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Crystal Wright: King Obama and the Republicans

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With unemployment surging to 9.2% in June, President Obama is in NO position to tell Republicans what to do much less command them to capitulate to his wishes on raising the nation’s debt ceiling by August 2, 2011.

Democrats got a big shellacking in the 2010 mid-term elections, giving Republicans control of the House and more Senate seats. Obama’s budget was rejected by the Senate 97-0 and Democrats haven’t produced a budget in over 700 days. Meanwhile, the president, riding a sky high spending spree, introduced a $3 trillion budget for 2012.

In two short years in office, Obama has spent $4 trillion about the same amount President Bush spent in his entire eight years in office. President Obama is not the Messiah and I hope by now the liberal news media and supporters can painfully see this and end this sickening fawning over a man, who has failed as president. Last week Obama held a White House press conference acting like a king holding court over his loyal subjects. His demeanor was childish, glib and anything put leader-like.



Crystal Wright: DC Democrat Politicians Are Their Own Reality TV

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Just when you think DC government and its band of corrupt politicians can’t get any worse, more scandal is unearthed. Attorney General Irvine Nathan filed a lawsuit June 6th in DC Superior Court, alleging Ward 5 Democrat Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. of stealing $300,000 in public funds to buy a $60,000 Audi SUV and fund trips to Las Vegas and the upscale Pebble Beach, CA. The lawsuit demands Thomas repay the money to the city plus damages to the tune of $1 million.

Responding to the Thomas scandal, DC Council Chairman Kwame “Fully-Loaded” Brown vowed to develop “a plan of action” to deal with these allegations. Brown has zero credibility in holding any councilmember accountable for wrong doing when he has been accused of failing to report $250,000 in campaign contributions during his 2008 campaign. The City Paper obtained emails proving three days after he was elected Chairman, Brown demanded the city lease two pimped Lincoln Navigators for him to drive.

Please, Brown promising to take seriously these allegations against Thomas is like Rep. Weiner telling the NYC court he’ll guard Strauss Kahn during his house arrest. If DC residents believe Brown’s pledge, they’ll believe anything.



Crystal Wright: Obama’s Black Agenda?

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If any black American believes Obama has a “black agenda” or cares about blacks until it’s time for his re-election, wake up! Look beyond the man’s skin color, examine his policies; ask yourself have they made my life better or worse; and vote on that.



Simone Cherie Perry: Re-Defining Greed for the Left

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Namely, because greed speaks to a desire, the desire of an individual to wish and hope for something beyond what they already have. Whether beyond the means of one’s parents, beyond the realm of one’s own personal achievements and the like. All significant pieces of legislation and indeed political movements in American history, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, Executive Order 8802, The New Deal, Women’s Rights and the push for universal suffrage and more stemmed from this very desire, the desire to attain more.

A kneejerk reaction to the previous sentence might force one to differentiate those articles from policy closely associated with greed. One might suggest those movements like the Civil Rights movement for the vote and the Dream Act to educate children of illegal aliens are all needed legislation, just legislation to undo the injustice existing at the time. They would assert it is not excessive, but necessary and perhaps even minimally so.



Crystal Wright: Democrats Lamer than a Lame Duck

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Americans need to vote Obama out of office in 2012 along with Senate Democrats so the country can get out of this black hole of debt and joblessness. Despite the fact Democrats got slaughtered in October’s mid-term elections, they and President Obama remain as arrogant as ever that their policies are good medicine for suffering Americans.

Instead of “capitulating” to Republicans demand that the Bush tax cuts be extended to all classes of American people to help stimulate economic recovery, Thursday House Democrats voted only to extend tax cuts only for families earning up to $250,000 year. House GOP leader and soon to be House Speaker, John Boehner described this mad behavior as “chicken crap.” Unemployment today soared to 9.8% and wages have gone down for all classes and House Democrats decide to reward some Americans with tax breaks and screw others.



Crystal Wright: “Who’s To Blame?”

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Look at the train wreck of losses Obama’s policies caused Democrats in the 2010 mid-term elections. The tally of wins for Republicans was stunning and equally ominous for Democrats. Let’s review: Republicans took 64 seats in the House from Democrats, this is the biggest gain by any party in the House since 1948 and the highest of any midterm election since 1938. In the Senate, Republicans won six seats, the largest gain since the Gingrich revolution in 1994. And the carnage continued in the states. Republicans won 17 governor’s races and 19 state legislatures flipped to the GOP.

After witnessing the beating Democrats took or “shellacking” as President Obama jokingly called it Wednesday during his press conference, one would think Obama would eat some humble pie and admit the American people rejected his policies. Nope, the President insisted people are just “frustrated” by “the pace of our economic recovery” and “they want jobs.”



David Brooks: No Second Thoughts

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Over the past year, many Democrats have resolutely paid attention to those things that make them feel good, and they have carefully filtered out those negative things that make them feel sad.

For example, Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even though these two Republican candidates have almost no chance of winning. That’s because it feels so delicious to feel superior to opponents you consider to be feeble-minded wackos.

On the other hand, Democrats and their enablers have paid no attention to Republicans like Rob Portman, Dan Coats, John Boozman and Roy Blunt, who are likely to actually get elected. It doesn’t feel good when your opponents are experienced people who simply have different points of view. The existence of these impressive opponents introduces tension into the chi of your self-esteem.



Democrat Slaps Black Republican Candidate During Debate

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A congressional debate in Colorado briefly turned physical over the weekend, when Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) slapped Republican Ryan Frazier.



Edgar Rivas: The American Dream Going the Way of the Aztec

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Yes my fellow Hispanic immigrant counterparts, the Democratic Party has two faces, while smiling at you, your Tío (uncle) Jose, and Tía (auntie) Conchita, from Michoacán, and telling you that they love you, their supporting the very same unions that despise you with a passion. You under cut and out compete the union worker at every turn. Why wouldn’t you?! The American union worker has become among the laziest and most spoiled in the world. The Hispanic immigrant, or illegal, come along and do the same jobs, work at it harder, endure the worst working conditions possible in the United States, and do it for far less money than your American born counterparts. Even past union leaders like Cesar Chavez, a Hispanic, opposed you! This had nothing to do with identity crises. He opposed an open border policy because of the competition it created for those Hispanics already living in the United States. Cesar Chavez represented many of the same views of the Democratic Party. Yet, most Hispanics, who usually oppose strict immigration laws, continue to vote and support the Democratic Party?! Ai yai yai!

If this continues, immigration from Latin America will break the Republican Party and the Democrats know this! That’s why Democrats like Harry Reid, with their nanny mentality, continue bribing (or buying) the Hispanic vote by offering up gifts (BAIT!) in the form of free healthcare, welfare, and amnesty; anything to stimulate an interest among Latin Americans to travel north to our country for the purpose of squashing the protectors of the American dream—the Republican Party. Talk about hook, line, and sinker! When and if this happens, the next ones to feel the wrath of the Democratic Party will be the Hispanic immigrant. The unions will push for tougher immigration and protectionism policies; translation—no amnesty, no compassion for your empty stomachs, or any other essential needs of your families. Again, the only thing the unions care about is to protect the American worker. Acuérdate (remember), these are the biggest supporters of the Democratic Party and like spoiled children, get vicious when they can’t get their way.



ANDRE HARPER OP-ED: I stand with Alvin Greene

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I don’t know his politics, I don’t know which issues he’s campaigning for, and I don’t know about his background but I do know Democrats. Most importantly, I know racism when I see it. That’s why I’m supporting the candidacy of Alvin Greene in South Carolina. I am not endorsing him but I do endorse his right to run. Liberals hate that I constantly accuse them of being the racists that they are. Too bad. The colossal push to force a black man out of a race he won fairly provides more proof why the Democratic Party is the most racist institution in America today.

The Alvin Greene story reads like a Hollywood script. Here you have a veteran without any political pedigree, get rejected by the party machine then miraculously gets accepted by the people. He achieves the improbable goal of winning his party’s nomination in a statewide race with few resources. Unfortunately for Greene, he has reached far beyond the boundaries reserved for black politicians. He will now suffer the wrath of the Democratic machine because of his ambition and desire to serve his state. While blacks are the most loyal Democrat voters, the party has made it clear that as long as a black person runs for a seat in an all-black district, he won’t have any problem with his party. For the record, Obama doesn’t count. When I say “black,” I am referring to Americans like me that trace their roots to enslaved Africans.



Frances Rice: A Republican Perspective On Black History Month

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During the civil rights era of the 1960′s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought against the Democrats, including Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant, and Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance of two black students at the University of Alabama in 1963. All of these racist Democrats did not become Republicans.

The so-called “Dixiecrats” were a group of Southern Democrats who, in the 1948 national election, formed a third party – the State’s Rights Democratic Party – but continued to be Democrats for all local and state elections, as well as for all future national elections.

It defies logic for Democrats today to claim that the racist Democrats suddenly joined the Republican Party after Republicans finally won the civil rights battle against the racist Democrats. Notably, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois pushed through the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental in the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous Leadership” in obtaining passage of civil rights legislation.



SHERMICHAEL SINGLETON OP-ED: Illogical Optimism

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The corrupted business, technological, and psycho-therapeutic jargon so prevalent in our society today has no place in the world of politics, there is no room for wishful thinking. It is one thing to have optimism but to have specious optimism is a recipe for disaster.



The War Against Dede Scozzafava

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Local Republicans tapped Scozzafava as the nominee in July because they believed her centrist views would appeal to a coalition of centrist Republicans, independents and Democrats in a moderate-minded district that Barack Obama won with 52 percent of the vote in 2008. The national party supports her for the same reason: her perceived electability. This is a case where the wingnuts are…well acting like wingnuts and the national party is acting more pragmatic. The hard right is not concerned about winning as much as they are about being heard, even if it means handing the seat to a Democrat.



A Political Warranty

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The GOP has a real opportunity to become the true party of reform, but history will not simply repeat itself without a little nudge.



Colin Powell – It’s not about Race, it’s about Tone

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” The issue here is not race, it is civility!” This is not to say that we are suddenly racially pure, but constantly talking and reducing everything to black versus white is not helpful to the cause of restoring civility to our public dialogue.