Question for Massachusetts

Do we really want a Senator from Mass who can't even admit there are terrorists in Afghanistan?

Democrat Martha Coakley dodged a pointed question Tuesday about her claim during a Massachusetts Senate debate the night before that terrorists are no longer in Afghanistan.

During Monday's debate with Republican Scott Brown, Coakley questioned why the United States still has troops in Afghanistan. She claimed that the al Qaeda terrorists who were originally targeted by American military action have migrated elsewhere, rendering the mission moot. "They're gone," she said. "They're not there anymore. They're in, apparently Yemen, they're in Pakistan."

A reporter asked Coakley about that claim after a Capitol Hill fundraiser on Tuesday. "Do you stand by that remark?" he asked.

Coakely, standing before a small cluster of reporters and cameras, listened to the question, then quickly looked in a different direction.

"I'm sorry," she said. "Did anybody else have a question?

Brown ahead in some polls

I can just see it now. How ironic would it be for a Senate seat in Mass to be the deciding and defeating vote for Obama's socialist legislation. Public Policy Polling is showing Brown up by 1, 48-47. Scott Brown has a real good chance of winning this election and that is scaring the Democrats and Martha Coakley.

I wonder how much more negative Coakley can go?

Go check out her new attack ad on Scott Brown.

Of course that isn't effecting the giant support Brown is getting. He raised a record 1.3 million yesterday alone.

Only a few more weeks

Until the special election for the US Senate.

Scott Brown is gaining in the polls and we are poised to elect a Republicans to the Senate for the first time since the 70's.

But he still needs your help.

You can volunteer at:

555 South Canal St
Holyoke, MA 01040
Connor Maguire, Coordinator 978 729-4818

Go there and make some calls for Scott Brown.

Texas governor talking about seceding

Rick Perry said Texas could leave the Union if they so choose to. And I'm sure Texas would have a lot of new citizens if they were to secede. Seems highly unlikely, but with the over taxation from Obama something needs to be done.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country's founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry repeated his running theme that Texas' economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the "federal budget mess." Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.

Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters' questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.

"There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."

This is the kind of leadership the Republican Party needs.

Obama lied again

During his campaign he promised to talk to Iran with no preconditions. But sadly the preconditions are on the US side.

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.

The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-ranging inspection. But the proposals would also allow Iran to continue enriching uranium for some period during the talks. That would be a sharp break from the approach taken by the Bush administration, which had demanded that Iran halt its enrichment activities, at least briefly to initiate negotiations.

The proposals under consideration would go somewhat beyond President Obama’s promise, during the presidential campaign, to open negotiations with Iran “without preconditions.” Officials involved in the discussion said they were being fashioned to draw Iran into nuclear talks that it had so far shunned.

So instead of the Iran giving up the nuclear plant for the privilege of us not blowing them up, Obama has the bright idea to let them build more nuclear plants.

I really hope Israel doesn't bow down to Obama and does what is right and what is needed. And destroys any nuclear plant that Iran might even think of building.

Obama lifting restrictions to Cuba

I guess he just wants to reach out to a fellow communist.

President Barack Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to take other steps to ease U.S. restrictions on the island, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

The formal announcement was being made at the White House Monday afternoon, during presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs' daily briefing with reporters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the president's announcement.

With the changes, Obama aims to create new space for the Cuban people in their quest for political freedom and a democratic government, in part by making them less dependent on the Castro regime, the official said.

Other steps taken Monday include allowing gift parcels to be send to Cuba, and issuing licenses to increase communications among and to the Cuban people. About 1.5 million Americans have relatives in Cuba.

Obama had promised to take these steps as a presidential candidate. It has been known for over a week that he would announce them in advance of his attended this weekend of a Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

"There are no better ambassadors for freedom than Cuban Americans," Obama said in a campaign speech last May in Miami, the heart of the U.S. Cuban-American community. "It's time to let Cuban Americans see their mothers and fathers, their sisters and brothers. It's time to let Cuban American money make their families less dependent upon the Castro regime."

That's because they risked their lives to leave communist Cuba. There aren't people risking their lives to leave the US yet. Why should we open up trade and give money to an openly communist nation? I'd have no problem with this if Cuba was a democracy or was on the verge and just needed a push to become a democracy. But as far as I know that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

How did she become a Supreme Court Justice?

Especially when Justice Ginsburg thinks it is ok to use foreign law on deciding legal matters in the United States. Last time I checked we have a little thing called the Constitution. And last time I checked the Supreme Court was there to decide whether things are Constitutional or not. And that has nothing to do with any foreign law.

In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court’s only female justice. The occasion was a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University honoring her 15 years on the court.

“I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law,” Justice Ginsburg said in her comments on Friday.

The court’s more conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — oppose the citation of foreign law in constitutional cases.

“If we’re relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge,” Chief Justice Roberts said at his confirmation hearing. “And yet he’s playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.”