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No Freedom in Reston, VA

There's no freedom of speech in Reston, VA according to Officer Wesley Cheeks.  In fact, according to this fine public servant (no doubt counting his years, months and days until a fat government pension check) this isn't even America anymore.  Don't know what I'm talking about folks, think ole Mister Meat and Taters has fallen out of his tree?  Not quite.
 
Last week at a townhall meeting, a citizen was threatened with arrest for trespassing because he had the audacity to carry a sign. This kind of censorship at the hands of an officer who has almost limitless power to harrass you and change your future is scary beyond belief.  Some of you will remember my blog entry back in June where I was harrassed by a Knoxville city police officer.  Keeping police in check is a mandatory function of our media, other police officers and every citizen who appreciates our precious freedom.
 
Follow this link to the video of Wesley Cheeks in action and feel your blood boil.  This officer should be fired immediately!  We don't need people like him running around who feel they can "Charge you with whatever (they) want to charge you with", in his words.
 
 
P.S.- Stay tuned for my blog entry "My day in court" where I cover what happened between myself and Officer John Kiely of the KPD. 
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Now democRATs want Tort Reform?

What's this I hear? democRATs on Capitol Hill whispering ideas of Tort Reform.  Nawwww, it couldn't be.  This might alienate one of the most loyal democRAT constituency groups out there which pumps millions into their coffers.  Yes, I'm talking about those moral, upstanding, always beloved trial lawyers.  Just imagine a picture of John Edwards' new baby at this time folks! :-)
 
The "Blue Dog" democRATs (notice I didn't say conservative) are begging for some sort of Tort Reform to be added to this "Obama-Care" bill.  But does everyone out there know the following?  WE COULD'VE HAD TORT REFORM 14 YEARS AGO!
 
That's right, it was called "The Common Sense Legal Reform Act of 1995" and it was one of the 10 items in the famous and somewhat successful Republican "Contract With America".  I was out of work at the time (long story) and I watched every day of those first 100 days of the Gingrich-led House, the first GOP controlled House in 40 years mind you.  It was awesome to watch Gingrich in action, stuffing the convoluted leftist logic right back in the face of stupid reporters in a way that only "Mister Newt" could accomplish.
 
Tort Reform passed the House of Representatives 265-161 on 3/10/95 and then the Senate 61-37 on 5/11/95, guess what happened to it next?  It never became law so someone stepped in and screwed things up!  Now who could that be?  Of course, it was the "Father of 9/11", Bill Clinton himself who got out his "veto pen" and shut the legislation down by presidential fiat.
 
The reason we don't have Tort Reform today is because "Mister Perjury" had to take care of his trial lawyer buddies and that's a simple, indisputable fact of history.  Medical costs are higher today because of a democRAT president, 'nuff said!
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Geraldo Rivera: Racist, liar or both?

In case you missed it, Geraldo Rivera made an appearance on "Red-Eye" w/ Greg Gutfeld last night, very late.  I suffered from a case of insomnia (no doubt due to the Obama assault on freedom and liberty) and decided to click on some late-night Fox News.  In retrospect, I should have avoided it as the resulting blood pressure increase did nothing to help my insomnia!
 
The show "Red-Eye" is quite a hoot on occasion.  It's usually geared for the college-age, just about to start voting demographic as it sports nubile models, musicians, comedians or other trendy guests.  The dialogue is driven by current events, moves very quickly and achieves a group-think dynamic where anything goes.  Last night though, the show took a turn for the terrible.
 
Geraldo Rivera saw fit to use the show as a venue for promoting his next piece of literary garbage which I hope and pray will be a flop!  It has something to do with illegal immigration and how wealthy, white xenophobes are standing in the way.  Awwwww, how sad that silly people like me actually expect other people to follow the laws on the books and for doing so, this makes us nasty RACISTS!
 
The Fox News "village idiot" went further to claim President Obama as the "first latino president" because hispanics voted for him overwhelmingly as a stinging REBUKE to Republicans for "...being azzes about immigration".  I'm not making this outlandish stuff up folks!  Rivera actually said this and you could see Greg Gutfeld appear somewhat taken aback.
 
As I wrote on my Twitter page (callsign: GrassrootTroopr), Geraldo Rivera is a racist and either ignorant or a disingeuous liar.  Evidently he doesn't know that the "McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Act" of 2007 was rejected by Republicans AND democRATs.  When it was discovered that these lawbreakers would receive amnesty with no real penaties whatsoever, people went absolutely nuts!
 
Mr. Rivera should buy himself a clue, Lord knows he has enough money to do so in our "racist country of white privilege".......NOT! If he actually reviewed the history books, he would find that it was REPUBLICANS PUSHING THE AMNESTY BILL!  Namely, Senators McCain (AZ) and Graham (SC), President Bush and his head honcho Karl Rove!  Are you this stupid Geraldo, if so may I recommend that Fox News pull your show from you and hand it to someone more capable like Greg Gutfeld!
 
Oh and one last quip for the latino racist at Fox News.  If you want to foolishly claim credit for putting Obama in the White House then feel free to do so. But I wouldn't do it too loudly, have you seen his approval ratings? :-)
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A NEW Oath for our military

In light of what the democRAT party has become in this country over the past few decades, I recommend a change to the military oath that I uttered during the summer of 1984.  This was, of course when I was sworn in with the Naval Academy class of 1988.  My, how it seems like yesterday. 
 
When I was in the military, most of our enemies were foreign ones.  It seems today that the enemies of freedom are inside our own borders.  The majority of the oath stays the same with only one change near the beginning, here goes:
 
"I (state your name) do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies both foreign and democRAT..."
 
The original oath used to read "..against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC...."
 
This change to the military oath should be implemented immediately!
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In Ted's honor, a NEW approach

All we're hearing lately is how great Ted Kennedy was, how he served as the "Lion of the Senate". Sort of reminds me of Bill Clinton being a "Lyin' King" but that's another story! :-) Frankly, the Kennedy eulogizing is already starting to make me nauseous.
 
I would rather we take a look at what Kennedy stood for and the results he delivered. Simply stated, Ted Kennedy went "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" over any gov't program which redistributed wealth, grew the size of the federal government and made more people dependent on it for their survival.  As such, he embraced the welfare programs in LBJ's "Great Society", medicare, social security, amnesty for illegal aliens, unemployment benefits expansion, prescription drugs and any other program to make a federal government ever more gargantuan!  Of course, Kennedy did oppose some government programs....the ones associated with the Department of Defense.  You see, in Teddy Kennedy's mind, the world is a peaceful place loaded with all sorts of people who love the United States and would never do us harm!
 
Let's look at the results of Teddy Kennedy's STATIST agenda over 40 plus years, when he wasn't out drinking like a fish, driving off of bridges or making "waitress sandwiches" with the idiot Senator from CT, Chris Dodd.  Over all these years of foolishly trying an unconstitutional government program for EVERY problem in America, we have more problems than we know what to do with, to wit:
 
1) Poverty levels that have doubled since the 1960's despite throwing more than 11 TRILLION dollars at the problem.
2) Illegitimacy that is staggering with almost 75 percent of blacks born illegitimate while the rate is about 35 percent for whites.
3) Social-IN-Security that is going bankrupt (regardless of the tapping of the trust fund that started under LBJ) and will absolutely implode on itself in about another 20 years due to the "Baby Boomers" overloading it en masse.
4) Medicare that is absolutely unfunded by 2025 and will require about 30 Trillion in funding to maintain liquidity.
5) The lifeblood of American capitalism, our manufacturing has left the country, leaving us a service economy w/ less wealth potential.
6) Illegal immigration gone wild with millions sneaking in SINCE the Kennedy amnesty deals of the 60's and the 80's
 
Had enough yet, ready to puke as you think about how ABSOLUTELY BANKRUPT this country is?  Not just bankrupt of ideas from leftists who try the same crap over and over again but bankrupt of cash!  Make things up and shoot from the hip as you go, who gives a damn about the U.S. Constitution.  This is the modus operandi of the STATISTS who've been given control by ignorant voters, time and time again.
 
It's time for a new approach folks and I say we invoke it in Teddy Kennedy's honor.  I say we do THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what Ted Kennedy stood for all those years when he was the "Lion of the U.S. Senate".  We'll call it the "Reverse Kennedy Rule" and it works just like this:  Whenever we feel like we should spend more on government programs, hire more government workers and borrow more debt from the People's Republic of China.......WE DON'T!!!  Get it?  I'm making this simple so even a rube like Ryan (an idiot who comments on my blog) can understand the "Reverse Kennedy Rule".
 
Basic examples of the "Reverse Kennedy Rule", henceforth referred to as the "RKR"...haha
 
1) More welfare spending to allow people a chance to enjoy quality time on the street corner, we say no. Move and get a job.
2) More social-In-security spending on a flawed system that assumed people would die by 62, we say no. People under a certain age will have to save for their own retirements and EXPECT a vastly reduced benefit, if any at all.
3) More medicare and medicaid spending, we say no. People have to stop sitting on the couch all day, eating Ho-Ho's and watching the Family Guy re-runs.  Here's an idea, get off your keester and go ride a bike around town, take a walk. Plus, you must save for your own medical care that can be expected later in life.  Awwww, I guess the SUV and camper purchase will have to wait.
4) More spending on illegitimacy because fathers hit the road, we say heck no!  Force fathers to live up to their obligations or they go straight to the slammer.  Encourage young people to exhibit some personal responsibility when they engage in sexual activity and not act like selfish liberal douchebags who care only about their self-gratification and not America's future.
 
Without a shred of doubt, the Ted Kennedy approach has failed miserably over all these years.  Massive government programs have only encouraged dependency on government and irresponsible behavior.  Oh sure, the leftist/statist scum which infests this country will attempt to demagogue the "RKR" as cruel, insensitive and inhumane but it's FINE TIME FOR A DIFFERENT APPROACH FOLKS!
 
America is bankrupt and it's only a matter of time before China says "go pound sand" when we ask for more debt purchases.  When this happens, the system we know will collapse right before our very eyes and chaos will ensue.  Waiting until then doesn't make much sense now does it?  Well perhaps it does to those who would love chaos, as it would open the door to totalitarianism for the "good of the people", of course.
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Patrick Kennedy: The "NEW Ted"

Now that Ted is gone, who will we turn to for first-rate entertainment? Who will supply the drunken rants and endless stumbling words? I think I have the answer folks, democRAT Congressman from Rhode Island, Patrick Kennedy.
 
You see it wasn't that long ago that Patrick made his way onto the pages of "Meat and Taters", earning himself the dubious nickname of  "Ford Crash Test Dummy".  In fact, my long-term fans will remember that before I found TownHall this Grassroot Trooper blogged incessantly on Myspace.  Right now, you're thinking "What the heck is Myspace?" :) How quickly we seem to forget the "flash in the pan" technology of yesterday, eh folks?
 
It was Thursday, May 4th 2006 when I wrote about Patrick Kennedy's "brush" with the law or was it really a brush?  More like priority treatment that NONE OF US WOULD RECEIVE had we been in his shoes.  Read on and allow your blood to boil at the hypocrisy!
 
"Kennedy Clan...at it AGAIN!"
May 4th 2006
Remember the Kennedy clan's propensity for hitting the bottle?  Ole Ted drove off the Chappaquiddick Bridge during the summer of love and got preferential treatment as a young girl lay dead.

Turns out the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree as Ted's son, Patrick Kennedy was stopped in DC by police at 2:45am for driving with his lights off and crashing his Ford Mustang into a concrete barrier.  Upon being stopped, Kennedy staggered out of his car and declared to police, "I'm late for a vote!"  Vote on what?  Where to get some early morning munchies? :-) 

Now, this is the part that will shock you.  Kennedy was transferred to another police department and given a ride home.  No sobriety test was performed.  That's right, a different set of rules applies to these folks and don't you forget it.  They are the elitists and we are the plebians.  It is time for this nonsense to end, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Next time you hear a Democrat talk about a "culture of corruption", we should cite Patrick Kennedy's conduct and say "Look in the mirror folks". Hey, look at the bright side.....at least this Kennedy family DWI didn't result in another dead girl.  Whew!
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Since this event, Patrick has been in and out of treatment centers for substance abuse.  I have no issue with his personal demons, rather I have a major issue with his effort to SUBVERT MY U.S. CONSTITUTION.  For this I will not stand and you should not either!
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Defeat Obama-Care in honor of Mary-Jo!

You heard it here first, my lovely, intellectual, patriotic, hard charging Grassroots Troopers.  I was all over the passing of Teddy "the swimmer, the drunken sot, the Cape Cod orca, Mr. Manslaughter" Kennedy at 2am. So go back and peruse the previous entry at your leisure.  You'll see that I made the prediction of how the opportunistic leftist scumbags will now use Ted Kennedy's passing to gin up support for the "public option" (i.e. Obama-Care) on Capitol Hill.
 
But here's an important point I didn't mention that dovetails nicely with how I ended the piece.  Leftists will say "Pass the public option in honor of Teddy Kennedy's legacy" but I say in rebuttal "DEFEAT the public option in honor of Mary Jo Kopechne."
 
If we don't defeat this socialized government monstrosity, we'll become victims of Ted Kennedy's legacy.  Just like poor Mary Jo.
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Ted Kennedy is gone, thank God!

Ding...Dong, the drunk is dead, which ole drunk? The leftist drunk who wrongly torpedoed Judge Robert Bork back in 1987!
 
Another hypocritical, socialist, lying democRAT is no longer in our midst.  That's right!  Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) from my ex-homestate is dead tonight.  No doubt he might have lived longer if he didn't live in a country with such terrible healthcare! LOL!
 
Ted Kennedy is a big piece of crap, plain and simple.  I've written about his antics and the antics of his alcoholic nephew Patrick (a Congressman from Rhode Island) for years now here on the Meat and Potatoes Blog.  I've given his nephew Patrick the nickname of "Ford Crash Test Dummy" because he ran his Ford Mustang up on a cement barrier while "high on Ambien".  Yeah right, we know what was in Patrick's bloodstream because a local bartender saw him sucking down "cold ones" a few hours before.  The "New Ted" was let off by Capitol Hill police with no sobriety test and they even gave him a ride home.  Can you say "double standard" folks?  Spare me!
 
By far, the now deceased Teddy Kennedy's biggest claim to fame was the untimely killing of poor Mary Jo Kopechne.  She was unlucky enough to be in the backseat of Ted's car as it careened off the Chappaquiddick Bridge on Martha's Vineyard.  Those of us from Mass. new the real legend, however.  That Mary Jo carried Teddy's baby and allowing her to live might unearth the dirty secret.  "Player Ted" was a "John Edwards" many decades before the NC Senator knocked up his now famous mistress.  Who could vote for these losers?
 
So now Kennedy is gone and Mary Jo can have her vengeance.  She's been waiting 40 years to get her hands on the guy who deprived her of a young life.  But what about the millions of welfare recipients who feasted at "Teddy's Table" for all those years?  They too, lost their lives in return for pulling a democRAT voting lever each election day.  Oh that's right, those rubes have been brainwashed into the belief that they were getting a good deal.  What an injustice, "forgive them father for what they've done". How despicable!
 
The opportunistic demagogues in the Obama administration will say "Let's pass the public option to honor Ted Kennedy" but I would offer the following in rebuttal: "Let's defeat the public option in honor of Mary Jo Kopechne, she was a victim of the public sector."  If we don't defeat "Obama-Care", we'll all become victims of the public sector......... just like Mary Jo.
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Obama retreats to the bunker

He's in the bunker folks.  That's right, our beleaguered president "Dumbo the Puppet" is battening down them hatches over on Martha's Vineyard while the polling numbers are showing his approval ratings at new lows.  A little tip there Dumbo if you do leave your bunker, I wouldn't let Ted Kennedy do any of the driving on the Vineyard, especially over that bridge at Chappaquidick!  It could get ugly.
 
Yesterday was my birthday and my what a present I received when the weekend polling results came in.  Obama with a negative 14 point approval index, his worst showing ever!  Keep in mind that the approval index is a comparison of those who strongly approve (the idiot, ignorant drones combined with the communists like Ryan) versus those who strongly disapprove of Obama's efforts.  Right now, 27 percent strongly approve while 41 percent strongly disapprove.
 
All polling of LIKELY VOTERS shows Obama firmy entrenched in the 40's with Rasmussen showing a 48 percent approval and Zogby showing an abysmal 45 percent.  Disregard the polling from the leftist, biased, erroneous media as they question all Americans, even those who wouldn't recognize the inside of a polling station if their life depended on it!  The only results worth considering are those that reflect the views of informed Americans and naturally they would be likely voters.
 
Bottom line is that Obama has achieved the impossible folks. He has managed to squander an unbelievable level of political capital in just 6 months.  Not even Jimmy Carter could accomplish that!  Meanwhile, his foreign policy agenda items are stalled or floundering about in crisis as we sink deeper into a quagmire in Afghanistan.  Obama is playing "whack-a-mole" and it's due to an overly aggressive gameplan of trying to do too much too soon.  Let's chalk it up to inexperience and a feeling of invincibility, most likely facilitated by the extreme media tongue-bath he's received since almost day one of his campaign!
 
Now, the Obama forces see fit to desperately play the race card   As if anyone of cognitive ability believes we'd be much more supportive of his Marxist agenda in the event his skin suddenly turned white!  What a laugh for them to even attempt this but keep in mind that leftists are hideous creatures (just look at the young Marxist Ryan who foolishly comments ad nauseum on this blog) with Machiavellian modus operandi.  Anything goes when it comes to tricking people into buying their socialist/Marxist agenda folks as they will stoop to the lowest of levels and destroy anyone standing in their path to absolute control!
 
The latest rumor is that democRATs might use a procedure known as "budget reconciliation" to ram through the public health insurance option and bypass the "supermajority" requirement of 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.  This would be "dirty pool" on their part because the process of reconciliation was meant to fund existing government programs during a budget impasse, not create entirely new gargantuan government programs such as the one(s) being considered.
 
If democRATs attempt to hi-jack our Constitution and use a "nuclear option" against the threat of a filibuster, they will be writing their own political death warrants!  Most Americans believe in and cherish their Constitution, they will not tolerate it being subverted for any reason.  But this logic will fall on deaf ears aboard the "Democrat Crazy Train" we call Congress.  Driven by hideous fanatics like Reid and Pelosi, this train will careen down the tracks out of control, until the tracks come to an end in November 2010.
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Obama-Care dead, what's next?

As I wrote yesterday, Obama-Care is dead (for now).  They may try to resurrect it later on but I'm not sure when the opportunity will present itself.  Perhaps if the economy rebounds massively and we are suddenly flush with cash at the U.S. Treasury but I think I've got a better chance of marrying a supermodel before that happens folks! :-)~
 
So with admissions today by Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) that the "public option" (which was Obama's signature issue mind you) has no chance of passing, Team Obama will push for a seriously "watered down" bill that may do things like increase oversight on insurance companies.  Oh and of course, there will be more "Czars" appointed by presidential fiat.  How nice....
 
But here's the real question for Grassroots Troopers out there to ponder: What do we do next?  We have all these people fired up big time over the intrusiveness of the federal government and worried about the looming debt collapse, perhaps in our lifetimes.  I say we seize the moment and start catering to these folks, not as Republicans but as "Constitutionalists"! 
 
This is an important distinction because most people link Republican to big government just as they link democRAT.  Most people don't understand the nuances between the two parties nor do the know their history about which party has always sought to grow the size and scope of the federal government.  Our government schools are woefully inept when it comes to teaching anything, nevermind history and when it comes to the FDR-era (known by me as "Socialism Gone Wild"), millions of people have been brainwashed as to what truly went on back then! (Yes, this would include everyone's favorite young Marxist rube, Ryan.)
 
So, unless you want to get into a serious history lesson when deputizing Grassroots Troopers, it's best to just ask people the following: Do you believe that our federal government today is respecting the limits on it's power under the U.S. Constitution?  Then sit back and wait for a whole host of answers.  This is the crux of the issue folks and if we can't get people to consider it in a serious and thoughtful way, then I have little hope for our nation's future as a representative republic.
 
Nowadays I tell people "I'm a Republican by default" when they ask me what party I belong to.  They usually laugh and I continue with "Today's Republicans are too busy trying to be democRATs and the democRATs are too busy trying to be Marxists!"  I dream of a day when I can beat my chest and proudly proclaim again "I'm a Republican because my party supports and defends the U.S. Contitution!"
 
I hope that day comes along before I die.
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Obama-Care: Stick a fork in it!

Stick a fork in it folks cuz it's done!  That's right, Mister Meat and Taters is going out on a limb and calling the Obama healthcare hi-jacking dead as a doornail for the near future.  Why?  Because of one simple reality, today's democRATs are cowards.
 
Remember my "Funny Democrat Slogan" I use on a regular basis?  "Sure we're snobs, liars and COWARDS but above all, we're hypocrites first and foremost".  Well, I capitalized the word "cowards" for a reason because all the evidence I see is showing a democRAT party in retreat.  Today's biggest sign is the embattled democRAT traitor from PA named Congressman Jack Murtha.
 
Murtha has gone on the record admitting that Obama-care is not going to happen this year or perhaps at all.  This is a huge admission from someone who is right up there, cozy with Nancy "the Tuna Lover" Pelosi.  Murtha knows what the rest of the conservative blogger community has known for some time:  that the election of a Marxist demagogue like Obama has awakened this country.  Thank God!
 
The Obama agenda has scared the American people like few things could.  Oh sure, they'll go back to sleep after awhile but for now, they are fired up and loaded for Obama's henchman.  Just look at these town meetings!  They've turned so nasty at times that cowardly democRATs won't even attend!  This is great folks because it perfectly displays their cowardice so all can witness and remember.  I've been saying for years that democRATs could care less about their constituents, all they care about is using them to acquire and retain the power they so desperately seek.  Remember a democRAT Congressman from PA named Paul Kanjorski (Hazleton area)?  He spilled the beans that democRATs had NO INTENTION TO END THE IRAQ WAR in 2006.  The only reason they said they could end the war was in their lust to take back control of Congress.
 
Well now they have control and have had control for over 2 1/2 years.  During this time period, our gas prices went to the stratosphere, our mortgage industry imploded, our auto companies were thrown into absolute bedlum, the stock market cratered and worst of all, the American people have been TORN APART IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A DE FACTO CIVIL WAR!
 
Thank-you democRATs for awakening the American people with your penchant for radical leftist policies.  Something tells me your time at the helm of America is dwindling to a finish in 2010.  In the meantime, keep demagoguing the people at these town hall meetings, keep calling them "un-American" and "mobsters".  Yeah.....that's the ticket for a one-way trip back to minority status. (giggles)
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Michael Vick: The "Clinton Standard"

Michael Vick is back as I predicted he would be......LEAVE HIM ALONE!  I couldn't believe the negativity on Fox News Channel last night about Vick's return to the Eagles.  Only Charles Krauthammer (whom I adore mind you...) had the sense of mind to unequivocally state that Vick has a right to return to the NFL and rebuild his life.  Bravo Charles, I knew there was a reason you received that journalism award a few months ago! :-)
 
Simply folks, Vick has been punished for the "al-Qaeda like" behavior he engaged in.  He was punished much more severely than other public figures in our society who have committed much more eggregious acts against our civil society.  To wit:
 
1) Bill Clinton- subverted the U.S. justice system as its Chief law enforcement officer by lying under oath, getting others to lie under oath and obstructing justice.  He paid over a million in fines for this behavior and was impeached by Congress as a result.  Only the cowardly acts of democRAT senators (who now hold our nation hostage) were able to avoid his removal from office, a true travesty of justice.
 
2) Eliot Spitzer- Worked tirelessly as Attorney General of New York to go after people engaging in prostitution but when elected as Governor of New York, guess what?  He felt the rules about soliciting prostitution didn't apply to him.  Has he been punished enough?
 
3) Sandy Berger- As Bill Clinton's NSA Chairman, he was in charge of safeguarding documents which dictated programs to ensure our national security.  After leaving his position, he took orders from Bill Clinton to go into our National Archives and STEAL some of those same documents to cover up mistakes made during the Clinton Administration in dealing with terrorism.  Berger was "stone cold busted" on stealing these documents, taking them out of the National Archives, hiding them under a construction trailer and destroying them. He received no real punishment except the loss of his security clearance which can be re-instated after a small period of time.
 
By contrast to these 3 losers, Michael Vick was truly hammered!  He was pilloried in the media on a daily basis for months and he paid millions upon millions in legal fees and fines.  By even a conservative measure he was destroyed financially.  Further, he was paraded into a courtroom in shackles and leg irons, placed before a jury of his peers and punished with almost 2 years in jail. This guy, as reprehensible as he may appear to animal lovers (and I am one with a cat named Condi...) has paid his debt to society!  Now leave him be.....
 
Here's what I wrote about Michael Vick almost 2 years ago, on the subject of "The Clinton Standard" read on if you wish.....
 
http://meatandpotatoesblog.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/01/michael_vick,_a_great_man!.thtml
 
Is there more Michael Vick can do to repent for his sins?  Of course!  For instance, he could donate some of his football earnings (if there are any...) to the SPCA and help finance the creation of animal shelters where people can go adopt animals lacking a good home.  He can go around the country during his off-season giving speeches (for free) about the importance of being humane to animals.  Finally, he can work his damnedest to become a role model to children across America by reforming his life and keeping out of trouble.
 
Bill Clinton has apparently reformed his sorry life (but he's still a coward), perhaps Vick can too.
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Afghanistan: Vietnam Redux?

They say history repeats itself folks.  Let's take a case in point:  Limited warfare being waged by Democrat pacifist pu$$ies in a land far away that contains ruthless enemy combatants who know the mountainous terrain and its tunnel systems by heart.  Haven't we seen this flick before?  I think it was called "Vietnam", just throw in some jungles and a proxy to feed them weapons!
 
News is out today that the costs and complexity of fighting "Barack's War", otherwise known as the "War on people who do bad things", could easily top those of Iraq by several multiples.  In fact folks, I smell another Vietnam brewing over there.  Call me crazy if you must.
 
Some things to consider.....
 
1) Afghanistan is truly third world and most of its provinces look like something out of the prehistoric world with NO infrastructure at all.
 
2) The citizenry are utterly uneducated, they cannot read or write and are destitute.
 
3) The country has no real productive capacity to fund a military and its only real source of income is opium production which goes to fund terrorist groups including the Taliban.
 
4) The terrain is as rugged as anywhere on earth, anyone in the military will tell you that terrain complicates military operations immensely!
 
Not trying to be a kill-joy folks but we were told by the leftists who now control the US military that the REAL war was not in Iraq but in Afghanistan.  They better be damn careful not to pull another LBJ/McNamara on us, once was enough!  Link to the article:
 
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Zach Wamp in ETN tomorrow

Meat and Potatoes Loyalists know that I rarely deal with local issues as I get such a charge out of the democRATs and their antics on a national level.  Plus, I see the greatest threats to my liberty and freedom at the national level.  Please indulge me while I switch gears and cover an event that is local in nature and extremely important.
 
Some will remember that I go "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" over the pride of Tennessee, Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN). Zach was elected during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, right after the Clintons tried stealing our healthcare system away from us.  Funny how history has a way of repeating itself, eh folks?  But I digress......
 
Ole Zach's hotter than a 2 dollar pistol and when he speaks, people must think he's related to E.F. Hutton because they perk them ears up and listen real good!  We need a statesman like Rep. Zach Wamp during these phenomenally trying times in America with our Constitution under an almost daily assault by the Obama administration.  Look at the way Obama's henchmen forced states like South Carolina to take the bailout money or else.  What do you think a Governor Wamp would have told Obama to do with his stimulus money?  I'm thinking of a tight orifice where little sunshine can be found! :-)  Get it?
 
Zach will be visiting East Tennessee tomorrow (August 11th) and will be speaking at "Gunny's Indoor Shooting Range" in Maryville, TN.  The event will start at 3pm, just as the Rush Limbaugh Show is coming to a conclusion so you won't have to miss any of Maha-Rushi's profoundity!  Convenient eh?  I wonder if they planned it that way.....hmmmm.
 
If you wonder why I believe in Zach so much, it has to do with the way he supported President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq War as the democRATs worked their damnedest to subvert the effort and hasten defeat.  Zach stood up on the floor of the People's House in Washington, D.C. and said this about the effort to confront radical Islam:
 
http://www.house.gov/wamp/media/Override.Veto.wmv
 
Congressman Zach Wamp is in no small part responsible for the success we see today on the streets of Iraq and that's a fact!  He makes decisions based on what is right (in his gut) and not based on what the pollsters say.  That's called "moral courage" folks and it is sorely needed both here in Tennessee and at the national level.  Statesman versus politician, which do you prefer?
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democRAT cowardice on display

Few things are more cowardly than undermining your own troops when they're overseas dodging bullets and IED's.  We know Democrats rose to that task on an almost daily basis as they tried to hang defeat around the neck of George W. Bush.  I believe it was Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader who declared the war lost on national television and got front page coverage by Al-Jazeera. Nice job you "mendacious pipsqueak".
 
But today we have more convincing proof (if we weren't already convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt) that today's Democrat party is a collection of cowards and it has to do with these town hall meetings.  Democrats have announced that they will be conducting these forums by phone or satellite hook-up because the "mobs" pose a threat to their safety.  Can you believe this?  Typical conduct to be expected from a party that stood in lockstep behind a draft-dodger when he lied under oath.
 
Don't forget my favorite "Funny Democrat Slogan" which can be found along with many more slogans in my archives:
 
"Sure we're snobs, liars and cowards but above all, we're hypocrites first!" :-)~
 
Only funny because it's true folks!
 
Addendum: On an somewhat related note. Connecticut is home to one of the finest examples of my "Funny Democrat Slogan" listed above.  Yes, I'm talking about that scoundrel who took sweetheart loans from Countrywide Financial, one Sen. Chris Dodd.  He's being challenged in 2010 by a brilliant conservative intellectual named Peter Schiff.  If you've not heard me promote Schiff in my previous blogs let me say that you would do well to learn from his wealth of knowledge on economics and investing.  And if you'd like to learn more about his candidacy or perhaps make a donation to his campaign, here's the website link:
 
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