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Really? Does Obama truly believe that just because his outlook is a “government-centered”, that his version of venture capitalism using public tax money is better than private money? Sure does – he keeps spending more and more of it. Problem is, like many Progressives, he places more importance on the intent than the results:
(H/T: Hot Air )
It is rather amusing to watch the official Prez Press Flack Carney twisting behind the podium to explain this:
And as Steve points out here (and mine), being Green means having LOTS of green – and just watching it swirl down the toilet (data points via The Enterprise Blog):
Steve had this observation:
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil
So, what does this do to her campaign strategy – Did Obama just skewer a rerun of her campaign issue against big oil again (NY Times):
First, taxpayer funded Green (both definitions). This time, his post on Planned Parenthood getting caught AGAIN in their abortion-at-any-cost-any-condition. The update: the staffer has become the scapegoat.
This spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Federation of America also told The Huffington Post that the organization condemns seeking abortions on the basis of gender, but its policy is to provide “high quality, confidential, nonjudgmental care to all who come into” its health centers. That means that no Planned Parenthood clinic will deny a woman an abortion based on her reasons for wanting one, except in those states that explicitly prohibit sex-selective abortions (Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Illinois).
Like I said – anywhere they can get away with it. SURE, they can “condemn” all they want, but their actions matter more than their words. That second sentence obviates the first – status quo – killing babies for any reason wanted unless prohibited by law (and like with voter fraud, until they get caught).
A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman told The Huffington Post on Tuesday the staffer in the video “did not follow our protocol” for dealing with “a highly unusual patient scenario.”
“Planned Parenthood insists on the highest quality patient care, and if we ever become aware of a staff member not meeting these high standards we take swift action,” she said in a written statement. “Within three days of this patient interaction, the staff member’s employment was ended and all staff members at this affiliate were immediately scheduled for retraining in managing unusual patient encounters. Today opponents of Planned Parenthood are promoting an edited video of that hoax patient encounter.”
The Hot Air post goes into fisking this, so go read it (re: “we got set up!”)
(H/T: Hot Air)
Oh, and a bonus Blogosphere Line of The Day:
Following Skip, who followed me, here is White House Propaganda Minister Jay Carney attempting to articulate the differences between private venture capitalism (Romney/Bain/private money/80% success) and Green Venture Corporatism (Obama/Cronyism/ Public money/ Billions lost for nothing). From Allahpundit c/o Hot Air For one thing, Bain evidently did due diligence on the companies it bought instead … Read more
Thanks to commenter JackL for the reminder; that Jeanne “no oversight” Shaheen, Barack ‘Boondoggle’ FauxBama and the Democrats have always relied on the lie that rising energy prices were the result of “Evil Oil Speculators.”
Evil Speculators…speculators…
Isn’t what Mr. Obama, Secretary Chu, and Senate Energy Committee maven Greene Jeanne Shaheen have done, energy speculation? Aren’t they energy speculators? What else do you call investing tens of billions in the future value of green energy? It’s energy speculation.
Well how is that working out so far?
Homosexuals filing lawsuits against businesses that do not wish to cater to them, Wedding photographers and Dating Services come immediately to mind, are now legend. But is turnabout fair play? Gay bars are banning Bachelorette parties. Looks like owners of gay bars are uncomfortable hosting parties of heterosexual bachelorette’s and their randy little penis paraphernalia … Read more
Governor Sununu looks a bit too much like Mr. Magoo here, but he’s running on all cylinders. Why are you at CNN bringing up the birther debate when Governor Romney’s position is clear? Why don’t you care about what Bill Maher does or says as an Obama advocate? Why is CNN bringing up yesterdays left … Read more
While the 99% and the Democrats are bashing bankers for not sharing their wealth, take a look at the people running media and entertainment. (Just to give you a baseline, the most well paid “banker” had 21 million in compensation in the same year.) Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS Corp. (CBS), was paid $69.9 … Read more
That’s the headline. And some folks sound happy to see the freeloaders gone. “The basic question is that a German has to increase working from 65 to 67 and that is to pay for Greeks retiring at 50. The 17th of June is the perfect opportunity to say either ‘we’ll behave’ or ‘we’ll carry on … Read more
It was a tough call. You know, where do you start a series of posts pointing out that the New Hampshire Democrat Party is morally bankrupt and incapable of passing judgement on anyone or anything without looking like the hypocrats they are? If you are in New Hampshire, you start at the bottom, which also … Read more
The process of moving the culture to the left continues apace. A recent undercover video reveals that Planned non-Parenthood (PP) is willing and able to engage in the lefts long love affair with eugenics. That is, to use whatever resources are at its disposal to craft the genetic make up of future generations.
Eugenics was the prime motivation for Margret Sanger (PP founder) to hand out contraception to those she deemed inferior; poor, minorities, etc. She wanted to control and craft the master race by the systematic reduction of any gene pool deemed a danger to the coming socialist utopia. (Ethnic cleansing, and the Holocaust are the most extreme examples of what Sanger hoped to achieve without the killing.) So this is not a new idea, but just how far down the lefts eugenics path have we traveled in America?
The New Hampshire Democrat party and their fellow travelers have nothing to run on so the travails of one man in the New Hampshire House, DJ Bettencourt, are all they’ve got. Of course, he will no longer be in the NH House, a feature of his circumstances which we would never see from a New Hampshire Democrat, and therein lies the rub.
The New Hampshire Hypocrats have as much moral authority to point fingers at Bettencourt as NAMBLA would have it were ever to complain about Catholic Priests sexually abusing boys. Actually, the NH Democrats may have less.
Not Obama, Lord no. 147 years after his presidency he’ll be lucky if there’s any mention of him beyond his being the first black president (After Clinton, of course. That and, perhaps, almost doubling the deficit in three years.) I am referring to Abraham Lincoln, whose “past” has taken a turn toward the macabre in … Read more
(H/T: Big Government)
There are two images that always come to mind on Memorial Day: (Photo credits: Todd Heisler/The Rocky Mountain News, via Associated Press, unknown) (H/T: NY Times, BlackFive) They are concrete examples of two sacrifices: the man that put himself into harm’s way for his country and for his buddies and sacrificed himself for them, and … Read more
I missed most of this weekend, and continue to, including the blog burst on Brett Kimberlin. I am removing and replacing vast swaths of ceramic tile (some broken some not) from my kitchen floor and replacing them with a lovely pattern, using some contrasting color…blah blah blah. (My wife watches a good deal of Home … Read more
I thought that this would be an appropriate time to repost one of the earliest posts on GraniteGrok – in a time when more and more the selfish ramifications of the “ME!” generation becomes apparent, here is a unselfish sacrifice of honor, duty, and “it’s about them” attitude. He gave his unselfishly gave his live … Read more
I thought it a bit strange, when I first heard it, that DJ was resigning from the House and from being the Majority Leader – after all, the session was just about over. Really, it was “dude, why bother, ya gotta run for re-election anyways”. Family? I knew that he was going to marrying Shannon Schutts soon, but it didn’t register is was REAL soon – like this week, so I kinda went “huh?” over the hackneyed phrase ” to spend more time with his family,” (a saying that is generally used in business when one has lost a position due to a corporate merger or political upheaval – or poor results come out) but decided, ok – a bit of a stretch, but it passes muster. And even though Grokster Tim writes here, I didn’t know that DJ was to be the Exec Dir. of the NHLRF (the new job bit). Then the real shoe dropped about the faked reports for the law internship at Brandon Guida’s office in order to graduate from UNH Law).
Sidenote: I do have to side with Guida in this and NOT just because that ‘silence is complicity’ would have put him at risk – cover ups are wrong for any reason and anyone (and not just someone of ‘high’ stature or any ideology)
A sad story indeed. No, it is not my point nor my deal to add gas to a fire he lit himself. All of us, at one time or another, have done stupid things and some of those have risen to the level of REAL stupid. I certainly have and I can commiserate with some of the torment that he is now putting himself through (“did I really think I could skate by?”) – and that of those around them (having been there around those whose actions got me involved as collateral damage). He may have blown up in actually getting that law degree and a shot at the bar, his political career here in NH may be in tatters
Sidenote: why does it seem that Dems who do similar things always seem to come back but Repubs aren’t allowed to (at the least, not for a LONG time)?
and he may have lost other things of much more value of a personal nature as well.
The quote below is from an article in today’s Union Leader by Vietnam Navy veteran Jim Adams (he was in the Navy and in Vietnam around the same time I was in the Marines in Vietnam):
“In 1940, as World War II loomed, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie gave his support to his opponent — Franklin Roosevelt — in his push for a peacetime draft. Later in life, Willkie remarked that on his epitaph, he would rather have that he “contributed to freedom” than that he was a President.” But wait….
