>So, who’s buying the democrat running for prosecutor?

>Here’s something that maybe even a democrat union thug like Golik would call “evidence.”

You know, you’ve got to ask yourself: Why would bail bond companies buy a prosecutor like Golik? And why would Golik be for sale to those who would directly benefit from this prosecutor’s forbearance?

But they do. So, here’s the deal.

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Golik is a democrat. Strike one.

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Golik is a union thug, endorsed by other union thugs. Strike two.

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And now, Golik’s been bought by the bail bond business in Clark County.

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When voting, the integrity of the

candidate has to have some impact on your decision. That Golik is a democrat, a union thug who thinks he’s underpaid and who has done or said nothing about cuts to the prosecutor’s office budget… and pay… all of these things should figure into your voting calculation.

When you’re filling out your ballot…

Remember these pictures and what they mean.

>Chris Van Hollen: A major reason the democrats will get their asses kicked in the 2010 mid-terms.

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Chris Van Hollen is a major symptom of the democrat malaise: he clearly doesn’t have a clue.

First, dumping 650K into a race for Denny Heck. It’s not that Heck doesn’t need the help…. he does.

But Heck can write his own check for that much TV time. Politically, this is a massive waste of money.

But isn’t that the hallmark of the leftists?

Van Hollen advocates for a project that will cost billions… that will go to his union buds… that the people who could be voting for Heck do not want. He believes, stupidly, that saddling us with a $100,000,000 yearly hole in our local economy for disposable income is a GOOD thing.

He’s an idiot.

One of the biggest problems the democrats have, and HAVE had since that anti-American racist bigot was elected to the White House is they have a set of political ears that would put the Tin Man’s to shame.

To shill for a project we don’t want or need as some sort of economic panacea?

And then to point out that Koch wrote checks for the moronic anti-Heck commercials, likely coordinated with Barbie’s campaign?

He seems strangely quiet about the efforts of scum like Soros, for example. Or the unions who have been ripping us off at every level.

But the people are becoming increasingly aware. And, like Heck’s tone deafness, pointing out what you perceive to be a villain without a little introspection concerning your OWN villains…. well, that’s the rank hypocrisy that is just one of the many reasons the democrats face political slaughter.

And Van Hollen’s failure to address that hypocrisy; his failure to take responsibility for the manifold lies of the left, huge deficits (Obama and the democrats have added more debt in their first 19 months of control than EVERY president from Washington through Reagan) clueless foreign and domestic policies… these types of things guarantee a major democrat political blood bath in a few weeks… and on the political level, Van Hollen will be one of those most responsible for that outcome.
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>Impressions from this morning’s candidate forum: Jim Moeller – "Candy isn’t food."

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I’ve got to admit, I’ve frequently wondered how it is that the fringe left can do what they do.

Well, I sure got a lesson this morning.

State Representative Jom Moeller (D-Vancouver) solemnly informed us of two different facts that I had never considered: the first “Candy is not food.” The second: We have undergone $12 billion in budget CUTS over the last 4 years.

Utter nonsense, of course. When an item goes from not being taxed to being taxed, that’s an increase.

No spin. No BS. Moeller’s take was that, in fact, the candy tax that HE was entirely responsibe for introducing, wasn’t an increase because according to Moeller, they had removed the tax from candy several years ago, and they were just “buying it back.”

Seriously.

As for the fictional $12 billion, that one wasn’t really addressed. What I know is that when I went to work in Olympia on Leg staff in January of 95, our biennial budget was around $13 billion.

Right now, it’s arorund $35 billion.

It took us a mere 108 years to get to the point of having a $13 billion dollar budget. It has taken 15 years or so to triple that figure.

There can be no doubt because no other democrat from the 49th or the 17th had the guts to show up, that Moeller’s presense was designed entirely to jam a stick in the eye of the Christian Chamber putting the meeting on… and he was doing it with a smile.

But his claims were so wildly inaccurate as to be worthless. His vituperative partisanship was a sickening display.

But the Christian Chamber is just learning. This was their first candidate forum. Maybe next time, they keep the d’s in their own forum until at least after the primary.

With big government, massive spending democrats like Moeller, is it any wonder we are where we are?
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>To be a democrat is to be delusional: Kaine says "We’re not on the defensive."

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I’m sure by now that most people have seen that YouTube scene of Hitler and his staff in the Bunker a few hours before the end. He’s being briefed on the military situation, and he depends on relief by Waffen SS General Steiner’s non-existent army. It’s a scene that’s been parodied a thousand times, with subtexts put across the screen to make Hitler and the others seem to be talking about everything from WSU beating the Huskies in football to Swine Flu to any number of other situations like that. Here’s the Swine Flu example:

The moment I saw the headline on the bizarre story “‘We’re not on the defensive,’ Democrat’s leader Kaine says,” I was instantly transported to YouTube and those pages re-running the bunker scene.

Clearly, Kaine shares the delusion of Adolf Hitler.

(No, I am not comparing Kaine or any other democrat to Hitler. That was the leftist game when they made an industry out of comparing Bush to Hitler… as the 12.4 million hits on Google in response to the search term “Bush Hitler” will return, with 1.09 million image hits)

But for ANYONE to claim the democrats are not on the defensive is to be sunk in the depths of delusion that only a Hitler-like character could possibly believe.

I GET that you have to be delusional to be a leftist. But the only question that is going to matter in November is this: Are you better off now then you were 10, 8, 6, 4 or 2 years ago?

I saw a talking head on TV the other day who explained it like this:

“You know, when Obama got up this morning and looked in the mirror, I’m sure he was struck by the thought that just about everything that COULD go wrong, WAS going wrong… and it was going wrong on HIS watch.”

Memo to Tim: Every thing, at every level, is going wrong. Economy, employment, war, the Gulf, debt, worthless currency, massive increase in government payrolls…. all on you.

And YOU people are in charge.

And then YOU say you’re “not on the defensive?” Seriously? Really?

How much does it suck that only soccer can get Americans to feel this way about their country… thanks to people like you? (BIG H/T to Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion)

When election night, 2010 is over, you folks will be praying (sorry, bad euphemism, since many of you are atheists) that the slaughter is only as bad as 1994.

And as I recall, 1994 was a massacre… an epic nightmare to your side of these issues.

Promise after promise made; promise after promise….. broken. An incompetent, clueless moron elected president who has buried us in a mountain of trillions in debt; who has expanded the size of government geometrically, who has no clue or interest in foreign policy, who has bent over for the Russians and the Chinese every hour on the hour; who has no clue about Afghanistan, Iraq or terrorist who would slit his throat a dozen times before breakfast without giving it a second thought.

A state budget where the money junkies of the left have jacked up our taxes in the midst of a recession, blowing the budget up like a balloon instead of making the tough calls like cutting state employees both in numbers and in pay across the board, forcing the people to bear the burden of a bloated government…. and they’ve done it with a smile… while self-delusional types like Kaine do nothing to stop it, claiming they’re “not on the defensive.”

Belief in a party or it’s goals should not replace common sense like it has in the White House and in Olympia. Striving to maintain the illusion that you people are not going to be crushed here in a few months will do nothing to solve your riddle.

Politically, it makes sense for us to hope that you political idiots keep doing what you’re doing.

The problem is that you’re getting us killed. The problem is that you’re burying us further and further in debt with every lie, like Obamacare. The problem is that the Gulf is getting worse and worse every day while your disinterested president has his weekly White House parties on our tab and doesn’t miss his golf game… the same golf your sort crucified Bush for playing…. because, well, after all, to be a democrat is at base, to be a hypocrite.

So, for me, I would rather have a successful and healthy country, unlike the sickly crone you clowns have created, than political success.

And that, unfortunately, seems to be the exact opposite of what you people want… which is political success at all costs…. no matter how many die, or how many generations you enslave for your short sighted debt.

Maybe you should also ask them what their last name (Reid, as in son of Harry Reid) and party (democrat) are because this guy doesn’t mention either. (Democrat Rory Reid’s latest governor ad on YouTube.

“Not on the defensive?”

Please.
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>So, it looks like the American people ain’t drinkin’ the Obama Kool Aid.

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Speaks for itself.

Democrats, in the next election, I’d be afraid.

Very, afraid.

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>The democrats’ death wish.

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Not since the early to mid 60’s have I ever seen any group of people to bent on immolating themselves as I have the democrats… now known as the New Buddhists.

Those of us from that era still remember the bizarre but compelling scene of Buddhist Monks lighting themselves on fire in protest of South Vietnamese government policies en vogue at the time.

Self-immolation has been a powerful symbol of protest in the Western media since Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức set himself on fire to protest the Vietnamese regime

The actions of democrats as they urinate on the will of the people of this country to the exclusion of what their focus should be; namely, restoration of the private sector economy, has startling similarities to the actions of the protesting Buddhists of the 60’s in South Vietnam.

President Obama has been an utter failure of a president, making most long for the days of other, more capable and intelligent Presidents in comparison… such stellar lights as Jimmy Carter come to mind, and until now, easily the worst President of the last 100 years.

Now, the utterly clueless incompetent Obama runs the show. And he’s leading the left not only over a cliff but into a burning pool of hydrochloric acid upon touch down.

Why?

Why is the left so desperate to engage in Soviet-style parliamentary tricks to get a health care bill passed that will likely be repealed next January anyway, when control of both Houses of government will most probably switch back to the GOP?

I really had no idea democrats hated being in office, or hated to be in control of government so very much that they would throw it all away from this clownishly moronic effort.

It’s like they don’t have any adults around to keep them in line.

It is the damndest thing I’ve seen in all my years in and observing politics.

Unbelieveable.
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>A Freudian slip for the Seattle Times? "Only" 74 out of 200 state worker catagories paid more then private sector counterparts?

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Only? Seriously?

Out of nearly 200 standard occupational categories analyzed by The Times, representing most of the 149,000 or so state employees, median pay last year was higher for state workers than for all other workers in only 74 categories. (Median means half earn more, half less.)

State employee employment levels continue to be roughly the same now, in the midst of a horrific recession, while large segments of the private sector employment picture are literally decimated… only a 0.7% or so decrease overall.

The number “149,000” indicates that for each of 41 or 42 or so people of this state; men, women and children, there is a state employee doing something. And:

According to the Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis data, Washington state employees earned an average $54,079 in 2007, versus $49,777 for the average private-sector worker. Those figures include employer contributions to retirement plans, health insurance, Social Security and the like, as well as wage and salary income.

Instead of reducing the disparity for the 74 of 200 sectors of government employees obviously overpaid, the state democrats have jacked up our taxes almost $900,000,000.

So, I ask, where’s the “shared sacrifice” that Barry was talking about?

Clearly, the results of this remarkable short sighted plan here will be two-fold:

First, democrats can look forward to a 1994ian massacre at the polls this November.

Second, business will flee in search of less hostile income redistribution schemes like those propagated in this most recent session.

A courageous governor and legislature would put the needs of the people ahead of the needs of the “wants” of the special interests that control them. But where have we seen “courage” and “democrats” together in the same room?
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>Bad idea: clueless democrats strip Executive Ethics Board funding.

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When you’re cursed with unethical legislators like Rep. Jaime Herrera, who has others illegally vote in her absence, agencies such as the Washington State Executive Ethics Board play a vital roll in reigning in those in high places who lack integrity.

In addition to the many other self-inflicted wounds the democrats insist on causing this time around, they are actually stupid enough to believe that whacking a paltry $492,000 will do anything but allow them to engage in the underhanded activities of those like Herrera.

Hererra, who’s campaign is beginning to smell like a curious mixture of wet cat, graphite spray and liquid Maalox, has been accused by Rep. Deb Wallace of having others vote for her during her extended absences, essentially to cover for her Congressional fundraising episodes, which became her primary job in Olympia as opposed to representing us in Olympia.

The funding for the Ethics Board must be restored. Or else people like Herrera will run roughshod over ALL of her duties and “Boss Hogg” her job that we shamefully elected her to fill in the misbegotten idea that her focus would be on US, instead of the special interests running her pathetic campaign for Congress.
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>The subtle bigotry of Rahm Emanuel

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So, here we have it. The President insults those with physical and mental challenges with his bowling blunder…. The democrat Senate Majority Leader and his”no Negro dialect” nonsense… and now we have the President’s own Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel using his foot-wide tin ears to screw up again with his “retard” remark:

Emanuel was quoted in the Journal last week making the comment during an August meeting with some liberal activists who were threatening to run TV ads against conservative Democrats hesitant to embrace President Obama’s approach to health care reform. “F**king retarded,” was his response to the plan, witnesses told the Journal. He later called Special Olympics head Tim Shriver to apologize.

The problem I have with all of this rests primarily with the two-faced position of the democrat party concerning minorities and those with physical and mental challenges.

On one hand, they claim to be the party that represents those less fortunate. They claim to be the voice for those who can’t speak for themselves.

Isn’t it obvious that such a claim is a sham? Isn’t it obvious that those leading the democrat party use this as a veneer… a sham…. to fool the very people they hold in such low regard?

Memo to the democrats: you not only have to talk the talk…. you gotta walk the walk.

Just sayin.
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>Democrats are blowing apart… what’s it all mean?

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As bad as it was for the GOP in 08 (and let’s face it, it was pretty bad) 2010 is shaping up as an “8 killed in the intersection” kind of scenario for the left.

Their frustration is palpable. Safe seats suddenly in jeopardy at both state and national levels; changing parties at all levels as well. Senators like Evan Bayh from a relatively safe seat in Indiana; dems like Brian Baird packing it in and calling it a day.

The problem for the left is not so much that the GOP is winning as much as the left is losing.

Technical and tactical brilliance has rarely been the GOP’s forte’ at any level.

The Republicans have no bench to speak of, yet the doom and gloom of the democrats is palpable… like a storm cloud following them everywhere they go.

Why? What happened? How did it go so wrong, so fast?

Well, the first rule of leadership that I was taught at a Brigade Leadership Academy was, essentially, to never promise nuthin‘ you couldn’t deliver. And to this point, that has been the entire result of the democrats 08 campaign: undelivered and broken promises.

Even as I write this, the left here in Washington is busy committing political suicide by working double overtime to jack our taxes up in the midst of double digit unemployment and a generally horrific economy.

There is something to the phrase: No society ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Those employed by government appear to view themselves as some sort of protected class. While many have been laid off, many more should be. And those remaining should have their pay slashed by 20% across the board, so they might share some of that sacrifice that the president told us about months ago.

These dismal, short sighted actions, done in an election year, cannot help but decimate the morale of any democrat to the right of Mao. These actions cannot be justified to the vast majority of independents or anyone on the right, and they know this sets the table for their eminent political destruction.

Jopel Connelly, a typically worthless fringe left columnist from the paper-that-used-to-be-the-PI-but-is-now-a-web-site lays it out:

Democrats hold crab feed on stormy seas

LACEY – Usually an upbeat evening in state politics, Washington State Democrats’ annual crab feed on Monday had the feel of a ship battening down for a nor’easter or a battalion marching to the sound of the guns.

“We have not had a good couple of months,” U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the first member of Washington’s congressional delegation to back Barack Obama for president, told the crowd at St. Martin’s University.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., predicted that health care reform will pass Congress, but privately commented on the sudden announcement by Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, that he won’t run for reelection.

“There’s a lot of bad blood back there (Washington, D.C.),” McDermott said.

Even if one of their Washington, D.C., luminaries was waving Bayh!, Democrats in the capital of this Washington were coming off a good day.

With help from unions, a big noontime crowd rallied at the State Capitol to call for preserving social programs facing the meat-axe if the state cannot find new revenue sources. It far outstripped a no-new-taxes rally earlier in the day.

“The tea baggers had 500 people: We had 5,000 – it sends a message,” said Ivan Weiss, a longtime Seattle Times editor who, in retirement, has become a leader of the 34th District Democrats.

Actually, the crowd at the save-social-spending rally may have been smaller, but progressive forces in the state remain organized and ready to fight.

But Republicans are fielding a fairly strong lineup of legislative candidates, and will make a major run at the 3rd District congressional seat of retiring Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash. They are also directing a stream of negative boilerplate press releases at Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash.

The Democrats’ response, on display Monday night, has been to adopt populist soundings – Larsen promised to “hold Wall Street accountable for driving us into a ditch” – and to depict Republicans as a party of naysayers.

If the crab feed had a theme, however, it might be summed up as “Rocky Days are Here Again.”

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., while a favorite for re-election, acknowledged to the crowd that “there’s a lot of teabaggers and whatever out there . . .”

“It is not a time to give up: This is the time we show wisdom and courage and stand up for what we believe in as Democrats,” said Murray. The three-term senator is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership.

Old pep lines did not seem to rouse the crowd.

“Are we ready for 2010?” shouted Gov. Chris Gregoire.

“Yeah,” responded a few of the party faithful. “I don’t know about that,” Andrew Villeneuve of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a savvy young party activist, quietly observed.

The governor kept up her queries, as if addressing a sleepy high school class. “Patty Murray in 2010 by a landslide? Right?” asked Gregoire. Again, the response was underwhelming.

The crab feed was used to roll out four Democratic hopefuls hoping to take Baird’s place in Congress. After they spoke, state Democratic Chairman Dwight Pelz made the candidates show their prowess – or lack of it – at juggling and tying balloons together in the shape of creatures.

Only one of the four 3rd District candidates – state Sen. Craig Pridemore of Vancouver – actively worked tables of Democrats munching on crabs.

Pridemore came across as a proud liberal, hitting such themes as abortion rights and the right of same-sex couples to marry.

State Rep. Deb Wallace noted that she unseated a Republican legislator and has held onto a “swing” district in Clark County. Wallace argued that she would be in the best position to take on state Rep. Jaime Herrera, being pushed by national Republican strategists who see the opportunity to elect an Hispanic woman.

“I’ve spent the last 10 years growing companies and growing jobs,” said Denny Heck, onetime legislator and TVW channel co-founder. A less known candidate, Cheryl Crist, came across as a peace advocate eager to get American out of “these wars.”

The seeming dysfunction of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. – where more than 200 House-passed bills await action – drew a sharp rebuke from Craig Pridemore. He noted the lawmakers of his party who have failed to follow President Obama.

“A lot of Democrats let him down and let us down,” said Pridemore.

In the 2006 and 2008 campaigns, 8th District hopeful Darcy Burner received an enthusiastic welcome at the crab feed. She ran twice and lost to Republican Rep. Dave Reichert.
Former Microsoft executive Suzan DelBene, running against Reichert this year, has assembled a crack campaign team and raised more than $1 million – but didn’t exactly raise the roof last night.

DelBene spent much of her time at a VIP reception, did not work tables, and delivered a tepid speech that received a like reception.

All of this, of course, speaks for itself. What’s missing is any sense of reality… and vision of how to lead themselves out of the political wilderness they’ve strive so mightily to attain. From the lie of Ivan (it wasn’t 500… WSP called it around 3000) to Murray’s disrespect of a huge segment of her constituency, the delusion… the lack of a plan or a clue… a road to victory continues to elude them.

Because they don’t have any way available.

The tin ear of the left simply can’t be overstated. The campaign lies of the president, which now seem to amount to almost every thing he uttered during his campaign, are going to haunt those like Murray, who drank kool aid that put Jim Jones’ paltry effort to shame in her support of Obama’s efforts and agenda.

Those who’ve been so strongly supportive of Obama’s efforts will have the most to answer for.

And that means they all do.

Which is why the Crab Feed was such a miserable failure.

Locally, Heck is the only democrat that stands a chance because Pridemore has been infected with the corruption virus and both Pridemore and Wallace will have the moronic bridge hung around their neck in such a way that they’ll drown with it.

If Heck does anything but oppose the bridge replacement, he, too will be over.

Any decent, fully funded effort will take out Murray, who has 18 years of pork and will have 2 years of gluing herself to Obama and his programs to answer for.

And legislators will not be capable of explaining their efforts to ditch the will of the people so soon after it was expressed, so they can increase taxes in the midst of a recession to deal with a budget deficit entirely their making.

Yes, it will truly suck to be a democrat this November… because even the few who manage to win will ultimately wind up losing; all the while asking themselves the main question: how could this have happened?

I don’t really know what lemmings ask themselves before they dive off the cliff into the ocean to drown. But my guess is that, come November, we’re all going to find out.
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