By His Own Hand
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Monday August 31, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s items like this that really make my job as your Leftwing Nutjob soooo easy; a Republican Gubernatorial candidate caught red-handed, honestly expressing his extreme Conservative views completely unfettered and unfiltered by political handlers.
I am talking of course about Bob McDonnell — who is currently running for governor of the state of Virginia — and his 93-page Master’s thesis-cum-tirade against “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators” as well as working women and feminists.
Read: “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade”
And while Mr. McDonnell is dismissing this revelation about his past viewpoints as so much political mud-slinging by his Democratic opponent Senator R. Creigh Deeds, the fact remains that he sought to enact several of his more extreme viewpoints into law shortly after his election into the Virginia House of Delegates.
Make no mistake about it, dear readers; Mr. McDonnell is a poster boy for the what I am calling The New GOP.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Links:
Washington Post – ‘89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell
CNN Political Ticker – McDonnell blasted for controversial research paper
MSNBC – MCDONNELL REPUDIATES SOME OF ’89 THESIS
Edward M. Kennedy 1932-2009
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Saturday August 29, 2009
As the memorial services and remembrances for Ted Kennedy come to an end as he is laid to rest his Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery, next week the national debate will undoubtedly return to health care reform — both in Washington and around the country. And with the most controversial component of that legislation — universal coverage for all — being a major unfulfilled goal of the late senator’s political career, this Leftwing Nutjob believes that the Democrats can and should snatch a legislative victory from the hands of a Republican-Special Interest-Lobbyist-Contarian defeat.
Beginning with President Obama’s eulogy, both he and the Democratic congressional leaders need to get their caucuses in order and pass this legislation in Mr. Kennedy’s honor — utilize the momentum of this great American’s passing and forever honor his memory by providing this basic right to all Americans in his name. Play hardball with the Right and rub their noses in their own polemics by labeling it as nothing more than an affront to Senator Kennedy’s memory and what he stood for.
When Congress went into their Summer recess a few weeks ago without passing any legislation, this Leftwing Nutjob believed at that time that the game was effectively over. Momentum had been lost and that no amount of cajoling, arm twisting or threatening would get the job done once the boys and girls on Capitol Hill left Washington, D.C. Now, in order to define Senator Edward Kennedy’s career and to award his service to this country, a new game-plan must be adopted today to seize upon this opportunity to put this issue to rest once and for all.
I’m sure it would make Teddy proud.
Links:
Washington Post – Obama to deliver eulogy at Kennedy funeral
Boston Globe – A time to remember
See Dick Run His Mouth
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday August 25, 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney just can’t seem to keep his mouth shut when it comes to anything that would tarnish his memory about the heady halcyon days of CIA black ops, extraordinary rendition and water-boarding that he oversaw in the years following the events of 9/11.
Didn’t we put a stop to this skipping record months ago?
Link: PoliticalTicker.CNN.com Cheney takes swipe at Obama over prosecutor
Bernanke Part Deux
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday August 25, 2009
President Obama announced today that he was nominating Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke for another four year term at that post.
Interrupting his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard to make the announcement, President Obama stated that Mr. Bernanke has “led the Fed through the one of the worst financial crises that this nation and this world have ever faced” and looked forward to working with the Fed chairman in getting the nation back on track with regards to the current recession.
Mr. Bernanke, a former Princeton University economics professor and President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers chair, was originally nominated to oversee the Federal Reserve Bank by the Smirking POTUS back in 2006 — a post charged with, among other things, verifying the soundness of America’s banks.
We all know how well things went in that regard under Mr. Bernanke’s watch. Color this Leftwing Nutjob unconvinced.
Link: Money.CNN.com Obama taps Bernanke for second term
Oops, I Did It Again
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Thursday June 18, 2009
Proving again that the Republican Party can talk the talk, but can definitely not walk the walk, yet another one of their ranks has come forward and admitted to some extramarital hanky-panky — this time with a former campaign aid. But the ladies and gentlemen, the story doesn’t appear end there.
Nevada Senator John Ensign, married with three children, hastily called a news conference this past Tuesday on his home turf of Las Vegas, Nevada, to acknowledge an affair with a then-unnamed female staffer (The woman in question has since been identified as Cynthia Hampton, who worked as treasurer in a couple of election/political committees for the good Senator). Mr. Ensign stated that he took full responsibility for his actions and that the entire ordeal has taken an incredible personal toll on his family. But the devil, as they say, is in the details.
Since Tuesday, several news organizations — some reputable and some not so much — have been reporting on a possible bribery angle to this entire bruhaha, with Mrs. Hampton’s husband, who also worked for Senator Ensign as a senior aid, pumping the Nevada Congressman for hush money so that they could continue to afford their plush digs in an exclusive gated community in suburbs of Sin City.
But the real elephant in the room with regards to Senator Ensign’s admitted behavior is his holier-than-thou image that he careful crafted throughout his career in Washington, D.C., starting with his admonishment of former president Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky matter to his recent tirades against gay marriage, stauchly arguing for the “preservation of the most important structure in our society.”
Now, after having resigned his leadership post within the GOP, the next question is whether or not Mr. Ensign’s political career can survive the almost guaranteed forthcoming revelations surrounding this burgeoning scandal. As for this Leftwing Nutjob, I predict that Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons with be busy appointing a new state senator by the end of the summer.
Sources:
Ex-campaign aide to Sen. Ensign confirms affair
John Ensign, Defender of Marriage—Except His Own
Admission clouds Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s future
Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!