Back to Basics

There was a time that I was naive enough to think that Mother’s Day would be one occasion that the pro-abortion lobby would lay low, but that assumption left the building long ago thanks to things like this:

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, has a great idea for you when it comes to honoring your other for Mother’s Day. She thinks the best thing you can do is make a donation to one of the wealthiest pro-abortion groups in the country.

In an email she sent this afternoon, Gillibrand primes the pump for donations for Emily’s List, a leading pro-abortion political action committee, using Mother’s Day as the reason for supporting them.

“This Mother’s Day, I can’t think of a better way to honor all the mothers in the country — past and present — than with a contribution to EMILY’s List,” Gillibrand writes. “They’re the ones working tirelessly to elect the pro-choice Democratic women who are making sure that our freedoms are protected for generations to come.”

If you’re a bit of a self-loathing type who wants to honor your mom tomorrow, give a gift in her name to the organization that would have been happy to help relieve her of the burden of, well, you.

What’s next, Senator? A pitch for donations to the King George III Foundation on the 4th of July?

You’ll not find a single voice of dissent among the human beings who are on the receiving end of this “freedom,” because they can’t speak, and never will. Being on the side of an issue where those who are most affected by your position are eliminated before they’re able to vote on it would seem to violate the idea of “fairness” that Sen. Gillibrand claims to strive for in other areas.

Gillibrand and Emily’s list aren’t alone. Planned Parenthood also has their hands out for Mother’s Day. Or maybe brunch is more your thing.

Also, Sandra Fluke and the National Women’s Law Center wants you to honor moms this Mother’s Day by sharing your contraception anecdotes. No, seriously.

Everybody’s well aware of the Obama administration’s position on voter ID laws, which is what makes this so rich with irony.

The Michigan Democratic caucuses were held this past Saturday. These were the rules in order to vote:

This Saturday, from 9 a.m. until noon, Michigan Democrats will hold caucuses around the state to choose Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president in 2012. While this may seem like a formality, there’s a bit more to it than that so you should plan to attend the caucus in your area on Saturday morning.

The caucuses give Democrats a chance to meet, discuss the election ahead, meet local candidates in an easy, conversational setting and to learn about the various ballot measures for petitions are currently being circulated. At some caucus sites, local candidates will give a brief speech about themselves. You’ll likely have petitions available to sign and you’ll get a chance to connect with other Democrats in your area.

Things will get started at 9 a.m. and the registration to vote at the caucus ends at 11 a.m. You must be 18-years old or older, registered to vote (or be eligible to vote in the November election and willing to pledge that you will register to vote by then) and in line by 11 a.m. to vote. You will be asked to sign a statement saying your are participating as a Democrat. Please bring an id (photo id is not required.)

Racists!

(h/t Doug Ross by way of MOTUS)

White House visitor logs show that Hilary Rosen, the DC lobbyist/Anita Dunn colleague who attacked Ann Romney’s stay-at-home-mom status on CNN last night, visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. at least 35 times.

(Remember: White House logs are an inaccurate measure of ACTUAL White House visits, as liberal media outlets/watchdogs themselves have reported and as I’ve reminded you many times.)

More illuminating than the number of visits is the info about who Hilary Rosen visited. (Note: The vast majority of entries list “Hilary B. Rosen” as the visitor; Rosen’s middle name is Beth. White House press secretary Jay Carney lamely obfuscated earlier this morning about whether the Rosen in question was indeed the visitor listed in logs or another of the “three” Hilary Rosens he knows.)

The records are a mess, so let me break it down for you:

3/11/09 Meeting with White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.

3/13/09 Meeting with David Axelrod.

3/30/09 Meeting with top Big Labor operative and political director Patrick Gaspard.

9/21/09 Meeting w/Natalie Bookey, East Wing aide, and unidentified visitee.

10/8/09 Meeting with WH senior press lead, Jesse Lewin.

10/13/09 Meeting with POTUS — President Barack Obama.

10/22/09 Meeting with Anita Dunn, former WH communications director.

10/28/09 Meeting with POTUS in the East Room.

11/25/09 Unidentified East Wing (First Lady Michelle Obama’s office) meeting.

1/26/10 Rosen visited Dagoberta Vega, White House broadcasting media official and director of surrogate booking.

2/1/10 Rosen visited top White House official Jim Messina, now Obama’s 2012 campaign manager.

2/24/10 Rosen visited White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.

3/24/10 Rosen visited White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.

7/7/10 Meeting w/Jocelyn Frye, East Wing aide.

12/10/10 Rosen visited Ellie Schafer, White House Visitors Office director, in the East Wing.

12/10/10 Meeting with POTUS.

9/8/11 Meeting with Kristina Schake, East Wing aide.

12/7/11 Meeting w/POTUS and Marie Aberger, White House press assistant.

12/7/11 Meeting with Ellie Schafer, White House Visitors Office director.

1/6/11 Meeting w/Dagoberta Vega, White House broadcasting media official and director of surrogate booking.

1/21/11 Meeting w/Meredith Carden, an aide to First Lady Michelle Obama, Old Executive Office Building.

1/24/11 Meeting w/Samuel Wilson, deputy director of broadcast media for the White House office of communications.

1/28/11 Meeting w/Jason Dempsey, White House fellow.

2/2/11 Meeting w/Obama bundler and top aide to both POTUS and FLOTUS, Tina Tchen.

2/24/11 Meeting w/POTUS.

2/24/11 Meeting at WH Visitors Office.

2/14/11 Meeting w/Samuel Wilson, deputy director of broadcast media for the White House office of communications.

3/19/11 Meeting w/Alexader Lasry,strategic engagement aide.

3/18/11 Two meetings listed with Jeremy Bernard, White House social secretary.

6/15/11 Meeting w/Dag Vega, WH surrogate booking director.

8/5/11 Meeting w/Ellie Schafer, WH Visitors Office director.

Plus: 12/15/09 – 12/15/10 – 12/15/11 — Incomplete entries, no visitee identified.

Bottom line: For the last three years, Hilary Rosen has met nearly three dozen times with top Obama communications and political strategists from Valerie Jarrett to David Axelrod to Anita Dunn to Jim Messina to the president himself.

Any notion that her frontal assault on GOP women was an accident or lone wolf move is contradicted by the long paper trail of her intimate working relationship with the White House campaign/media team. The data also puts the disavowals of Messina/Axelrod last night into much-needed perspective.

It’s hard to believe that we’re talking about the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Obamacare what with the law being crafted with the help of “leading legal scholars” on the left. Here’s one of those brilliant minds as singled out by Joe Biden:

Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a “leading legal scholar,” presumably in the Senate, today.

“He has been one of the leading legal scholars,” Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken “is deadly serious” as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

Yep, one of Joe Biden’s “leading legal scholars” among congressional Dems is this guy:

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I’m not saying Biden is wrong though — maybe Al Franken is one of the Dems’ leading legal scholars. Judging from the laws they push I have little doubt.

Pope: Obama Administration Inherently  Evil

Well, they’re not actually members of the CPUSA, but close.

See the Washington Post, “Republican Rep. Allen West says many congressional Democrats are Communists” (via Memeorandum).

More at Lonely Conservative, “Allen West is Right, There Are a Bunch of Commies in Congress.”

Arlen Specter can’t believe that his crapweasel Democrat friends didn’t stand by him in times of need. What goes around, comes around, pal. No tears for you:

Via The Hill:

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.

Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican.

Specter, who rocked Washington’s political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democrats in April of 2009, has kept quiet about these slights until now.

The real cacklesnort-inducer:

Specter believes Reid acted with “duplicity” while managing the party switch. Specter said Reid promised him that he would be recognized on the seniority list as a Democrat elected in 1980 but failed to deliver on it.

Lie down with cannibals, get up with…well, no, you don’t get up. You just get a public television show no one watches.

Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson lost his House seat in 2010, but he’s running again this year. Grayson might be remembered best for things such as likening the GOP to Al Qaeda members in the pilot’s seat and saying the Republican health care plan is to hope sick people “die quickly.”

Speaking of public health, Grayson might want to call for a study on the threats presented to the physical well being of the general public from politicians who are in a hurry to get to fundraisers:

Former congressman Alan Grayson collided with a Lynx bus this afternoon near a busy downtown intersection, according to WESH.

Grayson, a congressional candidate who was on his way to a campaign fundraising event, ran a red light and struck the bus, reports show. Two people aboard the bus suffered slight injuries.

The vocal Occupy Wall Street supporter was driving a Mercedes Benz, car of choice for the discerning member of the 99 percent. Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt, but you might not guess that judging from the looks of Grayson’s Mercedes.

There could be a bit of upcoming irony if the two people on the bus who were injured decide to lawyer up. But maybe Grayson has already instinctively offered to represent them in a lawsuit against himself.

@anthropocon Tweets: “Alan Grayson – the first Democrat to throw himself under the bus.” (h/t Twitchy.com)

Click the pic for news video from WESH:

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Update: Instapundit writes…

Driving a Mercedes, hurrying to a big-bucks fundraiser at a penthouse, injures some bus-riders (99-percenters almost by definition) while himself escaping unscathed. Occupy Alan Grayson!

**Written by Doug Powers

If racism is a genetic condition, then misogyny must be also.  That being an ‘accepted’ premise, the Republicans are actually a race of people and not really a political party since only Republicans can be racist and misogynistic.  Interesting how Progressive political science works.

h/t nicedeb

A couple of days ago I wrote that the Obama campaign was considering moving the final night of the Dem convention to Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers. The large outdoor venue would allow the fighters against Wall Street greed to sell high-priced skyboxes and raise even more campaign cash, and do so from inside a place named after one of Wall Street’s biggest players.

And just when you thought the list of possible ironies and hypocrisy couldn’t get any longer:

Bank of America Stadium, the Charlotte, N.C. sports area that has been proposed as the site where President Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for a second term in the White House, was built entirely with nonunion labor, The Daily Caller has learned.

Brett McMahon, president of Miller & Long DC, Inc., told TheDC it’s ironic that the Democratic National Committee is discussing the venue as a likely locale for Obama’s re-nomination ceremony, since the president has long-standing political alliances with America’s biggest and wealthiest labor unions

Miller & Long was responsible for the stadium’s construction in the mid-1990s.

“The majority of the companies that built the stadium were members of Associated Builders & Contractors,” McMahon told TheDC. “It is a great example of a grand monument that was built entirely union-free.”

In spite of wherever the final night of the convention ends up (all we know for sure is that it’ll be a place that the Greek columns can fit in), unions weren’t happy with the state that was chosen to host the convention. Barely over three percent of North Carolina workers are union members. Lucky for Obama unions will still give him all their campaign donations anyway.