Republicans are Racist?

Janeane Garofalo: "Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same.

"People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say 'Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.'"

Whenever liberals are desperate and are losing the political argument, they always play their trump card, the race card.  Do they realize how silly they appear?  Do they care?

The newest protected class

One of the provisions in Obama's proposed "Jobs Bill" is to establish a NEW category of outlawed discrimination. If the bill is passed, a new legally protected classification would be the "unemployed."   It would be illegal not to hire a person applying for a job if he/she is unemployed.    Yes, you read that right.  So, if unemployed Joe Blow applies for a job and doesn't get that job, he can now sue the company for discrimination.   It seems to me that this would make any employer NOT want even interveiw or give job applications to any unemployed person.  The only jobs this might help would be for the trial lawyers.   The liberals are certifiably insane.

The Difference

To Obama, it's all about Obama:

 

The difference between 'class' and 'ass';

 George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam Hussein:   The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate them. 

 Barack Hussein Obama speech, Sunday, May 1, 2011:   And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make thekilling or capture of bin Laden the top priority of my war against al Qaeda, even as I continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community, I was briefed ona possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this threadto ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

 

Marco Rubio for Vice President

Here is an excellent essay (written by a Black conservative female....how rare is that?) that points out the relationship between our fiscal crisis and our cultural rot.

I agree 100%

Slyfox

 September 5, 2011

 By Star Parker

9/5/2011

Florida’s young Republican Senator Marco Rubio gave an important speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in California that has set off the liberal talking head universe.
He had the temerity to suggest that the huge growth in government’s role in American life over the last century “actually weakened us as a people.”
The resulting onslaught from liberal blogs and cable hosts comes as no surprise because Rubio directly took on the idol at which liberals worship – Big Government.
But his analysis was courageous and profound.
Eighty percent of Americans are not happy with the direction of the country. And, new Gallup polling shows that only 17 percent are positively disposed toward the federal government.
Americans want answers.
Senator Rubio, in this speech, stepped up to the plate to provide answers.
If liberals disagree, they are going to have to get equally serious. They’ve certainly got to do better than MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, calling Rubio “a political hack” who wants “to get rid of social safety nets.”
Our fiscal crisis is undeniable. The trillions in debt we’ve taken on to finance massive government spending has resulted in the unthinkable downgrading in rating of our government’s bonds.
But Senator Rubio took a bold step beyond looking at our problems just as an accountant.
He suggested that we cannot separate our budget from our culture. The culture of government has displaced the culture of personal responsibility.
I have been making the point for years regarding what the welfare state culture has done in our black communities. How it has created a permanent underclass, defined by family breakdown, sexual promiscuity, disease, and crime.
American culture has changed profoundly over these years that Americans have come to increasingly believe that government social engineering can solve life’s problems and challenges.
A snapshot of today’s American family shows how much things have changed, even compared to 1981 when President Reagan took office.
Since 1980, the percentage of babies in America born to unwed mothers has doubled, from 20 percent to 40 percent.
Fifty two percent of Americans over the age of 18 are married today, compared to 72 percent in 1960.
Among blacks, 44% of the population over 18 has never been married, compared to 17% in 1960.
Sixty four percent of American children today live in a home with two married parents, compared with 75 percent in 1980 and 87 percent in 1960.
And, according to the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of those between ages of 18 to 29 “agree marriage is becoming obsolete.”
We used to be a nation, as Senator Rubio pointed out, where parents raised and cared for children, then those children cared for their aging parents. Where neighbors cared for neighbors.
We might note that the welfare state idea is not an American invention but an import from Europe. We also might note that about 20 percent of Europeans attend church regularly, half that of Americans.
Europe is characterized today by low birth rates – so low that they are not replacing themselves – and high unemployment rates. The unemployment rate in France has hovered between 8 and 11 percent over the last 25 years.
We must wonder if even we can take on our fiscal problems, if traditional American family life can be restored, and if we believe it even matters.
It is to Senator Rubio’s considerable credit that he has stood up to argue that we must look at the picture of our nation in its entirety. That we cannot separate our budget matters and our attitude toward government from our overall culture and our personal behavior.
What is before us today is not a battle of competing numbers but a battle of competing visions.
Is America to continue in the direction of welfare state materialism? Or will this be a free nation under God?

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.