The Weekly Claw 2-3-09
Even though I wasn’t online searching for news on Sunday, I managed to bring y’all a heapin’ helpin’ of stuff for this Tuesday edition of The Weekly Claw.
“…There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.” – Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
The Crawfish agrees that the execs of many big companies are highly overpaid, and that giving bonuses to them when the companies are going downhill is moronic, but for Barack Obama to say that those companies are behaving irresponsibly the day after the House passed his bloated, irresponsible, and full of liberal caca “stimulus” package…well, the man has stones.
The “stimulus” bill has so much pork in it that you had to know that some folks had to be getting payoffs. The National Parks Service gets a ton of bucks, and their chief lobbyist is the son of the House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Moooooooo Dairyland). Now THAT is Democrat ethics in action. When his consituents called his office to complain they were treated in much less than a courteous manner. Arrogance, thy name is Democrat politician in 2009.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Cheeseheadland) put a curious line into the “stimulus” bill that could lead to unchallenged earmarks and no transparency in legislation. But I thought Red Nanny promised the most ethical Congress in history and President Obama promised complete transparency in government on his watch, along with an end to politics as usual and a return of bipartisanship. Didn’t Obey get the memos?
Senate Minority Leader McConnell is saying that the Senate GOP will oppose the “stimulus” bill unless there are major changes, but does he have the squirrel food to call for a filibuster? Would the Vichy GOP Senators (Snowe, Collins, McCain, S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) go along with a filibuster, or would they collaborate with the socialists? Will McConnell and the other supposedly conservatives of the Senate be bought off with more earmarks?
The Laugh Line of the Month for January goes to (drum roll, please) Red Nanny P-Lousy, who claims to be “non-partisan” in spite of being the MOST partisan House Speaker of the past 50 years. If they really expect the American people to believe that kind of garbage, they must believe we all have IQs below room temperature. Thanks for the intelligence insult, witch!
CAIR’s friends, that fun-loving bunch called Hamas, is being called out by families in Gaza, who tell reporters that they were used as human shields and that their civilian property was used by Hamas to wage war against Israel. Those who objected were shot in the legs. Now that they went public with their story, I’m sure Hamas will have them executed within the week. “Religion of Peace” my butt!
Speaking of CAIR, I wonder if I’ll go back on their watch list for laughing about the FBI cutting ties to CAIR because of CAIR’s relationship with the terrorists in Hamas. For some unknown reason, the FBI had let CAIR train agents regarding hate crimes. That’s funny, because ISLAM IS A HATE CRIME!
We’ve got another award for stoooopidity this week, but I can’t really figure out what to call it or who to give it to. Do I give it to the woman who took fertility drugs and ended up having octuplets even though she already had SIX KIDS, or do I give it to the moronic doctor who prescribed them?
Blogger arik sent me this video that he got from Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin’s site. I gotta laugh whenever tangos and their supporters are in pain from their own stooooopidity.
If the Democrats who WRITE the tax laws and run the IRS can pay back taxes, when they get caught cheating, without paying interest or penalties then Joe American should be able to do so. At least, that is the opinion of one Republican Congresscritter from Texas.
I can’t believe that I actually got this story from PMSNBC. Puff Daschle, the failed former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, is being nominated to Obama’s Cabinet. He cheated on his taxes but is expected to be confirmed anyway. This time, the cheater had to pay back over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS! Is there such a thing as an honest Democrat? Whatever happened to the Puff Daschle who said THIS while a Senator back in 1998? “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.” On top of that, didn’t Obama put forth some rules about no lobbyists in his Administration?
Another new member of His Cabinet is Ray LaHood (SecTrans), who is from…CORRUPTIONNOIS! He is knows as one of the kings of earmark spending and is Citizens Against Government Waste’s “Porker Of The Month.” Is this the kind of “hopeandchange” the people were voting for?
The appeasement of states that sponsor and direct terrorism has begun in the Obama Administration. If you hate America AND Jews, we want to have good relations with you!
Paging Algoracle. Paging Algoracle. Once again, Mother Nature says that you’re full of it!
Mother Nature is showing us who the boss is, again. Mount Asama has started erupting and is covering Tokyo in ash, while Mount Redoubt in Alaska is threatening to erupt and has melted a big hole in a glacier. Where are Algoracle and his carbon cops? These two eruptions could put more carbon into the atmosphere that everything man does over the next two years, but he’ll still say that, despite all evidence that the planet is cooling again, Glo-Bull Warming is real and it is caused by man and his carbon emissions.
India is set to unveil a laptop that will retail for about $10. Heck, I’ve got a couple of laptops in my house that I’ll sell to ya for $8 each.
All dissent to the Administration must be quashed, and those who engage in dissent must be tarred and feathered (oops, I might have made a racist comment there). If that doesn’t work, branding them as racists is always an option, as we saw throughout the campaign.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell and New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg might be making a mistake of Titanic proportions. Gregg is the leading candidate to take the Secretary of Commerce position in the Cabinet. He and McConnell are saying that they have assurances from President Obama and NH Governor Lynch that Gregg’s replacement in the Senate would not alter the balance of power. They actually believe that lie? This is critical, for if failed comedian Al Frankenstein steals the election in Minnesota and Gregg’s replacement goes with the Democrats, the Dems get a filibuster-proof majority to ram through whatever anti-Constitutional programs and spending that they desire…such as the current “stimulus” bill. Haven’t they learned that The Chosen One will say anything to get his way?
Terrorist organizations can commit all sorts of atrocities, as long as the victims are Jewish, and get full passes. They can even use civilian areas, hospitals, and holy sites as locations to wage war from, and the international community ignores it or cheers them on. The Israelis, on the other hand, fight back and they get investigated and possibly charged in international court, for war crimes. Since Gaza is technically still part of Israel, the international court has no jurisdiction in this internal matter even if we ignore their two-faced actions.
The GOP has elected former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele as the new head of the RNC. How much media coverage did THAT election of a black man get? Anyways, Steele is a solid conservative that The Crawfish would like to see succeed greatly in this position and run for President in 2012. His first Sunday on the job, Steele went on “Fox News Sunday” and said the GOP lost its way in the 90s when its people started supporting big government programs. He also went after Obama’s Cabinet selections. Here, here! Now if he can infuse some backbone into House and Senate Republicans…
The Prophet Algoracle forgot to send his bribe payment to Punxsutawney Phil, and the varmint saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter weather. Even a furry animal that lives in a hole understands the real science of climatology.
Speaking of Pennsylvania, Governor Rendell was heard in multiple venues stating that if the Illegals had defeated the Cardinals in the NFC Championship, leaving the Super Bowl to be an all-Pennsylvania affair, the fans of the Eagles and Steelers would have destroyed the city of Tampa. Earlier in the month, he predicted a Philly-Pitt Super Bowl and said the fans would wreck Tampa ”like Sherman marching through Atlanta” and that there wouldn’t be much left. The quotes in the Noo Yawk Slimes and the Philly papers are different from what he said on the NBC pregame, but they get the same point across: Philly and Pittsburgh fans are nothing but hooligans, union thugs, and lawbreakers, and he’s PROUD OF IT! Not a very nice compliment there, Mr. Governor. Then again, Philly is the only place in the NFL where they put a courtroom and jail cells in the basement of the stadium because of the fan behavior at their games. Hat tips to blogger Georgetwin and e-mailing newshound TSMOM. LAST SECOND UPDATE: Blogger DecoNservAtiVE sent me the video of the pre-game quote from Fox News, and here it is!
Governor Rendell wasn’t the only politician on the pre-game shows. Matt Lauer had a nice lovefest with his favorite rock star, President Obama, on the NBC pre-game show. No link here, since there’s no need to show more media adulation to His Arrogance.
What happens when liberalism is allowed to go unchecked for decades? Blogger Good Al gets credit for that link.
Blogger Nee send us a table that shows how much we pay in taxes, state-by-state. Eye-opening stuff.
In late August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated N’awlins and much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. When the Bush Administration and FEMA weren’t on scene within 5 hours, the liberals of America started screaming about the W Administration’s incompetence and racism. Well, here we are in early February of 2009 and an ice storm has done widespread damage to much of Kentucky. Three days later the Obama Administration and FEMA are nowhere to be found. Is this incompetence and racism?
Impeached judge and now Florida Congresscritter Alcee Hastings has put forth a bill to establish detention centers on military installations for corralling civilians and possibly for dissidents opposed to the government. This current crop of Democrats is really living up to the two Orwell masterpieces “Animal Farm” and “1984.”
If you believe, like The Crawfish does, that The Prophet Algoracle and his Gorons are complete frauds, and that Glo-Bull Warming is a hoax, you are encouraged to contact him with this link and let him know. Hat tip to blogger Jesse “The Mind” Norman and his comments at The Weekly Claw, Townhall edition.
If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.
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