Jeannie-ology

Not since Paula Jones suggested Bill Clinton proudly possessed a “distinguishing feature” have things in Washington DC gotten tawdrier.  Why?  Because when the curtains were removed from the Congressional showers more was exposed than Rahm Emanuel’s bare butt?

Imagine your first eight weeks in Congress, in order to familiarize yourself with the territory you decide to work out in the collegial Congressional gym.  After working up a sweat you go to the locker room to find the curtains curiously removed from the shower stalls.  Looking past groups of naked men milling around in various stages of undress, you make your way toward an empty stall affording the greatest measure of privacy.

Midway through your shower you realize that standing behind you is a nude man.  Slowly you turn to see who it is.  The hot misty steam reveals the outline of Rahm Emanuel’s ballet trained frame.  Stunned, you utter the polite words, “If you would like this stall, I was just leaving.” Grabbing your soap and wrapping a towel around your waist you attempt to push past Rahm who proceeds to ram his way into the cubicle trapping you inside.  Pushing you against the tile, Emanuel screams spittle laden obscenities chiding you for daring to vote against Obama’s budget.

Sound impossible, well Eric Massa (D-NY) describes such a confrontation with Emanuel: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

Apparently, if scalding hot water, soap in the eyes and pounding half a middle finger on a nude man’s chest doesn’t do the trick, Rahm Emanuel appears willing to revisit Oliver Reed and Alan Bates wrestling naked in Women in Love to get an agenda passed.

Massa, a Democrat, claims Emanuel is the type of political animal so ferocious he “would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.” So, for Emanuel, it’s no big deal to spend afternoon’s perusing congressional locker rooms, in the buff, intimidating politicians to see things Rahm’s way.

Eric Massa charges he is being forced out of office before the health care vote because Emanuel and Obama know the Democrat, from New York’s conservative 29^th district, will vote against it – whether true or not–remains to be seen.  Supposedly unbowed by the initial freshman encounter with Emanuel over the budget, Massa believes that because his is the deciding vote on Obama care, “this administration and this House leadership…will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill.” Thus an ethics investigation into allegations Massa sexually harassed one of his aides recently emerged spearheaded by individuals who climb into shower stalls with sudsy, naked men supposedly to discuss policy.

Evidently, the man at the top “with a mop,” Scarface Barry deploys underling Rahm, aka Frankie Rio to do the dirty work and to clean up loose votes vulnerable to bullying if ambushed in congressional showers.  A nude Rahm Emanuel may think he intimidates members of Congress uncomfortable with being forced to shower in curtainless stalls.  But Emanuel’s unseemly behavior exposes more than what Rahm looks like sans ballet tights– it exposes the Chicago thuggery presently at work in Washington politics.

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Originally posted on American Thinker

Oh the irony, Barack Obama’s health care reform baby may never reach full term.  Bart Stupak (D-Mich) is one of twelve House Democrats opposed to abortion who are willing to “kill” the bill if language isn’t changed to bar federal funding for the grisly procedure.

When asked if the Stupak“daring dozen” were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion? Stupak stood firm and said, “Yes. We’re prepared to take responsibility.Let’s face it. I want to see healthcare. But we’re not going to bypass the principles of belief that we feel strongly about.”

NARAL must be proud. The Michigan lawmaker epitomizes a tenet choice enthusiasts espouse; “NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Choice Action Center helps pro-choice Americans back up their beliefs with action.”

This is not the first time Rep. Bart Stupak has “backed up belief with action” when addressing abortion language contained in a health care reform bill.  Last year the Michigan Democrat stalled legislation in the House until satisfied that federal tax dollars would not fund abortions.

Listening to Obama talk, it’s clear to see that as far as Barry is concerned the health care bill is done gestating and its time to rush across the hall from labor to delivery. The President is positioning himself to make a final push for reform by “urging Congress to vote on the plan in the next few weeks even if it means passing the measure with a narrow Democratic majority and no Republican support.”

As a supporter of partial birth abortion, Barack Obama is in a difficult spot because up until the last minute, Stupak and eleven other Democrats could choose to exercise choice over party affiliation and abort a fully formed bill Barack views as perfectly healthy and viable.

Wasn’t it candidate Obama who said, “Now, part of the reason they didn’t have [the health exception for partial birth abortion] was purposeful, because those who are opposed to abortion – and I don’t begrudge that at all…they have a moral calling to try to oppose what they think is immoral?”  Which is what the Stupak dozen are doing Barry, “opposing what they think is immoral,” by submitting presidential progeny to an abortion, just prior to birth.

Politically picketing outside the Congressional clinic, the White House claims the bill does not “intend” to change current abortion laws, and “does not believe” the Senate bill, which Obama’s plan emulates, “would change the status quo.”

Health and Human Services Secretary and avid abortion rights supporter, Kathleen Sebelius, said, “This will not change the status quo on the policy of abortion. There will be no federal funding for abortion.”

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs lent support to Sebelius’ statement contending, “The president is not and will not change current federal law in dealing with abortions and healthcare.”And Stupak should accept that statement because people who advocate killing helpless babies always tell the truth?

Somehow Stupak along with other Democratic anti-abortion lawmakers remain unconvinced and worry “that legislative language will follow the blueprint of the reform bill passed by the Senate,” which Stupak claims,”Does not provide sufficient safeguards.”

Bart Stupak’s commitment to aborting Obama’s health care bill-gives new meaning to the concept of Obama supported “freedom of choice.” The irony is, a Democrat may ultimately be the one saves many unborn children from being unjustly slaughtered, and in doing so, rescues the elderly and sick from being destroyed in the future by Obama’s insidious health care reform policy.

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After witnessing the success of politicians like Mary Landrieu (D-La) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb), “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis recruited GOP strategist to Roger Stone assist in her bid to run for governor of the state of New York.  If selling yourself equals political capital, than who better to be on the ballot than a woman “rumored to have the largest and most prominent black book in this country?”

In a quest to occupy the Executive Mansion, Davis has recruited backers and secured campaign contributions from victory party hopefuls like 50-Cent and his G-Unit, Northern California pot growers, as well as sex industry workers and wealthy, former clients. Aptly announcing her gubernatorial candidacy at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, assisted by a bevy of Penthouse Pets, Kristin Davis plans to petition herself onto the ballot with 30,000h 30,000
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Unlike Landrieu and Nelson’s sudden windfall, this savvy madam takes credit for slowly building a “multimillion-dollar business from scratch.”   At $4,300.00 a tryst, tens of thousands of those millions allegedly came from former governor Spitzer’s campaign funds.

A pro-gay marriage, gun-toting NRA Libertarian set to run as an Independent, the Manhattan Madam brands “taxation as confiscation.” Employed in the field of finance for ten years and at one point serving as vice president of a hedge fund Davis is convinced New York State’s budget could be shored up by legalizing prostitution and marijuana, which she believes stands to add $2.5 billion in revenue to state coffers –campaign supporter and Candy Shopper “Fif” heartily agrees!

Kristin Davis, aka the Manhattan Madam’s true claim to fame was tipping off the FBI that visitors to Spitzer’s Washington DC‘s Mayflower Hotel room were arriving for reasons other than meeting in a convenient location to discuss policy.  Davis blew Client 9’s cover after years of providing Eliot Spitzer, whose aliases also included names like “James” and “George Fox,” with unlimited access to call girls.

Kristin Davis’ initial foray into politics began with a gripe against former Governor Spitzer. After pleading guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to charges of promoting prostitution, Kristin spent 4 months on Riker’s Island, while the man in the black socks retired to a tony 5^th Avenue apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.  Incarceration incited the madam to run against Eliot, “But now that it looks like he won’t run, Kristin still wants to use her celebrity to highlight a reform agenda.”

Exemplifying diversity when it comes to qualifications for governorship, Davis attests knowing more about Eliot Spitzer than she “could ever divulge.”  The Manhattan Madam’s intimate exposure to the ex-governor could make a hooker eligible to run New York state in the same way laying down for political pimps is believed by some to garner favor for Democrat senators in Nevada and Louisiana.

In a state abounding with criminality and corruption and where lately, truth is much stranger than fiction, having an authentic prostitute run for governor is sure to elicit a cynical Empire State response like, “Oh yeah, so what else is new?”

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Originally posted at American Thinker

What a tragedy: An idealistic nine-year-old girl grows into one of SeaWorld’s leading trainers, and in the prime of her life is mauled to death by a whale she treated as her own child. Such is the heartbreaking story of Dawn Brancheau, whose “ear-to-ear smile” was directly attributed to happiness the whale trainer experienced riding “Shamu for a living.”

Orcas are killer whales without natural predators; these mammals are “the largest species of the dolphin family … and are regarded as the top of the food chain.” What can be learned from Mrs. Brancheau’s untimely death? For starters, it’s wise to know the nature of the beast, and to not expect a “killer” to be anything other than what it is. Because truth is, regardless of feigned docile behavior, intrinsic temperament eventually resurfaces, and when it does, even veteran coaches can find themselves at the mercy of six tons of aggression.

Pictures of Dawn Brancheau balancing triumphantly on Shamu’s snout are reminiscent of Obama supporters in “joyful harmony” with the new president following the last election. In the Native American Chinook language, Tilikum, the name of the whale responsible for the SeaWorld trainer’s death, means “friend,” and what better friend to America than harbinger of hope and change Barack Obama?

Like Brancheau stroking Tilly’s nose, a sycophantic electorate massaged Obama’s ego. One year later, Democrats constrained by faltering poll numbers appear “agitated.” Why? Because America stopped feeding and rubbing Barry’s political proboscis, and now the star of the show’s belligerent, temperamental comments are manifesting more and more frequently. It seems that something like Tilly’s “aggressive nature” is surfacing in a testy Obama swimming to and fro in less-than-friendly political waters.

Before Dawn Brancheau died, there were ominous signs that SeaWorld ignored. Reports claim that prior to the midday Dine with Shamu show, “The monster orca was not responding to direction” and was uncooperative, yet the scheduled show went on. Similarly caught up in theatrics, the American public paid admission, disregarded history, and ignored Obama’s radical past. Now, spectators are forced to admit that political losses are both terrible and difficult to witness.

Orcas in the wild are known for aggressive play, so proper protocol must always be followed to ensure safety. Yet on Election Day, Americans threw caution to the wind. Voters “lying on a shelf ” in the Democrats’ shallow pool placed their head in close proximity to a biased machine whose history can only be described as politically predacious.

After the fact, theories circulate about what caused killer whale Tilikum to snap. Gaining insight into the unfortunate death of Dawn Brancheau presents potential instruction, which, if disregarded, could result in American autonomy lying lifeless under a black shroud after being spit out of the jaws of a partisan porpoise.

For one thing, Tilikum was responsible for two other deaths. Trusting an orca “notorious for being difficult, depressed and unusually temperamental” turned fatal for gullible Dawn, who said, “You can’t put yourself in the water unless you trust them and they trust you.” It appears that that trust was one-sided. With an American public verbalizing resistance to policies like health care reform, the Shamu show in Washington, D.C. is in the process of grabbing “by the waist and thrashing around” an American public whose opinion politicians either disrespect or mistrust.

Dawn Brancheau trained killer whales for SeaWorld’s Believe show, which was “designed to be inspirational, leaving the audience with the notion that if people can swim with killer whales, they can achieve anything.” Was the premise to be “believed” that a six-ton killing machine can be subdued, and that it will be every show? Does anyone still believe in hope and change? The past year has aptly illustrated that inspirational transformation can prove to be a fatally flawed concept when in the hands of a president who outsources key legislation to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Marine biologist Nancy Black downplayed the marauding nature of orcas, saying, “I just think the killer whale may have wanted a social companion and just held [Dawn] under too long. I would think the killer whale didn’t do it intentionally but more as a plaything. They are so powerful.”  This proves the point: The politically powerful, exercising benevolent intentions like “sharing the wealth,” can flail the economy around so violently that America’s fiscal shoes fly off.

Animal activists expressed the opinion that “confining ocean-going mammals to an area that … is like the size of a bathtub,” could be the impetus for “smart animals [to] lash out.” Critics claim that “[a]nimals can become aggressive in captivity due to higher levels of stress.” Although “[w]ild killer whales are not generally … a threat to humans … captive killer whales have been known to attack handlers,” which explains why Democrats, confined by the majority’s criticism of liberal political ideology, produce stress reactions, causing “smart animals” like Obama to “lash out.”

Prior to taking Dawn’s life, Tilikum, a normally “well-behaved, balanced animal,” behaved “like an ornery child.” Taking Brancheau by force, the orca pulled the trainer under the water, “tossing her around in its mouth while swimming rapidly around the tank.” In like manner, Barack Obama, Washington’s very own childish Shamu, swims rapidly toward health care reform with struggling Americans clutched in his mouth. Obama circling the tank sends a message to those who encourage taking it slow — health care reform cannot wait.

After Brancheau’s demise, a SeaWorld head trainer said of Tilikum, “We have no idea what was going through his head.” Witnesses to Brancheau’s death said that Tilikum “kept pushing her and poking her with his nose … it looked like she was just totally caught off guard and looked like she was struggling.”

Standing by the side of the pool, struggling Americans have also been taken off-guard — prodded by Obama, the nation is learning a hard lesson by observing the inborn ideological instincts of a voracious politician. The lesson? As the witnesses of Dawn Brancheau’s death can attest, at the spur of the moment, political animals can “flip out, going as fast as they [can]” and using oppressive policy to thrash even those who falsely believe that “Yes We Can” swim with killer whales.

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Originally posted at Pajamas Media

The highly touted Michelle Obama/Mike Huckabee Fox News interview is over and the text of the transcript has been made public. Other than Mike mentioning the “horrors of our political climate today,” the dialogue was extremely courteous. Nevertheless, nestled within the discussion were revelations that an overly gracious Huckabee failed to address.

Michelle began the interview by telling the former Arkansas governor that the family’s pediatrician warned that the body mass indexes of Sasha and Malia were ticking upward. In response, the first lady said the family ate out less often and she cooked “a little bit more.” A tiny bit of pre-interview research would have revealed Michelle wasn’t the cook in Chicago; Sam Kass was. Kass, a healthy cooking specialist, worked in the Windy City as personal chef for the Obama family and is presently on the White House staff at the behest of the Obamas.

Just a few months ago the liberal press trumpeted the scandalous revelation that Sarah Palin“didn’t cook for her family.” Truth is, Palin got rid of the state-paid chef at the governor’s mansion in Juneau and was featured in Esquire magazine giving grandson Tripp’s father, Levi Johnson, a tutorial on how to marinate a roast. Governor Palin dismissed a gratis chef, but is branded as someone who doesn’t cook for her family. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama’s less than forthright family cook comments go unchallenged by Mike Huckabee.

Further along the interview trajectory, Michelle told the the former governor: “Families don’t even know how modern-day life has really changed the way our kids move and eat.” Huckabee forfeited an opening to challenge Mrs. Obama to expand on what it is she believes Americans “don’t know.” Interspersed throughout the interview was the underlying thread suggesting Michelle believed Americans are basically simpletons in need of a bureaucratic schoolmarm.

Huckabee gave the first lady a gratuitous opportunity to defend against “Let’s Move” policy critics.  Mike said: “Some say, ‘Oh this is going to lead to a nanny state. The government telling us what we can eat.’ Are those fears fair, or are they unfounded?”

Michelle responded, “Well, this is the one thing that this initiative isn’t. Because I’ve spoken to a lot of experts about this issue, and the one thing that they haven’t said it that government telling people what to do is the answer. This is not a government intervention.”

Michelle contended “Let’s Move” is not about bureaucratic intrusion, but then expressed the sentiment that altering school lunch programs presents opportunities to “work with the federal government.” Huckabee failed to retort with the obvious question: if government sponsored school lunch programs contributed to the obesity problem, why would those who helped cause the crisis suddenly be trusted to produce positive results?

Mike addressed Michelle’s many references to “we” with “who is the ‘we’?” Mrs. Obama countered with: “We is all of us.” It’s parents (whom Michelle believes don’t know what’s going on), coaches (in the public school system), and “it’s Congress” (who no one would ever accuse of wanting to control our lives). According to the first lady, “we” also includes industry providers who make soft drinks (which will be regulated by the nanny state), school lunch programs (financed by the government), and even the media (which is controlled by the FCC and hopefully will be reigned in further by theFairness Doctrine).

Mrs. Obama further stressed, “Families need to work with their pediatricians and their family doctors so they’re all talking about the same issue; they’re looking for the same sign.” I have a question for Michelle. Are you referring to the doctors Barack’s health care reform bill intends to control?

Michelle continued: “It’s not just telling a parent, you need to make some changes, but it’s giving them a prescription, a step-by-step guide to what they can do.” Maybe Huckabee should have asked her who would be writing the “prescription.” This is an important question based on the president’s health care proposal, which is poised to give government unfettered influence over prescription disbursement.

Michelle went unchallenged throughout the interview by the affable Huckabee, whose dimple didn’t get smaller for lack of smiling.  Not once did Huckabee ask why 23.5 million Americans living in “food deserts” have a chubbiness problem. Typically, people starve to death in a desert — they generally don’t expire from corpulence.

Probably the most stunning admission in the interview came when Huckabee posed a Katie Couric-like inquiry that sounded strangely familiar. The talk show host, breaking down bipartisan barriers with unique charm, queried Michelle by coyly posing the question: “I have to ask you — do you ever watch Fox News?”

Mrs. Obama replied in earnest: “I try to stay away from, you know, news because, you know, I want to formulate my opinions based on experiences that I have.  So, you know, I’ll read clips. You know, I get headlines, but I tend and I try to keep home kind of a news-free zone.”

Huckabee could have inquired further by pressing for an answer to the question: “What headline clips specifically?” To which, like Sarah Palin, Mrs. Obama could have responded, “Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.”

Then Huckabee may well have asked the notably well-versed first lady if she could name “name a few.” After which, Michelle might have awkwardly changed the subject and expounded on the value of cozy dinners and family game nights playing Sorry! Such an exchange could have given America additional insight into Michelle Obama’s intellect or inspired additional Tina Fey skits.

So there you have it. The first lady heads an initiative to influence “cultural transformation” in America. Michelle intends to shimmy her way into every school, television set, neighborhood, pantry, and refrigerator in America and do so without the benefit of reading newspapers. If nothing else, Mike Huckabee’s interview shed light on why Michelle Obama, as first lady, remains clueless.

Maybe Michelle Obama needs to pick up a newspaper now and then to find out that most Americans would choose living in a “food desert” to having bureaucrats make menu choices for them.

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