Saturday, February 11, 2012

CPAC 'severely' conflicted over Mitt Romney, "I was severely conservative"

CPAC 'severely' conflicted over Mitt Romney

By JONATHAN MARTIN | 2/11/12 6:56 AM EST


Mitt Romney wanted to use his CPAC speech Friday to allay concerns
about his candidacy on the Republican right, but with one ad-libbed
word he reinforced conservative fears that he's not one of them.

"I was a severely conservative Republican governor," Romney told the
annual gathering.


The response was immediate.

"Severely?"

"I have never heard anybody say, 'I'm severely conservative,'" Rush
Limbaugh noted on his show.

"That didn't get a lot of applause," firebrand Rep. Steve King
(R-Iowa) observed with a tight smile.

"Some things are too funny to comment on," a laughing Newt Gingrich
commented as he walked into the conference to give his own speech.

Romney's address won repeated applause. He outlined his conservative
credentials, both in his public and private life, and offered a strong
indictment of President Barack Obama. But by going off-script to use
an awkward modifier that no movement conservative would ever affix to
themselves, he made clear why, despite vast advantages in money and
organization, he's still struggling to win the trust of a party base
needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination. He's just not a
natural fit.

Success at CPAC is hardly a perfect indicator for how a candidate will
perform with the Republican electorate. Romney knows this well, having
captured the straw poll here in the past only to lose the nomination
to a candidate, John McCain, who was booed when he addressed the
conference just weeks before securing the GOP nod.

Yet Romney's trio of losses Tuesday and his all-out effort to woo the
base here — he used some variation of "conservative" 25 separate times
in his speech — underscores the degree to which the party has shifted
in the four years since McCain captured the nomination.

The old nominating game standbys, the notions of inevitability and
success begetting success, have proven irrelevant in 2012. Romney
rolled in Florida and cruised in Nevada — and then, without an
aggressive campaign, had nothing to show for it in Minnesota, Missouri
and Colorado. This election has proven momentum-proof to date.

Romney's still the smart-money favorite to become the Republican
standard-bearer, but it's increasingly clear that he's going to have
to make a more compelling case to conservatives to ensure victory.

The central question now looming over the race is, to borrow a phrase,
just how severely the party has moved right. How profound is the scale
of resistance to Romney?

"You've got to have a trust factor, you've got to make sure he's
genuine," said Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a leading tea-party freshman,
in attempting to explain conservative unease with the front-runner.
"And with Romneycare there are a lot of similarities with the
Affordable Care Act."

The depth of Romney's challenge with the base was demonstrated by what
took place after his speech. After the candidate made no mention of
his signature accomplishment as Massachusetts governor, health care
reform, a panel took the stage and devoted significant time to
fulminating against the individual mandate.

The man who's making the latest bid to become the once-and-for-all
Romney alternative, Rick Santorum, all but grabbed the CPAC activists
by the lapels in his speech Friday, arguing that conservatives ought
to nominate one of their own this time.

"Conservatives and tea-party folks," Santorum said near the top of his
remarks. "We are not just wings of the Republican Party — we are the
Republican Party."

Listen The GOP, he argued, "will no longer abandon and apologize for
the policies and principles that made this country great for a hollow
victory in November."

Later in his address, Santorum directly brought up the tea
party-infused Republican 2010 wave, claiming that Republicans won
because they were enthusiastic about their candidates.

Turning to this year's election, and clearly alluding to Romney, the
former Pennsylvania senator asked: "Why would an undecided voter vote
for a candidate of the party who the party's not excited about?"

Santorum's introducer and the chief patron of his super PAC was more blunt.

"It didn't work with Bob Dole, it didn't work with John McCain," said
Foster Friess, warning against nominating establishment favorites.

But with Santorum re-emerging and Newt Gingrich still lingering,
Romney is making a newly aggressive case about what separates him from
both Dole and McCain and his current conservative rivals.

"I happen to be the only candidate in the race … who has never worked
a day in Washington," Romney said in his speech, noting that he has no
"old scores to settle or years of cloakroom deals to defend."

The address and his campaign's line of attack this week makes clear
that Romney's plan is to target Santorum's decades in Congress and his
decision to remain in the capital after his 2006 defeat — in other
words, to effectively do to Santorum what the campaign did to Gingrich
in Florida.

In a brief exchange with reporters after his speech Friday, Santorum
sought to highlight the limitations of such a strategy.

"Hopefully, people have already figured out that Gov. Romney going out
and just slamming and slashing and burning whoever is in front of him
is not going to be a particularly effective tactic to beat Barack
Obama," said the former senator, arguing that money won't be decisive
in the fall.

To the sort of conservatives who dutifully come to this conference
every winter, Romney's new offensive is a reminder that he's learning
the wrong lessons from Tuesday.

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Rick Santorum's top 10 problems - Tim Mak - POLITICO.com

Rick Santorum's top 10 problems
He has more than this BUT for now take a gander at these!!
Many of you may recall these incidents.

Dominick

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Saturday funny

by Dr. Eowyn

$5.37

That's what the kid behind the counter at Taco Bell said to me.  I dug into my pocket and pulled out some lint and two dimes and something that used to be a Jolly Rancher.

Having already handed the kid a five-spot, I started to head back out to the truck to grab some change when the kid with the Elmo hairdo said the hardest thing anyone has ever said to me. He said, "It's OK. I'll just give you the senior citizen discount."

I turned to see who he was talking to and then heard the sound of change hitting the counter in front of me.  "Only $4.68," he said cheerfully.  I stood there stupefied. I am 56, not even 60 yet?  A mere child!  Senior citizen?

I took my burrito and walked out to the truck wondering what was wrong with Elmo.  Was he blind?  As I sat in the truck, my blood began to boil. Old? Me?

I'll show him, I thought.  I opened the door and headed back inside. I strode to the counter, and there he was waiting with a smile.

Before I could say a word, he held up something and jingled it in front of me, like I could be that easily distracted!  What am I now?  A toddler?

"Dude! Can't get too far without your car keys, eh?"  I stared with utter disdain at the keys.  I began to rationalize in my mind: "Leaving keys behind hardly makes a man elderly!  It could happen to anyone!"

I turned and headed back to the truck.  I slipped the key into the ignition, but it wouldn't turn.  What now?  I checked my keys and tried another.  Still nothing.

That's when I noticed the purple beads hanging from my rear view mirror.  I had no purple beads hanging from my rear view mirror.

Then, a few other objects came into focus: the car seat in the back seat.  Happy Meal toys spread all over the floorboard.  A partially eaten doughnut on the dashboard.

Faster than you can say ginkgo biloba, I flew out of the alien vehicle.

Moments later, back in my own truck, I was speeding out of the parking lot, relieved to finally be leaving this nightmare. That is when I felt it, deep in the bowels of my stomach: hunger!  My stomach growled and churned, and I reached to grab my burrito, only it was nowhere to be found.

I swung the truck around, gathered my courage, and strode back into the restaurant one final time.  There Elmo stood, draped in youth and black nail polish.  All I could think was, "What is the world coming to?"

All I could say was, "Did I leave my food and drink in here"?  At this point I was ready to ask a Boy Scout to help me back to my vehicle, and then go straight home and apply for Social Security benefits.

Elmo had no clue.  I walked back out to the truck, and suddenly a young lad came up and tugged on my jeans to get my attention.  He was holding up a drink and a bag.  His mother explained, "I think you left this in my truck by mistake."

I took the food and drink from the little boy and sheepishly apologized.

She offered these kind words: "It's OK. My grandfather does stuff like this all the time."

All of this is to explain how I got a ticket doing 85 in a 40 mph zone.  Yessss, I was racing some punk kid in a Toyota Prius. And no, I told the officer, I'm not too old to be driving this fast.

As I walked in the front door, my wife met me halfway down the hall.  I handed her a bag of cold food and a $300 speeding ticket.  I promptly sat in my rocking chair and covered up my legs with a blankey.

The good news was that I had successfully found my way home.

+++

H/t beloved Joseph

~Eowyn

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Re: Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6XRtz_qK0&feature=player_embedded 

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

Ann Coulter, CPAC It Girl: "All Pretty Girls are Right-Wingers"
By Emma Carmichael, Feb 10, 2012 4:15 PM
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Close WASHINGTON, D.C.— There must be some kind of perfect rallying
cry for a giant ballroom full of conservative Americans, but it'll
take a careful formula and a lot of practice to find it.

It requires, I think, some balance of celebrating American
Exceptionalism (a phrase I've heard so many times in a day and a half
here, it's already lost any meaning it could have had to begin with)
and some balance of invoking Ronald Reagan, who on this turf is known
as The Greatest Human To Have Ever Breathed On Earth.

But there is also a very straightforward route, and it's one that Ann
Coulter, who took the stage in a black mini skirt and calf-high boots
at CPAC this afternoon, is very, very good at: Troll on the liberals,
and go for the cheap laughs.

At the seemingly interminable conservative dating panel yesterday, a
young man asked the speaker, a professional dating coach named Wayne
Elise, why right-wingers had such a difficult time with humor: "How
can we find a legitimately funny conservative person?" he wondered.

"Conservatives get defensive about their beliefs, and it's hard to be
funny when you're feeling defensive," Elise told him. "They're very
wrapped up in their own ego."

Among conservatives, though, Coulter is known as a funny person. She
bypasses any defense mechanism and goes straight to the attack, and it
is incredibly effective. It helps that she also happens to have a hell
of an ego.

"Greetings one-percenters, and welcome to Occupy Marriott," Coulter
told a capacity crowd today. "Did you know that Michael Moore is only
one person and yet controls 33 percent of the world's cholesterol?"

They roared, as hundreds of Occupy protesters faced off with D.C.
police outside.

Coulter continued for a while, hawking her various books—her next
published work, she joked, will be called Nancy Pelosi Moves to
Luxembourg—and somehow even got in a dig about Jerry Sandusky. When
the giant red clock on the screen opposite the podium neared 0:00, she
took questions from the crowd.

The first came from a nervous and clearly impressed female college
student. She wanted to know "how you can be a woman and a conservative
at the same time."

This, of course, is some of Coulter's favorite territory. She had
started by talking about the "demonic" liberal moms and their slogans:
"If you think about it for 30 seconds, they mean nothing. Kind of like
an Obama speech." So she settled in for this one.

"I think all real females are right-wingers," Coulter said, as the
crowd clapped in agreement. "And I can tell you that based on
experience—and my bodyguard will back me up on this—all pretty girls
are right-wingers.

"A pretty girl is walking toward your table, you know she's a fan."

She continued by discussing the "feminist movement that has set us
back." She acknowledged that she doesn't write about the topic often,
because the analysis was so "manifestly obvious it doesn't need my
stunning skills.

"The reason liberal women are liberal is because they have to date
liberal men. As we've seen—from Bill Clinton and Dominique
Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner—we see how liberal men treat women."

She added, "If I were stuck with them, I'd be angry too. And I'll take
69 cents on the dollar, or whatever the current feminist myth is about
how much we make, just to never have to pay for dinner. That seems
like a fair deal to me."

The ladies howled and pumped their fists in the air. She took a few
more questions and then left the stage to a standing ovation. I tried
to catch her behind the stage for a question, but she was nowhere to
be seen. I just wanted to ask a real female for some real makeup tips.

More:
http://m.gawker.com/5884090/ann-coulter-cpac-it-girl-all-pretty-girls-are-right+wingers

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Something to Look Forward to – This Year Obama will be Vetted


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Re: Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

wow, the dumb cunt who wrote this article actually thinks Ann Coulter's next book is called Nancy Pelosi goes to Luxemborg

she must be as stupid as Tammy to not get such an obvious joke

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

Ann Coulter, CPAC It Girl: "All Pretty Girls are Right-Wingers"
By Emma Carmichael, Feb 10, 2012 4:15 PM
Share Facebook
Twitter
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Close WASHINGTON, D.C.— There must be some kind of perfect rallying
cry for a giant ballroom full of conservative Americans, but it'll
take a careful formula and a lot of practice to find it.

It requires, I think, some balance of celebrating American
Exceptionalism (a phrase I've heard so many times in a day and a half
here, it's already lost any meaning it could have had to begin with)
and some balance of invoking Ronald Reagan, who on this turf is known
as The Greatest Human To Have Ever Breathed On Earth.

But there is also a very straightforward route, and it's one that Ann
Coulter, who took the stage in a black mini skirt and calf-high boots
at CPAC this afternoon, is very, very good at: Troll on the liberals,
and go for the cheap laughs.

At the seemingly interminable conservative dating panel yesterday, a
young man asked the speaker, a professional dating coach named Wayne
Elise, why right-wingers had such a difficult time with humor: "How
can we find a legitimately funny conservative person?" he wondered.

"Conservatives get defensive about their beliefs, and it's hard to be
funny when you're feeling defensive," Elise told him. "They're very
wrapped up in their own ego."

Among conservatives, though, Coulter is known as a funny person. She
bypasses any defense mechanism and goes straight to the attack, and it
is incredibly effective. It helps that she also happens to have a hell
of an ego.

"Greetings one-percenters, and welcome to Occupy Marriott," Coulter
told a capacity crowd today. "Did you know that Michael Moore is only
one person and yet controls 33 percent of the world's cholesterol?"

They roared, as hundreds of Occupy protesters faced off with D.C.
police outside.

Coulter continued for a while, hawking her various books—her next
published work, she joked, will be called Nancy Pelosi Moves to
Luxembourg—and somehow even got in a dig about Jerry Sandusky. When
the giant red clock on the screen opposite the podium neared 0:00, she
took questions from the crowd.

The first came from a nervous and clearly impressed female college
student. She wanted to know "how you can be a woman and a conservative
at the same time."

This, of course, is some of Coulter's favorite territory. She had
started by talking about the "demonic" liberal moms and their slogans:
"If you think about it for 30 seconds, they mean nothing. Kind of like
an Obama speech." So she settled in for this one.

"I think all real females are right-wingers," Coulter said, as the
crowd clapped in agreement. "And I can tell you that based on
experience—and my bodyguard will back me up on this—all pretty girls
are right-wingers.

"A pretty girl is walking toward your table, you know she's a fan."

She continued by discussing the "feminist movement that has set us
back." She acknowledged that she doesn't write about the topic often,
because the analysis was so "manifestly obvious it doesn't need my
stunning skills.

"The reason liberal women are liberal is because they have to date
liberal men. As we've seen—from Bill Clinton and Dominique
Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner—we see how liberal men treat women."

She added, "If I were stuck with them, I'd be angry too. And I'll take
69 cents on the dollar, or whatever the current feminist myth is about
how much we make, just to never have to pay for dinner. That seems
like a fair deal to me."

The ladies howled and pumped their fists in the air. She took a few
more questions and then left the stage to a standing ovation. I tried
to catch her behind the stage for a question, but she was nowhere to
be seen. I just wanted to ask a real female for some real makeup tips.

More:
http://m.gawker.com/5884090/ann-coulter-cpac-it-girl-all-pretty-girls-are-right+wingers

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“Liberal elite”: The Making of the 99%

The Making of the 99%
Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich

"Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences
(inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their
interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose
interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs." —E.P.
Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

The "other men" (and of course women) in the current American class
alignment are those in the top 1 percent of the wealth
distribution—the bankers, hedge-fund managers and CEOs targeted by the
Occupy Wall Street movement. They have been around for a long time in
one form or another, but they began to emerge as a distinct and
visible group, informally called the "superrich," only in recent
years.

This is a joint Nation/TomDispatch article and will appear online at
TomDispatch.com.

About the Author
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Ten years after the original publication of the now-classic Nicked and
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Human Interest Religion Social Issues War Extravagant levels of
consumption helped draw attention to them: private jets, multiple
50,000-square-foot mansions, $25,000 frozen hot chocolate embellished
with gold dust. But as long as the middle class could still muster the
credit for college tuition and occasional home improvements, it seemed
churlish to complain. Then came the financial crash of 2007–08,
followed by the Great Recession, and the 1 percent—to whom we had
entrusted our pensions, our economy and our political system—stood
revealed as a band of feckless, greedy narcissists, and possibly
sociopaths.

Still, until a few months ago, the 99 percent was hardly a group
capable of (as Thompson says) "articulat[ing] the identity of their
interests." It contained, and still contains, most "ordinary" rich
people, along with middle-class professionals; factory workers, truck
drivers and miners; and the much poorer people who clean the houses,
manicure the fingernails and maintain the lawns of the affluent. It
was divided not only by these class differences but most visibly by
race and ethnicity—a division that has deepened since 2008.
African-Americans and Latinos of all income levels disproportionately
lost their homes to foreclosures in 2007 and '08, and then
disproportionately lost their jobs in the wave of layoffs that
followed. On the eve of the Occupy movement, the black middle class
had been devastated. In fact, the only movements to have come out of
the 99 percent before Occupy emerged were the Tea Party movement and,
on the other side of the political spectrum, the resistance to
restrictions on collective bargaining in Wisconsin.

But Occupy could not have happened if large swaths of the 99 percent
had not begun to discover some common interests, or at least to put
aside some of the divisions among themselves. For decades, the most
stridently promoted division within the 99 percent was the one between
what the right calls the "liberal elite"—composed of academics,
journalists, media figures, etc.—and pretty much everyone else.

As Harper's columnist Tom Frank has brilliantly explained, the right
earned its spurious claim to populism by targeting that "liberal
elite," which supposedly favors reckless government spending that
requires oppressive levels of taxes, supports "redistributive" social
policies and programs that reduce opportunity for the white middle
class, creates ever more regulations (to, for instance, protect the
environment) that reduce jobs for the working class, and promotes
kinky countercultural innovations like gay marriage. The liberal
elite, insisted conservative intellectuals, looked down on "ordinary"
middle- and working-class Americans, finding them tasteless and
politically incorrect. The "elite" was the enemy, while the superrich
were just like everyone else, only more "focused" and perhaps a bit
better connected.

Of course, the "liberal elite" never made any sociological sense. Not
all academics or media figures are liberal (Newt Gingrich, George
Will, Rupert Murdoch). Many well-educated middle managers and highly
trained engineers may favor latte over Red Bull, but they were never
targets of the right. And how could trial lawyers be members of the
nefarious elite, while their spouses in corporate law firms were not?

"Liberal elite" was always a political category masquerading as a
sociological one. What gave the idea of a liberal elite some traction,
though, at least for a while, was that the great majority of us have
never knowingly encountered a member of the actual elite, the 1
percent, who are for the most part sealed off in their own bubble of
private planes, gated communities and walled estates.

The authority figures most people are likely to encounter in their
daily lives are teachers, doctors, social workers, professors. These
groups (along with middle managers and other white-collar corporate
employees) occupy a much lower position in the class hierarchy. They
make up what we described in a 1976 essay as the "professional
managerial class." As we wrote at the time, on the basis of our
experience of the radical movements of the 1960s and '70s, there have
been real, longstanding resentments between the working-class and
middle-class professionals. These resentments, which the populist
right cleverly deflected toward "liberals," contributed significantly
to the failure of that previous era of rebellion to build a lasting
progressive movement.

As it happened, the idea of the "liberal elite" could not survive the
depredations of the 1 percent in the late 2000s. For one thing, it was
summarily eclipsed by the discovery of the actual, Wall Street–based
elite and their crimes. Compared with them, professionals and
managers, no matter how annoying, were pikers. The doctor or school
principal might be overbearing, the professor and the social worker
might be condescending, but only the 1 percent took your house away.

There was, as well, another inescapable problem embedded in the
right-wing populist strategy: even by 2000, and certainly by 2010, the
class of people who might qualify as part of the "liberal elite" was
in increasingly bad repair. Public sector budget cuts and
corporate-inspired reorganizations were decimating the ranks of
decently paid academics, who were replaced by adjunct professors
working on bare subsistence incomes. Media firms were shrinking their
newsrooms and editorial budgets. Law firms had started outsourcing
their more routine tasks to India. Hospitals beamed X-rays to cheap
foreign radiologists. Funding had dried up for nonprofit ventures in
the arts and public service. Hence the iconic figure of the Occupy
movement: the college graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in
student loan debts and a job paying about $10 a hour, or no job at
all.

These trends were in place even before the financial crash hit, but it
took the crash and its grim economic aftermath, all the "collateral
damage," to awaken the 99 percent to a widespread awareness of shared
danger. In 2008 the intention of "Joe the Plumber" to earn a
quarter-million dollars a year still had some faint sense of
plausibility. But a couple of years into the recession, sudden
downward mobility had become the mainstream American experience, and
even some of the most reliably neoliberal media pundits were beginning
to announce that something had gone awry with the American dream.

Once-affluent people lost their nest eggs as housing prices dropped
off cliffs. Laid-off middle-aged managers and professionals were
staggered to find that their age made them repulsive to potential
employers. Medical debts plunged middle-class households into
bankruptcy. The old conservative dictum—that it was unwise to
criticize (or tax) the rich because you might be one of them
someday—gave way to a new realization that the class you were most
likely to migrate into wasn't the rich but the poor.

And here was another thing many in the middle class were discovering:
the downward plunge into poverty could occur with dizzying speed. One
reason the concept of an economic 99 percent first took root in
America rather than, say, Ireland or Spain is that Americans are
particularly vulnerable to economic dislocation. We have little in the
way of a welfare state to stop a family or an individual in free fall.
Unemployment benefits do not last more than six months or a year,
though in a recession they are sometimes extended by Congress. At
present, even with such an extension, they reach only about half the
jobless. Welfare was all but abolished fifteen years ago, and health
insurance has traditionally been linked to employment.

In fact, once an American starts to slip downward, a variety of forces
kick in to help accelerate the slide. An estimated 60 percent of
American firms now check applicants' credit ratings, and
discrimination against the unemployed is widespread enough to have
begun to warrant Congressional concern. Even bankruptcy is a
prohibitively expensive, often crushingly difficult status to achieve.
Failure to pay government-imposed fines or fees can lead, through a
concatenation of unlucky breaks, to an arrest warrant or a criminal
record. Where other once-wealthy nations have a safety net, America
offers a greased chute, leading down to destitution with alarming
speed.

* * *

The Occupation encampments that enlivened approximately 1,400 cities
this fall provided a vivid template for the 99 percent's growing sense
of unity. Here were thousands of people—we may never know the exact
numbers—from all walks of life, living outdoors in the streets and
parks, very much as the poorest of the poor have always lived: without
electricity, heat, water or toilets. In the process, they managed to
create self-governing communities. General assembly meetings brought
together an unprecedented mix of recent college graduates, young
professionals, elderly people, laid-off blue-collar workers and plenty
of the chronically homeless for what were, for the most part,
constructive and civil exchanges. What started as a diffuse protest
against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.
The 99 percent, which might have seemed to be a purely aspirational
category just a few months ago, began to will itself into existence.

Can the unity cultivated in the encampments survive as the Occupy
movement evolves into a more decentralized phase? All sorts of class,
racial and cultural divisions persist within that 99 percent,
including distrust between members of the former "liberal elite" and
those less privileged. It would be surprising if they didn't. The life
experience of a young lawyer or of a social worker is very different
from that of a blue-collar worker whose work life may rarely allow
even for the basic amenities of meal or bathroom breaks. Drum circles,
consensus decision-making and masks remain exotic to at least the 90
percent. "Middle class" prejudice against the homeless, fanned by
decades of right-wing demonization of the poor, retains much of its
grip.

Sometimes these differences led to conflict in Occupy encampments—for
example, over the role of the chronically homeless in Portland or the
use of marijuana in Los Angeles—but amazingly, despite all the
official warnings about health and safety threats, there was no
"Altamont moment": no major fires, and hardly any violence. In fact,
the encampments engendered almost unthinkable convergences: people
from comfortable backgrounds learning about street survival from the
homeless, a distinguished professor of political science discussing
horizontal versus vertical decision-making with a postal worker,
military men in dress uniforms showing up to defend Occupiers from the
police.

Class happens, as Thompson said, but it happens most decisively when
people are prepared to nourish and build it. If the "99 percent" is to
become more than a stylish meme, if it's to become a force to change
the world, eventually we will undoubtedly have to confront some of the
class and racial divisions that lie within it. But we need to do so
patiently, respectfully and always with an eye to the next big
action—the next march, or building occupation, or foreclosure fight,
as the situation demands.

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Re: White Supremacists Showcased At CPAC Conservative Conference: Peter Brimelow, Bob Vandervoort

This article is simply a lie spread by moronic Soros whores like Tammy.

The anti-immigration people you list are anti-illegal immigration.  That isn't identical to racism.  When you slimy airheads, like Tammy, round up poor black kids and sell them to the educrat cartels for donations to Democrats, that is racism.

The people you list are also not featured at CPAC.  I am at CPAC.  They are in some little panel up against dozens of panels and the main speaker's hall.  No one even knows they are there.

for actual coverage of cpac try

www.teapartiers.blogspot.com



On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
White Supremacists Showcased At CPAC Conservative Conference

Two white supremacists are set to speak at panels at CPAC, the
Conservative Political Action Conference that will also feature
speeches by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

The first white supremacist is Peter Brimelow the owner of the website
VDare, which is labeled by the SPLC as an anti-immigration hate
website. VDare has featured the works of noted white supremacists,
Jared Taylor, Sam Francis, Virginia Abernethy, Kevin MacDonald as well
as conservative pundits, Michelle Malkin and Pat Buchanan.

Brimelow has been a featured guest on the white supremacist talk show
"The Political Cesspool" and is a prominent anti-immigration activist
despite the fact he was born in England. Brimelow will speak on a
panel called "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of
diversity is weakening the American Identity."

The other white supremacist is Robert "Bob" Vandervoort who spoke on a
panel called "High Fences, Wide Gates: States vs. the Feds, the Rule
of Law & American Identity." Vandervoort works for the site
ProEnglish.com and also was the organizer for Chicagoland Friends of
American Renaissance which met regularly with the Chicago Chapter of
Council Of Conservative Citizens.

American Renaissance is white supremacist organization run by
notorious racist Jared Taylor that organizes a conference of racists
including neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan including David Duke and
Stormfront owner, Don Black. The Council Of Conservative Citizens is
another white supremacist organization.

More:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/white-supremacists-showcased-at-cpac-conservative-conference/

GOP Presidential Candidates Should Denounce Bigotry of White
Nationalist Featured at CPAC
People For the American Way today called on GOP presidential
candidates to speak out against the inclusion of a white nationalist
leader this week at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action
Conference.

The conference—which will be addressed by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich,
Rick Santorum and other GOP leaders— will be hosting Peter Brimelow,
the founder of VDARE, a white nationalist website which frequently
publishes the works of anti-Semitic and racist writers. Brimelow, an
immigrant from Great Britain, has expressed fear of the loss of
America's white majority, blames non-white immigrants for social and
economic problems and urges the Republican Party to give up on
minority voters and focus on winning the white vote. He said that a
New York City subway is the same as an Immigration and Naturalization
Service waiting room, "an underworld that is not just teeming but also
almost entirely colored."

"It's shocking that the CPAC would provide a platform for someone like
Brimelow," said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American
Way. "Responsible GOP leaders should speak out against the bigotry and
hatred that Brimelow and VDARE push on a regular basis. That's doubly
true of anyone who aspires to the presidency of the United States.
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum need to make it perfectly
clear that they won't be silent when they're confronted with racism
and anti-Semitism."

VDARE has published the work of people like Robert Weissberg, who says
that black and Hispanic students are responsible for problems in the
American education system, Marcus Epstein, the Youth for Western
Civilization leader who karate-chopped a black woman after calling her
a n****r (and later pled guilty to assault), and J. Philippe Rushton
of the eugenicist Pioneer Fund.

"The inclusion of Brimelow is all the more galling given the fact that
another group, GOProud, was excluded from the conference simply for
advocating equality for gay people," said Keegan. "CPAC should make
very clear that hatred has no place in our civic discourse."

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists VDARE as a White Nationalist
hate group and notes that "VDARE.com's archives contain articles like
'Freedom vs. Diversity,' 'Abolishing America,' 'Anarcho-Tyranny —
Where Multiculturalism Leads' and 'Why Immigrants Kill."

More:
http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2012/02/gop-presidential-candidates-should-denounce-bigotry-of-white-nationalist-feat


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Ignorant Newt Gingrich’s New Enemies: New York "Elite" Subway Riders

Newt Gingrich's New Enemies: Subway Riders
Ben Adler on February 3, 2012 - 4:06pm ET

Newt Gingrich has taken phony cultural populism to its logical
extreme. Gingrich abandons his supposed free market and small
government principles when it comes to federally subsidizing
over-consumption of housing. That's both a biographical fact, in light
of his work for Freddie Mac, and a policy position.

To make the point that anyone who disagrees with him on housing policy
is just an elite liberal snob, instead of engaging them on substantive
economic policy grounds, Gingrich has taken to mocking people who
don't own a detached single-family home in the suburbs and drive
everywhere.

At the National Association of Home Builders, "Rally for
Homeownership" in South Carolina, Gingrich said, "Those who, you know,
live in high-rise apartment buildings writing for fancy newspapers in
the middle of town after they ride the metro, who don't understand
that for most Americans the ability to buy a home, to have their own
property, to have a sense of belonging is one of the greatest
achievements of their life, and it makes them feel like they are good
solid citizens." As Matthew Yglesias wrote in Slate, "it's telling how
swiftly any kind of commitment to free market economics melts away in
the face of the identity politics concerns of prosperous older white
suburbanites."

On Friday he reiterated his hatred of people who live a more
environmentally efficient lifestyle. Speaking in Las Vegas ahead of
the Nevada caucus, a contest he is sure to lose, Gingrich attacked
"elites" in Manhattan who live in high rises and "ride the subway."

This is the perfect distillation of Gingrichism on many levels. First
it shows the stupidity and ignorance of a man Republicans praise for
his intelligence and knowledge. Riding the subway is much cheaper than
owning, maintaining and driving a car. The truly rich in New York take
cabs, car services or drive more often than the poor. Not everyone in
Manhattan, or in a high-rise, is an elite: Gingrich has apparently
never ventured north of 96th Street and seen who lives in the
high-rise projects in Harlem.

Gingrich still seems to live in the last decade that he was relevant:
the 1990s. Back then his despised media elites mostly lived in
Manhattan. (Of the ones who live in the city. Plenty of them live in
the suburbs and it's unclear whether Gingrich thinks that makes them
real Americans.)

Now, journalists and other underpaid urban professionals increasingly
live in Brooklyn and Queens, but Gingrich's demagoguery is behind the
times. It's also outdated because the reason writers have been largely
pushed out of Manhattan is the influx of ever-wealthier bankers, the
sort of people Gingrich says we should worship as job creators. It's
time for Gingrich to start loving Manhattan instead of hating it. Then
again, some of the financiers work for private equity firms, and since
Gingrich is running against a private equity executive, he has decided
that those capitalists are inherently different and worse than all
others.

Since Gingrich is having a little trouble keeping his culture war
motifs straight, I decided to help him. Out with the Chardonnay,
Manhattan, New York Times and brie. In with the boroughs, pilsner,
websites and free-range chickens. Here are some future depictions of
out of touch urban elites, reflecting current demographic trends, that
Gingrich should use:
      "Elites who walk on sidewalks and wear used clothing"
      "Elites who sit on brownstone stoops and shop at organic food co-ops"
      "bagel-eating elites who read Gawker"
      "Elites who eat pizza by the slice and ride bicycles"
      "Elites who call stores 'bodegas'"
      "Elites who go to that topless beach next to Riis Park"
      "Elites who make their own seltzer at home with one of those
soda machines"
      "Micro-brew drinking elites who live in Bushwick"
      "Elites who have plaid shirts and moustaches, but in an ironic way"
      "Elites who drink cheap domestic beer, but not because they're
too American to realize it tastes bad"

If Gingrich deploys these updated demagogic smears, he will be sure to
resonate with younger voters. He can thank me when he wins in
November.

More:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166069/newt-gingrichs-new-enemies-subway-riders

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White Supremacists Showcased At CPAC Conservative Conference: Peter Brimelow, Bob Vandervoort

White Supremacists Showcased At CPAC Conservative Conference

Two white supremacists are set to speak at panels at CPAC, the
Conservative Political Action Conference that will also feature
speeches by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

The first white supremacist is Peter Brimelow the owner of the website
VDare, which is labeled by the SPLC as an anti-immigration hate
website. VDare has featured the works of noted white supremacists,
Jared Taylor, Sam Francis, Virginia Abernethy, Kevin MacDonald as well
as conservative pundits, Michelle Malkin and Pat Buchanan.

Brimelow has been a featured guest on the white supremacist talk show
"The Political Cesspool" and is a prominent anti-immigration activist
despite the fact he was born in England. Brimelow will speak on a
panel called "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of
diversity is weakening the American Identity."

The other white supremacist is Robert "Bob" Vandervoort who spoke on a
panel called "High Fences, Wide Gates: States vs. the Feds, the Rule
of Law & American Identity." Vandervoort works for the site
ProEnglish.com and also was the organizer for Chicagoland Friends of
American Renaissance which met regularly with the Chicago Chapter of
Council Of Conservative Citizens.

American Renaissance is white supremacist organization run by
notorious racist Jared Taylor that organizes a conference of racists
including neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan including David Duke and
Stormfront owner, Don Black. The Council Of Conservative Citizens is
another white supremacist organization.

More:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/white-supremacists-showcased-at-cpac-conservative-conference/

GOP Presidential Candidates Should Denounce Bigotry of White
Nationalist Featured at CPAC
People For the American Way today called on GOP presidential
candidates to speak out against the inclusion of a white nationalist
leader this week at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action
Conference.

The conference—which will be addressed by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich,
Rick Santorum and other GOP leaders— will be hosting Peter Brimelow,
the founder of VDARE, a white nationalist website which frequently
publishes the works of anti-Semitic and racist writers. Brimelow, an
immigrant from Great Britain, has expressed fear of the loss of
America's white majority, blames non-white immigrants for social and
economic problems and urges the Republican Party to give up on
minority voters and focus on winning the white vote. He said that a
New York City subway is the same as an Immigration and Naturalization
Service waiting room, "an underworld that is not just teeming but also
almost entirely colored."

"It's shocking that the CPAC would provide a platform for someone like
Brimelow," said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American
Way. "Responsible GOP leaders should speak out against the bigotry and
hatred that Brimelow and VDARE push on a regular basis. That's doubly
true of anyone who aspires to the presidency of the United States.
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum need to make it perfectly
clear that they won't be silent when they're confronted with racism
and anti-Semitism."

VDARE has published the work of people like Robert Weissberg, who says
that black and Hispanic students are responsible for problems in the
American education system, Marcus Epstein, the Youth for Western
Civilization leader who karate-chopped a black woman after calling her
a n****r (and later pled guilty to assault), and J. Philippe Rushton
of the eugenicist Pioneer Fund.

"The inclusion of Brimelow is all the more galling given the fact that
another group, GOProud, was excluded from the conference simply for
advocating equality for gay people," said Keegan. "CPAC should make
very clear that hatred has no place in our civic discourse."

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists VDARE as a White Nationalist
hate group and notes that "VDARE.com's archives contain articles like
'Freedom vs. Diversity,' 'Abolishing America,' 'Anarcho-Tyranny —
Where Multiculturalism Leads' and 'Why Immigrants Kill."

More:
http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2012/02/gop-presidential-candidates-should-denounce-bigotry-of-white-nationalist-feat


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Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

Look at what Ann Coulter had to say at CPAC: What a laughing stock!

Ann Coulter, CPAC It Girl: "All Pretty Girls are Right-Wingers"
By Emma Carmichael, Feb 10, 2012 4:15 PM
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Close WASHINGTON, D.C.— There must be some kind of perfect rallying
cry for a giant ballroom full of conservative Americans, but it'll
take a careful formula and a lot of practice to find it.

It requires, I think, some balance of celebrating American
Exceptionalism (a phrase I've heard so many times in a day and a half
here, it's already lost any meaning it could have had to begin with)
and some balance of invoking Ronald Reagan, who on this turf is known
as The Greatest Human To Have Ever Breathed On Earth.

But there is also a very straightforward route, and it's one that Ann
Coulter, who took the stage in a black mini skirt and calf-high boots
at CPAC this afternoon, is very, very good at: Troll on the liberals,
and go for the cheap laughs.

At the seemingly interminable conservative dating panel yesterday, a
young man asked the speaker, a professional dating coach named Wayne
Elise, why right-wingers had such a difficult time with humor: "How
can we find a legitimately funny conservative person?" he wondered.

"Conservatives get defensive about their beliefs, and it's hard to be
funny when you're feeling defensive," Elise told him. "They're very
wrapped up in their own ego."

Among conservatives, though, Coulter is known as a funny person. She
bypasses any defense mechanism and goes straight to the attack, and it
is incredibly effective. It helps that she also happens to have a hell
of an ego.

"Greetings one-percenters, and welcome to Occupy Marriott," Coulter
told a capacity crowd today. "Did you know that Michael Moore is only
one person and yet controls 33 percent of the world's cholesterol?"

They roared, as hundreds of Occupy protesters faced off with D.C.
police outside.

Coulter continued for a while, hawking her various books—her next
published work, she joked, will be called Nancy Pelosi Moves to
Luxembourg—and somehow even got in a dig about Jerry Sandusky. When
the giant red clock on the screen opposite the podium neared 0:00, she
took questions from the crowd.

The first came from a nervous and clearly impressed female college
student. She wanted to know "how you can be a woman and a conservative
at the same time."

This, of course, is some of Coulter's favorite territory. She had
started by talking about the "demonic" liberal moms and their slogans:
"If you think about it for 30 seconds, they mean nothing. Kind of like
an Obama speech." So she settled in for this one.

"I think all real females are right-wingers," Coulter said, as the
crowd clapped in agreement. "And I can tell you that based on
experience—and my bodyguard will back me up on this—all pretty girls
are right-wingers.

"A pretty girl is walking toward your table, you know she's a fan."

She continued by discussing the "feminist movement that has set us
back." She acknowledged that she doesn't write about the topic often,
because the analysis was so "manifestly obvious it doesn't need my
stunning skills.

"The reason liberal women are liberal is because they have to date
liberal men. As we've seen—from Bill Clinton and Dominique
Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner—we see how liberal men treat women."

She added, "If I were stuck with them, I'd be angry too. And I'll take
69 cents on the dollar, or whatever the current feminist myth is about
how much we make, just to never have to pay for dinner. That seems
like a fair deal to me."

The ladies howled and pumped their fists in the air. She took a few
more questions and then left the stage to a standing ovation. I tried
to catch her behind the stage for a question, but she was nowhere to
be seen. I just wanted to ask a real female for some real makeup tips.

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Saudi Blogger who insulted the Paedophile Prophet Muhammad arrested in Malaysia



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Saudi Blogger who insulted the Paedophile Prophet Muhammad arrested in Malaysia

by barenakedislam

HAMZA KASHGARI

Apparently, Hamza Kashgari will be extradited to Saudi Arabia where he will likely face execution for blasphemy.

ORIGINAL STORY: dead-man-walking-saudi-blogger-must-flee-country-because-of-tweets-about-paedophile-prophet-muhammad

Arabian Business  Malaysian police have arrested a Saudi Arabian columnist who fled his country after making comments on Twitter deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), prompting a surge of online outrage and calls for his execution.

"It is confirmed that Malaysian police have detained the Saudi writer. This arrest was part of an Interpol operation which the Malaysian police were a part of," a police spokesman told Reuters on Friday.

Malaysia is a majority Muslim country with a close affinity with many Middle Eastern nations through their shared religion. Blasphemy is a crime punishable by execution under oil-rich Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law. It is not a capital crime in Malaysia.

The 23-year-old Kashgari reportedly posted the comments on his Twitter feed to mark the Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) birthday on Saturday, drawing thousands of outraged comments on Twitter and other social networking sites.

Kashgari later said in an interview that he was being made a "scapegoat for a larger conflict" over his comments. "I view my actions as part of a process toward freedom," Kashgari was quoted as saying in the interview with the Daily Beast website. "I was demanding my right to practice the most basic human rights - freedom of expression and thought - so nothing was done in vain.

"Beheading Apostates should be easier than cutting buttons off a shirt," says Muslim Cleric, which pretty much indicates how the blogger will fare when he gets back to Saudi Arabia.

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