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Pet peeve: fair-weather Americans

I was directed to a story over at the Washington Post this week but I hadn’t had the chance to follow up and read it until this morning. Titled, “A Happiness Gap: Doomacrats and Republigrins” the story reports on the fact that Republicans tend to be happier with life than Democrats. I’ve heard this before and my personal experience tells me it’s true but I’m afraid I just couldn’t make it past the 2nd paragraph. Have a look at the first 3 sentences of this story:

Now the good news for Republicans: You are happier than Democrats. You always have been, and you probably always will be.

Never mind that your presidential candidate is sinking in the polls while your president plumbs historic depths of popular scorn and your free market squeals for intervention while your investments evaporate on Wall Street.

Emphasis most defintely mine. Ignore that part about “your free market” and the intervention shtick. See my last post for the answer to that: these WaPo lapdogs continue to work overtime to hide the fact that the reason the market intervention was necessary was because Democrats in Congress did everything in their power to block measures that would likely have prevented the meltdown to begin with. No, the part that really yanks my chain is the reference to “your president.”

So, I guess we can now take it as official that the reporters and multiple layers of editors at the Washington Post are admitting they’re not real Americans? America has 1 President and he’s the president that’s elected in compliance with the rules laid out in the Constitution of the United States. He’s not “my” president while not being “your” president unless you’re not an American citizen. You see, referring to President Bush as “your president” is only applicable if he’s not also yours, if you’re, for example, a German citizen or a Japanese national. To stand there alleging you’re an American citizen and reference President Bush in this manner is to suggest he’s the President of only those who voted for him. Which is an un-democratic, un-American, un-patriotic stance to hold.

This is what ticked me off for these past 4 years as I saw people running around with those stupid Kerry bumper stickers on their cars. I even saw people transplant those stickers to new cars just so they could continue their sore loser routine on and on and act like they were being so justified and sophisticated. Un-American is all that was. And it’s still un-American. The winner of the election is the President and he’s the President for all Americans whether they voted for him or not. That’s the deal in a democratic society and if you want to remain part of it then that’s the rule set you play by. That the Washington Post would advocate otherwise by their continued example is most definitely un-American. It’s both a sad commentary to a once-great paper and another example of why they and their industry is dropping into the toilet.

Re-join the American people, WaPo. It’s the right thing to do.

(update: fixed link)

October 25th, 2008 Posted by ricjames | Politics, The Media | no comments

The truth about the financial meltdown? It was Democrats and Obama who stood in the way of preventing it.

Update: While we’re on the subject, let’s talk about that Obama tax plan he keeps saying is going to help the middle class.

(Thanks to HotAir.com for pointing these great ads out.)

October 25th, 2008 Posted by ricjames | 2008 Presidential Race, Economy, Politics | one comment

Ohio agencies used government computers and restricted access databases to snoop on “Joe the Plumber.”

Someone from inside the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency used their access to government databases restricted to law enforcement and official government business to pull information on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher’s (a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber”) driver’s license and/or his vehicle registration, according to reports. You’ll note that Cuyahoga County is nowhere near Toledo, Joe’s place of residence. And I can assure you that if this agency had had legitimate business looking up Joe’s info, the media would have already made sure we all knew every detail about it.

Also accessing this information were people with accounts assigned to the office of Ohio’s Attorney General Nancy Rogers and the Toledo Police Department. Now, the fact that the local police department might run someone’s registration or driver’s license is hardly a stretch so I consider that to be a non-issue. The Attorney General’s office might have been running that info merely to compile a profile for the AG but it’s worth looking into what, exactly, they pulled and – more importantly – who they shared that info with. But that first one, folks… that one smells of someone abusing their access. I can only imagine where the info gathered from that location wound up but I’m betting it was somewhere the MSM could read it.

An investigation is defintely called for and, if someone accessed those records illegally, prosecution should immediately follow.

October 25th, 2008 Posted by ricjames | 2008 Presidential Race, Crime & Punishment, Politics | one comment