- What do you get when the President of the United States disregards Democratic rule but makes pretty speeches about standing up for Democracy? A Banana Democrat.
Iraq
- Oh yeah, we kind of won a War yesterday that the Democrats including Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Hillary, Biden and the rest said was lost. Yesterday American troops left the cities of Iraq and handed over control to the Iraqi’s. Let us never forget that Obama inherited a War that had been won thanks to the Bush administration’s strategy while Obama embraced defeat.
THANK YOU to all of the troops who did an amazing job and who stood by that country and ours these long many years. Thank you to McCain and Bush for believing in the surge, for Petraeus and others for coming up with it.
Well done!
As for the rest? Just remember this MoveOn ad
Everything Else
- Al Franken is now a Senator. Yes that statement is vilet.
The childish antics of the New York State Senate have reached a new low. As Republicans started to recite the Pledge of Allegiance the Democrats refused to participate. As you can see in the video one Democrat actually went to stand up but was pulled down. (Hat Tip Gateway Pundit)
President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the United States still considers Manuel Zelaya to be the president of Honduras and assailed the coup that forced him into exile as “not legal,” widening the chasm between the Central American nation and much of the rest of the world.
“It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections,” Obama said in the Oval Office after meeting with Colombian President Alviro Uribe. “The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don’t want to go back to a dark past.”
I am not an expert at Honduran law but I am seriously wondering if the Obama administration is either. It seems the Honduran Supreme Court told their President it was “not legal” to try to hold onto power; he decided to move ahead anyway. It doesn’t appear that the military was necessarily acting on its own accord, in fact it seems the opposite, that the Supreme Court asked the military to bring order and defend Constitutional rule.
So why are we wading into this & deciding the course of action for the Honduran government which seems to have deposed of a leader hell bent on clinging to power? A move his own party said he should not seek! Frankly if President Obama or any President chose to disregard the law and his oath, I don’t see why we would be against the Congress, the Supreme Court and the military deposing of him in a similar fashion with the backing of a lot of freedom loving Americans.
Again, all I know is that it appears the government of Honduras and the military were acting within the laws of their country and attempting to prevent the endless reign of a socialist leader who was doing the opposite in ignoring those laws. This is much different than a stolen election in Iran where the government was betraying the will of the people and their own legal system in what may well be a coup by the military in that country, for all we know.
What in the world are we doing? Why did we spend weeks wading into Honduran internal affairs? Why were we so quick to not accept this action and why are we now interpreting Honduran law. Is the Obama administration going to provide its legal defense? I am looking for any specific explanation of how, using the Constitution & law of Honduras, the President is coming to this conclusion.
Hopefully more answers to come. For the latest news on this keep checking Fausta’s blog.
I don’t even want to explain this story but here is the background. Republicans formed a coalition with a few turncoat Democrats to force their way into power. Democrats cried foul. The chamber was locked, lots of names were thrown around, basically our Senate in this state is a giant bunch of children.
Now a judge has ordered both sides to the chamber to get to work. Frankly I think we are probably better off if everyone just stays home and stops spending our money. The Republicans failed in their little “coup” the Democrats who tried the same thing awhile back fail in every way, they all suck. Nuff said.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.
The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide, potentially limiting the circumstances in which employers can be held liable for decisions when there is no evidence of intentional discrimination against minorities.
“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the white firefighters “understandably attract this court’s sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion. Nor have other persons received promotions in preference to them.”
Yesterday I wondered why the United States was racing to lend their support to a socialist in Honduras who was seeking to ignore the Constitution and the ruling of the nation’s Supreme Court in order to hold onto power. The move showed just how inconsistent Obama’s foreign policy is as they claimed constantly they could not “meddle” in Iranian affairs but did not wait for facts on the ground in Honduras. Additionally it hinted at the administration’s true embrace of socialism and the disregard for the foundation of law.
When I wrote yesterday I said there were still some things we did not know. Today we have some answers. It looks as though the action by the military was done in collusion or possibly at the behest of the Honduran government who voted to oust President Zelaya. We also saw a successor named showing not a military takeover but the succession of the congressional President Roberto Micheletti as mandated under the law.
So in Iran, we have clear evidence not only that the will of the people under the law was denied but are watching the slaughter of those who believe in upholding the nation’s democracy. In Honduras we have the rise of a leader who wished to ignore the foundation of the law and seek an unconstitutional reform to keep himself in power. In response the government, military and potentially most of the nation’s institutions rose up against him. Two clearly different scenarios but two actions where the side of Democracy seems to be clear.
We have seen in the many dictators throughout Latin America what happens when leaders start tossing aside term limits. They hold and consolidate power and refuse to leave. This action harms the people, destroys liberty and has resulted in deteriorating relations with the United States and the decimation of prosperity for the people in those countries.
The Obama administration and members of the Organization of American States had worked for weeks to try to avert any moves to overthrow President Zelaya, said senior U.S. officials. Washington’s ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, sought to facilitate a dialogue between the president’s office, the Honduran parliament and the military.
We saw the administration immediately side with Zelaya, first with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning the overthrow and then with the administration saying we would not recognize a new government.
This all makes me wonder, why is the Obama administration meddling in Latin America and what are its goals?
The information coming out is of course sketchy BUT it looks like the Honduran president was unseated from power by the military. This occurred after the President decided to push forward with an attempt to revise the Constitution of that country in order to hold onto power, something we have seen time and again throughout Latin America, read Hugo Chavez Honduras President Zelaya’s good friend. The problem is that the Supreme Court ruled against Zelaya’s attempt to keep his power, he pressed on anyway and here we are.
Now Hugo Chavez, no friend to liberty, is threatening involvement if the Government is in fact overthrown by the military. What we don’t know is if all of the institutions within Honduras were behind this move or if it was simply a unilateral decision by the military etc.
Interestingly, Secretary of State Clinton has moved quickly and aggressively to denounce the military move, framing it as aggression toward Democracy and Constitutional order. Here is the problem. Do we know if it is in fact such a move? Zelaya was trying to change the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled against him, he decided to move forward anyway. If the military were acting on behalf of the government itself to preserve constitutional order, wouldn’t this be the same kind of internal political struggle that the Obama administration felt so powerfully they should stay out of in Iran?
Why are we suddenly willing to jump to the defense of a socialist government where a leader is sidelining the Constitution of his people? A leader who is in bed with Chavez who might just use this as a moment to get his military moving in another part of Latin America? Why are we coming to the aide of someone who could be seen as seeking to make himself an endless dictator.
Not only is this one more example of inconsistency within the foreign policy of the Obama administration, I have to wonder if it is one more show of sympathy for socialism.
Nicaraguan paper La Prensa Gráfica reports that the Venezuelan ambassador to the Organization of American States claims that the ambassadors for Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in Honduras were kidnapped, hooded, and beaten. OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza announced he will travel to Honduras.
The Honduran Congress later voted to remove Zelaya for “putting in present danger the state of law” and appointed congressional President Roberto Micheletti as the new chief executive, as is mandated by the Constitution.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s push to rewrite the constitution, and pave the way for his potential re-election, has plunged one of Latin America’s poorest countries into a potentially violent political crisis (Wall Street Journal
Zelaya, a leftist elected in 2005, has found himself pitted against the other branches of government and military leaders over the issue of Sunday’s planned referendum. It would ask voters to place a measure on November’s ballot allowing the formation of a constitutional assembly that could modify the nation’s charter to allow the president to run for another term.
Zelaya, whose four-year term ends in January 2010, cannot run for re-election under current law.
The Honduran Supreme Court had ruled the poll illegal, and Congress and the top military brass agreed, but Zelaya had remained steadfast. (CNN
BLITZER: Are you seriously accusing the CIA of killing Nada?
GHADIRI (through translator): We say that the bullet that was found in her head was not a bullet that you could find in Iran. These are the bullets that the CIA and terrorist groups use. Of course they warned that there would be a bloodshed in these demonstrations and then they could attribute that to the Islamic republic. This is part of a common act of CIA in various countries.
BLITZER: Do you really believe that, Mr. Ambassador? You’re a distinguished diplomat representing Iran. This is a very serious accusation that you’re making, that the CIA was responsible for killing this beautiful, young woman.
GHADIRI (through translator): I’m not saying that the CIA had done this. There are different groups. Could be intelligence services, could be CIA, could be the terrorists. However, these are the people who do these things.
You could ask Mr. Andreotti, who was an Italian diplomat whether Gladitators were a secret group related to CIA or not. Now they of course they use better methods. Of course, you’re not going to say that CIA is a sacred organization that hasn’t done anything to other worlds.
BLITZER: Mr. Ambassador, why won’t your government allow people to go mourn at a memorial service for Nada, as her family has requested?
GHADIRI (through translator): We have no problem with mournings. Naturally we don’t want to provide an opportunity for the rioters to come in and make the situation worse.
Neda’s brutal death become a rallying cry for Iranian protesters & their supporters around the world after graphic and disturbing images showing what happened to her spread online.
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