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		<title>The Democratic Party Killed Two Cops in New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 05:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynch mobs have consequences.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shooting-e1419134824858.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247895" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shooting-e1419134824858-450x298.jpg" alt="shooting-e1419134824858" width="331" height="219" /></a>A lynch mob is all fun and games until someone actually gets lynched.</p>
<p>At first everyone has a good time marching around and shouting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe.” The police are accused of being racist killers by the defenders of actual racist killers like Mumia Abu Jamal. Every community organizer within a thousand miles shows up to brandish signs claiming cops are randomly killing innocent black men even as he spits and throws bottles at any cop within reach. Not to mention engaging in the occasional act of convenience store redistribution.</p>
<p>The Mayor of New York City announces that his ridiculously famous son has to be afraid of the police. Obama agrees that his imaginary son also has to be afraid of the police. Their claims are equally plausible.</p>
<p>The lynch mobs make it their mission to invade holiday events, protest parades and scream racist rants. Then they begin attacking police officers. The media insists that protests whose participants chant, “What do we want? Dead cops!” are peaceful.</p>
<p>This homicidally insane definition of &#8220;peaceful&#8221; had only previously been applied to Islam.</p>
<p>And then, shockingly, surprisingly, out of the blue, protests led by Al Sharpton featuring violent attacks on cops finally achieve their goal with the murder of two police officers.</p>
<p>Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley announced on Instagram, “I’m Putting Wings On Pigs Today. They Take 1 Of Ours&#8230;Let’s Take 2 of Theirs.” #ShootThePolice #RIPErivGarner #RIPMike Brown.</p>
<p>It may have been the first murder that came with its own progressive social media hashtags.</p>
<p>But even the most violently peaceful lynch mobs eventually end with a lynching. There is no such thing as a peaceful lynch mob. There is no such thing as peacefully supporting a lynch mob.</p>
<p>Al Sharpton is not just an MSNBC talk show host. He isn’t a goofy fellow who mispronounces things on the teleprompter. He isn’t these things just as he wasn’t a funny fat man in a track suit wearing a gold medallion the size of the Bronx around his neck.</p>
<p>Those are the things that make him seem like a joke. And he isn’t a joke. He leads lynch mobs.</p>
<p>Sharpton led a lynch mob through Crown Heights and racist violence tore the neighborhood apart and took lives. He led a lynch mob to a store in Harlem and the store burned with employees inside.</p>
<p>That is what lynch mobs do.</p>
<p>Since then Sharpton slimmed down and swapped out colorful track suits for expensive custom made Soho pinstripe suits. He became a regular visitor to the White House and City Hall. He spoke at the Democratic National Convention and got a slot on that party’s favorite news network.</p>
<p>And then twenty years later he brought back the lynch mobs. And once again people died.</p>
<p>Two cops are dead in New York City because Barack Obama, Bill de Blasio and the Democratic Party embraced Sharpton and everything he stood for. They embraced his racist ideology of hate.</p>
<p>They made their party into the party of crime.</p>
<p>Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu weren’t white. Their only crime was being cops in a city whose radical left-wing mayor and media had signed off on an anti-cop campaign. Their deaths are a bloody reminder that black racism isn’t limited to white people.</p>
<p>The elites celebrating the return of left-wing rule to New York City after decades of Republicans in Gracie Mansion had forgotten the most important lesson that New Yorkers of all races had learned during the years of Sharpton’s terror; black racist lynch mobs kill as surely as white ones do.</p>
<p>Now Bill de Blasio is wiping away crocodile tears at a press conference while Al Sharpton and the gang of gutter activists that trails these protests is pretending to be shocked and surprised that their lynch mobs actually killed two cops. The same media that had been ridiculing the NYPD for its “hysterical” warnings that the racist lynch mobs would cost lives is also putting on its best shocked face for the cameras.</p>
<p>Sharpton is doing what he always does best: Playing provocateur and then trying to wash his hands of the consequences. Al never kills anyone. He just riles up the mob and someone in the mob does the dirty work. Al works the mob and through him the mob has a direct line to the White House.</p>
<p>When FDR put Hugo Black in the Supreme Court, he put the Klan on the Court. The Democratic Party’s hate groups and lynch mobs may have changed color, but everything else stayed the same.</p>
<p>When Obama made Sharpton his messenger to the black community, when Bill de Blasio let Sharpton and his people control city government and when Attorney General Eric Schneiderman promised that Sharpton would have an “annex” in the state capitol, the Democratic Party embraced the man whose racist rhetoric took more lives than the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party and its top politicians didn’t just endorse Sharpton. They endorsed his tactics and his hate. Now the blood of two murdered police officers is on their hands.</p>
<p>“The mayor’s hands are literally dripping with our blood because of his words, actions and policies,&#8221; the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has said. “The blood of 2 executed police officers is on the hands of Mayor de Blasio,” is the message from the Sergeants Benevolent Association.</p>
<p>But Bill de Blasio did not act alone. He did what the rest of his party had gotten used to doing. The Democratic Party reverted to its roots of a party of crime. It forgot the lesson of the Willie Horton ad. It tested the waters by promoting “sentencing reform” for drug dealers and then it went all in by race-baiting the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. It was so enthused about recruiting community organizers and increasing black turnout that it forgot that lynch mobs don’t vote. They kill.</p>
<p>Suddenly the tactics that Sharpton had pioneered in his track suit days became the face of the Democratic Party. New Tawana Brawleys were crawling out from under every rock in the nation. Innocents senselessly attacked by vile cops whose stories turned out to be about as real as Sharpton’s tax records. Everyone was having fun telling lies and screaming hate and then cops began to die.</p>
<p>Now the Democratic Party’s top crooks are clumsily trying to wash away the cop blood on their hands.</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder can’t headline Sharpton’s events and then pretend to be upset when two cops are killed. Neither can Bill de Blasio or Barack Obama. Their phony condemnations don’t come with a promise to abandon the pro-crime politics and policies that led to the murder of two police officers.</p>
<p>Targeting the police makes it difficult for the police <a href="http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/24998993/transit-officer-attacked-at-broad-fairmount"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to defend themselves</span></a> or anyone else. When the police can’t defend themselves, then they pull back. When they pull back, crime takes off. Cities become terrifying places. The middle class flees. Thriving cities go bankrupt and become permanent welfare cases. They become Democratic Party plantations. That’s what Obama and De Blasio wanted.</p>
<p>There is one fundamental question that must be asked of Obama, of Holder, of de Blasio and the media; are we a nation of laws or a nation of lynch mobs?</p>
<p>Obama claimed that the racist protests were needed because a “country&#8217;s conscience has to be triggered by some inconvenience.” Attorney General Eric Holder said that the protests provided “momentum to a necessary conversation.”</p>
<p>Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley concluded Holder’s conversation by reminding us of what the stakes are.</p>
<p>We cannot function as a nation when a political party representing half the country decides that it wants to stand with criminals against police officers, with racists and race-baiters against working families and with lynch mobs against anyone who gets in their way.</p>
<p>It’s not only the blood of these two police officers that is on their hands, but the blood of every victim of crime who could have been saved if the Democratic Party had not embraced gun control, sentencing reform and criminal rights.</p>
<p>After Dukakis got thumped and Dinkins got dumped, the Democratic Party pretended to reform. It pretended to understand that Americans wanted it to stand with cops, not criminals.</p>
<p>Now it’s back to its criminal ways.</p>
<p>Lynch mobs have consequences. So do crack dealers, serial rapists and armed robbers. Standing up to crime also means standing up to politicians who support crime.</p>
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		<title>The Vanishing White Democrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/car.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245541" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/car-450x298.jpg" alt="James Carville" width="287" height="190" /></a>It wasn’t all that long ago that the Democrats were predicting the end of the Republican Party.</p>
<p>With the rise of Obama, James Carville began peddling a new book “<em>40 More Years</em>” promising that the Dems would rule for generations.</p>
<p>Just this year Carville predicted that the Republican Party would become extinct if it lost to Hillary Clinton. But it was the Democratic Party that was going extinct in Carville’s own backyard.</p>
<p>Republicans began winning Senate seats in Louisiana for the first time in a century in just the last ten years. If Landrieu loses, then both of the Louisiana’s Senate seats will be unprecedentedly held by Republicans.</p>
<p>And Louisiana isn’t an outlier. Bill Clinton couldn’t stop Arkansas from going full Republican with two Republican senators and a full suite of Republican representatives for the first time in history. That’s all the more amazing in a state that only had two Republican senators before that for over a century.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party is going extinct in places like Louisiana, Arkansas and West Virginia. It’s vanishing because the working class White Democrat is becoming extinct.</p>
<p>Even Carville hedged his bets while predicting the end of the Republican Party by joining FOX News.</p>
<p>A generation ago, white Democrats outnumbered white Republicans. Today it’s the other way around. Under Obama, barely a quarter of white people still identify as Democrats.</p>
<p>Republicans didn’t just win a few elections. They swept across entire legislatures in western and southern states. They took state senates and governorships in places like New York and Illinois. It’s not that Republicans had a particularly compelling message, some did and some didn’t, but that Democrats had assumed that enough white voters would continue showing up to prop up their rainbow coalition.</p>
<p>They were wrong.</p>
<p>The latest Pew poll shows that 74 percent of Democrats support ObamaCare, but only 29 percent of white respondents do. The Democratic Party is becoming a party without white people. Under Obama, the Democratic disadvantage among white voters doubled without any corresponding gains among minority voters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Republicans increased their share of white voters. And that’s only telling part of the story.</p>
<p>The nation’s largest party is “none of the above”. Independents began to decisively outnumber both parties under Obama. Hispanic voters are increasingly identifying as independents. So are white men.</p>
<p>And though the independents come from both parties, they increasingly swing Republican in key races.</p>
<p>The Democratic model depended on the combination of an overwhelming minority vote combined with a second place showing in the white vote. That model may no longer be feasible, especially in states with a shortage of unemployed white hipsters with PhDs and protest signs who know all the latest social warrior mumbo jumbo but can’t change a flat tire.</p>
<p>The Democrats had to bet on turnout and changing demographics to salvage the situation. They played up racial tensions to increase turnout and championed open borders to shift demographics and those tactics only deepened their problems with white voters.</p>
<p>Tribalism helped Obama win a second term, but it didn’t fix the underlying flaw in the Democratic model. And it actually worsened the situation. The more the Democrats sounded racially divisive notes, the more they alienated white voters, not just by abusing them, but by ignoring their concerns.</p>
<p>ObamaCare became emblematic of a party that tuned out what used to be its base. And so its base left forcing the Democrats to discover that they couldn’t actually win without white voters.</p>
<p>Republican congressional candidates won 64 percent of white working class voters. Landrieu won just 18 percent of the white vote; 22 percent among white women and 15 percent among white men. That’s less than the amount taken by a second Republican candidate in the race, Rob Maness.</p>
<p>Those numbers alone indicate why the Democrats won’t put any real money behind her. If Landrieu can’t even compete for the white vote, then there’s no reason to waste good money on her.</p>
<p>Mark Pryor won only 31 percent of white voters. Nunn won 23 percent of white voters. The Dems didn’t do this badly everywhere, but where they lost it was usually because the white vote sharply tilted away from them enough to offset their overwhelming minority percentages.</p>
<p>The Democrats have a white voter problem. The party is betting that it won’t outlast Obama because it confused its own propaganda with reality and decided that white voters hate Obama because he’s black.</p>
<p>It was never Obama’s race that was the problem. It was the Democratic Party’s embrace of leftist radicalism at the national level while waging identity politics wars along the lines of race and gender.</p>
<p>Republicans don’t have a problem with black people. Democrats do have a problem with white people.</p>
<p>The party is now under the sway of an elitist class of white leftists for whom “white people” is an insult, not a group of voters. And by “white people” they mean the sort of voters who conclusively tossed them out in West Virginia, Nevada and Arkansas.</p>
<p>The elitists of the new Democratic Party envision themselves as the white protectors and organizers of a minority country whose property and rights they will redistribute as they see fit in a new Socialist order. There is absolutely nothing in this creepy little vision that appeals to anyone except the grubby Grubers frustrated at having to work so hard to dupe the insufficiently stupid American voters who won’t just let them play with their health care toys without insisting on tediously voting against higher taxes.</p>
<p>It’s this elite that steadily began alienating white voters with its policies. The situation became critical under Obama not because of his race, but because he fully endorsed their insane power grab.</p>
<p>Now the Democrats are hoping that Hillary Clinton can save their party, but first she has to decide who she is. Hillary has tried to play up racial appeals to white voters before overcorrecting and going the other way. At times she sounds like she wants to appeal to working class voters and at other times she returns to her native element pushing the policy toys of the technocracy.</p>
<p>Instead of the Democratic Party’s Great White Hope, Hillary more closely resembles Mary Landrieu veering between accusations of racism and support for the Keystone pipeline. The left’s attacks on Landrieu for supporting the pipeline only highlight the impossible dilemma of any Democrat trying to run to the right of Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They have to either abandon their voters or their party.</p>
<p>Unlike European parties, American politicians were supposed to put loyalty to their constituents ahead of loyalty to their party. The Democratic Party put its own politicians in the impossible position of being defined by a centralized party seeking to eliminate anything reeking of conservatism while expecting them to win in conservative parts of the country. The Dems didn’t lose. They committed suicide.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that it has alienated all white voters who aren’t on the left and its botched programs like ObamaCare are even beginning to alienate minority voters. Minority support for ObamaCare has hit a new low. Finding white support for ObamaCare requires a microscope.</p>
<p>But the Democratic Party can’t change. It has become dependent on a small donor class of men like Bloomberg, Soros and Steyer whose ad buys and think tanks dictate their agenda. To win, Hillary, Biden and any other candidate must first win over billionaires whose priorities of gun control, no pipeline and lots of big government are exactly the things that have pushed the Democratic Party to the edge.</p>
<p>James Carville was half-right about the 2016 election. If Hillary doesn’t win it, one of the big two parties may go extinct. But it won’t be the Republicans.</p>
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		<title>The Great Betrayal: Vol. Three of the Black Book of the American Left</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' treachery in the War on Terror.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245238" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gb1-238x350.jpg" alt="gb" width="179" height="263" /></a><b>Below is David Horowitz&#8217;s introduction to his new book,</b> <b><i>&#8220;The Black Book of the American Left, Volume III: The Great Betrayal.&#8221; </i>(Order <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal" target="_blank">here</a>.) We encourage our readers to visit <a href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com/" target="_blank">BlackBookOfTheAmericanLeft.com</a><wbr /> – which features David Horowitz’s introductions to Volumes 1-2 of this 10-volume series, along with their tables of contents, reviews and interviews with the author.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal"><em>The Great Betrayal</em></a> is the third volume of my collected writings that make up <em>The Black Book of the American Left</em>. Its chapters focus on events beginning with the Islamic attacks of 9/11 and culminating in the Iraq War. They describe what can now be seen as a tragic turn in our nation’s history that has already profoundly and adversely affected its future.</p>
<p>The effort to remove the Saddam regime in Iraq by force was initially supported by both major political parties. But in only the third month of fighting the Democratic Party turned against the war it had authorized for reasons unrelated to events on the battle- field or changes in policy. This political division over the war fractured the home front with crippling implications for the war effort itself and, beyond that, America’s efforts to curtail the terrorist activities of other regimes in the Middle East, most pointedly Syria and Iran. The internal divisions were greater than any the nation had experienced since the Civil War, and the betrayal by the Democrats of a war policy they had supported was without precedent in the history of America’s wars overseas.</p>
<p>The internal divisions at the end of the Vietnam War were not at all commensurate with those over Iraq. The 1972 McGovern presidential campaign, which called for an American retreat from Vietnam, was launched after ten years of fighting with no result, when both parties had already conceded the war could not be won. The conflict between the two major parties was over how to end the war and over what the war had become, not—as in Iraq—over whether the war was illegal and immoral to begin with and should never have been fought. The Democrats’ opposition to a war they had authorized, represented a betrayal of the nation and its men and women in arms that has no equivalent in American history.</p>
<p>The domestic divisions over both wars were initiated by a radical left whose agendas went far beyond the conflicts themselves. In the decades that followed their efforts to bring the Vietnam War to an ignoble end, the left had made ever deeper inroads into the Democratic Party until, in 2008, the party nominated a senator from its anti-war ranks who became the 44th president of the United States.1 Of far greater significance than the successful candidacy of one anti-war spokesman, however, was the path the entire Democratic Party took in first abandoning a war its leaders had approved, and then conducting a five-year campaign against the war while it was still in progress.</p>
<p>I have written two previous books about this defection and its destructive consequences. The first, Unholy Alliance (2004), documented the emergence of the post-9/11 anti-war movement, its tacit alliance with the jihadist enemy and its malign influence on the Democratic Party’s fateful turn.2 The second, Party of Defeat (2008), was written with Ben Johnson and focused on the sabotage of the war effort by leaders of the Democratic Party, by progressive activists and by a left-leaning national media. This chorus of opposition took advantage of American missteps to conduct a no-holds- barred propaganda campaign worthy of an enemy, even going so far as to leak classified information that destroyed vital national security programs and put all Americans at risk.3 Political opponents of the war attacked the moral character of the commander-in-chief and the mission both parties had endorsed. This assault on America’s role in the war dealt a devastating blow to American power and influence from which they have yet to recover.</p>
<p>It is customary and natural for human beings to identify with the communities they inhabit, and on whose health and security their lives depend. This is the foundation of all patriotic sentiment. But once individuals become possessed by the idea that political power can be “transformative” and create a fundamentally different human environment, they develop an allegiance to the idea itself and to the parties and entities in which they see it embodied. Such individuals come to feel alienated from the societies they live in but are determined to replace, and finally to see their own country as an enemy because it is the enemy of their progressive dreams. This is how generations of leftists came to identify with the Communist adversary and its cold war against the democracies of the West.</p>
<p>When the Communist empire collapsed, I was curious to see whether this progressive reflex would survive the fall. Lacking the real world instantiation of their dreams Soviet Russia had provided, would progressives continue to volunteer as frontier guards for America’s enemies, even the most reprehensible among them?4 The answer was not long in coming.</p>
<p>On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, liberating hundreds of millions of captive people from their Soviet prison. The following August, Iraq’s sadistic dictator ordered his armies into Kuwait and erased that sovereign nation from the political map. Unlike the Soviet rulers who paid lip service to progressive ideals, Saddam Hussein was a self-identified fascist who did not pretend to advance the cause of “social justice” or liberal values. Even by 20th-century standards, Saddam was an exceptionally cruel and bloody tyrant. But he was also an enemy of the United States, and that proved enough to persuade progressives to lend him a helping hand. When America organized an international coalition to reverse Iraq’s aggression, the progressive left opposed the action as though America rather than the Saddam regime were at fault.</p>
<p>At the time, the only reason there were no large protests against the war over Kuwait was because progressives were freshly demoralized by the Soviet debacle and still in disarray. But their mood changed over the course of the next decade. As the millennium approached, leftists began to regroup, organizing a series of large and violent demonstrations against “globalization,” the term with which they re-labeled their old nemesis “international capitalism.” When Islamic fanatics attacked New York and Washington in 2001, leaders of the globalization protests repositioned their agendas to focus on the new American “imperialism” in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Eventually, millions of leftists at home and abroad participated in protests to prevent America and the coalition it led from removing Saddam Hussein. Without overtly supporting the Saddam regime as they had the Kremlin, progressives resumed their role as frontier guards for the enemies of the United States.5</p>
<p>The chapters of <em>The Great Betrayal</em> consist of articles that were written as the post-9/11 events were unfolding. Because they were written as the events were taking place, the individual chapters are best read in sequence, and are arranged in chronological order for that purpose. I have edited the selections to clean up infelicities that are the price one pays for working on deadlines and in the heat of battle. Some repetitive passages have been excised, while some new passages have been inserted to clarify the historical context for readers coming at these issues for the first time. In making these texts more readable I have refrained from inserting views of the events that I did not hold or express at the time.</p>
<p><strong>Notes: </strong></p>
<p>1. Barack Obama’s long-standing roots in the radical left are documented in Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief, Threshold, 2010.</p>
<p>2. Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, Regnery, 2004.</p>
<p>3. <i>Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9/11 </i>(with Ben Johnson), Spence, 2008.</p>
<p>4. See the introduction to Volume II in this series for the origins of the term “frontier guards” to describe the behaviors of the international left.</p>
<p>5. These developments are described and analyzed in Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, Regnery, 2004.</p>
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		<title>The Democratic Party’s Civil War Is Here</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gall.reid_.pelosi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244664" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gall.reid_.pelosi-450x293.jpg" alt="gall.reid.pelosi" width="301" height="196" /></a>There are really two Democratic parties.</p>
<p>One is the old corrupt party of thieves and crooks. Its politicians, black and white, are the products of political machines. They believe in absolutely nothing. They can go from being Dixiecrats to crying racism, from running on family values to pushing gay marriage and the War on Women.</p>
<p>They will say absolutely anything to get elected.</p>
<p>Cunning, but not bright, they are able campaigners. Reformers underestimate them at their own peril because they are determined to win at all costs.</p>
<p>The other Democratic Party is progressive. Its members are radical leftists working within the system. They are natural technocrats and their agendas are full of big projects. They function as community organizers, radicalizing and transforming neighborhoods, cities, states and even the country.</p>
<p>They want to win, but it’s a subset of their bigger agenda. Their goal is to transform the country. If they can do that by winning elections, they’ll win them. But if they can’t, they’ll still follow their agenda.</p>
<p>Sometimes the two Democratic parties blend together really well. Bill Clinton combined the good ol&#8217; boy corruption and radical leftist politics of both parties into one package. The secret to his success was that he understood that most Democrats, voters or politicians, didn’t care about his politics, they wanted more practical things. He made sure that his leftist radicalism played second fiddle to their corruption.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton convinced old Dems that he was their man first. Obama stopped pretending to be anything but a hard core progressive.</p>
<p>The 2014 election was a collision course between the two Democratic parties. The aides and staffers spilling dirt into the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico reveal that the crackup had been coming for some time now. Now the two Democratic parties are coming apart.</p>
<p>Reid is blaming Obama. The White House is blaming Reid. This isn’t just a showdown between two arrogant men. It’s a battle between two ideas of what the Democratic Party should be.</p>
<p>Senate Dems chose to back away from Obama to appeal to Middle America. Obama wanted to double down on his 2012 strategy of energizing the base at the expense of moderate voters. Reid and his gang are complaining that Obama didn’t back away far enough from them. Instead he reminded voters in the final stretch that the senators were there to pass his agenda. Obama’s people are dismissing them as cowards for not taking him to battleground states and running on positions even further to the left.</p>
<p>Reid’s people think that Obama deliberately tied them to him and that’s probably true. It’s not just about Obama’s ego. His campaigns and his time in office were meant to showcase the progressive position that the only way to win was from the left. Obama and his people would rather radicalize the Democratic Party and lose, than moderate their positions and stand a chance of winning.</p>
<p>The left isn’t interested in being a political flirtation. It nukes any attempt at centrism to send the message that its allies will not be allowed any other alternative except to live or die by its agenda.</p>
<p>Obama deliberately sabotaged Reid’s campaign plans, as Reid’s chief of staff discussed, because that strategy involved disavowing Obama and his legacy. In the time honored tradition of the radical left, Obama would rather have a Republican senate than a Democratic senate won by going to the center.</p>
<p>Republicans benefited from a Democratic civil war. They were running a traditional campaign against a more traditional part of the Democratic Party. They didn’t really beat the left. They beat the old Dems.</p>
<p>The old Dems were crippled by the progressive agenda. They were pretending to be moderates while ObamaCare, illegal alien amnesty and gay marriage were looking over their shoulders. They married Obama and it was too late for them to get a divorce. And it doesn’t look any better down the road.</p>
<p>The Clintons became the public face of the Democrats, but instead of turning things around, they presided over a series of defeats. Bill Clinton couldn’t even save Mark Pryor in Arkansas. Not only that, he had to watch Republicans take every congressional seat in Arkansas and the governor’s mansion.</p>
<p>Bill had wanted Hillary to play Sarah Palin, turning her into a kingmaker and building on a narrative of female empowerment by having her back female senators. Instead Kay Hagan, Michelle Nunn, Alison Lundergan Grimes and Amanda Curtis lost. Not only did Hillary Clinton fail to deliver, but the War on Women narrative was turned inside out by the rise of Joni Ernst.</p>
<p>Ernst’s emergence as the definitive new senator of the election killed any chance that Democrats had of spinning the election results as sexist; even if Harkin’s Taylor Swift crack hadn’t done that on its own.</p>
<p>The Dems had gambled that the War on Women could offset Obama’s unpopularity, but voters were more concerned about the economy than the culture war. Not only novelty candidates like Wendy Davis, but incumbents like Mark Udall, tried for what they thought was a winning strategy. But the War on Women wasn’t a strategy, it was a fake talking point that their own consultants had forgotten to tell them was disinformation that they had created to seed the media and spread fear among Republicans.</p>
<p>Romney had won white women in every age group. Increased turnout by minority women had skewed the numbers, but those numbers reflected racial solidarity, not a gender gap. Progressives had not bothered to tell their old Dem cousins what they were doing. The Senate Dems marched into political oblivion by adopting the Wendy Davis platform to the bafflement and ridicule of female voters.</p>
<p>The War on Women meme was greeted with laughter in New York and Colorado. Senator Udall was dubbed Mark Uterus by his own supporters and performed worse with female voters than in 2008. Meanwhile in Iowa, Joni Ernst had split the female vote which Harkin had won by 64 percent in 2008.</p>
<p>Not only did Hillary Clinton do more damage to her brand by failing to deliver white and women voters, but the Democratic Party is stunned, confused and divided. And the damage is self-inflicted.</p>
<p>The Clintons thought that they could reunite a splintering Democratic Party by taking on a Republican midterm election wave. Obama sabotaged Reid to keep the Democratic Party leaning to the left. Reid is now attacking Obama openly in a way that would have been inconceivable a year ago. Obama’s people are returning the favor by going after Reid and Schumer. The war of the two parties has begun.</p>
<p>The old Dems have no ideas and no agenda. The progressives want to get as much of their agenda done even if it’s by executive order and even if it makes them even more unpopular than they are now. The old Dems have realized that they are the ones who will pay a political price for progressive radicalism.</p>
<p>And waiting in the wings is the 2016 election.</p>
<p>Obama has made it clear that he is willing to nuke his own party to get amnesty done. But for the first time his party seems less than eager to sacrifice its short term greed for the agendas of the left. And the only man who could tie the two wings together has emerged weakened from the Battle of Arkansas.</p>
<p>Amnesty promises radical demographic change, but red state Dems want to protect their positions today. They aren’t doing it for the ideology. They want to stay in office. The mutual backstabbing ended in disaster for the Democrats and there’s no reason to think that the backstabbing is going to stop.</p>
<p>Obama won’t just have to fight Republicans for the next two years. He’ll also have to fight Democrats.</p>
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		<title>The Democrats Can’t Afford to Lose Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without Israel, the Democratic Party loses its Jewish appeal.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/184336_10150105990684863_500619862_5962078_1869452_n.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-244585 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/184336_10150105990684863_500619862_5962078_1869452_n-383x350.jpg" alt="184336_10150105990684863_500619862_5962078_1869452_n" width="285" height="260" /></a>Jewish leftists keep threatening to break up with Israel. They deliver a list of their demands, scribble nasty things about the Jewish State on social media and even write entire books in which they threaten to break up with it for good, but they never actually move on to stalking some other country.</p>
<p>Peter “Crisis of Zionism” Beinart, Jeffrey “Chickens__t” Goldberg act like jealous boyfriends constantly warning Israel that they are about to break up with it.</p>
<p>But the break up never happens. It can’t.</p>
<p>Stalkers use their victims to prop up their shaky identity. Without Israel, Jewish leftists who call themselves liberals become indistinguishable from the generic left.</p>
<p>They can hate Israel, but they can’t let go of it.</p>
<p>Jewish “liberal” support for Israel isn’t fading. The Jewish liberal is becoming less liberal and less Jewish. He is becoming a leftist with a Jewish last name and no amount of Israeli concessions to terrorists will convince Jewish leftists to put their Jewish identity ahead of their leftist politics.</p>
<p>Israel can’t do anything to reverse that trend. Banning more Jews from living in Jerusalem, the latest demand of Obama and J Street, won’t save them from themselves.</p>
<p>This isn’t an Israeli crisis. It’s a crisis of American Jews.</p>
<p>J Street churns out editorials urging Jewish groups to connect with young Jews by bashing Israel. And who better to lecture us on connecting with Jewish youth than an astroturfed organization backed by an 84-year-old Nazi collaborator who called his own mother a Jewish anti-Semite.</p>
<p>The left’s hatred for Israel predated its existence. The left doesn’t hate Israel because of its policies. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/dgreenfield/how-four-influential-socialist-anti-semites-shaped-the-left/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">It hates Jews</span></a>.</p>
<p>“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money,” Marx said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Jew is the enemy of the human race. One must send this race back to Asia or exterminate it,&#8221; said Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the Socialist economist and &#8220;Father of Anarchism.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Until they are prepared to assimilate and abandon the Chosen People idea altogether, their troubles are bound to intensify,” H.G. Wells said, as the Holocaust was underway.</p>
<p>“When we speak of Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit, the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, the spirit of commerce,” said Pierre Leroux, who coined the term &#8220;Socialism.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews,” said Charles Fourier, who coined the term &#8220;Feminism.&#8221;</p>
<p>None of these thought leaders of the left had ever seen an Israeli soldier in the West Bank.</p>
<p>Political extremism aligns with anti-Semitism. As American liberals become leftists, they are more likely to become anti-Semitic. A quick look at Europe shows us that this is true. There is nothing except reason and decency that prevents Jews from being anti-Semites and reason and decency are the first casualties of the political extremism of the left.</p>
<p>Marx could denounce Jews as the embodiment of filthy capitalism because he did not have a Jewish identity. There are plenty of Marx’s out there smashing the windows of Jewish stores, chanting hate outside synagogues and supporting genocidal terrorists despite their facial features or genetic markers.</p>
<p>The fake liberal Zionists warning Israel that it’s alienating them are selling the myth of a Jewish liberalism that will turn anti-Israel and yet go on existing.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">It’s an empty threat because <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-death-of-jewish-liberalism/">the demographics are against them</a>.</span></p>
<p>In the last election, Jewish support in New York City for Obama <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-death-of-jewish-liberalism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was down to 51 percent</span></a>. The odds that the city’s growing Orthodox population, most of whom have relatives living in Jerusalem, will join in with the Obama cry of “Jews get out of Jerusalem” is somewhere between zero and zip.</p>
<p>Why hasn’t Obama openly and vocally turned on Israel instead of leaking nasty quotes to his media pals? Why are the phone booths filled with spurned liberal Zionists, who are neither liberal nor Zionists, calling up Israel and breathing heavily into the phone before passing on something nasty that some anonymous person in the White House supposedly said.</p>
<p>The political connection between Jews and the Democratic Party has become tenuous over the years. Unlike other minorities, Democrats don’t actually meet the needs of the Jewish community. Their agenda of high taxes punishes Jews financially. Their hostility to religion has made it harder for Jewish families to provide a religious education for their children.</p>
<p>They plow plenty of money into non-profits with a Jewish label, but those organizations mostly benefit the same urban minority populations and leftist staffers as other leftist non-profits.</p>
<p>Subtract Israel from the equation and the linkage between Jews and the Democratic Party suddenly becomes very shaky. Democrats have a basic rule of thumb. They mention Martin Luther King at black events, Israel at Jewish events and immigration at Latino events.</p>
<p>That’s why the Democratic Party’s political establishment frantically warns against making Israel into a partisan issue. The last DNC convention showed that its delegates hate the Jewish State, but it can’t allow Israel to become a Republican issue because then it loses its only tangibly Jewish position.</p>
<p>Subtract Israel and the Democratic Party is reduced to making Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s argument that abortion is a fundamental Jewish issue. That may still play in her district, but Jewish support for abortion has been steadily falling. Last year a poll in New York showed that nearly as many Jews as White Catholics wanted to make abortion illegal.</p>
<p>Without Israel, the Democratic Party’s appeal to Jews becomes a hard litmus test over increasingly controversial social issues even as the demographics favor socially conservative Jewish communities.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party and its leftist hag riders want to avoid a crackup like that at all costs. Obama may secretly threaten and disparage Israel, he may implement flight bans and weapons cutoffs and sell out Israel at the United Nations, but a public break risks fragmenting his own political base.</p>
<p>The ranks of the Jewish left will continue to expand. New generations with weaker Jewish identities who have been indoctrinated on hatefilled campuses will be much less likely to support Israel. But this is a reality, that like leftist and Muslim anti-Semitism, exists entirely apart from anything that Israel does.</p>
<p>The American Jewish consensus is coming apart. American Jews, like Americans in general, are splitting into a left and a right. But the demographics of the Jewish left have no staying power when it comes to having children or staying Jewish. The left got ahead of the problem nationally by changing the country’s demographics, but they can’t turn millions of illegal aliens Jewish the way that they can amnesty them.</p>
<p>This isn’t a crisis of Zionism. It’s a crisis facing American Jews.</p>
<p>Beinart, Goldberg and the other jealous boyfriends threatening the Jewish State have no cards to play. The larger social trends at work in Israel and America will not be altered by what happens in the West Bank. Their real argument is not with Israelis, but with Americans.</p>
<p>American Jewry is refighting many of the same battles that tore apart Russian Jews along the fault lines of tradition, religion, socialism and radical social change. That struggle climaxed with the Jewish left’s repression and mass murder of Russian Jews under the USSR before the Communist butchers of the Jewish Section who had shut down synagogues and murdered Rabbis were themselves put down.</p>
<p>Zionism is one of the issues at stake in the battle between traditional Jews and the radical left, but it’s not the only issue. And Israel can’t determine the outcome of that battle. Only American Jews can.</p>
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<p>If 34 million individuals were amnestied the U.S. population would grow by more than a tenth. The U.S. Census Bureau currently estimates the nation&#8217;s population at a little over 319 million. There is no official count of illegal aliens present in the United States but 11 million is one widely circulated estimate. <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/press-releases/illegal-aliens-estimated-20-38-million">Some studies</a> put the figure as high as 38 million.</p>
<p>The procurement order is a smoking gun suggesting that President Obama intends to plunge the nation into a grave constitutional crisis after Election Day by using executive orders to unilaterally enact an amnesty affecting millions of undocumented aliens now unlawfully present in the United States. The prospective amnesty could also impact aliens who have yet to arrive in the country.</p>
<p>Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of how much damage he inflicts on the country.</p>
<p>A large-scale amnesty would be a profoundly cynical move that would reward lawbreaking and beget future immigration amnesties. It would also spell electoral death for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies.</p>
<p>The amnesty that Obama promised his radical political base had been widely expected to take place after Labor Day last month but in the summer the president took significant political heat over the plan and the still-ongoing invasion of the southern border by illegal aliens &#8211;many of them unaccompanied minors and gang members &#8212; from Central America. Obama then apparently decided to delay the executive action until after next month&#8217;s elections in hopes of not sabotaging Democrats&#8217; efforts to hang onto control of the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s scheme came to light when Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/19/Exclusive-Obama-Admin-Quietly-Prepares-Surge-Of-Millions-Of-Immigrant-IDs">uncovered</a> a draft request for proposals that appears to provide broad outlines of the president&#8217;s extra-legal amnesty scheme two weeks before congressional elections that may place both chambers of Congress in the hands of Republicans.</p>
<p>The Oct. 6 procurement document prepared by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires that prospective documentation vendors be able to handle a &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario involving 9 million ID cards in a one-year period “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements.” This means the USCIS is gearing up to more than double the baseline quantity of green cards and work permits it issues.</p>
<p>USCIS will need at least 4 million cards a year and an extra 5 million cards in 2016 under the &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario. “The guaranteed minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards,&#8221; according to the document. &#8220;The estimated maximum for the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards.”</p>
<p>USCIS is purchasing materials needed to make Permanent Residency Cards (PRC), also referred to as green cards, as well as Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards that have been issued under Obama&#8217;s legally questionable Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It is unclear how many of each kind of card USCIS would issue.</p>
<p>Jessica Vaughan of the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the USCIS document “seems to indicate that the president is contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the plan that Congress rejected in the &#8216;Gang of Eight&#8217; bill.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Even four million combined green cards and EADs is a significant number, let alone the &#8216;surge&#8217; contemplated by USCIS,&#8221; according to the article by investigative reporter Jonathan Strong of Breitbart News. &#8220;For instance, in the first two years after Obama unilaterally enacted DACA, about 600,000 people were approved by USCIS under the program. Statistics provided by USCIS on its website show that the entire agency had processed 862,000 total EADs in 2014 as of June.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Obama-Admin-We-May-Need-Millions-Of-Ids-For-Any-Number-Of-Reasons">brushed off</a> the apparent significance of the request for proposals.</p>
<p>“Solicitations of this nature are frequent practice for all USCIS contracts and allow the Agency to be prepared for fluctuations in the number of immigration applications received, which can arise for any number of reasons,” USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley yawned.</p>
<p>Republicans lawmakers bristled.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), a longtime amnesty opponent, said the request for proposals is a “startling confirmation of the crisis facing our Republic.”</p>
<p>Kevin Smith, an aide to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who along with the congressional GOP leadership supports some kind of immigration amnesty, said Boehner rejects the Obama plan. “The Speaker has made perfectly clear to the president that it is unacceptable for him to unilaterally re-write immigration law on his own and the Speaker will never support this type of action,” Smith said.</p>
<p>Although amnesty remains deeply unpopular among the American public at large, the activist Left wants the illegal aliens present in the U.S. to be processed because they see them as future Democratic voters. In addition, many labor unions, such as SEIU (which has executives focused solely on immigration issues) see today’s illegals as future union members. Business lobbies favor amnesty because they crave the cheap, largely unskilled labor.</p>
<p>The radicals’ goal is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it has been since the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded reform of that era’s immigration laws through Congress. The concept is simple: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society.</p>
<p>President Lyndon Johnson at least allowed the lawmaking process to function, signing the immigration reforms of the day into law after they had worked their way through Congress.</p>
<p>President Obama isn&#8217;t that patient. He doesn&#8217;t care what Congress does. He&#8217;s got a pen and a phone &#8211;and now a request for proposals involving 34 million immigration documents &#8212; with which to fundamentally transform America.</p>
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		<title>Dems Hoping &#8220;Ferguson Anger&#8221; Will Let Them Keep the Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Never let a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/politics/at-risk-in-senate-democrats-seek-to-rally-blacks.html">manufactured crisis go to waste</a>. The plantation is eager to find some more black voters to help Harry Reid keep his job.</p>
<blockquote><p>With their Senate majority imperiled, Democrats are trying to mobilize African-Americans outraged by the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., to help them retain control of at least one chamber of Congress for President Obama’s final two years in office.</p>
<p>In black churches and on black talk radio, African-American civic leaders have begun invoking the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, along with conservative calls to impeach Mr. Obama, as they urge black voters to channel their anger by voting Democratic in the midterm elections, in which minority turnout is typically lower.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s all about the &#8220;anger&#8221;.</p>
<p>The media kept claiming that the Tea Party was angry&#8230; but now it turns out to be the Democrats.</p>
<p>Or as Obama told Latinos, &#8220;Punish our enemies&#8221;. This is the naked racist divisiveness promoted by the Democratic Party.</p>
<blockquote><p>Other steps, such as recruiting N.B.A. players to help register more African-Americans, are also underway.</p></blockquote>
<p>Come for the NBA players. Stay for the racism.</p>
<blockquote><p>“If there was as much marching at high noon on Election Day, we would not have to march at midnight,” said Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking House Democrat, alluding to the late-night protests in Ferguson.</p>
<p>The Rev. Al Sharpton said listeners to his nationally syndicated radio show were increasingly focused on the elections. “People feel like they would be betraying the spirit of what happened in Ferguson, as well as enabling this impeachment rhetoric, if there’s a low turnout,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Vote for a bunch of rich white guys&#8230; for the spirit of Ferguson.</p>
<p>If only the Democrats had controlled the Senate, Michael Brown would never have been shot. Oh wait&#8230; they did control it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta said whites — or, as he put it, “the majority community” — did not fully appreciate the fury among African-Americans and their desire to register their discontent.</p>
<p>“The most important tribute you can make to individuals who you believe were treated unfairly is to exercise your franchise.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The most important thing to do&#8230; is help keep Reed&#8217;s party bosses in power. Do it for Michael Brown. Or the NBA. Or whatever.</p>
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		<title>The New Reagan Democrats and Joe Piscopo&#8217;s Farewell to the Dems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note how some former cast members from Saturday Night Live, from back when it was funny, drifted over to the right.</p>
<p>Piscopo though isn&#8217;t in that category. Yet. What&#8217;s interesting though is<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/piscopo-confessions-of-a-disillusioned-democrat/?page=all#pagebreak"> what his departure article says about </a>the independent voter.</p>
<blockquote><p>When I met President Reagan, I felt inspired. I want to feel inspired again. Like Reagan, I think the time has come for me to leave the party I’ve been a member of my entire life — not because I want to leave it, but because it has already left me&#8230;</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m ready to become a Republican yet (although despite their lack of solutions, I still find myself rooting for the Republicans in the midterm elections for the first time I can recall).</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s a familiar pattern here.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s disillusioned by what the Democratic Party has become without having any particular enthusiasm for the Republican Party. He&#8217;s rooting for the Republicans to win because they&#8217;re an alternative to a disastrous party, not because he likes what they stand for.</p>
<p>He joins a lot of Democrats turned independent voters who might have become Reagan Democrats in 2012 if there had been a Reagan running. But the Republican Party still has no real leadership and it hasn&#8217;t been able to articulate much in the way of a positive vision. Instead it spends much of its time playing defense or offense, games that the wider public doesn&#8217;t care much about.</p>
<p>But the open space is there.</p>
<p>Hillary&#8217;s new semi-conservative persona is all about trying to win back somewhat apolitical working class white voters. It&#8217;s the opposite of the Obama strategy which was to increase turnout by a committed base and demonize the opposition.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a mishmash of things here.</p>
<blockquote><p>I was a Democrat because I believed in civil rights, like Lyndon Johnson. I was a Democrat because while it was clear to me that the Republican politicians were out of touch and cared for only the upper class, Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt cared for the masses and helping the working man. I was a Democrat because I believed in a strong defense and opposed communism, like John F. Kennedy. And I was a Democrat because I loved the fact that Kennedy understood we needed lower marginal tax rates.</p></blockquote>
<p>We can all poke holes in this, but that&#8217;s not the point. The point is how people think and what they want.</p>
<blockquote><p>From where I’m standing, the party has largely abandoned its commitment to civil rights and instead allows race-baiters to be national power brokers&#8230;</p>
<p>I am hurt that there is not one Democrat in Washington who cares enough about the great inner cities of this country to help those in dire distress from poverty and crime. These cities are in worse shape than those countries from which all those illegal “children” crossing our borders daily are coming&#8230;.</p>
<p>Most disheartening, though, is the Democrats’ weak commitment to a strong defense and maintaining America’s place in the world as the only superpower&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>These are Dem weak points that the Republican Party has simply failed to exploit in any meaningful fashion. David Horowitz has written about it. So have others.</p>
<p>Some Republicans have managed decent messaging on point 3. Point 1 has been mostly ceded. So has Point 2.</p>
<p>Hillary&#8217;s people understand these weak points. She intends to close the messaging gaps on them, even if she alienates some on the left.</p>
<p>A serious Republican candidate is going to have to talk about them seriously.</p>
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		<title>Santa Claus and the Israel Lobby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 04:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AIPAC-620x350.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226260 alignleft" alt="AIPAC-620x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AIPAC-620x350-450x254.jpg" width="315" height="178" /></a>Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, the Israel Lobby is a myth. AIPAC, like jolly bearded men sitting in shopping malls, exists. And like the men with fake beards and pillows under their red coats, it goes through the motions. Its activists lobby, its events attract politicians and the one thing that it and its enemies agree on is its vast sphere of political influence that, like Santa, is absolutely everywhere.</span></p>
<p>If you believe AIPAC, it’s an incredibly effective organization. If you believe its enemies, AIPAC runs America and parts of Canada. It’s not an accusation that AIPAC denies too hard. Mall Santas don’t deny that they have flying reindeer waiting for them on the roof. AIPAC is a fat man in a rented red suit and fake beard trying to pretend that it can do anything. But AIPAC would have better luck making reindeer fly than countering the dominant power of the anti-Israel left and the Saudi lobby in Washington D.C.</p>
<p>And that’s because it doesn’t even try.</p>
<p>When the Democratic Party’s platform deleted the usual mention of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, removed a call to boycott Hamas and opposition to the “Right of Return” vocal protests came from Jewish organizations.</p>
<p>AIPAC was not one of them.</p>
<p>DNC aides claimed that AIPAC had reviewed and approved the new party platform, a claim that it denied. AIPAC’s submission contained a reference to Jerusalem, but the organization, often wrongly described as “hard-line” or “right-wing” by the media, made no objection to its omission.</p>
<p>Obama had already rejected two of these points, one overtly and one covertly, with the third yet to come up, making them little more than the fake beard they had been all along. AIPAC, which was being the DNC’s bipartisan fake beard for pro-Israel voters, did not waste time talking about them.</p>
<p>Once the outrage bubbled over, AIPAC, true to form, took credit for restoring Jerusalem. It did not do it to protect Israel. It did it to protect itself.</p>
<p>AIPAC isn’t a pro-Israel lobby. It’s a pro-AIPAC lobby.</p>
<p>If AIPAC didn’t exist, Israel’s enemies would have had to invent it. Its existence gives them a powerful “Israel Lobby” to tilt against. Photos and videos of prominent politicians at AIPAC conferences feed the myth of an organization whose influence reaches into the highest levels of government.</p>
<p>But AIPAC’s influence comes from its lack of influence. When influential politicians are naturally pro-Israel, AIPAC takes credit for it in its donation envelopes. And when they aren’t, AIPAC shuts up.</p>
<p>Under Obama, AIPAC has shut up. It sat out the nomination fight over Chuck Hagel. The former Nebraska senator with ties to the Iran lobby had said, “The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.” If anything, Obama had intimidated AIPAC. Not that AIPAC has ever been hard to intimidate.</p>
<p>AIPAC not only backed down from Obama and Hagel, it even backed down from criticizing J Street’s Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, over her opposition to sanctions on Iran. It supported Congressman Bill Pascrell over a pro-Israel GOP candidate.</p>
<p>If AIPAC can’t take on Schultz and Pascrell, is there any influential Democratic politician it can take on?</p>
<p>AIPAC backed away from a showdown with Obama over Iran sanctions. Instead after pressure from the White House it pulled out all the stops to lobby in favor of Obama’s strikes against Syria. Some asked whether it had now become the pro-Syrian lobby. AIPAC had avoided the Iraq War, but at a phone call allowed itself to be used to push for Syrian military strikes that would have benefited Israel’s enemies.</p>
<p>It was not the first time AIPAC had lobbied for Israel’s enemies. AIPAC had brought the Palestinian Authority’s people to Capitol Hill and still lobbies against any cuts in foreign aid to the front group for the PLO.</p>
<p>AIPAC’s opposition to Rand Paul’s bill cutting off aid to the PA/PLO after its unity agreement with Hamas wasn’t anything new. AIPAC <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1010/AIPAC_differs_with_Cantor_on_Israel_aid.html">had also opposed Eric Cantor’s</a> proposal in 2010 to separate Israel aid from the rest of the foreign aid budget which would have made it easier to achieve reductions in foreign aid.</p>
<p>AIPAC endorsed the 2007 Ackerman-Boustany letter which called Abbas a “peace partner” and urged more aid to the Palestinian Authority. By signing on, AIPAC was joining the ranks of left-wing Anti-Israel groups such as Peace Now, the Israel Policy Forum and the Arab American Institute.</p>
<p>Around the same time <a href="http://carolineglick.com/aipacs_mystifying_behavior/">AIPAC neutered a series</a> of divestment initiatives in companies that do business with Iran and Sudan. It was one of many instances in which AIPAC interfered with a pro-Israel initiative.</p>
<p>Why does AIPAC do these things? Its primary mission is to protect its influence. It’s not, as its critics accuse, an arm of Israel in the United States. Instead it’s a Beltway institution whose agenda is driven by insider contacts and favor trading. Like many other Washington lobbies, its commitment to its political networks is far more important than the agenda that it claims to represent.</p>
<p>AIPAC engages in outreach, not to convince politicians to support Israel, but to convince them to support it. It works to solicit any statement of support for Israel as a validation of its existence.</p>
<p>AIPAC is bipartisan. It is bi-everything. It’s for Israel and for the Palestinian Authority. It’s for supporters of Israel and critics of Israel. If you’re a politician who isn’t openly calling for Israel’s destruction, you can stop by AIPAC’s rubber chicken dinners and deliver a speech written by one of your Jewish staffers.</p>
<p>Everyone comes to AIPAC’s conferences for some cheap applause and a line on their election flyer. Attendees leave believing in the illusion of their own influence, but the influence is a photo op and a few hours of a politician’s time. AIPAC doesn’t ask anything too difficult of the politicians who show up and avoids taking any positions that might embarrass them.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the actual support for Israel, more among Republicans than Democrats, has to do with the Jewish State’s popularity in the United States and its ties to the defense industry. That support rarely moves beyond the tangled defense industry relationships which account for the large foreign aid figures.</p>
<p>AIPAC’s contribution is the production of meaningless letters and resolutions. These policy statements, like the support for Jerusalem, never actually become policy. Instead they provide political cover for politicians like John Kerry who talk pro-Israel and act anti-Israel.</p>
<p>These are the fake beards of the politicians who play Santa to AIPAC while AIPAC plays Santa to American Jews. None of it is real, but it is deeply comforting. AIPAC keeps many American Jews from having to grow up and when reality intrudes, as it did when the Democratic Party tossed Jerusalem, it convinces the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to help it lull them back to sleep.</p>
<p>AIPAC’s influence comes from its relationships, but it avoids fights so as not to endanger those relationships. It would rather have a meaningless letter signed by most of the Senate than back a controversial bill that might make a genuine difference.</p>
<p>Like so much of Washington, AIPAC is an establishment. It’s another of the many institutions in the bubble of the nation’s capital that stopped representing the people and began representing themselves.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 04:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one will ask Hillary if she can tie her shoes.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hillary.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225626" alt="Hillary" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hillary.jpg" width="292" height="319" /></a>In 2008, Democrats insisted that Senator John McCain was too old to be president. At a rally introducing Hillary Clinton, Congressman <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/16/clinton-backer-says-mccain-is-too-old-for-oval-office/">John Murtha criticized him</a> for even running. &#8220;It&#8217;s no old man&#8217;s job,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Obama and Kerry <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/15/mccain.age/index.html?iref=newssearch">used language suggesting </a>that McCain was senile. Left-wing activists claimed that he<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/05/13/Have-Progressives-Forgotten-How-They-Treated-John-McCain-Health-Issues"> could die of skin cancer</a> at any moment. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/weekinreview/09bosman.html">Late night comedians turned McCain&#8217;s</a> age into a target.</p>
<p><i>McClatchy</i> headlined a story, &#8220;Some wonder if McCain&#8217;s too old and wrinkly to be president.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are no stories in which reporters ask passerby if Hillary is too old and wrinkly to take 3 AM phone calls.</p>
<p>In <i>Newsweek</i>, Anna Quindlen, a fanatical Hillary supporter, wrote that, &#8220;The senator&#8217;s pursuit of the presidency reminds me a bit of those women who decide to have a baby in their late 50s.&#8221; If she has any objection to Hillary&#8217;s pursuit of the presidency while pushing 70, she hasn&#8217;t written about it.</p>
<p>By October, spurred by repeated media attacks on his age, 34 percent of Americans said that McCain was too old to be president. The sharp spike in the poll numbers over one month showed how effective the Democratic age smear was.</p>
<p>Had McCain been elected, he would have taken office at 72. If Hillary Clinton wins, she&#8217;ll be 69. And age is suddenly no longer an issue. Neither is health.</p>
<p>Quindlen emphasized that McCain couldn&#8217;t lift his arms over his head. No one is going to ask how flexible Hillary Clinton is in body (the political flexibility of the woman who opposed and supported nearly everything at one time or another is already renowned).</p>
<p>The problem as it turned out was not that McCain was old. It was that he was a Republican.</p>
<p><i>Slate </i>ran an article claiming that McCain&#8217;s brain would go bad over the next eight years, but discussing the state of Hillary&#8217;s brain is out of bounds. Late night comedians won&#8217;t be making jokes about how old Hillary is or how confused she gets in the morning.</p>
<p>Those jokes could only be made about a man who was three years older than she is now.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s outrageous to question the medical consequences of Hillary&#8217;s &#8220;traumatic brain injury&#8221; which took her six months to recover from after passing out and falling down while boarding a plane. But ridiculing Bob Dole&#8217;s dead arm, an injury he suffered while dragging one of his men into a foxhole out of enemy fire during WW2, or McCain&#8217;s inability to lift his arms or perform certain tasks after they were broken by his torturers, was part of the political game.</p>
<p>We can question the health of war veterans, but not of a career politician.</p>
<p>There will be no stories about how wrinkled Hillary&#8217;s skin is. No one will ask her if she can tie her shoes or use Twitter without an assistant. Or whether she forgets things sometimes.</p>
<p>But if a Republican in his late sixties or early seventies becomes a candidate, then the switch will flip and suddenly asking those questions will become fair game.</p>
<p>Again.</p>
<p>The issue isn&#8217;t Hillary&#8217;s brain. It&#8217;s that Democrats don&#8217;t consider themselves accountable in the same way that they expect Republicans to be. It&#8217;s that they consider attacks on Republicans fair game that they are too thin-skinned to accept.</p>
<p>If McCain was too old and his brain too infirm to serve in the White House, the same people making that argument should have to explain why those same questions can&#8217;t even be asked about Hillary. Does three years make a world of difference? Has medical science been so dramatically revolutionized over the last eight years that they no longer matter?</p>
<p>If Hillary isn&#8217;t too old and if her health is off limits, then Democrats should admit that they engaged in cynical ageist attacks to win the White House. But that too would be accountability.</p>
<p>And we have a crisis of accountability.</p>
<p>The Democrat in the White House and his associates refuse to accept responsibility for anything. Any call for accountability results in an explosion of outrage as if the very act of holding the ruling party accountable is a crime.</p>
<p>The huffing and puffing over the suggestion that a woman who took six months to recover from a serious health episode may have health problems that will affect her performance is typical of the way that the Democratic Party behaves.</p>
<p>And of the way that its media auxiliaries echo its agenda.</p>
<p>When Murtha accused McCain of being too old, the media took the attack seriously. When Karl Rove mentioned Hillary&#8217;s health problem, the majority of the stories focused on it as a cynical attack. This partisan coverage gap is not an anomaly. It&#8217;s the new normal.</p>
<p>The problem isn&#8217;t Hillary&#8217;s brain damage. It&#8217;s the Democratic Party&#8217;s brain damage.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party, which has been around since the early 19th century, is just too old. The parts of its brain that relate to accountability and integrity have been burned out. The political party suffered a traumatic brain episode in the sixties and hasn&#8217;t recovered from it since. The left side of its political brain is dominant while the right side has completely withered away.</p>
<p>The Democrats keep insisting that they&#8217;re moving forward, when they&#8217;re actually wandering off to the left. They insist that they&#8217;re centrist when they&#8217;ve completely drifted off the road.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how young or old its candidates are as long as they base their worldview around discredited 19th century ideas about economics and equally discredited 20th century ideas about the virtues of central planning. A youthful body with a decayed brain rotting with ideas that were old when Nixon and LBJ were toddlers isn&#8217;t progressive.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hopelessly reactionary.</p>
<p>Obama may have been in his late forties when elected, but his ideas were around one hundred and forty years old. No matter what age Hillary is, her ideas are equally old. It&#8217;s not the state of her brain that&#8217;s the problem; it&#8217;s the things that she&#8217;s been putting in there since a young age.</p>
<p>If Hillary and her Democratic Party really want to demonstrate their mental fitness, they can start by naming one single new economic idea that they&#8217;ve brought to the table in the last seventy years. And if they can&#8217;t, Americans will ask themselves whether they can afford another eight years of 19th century economics from a party whose last new idea is even older than Hillary.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Semitic Cult Leader Who Channels Ancient Lemurian Warrior is &#8220;Democrat in Good Standing&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 16:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_224800" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/121023-obama-knight.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-224800" alt="JZ Knight with Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/121023-obama-knight-450x326.jpg" width="450" height="326" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">JZ Knight with Obama</p></div>
<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/184965-washington-state-dems-accept-money-from-racist-cult-leader/">JZ Knight is an extremely talented woman</a>. Not only does she channel the spirit of an ancient Lemurian warrior, but<a href="http://watchdogwire.com/northwest/2014/05/01/knight-thurston-county-donation/"> she&#8217;s also a Democrat in good standing</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ramtha is an entity whom JZ Knight claims to channel. According to Knight, Ramtha was a Lemurian warrior who fought the Atlanteans over 35,000 years ago.</p>
<p>Predictions made by the disembodied entity have either failed to come true (e.g. predicting that a holocaust would take place in 1985, or that the USA would be involved in a major war in 1985).</p>
<p>When Knight says she is channeling Ramtha she speaks mostly in English in what sounds like an accent from the Indian Raj.</p>
<p>In his teachings &#8220;Ramtha&#8221; has made several controversial statements such as that Christianity is a &#8220;backward&#8221; religion and that &#8220;murder isn&#8217;t really wrong or evil&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/obscenity-laced-video-jz-knight-causes-political-s/nSm5F/">Ramtha is also a Democrat </a><a href="http://www.nwdailymarker.com/2014/04/nation-polishes-nba-owner-sterling-dems-wa-take-65k-j-z-knight-known-offensive-tirades/">in good standing</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Democrats in Washington State may be forced to reconsider a pledge made Tuesday to hold on to $65,000 in political contributions from J.Z Knight, as video and audio recordings of inflammatory statements the Yelm-based spirit channeler made about Mexicans, gays, Catholics, Jews and even organic farmers have once again been made public on the Internet.</p>
<p>&#8220;And don&#8217;t you tell me that good Catholics, those &#8212;-ing homosexual priests…&#8221; Knight says in the video.</p>
<p>In another clip, Knight uses obscene language attacking Jews, saying &#8220;… wanted you to be wealthy and you gave it up to a &#8212;-ing Jew.&#8221;</p>
<p>“All Mexicans are not worthy of conscious thought.”</p>
<p>“All gay men were once Catholic women.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously the Democrats aren&#8217;t giving the money back. Knight is a Democrat in good standing.</p>
<blockquote><p>Thurston County Democratic Party Chair Roger Erskine said the Central Committee is not considering refunding the contributions and characterized the statements made by Knight as “alleged.”</p>
<p>Erskine said  the decision to accept Knight’s contributions was made by unanimous vote at a recent committee meeting and the decision was based on the board’s having “verified that Knight was a Democrat in good standing who supports all parts of the party platform.”</p></blockquote>
<p>They said it. They should have to live with it.</p>
<p>Also there&#8217;s something about Obama being the last black Pope before Italy sinks into the sea.</p>
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<blockquote><p>“What do you have to look forward to in 2009? You have elected the last black pope, the last black pope of history. The seers of antiquity never knew what a president was. There was no such thing as a president. A superior, inspiring, spiritual leader was called a pope, so the seers saw in the lens of their future a black pope. He would be the runner to the end. He is called the last black pope.</p>
<p>“…Is he the last figment of hope? He absolutely is. But if he prays to a Christian God, he will lose.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s the new Democratic Party. Sick, twisted, hateful and insane.</p>
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		<title>Illiberal &#8216;Liberalism&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/41eaIef4eCL.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224513" alt="41eaIef4eCL" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/41eaIef4eCL-233x350.jpg" width="186" height="280" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/175281">Hoover Institution</a>. </em></p>
<p>During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama let slip his disdain for the middle-class when he explained his lack of traction among such voters. “It’s not surprising then,” Obama said, “that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” More recently, U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley mocked his opponent incumbent Chuck Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.” The liberal disdain for ordinary Americans has been around for a long time. Beneath the populist rhetoric and concern for the middle class that lace the campaign speeches of most liberal politicians, there lurks a palpable disgust, and often contempt, for the denizens of “flyover country,” that land of God, guns, religion, and traditional beliefs.</p>
<p>In <em>Revolt Against the Masses</em>, the Manhattan Institute senior fellow and <em>New York Post </em>columnist Fred Siegel presents a clearly written and engaging historical narrative of how nearly a century ago this strain of illiberal liberalism began to take over the Democratic Party. Along the way he also provides an excellent political history of the period that illuminates the “ugly blend of sanctimony, self-interest, and social-connections” lying at the heart of liberalism today.</p>
<p>Siegel begins with a valuable survey of the “progenitors,” the early twentieth-century thinkers and writers whose ideas shaped the liberal ideology. Those who know English writer H. G. Wells only as an early pioneer of science-fiction novels may be surprised to find how popular and widely read in America his philosophical and political writings were in the first few decades of the century. Wells’s 1901 <em>Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought</em> laid out the argument for a quasi-aristocratic elite of technocrats free of traditional values such as “monogamy, faith in God &amp; respectability,” all of which Wells’s book “was designed to undermine and destroy,” as he frankly admitted. Applying Darwinism to social, political, and economic life, Wells envisioned, as Siegel explains, “scientist-poets and engineers” who would “seize the reins in the Darwinian struggle,” so that instead of “descending into savagery, we would follow their lead toward new and higher ground.” In Wells’s work we see the melding of attacks on traditional authority and middle-class morality, with the scientistic faith in technocratic elites that still characterizes modern liberalism.</p>
<p>Wells’s kindred American spirit was Progressive theorist Herbert Croly, whose 1901 <em>The Promise of American Life </em>Siegel calls the “first political manifesto of modern American liberalism.” Croly “rejected American tradition, with its faith in the Constitution and its politics of parties and courts, and argued for rebuilding America’s foundation on higher spiritual and political principles that would transcend traditional ideas of democracy and self-government.”</p>
<p>As much as Wells, or for that matter Mussolini and Lenin, Croly “wanted the collective power of society put ‘at the service of its ablest members,’ who would take the lead roles in the drama of social re-creation.” Similarly, leftist intellectual Randolph Bourne wondered “whether there aren’t advantages in having administration of the State taken care of by a scientific body of men with social sense.” Bourne seasoned his antidemocratic elitism with a romantic idealization of “Youth,” which was a time when the ideals “will be the highest…the insight the clearest, the ideas the most stimulating,” an early example of the worship of adolescents that exploded in the 1960s and is still felt in our culture today. And perhaps most famously, journalist H.L. Mencken serially displayed his contempt for the American people, whom he called a “rabble of ignorant peasants.”</p>
<p>In Siegel’s reading, modern liberalism was midwifed in the 1920s by the break with Progressivism over Woodrow Wilson’s decision to take the United States into World War I, and the “wartime conscription, the repression of civil liberties, Prohibition, and the overwrought fears of Bolshevism in America.” The scorn of patriotism and the American masses, brutally described by Mencken as a “timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob,” became the default sensibility of litterateurs, journalists, and intellectuals alike, who viewed “American society and democracy” as “agents of repression,” sentiments that “deepened during the 1920s and have been an ongoing current in liberalism ever since.” The influential literary manifestation of this prejudice remains Sinclair Lewis’s 1920 bestseller <em>Main Street</em>, which along with <em>Babbitt </em>two years later fixed the caricature of Middle America uncritically endorsed by liberals nearly a century later.</p>
<p>Siegel moves briskly through the subsequent events and developments that seemingly legitimized liberal bigotry against the middle class as objective history. The 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, a “contrivance from the start,” as Siegel writes, and immortalized in the historically challenged 1955 Broadway hit <em>Inherit the Wind</em>, established the meme of the brave and noble man of “science” battling slack-jawed, oppressive Christian fundamentalists. This cliché predictably surfaces in liberal commentary on issues ranging from teaching Darwinian evolution, to the validity of global warming. In the 1930s idolizing the Soviet Union and communism, a reflex of liberal disdain for capitalism and its déclassé obsession with getting and spending, began its long march through American culture and education.</p>
<p>A corollary to this admiration has been the fervent liberal belief that America is to some degree “fascist,” and in imminent danger of becoming a fascist state, a preposterous notion made famous by Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel <em>It Can’t Happen Here</em>. This hoary received wisdom has managed to survive the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of its archives, which established beyond doubt that Communist subversion and infiltration of America’s institutions were in fact by far a greater threat to democracy than a fascist takeover. Despite that history, in 2004 Philip Roth published <em>The Plot Against America</em>, which indulged to high praise the same long-exploded fantasy.</p>
<p>Particularly valuable are Siegel’s brief portraits of once prominent liberal commentators and critics like Arthur Schlesinger, whose influence lives in the “aristocratic aping of professional liberals who expect, given their putative expertise, to be obeyed.” They refined and perpetuated the old caricature of Americanism “as the mass pursuit of prosperity by an energetic but crude, grasping people chasing their private ambitions without the benefit of a clerisy to guide them,” enslaved to “their futile quest for material well-being, and numbed by the popular entertainments that appealed to the lowest common denominator.” In the 1950s, the liberal critic Dwight Macdonald groused of a America blessed with “money, leisure and knowledge” that had merely given the average American “masscult” and “midcult,” the vulgar “American culture of the cheap newspaper, the movies, the popular song, the ubiquitous automobile,” fit fare for the “hordes of men and women without a spiritual country . . . without taste, without standards but those of the mob.”</p>
<p>Yet as Siegel points out, this same period saw an explosion in the numbers of average people studying and experiencing the artistic and literary masterpieces of Western civilization. Local symphony orchestras increased by 250 percent between 1940 and 1955, and in that same year “35 million paid to attend classical-music concerts. The New York Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday-afternoon radio broadcast drew a listenership of 15 million,” almost 10 percent of the population. Fifty million televisions viewers watched Laurence Olivier in <em>Richard III</em>, book-sales doubled, and paperback versions of highbrow novels like Saul Bellow’s <em>The Adventures of Augie March</em> or non-fiction works like anthropologist Ruth Benedict’s <em>Patterns of Culture</em> became bestsellers. Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins introduced the pricey Great Books series, which by 1951 was being purchased by 50,000 Americans a year, who met in 2,500 Great Books groups to talk about the classics of Western civilization. As Siegel mordantly observes, “<em>This</em>was the danger against which critics of mass culture, inflamed with indignation, arrayed themselves against.”</p>
<p>Siegel’s survey ends with the presidency of Barack Obama. As <em>The</em> <em>Revolt Against the Masses</em> comes to a close, the policies and philosophy of Obama’s administration––best represented by the Affordable Care Act–– will strike the reader as the inevitable culmination of the ideological development Siegel has skillfully traced. The liberal elite’s disdain for a middle America of businessmen and churchgoers, which has always been linked to an uncritical admiration for Europe, has with Obama’s reelection created a political order teetering on the edge of fiscal collapse: “[Liberalism’s] sustained assault on the private-sector middle class and the ideals of self-restraint and self-government have, particularly in the blue states, succeeded all too well in achieving the dream of the 1920s literary Bolsheviks: an increasingly Europeanized class structure for America.”</p>
<p>One might argue with Siegel’s assertion of the “sharp break” between Progressivism and liberalism. On foreign policy this disagreement is obvious, and the liberals’ endorsement of illiberal identity politics in the 1960s would have horrified old-school Progressives, who were Darwinian eugenicists anxious over being swamped by the inferior races. The Progressives, even more than the liberals, disdained the masses, viewing them as an abstract collectivist “people,” Woodrow Wilson’s ideal “single community, co-operative as in a perfected, coordinated beehive.” This conception of the “people” ignored the great variety of regional, sectional, and religious identities, Madisonian factions, and clashing interests comprising flesh-and-blood Americans.</p>
<p>Progressives, moreover, like liberals homogenized and nationalized those various interests and aims as these were defined and chosen by techno-political elites. One hears H. G. Wells’s and Randolph Bourne’s impatience with democratic self-rule and preference for a managerial elite in Wilson’s call to “open for the public a bureau of skilled, economical administration,” comprising the “hundreds who are wise” empowered to guide the “thousands” who are “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish.” What liberalism shares with the Progressives––the “living” Constitution, big government, regulation of the economy, and the redistribution of property to achieve “social justice”––far outweighs their differences.</p>
<p><em>The Revolt Against the Masses</em> is an important book, a first-rate intellectual history that clearly and crisply explains much of the political and cultural dysfunctions roiling the United States today. Siegel’s well-researched analysis of the liberal abandonment of self-government and individual freedom–– a betrayal of the Constitutional order justified in the main by social prejudice, class snobbery, and bad Continental philosophy––is a brilliant exposition of a century of bad ideas that have led to today’s bloated Leviathan state, these days on track to bankrupt the treasury and diminish our freedom.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I don&#8217;t think this is as likely to happen as some conservative pundits do. The Dems would really have to be up against an electoral apocalypse in 2014 to bend on this.</p>
<p>But they have another motive that hasn&#8217;t been widely discussed.</p>
<p>Obama is now a lame duck. Their goal is to move Hillary in for 2016. And Hillary Clinton doesn&#8217;t have much to run on except being famous.</p>
<p>Obama had to come up with ObamaCare to challenge Hillary, who didn&#8217;t have much to offer except more health care. With gay marriage in and little interest in foreign policy, she doesn&#8217;t have anything else to push except illegal alien amnesty. And she can&#8217;t be too loud about that in a general election. It can&#8217;t be her signature issue.</p>
<p>If ObamaCare remains a mess, she can run on trying to fix it. But it might be more convenient for Democrats to sweep it off the table so it stops being a dead weight for them in 2014 and 2016.</p>
<p>Repeal ObamaCare&#8230; and suddenly the Democrats can start running on health care reform again.</p>
<p>Yes it sounds stupid, but remember we&#8217;re dealing with voters who sent an unqualified Chicago hack to the White House twice, because they thought he really cared about them.</p>
<p>Take away ObamaCare and replace it with HillaryCare, even though they&#8217;re basically the same thing. HillaryCare wouldn&#8217;t pass in Congress as it is now, but if ObamaCare remains an obstacle, then Republicans may end up with enough votes to straight up repeal it. And if ObamaCare continues to be a dead weight, the political gamble may be worth it.</p>
<p>ObamaCare might not be completely repealed, but it would be neutered and dismantled so that it was no longer on the minds of voters.</p>
<p>The obstacle to that move is Obama. There are many names that he&#8217;s been called, but team player isn&#8217;t one of them. Taking a hit for Hillary isn&#8217;t something he wants to do. Especially since without ObamaCare, his two terms come down to nothing.</p>
<p>As the Democratic Party preps for 2016, it may find itself in a sharp conflict with liberals, Obama&#8217;s OFA monster and the billionaires of the left over ObamaCare and bigger issues as well.</p>
<p>The progressives are already dreaming of bludgeoning Hillary with Elizabeth Warren. The left is increasingly eager to push single payer. And Hillary will have to make the case for either her own health plan or for ObamaCare. It would be easier for her to use her own untested plan, rather than argue that she is the best candidate to fix ObamaCare.</p>
<p>And again, that requires killing ObamaCare.</p>
<p>We may be seeing a repeat of the struggle of 2008 between the Clintons and the Democratic Party and the Obama machine.</p>
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		<title>The Racist, Discriminating Democratic Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real enemy of minorities unveiled.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ah.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-223425" alt="ah" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ah.jpeg" width="263" height="191" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Democratic Party, the party of slavery, which openly practices the only form of discrimination that is acceptable today in American politics – class warfare – and discrimination against the successful, yesterday, for the third time in recent weeks, wrongly accused the Republican Party of racism.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yesterday’s folly saw New York Congressman Steve Israel assert that “to a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism and that’s unfortunate.” This follows remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder, who claimed at a forum on civil rights that the past five years in Washington have been marked by &#8220;unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity.&#8221; &#8220;If you don&#8217;t believe that … you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The reality is that Holder was treated appropriately – as he is inept and this administration is </span>constantly lying to the public.  Americans indeed should know no color when inept people govern; they should be challenged and condemned. It is unfair to assert “racism” when caught lying and cheating as a way to defend yourself.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Earlier this week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blamed racism as to why congressional Republicans do not want to act on comprehensive immigration reform, claiming “I think race has something to do with the fact that they’re not bringing up an immigration bill.” As the Republican National Committee rightly noted, </span>“Democrats are desperate to try to discredit conservatives because they don’t have the facts on their side.”<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Democrats&#8217; claims are unfair, un-American, and most importantly, so untrue.  It forces me, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronn-torossian/">Ronn Torossian</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, to ask: Do the Democrats think minorities are stupid?  Those practicing bias today are the Democrats who say if you are successful, it is permissible to discriminate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When did the revisionist history commence about which party is racist? The Republican Party was born just prior to the Civil War for the sole purpose of combating slavery and it fought against the party of slavery.  The Republican Party is the party of freedom and economic liberty and prosperity – as it was then and now. The Democrat platform of the 1860s was a pro-slavery policy that sought to keep people enslaved. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Democratic Party was the enforcer of &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221; laws and segregation. In 1964, there was a filibuster of the Civil Rights Act by Democrat Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) which lasted 14 hours. The Act was crafted and supported by a vast number of Republicans in the Senate, while opposed by southern Democratic senators (including Al Gore Sr).</span></p>
<p>Today, the Democrats continue to keep people in place and pursue centralized government, as a further way for more government control, particularly over the poor. The Democratic Party seeks to tell people how to eat, raise their families, and in this administration, how to have healthcare.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The concepts of freedom and individualism, and pulling oneself up by one&#8217;s bootstraps, are Republican values which should be embraced.  The Democrats&#8217; continual race accusations offer an opportunity for Republicans – which include Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz– to jump on this discussion.  The Democrats – who wrote and enforced the Jim Crow laws – have not and will not lead minorities (or the rest of this country) in the right direction.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While minorities – wrongly – overwhelmingly vote Democrat, why is it that jobs under this President for African-Americans continue to drop? Total numbers of employment-aged African-Americans in the workforce slid from 58.6 percent in June 2007, to 52.8 percent by August 2012. There is ample history and facts which can be shared to show the long history of the Democrats with racism. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After so many years of supporting liberals, conservatives must pursue a wide-ranging </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.5wpr.com/">public relations campaign</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to remind all Americans to pursue smaller government and reduced spending as a way for all Americans to be more free, and have more opportunity. Yes, the Republican Party needs more diversity – and perhaps the Democrats&#8217; continually raising of these issues is a way to create a campaign where dialogue with minorities can change the minds of many. The Democrats raise fear – rather than facts.</span></p>
<p>Now that there has been an African-American President, it’s time for all Americans to realize that liberty, freedom and opportunity come best with small government and economic freedom.  The liberals&#8217; continued false accusations of race offer an opportunity the GOP must jump upon to educate minorities on the true facts of which party is best for all Americans.</p>
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		<title>Wife of Democratic Politician Narrates Holocaust Denier&#8217;s Documentary Claiming the Sun Revolves Around the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are the party of science]]></description>
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<p>Democrats are the party of science because they keep claiming that 97 percent of scientists believe the sky will fall unless Al Gore becomes a billionaire. In <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/liberals-less-likely-to-know-earth-revolves-around-the-sun-than-conservative-republicans/">reality, they&#8217;re the party of science</a> like Frankenstein&#8217;s monster went to Yale.</p>
<p>A study found that conservative Republicans were the most likely to know that the earth revolves around the sun while Democrats <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/liberals-less-likely-to-know-earth-revolves-around-the-sun-than-conservative-republicans/">were the least likely to know it</a>.</p>
<p>Why do Democrats believe the sun revolves around the earth? It must be their natural feudal instincts.</p>
<p>At any rate, Kate Mulgrew, an actress and the wife of Pennsylvania Democratic politician Tim Hagan, will be narrating a documentary about how the sun revolves around the earth.</p>
<p>Also it&#8217;s a<a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/kate-mulgrew-to-narrate-a-film-about-how-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth/"> documentary from a Holocaust denier</a>&#8230; because Democrats have issues with science and Jews.</p>
<p>Tim Hagan, a Kennedy pal, was the Democratic Party&#8217;s gubernatorial candidate in 2002. Politics is his family business and he only retired recently. His wife has found other ways to make money.</p>
<blockquote><p>A new documentary film, narrated by a former Star Trek actress, promotes the long-ago disproven idea that the sun revolves around the Earth.</p>
<p>“Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong,” says actress Kate Mulgrew as she narrates the trailer for “The Principle.”</p>
<p>Of course, there are other reasons for Mulgrew not to get involved with the makers of this film regardless of their lack of scientific integrity. <a href="http://www.catholicsforisrael.com/en/articles/israel-and-the-church/123-a-response-to-robert-sungenis">Sungenis also happens to be a Holocaust  denier </a>who believes in the “New World Order” and who writes articles about how Jewish people have aligned themselves with Satan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you know what Democrats are also more likely to be than Republicans? Anti-Semitic.</p>
<blockquote><p>Democrats tend to be more anti-Semitic than Republicans. For example, Republicans are less likely to view Jews as caring only about themselves (12 percent) than Democrats or independents (20 percent each).</p></blockquote>
<p>You can&#8217;t blame the Democrats. They&#8217;re just angry over Jewish control of the sun.</p>
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		<title>California&#8217;s ObamaCare Sends Voter Cards Pre-Marked for Democratic Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's only one option in the new Democratic California.]]></description>
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<p>While conservatives talk, liberals build. While conservatives argue, liberals build infrastructure that they control.</p>
<p>While conservatives fine tune arguments, deciding which ideas to keep and which to &#8216;evolve&#8217; on, liberals win the argument <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/covered-california-sends-out-voter-registration-cards-pre-marked-for-democrat-party-video/">by building institutions around people</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>A local couple called 10News concerned after they received an envelope from the state’s Obamacare website, Covered California. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a registration card pre-marked with an “x” in the box next to Democratic Party.</p>
<p>The couple – who did not want their identity revealed – received the letter and voter registration card from their health insurance provider Covered California, the state-run agency that implements President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.</p>
<p>They have lived in La Mesa for years and they have always been registered to vote Republican. Now, they are perplexed as to how the voter registration card pre-marked Democrat ended up in their mailbox.</p>
<p>“I’m an old guy and I never would have noticed it, except I have an accountant that notices every dot and dash on a piece of paper as a wife,” said the man who received the mailer.</p>
<p>Covered California began mailing out voter signup cards to nearly 4 million enrollees last week after being threatened with a lawsuit by voting rights groups. But that does not explain the pre-filled out voter registration card.</p></blockquote>
<p>Getting out the vote and locking it in is half the reason why the left does anything. Its big plan is linking social welfare to voting. ObamaCare is just another link in the chain.</p>
<p>And why bother giving the sheep options? There&#8217;s only meant to be one option in the new Democratic California.</p>
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		<title>The California Democratic Establishment and their Violent &#8220;Change Agent&#8221; Gangster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has been trying to deport Chow]]></description>
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<p>The arrest of Senator Leland Yee, a gun control activist who turned<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/gun-control-senator-who-wanted-to-ban-assault-rifles-took-part-in-shoulder-fired-missiles-deal/"> out to be taking orders for machine guns </a>and shoulder fired missiles, is getting most of the attention. But there&#8217;s no reason to forget that part of the case involves<a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-arrest-in-san-francisco-brings-new-spotlight-on-notorious-past/"> a violent Triad thug</a> embraced by the Democratic establishment.</p>
<blockquote><p>Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow is a former member of a Chinatown street gang and later a member of a Hong Kong-based triad. He was convicted of six gun charges in federal court in 1995 and sentenced to 23 years in prison. He was the leader of a criminal faction of the San Francisco group called the Hop Sing Tong.</p>
<p>Chow was among 26 defendants in court, including state Sen. Leland Yee and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson. The group faces charges ranging from murder for hire and drug trafficking to gun smuggling.</p>
<p>Chow’s criminal history started early, and by age 16 he was the leader of 30 underlings collecting money from gambling dens in Hong Kong. After coming to the U.S., he organized the Hop Sing Tong to collect money from gambling dens in San Francisco.</p>
<p>He was arrested on robbery charges in 1978, paroled in 1985, but quickly returned to crime and was sent back to prison.</p>
<p>Chow was sentenced to 25 years in prison for gun charges related to a 1992 indictment that included alleged heroin trafficking and prostitution. Chow was released in 2003 when he testified against an associate.</p>
<p>Chow testified in the 2002 trial of Peter “Uncle” Chong that he was Chong’s right-hand man when Chong was head of the Wo Hop To criminal organization after Chow’s Hop Sing Tong gang merged with Chong’s to take over Chinatown’s criminal activity in 1990.</p>
<p>Chow is rumored to have some role in the 2006 San Francisco execution-style murder of Allen Leung , the head of Chinatown fraternal organization, a murder which remains unsolved.</p>
<p>Chow was born in Hong Kong and is not a U.S. citizen, but lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend of six years, according to Falk. Chow, who is currently monitored by immigration officials with an ankle bracelet, was not granted bail after federal attorneys said he was a flight risk, a danger to the community and had an “extremely violent criminal history.” That history includes assault with a firearm, extortion, arson and murder for hire, the federal attorney noted.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security has been trying to deport Chow, who is not a U.S. citizen, since he was released from prison in 2005.</p></blockquote>
<p>Chow should have been deported, but instead he built up ties with the California Democratic establishment.</p>
<p>In the photo above, he&#8217;s posing with former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. Here&#8217;s a certificate from current San Francisco Mayor Ed Yee&#8217;s office honoring Chow as a &#8220;Change Agent&#8221; and thanking him for &#8220;providing outstanding service to the residents of San Francisco.&#8221;</p>
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<p>And here&#8217;s another one from Democratic Assemblyman and &#8220;civil rights leader&#8221; Tom Ammiano.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/change-agent.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-222060" alt="change agent" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/change-agent.jpg" width="370" height="511" /></a></p>
<p>And here&#8217;s a letter from Senator Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s office.</p>
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<p>The Democratic Party continues to live up to its reputation as the party of criminals.</p>
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		<title>FBI Raids Strike Democratic Party of Crooks Nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party faces a major crisis of corruption.]]></description>
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<p>The California Senate Dem supermajority is now threatened because three Senate Dems face charges.</p>
<p>The latest of those charges involves anti-gun Dem Leland Yee who wanted to ban assault rifles, but e<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/gun-control-senator-who-wanted-to-ban-assault-rifles-took-part-in-shoulder-fired-missiles-deal/">ngaged in shoulder fired missile arms deals</a>.</p>
<p>Other FBI raids<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/26/fbi-conducts-raids-targeting-elected-officials-in-three-states/"> have targeted Democratic officials </a>nationwide.</p>
<blockquote><p>Federal law enforcement officials arrested two public officials in California and North Carolina and raided the office of a New York state senator in connection with separate corruption investigations on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Hundreds of federal agents conducted searches of offices around the San Francisco Bay Area and arrested several people on Tuesday, including state Sen. Leland Yee (D) and a former head of a Hong Kong-based crime syndicate, as part of a major public corruption probe.</p>
<p>Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon (D) was arrested Wednesday and charged with theft and bribery after an FBI sting operation, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The mayor, first elected in November after serving for two decades on the Charlotte city council, allegedly solicited and accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents.</p>
<p>And in New York, FBI agents raided Assemblyman William Scarborough’s (D) offices and questioned Scarborough at his Albany hotel room.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot of D&#8217;s.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yee is also the third California state senator, all Democrats, to be tied to corruption investigations this year. Last month, state Sen. Ron Calderon (D) was indicted on bribery charges, and in January, state Sen. Roderick Wright (D) was convicted on eight counts of voter fraud and perjury, after being indicted in 2010.</p></blockquote>
<p>And <a href="http://www.bnd.com/2014/03/20/3118733/indicted-lawmaker-loses-house.html">even more D&#8217;s</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A state lawmaker from Chicago who has been indicted on corruption charges has lost a Democratic primary for his seat.</p>
<p>Derrick Smith was indicted in 2012 on corruption charges. He pleaded not guilty in federal court to taking a $7,000 bribe in exchange for recommending a state grant to help a daycare center.</p>
<p>He was expelled from the House but won re-election in 2012 pending his trial. <strong>As an incumbent, he had the backing of Democratic party official</strong>s in this year&#8217;s primary.</p></blockquote>
<p>And he still lost&#8230; despite Dem support. In Chicago. That takes some courageous voters.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party faces a major crisis of corruption. It has to concede wrongdoing and clean house.</p>
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		<title>Corrupt Pennsylvania Dem Attorney General Kane Refuses to Charge Dem Pols Caught Accepting Bribes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Party of Criminals.]]></description>
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<p>Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane seems to exist solely to remind everyone that the Democratic Party is an organized crime ring that has its own prosecutors.</p>
<p>Kane<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/what-a-liberal-lawless-country-looks-like/"> first made headlines </a>for selectively deciding which laws she will and won&#8217;t defend. Now she&#8217;s moved on to deciding that prosecuting Democratic Party politicians <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/179666-penn-dem-ag-shuts-down-corruption-sting-after-only-black-democrats-are-caught-blames-racism/">caught accepting bribes is racist</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Before Kane ended the investigation, sources familiar with the inquiry said, prosecutors amassed 400 hours of audio and videotape that documented at least four city Democrats taking payments in cash or money orders, and in one case a $2,000 Tiffany bracelet.</p>
<p>Typically, the payments made at any one time were relatively modest &#8211; ranging from $500 to $2,000 &#8211; but most of those involved accepted multiple payments, people familiar with the investigation said. In some cases, the payments were offered in exchange for votes or contracts, they said.</p>
<p>“Sources with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted the payments,” said the Inquirer.</p>
<p>People with knowledge of the investigation said those caught on tape included former Traffic Court Judge Thomasine Tynes, who acknowledged that Ali gave her the bracelet.</p>
<p>Four state lawmakers took money, the sources said. State Rep. Ronald G. Waters accepted multiple payments totaling $7,650; State Rep. Vanessa Brown took $4,000; State Rep. Michelle Brownlee received $3,500; and State Rep. Louise Bishop took $1,500, said people with knowledge of the investigation.</p>
<p>In the statement, Kane provided only one quote, dismissing those who questioned her decisions as &#8220;nothing more than the Good Ol&#8217; Boys club playing political games to discredit me in order to fulfill their own selfish and improper agenda.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Kane is a clown, trying to talk about the &#8220;Good Ol&#8217; Boys club&#8221; persecuting her even as she caters to her own Good Ol&#8217; Boys club.</p>
<blockquote><p>State prosecutors went to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office because they believed Kane had a conflict and should not be making decisions on the case. Kane said Friday she had no such conflict.</p>
<p>The prosecutors believed that Kane had a conflict because Ali, before he began cooperating, had lined up illegal &#8220;straw&#8221; donations in 2009 that went to the campaign of Daniel D. McCaffery, then seeking to become Philadelphia district attorney. They pointed out that McCaffery was a supporter of Kane&#8217;s, and had served as the master of ceremonies at her inauguration last year.</p></blockquote>
<p>Party of Criminals.</p>
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		<title>Massachusets Dems Honor Politician Convicted of Extortion and Bribery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's a little bribery and extortion between colleagues? ]]></description>
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Dianne Wilkerson had a long and productive career in the Massachusets Senate and public life consisting of Federal tax evasion charges in 1997, State Ethics violation charges in 2001, unreported donations in 2005, perjuring herself about her nephew&#8217;s murder in 2005 and finally getting put away for attempted extortion and bribery in 2011.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a highlight</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wilkerson was the subject of an 18 month long undercover investigation conducted by the Boston Police Department and the FBI in which she allegedly accepted eight bribes in cash totaling $23,500&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Wilkerson filed a motion in federal court requesting a court-appointed lawyer to defend her against the bribery charges. She stated that she could not afford to pay for a lawyer and asked US Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman to appoint Max D. Stern. Stern had been defending Wilkerson in an unrelated matter&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;On January 6, 2011, Wilkerson was sentenced to 3½ years in prison for bribery.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Wilkerson is back and Dems are eager to shower her with honors <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/176979-mass-dems-honor-former-democratic-state-rep-recently-released-from-federal-prison-on-bribery-charges/">as if nothing happened</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The event honored 18 “women of color changing our world,” but one recipient was singled out for special praise.</p>
<p>Mayor Martin J. Walsh went off script at last Thursday’s event, recognizing his “dear friend” at Table 2. State Representative Gloria Fox described her as a sister in politics and said they had been an “unbeatable team.” And former state representative Willie Mae Allen, just before handing this guest her plaque, said, “We’re depending on you.”</p>
<p>Accepting was former state senator Dianne Wilkerson, once the highest-ranking black woman in state government but recently inmate No. 21757 038, convicted of accepting $23,500 in bribes.</p>
<p>It was the first time many had seen Wilkerson since her release from a federal prison in Danbury, Conn., in September, and it was a homecoming few ex-offenders receive when reentering society. Not only did the Prince Hall Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Jurisdiction of Massachusetts Inc. honor her at the Grove Hall event, but MassEquality will also recognize her among a slew of other champions of gay marriage at an event later this week.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s a little bribery and extortion between colleagues?</p>
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