As anticipated, Jim Moeller's head explodes over the Sen. King letter.

As expected, Jim Moeller and the rest of the CRC scum's collective head exploded today when told of the near-certain death of the CRC.  Moeller sniveled thus:

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  Sen. King is essentially asking for re-design "do over". A new bridge design that would put us out of the federal
  funding window for a generation. Over 10 years of study, 160 million dollars spent by both states, expert review
  panels, six independent governmental agencies approval, a locally preferred alternative and a federal
  record of decision have already been completed. Sen King proposes 10 lanes, BRT instead of LTR and a lift section
  among others. All these ideas have evaluated and rejected through an extensive, professional
  and local process.

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The truth?

"A new bridge design that would put us out of the federal funding window for a generation."

What this simple idiot doesn't understand, or refuses to acknowledge is that the people of this county DO NOT WANT HIS SCAM, HIS RIP OFF, TO EVER BE BUILT.

No consideration of the concerns expressed in Sen. King's letter: this slimeball DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ANY OF THAT.

In short, his typically whiny, sniveling response (Oddly missing his trademark arrogance, though) STRENGTHENS the opposition to this crap hole.

The PEOPLE... DO NOT.... WANT THIS.

Put us out of the window for a generation?

I would much rather be out of that window PERMANENTLY, and so would the majority of the people in this county.

See, here's the problem: we all know about the scam.  This entire rip off is a way to build this project without getting our approval, and as the Oregon Supreme Court has told us the scam was in, start to finish.

All of the crap Moeller goes on to spew:

Over 10 years of study, 160 million dollars spent by both states, expert review panels, six independent governmental agencies approval, a locally preferred alternative and a federal record of decision have already been completed.

Laughably utterly stupid.

Ten years of outright lies, where the people were kept out BY POLICY from having ANY IMPACT.

$160 million wasted for a rejected design.

"Expert review panels" recruited and paid for by the CRC... as if they would come up with any other alternative.

A "locally preferred alternative" that the locals, meaning THE PEOPLE, DO NOT WANT.

A federal record of decision based on lies like Moeller's and his fellow scum who ignore all the opposition and all the inconvenient facts.

That Moeller actually believes ANY of the garbage he troweled out here justifies any of this shows the depths of how twisted he is.

And the last part of his babble:

Sen King proposes 10 lanes, BRT instead of LTR and a lift section among others.

No, he's not "proposing" this.  He's demanding it.  And if you clowns don't get it for him, then guess what?

No money.

All these ideas have evaluated and rejected through an extensive, professional and local process.

 And here's the crux of the lie.

Since the whole thing was a con... a scam... and those who were in on the process willing and well-paid dupes, it's obvious that Moeller is just pandering to his fellow union scum and that Sen. King is directly on target.

Moeller is just a pathetic creature.  he doesn't care about his community; he doesn't care about the impacts of yoking tens of thousands of families to the absurdly high tolls he demands FOR DECADES, and he refuses to allow us to have a voice.

It takes a special kind of scum to be so utterly corrupt, and frankly, perhaps he might consider ritual suicide as a way to protest this obviously needed effort to rein in this massively corrupt and out of control rip off that would make Al Capone blush in its width, breadth and audacity.

But that's hardly a reason to be proud of it... or lie about it.

Right, Rep. Moeller?

Updated with letter: Sen. King, Washington Senate Transportation Co-Chair, makes his case to "fix" the CRC, INCLUDING the elimination of loot rail.

I am completely opposed to the CRC.  Loot rail or no, what we need here are ADDITIONAL bridges, not to replace an already paid-for bridge that's perfectly functional, perfectly safe, and has several more decades of service left to give... a not even thinly veiled plan to scam us with loot rail, making this the most expensive loot rail scam in history.

Sen. Curtis King (R-14th District) represents part of Clark County and serves at the Transportation Committee Co-Chair in the Senate.  He sent out a list of what amounts to demands concerning this massive waste of time, energy, effort and money today, making it clear that if these conditions are not met, the $450 million the CRC Gang are wanting to rape us for will simply not happen.

The conditions?

The bridge must have a height that will serve at least 98 to 99% of all traffic, current and future.  The current plan by the CRC is not acceptable.

The project "...must increase the flow of traffic and commerce over a vital interstate highway."

We need to eliminate costly and inflexible light rail.

There must be "fiscally prudent transit options" over the bridge.

 The bridge must be ten lanes, a bus lane each way and 2 plus HOV lanes.

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While I don't support the project at all, the heads exploding among the downtown mafia/CRUDEC/Chamber of Horrors and WADOT types supporting this rip off makes me very happy about this letter.

In one letter and 2 weeks of a single legislative session, Sen. King and his allies have accomplished more than Ridgefield Barbie has in 5 years of wasted elected tenure.

For those stuck on the bizarre idea that Obama won because of ideology instead of poor GOP infrastructure, here's an article you need to read.

I remained convinced the "Extreme Party Makeover" is not a reality show the GOP needs, or wants.

I have and continue to insist that changing the messaging, philosophies and platforms are not the FIRST thing that needs to be done... but instead, it should be the LAST.

I've proffered but a start of the changes in the mechanism of how the GOP needs to campaign to reflect the changing technology and to start the process of inroading minority populations:

1.  Fund and hire a full time minority outreach shop.  

We have to admit that the white majority will soon become the white numerical minority.  This is obvious.  Yet, what does the GOP do to court the minority vote?
Nothing. 

If the GOP is going to convince the minorities, even those with a natural affinities such as the hispanic voter, they must get out there and touch them.  And given the large numbers of illegals voting in this state, at least some full time effort should be, for example, aimed in that direction. 

2.  Identify candidates around the state for grooming as a deep bench.

It's unfortunate that we could only put forward a weak candidate like RINO Rob.  How he ever won statewide in the past, given his utterly abysmal campaign this time around, is the political mystery of the decade.

For the mainstreamers, unfortunately, there wasn't anyone else.  And how'd that work out for us?

We need to be looking at evaluating candidates at the city council/school board level.  The GOP needs to provide guidance to help them grow in a real world political environment so we don't find ourselves filing candidates as nothing more than road bumps.

3.  Understand and use social media/internet research.

Come on, guys.  I shouldn't even have to talk about this.

The GOP should be building a live, on line database of every democrat screw up so it's right there.  This would be an invaluable tool for legislative and statewide races.  Traffic could be driven there with every announcement.... every press release.  The technology is there: all it takes is the money and the bodies to make it happen.

Every candidate should undergo a deep background investigation.  If you know your enemy, then you'll know his/her weaknesses.  If you think your candidate is great, but they have a robbery conviction or something you don't know about... well, that could be a problem.

Every district's tendencies should be identified and all messages tailored to impact.

This isn't brain surgery. 

As I pointed out,  without improving the ground game to at least as good as the left's, changes in policy, philosophies and the self-destructive tendency to want to be democrat-lite (As best illustrated by the RINO destruction here in the Washington state-wides) will be meaningless if the GOP doesn't have the right hardware, the right -sized nuts and bolts properly placed to make the machine work.

Well, here's a fascinating, in-depth analysis that goes precisely to the heart of the matter.

GOP'ers should read and heed.  Because if they don't, it doesn't matter who they run.

Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis by: edfactor Thu Jan 31, 2013 at 02:20:49 AM EST

Very good stuff.  On our side these guys are disproportionately in the "Lberty Movement"   - promoted by Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno)

This post is about technology, but is written for a non-technical audience.

You may think you know what happened with the technology of the Obama and Romney campaigns because of what you read about Orca. You don't know. This article is incredibly long. It will be worth it, and you will never look at technology and politics in the same way. If someone knows where to post or put this so that the RNC sees it, please do so. I am designating this content under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Distribute freely with attribution. * /

"We must develop the best technology with the help of the best minds." - GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, in a speech in January 2013, after being re-elected.

Yes, Mr. Priebus, we must, because in 2012, Team Obama kicked our asses in ways that you don't understand. The Democrats have created a whole ecosystem of technology and people that we don't have. It will be nearly impossible to catch up. This article will explain why, and offer some advice. But you're going to have to be bold. Or we are going to lose in 2016.  

This article will attempt to answer the following questions:  

- What role did technology play in the 2012 presidential election?
- How did Obama and Romney spend their money?
- What were the differences in their approaches?
- How did their spending and approaches affect what they were able to do?
- How far ahead are the Democrats in technology?
- Will this technology trickle down? 

Lessons Learned  

- What are the big lessons?
- Can Republicans catch up? (Read more...)  

edfactor :: Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis 

BACKGROUND AND SOURCE MATERIAL   

This article is based on many public sources and several private ones with strong connections to the people who have built campaign technology for President Obama over the past several years. Fortunately, most of the useful information is public, thanks to Engage, TechPresident and Ars Technica. Links to all their great work is at the bottom of this article. (I don't know a single technology person in the Romney campaign and they have revealed little about their operations. But I can tell much of what happened by the public information and the spending reports. I also, as a Romney supporter, used a lot of their public-facing tools.)  

INTRODUCTION: BACK TO 2008   

I remember the 2008 campaign between then-Senators Obama and John McCain. In my professional world, we were all buzzing about what technologies would be used, as this appeared to be the first big election where Internet technology would finally play a major role. I had a few friends who were working (though Blue State Digital) for Senator Obama. I knew no one who worked for Senator McCain.  

At the time, web technology was aimed at making a better website, offer some organizing tools, do some analytics, and spreading the word though email and social media channels. There was talk about radical changes to GOTV, but that was a ways off. It was still the "digital" side of the campaign, and new technology didn't flow through the entire campaign operation at that time.  

The first thing I noticed was a difference in technology and resources. First, the McCain campaign only had a small number of people on the digital side (perhaps a dozen). The Obama campaign had many more people involved (close to 100). That's the part people remember. But there was another thing that only we technology folks would notice: different kinds of software. McCain's main website and tools were built on a kind of Microsoft technology that you would see from a medium-sized bank. Obama's tools were simple but flexible "open source" components that were part of a worldwide network of interesting and innovative products.

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Our psychopathic, megalomaniacal president shoots himself in the foot over skeet.

A few days ago, that simple idiot bent on destroying this country, rather stupidly tried to play the lie game.

It's not that he is a liar and cannot be trusted with the destiny of this Nation... it's also that he lies so badly, so unnecessarily.

THIS lie was nothing more than demeaning playground bullshit.

For this pogue to come out and act like he's got a set by making the OUTRAGEOUS claim that he shoots anything, (besides shooting off his mouth) makes him the laughing stock.

Clearly, he knows as much about "shooting" as he does, say, economics... or foreign policy... or, for that matter, domestic policy.

His staunchest defenders typically come across as blithering idiots, morons who attempt to stifle dissent (Remember that idiocy during the Bush administration?  Dissent is patriotic, they fringe left you to say?  Odd that what was patriotic THEN, is now automatically called "racism" today.) by playing the race card.

I don't give a rat's ass what the race, religion or gender of our president is.  He could be a one-eyed Turk with a hunch back from an Eskimo tribe on the North Slope, for all I care.

What *I* care about is leadership.  What I care about is vision.  What I care about is integrity.  What I care about is knowledge.

The Stalinesque cult of personality currently running this show doesn't count, since everything this moron touches turns to dust.

That said, he was lying about shooting.

We all knew that when he babbled it.

So, read it and weep, you fringe-left bigots who try to stifle the very dissent you were all so proud of until 2009.

Obama goes 'skeet shooting all the time'? Hardly ever, sources say

By Jana Winter / Published January 30, 2013 / FoxNews.com

 

Jan. 29, 2013: President Obama waves to reporters as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP)

News of President Obama's apparently long-secret fondness for skeet shooting came as a surprise to those who say they have witnessed the president's "awkward" attempts at pinging the (clay) pigeons.

This has only happened with the president at Camp David, at most, a couple of times, according to a source who says he has been to the retreat on a half-dozen visits with Obama.

"The only time he shot skeet was for President's Cup," said the source, referring to a shooting competition tradition involving the presidential Marine guards. "I was there. He stayed for about five minutes, and couldn't leave fast enough."

Skeet shooting "is very hard," said the source. "Especially for someone not used to guns ... He couldn't have been more uncomfortable."

The source said a friend of his recalled Obama skeet shooting one other time at Camp David -- very early on in his first term.

The White House did not immediately respond to FoxNews.com's request for comment.

Obama professed his sweetness for skeet shooting during an interview posted online Sunday with The New Republic, when asked if he had ever fired a gun.

"Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama said. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there. And I have a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations. And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake."

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The stupid waste of political capital isn't a matter of race, ladies and gentlemen.  It's a matter of integrity from the complete poetical animal... a giant Tim "The Liar" Leave-it who will lie about anything, say anything, take any position to get elected and to stay that way, integrity, courage and the future be damned.

The democratian, with predictable regularity, blows it on the illegal alien issue.

A few days ago, I wrote about the RINO Rubio Plan to reward millions of criminals with the ultimate prize for their disrespect of our laws: the so-called "path to citizenship," or amnesty.

It's a far left-argument: our laws are meaningless, our borders are meaningless, the murders, rapes and robberies our open borders result in, the drugs, the billions wasted on illegal's schooling, social services and medical care... meaningless.  That this plan solves nothing except in his mind, a tiny bump in the Hispanic vote when he runs for president: meaningless.

That we tried this once before in Reagan's perhaps most monumental screw up back in 86.  You remember that, don't you?  Millions were allowed in and given the brass ring of amnesty.

With predictable regularity, here's how the democratian, typically leaving out a few very pertinent facts, spewed it:.

In Our View: Apple State Needs Reform

Immigration issues affect at least two groups of workers here in Washington

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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With predictable regularity, TV news stories about immigration show video clips of barriers on the United State's southern border with Mexico. The northern border with Canada is consistently ignored. When was the last time you saw one of these televised reports with images of the Peace Arch on Interstate 5, which connects Blaine, Wash., and Surrey, B.C.? But recent good news that immigration reform might be accomplished by the new Congress profoundly impacts our state. The effects are seen at both the low- and high-income levels of the pay scale. A Tuesday editorial in The Spokesman-Review of Spokane explains: "Orchardists have complained of labor shortages for years, and the problem has worsened as improved border security cut off the flow of labor from Mexico and nations farther south. More and more fruit is falling to the ground — wasted — despite the adoption of more mechanized harvesting." Thus, the eastern half of the state yearns for immigration reform.

The problem with the agricultural lie?

This country now has more illegal aliens in it then we've have ever had.

Ever.

So, a shortage of agricultural workers equates to something else when the population that typically provides them suddenly doesn't: that population is now taking other jobs of a non-agricultural variety from the citizens those jobs should rightly go to.

That the rag doesn't mention this inconvenient truth is part of their pattern of withholding information that could alter the factual outcome.

It's a well established pattern of the rag on subjects ranging from Tim "The Liar" Leave-it to downtown redevelopment.... the Pollard Taxpayer-Subsidized Hilton, the Ballpark Scam and most assuredly, the CRC rip off that facts of a non-supportive nature rarely darken the pages of that newspaper.

This is no different.

We have no shortage of illegals.. After all the United States is THE destination resort for those who happen to be minorities and who also happen to be deliberately willing to break our laws as a result. The disingenuous pap of this editorial completely overlooks/ignores that fact.

Not to worry.  That's just how Lou and the Pit Yorkie roll.

Here's our furture with the CRC scam.

Plan to toll I-90 angers Mercer Islanders

Tolls on Interstate 90 are a few years away, but drivers are awakening to the possibility they might have to pay $1,900 a year to cross Lake Washington.

By Mike Lindblom
Seattle Times transportation reporter

Speak out on I-90 tolls

Comment until Feb. 22

The state is taking comments to decide what should be part of an environmental-impact study. Remaining opportunities:

In person: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Yesler Community Center, 917 E. Yesler Way, Seattle.

Online: www.wsdot.wa.gov/tolling/i90/onlinescoping or I90EAcomments@wsdot.wa.gov

Postal mail: to Angela Angove, 999 Third Ave., Suite 2200, Seattle 98104

Cold reality is setting in for drivers of Interstate 90, who three years from now might have to pay $1,900 a year to cross Lake Washington.

I-90 tolls would help the state close a deficit of $1.4 billion to complete the new $4.1 billion, six-lane Highway 520 floating bridge, three miles north — a bridge Mercer Island residents say they rarely use.

“I’m really considering selling my house and moving,” said Denise Joffe, a Mercer Island resident. “Why should I be paying a toll for somebody else’s bridge?”

For others, in a vast area from Kirkland to West Seattle, the choice of bridges is more flexible, shown by the fact that 15,000 driversa day are diverting to toll-free I-90 since the state imposed a toll 13 months ago on the old 520 crossing.

State lawmakers have talked about adding tolls to I-90 since the mid-2000s, but don’t expect to vote until 2014 on a bill to authorize them. After that, installing tolling devices could take another two years. For now, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is taking comments from the public, to decide what issues to explore in an environmental-impact study, costing $2 million.

Joffe was among 800 people at a forum Tuesday night on Mercer Island, where the “No Tolls on I-90” supporters brought an information table, a couple of pickets and a toilet seat to symbolize how their money would be flushed away.

Wednesday’s session in Bellevue drew only 147 people in the first two hours. A third open house is Thursday in Seattle.

Toll rates likely would match the variable rates charged on Highway 520, currently peaking at $3.59 each way, said House Transportation Committee chairwoman Rep. Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island.

A common misconception is that federal law forbids tolling an interstate, but the Federal Highway Administration has said it is open to I-90 bridge tolls, especially if they are designed to control congestion.

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Local CRC scum down this way are thinking the same thing.  Of course, this waste of billions will do nothing to improve congestion, just like the waste of billions for the SR520 bridge won't do anything to improve congestion; which is being rebuilt/replaced for the same treason we're being scamed down here: loot rail.

While it's against state law now to toll I-205 in Washington, you can bet that the slime balls in Oregon will take a somewhat different view.  After all, the majority of those who are going to get screwed by tolls to pay for the hundreds of millions in Oregon will live here, and so they won't have any vote... or any say.

So.... is this our future?

Of course it is.  If the CRC scam isn't blown out of the water, then this is what WE are going to be looking at... just like those poor bastards in Seattle, Bellevue and Mercer Island.

Herrera goes into full-court stall mode: calls for a "study" of a CRC that's been studied to DEATH.

In continuing the utter fraud that Jaime Herrera actually opposes the CRC scam, we see this worthless eyewash:

Herrera Beutler, other lawmakers ask for 'full study' of CRC

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The $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing project would replace the existing Interstate 5 Bridge.

By Eric Florip
Columbian Staff Reporter

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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Letter from Rep. Herrera Beutler to Coast Guard district commander

 

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U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, and three other House Republicans on Wednesday called for a full study of the economic impacts of Columbia River Crossing, citing "continued concerns" with the $3.5 billion megaproject. 

In a letter to the U.S. Coast Guard, the lawmakers highlighted navigation and commerce worries for river users upstream of the proposed Interstate 5 Bridge replacement.  

Squeezing those operations would mean millions of dollars in lost revenue for Columbia River manufacturers, they said, plus extra costs for mitigation. 

"We cannot cavalierly dismiss the impacts to the businesses, current and future, which depend upon the free flow of river commerce to survive," the letter read. "Neither can we dismiss the impacts to our local economy, nor the jobs that would cease, should these companies be forced to relocate or close their doors." 

In addition to Herrera Beutler, the letter was signed by eastern Washington Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Doc Hastings, plus Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador.
The Coast Guard must approve a bridge permit for the CRC to move forward. Project leaders expected to finalize a permit application for a 116-foot-high fixed span this week. The current I-5 Bridge allows for as much as 178 feet of clearance when lifted.

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What a total and complete crock.

Herrera is continuing her "I'm looking out for you scam," with this kind of "watch the shiny object" misdirection.

What, PRECISELY, does this letter DO?

WHAT, PRECISELY, does this letter ACCOMPLISH?

Absolutely nothing.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the quintessential example of a deliberate attempt to make you believe that this woman is actually engaged in an action... as opposed to her engaging in a motion that is designed to make YOU (And David Madore) BELIEVE she is actually DOING SOMETHING.

She isn't.

This steaming pile doesn't require a "full study."  What it requires is a federal grand jury investigation.

She didn't even ask for THAT.

People, do not be fooled.  Do not be congratulatory.  We've wasted the better part of $200 million on this scam which has made a select few very wealthy and enriched the downtown mafia immeasurably at our expense.

This letter is shucking and jiving at it's finest.  And nothing more.

Do not be deceived.  Until or unless Herrera introduces a bill to strip the federal funding out of this rip off, and makes sure that the funding is NOT available (which she, by herself, CAN do) she has done and accomplished absolutely nothing.

This "effort," using the term euphemistically, is worthless.

Hey, Jaime, HERE's something you can do once they give you your position on women in combat: require women to register for the draft.

Not that someone as much of a coward as Herrera would ever do such a thing, but there it is.

Ladies?  You want absolute and total equality?

You claim you want in the Infantry, for example?

You

Want

To

Be

An

Air-borne Ranger?

No?  Why not?

Like I've said: if you want total and absolute equality, you have to pay a terrible price to achieve it.

You have to get there by meeting the standards currently in place for men.  You have to get there by dying and bleeding in numbers similar to men.

You have to avoid whining when you fail.  Repeatedly.  And you will fail.

And you have to be, and then express, outrage when they lower standards so you can pass.  And they will lower the standards.

You have to be just as hot at filing lawsuits to keep the standards where they are.

You have to be just as motivated to file lawsuits to be included in the draft.

You won't, of course, because, when it comes to "equality," the vast majority of women want that elusive achievement without paying for it.

Kind of like Jaime Herrera became a congress-critter: she did absolutely nothing to earn it except to be Cathy McMorris's bitch.

Well, Jaime, here ya go.  Time to man up and get your big girl panties on.

What say you introduce and amendment to the Selective Service Act:

Drafting women

January 30th, 2013

The other day, when Marty Dempsey and Leon Panetta announced that they were going to open combat jobs, Dempsey, they were asked by the press if their decision would lead to women being registered for the Selective Service System. Dempsey answered that he didn’t even know who the guy is that runs the SSS. Well, Marty, that guy’s name is Lawrence G. Romo. I’ve heard speculation here about whether women will be drafted or not. Well, the short answer is; no, they won’t until the Selective Service law is changed by Congress.

[In 1998,] GAO examined the issue from Selective Service cost and staffing points of view, recognizing that registration of women would require legislative action and operational and budgetary changes. “Selective Service System could register women if its authorizing legislation, the Military Selective Service Act, is amended to allow registering women,” the report stated.

The Washington Post wrote about the subject the other day;

[When Jimmy Carter reestablished draft registration in 1980 in reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,] A group of men sued the director of the Selective Service at the time , Bernard D. Rostker, arguing that the exclusion of women made the registration requirement unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s due-process clause. In a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that it was acceptable to exclude women. Writing for the majority, Justice William H. Rehnquist determined that “the fact that Congress and the Executive have decided that women should not serve in combat fully justifies Congress in not authorizing their registration.”

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall chided the ruling, saying it “places its imprimatur on one of the most potent remaining public expressions of ‘ancient canards about the proper role of women.’?”

So, since women not serving in combat was the Supreme Court’s reason for ruling for their exclusion from the draft. Someone else should sue them now that the exclusion has been lifted and see if we can’t get them drafted, too. Fair is fair, right?

Indeed.

Fair is fair.

Unless you're a woman.

Congresswoman Herrera: still waiting on your women in combat position.

You should have picked up the memo giving it to you by now: can you let us in on it?

Friday, January 25, 2013

What's Jaime Herrera think about women in combat? Don't know... she hasn't been told, yet.

Courage and Jaime Herrera can't ever be simultaneously be found in the same location at the same time.

In fact, her lack of guts, previously illustrated by her continuing failure to hold open town hall meetings, was accented today with this little blurb:

Herrera Beutler waiting to share her stance on women in combat

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By Stevie Mathieu (Columbian Staff)

January 25, 2013 

It was huge news when it broke earlier this week: the Pentagon is ending its policy that excludes women from the front lines of combat.  

When reached for comment about this policy change, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, said she's waiting until May to share her stance on whether the military should allow women in combat.  

"The branches of the military will present their plans for integrating women into combat roles in May, and I will review that plan," she said by email. "My number one priority for our military is to ensure the efficient operation of our troops in combat." 

Despite the Pentagon's old policy, women have found themselves in combat. In the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 152 U.S. servicewomen died

Because she hasn't been told what it's supposed to be, yet.

Shouldn't the "path to citizenship" start with obeying our laws?

I suppose when we're cursed by both a Congress of a type that would have Ridgefield Barbie in it and a White House that seems populated by total sellouts, this kind of idiocy is inevitable.

What we have here is a short-sighted "solution" that solves absolutely not one damned thing and which will, in aggregate, make the lives of Americans worse.... not better.

Isn't it the responsibility of our government to act in such a way where Americans can have a better life?

Then why is it they seem ever so much more concerned about the criminals infesting us?

We're confronted with what amounts to a catastrophe.  And instead of meeting this challenge with force.... instead of doing the right thing.... instead of enforcing the law.... instead of innovation and holding those accountable who enable this debacle... what do we do as a "fix?"

We reward those who break our laws.

How stupid is that?

Ultimately, the questions have to be asked: what is the ultimate goal here?

So far, we've been lucky to a degree.  The last time this idiocy took place, during the Reagan Administration, that action promised to fix illegal immigration for all time.  Illegals have only raped, robbed and murdered so many of us that the number is unimportant to the slime making this decision.

So.... how'd that work out for us?

Someone much wiser than I defined insanity in a well-known way.... it's to do the same things, over and over... while somehow, expecting a different outcome.

Well?  Did that happen?

Of course not.  Because when we abandon principle.... when we ignore our own laws.... when we continue to make the United States THE destination resort of illegal aliens, what do they expect to happen?

What do they expect to happen now?

Do they expect that rewarding illegal aliens with this horrific program will somehow stop future illegals from wanting to come here.... and, in fact, actually doing so?

Why wouldn't they come here?  This is the brass ring for the poor.  With all the programs we have in place... like IN-STATE TUITION FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.... why wouldn't they want to come here?

Look, here's the reality: the amnesty program RINO Rubio and McCain and so on advocate will avail them nothing politically.  Rubio desperately wants to be in the White House.  He's pandering here at the cost to the American people of dumping millions of illegals into our laps that we will have to pay for.

And he's doing it all for him.

Not for us.

And here's the problem:  EVEN IF THIS SCAM MAKES IT THROUGH.... THERE WILL STILL BE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS HERE.

MILLIONS.

They won't apply.  They won't qualify.  They'll miss the cutoff.  They won't be able to afford to pay "back taxes" or a "fine" (Yeah, right...)

THEN WHAT?  WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THEM?

Nothing.  Because this same lack of logic... this same garbage heap of a "fix," will be applied to those who don't... or won't.... make the cut.

But the scum shilling this want to make us believe that it will... that somehow, magically, millions more will stop coming.

Are you fricking KIDDING ME????

It will cost those of us actually paying taxes BILLIONS, of course.  Social service costs like welfare and Medicade and Medicare will skyrocket.  Schools, already overcrowded, will explode both in size and the need for ESL teachers.

And here's John McCain complaining about how the GOP doesn't get the Hispanic vote, stupidly failing to understand that even if this garbage is fully implemented, they STILL won't get that vote.  For a case study, just look at RINO Rob McKenna or RINO Reagan Dunn.  They both pandered to the fringe left in about every imaginable way.  And what did it get them?

Look, I'll be the first to admit that minorities are typically racist voters.  They will vote for another minority ONLY because he/she is another minority. 

See, 95% of the black voters in this country voted for the half-white Barack Obama ONLY because he is a SPECTACULAR president.  Get it?

A few more (as a percentage) may vote for RINO Rubio (although I will never do so) because of his name and skin color: but the majority of these people will continue to vote democrat because they have become democrat dependencies.  They trade their freedom for stuff... and all of us lose as a result.

And women?  They're the same.  Women will vote their gender much more than most people know... it's good for a 3 to 5% bump in most elections.

In fact, the only people not allowed to vote their race or gender are white males.  Because if we were to do that, it would be racist and/or bigoted.

To put a point on it, the GOP effort to screw us here aids and abets the dem effort to do the same.

It's almost exactly like the CRC: they both want to waste billions, accomplish nothing, and they're doing it in the name of political expediency.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should have absolutely nothing to do with a "pathway to citizenship."  Because the first step in that journey shouldn't be in violation of the laws that you obviously don't give a rat's ass about.

I WELCOME LEGAL immigration.  But I DESPISE the idea that because someone choses to come here and break our laws they should get any special treatment of any kind as a result in the face of the millions around the world who can't.

That waste of skin in the White House is all ABOUT "fairness."  So, tell me: what, exactly, is "fair" about this scam?  What is "fair" about rewarding those pissing on our laws while penalizing those who don't VIOLATE our laws by forcing them to wait years for what those here illegally have now?

It's not only NOT "fair," it's immoral and unethical.  And that the GOP or anyone IN it would support that...

Yes, legal immigration is tough, expensive and it takes a long time.  But so what?

This is the UNITED STATES.  You want to come here?

It SHOULD BE tough.  It SHOULD BE expensive.  And it should take at least a decade... just like it does for those actually OBEYING OUR LAWS.  AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAY IF YOU GOT HERE ILLEGALLY.

Adding 30 or 40 million more people we cannot afford (These criminals will, of course, be able to get visas for their extended families once they go through the process, you see) by rewarding them is not the way.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to eliminating any program that makes this an attractive option.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to the confiscation, imprisonment and fines for those who hire illegals.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to requiring schools and hospitals to identify illegal aliens and notify ICE so they can deport them.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to disqualifying anyone here illegally from EVER becoming a citizen or legal resident.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to making it illegal for illegals to own property, or to sell them property.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to eliminating illegals from our school and social program systems.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" should be limited to refusing housing to anyone who can't prove their status.

If you take THESE steps, the illegal alien problem will take care of itself... because they will leave of their own accord.

If you FAIL to take these steps, as we failed the LAST time we did a "cure all," then 10, or 20, or 30 years from now.... guess what?

If we survive as a Nation?

We'll be doing this all over again.

Because the Rubio Ripoff solves nothing.  It accomplishes, nothing.  And it stops.... nothing.

It will cost us billions and billions.  It will increase over-crowding in our frequently already over-crowded schools and prisons.  It will take millions of jobs away from American citizens... much like, come to think of it, they do now.

But the Rubio Ripoff will do absolutely nothing to solve the problem, which is to end the idea that all you have to do is cross the border.... and you've got it made. 

Short-sighted legislation rarely does.

The idiocy of the Boy Scouts and the super-human homos.

So, the BSA looks like it's stupidly going to cave on the homosexuality issue, for whatever the reason because there really is no excuse.

The JAWA report weighs in on this idiocy:

January 29, 2013

The Homosexual Superhumans and the BSA

So, the Boy Scouts of America is contemplating letting openly gay men serve as Scout leaders?

This is the dumbest thing I've heard gay rights advocates push for -- ever.

The idea that a gay man should go camping with a bunch of teenage boys? Yeah, that's insane.

Not because homosexuals are predatory by nature. Not because they are going to lure impressionable youths into the gay lifestyle. Foolishness, all.

Gays aren't any worse than the next man when it comes to normal human impulses. But they certainly aren't any better.

Would you let me take your 14 year old daughter camping? Kind of seems inappropriate.

So, you acknowledge that no matter how decent of a guy I might be, because I am a normal man subject to normal male passions, it's probably not a great idea for me and my buddy -- let's say, Howie -- to take a group of 14 - 15 year old girls on a camp out. Don't forget to bring a pillow for the mandatory pillow fight!

It's creepy.

Yet somehow homosexual men are exempt from normal male passions? Gay men aren't tempted by 14 - 15 year old boys?

To believe this is to believe that gays are better than straights. That gays are, in fact, superhuman.

That's what the idiots who think gays should be allowed to lead Scout troops fundamentally believe.

Yes, it is discriminatory to not let gays lead Scout troops. It's also discriminatory to not let men lead Girl Scout troops.

Some discrimination has a basis in fact, experience, and human nature.

An adult male that is attracted to a teenage girl is not, in fact, a child molester or pedophile. A pedophile is one who is attracted to prepubescent children. And while some Boy Scouts are in their per-adolescent years (Cub Scouts), camping trips are usually limited to older Scouts -- those who are squarely in their teen years.

It is normal for adult males to be attracted to teenage girls. While this attraction may be normal, acting on these attractions certainly isn't since sexual maturity isn't necessarily connected to social maturity, moral maturity, or psychological maturity.

This is why we have statutory rape laws and why even consensual relationships of this type are considered immoral and are therefore illegal.

More:

This is a bad idea... a horrific idea.  It will not only cause thousands to leave scouting, it will cut off donations AND cost the BSA millions when kids are assaulted as they inevitably will be.

This is a fundamental shift in everything the Scouts are supposed to stand for, and it is the announcement of their demise.

It's tough when you have a psychopathic liar as president: he shoots off his mouth more than he shoots skeet.

It's to our misfortune that we have a psychopathic megalomaniac as president of the United States.

The man lies so often that he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ass.

Further, he doesn't know the difference between a firing pin and a bowling pin.

He is, historically, a despicable human being who has done far more harm then good to this country, who has inflicted pain on us that will last for generations; who has corrupted the presidency and lied to the American people with a frightening ease.

And now this:

CNN HOST ON OBAMA'S SKEET SHOOTING: PROVE IT

This is a result from his knee-jerk lie of yesterday:

Obama goes skeet shooting ‘all the time’

By Meghashyam Mali - 01/27/13 07:40 AM ET

President Obama says he regularly skeet shoots at Camp David and called on gun-control proponents to “do a little more listening” to gun owners in the national debate over firearms.

In an interview with The New Republic posted on Sunday Obama said that he and guests “do skeet shooting all the time” at the presidential retreat and said he understood why many rural voters were protective of their gun-ownership rights.

More:

So many bald-faced lies is so few paragraphs.

I'm not going to suggest that all presidents lie to a degree.  But none have lied so badly, so stupidly, and hurt this Nation so much as Barack Obama.

He makes me ashamed of my government.

I'd list the lies, the crime, the corruption, the debt that will, ironically, enslave future generations who are likely never to know anything approaching a debt-free country.

But I've only got a 24 hour day to work with, and only so much space on my blog.

Ironic, isn't it?

The example this moron sets?  What would happen to a family.... any family.... who lived like Obama lives?

While going bankrupt, weekly parties on the taxpayer dime at the White House.  Lavish vacations on the taxpayer's dime, even when our economy was at it's worst.  The idea of "shared sacrifice" from an asocial man who wouldn't know "sacrifice" if it bit his nose off.

A man who hates the military with a passion, who disrespects those both serving... and who have served... with his actions towards the military, including social engineering that will unnecessarily spill our blood while this simple moron guts our capabilities to pay off his base with "stuff...." over freedom.

There's not even a light at the end of this guy's tunnel, because he's extinguished it.

Hopefully, he won't extinguish us with it.

Think Jaime Herrera-Beutler is Conservative? Think again.

Jaime Herrera has been an unmitigated disaster as a legislator and congresscritter, ever since Cathy McMorris parachuted her back in here and Marc Boldt arranged to get her the appointment to the House even though she'd been gone for 11 years and had never held a private sector job in her life.

I say "unmitigated" only in the sense that, for whatever the reason, she's been able to play the "bright, shiny object" card so very well that the guys at the Lazy C (And those boys who were PCO's in Cowlitz.... right, Shannon?) were so enamored of this waste of skin.  For one example, from the moment she scammed her way to the appointment, the rag has been portraying her thus:

18th District seat filled by young conservative

Friday, November 30, 2007

BY MICHAEL ANDERSEN, Columbian staff writer

A young "family values" conservative with a glowing résumé was named Thursday to succeed former Rep. Richard Curtis in Washington's 18th Legislative District.

Four of the six commissioners in Clark and Cowlitz counties voted to appoint Jaime Herrera, 29, a Prairie High School graduate working as a legislative aide for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Colville.

"Every step I have taken since high school has been preparing me for this," she said at Thursday's hearing, her voice cracking slightly. "There is not a job in the world I would rather have."  (Except, of course, Congress.... right? -ed) 

And so on...  (The boldfaced print is just one of her many lies)

Conservative.

That's what Herrera ain't.

And who says so now?

THE most worthless Secretary of State this nation generally, and this state particularly, has ever known.

Here is an email from Reed, crowing about the BJ the local rag gave Herrera over dumping GOP principles whenever it suited her... though not so much lately since she's seen a glimpse of Madore's 12 gauge check book aimed at her political career.  Reed, a complete idiot, can't help crow about his success in getting his fellow scum to endorse yet another RINO who views conservatism like it was a yeast infection:

From: Sam S. Reed [mailto:sam@samreed.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:47 PM
To: Sam S. Reed
Subject: Herrera Beutler shows centrist streak as she ascends in House

Mainstreamers –

            Here’s a good article about Jaime Herrera Beutler.  I remember there were skeptics among the Mainstream Republicans when I advocated that we endorse her in 2010.  She is fulfilling my expectations.

                                                                                              --Sam

That's right, Sam. She's been a full-blown RINO, as worthless in Congress as you were in Olympia.

The Columbian

Herrera Beutler shows centrist streak as she ascends in House

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas

By Stevie Mathieu
Columbian staff writer

Sunday, January 20, 2013

To say Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler's political career has taken off during the past five years might be an understatement.

In five years' time — the amount of time it takes most college students to earn a bachelor's degree — the Camas Republican became a legislator in the state House of Representatives, successfully ran for Congress twice and recently was named to the U.S. House's coveted federal-spending committee. That appointment gives her more authority over the Columbia River Crossing project.

Part of the 34-year-old's success might come from the fact that her diverse background is seen as advantageous for the Republican Party, especially in a time when the party is working to re-brand itself. But a more important key to her success, her supporters and colleagues say, is that Herrera Beutler is an energetic and practical leader who balances party loyalty with the needs of an often independently minded district.

"People have recognized her as the talent that she is," Herrera Beutler's former boss, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, said recently. "I'm always impressed that Jaime is quick to speak up, and she recognizes that it's her responsibility to speak up on behalf of the people she represents."

Although Southwest Washington's 3rd Congressional District became more conservative following last year's redrawing of voter boundaries, those across the aisle from Herrera Beutler say her ability to stay in office will depend on whether she's able to distance herself from the rigid conservative ideology that sometimes exists within her party.

There's more to this pap, but this bit of it is sickening enough as it is.

They support her because she's been a liar and a hack FOR the CRC.

Check the record: what, exactly, has she done to stop it or hold those ripping us off accountable?

Absolutely, positively, nothing.

But that's not the point.  The point in this post is that the mainstream slime like Reed are licking her boots.  And they are not doing that because she's a staunch defender of conservatism.

In fact, it's unlikely that Ridgefield Barbie even knows what the word means.