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Sometimes when I drive cross country, it seems certain states become cursed–at least for that particular journey. When I drove east across Wyoming in 1998, it seemed everything went wrong in the home state of one of our nation’s greatest Vice Presidents. And I was grateful to cross the line into Nebraska.
On this trip, it seemed there was a jinx (at least for me) on the freeways in the Tarheel State. In Raleigh, Mapquest told me to get onto I-440 South, only when I reached the appropriate interchange, there was no 440 South, only East or West, yet each of those directions had been newly painted onto the signs. I headed in the wrong direction and ended up exiting the freeway at an interchange that did not allow me to back on in the opposite direction.
Yesterday, a misty rain made driving difficult as well as straight male rubberneckers checking out an attractive young woman who had drive her car off the road and into a ditch in the median. And while my co-blogger gave me perfect directions to his home, save for transposing the digits in the address in one (of two) texts identifying the location of his residence, the North Carolina Department of Transportation did not see fit to identify that the exit for North 485.
And this morning, I ended up heading in the wrong direction on that very freeway (this time possibly due to my own error) on my way to meet PatriotMom for breakfast.
Now while the Tarheel State may have been jinxed freeway-wise, it was anything but disappointing people wise. (more…)
In the 2006 and 2008 congressional elections, the Democrats’ campaign chairmen, Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, fielded candidates well-adapted to local terrain in conservative states and districts. They successfully attacked Republicans more on competence and corruption than on substantive issues.
Similarly, Barack Obama rose to national prominence by stressing what Blue America and Red America have in common rather than in how they differed. His attacks on “failed Bush policies” left it ambiguous whether he was objecting to Republican ideology or Republicans’ incompetence.
So, with Obama’s bungled response to the Gulf Oil Spill, where does that leave his party now?
And one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame. And I think Geithner is doing an outstanding job. I think that we have a big mess on our hands. It’s not going to be solved immediately, but it is going to get solved. And the key thing is for everybody just to stay focused on doing the job instead of trying to figure out who you can pass blame on to.
“Many of the people appointed in the Bush administration are still burrowed in the agencies that are supposed to oversee the [oil] industry,” Pelosi said when asked if Democrats could have prevented or mitigated the crisis by keeping a closer watch on the industry.
Added the Speaker, “the cozy relationships between the Bush administration’s agency leadership and the industry is clear…I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated.
On Friday, and again today, the Washington Examiner requested the names of the Bush appointees that Pelosi believes failed in their responsibility as overseers of this industry. Once again, no names released. We have left another message and will continue following this story.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed the Bush administration for any lack of oversight leading up to the Gulf oil spill. The Obama administration, on the other hand, is blameless.
As the election results from Hawaii’s special election became final, I was thrilled to see that voters had selected pro-gay Republican Charles Djou to represent them in Congress. I know Congressman Djou, and I know his leadership is needed on Capitol Hill. Chris Barron, GOProud’s board chairman, and I had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Djou in March. It was quickly clear to both of us that Djou’s support for commonsense conservative proposals to improve the lives of all Americans, but particularly gay and lesbian Americans, would make him a the type of candidate our organization could support. As a result of that meeting and his answers to our candidate survey, GOProud enthusiastically endorsed his candidacy.
Imagine my surprise the day after the election when I clicked on Advocate.com to see the headline “Hawaii Elects Antigay Congressman.” Were they serious? Were they talking about the same man I know?
However, attaching the label “antigay” to every single politician or person who is not 100% aligned with the political agenda of the gay left is not only unfair but wildly counterproductive.
Like President Obama, Djou is not there yet on the question of marriage equality. His positions, however, on both traditional “gay rights” issues (as defined by the gay left) and issues of importance to gay conservatives certainly make it clear that he is not deserving of the tag “antigay.”
Even by the gay left’s own measuring stick, Congressman Djou can’t be labeled antigay. Charles Djou supports the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to allow gay service members to serve openly; indeed, the freshly minted congressman cast one of his first votes for the “don’t ask, don’t tell” compromise legislation that will begin the process of reversing this discriminatory policy. Congressman Djou also supports providing domestic-partner benefits to federal employees, supports domestic-partner tax equity, supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and opposes efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution with a discriminatory anti-gay-marriage provision.
As if those policy positions aren’t pro-gay enough, he supports a litany of policies advocated by gay conservatives that will improve the daily lives of all Americans, but especially gay and lesbian Americans. Djou opposes the efforts of Democrats to make the discriminatory death tax permanent. He supports Social Security reforms that would provide for private, inheritable accounts allowing gay partners to designate each other as beneficiary. He supports free-market-based health care reforms that would empower individuals to choose the best health plan for their family and improve access to domestic-partner benefits, rather than supporting Democratic efforts to expand discriminatory government-run health care. He also supports our Second Amendment rights to lawfully defend ourselves from becoming victims of violent hate crimes.
That’s a pro-gay record. Why on earth would The Advocate call him “antigay”?
We all know the answer to that. For the radical secular-socialist gay community, any conservative is automatically labeled as “anti-gay” — he or she has to be or it threatens the GayBorg’s brainwash of gay and lesbian Americans.
I’m glad Jimmy has stood up for Djou specifically, but also challenged the childish notion that unless you are a liberal — you are automatically an “anti-gay bigot”.
Reports are coming into Twitter at this hour, from mainstream reporters, that Al & Tipper Gore have told friends that they are ending their 40-year marriage.
I have also heard through one of my underground sources that Tipper found Gore screwing Mother Earth in their 28,000 foot mansion in Nashville. I’m trying to see if there is a sex video.
You do realize that the Gore’s pending divorce is Bush’s Fault(tm) right??
UPDATE (From Nick): Good Grief… How I dread the thought of having to go to his house to be told what to drive, and her house to be told what music to listen to. The Holidays are going to be a HUGE pain in the ass. Of course, as always, it’s the kids who suffer the most.
