It boggles the mind why Obama would want to pick this fight with Catholics, which also means Conservatives, Tea Party members, Republicans, and the 60+% of Americans who oppose ObamaCare get riled up again, in an election year. Democrats, including Obama, avoided mentioning ObamaCare during the 2010 mid-term elections in the same manner people avoid
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Obama Reinforces Stance On Unconstitutional Contraceptive Mandate
Photoshop credit: VVM The Right twittersphere has been buzzing for the past week about planned ambushes of CPAC 2012, the annual gathering of conservatives in D.C., by the Occupier mob. The conference kicks off today and every major Republican speaker has a giant target on his/her back — because every fame-seeker, troll, Michael Moore wannabe, and glitter-bomber will be looking to claim their 15 minutes of infamy. Lachlan Markay at Heritage reported on the saboteurs’ schemes earlier this week: During a Thursday meeting at McPherson Square, until Saturday the epicenter of the protests, Occupiers brainstormed tactics for shutting down or disrupting the conference, according to a source who was present at the meeting. The protesters suggested pulling fire alarms in the hotel where the conference will take place, screaming “fire” during conference activities, “glitter-bombing” participants, cutting electrical power, and barricading entrances to the hotel, according to the source, who requested anonymity. “Speakers will be physically assaulted, not just verbally confronted,” the source told Scribe in an email. Two Occupiers, who the source also identified as members of the New Black Panther Party, “said they would be disappointed if they didn’t get arrested and planned to ‘make it count.’” The source quoted another protester as saying, “Mitt [Romney] has Secret Service now, but [Newt] Gingrich and [Andrew] Breitbart don’t,” seemingly suggesting that the latter two would not be as heavily guarded. Protesters planned to conduct most of these activities on Saturday, the last day of the conference, so as not to overlap with the recently announced protests by labor groups on Thursday and Friday. Labor Union Report has details of the Big Labor goons’ plans: According to the AFL-CIO’s Washington DC Metro Council website, “Actions are currently being planned for noontime andafter work on Friday, February 10.” Apparently, the unions plans to attempt to disrupt the conference with rats, puppets, and more: WE’VE HEARD ENOUGH FROM THE 1%! Join the rally featuring tents, an inflatable fat cat, puppets, “candidate Walmart,” and more to LET THE VOICES OF THE 99% BE HEARD! There is also a Facebook page for Occupy CPAC, posted by Change to Win staffer, Trina Tocco. It is important to note that Change to Win is the SEIU-led federation that broke away from the AFL-CIO in 2005—which means both union federations are involved in planning the attacks on CPAC. Alas, for a mountain of family obligations and other reasons, I won’t be at CPAC this year. But I’ve been there and done that with the ambushers. And my advice is simple: Mockery is the best medicine. If they bring the glitter, you bring the silly string. When they scream and spit, spray Lysol. When they make a mess, bar the door and don’t let them leave ’til they clean it up. Then soldier on! *** Flashback: The conservative bloggers who attended BlogCon in Denver earlier this year ably dispatched the Occupier mob with hilarious wit and political jujitsu. *** Commenter squeaker1: A “Super-Soaker” filled with lightly perfumed water would work well on smelly protesters.
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CPAC vs. the Occupiers: Keep calm and carry silly string
Republican Party leaders hoped that antipathy toward President Obama and aggravation over the slow economic recovery would send a wave of Republican voters to the polls for presidential primaries. But turnout so far has been mixed.
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Missing: A Surge in Voter Turnout the GOP Expected
Despite giving Newt Grinch his endorsement last fall, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips is fed up with the way that the former Speaker of the House has run his campaign, voicing his frustration in a blog post released Monday entitled “An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich.” “When I endorsed you, I believed you were not only the best candidate to be the next President but really the only candidate who offered us any hope that we could roll back the damage done by the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil,” writes Phillips. “That was then and this is now.” Phillips is a former Shelby County, Tennessee, assistant district attorney and organized the 2010 National Tea Party Convention.
Signs are strong that the center-right National Action Party will be out of power this year.
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Will Mexico turn to the left in 2012?
Romney’s no tea partier, and he’s learning conservatism on the stump, with difficulty. But he’s winning and he’s looking more inevitable. And tea partiers won’t have anywhere else to go — and it’d be a disaster if they stayed home on election day. At Boston Globe , ” Tea Party voters more open to Romney “: RENO, Nev. – Tea Party activists, long dismissive of Mitt Romney, insist that most of the movement’s legions will back him if he continues to surge toward nomination, with a few already urging Republicans of all kinds to unite now to defeat President Obama. The slowly building shift in outlook on Romney is by no means universal or set in stone. Some activists still express hope that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, or Ron Paul will regain traction. Yet, groups previously opposed to Romney are beginning to prepare their members to embrace the former Massachusetts governor as their best shot at defeating an incumbent president they distrust even more. Continue reading .
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Tea Party Activists Will Back Romney
They say truth is stranger than fiction. Longtime actress Roseanne Barr is running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination — and according to reports, the comedienne says it’s no joke. To make matters all the more bizarre, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said on her blog that she would support a “Barr for President.” Two peas in a pod. Noting that the Green Party is “not entirely functional,” Sheehan said that, even though Barr isn’t part of the 99%, the comedian would still make an excellent president. In a recent blog entry posted by SFist , Sheehan wrote: Many people have a misperception about Roseanne, but she came to San Francisco to support my campaign when I ran against Nancy Pelosi in 2008 and I have had a chance to meet with her, hang out with her and interview her a couple of times on my radio show. She is also bright, articulate, well-informed, even more progressive, and even though she is not a member of the 99%, she knows our tune and can sing our hearts. I have heard rumors from GP insiders that Barr is not a “serious candidate,” but I can also attest to the fact that she is a very introspective and thoughtful person that would not be doing this if she were not, “in it to win it.” To really change things for the better for the 99%, I am convinced that we need a united leftwing worker’s party instead of so many different factions of basically the same program and that will take working our fingers to the bone between elections–not just every four years presenting a few different candidates. Personally, I have not decided whom to support (if anyone) in this rigged Federal Electoral Industrial Complex sham of “free elections,” (I am slightly more interested in Venezuela’s elections in October), but I can tell you one thing for sure: this One Party politburo that infests and infects the halls of power needs to be stood on its head and kicked in the ass and Rosie is the person to do it, if ever there was one. Politically outspoken, Barr said in a statement Thursday that she’s a long-running Green Party supporter and looks forward to working with people who share her values. She said Democrats and Republicans aren’t working in the best interests of the American people. According to the Associate Press, Barr has submitted paperwork to the Green Party for her candidacy. The party’s presidential nominee will be selected at a convention in Baltimore in July. Barr, whose hit series “Roseanne” garnred her an Emmy and Golden Globe, has a 46-acre macadamia nut farm in Hawaii.
