Marco Rubio called a Racial Slur for attempting to get along with Whites!

This is a timely post from www.redstate.com about Marco Rubio, a favorite of the Tea Party movement in Florida. He was called this for attempting to get along with people who are not Hispanic, specifically white people. This shows the power of some in the racial grievance industry. For more posts like this click here.


Racist Donny Deutsch slurs Marco Rubio (R CAND, FL-SEN).
Via Hot Air, check out the racial sensitivity of MSNBC/CNBC talking head Donnie Deutsch:
‘Coconut,’ for those lucky enough to have missed it up to this point, is a derogatory racial epithet hurled against dark-skinned individuals deemed insufficiently ‘authentic.’ It suggests that the individual in question is ‘brown on the outside, white on the inside.’ When used by someone of the same ethnic identity as the slurred individual, it takes on the additional connotation of ‘race traitor;’ when used by someone of Caucasian ancestry, it typically represents an opportunity to express racial hatreds in a socially acceptable manner. The Other Side has, shall we say, a history of such things; and if we ever have that full and frank discussion of race that’s been promised the first question that I plan to ask is going to be about precisely why this is acceptable behavior among them.
About the only thing mitigating this exercise in public racism is that it appeared on the Joy Behar show, which means that almost nobody saw it anyway.
Moe Lane
PS: Don’t get mad. Get even.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Sen. Susan Collins (R, ME) rejects trigger for ‘public option.’ [UPDATE: Sen Snowe rejects public option]

A very interesting story from www.redstate.com These were two of the three senate Republicans that voted for the stimulus. The third was Arlen Spector who is no longer a Republican. Congratulations to these two Maine Senators for joining the rest of the Republicans on this!!!

Sen. Susan Collins (R, ME) rejects trigger for ‘public option.’ [UPDATE: Sen Snowe rejects public option]
Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)

(via @seanhackbarth) For the very commonsense reason that you can’t trust the people who would be pulling the trigger. No, really: that’s what she said.
A moderate Republican who has previously broken with her party to support President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill said Sunday that she does not support the idea of using a so called “trigger” on the public health insurance option as part of health care reform legislation.
Asked on CNN’s State of the Union if the use of the trigger would make inclusion of the public option more acceptable, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, unequivocally replied “no.”

“The problem with trigger is it just delays the public option,” Collins told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, “because the people who are going to be making the determination about whether the market is competitive enough, want the public option.”
Note that this doesn’t mean that Sen. Olympia Snowe is going to take the same position (although it doesn’t mean that she’ll be taking a different one, either); but Sen. Collins’ position on this does make it clear that the ‘public trigger’ scenario for a government option in health care is not actually bipartisan. Please also note that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D, NH) apparently needed only eight months as a Senator to forget how to answer straightforward questions in a straightforward manner:
New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen refused to answer directly when asked whether Collins’ position indicated that President Obama should either not fight for inclusion of the public option in the final bill or, alternatively, pursue a legislative strategy that relied solely on Democratic votes for health care reform.

Again: no, really.
KING: Well, Senator Shaheen, let me come back to you. Senator Collins says she can’t support even a trigger.
So does the president have to make a decision? If a moderate Republican voice like Senator Collins, who is known to try to deal with Democrats, who voted for the stimulus — if she can’t support a trigger, does the president — has two choices, one, give it up, or two, do this with all Democrats. What should he do?
SHAHEEN: Well, first of all, I think that we’re going to have a bill that has significant bipartisan input, regardless of how the votes come out.
The bill that came out of the health committee in the Senate had 167 Republican-sponsored amendments that were adopted. So there has been significant Republican input already into the legislation.

And, you know, I think — I think we can do what Senator Collins would like to see us do, what others in the Senate have said they would like to see, with a bipartisan bill.
We can lower costs. We can improve health outcomes. Senator Collins and I have legislation that I think is going to get incorporated into the Finance Committee bill that would lower Medicare costs for people who are hospitalized. We know that a number of them go back into the hospital within 90 days. We can reduce that number. We can save $5,000 per Medicare patient. We can make them healthier. And those are the kinds of improvements we want to get into any health care bill.
And read that to see a truly entertaining comment from Sen. Collins about why the President has been losing independents.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.

[UPDATE] Oh, it gets better.
Via Drudge:
Snowe Urges Obama to Drop Public Plan to Pass Health Overhaul
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine said there is “no way” a health-care overhaul that includes a public option can pass the Senate.
Snowe, one of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee, said that to gain more Republican support, President Barack Obama should explicitly drop the idea of a federally backed insurance program to compete with private insurers such as Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna Inc.
[snip]
“I’ve urged the president to take the public option off the table,” Snowe said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program. “It’s universally opposed by Republicans,” Snowe said.
Call me nuts, but it sounds like the Democrats just ran out of possible Republicans to give them cover. Guess they’re going to have to run over their own moderates to pass this health care rationing bill, then. Hey, do you know what would make currently-unhappy Republican grassroots activists smile more at their ostensible Senators? Why, those Senators shutting down the government on procedural grounds in response to the Democrats trying to ram through health care rationing via reconciliation.
www.redstate.com

Recap of the NY-20 race

This is a race that is worth following! Since Barack Obama won his election in November 2008, his party has lost elections in Louisiana, Georgia, possibly in Minnesota, and may lose this one and one in Chicago as well as ones in New Jersey and Virginia later in 2009.

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Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)

1. Scott Murphy (D) is ahead by 65 votes. Nobody’s calling this race just yet.
   
2. There are somewhere between six and ten thousand absentee ballots that need to be counted.
   
3. They’re not being counted tonight. They’re not being counted for another week. (Via AoSHQ) You see, we do, in fact, actually learn from our mistakes.
   
4. The deadline for overseas absentee ballots is actually April 13th.
   
5. All that being said, just because we haven’t lost yet doesn’t mean that we’ve won, either. Don’t assume that the absentee ballots are going to flip this race dramatically.
   
6. If you still have nervous energy to work off, Rosanna Pulido (the candidate for IL-05) would love your help.

I believe that covers it. So everybody have a bite to eat, or something.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Iraq as a Democracy means WE WON!!!!

How's Iraq doing? Read this to find out!!

Not In Your Name Watch: “Democratic dawn in Iraq.”
When you\'ve lost The Guardian...
Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)
Tuesday, February 3rd at 2:00PM EST 1 Comment
You’ve got a problem. From William Shawcross:
The weekend’s elections in Iraq were a huge success for the Iraqi people. The remarkably peaceful day of voting on Saturday - and the interim results - give good reason to hope Iraq really is on the way to building a decent society.
[snip]
The peaceful polling was remarkable and so were the results. All the Islamic parties lost ground, especially that associated with the so-called “Shia firebrand”, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose share of the vote went down from 11% to 3%. The principal Sunni Islamic party, the Islamic Party of Iraq, was wiped out.
The only Islamic party to gain ground was the Dawa party of the Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - and even that party dropped the word Islamic from its name. The power of Maliki, who has emerged a stronger leader than expected, is further enhanced by these elections. Now no Islamic parties will be able to control any provinces on their own. The election is thus a big defeat for Iran which had hoped that Shia religious parties would control the south and enable Iran to turn them into a mini Shia republic.
(Via Hot Air Headlines)
The real eyebrow-raiser for this comes at the end, when William Shawcross notes the architects of victory: “If so, who deserves some credit? The much maligned President Bush. And Tony Blair.” Not so much for the concept, which is self-evident for anybody who’s been paying attention for the last few years - but for the fact that it’s showing up in The Guardian, which has been up to this point an utterly reliable conduit for antiwar agitprop. Even an upgrade to “usually reliable” is a positive sign.
And not before time, either.
Moe Lane