Those who support the president can expect favors. No sooner had Rep Jim Matheson (D-Utah) suggested that he might be willing to switch his vote and support the latest version of ObamaCare than his brother was nominated for a federal judgeship.
Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) is also on the undecided list. And, purely by coincidence no doubt, the Justice Department just announced that it is dropping an FBI investigation that has been swirling about the congressman. Gosh, if only Charlie Rangel were one of the undecideds.
Those who oppose the president can expect the political equivalent of a horse head between their sheets.
unadulterated,pure,commie favors.And Mcarthey(SP) was on a witchhunt??? Stalin and Mao would be proud.Their candidate has finally arrived.
And the sad part is,the clowns who elected these reps and live in those states,will be so happy that they are getting money,they will vote them in again,not realizing the bucks are going to be worth sweet f%^k all when they are serfs.
Wonder how they are going to react when the dole runs out,and they are told work or die???
The Chicago way:
When do the brass knuckles and lead sandwich follow the ‘shower visitations’?
But of course this would be an Obama-Nation(tm)
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I am just wondering how these tales of Washington hardball can be compared to the disposition of the Rahim Jaffer case in Canada?
“How we burned in the prison camps later thinking:
what would things have been like if every (soviet) police operative,
when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?”
…if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs (apartments),
paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase,
but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly
set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes,
hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? …the organs (police)
would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers
…and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst,
the cursed (Communist government) machine would have ground to a halt.”
“seditionist” Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner,
who spent 11 years in communist concentration camps.
“Invading the US is impossible….an invader would find a rifle behind each blade of grass”
Isokuro Yamamoto
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves”.
Winston Churchill.
“Do it our way and no one gets hurt!”
David:
Or compare the Rahim Jaffer (private citizen) case to MP McCallum being drunk and disorderly on a commercial aircraft…no charges laid and very little said in the MSM.
McCallum wasn’t piloting the plane, was he? Was there any suggestion of cocaine possession?
I’m going to side with Paul Cassell at Volokh and say that it’s not quid-pro-quo.
The Obama camp isn’t good enough to have started the process on Matheson months ago just in case they needed a “sweetener” for a vote from his brother.
(“Within a matter of days [of the opening in May 2009], it was widely understood in the Utah legal community that Matheson would be the front runner for the nomination. He was the obvious choice for the Obama administration, given Matheson’s legal acumen, extensive experience in state and federal public service, and long Democratic political connections …”)
Given that “he’s a well-connected Democrat and perfectly well qualified” is more than sufficient, Occam’s razor suggests no reason to assume anything nefarious. The timeline just adds to that.
David:
….or having a Minister Of Defence that cross dressed and attended gay clubs…with very little mentioned in the MSM.
Talk about a target for blackmail!
If this had been a Conservative MP he would have been crucified by the Liberals and the MSM.
(Google Lawrence Metherel)
Obama is now at minus 21 in the Rasmussen ‘adoration’ scale.
On a general rating, he’s at 43% approve and 56 disapprove. Interesting that the end of 2007 saw George Bush at 41 approve and 57 disapprove – which are essentially statistically identical.
Obama is a thug, a pathological liar, and his agenda is simply to get ‘his’ infrastructure in place. This infrastructure, as I’ve said, is not ideologically his, for he has no commitment to an ideology. He’s a pathological narcissist and his commitment is to Himself. If you oppose him, rather than collaborating and negotiating, he’ll force His Will on you.
David….if you have a problem with the Jaffer situation, then file a complaint with the Ontario Judicial Council rather than making idiotic comments.
By the way, it was the Crown Prosecutor that stayed the charges….NOT the judge. You don’t know much about the judicial system apparently.
And John luft shows up as an apologist for the screwed “justice” system we have.Hey John.Next pedophile released,we’ll send him to live with you.
Mr Luft –
As you well know, I said nothing about the judge in this case. And as you also know, your instructions are contradictory, telling me to write to the Ontario Judicial Council, and then stating the obvious, that it was the prosecutor not the judge who made the decision to drop the more serious charges.
To quote yourself, “you don’t know much about the judicial system apparently”.
Personally I think explanations for dropping both the impaired charge and the cocaine charge are needed. One of those explanations, the dropping of the impaired charge, has to come from Queen’s Park, from the Ontario Min of the Attorney-General. The other, the dropping of the drug charge, has to come from Ottawa, from the federal Department of Justice.
People are entitled to wonder if the officials who dropped these charges had their arms privately twisted in the manner described in the article about the Obama White House playing old fashioned Washington DC politics.
David may be another lefty troll and there’s no shortage of them here. I don’t know that, but I am going to side with him. Obviously the media plays a big role in exposing what they want and obfuscating what they don’t. Yes, there were a lot of Liberals who deserved to be hauled in front of court of public opinion, but the whole Jaffer thing also stinks to high heaven.
I am as conservative as any of you, but we should not jump to his defense just because he used to be a Conservative MP. In a perfect world, everybody would be treated equally before the court. It seems however, that Jaffer was more equal than others. When was a last time that drunk driving charge (apparently confirmed with a breathalyzer) was dropped for a guilty plea on a lesser charge?
The word “Crown”, referred to in the above phrase “the Crown Prosecutor that stayed the charges”, refers to the “Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.
The provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, not the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, according to the British North America Act, 1867.
I have twice lost my gument employment because I stated, in public, that I was going to vote for Vandersalm (in B.C.) and the Reform Party (the Yukon). We don’t have any moral ground here!
Adam
I don’t know if there’s anything really wrong with the way the Jaffer case was handled. But, it’s strange enough to demand a full explanation.
Failing a full explanation, I think people are entitled to speculate that pressure was brought to bear, somewhere, in dropping both the impaired and cocaine charges.
the implications from the MSM and obviously CBCpravda is that the feds interfered. this has been high enough profile that Im sure that Harper ordered hands off years ago.
sorry about the double post.
http://www.newstalk1010.com/node/1098504
Attorney General Chris Bentley, who says the law is applied equally regardless of who’s involved, says that the crown attorney had problems with the evidence and didn’t believe the case could be proven. As for what those problems were, Bentley won’t say.
Cal
[…….Attorney General Chris Bentley, who says the law is applied equally regardless of who’s involved, says that the crown attorney had problems with the evidence and didn’t believe the case could be proven. As for what those problems were, Bentley won’t say.]
Last time I checked Canada’s judiciary did not have the lefties at the CBC as a component….or did I miss something?
One can only speculate the CBC reaction if Peter MacKay did a McCallum on Air Canada…..
I am in the riding concerned, namely Simcoe-Grey. Someone needs to explain to me why this case could not proceed on the original charges. At the very least DUI would dictate a loss of the ability to drive on our roads for a while. That’s what would happen to me if pulled over in the same situation. The other item, pertaining to a suspect white powdery substance being found in his car, well maybe a legality was in play. Water cooler talk sais this does not pass the smell test. This has the optics of not what you know but who you blow.