South Florida Congressman Allen West branded the runaway state senators of Wisconsin a bunch of "cowards," comparable to Army deserters.
"What kind of representative democracy have we become when elected officials run from executing their prescribed duties?" West said in a weekly newsletter to constituents and fans that begins, "Dear Patriot."
"In the military we have General Order number one: `I shall not leave my appointed place of duty or post until properly relieved,'" said West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. "If a leader takes off, we call it `desertion.' What manner of person runs and hides instead of making a stand, making a decision?"
The blunt-spoken Republican from Plantation, a favorite of the tea party movement, sees the standoff in Wisconsin as part of a wider ideological battle. We love you, Congressman West.
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#1 how can we clone west and have one of them run in every state
Posted by: chris 2011-03-01 18:20
Chris,
I posted a link to a Texas candidate for Senate who has similarities to West. Hopefully the mods will put that post up for tomorrows edition of Rantburg for all to behold. He is a black Texas Oil man who is quite a site to behold. A Texas Tea Party conservative.
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His statement is best summarized as "I ain't doin' nothin' for you crackers. I got this job to protect black people from you, and that's it. If any brother wants to mess with you, I ain't gonna stop him!"
Attorney General Eric Holder's frustration over the criticism of the way the Justice Department handled a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing when Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation.
Holder got in a huff after a comment Culberson read in which a former Democratic activist, Bartle Bull, described the incident as the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," the Attorney General said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60's to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate....to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people."
Not for America, not for justice - for my people. Another unintended 'teachable moment' for those who care to see.
"To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historiclally, I think just flies in the face of history," he said, clearly annoyed.
Earlier in the hearing, Culberson claimed that race had infected the decision-making process. "There's clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote. There's a double standard here," he said.
Holder asserted, "This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race."
Rep. Chakah Fattah, a Philadelphia Democrat, said the New Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he contended that the Republicans were making too much out of a passing incident involving only a couple of people.
"The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing. The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is bogus on its face," said Fattah.
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Holder forgets that for the most part those who did the voter intimidation, and hangings, and killings of his people were, by an overwhelming majority, DEMOCRATS.
Remember. Remember well. It wasn't about integration. It wasn't about equality before the law. It was about POWER. My tribe. My blood. My clan. All the rest were just usual idiots who allowed their desires to be co-opted by the those just seeking to attain and retain power and position.
The problem becomes when the structures that permitted it fail as witnessed in Iraq when the majority Shiites finally gained power from the minority Sunnis. Remember to what lengths that minority was willing to go to retain power and position.
As a privalaged lawyer too young to march in the 60's and spent your days in ivy league, you have not learned that any intimidation is acceptable and that you used the trials and successes of good people for your political blanket stinks your character.
Mr. Fattah, the question is not about the incident it is about the failure of the DoJ to cooperate, but nice little sound bite. Hey, didn't need a telepromter I'll give you that.
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I'm hoping there are subpoena's in Issa's office with Holder's, Thomas Perez's, et al names on em... weed out these racist hacks and remove their licenses to practice law
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Dunno why everyone's so surprised about the "My people" thing. He is, after all, the head of the "Just Us" Department.
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Disgusted not surprised. Believe me, lots of people are looking out for "their people" Just look around at any workplace where everyone there is one race or religionl, or worse, family.
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As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said "will make us all look like jackasses."
"Go study that (report). It will show why we're $14 trillion in debt," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. "Anybody that says we don't look like fools up here hasn't read the report."
The report, a summary of which was obtained by Fox News, was mandated by Congress the last time it raised the debt limit in January 2010. In its analysis of federal agencies, the GAO found 33 areas with "overlap and fragmentation."
"Reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation could potentially save billions of taxpayer dollars annually and help agencies provide more efficient and effective services," the report says. In one example, the report found that if the Defense Department were to make "broader restructuring" of its "military health care system" it "could result in annual savings of up to $460 million."
Even more scathing is the duplication investigators found in the nation's biodefense efforts, with the report essentially saying that the billions of dollars spent annually is the responsibility of no one individual and that there is no plan for post-attack coordination, this on the heels of a 2010 federal commission finding that gave the U.S. a "failing grade" in its prevention measures.
"There are now more than two dozen presidentially appointed individuals with some responsibility for biodefense. In addition, numerous federal agencies, encompassing much of the federal government, have some mission responsibilities for supporting biodefense activities. However, there is no individual or entity with responsibility, authority, and accountability for overseeing the entire biodefense enterprise," the report finds.
"There is no national plan to coordinate federal, state, and local efforts following a bioterror attack, and the United States lacks the technical and operational capabilities required for an adequate response," the report goes on. "Neither the Office of Management and Budget nor the federal agencies account for biodefense spending across the entire federal government." As a result, the federal government does not know how much is being spent on this critical national security priority."
The report touches agencies and programs across the federal government, from the Transportation Security Agency to homeless programs and domestic food assistance, and what emerges is a kind of bureaucratic morass where sometimes enough is not even known about federal programs to provide an accurate evaluation.
"We don't know what we're doing," Coburn chastised. Pretty much sums up all of the crap that has been going on in DC for decades now. More details at "Fox lies*" website.
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No wonder the leftards hate Fox. The only network still reporting the news--the rest are in the bag for the donks and Obama. They have been for a long time.
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Back in college, circa '68, I had to study some aspect of federal bureaucracy from a list of options. I chose what I thought would be an easy one, Rat Control.
Turned out that there were at least, no one knew for sure, 24 agencies with some degree of control, regulations and budget for Rats.
Their were city rats, country rats, agricultural rats, diseased rats, electrical rats (cable eating), even army and navy rats. The waste was collosal and really was nothing more than a trough from which pork could be dispersed to the "chosen" few.
The more gov't controls the more cracks for the graft to fall through. It's just gotten worse over the last 40+ years.
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Rat control! Who would have thought that "rat control" would be another means of income redistribution?
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JohnQC, Who would have thought that "rat control" would be another means of income redistribution?
All the "rats" in line for the boodle, either directly or indirectly through campaign contributions or kick-backs.
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BTW, almost all this duplication is there because of statutory requirements, i.e., laws passed by Congress. It takes a fair amount of work to undo these statutes.
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"will make us all look like jackasses."
Why don't you build a Choo Choo train? That will make you look smart and intelligent.
Any time you need to cut one of 39 duplicate programs you have not counted yet, stir up the unions and build a railroad. no problem.
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Unfortunately, it's beginning to become more and more obvious that the only way to straighten things out in Washington is to go back to basics. That's going to require repeating the 1775-81 revolution, only this time against the insiders in DC.
I wrote something about this on my website, Old Patriot's Pen, a few weeks ago. It gets worse. Between the "independent review agencies" and the different offices within the Cabinet, there are several HUNDRED duplicated activities, costing close to a half-TRILLION dollars a year. Congress has no intention of trimming any of THIS fat, which is one reason the majority of them need to do a Danny Deever.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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South Florida Congressman Allen West branded the runaway state senators of Wisconsin a bunch of "cowards," comparable to Army deserters.
Attorney General Eric Holder's frustration over the criticism of the way the Justice Department handled a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing when Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation.
As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said "will make us all look like jackasses."
