Rep. Baron Hill Ends Up On YouTube In A Compromising Position

Just because one knows the results of a policy doesn’t mean one can stop the inevitable, as Rep. Baron Hill (D., Ind.) demonstrates.  A young journalism student took the Representative to task for not allowing his town meeting to be filmed, and Baron Hill explained that such videos usually end up on YouTube.

Constituent: First of all, for journalism students, why can’t we film this? We have school projects, and I have just been taken aside and told that I can’t film this. I’m not disrupting, I’m keeping my opinions to myself, but now that I’m not getting to do this for a project, I was going to ask a question. I just–why can’t I film this? Isn’t this my right?

Hill: Well, this is my town-hall meeting, and I set the rules, and I’ve had these rules– [audience jeers]

Let me repeat that one more time! This is my town hall meeting for you [more jeering]. And you’re not going to tell me how to run my congressional office. Now, the reason for why I don’t allow filming is because usually the films that are done end up on YouTube in a compromising position.

In the Congressman’s defense, he’s absolutely correct.  See him in a compromised position in the YouTube video here:

Rangel’s Race Tangle

When Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committe isn’t cheating on his taxes, he’s launching incendiary racial slurs that anger many, including ranking members of his own party. His most recent bloviation has even angered the uber-liberal Washington Post, now calling for his resignation.

The latest political disturbance from the to come from the Congressman who oft resembles Mr. Potato Head is over President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul the national health care system:

“Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is President of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, ‘how did this happen?’”

Rangel also likened the fight to provide health care for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.

“Why do black people have to bargain for what is theirs? Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can’t we get what God has given us? And that is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not court the votes. Just do the right thing,” Rangel said.

Rangel should do the right thing and resign in disgrace. Personally, I go to sleep at night wondering how Charlie Rangel happened. The sad reality is that American voters shouldn’t be all that surprised over such a comment from such a man. The “race card” is, by the way, the only page in Rangel’s playbook.  The only real solution to this whole dilemma is to replace Rangel, along with all of the other majority Democrats that are now losing popularity by the minute.

Harry Reid Continues Obama’s Assault On The Vegas Economy

As the senior Senator from Nevada, it would surprise most to know that Harry Reid is following President Obama’s example and attacking business in his own state, albeit in a more acute fashion. In an editorial, Las Vegas Journal-Review owner Sherman Frederick took Reid to task for a statement he made at a Las Vegas meeting.

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

Why is Reid looking out for the Las Vegas Sun?  Possibly because it is a paper he quotes in the biography section of his own website.

The Las Vegas Sun newspaper summarized Reid’s story by saying that he “has gone from underdog to Senate’s top dog.”

Frederick raises some questions about Reid’s behavior in regards to other Nevada companies.

If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

Fortunately, Harry Reid seems to be following in the footsteps of the last Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, who might have been popular among Democrats in the Senate, but was substantially less so among his voters.  Emily Miller lays out Reid’s political misfortunes at Politics Daily.

As I wrote last week, the paper conducted a poll showing Reid — who is up for reelection to a fifth term in 2010 — would lose to either of his potential Republican challengers if the election were held now. The poll shows that Nevadans favor Republican Danny Tarkanian over Reid, 49 percent to 38 percent, and Republican Sue Lowden over the incumbent, 45 percent to 40 percent.
The poll also showed that Reid’s approval ratings are very low, with 50 percent of voters saying they have an unfavorable view of him and only 37 percent of respondents with a favorable opinion.

Harry, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Wesley Cheeks Jr.: Obama Fascist In Action

In a disturbing video, Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. confirmed the worst fears of what should be a tin-foil-hatted fringe. While not an actual police officer, this douchebag of the Fairfax County Public Schools’ trained School Security Officer team did his best to demonstrate the school system’s failure of civics education.

When a contrarian protester says “This used to be America…”, the best way to justify his protest is to say, “It ain’t no more, OK?”

The most obvious characteristic about the First Amendment is that it’s the first one.  Even Constitutional scholars like President Obama might forget the more minor and rarely mentioned amendments such as the 24th (The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax) but no matter how short your attention span might be on your career course to school security guard, you should be able to comprehend “Freedom of Speech”.

Wesley Cheeks Jr. is black, which may or may not make him feel a certain kinship with the President, but sharing a race with the President of the United States does not give one carte blanche to serve as his SS.

Dems A Class Act For Kennedy

While some readers were offended by our evidence that Ted Kennedy probably committed light treason in the 1980s, the Democrats have reacted to Senator Kennedy’s death with all the class of a drunk stumbling around his compound with no pants on. This may come as no surprise to those who remember Paul Wellstone’s funeral, but Democrats wasted no time to exploit Ted Kennedy’s death for their own political advantage.

Within hours of Mr Kennedy’s death on Wednesday leading Democrats were trying to turn it into a rallying point for healthcare reform — something that he had called the “cause of my life” — and suggested that any legislation should carry his name.

“[It was] the passion of his life,” David Obey, the Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said. “Above all else, he would want us to redouble our efforts to achieve it.”

Robert Byrd, the senior Senate Democrat, called for the passage of healthcare legislation that would bear Mr Kennedy’s name, and Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, said: “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality healthcare for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration.”

In other words, the Democrats are that annoying relative who is knocking on the door asking about their inheritance before the corpse is cold.

Meanwhile, Cato reports how Democrats in the Massachusetts State House are preparing to trample the Rule of Law for the Kennedy legacy.

Lawmakers in the Bay State are rushing to change state law to make sure the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat is filled as soon as possible with a reliable Democratic successor.

Never mind that as recently as 2004 the same state legislature had changed state law to mandate that a vacant Senate seat could only be filled by a special election to be held within five months of the vacancy.

Before then, as in most other states, vacancies were filled by an appointment of the governor, with the seat coming up for a vote at the next federal election. But in 2004, the Democratic legislature changed the law to prevent then-governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a Republican to replace Democratic Sen. John Kerry if he were to be elected president. Kerry lost to George W. Bush, but the law remained on the books.

Of course, the cherry on top of all this douchebaggery is Melissa Lafsky, a blogger at Huffington Post, who asks what Mary Jo Kopechne might have had to say about Ted Kennedy’s life and career.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Worth it?  What was “worth it”?  It’s not as though a sacrifice was made.  Kennedy didn’t gain from her death.  She didn’t gain from her death.  Liberalism didn’t gain from her death (unless you prefer Kennedy’s 46 years in the Senate to 8 years of a Presidency). Is Lafsky referring to Kennedy’s escape from justice?

If pedophiles follow careers in the church and youth groups for advantageous position it puts them over children, then womanizers, rapists and manslaughters have little choice but join the Democratic Party, where the women will stand by their man, no matter what.

Hassan Nemazee: Everything That’s Wrong With How The Dems Fundraise

Perhaps the central failure of Democrats to realize economic realities can be traced to the people central to their fundraising. Ben Smith reports on yet another Democrat fundraiser running afoul of the law.

Hassan Nemazee, a former finance chairman of Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and top Hillary Clinton fundraiser, has been charged and arrested on for allegedly trying to defraud Citibank of $74 million by offering fake collateral on a loan.

Nemazee is following in the footsteps of some other crooks who helped get Dems elected, like Norman Hsu, who encouraged his Ponzi scheme victims to contribute to Democrat campaigns using their names but his money.

The Nation investigated Hassan Nemazee and Alan Quasha in October 2007, in an article titled Hillary’s Mystery Money Men. In this article Russ Baker and Adam Federman examine the ties between Nemazee,  business associate Alan Quasha and Bill and Hillary Clinton and even DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe.

Now Quasha is back–on the other side of the aisle. Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton’s circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly arranging for the hire of Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe’s chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton’s campaign, Quasha’s firm set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.

Given that Democrats and their ilk seem to miraculously acquire wealth after enjoying power in public office, is it really any surprise that they don’t comprehend the private sector?

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Mostly Full Of It Or Completely Full Of It?

Mark Potok, head of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, released a report last week outlining a new threat.

The anti-government militia movement is “surging” across the country, fueled by a changing demographic in the country, the spread of conspiracy theories in mainstream media outlets and fear of a black man in the White House, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

These militias are concentrated in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and the Deep South, according to Mark Potok, an SPLC staff director who co-wrote the report, the Associated Press says.

Now, we know what you’re thinking:  Douchebag Report, isn’t that the same Mark Potok, the Chicken Little at the Huffington Post, who is always freaking out about Ann Coulter?

The same.

But doesn’t Potok’s obvious agenda risk tainting his work? Possibly, but if Potok is good enough for ABC, CBS and MSNBC, then he should be good enough for the rest of us.

One only needs to look at the case of Dyron L. Hart to see an example of white supremacy rearing its ugly head.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name [Colten Brodoux] and using a white supremacists’ photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

He originally was charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State — where he had attended one semester — but pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count.

This case fits Potok’s narrative almost perfectly.  The only problem is that Dyron L. Hart is African-American.

African Tribe Chooses the Worst Possible Prince…Again

The last time the Agni people of the Krindjabo kingdom, a tribe of over one million people in the west African country of Ivory Coast chose a prince, they went with Michael Jackson. After he died, they needed a replacement.

Villagers deep in the rainforest launched a search for a successor to the singer who was crowned prince of the Agni people 17 years ago.

The tribe held an extravagant two-day royal funeral for Michael Jackson. Traditional dancers and lookalikes of the dead singer paraded before the king and 2,000 mourners.

Tribal chiefs appealed to the US embassy to press Jackson’s family to bring his body to the west African country for a burial in accordance with the local tradition of the Sanwi kingdom.

Most of the Agni people survive by subsistence farming or panning for gold, just as they did before Wacko Jacko took the title of “Prince Nana”. In most places in the world, this would be an indicator that an increased level of competence was required from the tribe’s leadership.  Unfortunately, this is a case study on why Africa remains the poorest continent, as Michael Jackson’s heir has been appointed…and he’s another Jackson.

We know what you’re thinking: this would be a perfect fit for Jermajesty’s father Jermaine Jackson.  However, the Celebrity Big Brother UK 2007 veteran lost out to…Jesse.

That’s right, the race-baiter is now a prince in the one place in the world where his only ability, playing the race-card, is useless.

Jesse Jackson was on a three-day visit to the Ivory Coast, invited by the association of “Young Patriots”, who are supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo.

He found himself feted by the tribe and has now inherited the the title of prince – or son – of the Agni from the late star, who was not a relation.

Apparently, the Telegraph’s Foreign staff were so enamored that “the crowning ceremony was attended by bare-chested women” that they said it twice.

MSM: Media’s Short Memory

If you’ve had the misfortune of stumbling across any of the mainstream media outlets in the past few days, you’ve undoubtedly been bombarded by the “growing hate in America,” the “galvanization of hate groups in America,” and the growing concern for President Barack Hussein Obama’s safety. This issue seems to have come to a head with the recent posters depicting Obama as Hitler, or as the Joker.  Here’s a sampling of the headlines of the past day or so:

Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash

Clermont police interview suspect in Obama ‘Joker’ posters

Obama-Nazi Sign Made By Ill Woman on Medicare

Well, guess what? The mainstream media seems to forget that Liberals were just as bad during the Bush administration. Check out the Zombietime blog showing plenty of demonstration posters depicting Bush as Hitler and other outlandish Nazi references. Where was the mainstream media coverage then?

Code Pink Gets So Catty When It’s Jealous

In an apparent straight-faced statement, anti-war broads Code Pink are claiming a monopoly on non-violent protest.

Dear [[supporter.First_Name]],

The right-wing, always so scornful of CODEPINK, has taken a page from our playbook and distorted it by disrupting congressional town hall meetings on health care. While we wholeheartedly support the practice of peaceful dissent, we can’t stomach it when that dissent is based on ignorance or when the dissenters are actually thinly disguised lobbyists for the corporate health care industry.

We at the Douchebag Report also cringe when we see dissent based on ignorance, which made this March 10, 2008 segment from the Daily Show on Code Pink protesting a Marine Corps recruiting office so painful to watch.

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Unfortunately for the intellectual level of the health care debate, the Code Pink alert was a call to action.

We need to make sure that their angry, fear-mongering voices don’t drown out the voices that can bring true reform to our nation’s health care.

Call your representative at (202) 224-3121, to ask if she/he is holding a town hall meeting this month. Go to the meeting with your “Healthcare, Not Warfare” signs and make sure to ask your Congressperson hard questions about why we’re channeling so much money for endless, unjust war that could be used to protect and care for the American people.

That’s right.  Why fight terrorism abroad when you can flush those billions of dollars down the financial toilet that Obamacare will be if it ever gets passed?  Why do liberals use the term “reform” when they could use “improvement”? Why would a group of leftist feminazis draw attention to how unattractive they are by naming themselves after their collective internal color?

We may never know.

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