted+Presidency2009-12-31+13%3A41%3A42Paul+A.++Rahe

Breaking: Attempted Christmas Terror Attack Tied to al-Qaida

From the Associated Press:

U.S. officials say a Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida when he tried to blow up a flight Friday as it landed in Detroit.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.

One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it.

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Tags: Al Qaeda, al qaida, Christmas Attack, Peter King, terrorist attack
Posted Dec 25th 2009 at 4:05 pm in Defense, News, Politics | 52234161 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/12/25/attempted-christmas-terror-attack-in-skies/Breaking%3A+Attempted+Christmas+Terror+Attack+Tied+to+al-Qaida2009-12-26+00%3A05%3A24Publius

Obama Funder Jodie Evans on Her New ‘Tali’ Pals: Taliban Bring Peace and Justice, U.S. Created ‘Hell on Earth’ in Afghanistan

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

Photo Credit RAWA

In a wide-ranging interview released this week by MIPtalk, Obama funder, terrorist sympathizer and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans spoke about her meetings with the Taliban and President Barack Obama. She lauded the Taliban for bringing peace and justice to Afghanistan while saying that the U.S. has failed to deliver either.

In a separate interview with Lauren Steiner, Jodie Evans went further in her criticism of the United States saying that we had created “hell on earth” in Afghanistan.

Jodie Evans also spoke about being called on by Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff for a morning-after briefing following her hand delivery of a propaganda package to Obama about Afghanistan.

Jodie Evans admits in the interview she does “a lot to not support the troops.”

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Tags: Afghan War, Barack Obama, Brad Rowe, Code Pink, David Geffen
Posted Dec 21st 2009 at 8:50 am in Culture, Defense, Obama | 4935086 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/12/21/obama-funder-jodie-evans-on-her-new-tali-pals-taliban-bring-peace-and-justice-u-s-created-hell-on-earth-in-afghanistan/Obama+Funder+Jodie+Evans+on+Her+New+%27Tali%27+Pals%3A+Taliban+Bring+Peace+and+Justice%2C+U.S.+Created+%27Hell+on+Earth%27+in+Afghanistan2009-12-21+16%3A50%3A25Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Exclusive: Ann Coulter on Obama, Terrorism and Afghanistan.

Washington News Observer recently sat down for an exclusive interview with acclaimed author and commentator Ann Coulter. As always, Ann Coulter is blunt about her opinions of President Obama and the War on Terror.  Ann Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. This interview is part one of a two part series.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, General McChrystal
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 2:16 pm in Defense, Exclusives, News, Obama, Politics | 3555034 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wno/2009/11/23/ann-coulter-on-obama-terrorism-and-afghanistan/Exclusive%3A+Ann+Coulter+on+Obama%2C+Terrorism+and+Afghanistan.+2009-11-23+21%3A16%3A00Washington+News+Observer

Detainees to Illinois: Can Obama’s Home State Sink Even Lower?

Illinois can be extra proud of its Democratic elected officials these days as they have joined to create a perfect storm of stupidity resulting in the possibility that terrorist detainees may be transferred to an unopened new prison in the rural northwestern corner of the Prairie State.

Favorite son Barack Obama has so muddled his administration policy on terror detainees that we are left with an approach that nearly everyone eight years ago agreed was to be avoided.  That is, incarcerating terrorists on American soil.

An issue like this is always bound to elicit histrionics from both sides of the partisan divide—and no one has disappointed.  This new policy won’t lead to mass escapes of terrorists who will roam the heartland bombing at will.  Jihadist camps won’t spring up along the Mississippi River and Al Qaida is not likely to launch an assault on a rural Illinois prison.  But neither is this a simple economic development project that will create jobs and boom times for rural Illinois.  It is not an inconsequential relocation away from the politically charged Gitmo to a morally superior prison that  will win favorable international opinion.

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Tags: ACLU, al qaida, defense department prison, democrat machine, Dick Durbin
Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 10:57 am in Defense, Justice/Legal, Obama, Politics | 3401032 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dobrien/2009/11/20/detainees-to-illinois-can-obamas-home-state-sink-even-lower/Detainees+to+Illinois%3A+Can+Obama%27s+Home+State+Sink+Even+Lower%3F2009-11-20+17%3A57%3A39Doug+O%26%2339%3BBrien

A Name Americans Should Know – Jodie Evans and the Obama-Hollywood-Terrorist Connection

How much access can a possible agent of influence for state sponsors of terrorism buy from President Barack Obama? For Jodie Evans, a progressive Hollywood activist, the going rate appears to be $30,400 for dinner and a conversation.

Last week in San Francisco, Obama headlined a three million dollar fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports about 160 people paid $30,400 or more per couple for a private dinner with Obama followed by a reception costing $500 to $1000 that drew over 900 attendees. Among those at the dinner was the leftist, so-called antiwar group Code Pink co-founder, Jodie Evans.

The Chronicle reports Jodie Evans had a several minutes long conversation with Obama at the fundraiser.

Why does Jodie Evans merit such face time with the president even though she acts as an agent of influence for the anti-American governments of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, as well as Middle Eastern terrorists?

Over the life of the campaign, Jodie Evans became one of Obama’s top donors, giving the maximum $2300 to his respective primary and general election funds and tens of thousands of dollars more to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint Obama-Democratic National Committee fund.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Code Pink, Democrat National Committee, Fidel Castro
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 4:15 pm in Culture, Defense, Featured Story, Obama, Politics | 20358176 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/A+Name+Americans+Should+Know+-+Jodie+Evans+and+the+Obama-Hollywood-Terrorist+Connection2009-10-23+23%3A15%3A33Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King