SCOTUS Rejects Montana's Corp Spending Limits

The SCOTUS today rejected Montana's law restricting corporate campaign spending!

Prove You Are Not an Idiot...

A sign I saw in a car this morning...

For those of you who voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist, you now need to vote against Obama to proce you are not an idiot.

I agree.

This Would be a Fun Presidential Election

Obama vs Cain




What would the Democrats do? I think their heads would explode.

Herman Cain is a Conservative, smart, educated and experienced businessman who knows how the real world works.  He's been in business all his professional life and knows what it takes to create jobs and grow the economy from a "real world" perspective, unlike our current President.  He is also a strong communicator who hosts a radio show and writes a regular column.  He has all the right ingredients for being a great President.

Panic Time!: Dem Calls for Suspension of Congressional Elections

And she wasn't joking... 

Stunning Poll Results for Montana GOP

Montana Cowgirl posted a poll today showing that 83% of Montanans believe that state government is being run efficiently, and 55% believe Montana’s economy is on the right track. She then tries to tie those results solely to the Executive branch of the Government. While the Executive branch runs the day to day operations of the government, the everyday citizen does not know the nuts and bolts of how the state government is run.

The vast majority of the news in the past year was about the Tea Party contingent of the Legislature. This is what people read and heard every single day about our government and as a result, in my humble opinion, is how they equate the direction of the Montana economy and the efficiency of the government.

The results of this survey bode very well for the Montana GOP, particularly the Tea Party branch of the GOP.

STATE ECONOMY HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?					STATE GOVT EFFICIENT?
FL	27% YES	63% NO				47% YES	51% NO
IL	23% YES	74% NO				23% YES	76% NO
IN	28% YES	53% NO				77% YES	16% NO
MI	23% YES	56% NO				41% YES	53% NO
NY	26% YES	58% NO				62% YES	37% NO
MT	55% YES	37% NO				83% YES	17% NO
NC	18% YES	70% NO				55% YES	39% NO
OH	20% YES	71% NO				49% YES	42% NO
PA	29% YES	62% NO				45% YES	53% NO
WI	39% YES	51% NO				57% YES	37% NO

*Chart from Montana Cowgirl Blog




I get a kick how the circle jerkers at Montana Cowgirl are patting themselves on the back and feeling smug over these results. That will just make it all the more easier to defeat them in the next election and expand our majorities in the Legislature and regain the Governor's seat.

I wonder if any of the CJs will come over here to debate me on this. I know they won't because they don't have the courage or confidence to leave their small minded little world.  

Tea Party Landslide in Democrat Dominated NY9!

Liberals must be scared to death.

Crowley is both the head of the Queens Democratic Party and the finance chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and he was wearing both hats this afternoon when he sent out in urgent mailer asking for donations to help David Weprin’s congressional campaign. 

[Republican Bob Turner] is a radical right-winger ready to fight alongside John Boehner and the tea party. He has promised to push for drastic budget cuts and is even on record as rejecting the Republican’s budget and plan to end Medicare because it did not go far enough,” wrote Mr. Crowley in a DCCC email.

Hang on tight.  The Democrat hysterics will be out of control in 2012.

Obama Collecting Information on People Who Oppose Him

Obama for America launched a website that is asking people to send them information. Its called Attackwatch.com and encourages people to sign up to help people "get the facts and fight the smears".  Most interestingly is they are soliciting people to report an attack.

Its funny how thin skinned Obama and his supporters are.  They are so insecure about what they believe in that they need to launch a website to counter all the "attacks" on him.  What a bunch of wussies.

I find the site interesting in their amateurish attempt to defend Obama's massive failures (or successes depending on your POV). They are still worked up over the Birth Certificate  issue as one of their main "Attack Files."

Democrats Humiliated in NY9, Wiener's Old House Seat

In a clear referendum about Obama's and Liberal policies, the overwhelmingly Democrat district of NY9 went to Republican Bob Turner yesterday.  Its a seat the Democrats have held since 1923.

I better be careful about what I say now.  Obama is collecting information on people like me who criticize him. I might end up in an Obama re-education camp if, God forbid, he is re-elected.  

Whoa!!!

There was another Democrat debate on Wednesday night and some interesting things were said - or not said that are not getting a lot of attention.

Here's the question from Tim Russert and the answers from the top three candidates:

...will you pledge that by January 2013, the end of your first term, more than five years from now, that there will be no troops, US troops in Iraq?"

And their answers...

"I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state.

"It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

"I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

I guess President Bush's advice on the war is having an impact on them.

This has got to be really irritating the anti-war Left! If I were them I would be concerned about their credibility and conviction.

The Left is Really Upset with the Petraeus Amendment

The local Lefty Blogs, LITW, MNR, trying to maintain their "Kos Kred", are out there expressing their dismay about the Petraeus Amendment, which simply states...

To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces.

This is in response to the Moveon.org campaign against General Petraeus last week and is simply an official expression of support of the General who is commanding our troops in Iraq. It is beyond me that there would even be Senators that would vote Nay on this, all of whom are Democrats.

It's very illuminating to see how influenced these Democrats are by the Moveon and "Kos Krowd" and cannot see how they look to the vast majority of the American population.

I give credit to Baucus and Tester for voting in support of General Patraeus. Clinton is clearly influenced by Moveon and the "Kos Krowd" and Obama is too big a weenie and coward to even vote.

This will come back to haunt both Clinton and Obama when the majority of the people start paying attention to the Presidential election.

More Fund Raising Troubles for Clinton

The WSJ reports more fund-raising shenanigans in the Clinton campaign. I kinda wish the press would not make that big a deal out of it because I don't want anything to derail Hillary's ability to win the Democratic nomination.

Anyway, it seems another fund-raising "bundler", William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm, reimbursed many of his family and employees for donations giving to the Clinton campaign. One woman, Pamala Layton, is on record having donated $4600, the maximum allowed.

But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband's boss for the donations. "It wasn't personal money. It was all corporate money," Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. "I don't even like Hillary. I'm a Republican."

Of course, Clinton's campaign is unaware and will return any money that wasn't given from any donor's own funds.

Asked about the donations bundled by Mr. Danielczyk, Mrs. Clinton's campaign said yesterday it would return the $9,200 donated by Mr. and Mrs. Layton.

Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said: "These allegations are troubling and we will again ask each of the individuals solicited by Mr. Danielczyk to affirm that their contributions were given with their own funds." Mr. Wolfson said the campaign will return any contributions that didn't come from the donor's own money.

Mr. Wolfson also said the campaign provides information to its donors that "clearly spell out that donations must be from personal funds."

I find it very hard to believe that the Clinton campaign is oblivious to the practice of these fund-raising "bundlers". They are either naive or are encouraging it, both of which are not good attributes in a Presidential candidate.

We are 15 months away from the election and these pesky fund-raising scandals are starting to pop up.

What's next??

I Thought Earmarks Were Bad!

...unless you're a Democrat, of course.

Jon Tester is getting pressure from his supporters to "bring home the bacon".

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester has found a more demanding crowd in Montana in recent weeks than the one he left last year as an upstart U.S. senator.

On his first extended trip since taking office, the senator traveled Montana during the congressional recess and everyone wanted a piece of him - and more federal money.

This was something that Conrad Burns was good at particularly since he sat on the Appropriations Committee and was able to ensure Montana was well taken care of.

Money for the state was an issue in his 2006 congressional race against incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican who sat on the powerful Senate committee that doles out federal dollars. Burns boasted that he had brought $2 billion to the state over the years and that the state would be worse off if he were defeated.

This became a bad thing according to the Democrat's attacking earmarks as being part of corrupt and dishonest Republican majority.

Tester said he understands there is only so much he can do. He acknowledged that some small requests he had for the highway spending bill were lost in the Senate process, in part, because he got outmaneuvered.

Republicans, however, criticized Tester for seeking earmarks after making an issue out of such financing for local projects during the 2006 campaign. At the time, Tester said the process should be more transparent.

“People certainly want money coming back into Montana, but more than that they want a senator who is going to be upfront and honest with them,'' said Chris Wilcox, director of the state Republican party.

So it was bad for Burns to earmark money for Montana, but now it's bad because Tester isn't doing enough to earmark money for Montana???

Will We Get a Knock at the Door in the Middle of the Night??

Edwards would require that we go to the doctor every year...

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

So what happens if I don't want to? Will there be a knock at my door in the middle of the night and will I be "taken" to the doctor for my annual "checkup"?

For those of you who are going to see him, please ask Mr. Edwards this when he's in Missoula.

Who's Advising Obama???

I think somebody from the Daily Kos must be advising Obama. He's saying some very strange things these days. First, he wants to meet without pre-conditions with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, giving them credibility they don't deserve. Then he wants to invade our ally, Pakistan. Then the other day, he says our troops in Afganistan are "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians."

These comments have exposed him as the far left unqualified Liberal he is and have effectively taken him out of the running for the Democrat nomination. I have to give Hillary credit for calling him out on these comments.

I Support the Tangerine Industry

Elizabeth Edwards is taking the big step and making the huge sacrifice to stop eating tangerines in order to save the planet from global warming. Being a capitalist, I immediately became concerned about the Tangerine Industry.

So on my way home this evening, I stopped by the store and bought a bag of tangerines to help offset the damage that the Edwards family's sacrifice will bring on the Tangerine Industry. I figure one bag ought to do it.

I am glad to see the Edwards family is finally starting to walk the walk and do their part in reducing global warming. The sacrifice they are making in giving up tangerines will be difficult, I'm sure, but at least they are trying. Now when Elizabeth's husband, John, I think it is, speaks about global warming, he will have total credibility.

Update: I pasted all the non-spam comments as a single comment.

Obama Thinks Soldier's Lives Wasted

Obama goofed up and said what Liberals and Anti War activists really think.

During his first press conference as a presidential candidate at Iowa State University, Obama, discussing his opposition to the Iraq war, said the war "should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we've now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.''

So he's out apologizing now with this...

''I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,'' he said. ''Their sacrifices are never wasted. . . . What I meant to say was those sacrifices have not been honored by the same attention to strategy, diplomacy and honesty on the part of civilian leadership that would give them a clear mission."

And this...

"Well as I said, it is not at all what I intended to say, and I would absolutely apologize if any of them felt that in some ways it had diminished the enormous courage and sacrifice that they'd shown. You know, and if you look at all the other speeches that I've made, that is always the starting point in my view of this war.''

Everybody knows what he said first is what he really meant. All the anti war pacifists think this and at least he was honest for a minute. He is smart enough to know most Americans don't feel this way and had to do a quick two-step to get out of trouble.

He will, of course, get a pass from the adoring MSM.

Joe Biden's Racist Comments Effectively End His Presidential Bid

Democrat Senator Joe Biden ended his Presidential campaign the other day on the day he announced he is running when he made this condescending racist comment about Barack Hussein Obama.

Now the MSM and Biden are desperately trying to "explain" what he really meant when he said "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man."

It's pretty clear to me and most people what he meant. To a Liberal like Biden, it's a rare thing to have a black man who is articulate, bright, and clean. It needs to be pointed out. Would he have said these things about Edwards? Is it assumed that since Edwards is white, he is articulate, bright, and clean?

I call for Biden to drop out of the Presidential race and consider resigning from the Senate. There is no place in our government for a powerful Senator with the racist tendencies exhibited by Senator Biden.

Andy Endorses Hillary for Democrat Presidential Candidate

I officially endorse Hillary Rodham-Clinton as the 2008 Democrat Candidate for President of the United States.

Why, you may ask. Well, I think she would be the best possible candidate for the Democrats to nominate. She served as C0-President from 1992-2000, the most prosperous and peaceful period in the history of the world. She is Pro-Choice except when it comes to education where she is full fledged supportive of the teacher's Unions who we all know do everything possible to better the education of our children. She wants Socialized Health Care just like Canada which ought to stop those pesky Canadians from coming into our country for their care.

Although she says she would oppose any tax increases on the middle class, we know it's just a rouse to have the middle class vote for her. Just like Bill did when he ran on no taxes on the middle class but had to raise them the first year he was in office. So we know Hillary, as Co-President then, will do the same. We will need to pay for that Socialized Health Care somehow.

She is also a brilliant business woman especially when you consider her Whitewater real estate deal and how she made $100,000 the first and only time in a cattle futures investment.

I am most impressed with what she has accomplished during her six years in the Senate.
Her Senate Record is so spectacular, I feel it necessary to list her accomplishments.

• Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site

• Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month

• Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor

• Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall

• Name courthouse after James L. Watson

• Name post office after John A. O'Shea

• Designate August 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day

• Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day

• Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death

• Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.

• Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship

• Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program

• Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda

• Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death

• Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.

• Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11

• Pay for city projects in response to 9/11

• Assist landmine victims in other countries

• Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care

• Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System

This is an impressive set of credentials for a Presidential Candidate.

I'm thinking any Republican candidate should wait until 2016 before even trying since there is no way that we can even win with the "smartest woman in the world" running.

Andy's First Take on the Possible and Announced 2008 Democrat Presidential Candidates

Here is a quick and shallow analysis, in no particular order, of what I think about the more serious possible and announced 2008 Democrat Presidential Candidates:

Current or former Senators - None are likely to win the nomination or election as Americans don't like or elect senators to the White House.

1. Barack Hussein Obama - Do you really think Americans would elect somebody with a middle name of Hussein and a last name that gets confused with Osama (Ted Kennedy and CNN)?? He is very likable and charismatic but needs to toughen up if he is to be taken seriously. And I think his "unfortunate" name will hurt his chances.

2. John Edwards - I question the intelligence of a candidate who officially announces his candidacy at the worst time on the calendar - the week between Christmas and New Years - when nobody is paying any attention. Plus he's a proven loser as the VP candidate with John Kerry in 2004.

3. John Kerry - Do the Democrats really want a proven loser Presidential candidate who is 0-1? I don't think so. Plus he's just plain boring.

4. Al Gore - See #3 above. Plus he's a boring and loony environmentalist.

5. Hillary Rodham-Clinton - The carpetbagging senator from New York with a lot of Bill Clinton baggage. Do the American people want another Clinton? Plus she is just not likable.


Current or former Governors - Americans seem to prefer Governors so these candidates, in my opinion, would be much stronger candidates.

1. Bill Richardson (New Mexico) - He's popular and likable. He's cut taxes which is helping grow New Mexico's economy. He's also tough on crime, believes in charter schools, and supports free trade (NAFTA, GATT, and WTO) . All of which will hurt his chances with the Left.

2. Tom Vilsack (Iowa) - Who?? Actually, being a popular governor in in a key primary state will help boost his chances. He also seems to be fairly liberal on the issues which will win him support with the Left.

3. Howard Dean (Vermont) - Current chairman of the DNC. Failed in his 2004 nomination bid because he came across as a lunatic. The Left loves him because he is a true blue Liberal.

There are several more but these are the ones that seem to stand out the most right now.

Sore Losers

There are two Democrats who have lost and are refusing to concede to the Republican victor. As I have stated before, I wondered if Tester or Webb would have conceded with class had they lost. I doubted it.

One of the sore losers is Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy who lost the race in the Ohio 15th Congressional District.

Kilroy’s campaign called about 70,000 voters last weekend and aired television and radio ads asking people who cast provisional ballots to contact the campaign and county boards of elections to make sure their votes in the 15 th Congressional District are counted.

Kilroy came up 3,536 votes short of toppling Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce of Upper Arlington, but she did not concede the election last week. Kilroy and her supporters think she could win after provisional and absentee votes are counted next week.

Kilroy's hopes are on provisional voters who were unable to provide valid ID.

Slightly more than 10,000 people in the 15 th Congressional District cast provisional ballots, which are required when voters cannot produce identification establishing their residency.
Kilroy’s campaign thinks that it will capture the majority of those votes because transient voters tend to favor Democrats — hence the fresh blast of campaign ads nearly a week after the election.

"We’re making sure as many voters as possible who voted provisionally have their ballots counted," Kilroy spokeswoman Amanda Wurst said. "We believe the vast majority of those are voters who supported Mary Jo Kilroy."

Why would they think the vast majority of provisional voters supported Kilroy??? Could it be that there was a planned voting fraud going on here?

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The next sore loser is Florida Democrat, Clint Curtis, who lost the election by 33,885 votes or 58% to 42%, but is refusing to concede.

Clint Curtis said he is considering a legal challenge to the election results: "In this election, the results did not match the Zogby pre-election poll, our internal VoteNow2006.net polling, or our exit polling," Curtis explained

"These anomalies need to be investigated and cleared up, not just in my race but for every district where the count just doesn't add up."

Of course there must be fraud invovled.

According to a news release put out by his campaign, Curtis "has worked tirelessly for over five years to correct issues in America's broken election system." And now, as a congressional candidate, Curtis finally "has the legal standing to pursue an investigation into the anomalies."
Curtis said he plans to examine precinct numbers and personally contact voters, to "tie the voter to the vote." "This will either confirm the official results or indicate discrepancies," he said.

His campaign is seeking both money and volunteers to "participate in this historic effort to restore integrity and accuracy" in the electoral process.

Remember, Curtis lost the election 58% to 42% or over 33,000 votes.

These sore losers need to accept their loss and concede like a mature adult.

Democrats should be embarrased by their actions.

I wonder if they are...