Time for the GOP to Grow a Pair

Rush had some good advice for the GOP in light of Move.On’s disgusting ad in The New York Times.

From Rush’s site today.

In a just political environment, these hearings taking place in the House right now with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker would be enough to nullify any future electoral victory on the part of Democrats. What has happened up there today, ladies and gentlemen, so far is a complete disgrace and a total attitude, assaulting and impugning the integrity and character of a four-star general sitting in full dress uniform by telling him before he’s even testified that his testimony is a lie. The Republicans need to get a pair, stop being so docile and referring to these people as their friends and finally realize that it’s time to wipe them out politically before you get wiped out by them yourself.

If you want to, you can read the non-responses to the ad from the Dhimms campaigns. (Hint, it’s blame Bush. Maybe someone ought to tell them he’s not running.)

The Asian Badger Makes the MSM

My little post on The Breck Girl made the big time.

Read the comments…it’s amazing to me that people who have the time to read this stuff missed the point of my post….which is this.

He denied he had knowledge of the sub-prime investments by Fortress.

I don’t care if he made money, lost money or broke even.

The point is he (The Breck Girl) is either a liar or incredibly stupid. From my viewpoint, he’s both.

That is all.

John Edwards is a Total Fraud

John Edwards professes to be the “candidate for the poor.” Too bad for them.

Check out the front page of the 8/17/07 Wall Street Journal.

“As a presidential candidate, Democrat John Edwards has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina. But as an investor, Mr. Edwards has ties to lenders foreclosing on Katrina victims.

The Wall Street Journal has identified 34 New Orleans homes whose owners have faced foreclosure suits from subprime-lending units of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Mr. Edwards has about $16 million invested in Fortress funds, according to a campaign aide who confirmed a more general Federal Election Commission report. Mr. Edwards worked for Fortress, a publicly held private-equity fund, from late 2005 through 2006.”[...]

[...]“After leaving the firm, he kept about half of his net worth in Fortress funds. And Fortress employees have collectively made up the largest class of political contributors to Mr. Edwards. Workers there put up more than $150,000 toward his presidential run in the first six months of the year.“[...]

Notice that Edwards still has about $16 million with Fortress. OK…good for him. Now, here’s an Edwards quote from the same article.

[...]“The candidate has said he had no involvement in Fortress units’ subprime lending when he worked for the private-equity firm and wasn’t aware of it at the time. He has said his job at Fortress was to provide information about what he saw happening economically in the U.S. and overseas. He has also said he was there “primarily to learn” about finance.

In the interview yesterday, Mr. Edwards said that when he first joined Fortress, “I made clear that I didn’t want to have anything I was investing in to be antilabor or involved in predatory lending practices.” But he added that he didn’t fully understand the firm’s complex operations, saying: “They’re diverse. They’re very diverse.“[...]

In plain English, this is known as “THE BIG LIE”.

Does The Breck Girl really expect us to believe that he was there to learn about finance when he was acting, in essence, as an economist?

Fortress must really be a shitty place to work if they were using The Breck Girl as an economist. On the other hand, maybe they were just trying to buy a politician. Note to Fortress…Jim “Pol Pot” Doyle would have been cheaper.

Furthermore, does The Breck Girl think that we are so stupid that we will believe he wasn’t aware that Fortress had investments in the sub-prime markets? (Well, given the average IQ of a Breck Girl supporter, he probably does.)

In firms like Fortress everyone knows what the primary investments of the firm are. All you have to do is read the report to the investors or attend meetings. It’s not that hard. For The Breck Girl to offer the excuse “that he didn’t fully understand the firm’s complex operations, saying: “They’re diverse. They’re very diverse.” is just pure bullshit.

Of course, the only finance topic The Breck Girl understands is “Raise Taxes” (but wait until I move my money offshore).

More in this article in The Washington Post.

The WSJ article and others show that The Breck Girl is nothing more than a liar and a fraud. But you knew that, didn’t you?

Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin weigh in with some good thoughts as well.

BTW, can you imagine the uproar if Cheney had direct investments with Fortress?

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

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Edwards says “Don’t take money from Fox” but he won’t return $800,000 for the book.

In Friday’s Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports that the new John Edwards campaign against any Democrat accepting Rupert Murdoch contributions has a slight flaw:

“John Edwards will never ask Rupert Murdoch for money — he won’t accept his money,” said a statement e-mailed to supporters. Not so fast, Murdoch’s people say. His publishing unit, HarperCollins, paid Edwards a $500,000 advance — and $300,000 in expenses — for his 2006 book “Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives.”

“We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance,” News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.

Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said his boss donated the book payments to charity and that the expense money went to staffers and vendors. Citing the announcement that prompted Edwards’s e-mail — Murdoch’s $5 billion deal to buy Dow Jones — Schultz said, “This is about whether or not Murdoch should expand his media empire and use the Wall Street Journal to further promote his right-wing agenda.”

….While the Edwards mailing accused Fox of trying to “demonize the Democratic Party and call it ‘news,’ ” he has boycotted the cable channel only since Jan. 23. Before that, Edwards appeared on Fox programs 33 times.

(Fox reported the Edwards book deal on Thursday night’s Special Report.) But Greg Pollowitz uncovered the real knee-slapping line out of Edwards: “The basis of a strong democracy begins and ends with a strong, unbiased and fair media –- all qualities which are pretty hard to subscribe to Fox News and News Corp.”

If our liberal media were really “unbiased and fair,” those co-presidential candidates John and Elizabeth Edwards would be in much worse shape in this campaign. There are two relatively new Elizabeth puff pieces this week, which don’t mention hiring Christian-hating feminist bloggers, or Mrs. Edwards endorsing “rage,” to mention two negative angles. There was the obligatory Dan Balz front-page press release in The Washington Post, and Liz Halloran’s piece in U.S. News & World Report. (At least Halloran briefly featured a fine harrumph from Jonah Goldberg.)