You do have your head up your ass....
but like the proverbial clockon the wall, you do happen to tell the
right time every so often....
I agee about Dick 'the blooming AssHole' Blumenthal.... although
perhaps not on all of the same grounds as you.....
so.... I wonder what Ann thinks about Lyin' Joe Lieberman...
aka the Bi-sexual Bi- partisan who screws both Democrats and
Republicans... both up the Ass.... (HAR)....
nominal9
On Oct 13, 8:16 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *There's a Reason They Call Him 'Dick'*
> by Ann Coulter
> Posted 10/13/2010 ET
> Updated 10/13/2010 ET
>
> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39409
>
> If the Bush administration ever treated terrorism suspects the way
> Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal treats law-abiding citizens
> and small businesses, even conservatives would have blanched.
>
> This activist, interventionist Democrat -- like his identical, slightly less
> oily twin, Eliot Spitzer -- decided at age 5 he was going to be a U.S.
> senator and then the first Jewish president. And he doesn't care how many
> lives he has to destroy to get there.
>
> Currently, Blumenthal is running for the U.S. Senate against Linda McMahon
> in Connecticut. He must be stopped.
>
> Even his ideological ally, The New York *Times*, thinks he must be stopped.
> That paper ran a front-page expose on Blumenthal's lies about having served
> in Vietnam, violating a century-old Times tradition of never printing
> information unflattering to a Democrat.
>
> Blumenthal apologized for lying about being in Vietnam, saying, "I take full
> responsibility." Who else was he considering blaming? The voices in his
> head?
>
> Among Blumenthal's taxpayer-funded citizen-persecution projects was the one
> he waged against Gina Kolb, owner of Computer Plus Center in East Hartford.
>
> After selling $17.2 million worth of computers and servers to the state in
> 2001, Kolb found herself being sued by Blumenthal for $1.75 million for
> allegedly overcharging the state $500,000.
>
> Publicity-whore Blumenthal sent out an accusatory press release about Kolb,
> saying: "No supplier should be permitted to shortchange or overcharge the
> state without severe consequences."
>
> Soon thereafter, Kolb was arrested at her home on seven first-degree larceny
> charges, courtesy of Connecticut's crazily hyperactive attorney general.
>
> Wonder why you have a $4 billion deficit, Nutmeggers? Blumenthal's endless
> investigations into responsible, law-abiding citizens like Kolb have now
> cost more than the entire Iraq War. (And that's just the cost of the paper
> for Blumenthal's 12 billion press releases!)
>
> A court dismissed all charges against Kolb and her company in 2008. But not
> before this female businesswoman had her company completely shattered by the
> pathologically ambitious attorney general.
>
> I'm sorry, I know you need to be on television every single day, Dick, but
> that's not enough of a reason to destroy innocent citizens' lives, much less
> use taxpayer money to do so.
>
> Kolb was far from the only innocent citizen persecuted by Blumenthal. The
> reason we know her story is that, instead of moving as far away from
> Connecticut as she could, Kolb turned around and sued the state for
> violating her constitutional rights.
>
> The jury agreed, awarding her $18 million for Blumenthal's "pattern of
> conduct" that destroyed Kolb's business and impugned her integrity.
>
> Noticeably, the attorney general who spends most of his waking hours phoning
> reporters, holding press conferences and issuing press releases did not make
> a peep about Kolb's total vindication in court, despite his having earlier
> blackened her name. Perhaps he was busy attending a fake Vietnam veterans'
> reunion that day.
>
> To the contrary, Blumenthal continued using the power of his office to
> persecute Kolb. This is the problem with government officials using taxpayer
> money to further their own political ambitions: No one could tell him to cut
> his losses and stop harassing Kolb.
>
> Blumenthal filed a blizzard of motions -- at taxpayer expense -- appealing
> the jury's verdict in favor of Kolb. One of them finally succeeded in
> getting a judge to reduce the damages to Kolb, who presumably is now living
> in Hawaii under an assumed name so Blumenthal doesn't start making crank
> calls to her.
>
> (She should go to Vietnam! Blumenthal will never find her there!)
>
> Connecticut taxpayers spent millions of dollars harassing this innocent
> businesswoman, successfully destroying a profitable, job-creating computer
> company in the state and one law-abiding taxpayer in the process. Thanks,
> Dick!
>
> Blumenthal's 24-hour publicity office managed to produce a gleaming press
> release on the reduction of Kolb's damages award, in which he vowed to
> "continue fighting to overturn this verdict."
>
> Asked by Charles Kochakian of the New Haven *Register *about the case and
> whether Blumenthal ever released a statement when a victim of his legal
> harassment was vindicated, Blumenthal essentially said: No one is ever
> vindicated. Just because no wrongdoing was found, he said, doesn't mean
> wrongdoing didn't occur.
>
> Welcome to Connecticut, where you're guilty until proved innocent (and you
> can never be proved innocent).
>
> Most shockingly, Blumenthal said he would never issue a press release about
> one of his publicly accused targets being vindicated because "new evidence
> may well emerge."
>
> "New evidence may well emerge" that Dick Blumenthal is a child molesting ax
> murderer. But until it does, no one has a right to say so. Hello? ACLU?
> Heard of Dick Blumenthal?
>
> Everyone in Connecticut knows Blumenthal's name, largely on account of his
> daily press conferences for nearly two decades as attorney general,
> announcing lawsuits to combat every minor inconvenience. Arby's served
> jalapeno poppers at 114 degrees? Blumenthal is holding a press conference at
> noon!
>
> This hyperactive, publicity-mad lunatic is constantly announcing new
> lawsuits far beyond the purview of his office, like some New England version
> of Hugo Chavez. This won him the title: "Worst Attorney General in the
> Country" from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
>
> He's sued power companies for contributing to "global warming," asking the
> courts to impose cap and trade -- a bill so absurd neither Obama nor the
> Democratic Senate will touch it.
>
> He's sued gun companies, trying to hold them responsible for criminal acts
> by third parties involving guns.
>
> He's sued tobacco companies so he could extort millions of dollars for his
> old law firm and other legal cronies overseeing the shakedown -- I mean
> "settlement."
>
> Blumenthal is now in a tight race with Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate. I
> understand why Connecticut would like to get rid of him, but that's no
> reason to foist this menace on the rest of the country. How about sending
> him to Vietnam?
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