Simply in terms of production values, the Republican Governors Association continues to put out the best ads:
14 Weeks from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.
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This is an excellent video, directed toward and about black Americans, but carrying a message of liberty applicable to all.
This is actually just a teaser for a documentary coming out in 2011. Follow the project here.
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Here’s what your Congress Critters are up to these days.
Sen. Jon Kyl calls the federal lawsuit against Arizona “baloney:”
Rep. Joe Pitts says on the House floor that uncertainty caused by big government is slowing job growth:
Rep. Charlie Rangel posts a video response to the ethics committee finding that he violated House ethics rules in his financial dealings:
Hailing from California, itself fiscally destroyed by excessive union power and influence, Rep. Linda Sánchez defends the protectionist and economically destructive Jones Act, which prevented foreign help from being accepted to fight the Gulf oil spill:
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When an elected member of your party is caught on tape assaulting and bullying two kids for asking an innocuous question about his political views, it’s probably not the best idea to respond with additional attempted thuggery and personal attacks. Yet that’s exactly what the Democrats are doing:
Bob Etheridge’s abject apology for roughing up an anonymous conservative videographer is being accompanied by a defense of the congressman from national Democrats.
“Motives matter, and I think you can see who was behind this,” said DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse just now. “This was a Republican party tracking operation. If it wasn’t a party tracker or intern, why is the face blurred and why is the source hidden? You know if it had been a right wing blog, they’d identify themselves and they’d be booking this person on TV all day. Republicans know if they admit their involvement in this game of gotcha it will undermine their credibility. One minute this guy is interviewing a member of Congress on camera and the next a video is released with his face blurred out? If that doesn’t tell you this is a Republican Party hatchet job nothing will.”
They are desperately flailing about trying to attack the messenger, making the absurd allegation that this is a “gotcha” video (asking him if he supports the President, how horrible!) and that because the two filmmakers are staying anonymous (gee, I wonder why they might, you know, believe that coming out would expose them to leftist attacks?) they might be Republican interns or staffers. And we all know that assaulting them is perfectly ok.
I’m just waiting for them to point to the student’s outfits and claim they were asking for it.
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Democrat State Senator caught stuffing bribe money in bra pleads guilty:
CommentsA Massachusetts state senator caught on video stuffing what prosecutors said was bribe money into her sweater and bra has pleaded guilty to corruption charges.
Dianne Wilkerson, a Boston Democrat, entered the pleas to eight counts of attempted extortion at a hearing in U.S. District Court on Thursday. She will remain free on bail until her sentencing on Sept. 20.
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What do tax and spend liberals do when the destruction wrought by their policies is exposed? Attack the messenger, of course. Or one of them, anyway. In this case that messenger is Goldline, which sells gold to weary investors who understand that liberal policies are destroying the dollar. According to the aptly named, New York Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner, that just can’t be allowed.
What’s worse, Goldline is an advertiser for the dastardly Glenn Beck, which automatically makes them criminal and open to leftwing attacks. And what’s the crime? Why, they charge too much!
The congressman’s report based its findings on a study of 18 gold coins offered for sale on Goldline’s website. When it compared the sale price with the value of the gold if it were melted, it found an average markup of 90 percent.
Whoopy-freaking-doo. Since when is Congress in the business of deciding what the appropriate price for a good ought to be? Oh yea, whenever we let big government liberals who like to abuse their power take over, that’s when.
I could have told you Goldline was overpriced just from their commercial. That isn’t a crime. What Rep. Weiner is doing is abusing his position to attack an advertiser of a critical conservative personality. If anyone should be brought on charges, it should be him. And if he is really concerned about why people go for safety “investments” like gold, maybe he should look at the legitimate concerns his party’s reckless policies are creating.
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A recent Washington Post editorial discusses the apparent “Party purges” that some have observed in recent years. Whether or not “purge” is the most appropriate word, I think there is a general truth to the idea that the parties have been slowly but surely sorting themselves out ideologically. Southern conservative Democrats like John Breaux and Zell Miller are no longer welcome in the Democratic party. On the Republican side the same can be said of northern liberals like Lincoln Chafee.
The editorial is reasonably even-handed in discussing the good and the bad of these changes, but I think it falls short in one important area. A significant unidentified benefit of having parties with more clearly delineated ideologies is the increased ability for voters to replace bad policies with potentially better ones.
Assuming neither party has a monopoly on correct policy responses to various problems, when wrong policies are pursued and one ideology fails to deliver on a particular problem, having a clear alternative is preferable to two parties that are just a mix of both left and right. In other words, if a governing party is already using a mishmash of liberal, conservative or any other policy solutions because they have a “big tent,” then it’s not altogether clear where the failure stems from when a policy flops. But if a distinctly liberal or conservative party implements a policy and it fails, the source of that failure is easily identifiable.
The obstacle is our electoral system, which really guarantees the viability of two and only two parties, whereas the array of ideological choices is typically greater on most issues. But just because we’re stuck with a two party system – one that encourages parties to be ideologically expansive despite all the hand-wringing over “purges” – doesn’t mean we have to have two parties with significant, and confusing, ideological overlap. If you’re conservative, there’s really no good reason to be in the Democratic party, and no real benefit to the voters for having you there. The same goes for liberals and Republicans.
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I’m not usually one to complain about partisanship because I believe that ideological competition serves a valuable purpose. But there comes a point when attacking every little minuscule thing the other side does just becomes stupid. Case in point, the Republicans have picked Tampa as the location of their 2012 convention and Democrats immediately responded with an “attack” on the choice.
Democrats are preparing efforts to hammer the GOP over its reported selection of Tampa as the location of its 2012 convention, pointing to benefits the city and the state of Florida reaped from stimulus and healthcare reform legislation.
Democrats seized on an expected decision this afternoon by members of a Republican National Committee (RNC) steering committee that will recommend Tampa as the site of their nominating convention.
Give me a break.
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Don’t expect any condemnation from the media and his Democratic colleagues for such behavior (video at link) unbecoming of a Congressman.
Hat-tip: Michelle Malkin
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I don’t normally do the April Fools thing, but I couldn’t help myself.
Hat-tip: Congressman Hank Johnson
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