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Alison Grimes Embraces Offensive Absurdity

If you listen to Alison Lundergan Grimes and her echo chamber of far left liberals you will hear them ranting that republicans have waged a war on women. That is absurd, and offensive particularly considering that she is hyping her upcoming date with Bill Clinton. Here's what one editorial in the liberal San Francisco Chroincle says about him:

"[Y]ou have to give [Senator Rand] Paul this much: He rightly pointed out the chasm between how Clinton Democrats treat women as an interest group and how they treat them as people. When Bubba strayed, only the women paid.

The McFadden-Lynch memo serves as a reminder of what the Clinton machine does to women who speak out. They become loose ends who need to be tied up."

That editorial is a reminder that the stain Bill Clinton left on the presidency goes well beyond him getting a 22 year old intern to perform oral sex on him.

There was of course the admission to his affairs with various women during his marriage as well as claims by several of him forcing himself on them:

Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Browning, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Wiley.

Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because "I just don't think anyone would have believed me."

In a gripping account punctuated by sobs, the Arkansas woman told "Dateline NBC" that in her Little Rock hotel room, Clinton suddenly "turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.' . . . He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. . . . And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.' . . . He wouldn't listen to me."

The nursing home operator, previously known as Jane Doe No. 5, told Myers that she felt "violated" but finally stopped resisting Clinton's sexual advances because "it was a real panicky situation." She said that "he was just a vicious, awful person."

Pressed by Myers as to whether she was raped, Broaddrick said she had been. "It was not consensual," she insisted. [Washington Post]

It defies logic to attempt an understanding of why any candidate, particularly a female candidate, would want to have anything to do with Bill Clinton, unless the lust for the money he delivers at the end of the night is enough for them to put their morals and their values on hold until the affair is over. 

A relationship with a man of such low moral character done solely for money was once the kind of thing that caused people to call you an ugly name.  But today candidates squeal loudly if people call them ugly names and their buddies in the press to rush to their defense whenever Slick Willie is involved. 

You can expect Alison Lundergan Grimes to continue making the offensive and abusurd argument that it is her opponent, rather than her new political bedfellow Bill Clinton who is the one waging war on women.  But I for one think women are too smart to fall for such baloney.

Happy Valentines Day ladies. 

Beshear Throws Kentucky Under The Bus?

That's the headline at Hot Air.  Here's their reasoning:

There are some interesting goings on to watch in Kentucky this year, mostly centering on the “centrist” Democrat Governor, Steve Beshear. Some little birds in local politics have whispered in our ears, indicating that Beshear is looking for a place to land after [his term is up] and is hoping for an appointment in Washington from Barack Obama. Of course, that’s a bit different face than the Governor showed after winning his last election, when he promised a lean government, an ability to work with Republicans and distanced himself from Obama as much as possible.

But that was then and this is now. With an eye to the future, one would think that Beshear and Barack Obama are BFFs after the State of the Union address where he was singled out for his excellent work on Obamacare.

Not only that, with the threat of election defeat behind him, Beshear has also been reaching out to the EPA, with policies on the table which are very dangerous to the coal economy of Kentucky.

This all certainly seems very convenient for Governor Beshear in terms of cozying up to the White House and getting a high profile shout out at the SOTU. And it may just land him a job further down the line. But what happens to the people of his state who are left behind? They get stuck with the wreckage of Obamacare and more jobs leaving the state as the EPA decimates the energy industry there.

The leopard seems to be changing his spots rather quickly here. Keep this name in your Google search drawer and remember this if he shows up with a plush new job in the Obama administration.

Oh, and add to the pot the political capital Beshear is struggling to capture for himself by helping Obama defeat the strongest opponent of his runaway socialist agenda, Mitch McConnell.

Beshear has to be calculating into his future what he could score for himself if Alison Lundergan Grimes becomes the reliable vote for Obama that Michelle said she would be.

Don't for one minute think that these parasites aren't in it for themselves.

Ungrateful TEA Party Should Thank Mitch McConnell For Their Very Existence

The next time you hear a TEA party person complain that Mitch McConnell isn't doing enough in Washington to protect their rights, show them this article.  It is a good reminder of how the fight Mitch has been waging and the victories he has scored are responsible for their very existence.

And the next time one of you in the "anti-Mitch" crowd raises money, forms a group or watches as a Super PAC comes in with a ton of dough and helps get one of your own elected, you ought to get over your ungrateful self and realize how real battles, not junkyard wars, are fought on Capitol Hill.

McConnell Fights To Give Life To The Very Groups Who Oppose Him

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Obama Takes It To McConnell At Home

Don't think for one minute that Barack Obama wouldn't like to have complete control of the government.  He said as much in his speech last night vowing to take action with or without Congress.  But to make the point even more emphatically he gave a shout out to Democrat Steve Beshear in Mitch McConnell's home state.

Mitch has been the single most effective check on a runaway Obama administration and anything the president can do to elevate Kentucky democrats in his effort to defeat McConnell and replace him with Alison Lundergan Grimes, who the FLOTUS has already dubbed "a reliable vote" for their plans to fundamentally transform America, he's going to do.

I mean come on, you don't really think that patting Beshear on the head was a sincere gesture of accomplishment now do you?  Beshear did fall in line right behind Obama on the socialized medicine plan, but spreading favor to Kentucky has much more to do with helping clear the field for his next three years than raising the political capital of a lame duck governor.

Pay attention folks.  The president wants complete control and he won't get it as long as we have Mitch in office.  Like it or not, no one else on the R side or the D side of the ticket can possibly be as effective, and that's just a fact.

The REAL Reason They Want To Defeat McConnell

It has started.  The far left is throwing money at Alison Grimes.  The lefty press is touting her campaign as on the rise.  The mainstream media says she has a real chance.  So why are all of these folks trying to create an echo chamber in which they create the illusion that Alison is winning?  Here's why.

First, the more you make someone look like the eventual winner the more people want to get on board.

Second, the more you make someone look like the winner, the easier it is to raise money.

Third, the more you talk as if Alison has a real shot, the more people start paying attention.

But the biggest reason these loons want to make it look like Alison has a shot: McConnell is the biggest obstacle to the Obama agenda for America.

So, the REAL reason they want to defeat McConnell so badly is because he is the firewall that prevents them from taking over the nation. Which is, if you take time to think about it, the perfect reason why we need to keep him in office.

He is the check and he provides the balance.

McConnell's New Ad: Strong Voice

Mitch McConnell is up with his newest ad, and it's a "Strong Voice".

Now let's see how long it takes his opponents to criticize him for it.

Told Jah: Grimes Rolls Out Big Plans To Get EKY Votes

When Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell recently applauded Barack Obama's plans to spend money in Eastern Kentucky on the anniversary of LBJ's "war on poverty" visit to Martin County I cautioned that this should be seen as opening the door for Alison Lundergan Grimes to make a play for votes in that district.  Told Jah.

In her first big appearance since rolling out her campaign last July, U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes introduced an economic policy plan and criticized U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell for not doing enough to help the state – particularly Eastern Kentucky.

“Mitch McConnell doesn’t get it, but we get it and we will hold him accountable,” Grimes told a crowd of more than 500 people at Prestonsburg’s Mountain Arts Center on Thursday.

“More than one in four Kentucky children now lives in poverty. I recognize, and what Mitch McConnell lost sight of a long time ago, is this is a tragedy,” Grimes said. 

McConnell’s campaign dismissed Grimes’ attacks. [NKY.com]

Oh, and if you think she isn't bold, look who she brought out of the bedroom history books to stand beside her.

Grimes had a lineup of leading Democrats on hand for the release of her jobs plan, including former governors Paul Patton, Martha Layne Collins and Julian Carroll; House Speaker Greg Stumbo and several other members of the legislature; state Auditor Adam Edelen and state Treasurer Todd Hollenbach; and local officials.

[text and photo at Kentucky.com]

Getting cozy with Barack Obama and Paul Patton could ruin a woman's reputation.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/01/16/3037141/group-tries-to-undercut-grimes.html#storylink=cpy

Thank You Barack For Slapping The Hillbilly Sticker On Eastern Kentucky Again

I am aghast.  Barack Obama announces a big federally funded program to help the po' folks around the country and on any other day, in this political climate, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell would be railing against runaway spending, "great society" programs and creating greater dependence on government.

But, because a chunk of the money is coming to Eastern Kentucky they stand up and cheer, along side the president, in the White House.  It's not that I have any personal position on the program it's just that my exposure to politics over such a long time has once again confirmed my belief that little of what politicians say they stand against they wouldn't lie down for at the right price. (Yes, that association was intentional)

So what did the Obama cash for Kentucky do in the media?  Re-awakened LBJ's photo op on the front porch of Tom Fletcher's cabin in Martin County and start the discussion of how poor and impoverished the people of Kentucky are.  Just take a look at some of the words written in response to this newly announced program published in the National Review:

"There are lots of diversions in the Big White Ghetto, the vast moribund matrix of Wonder Bread–hued Appalachian towns and villages stretching from northern Mississippi to southern New York, a slowly dissipating nebula of poverty and misery with its heart in eastern Kentucky, the last redoubt of the Scots-Irish working class that picked up where African slave labor left off, mining and cropping and sawing the raw materials for a modern American economy that would soon run out of profitable uses for the class of people who 500 years ago would have been known, without any derogation, as peasants. Thinking about the future here and its bleak prospects is not much fun at all, so instead of too much black-minded introspection you have the pills and the dope, the morning beers, the endless scratch-off lotto cards, healing meetings up on the hill, the federally funded ritual of trading cases of food-stamp Pepsi for packs of Kentucky’s Best cigarettes and good old hard currency, tall piles of gas-station nachos, the occasional blast of meth, Narcotics Anonymous meetings, petty crime, the draw, the recreational making and surgical unmaking of teenaged mothers, and death: Life expectancies are short — the typical man here dies well over a decade earlier than does a man in Fairfax County, Va. — and they are getting shorter, women’s life expectancy having declined by nearly 1.1 percent from 1987 to 2007.

If the people here weren’t 98.5 percent white, we’d call it a reservation."

Great.

We finally achieved some serious clout in Washington DC with the power of Mitch McConnell.  We finally proved that we are capable of thinking outside the box with the ascendancy of Rand Paul and his brand of "new think".  And we finally captured back to back basketball championships in the NCAA and look what Barack Obama has done with the stroke of a pen.

It's back to possum holler.

Oh, and for you Republicans who can still think, don't let this one slip past you.  There is a US Senate race in Kentucky this year and the lady challenging the republican just might need some more votes out of the mountains than the hands of the republican power brokers in that part of the Commonwealth would ever deliver to her. 

Think, think, think.  Her buddy Barack just opened the door for her there.

McConnell Stands Up To Dictatorship

Time and time again Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Congressional leaders have made it very clear.  They will ram their plans down America's throat if that's what it takes.

Nancy Pelosi said as much with her "Pole vault" comments over Obamacare.  Barack Obama has sidestepped the people's will every time he faces resistance by abusing "Executive Orders".  Harry Reid changed the rules of the Senate to give his slim majority control over passing legislation by the "nuclear option."

And now, in the early days of 2014, Reid is "dictating" to the republicans in the Senate when and how they will get a vote on legislation.  Mitch McConnell has had enough.

McConnell took a broadside to the majority leader on Tuesday for stifling Republicans from offering amendments to legislation reviving jobless benefits.

The Kentucky senator warned that Senate Democrats’ proposal to extend unemployment insurance for three months cannot be viewed seriously unless Republicans are allowed to get votes on their proposals for job creation and to pay for the legislation.

“We’d be happy to offer amendments just as soon as the guy who’s dictating what the amendments ought to be will let us offer them,” McConnell said. “If you’re not serious about passing it, you prevent amendments and harden the opposition of the minority. Because then that means you’re only interested in a show vote, not an outcome.”

“The Senate hasn’t been run this way in its history,” McConnell said Tuesday. “It’s really not the responsibility of the majority leader to tell the minority whether they can have votes. That’s not his job to dictate to us whether we can have votes or to decide for himself whether our amendments are appropriate to be considered.”

McConnell concluded that the state of a Senate routinely described as dysfunctional by both parties is “almost entirely the responsibility of the majority leader.” [POLITICO]

Imagine that.  A Senator who is willing to consider passing legislation but only if the government finds a way to pay for it without increasing our debt is being shouted down by Harry Reid and the Democrats in Kentucky think it would be a good idea to get rid of the guy who is really our only bulwark against a complete dictatorship and replace him with a "yes-woman".

Let me put a different spin on Candy Crowley's words (quoted earlier).

You'd have to be a fool to vote democrat this year.

Pandering, Profiting And Politicizing On The Back's Of Kentucky's Unemployed

The U.S. Senate democrats led by the words of Barack Obama and now many democrats in Kentucky have begun trying to build a voter block on the backs of the unemployed.  In a nation which at one time stood for unbridled opportunity and the land of prosperity, this is a shameful display of inhumanity.

Let's face facts.  The agenda, the decisions and the actions of Barack Obama, aided by a complicit U.S. Senate, have all combined to worsen the living conditions of millions of Americans since he took office in 2009.

There Are 7.7 Million Americans Who Are Currently Working Part-Time Because They Can’t Find Full-Time Employment. 

27 Percent Of Unemployed Americans Have Been Unemployed For A Year Or More – Up From 11 Percent When Obama Took Office In 2009.

The “Real” Unemployment Rate, Including Those Who Have Given Up Looking For Work Or Are Involuntarily Working Part-Time, Is 14.6 Percent In Kentucky. The Real Unemployment Rate In Kentucky Was 12.6 Percent When Obama Took Office In 2009.

The Labor Force Participation Rate Is 63 Percent – Down From 65.7 Percent When President Obama Took Office In 2009. [Bureau Of Labor Statistics]

In other words, the Obama administration, pursuing his policy agenda for America, with the help of the U.S. Senate democrats have made matters far worse for America's workers since he took office in 2009 and now they want to paint the picture as if "they" are out to help the unemployed by extending benefits.

Look, get the teat out of your mouth and think for a minute.  If they really wanted to help they would stop bankrupting the country and playing politics with the future of Americas middle class, get off the backs of businesses and working people and let this economy flourish creating REAL jobs, not made up government paychecks sent to potential voters.

You don't think that the democrats are essentially buying votes with this behavior?  Well, Candy Crowley at CNN has virtually admitted that they are.

CANDY CROWLEY: If I am an unemployed American and I hear from Republicans that, “Yeah, you know, we should go ahead and do that provided we do the following three things,” and it’s a caveat approval of extending those [unemployment] benefits, or if I am a minimum wage worker and I find, I see Republicans who say, “You know what? It's artificial, it messes with the marketplace, it might mean some teens can't get into the job market,” why would I become a Republican? How do you message that in any way to reach out to those who are disinclined to sign up for the Republican Party?

Doesn’t Crowley know that she indicted the Democratic Party as one that is basically buying votes?

So folks that are currently unemployed or on minimum wage must support politicians that promote policies that hurt the very job creation that might lead to them having better lives?

And if Republicans aren’t willing to support such failed policies, it behooves such people to be Democrats thereby potentially condemning themselves to mediocrity and possibly lifetime government dependence?

Clearly, Crowley has forgotten that in 1980, a great deal of unemployed and minimum wage workers voted for Ronald Reagan because they realized Democratic policies weren't helping them. [Newsbusters]

It is time for the people of America to wake up.

The stated "need" to continue extending these benefits is a symptom of the Democrats economic failures under Harry Reid and Barack Obama and their biggest failure is the fact that they’ve failed to create jobs. 

So of course the people of Kentucky are being bamboozled into thinking that all we need to do to make things better is to shift the balance of power in the Senate by getting rid of Mitch McConnell, the most powerful counter force to this failed agenda, and replace him with another reliable vote for Harry Reid and Barack Obama.

Ignorance is the offense which condemns those guilty of it to the consequences of their inaction.  Remember the words of Patrick Henry:

"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come....

Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"