BREAKING: Basically Non-Existent US-Mexico Border Fence is "Basically Complete"

Just like the $14 trillion national debt is "basically paid off."

This must mean we can begin working on this moat with alligators project that Obama and his Republican Straw Men have apparently been discussing.

After all, even a basically complete 700-mile fence can't seal 2,000 miles of border.

Obama said today in El Paso. . . “They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents — more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a build up that began under President Bush and that we have continued. They wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete.”

Five years ago, legislation was passed to build a 700-mile double-layer border fence along the southwest border. This is a promise that has not been kept.

Today, according to staff at the Department of Homeland Security, just 5 percent of the double-layer fencing is complete, only 36.3 miles.

Via Weasel Zippers.

Cross-posted.

Shameless Dems Fundraising Off NPR: 'Now the Republicans Want to Control the News'

These are the same people who've waged a jihad against Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for years. No, they're fair and impartial observers. It's the Republicans who want to control the flow of information!

House Democrats are fundraising off their Republican counterparts' push to take away federal funding from NPR, accusing the GOP of overreaching.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) circulated a fundraising e-mail to supporters Wednesday in response to the House GOP's decision to hold a vote Thursday to derive public radio of taxpayer funds.

"First, they tried to restrict access to reproductive health care. Then, they proposed catastrophic cuts to teachers, nurses, and researchers," reads the appeal from DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.). "Now the Republicans want to control the news."

Democrats are looking to turn the tables on Republicans, who renewed their campaign to strip NPR of federal funding after they took control of the House.

Republicans accused NPR of liberal bias after video footage shot by conservative activists showed an a company executive criticizing conservatives and saying the conglomerate could survive without federal dollars.

Advocates for NPR say the network can't survive without federal funds and provides quality programming to underserved areas. The DCCC also accused Republicans of waging an ideological war against public radio.

Of course on that video the bigoted NPR hack said they could well survive without taxpayer money, but hey, why quibble with the facts?

Aww: Murkowski Plays the Cute Card, Uses Her Nephews to Mock Joe Miller

Just what every kid dreams of being for Halloween: A member of Joe Miller's security detail!


The one on the right is thinking "Can I put my Iron Man costume back on now, Aunt Lisa?"

Click the link and notice that the photo comes "courtesy of the Murkowski campaign."

The woman is incapable of shame.

And she's clearly not that bright, either. Because if she was, she'd have had the kids dress up as super-sized sample ballots, showing a properly completed write-in vote. What is it again - fill it out, write it down or something? I can never remember. Say, how come her name's not on the ballot, anyway?

Oh, right.

Cross-posted here.

Classy: Kids Exploited at Kennedy Mass to Promote ObamaCare

Via Gateway Pundit.

Really, these people just have no shame, sending little kids up there for the cause. And that second kid, don't his parents know a decent barber? Good grief, clean that kid up.

Best summed up here.

The boss has been writing about the left’s use of kids as sympathetic “human shields” for their policies for years and years, but even so, I’m amazed. I thought the moral authority of the religious setting would create enough cover for Obama or whoever to toss a few bones to health care in their eulogies; I guess, like Karl says, they were skittish after the Wellstone memorial fiasco and figured they couldn’t take any chances. Enter this poor little boy, charged with politicizing a prayer because the gutless pols around him didn’t have the balls to do it themselves.

For all the finger-wagging and tut-tutting from the left about the sacred separation of church and state, it always seems they're the ones invoking religion into politics. Which explains why they worship at the altar of liberalism.

Love this headline:

Kennedy remembered for 'the dream he kept alive'

Plus a little unintended black humor.

Hundreds lined nearby sidewalks, ignoring the rain, as the funeral procession passed.

"I said to myself this morning, 'No matter what the weather, I'm going, I don't care if I have to swim," said Lillian Bennett, 59, who added she was a longtime Kennedy supporter and determined to get as close as she could to the invitation-only funeral.

I'll always remember him for who he didn't keep alive.

More Shameless Projection From Obama

This is just pitiful. I don't know about you, but I've paid my respects to veterans over the years, and not just on Memorial Day. But here you have a guy whose own party has constantly disrespected the military lecturing us about how veterans have been mistreated.

Hey pal, look at yourself and those who voted for you. Oh, and we don't have to be told to pay our respects. It comes naturally.

Geez, he is absolutely shameless.

President Barack Obama urged Americans to pay tribute to veterans on Memorial Day, saying the nation all too often has "failed to live up to that responsibility."

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said people can honor veterans by sending a letter or care package to troops overseas, volunteering at health clinics or taking supplies to a homeless veterans center. He said it could also mean something as simple as saying "thank you" to a veteran walking by on the street.

"We have a responsibility to serve all of them as well as they serve all of us," Obama said. "And yet, all too often in recent years and decades, we, as a nation, have failed to live up to that responsibility. We have failed to give them the support they need or pay them the respect they deserve.

"That is a betrayal of the sacred trust that America has with all who wear and all who have worn the proud uniform of our country," he said.

Somehow I doubt he'd be saying these things if his TelePrompter didn't have the words on it.

There's been a whole lot of disrespect shown toward our military over the years, and it's all coming from the left.

Richardson Uses CA Fires to Raise Campaign Funds; Sandwich King Also Invokes Iraq

It hasn't taken Democrats long to try and exploit a natural disaster, between the absurd claims of global warming being the cause to this myth that since some California National Guard troops are in Iraq, things are any worse.

Now Democrat presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is using the fires in a pathetic attempt to raise campaign cash. Naturally, he's appearing at the house organ for the inherently insipid, The Huffington Post.

Where is the National Guard?

But as someone who believes the war in Iraq is a complete disaster and that we need to get our troops out now (www.getourtroopsout.com), I look at the natural disaster in California and feel compelled to also ask President Bush and every candidate who thinks it is okay for our troops to remain in Iraq until 2013 or longer - where is our National Guard?

It is a sad irony that yesterday, the very day I sent fire crews to California, 300 more New Mexico National Guard members were sent to Iraq. Just when we need them most at home, more of our brave men and women, true public servants, are sent away to a war we cannot win.

Never before in our history has our National Guard, a group of dedicated men and women who serve our country and provide critical aid in the time of natural disasters been used, and re-used, for so long to fight a war tens of thousands of miles away.

In California, the Guard force is authorized to have over 21,000 members. Today, that number is just under 15,000. Why the decline? I believe it has nothing to do with a diminished commitment to service, but rather is a frustration with having that commitment abused, and families turned upside down, just so President Bush can continue to pretend his war can succeed.

George Bush, his Republican friends and the Democrats who continue to allow this war to continue have not only broken our military, they've broken our National Guard.

Click the above link and you wind up here, where it says it is Paid for by Richardson for President, Inc.

Of course, he declines to note the New Mexico Guard deployment consisted of a fighter wing and there's no evidence they've been trained to fight fires.

Alas, to their credit, some of the commenters are not amused by this shameless money grab.

1will (See profile | I'm a fan of 1will)
What is sad is the comedian, Stephen Colbert, has the same level of support for the Democratic nomination as you do.
Good luck trying to be relevent.

Reply | posted 06:24 pm on 10/24/2007

CaseyBabes (See profile | I'm a fan of CaseyBabes)
Go Bill? For crying out loud, in reality this vague governor is complaining about the use of the National Guard, which is what it is for....to be used. I'm an independent who 'til now had a fair opinion of the guv, but, fuggedaboutit.

Reply | Parent | posted 06:59 pm on 10/24/2007

TazeMe65 (See profile | I'm a fan of TazeMe65)
If you move troops out of Iraq, how do you plan to deal with Iran when we eventually have to face them down on their nuke program?

Since you don't have any position on Iran on your website, I must assume you aren't thinking that far ahead in this chess game. Oh, and by the way, the Europeans tried diplomacy with Iran all last summer and have nothing to show for it.

Reply | posted 04:15 pm on 10/24/2007

Of course, some of the usual inmates weigh in.

iswearington (See profile | I'm a fan of iswearington)
bill you are absolutely right! shouldn't there be truckloads of national guardsman and blackwater mercs roaming around shooting innocent people like they were in new orleans? why did state and federal help get there so fast? should the citizenry have been allowed to languish with their tongues hanging out from thirst for a few days like they did when katrina struck?

Log in | posted 03:42 pm on 10/24/2007

Lazslo (See profile | I'm a fan of Lazslo)
I wish you were leading in the run for the democratic nomination, Gov. Richardson. As the only candidate out there who proposes ending the Iraq war, you have my vote and I hope the state of Washington will support you early next year in its primary vote. Tell me, (I know I must sound like a fool here) but what's to stop you from brokering a peace in Iraq and the region on your own, right now?
Reply | posted 03:51 pm on 10/24/2007

Not to be outdone by Richardson's stupidity, another Democrat also-ran, Connecticut Senator Christopher "Sandwich King" Dodd also invoked Iraq today.

Asked by reporters to elaborate after his speech, the Connecticut senator cited the Bush Administration’s failure to provide sufficient funding to first responders. “The administration, of course, didn’t fully fund the Fire Act and Safer Bill,” he said, “so we’re still short. The new system, which we’ve written, is a risked-based system, which California would obviously qualify for.”

He also cited over-exertion of the National Guard due to the war in Iraq as causing a shortage in area first responders -- a criticism of the Bush Administration that was also raised by Democrats in May, after a deadly tornado struck Kansas.

“You saw it in Kansas not long ago,” Dodd said, “you’ve seen it in other jurisdictions here, where because we’ve got men and women in Iraq in the National Guard, we don’t have them back in these states doing the kind of jobs they can do when these tragedies occur.”

On Hardball with Chris Matthews this afternoon, Republican candidate Duncan Hunter called that idea “nuts” because, he said, only 10 percent of the National Guard is in Afghanistan or Iraq.

I agree. Dodd is nuts.

We've yet to see any of the other candidates using this to raise any money, but we have received unconfirmed reports from operatives on the ground that Chinese take-out joints from Santa Barbara to San Ysidro are on high alert to evacuate at a moment's notice.

UPDATE: Sister Toldjah links. Thanks!