This post from Kos made me realize that we, the right-wing bloggers, haven’t quite gloated enough at the success of the right-wing noise machine which we are becoming a bigger part of. As soon as I heard Durbin’s remarks, I knew he would end up running away with his tail between his legs… and we would force him to it! Still, all the left-wing blogs supported Durbin’s remarks, but, despite Kos having even more traffic than Instapundit, the left-wing blogs are weak and impotent. We, though, are the powerful and can get any result we desire! Everyone stop and gloat in the comments about our power while mocking our enemies.
Now, to test our power, I think we should see if we can make a groundswell of anger against something a Democrat says that’s completely uncontroversial. Any ideas who to target? Preferably someone who is normally not in the news so it will come completely out of left-field. Let’s put the fear of God in them!
UPDATE: I think we should identify who is the most undistinguished Democrat Congressman and attack him or her. That would make the best test. Any idea who that would be? I guess, in theory, it should be someone you aren’t able to name off the top of your head.
UPDATE2: I have heard of this Senator, but she seems innocuous enough. Now I need a totally uncontroversial recent statement she’s made that we can demand an apology for.
Uhhh…
First…?
…to gloat…
YAY!
I am the first to gloat!
Okay, so it was a tie, we still get to gloat! Take that, Willis!
Fortney “Pete” Stark, obnoxious moonbat congressman from Fremont, California, and environs.
Also, I found the following senator, I had never hard of her before, what you guys think? 😛
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landrieu
Landrieu seems like she’s at least somewhat conservative though. How has she voted. That will tell me weather or not I want her destroyed!
gloating
Tim, that’s the point. A liberal would be too easy. For a real test of our power, we need to successful force an apology from a moderate making a reasoned statement.
She’s against Bolton and Pryor.
On 6/17/05 she said
“As we look back on both our mistakes and our triumphs we can see clearly the progress our country has made, yet we can also see that there is more progress yet to be made.”
OUTRAGEOUS! (or so we could tell everyone)
The hard part would be getting the big shots to jump on board, like Malkin and the Puppy Blender.
Getting everyone to play along is up to all of us. Once we nail down the statement, I’ll get the ball rolling.
Is there anything more recent she said? And it probably needs to be longer so we can misinterpret it more.
Being from Louisiana, I know all about Landrieu. She is not conservative and very partisan. Actually, she is in favor of Landrieu. Whatever is best for Mary’s career is what she supports. In that respect, she is following in the footsteps of her father, Moon, a former Mayor of New Orleans.
How about this one this one:
“The direction looks good. The stars seem to be aligning for a bright future,” Sen. Mary Landrieu said after a midday tour of the plant, which makes external fuel tanks for the space shuttle.
Frank, how about this one:
This measure will appoint the existing Atchafalaya Trace Commission
as the federally recognized “local coordinating entity.” The
commission is composed of thirteen members with one representative
appointed by each parish in the heritage area. Both the Atchafalaya
Trace Commission and the Atchafalaya Trace State Heritage Area were
created by the Louisiana Legislature a number of years ago. The
Atchafalaya Trace State Heritage Area program currently receives some
State funding, and already has staff working at the Louisiana
Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, DCRT, under Lieutenant
Governor Kathleen Blanco. State funds were used to create….
Don’t go after the Conservative Democrats!
Pick some unknown but radical lefty.
Don’t pick fights with the few friends we have on that side of the isle!
We should also demand he/she or heshe be thrown in prison despite a total lack of evidence of any illegal activity like they have done for Tom Delay. The only hard part is going to find a Democrat congressman that isn’t involved in anything illegal.
Dennis Kucinich should be separated from his delusions of grandeur and his Hollywood ‘friends.’
Go back to the 70’s when he forced Cleveland into default on their bonds.
We used to be UP THERE in the rankings of big name companies with Headquarters in Cleveland. Now we are almost a ghost town, and he started the flight.
He was the darling of the last election. Hollywood ate him up.
It’s time they puked.
Find out who’s chummy with him now and squash them like a bug.
Referring to the KOS post, his last statement really had me stunned.
“As for Mayor Daley, who cut off Durbin at the knees — a pox on his house. His time is coming to an end. I hope Jesse Jackson Jr. takes him on.” ~KOS
If turning to the son of Jesse Jackson is the best plan for redemption the Dems have, I don’t think we really need to be too concerned about proving our power. That should say it all.
HAH! I gloat over the weakness of my foes!
Fear me, leftists! FEAR MY MIGHTY-THEWED BLOGGING!
P.S. Let’s wait until after the 4th of July. Then let’s force Mary Landrieu to apologize for saying she likes fireworks.
Frank, Mary Landrieu is no good, because she’s pretty conservative on a lot of issues – we dont want to drive her away. How about some backwoods Vermont or Oregon senator?
I was only 11 years old when this happened, but there was a big controversy in Louisiana (my state) over Landrieu’s Senate election in 1996 over stealing the election from Republican Woody Jenkins. From what I remember, it was mainly allegations of voting fraud, i.e., dead people voting and Democrats voting multiple times. You might be able to get her for something involving that, or maybe for just having a creepy picture on Wikipedia.
woops, I just notice my gloat didnt work.
insert Jack Bristow style gloat here.
Didn’t Landrieu bribe homeless people with $50 each and bus them around the state to different polling places to vote? I think something hit the fan when she didn’t actually pay them their promised money and cigarettes and gave them “Vote for Landrieu” T-shirts instead.
I think she should be forced to apologize for this:
“Throughout all of my years of public service, I have been led by the vision that every child deserves a family to call their own. There is no such thing as an unwanted child, just unfound families. In a perfect world, all children would be wanted, loved, and nurtured by the family to which they were born. ”
http://landrieu.senate.gov/issues/adoption.cfm
“In a perfect world, all children would be wanted, loved, and nurtured by the family to which they were born.”
So she’s saying adoptive parents aren’t as good as natural parents?
HATE SPEECH!
Sounds like she hates orphanages, too.
And what about children who PREFER living in dumpsters and stealing food to survive?
Wait wait wait, why are we missing the obvious candidate here? Bernie Sanders, the independant congressman from Vermont. He’s a freaking socialist!
Some long quotes of his here:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19208
Ha ha,
I am a strong right-wing Christian and all my enemies are as impotent as Gavin Newsom standing face to face with a constitutional ammendment. Nancy Pelosi is a misguided fool with all the common sense of a lefty pontificating about Gitmo.
In summary let me quote Anne Coulter:
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
Harvey,
Not only that. but she’s led by VISIONS!! She has to be some kind of left wing religious nut!!
I would prefer to go after all the dems with a more general and longer term attack.
In response to the dems filibustering Gonzalez, Brown, Owens, etc. I heard no one make charges of racism or sexism against the dems.
If the Repubs turned down any nomination of a minority or woman the dems would play these cards so hard and fast it would make your head spin.
Seems like we should use their own dirty bombs against them…
And she said that every child deserves a family to call their own.
What about SHARING? Is she advocating that kids knock off their siblings so they can have their own parents!!
Dangerous, man. Dangerous.
How about Sarbanes (D) from the beautiful state of Maryland. I think God appointed him about a thousand years ago; at least, he’s still there. He hasn’t seemed to do much. I remember seeing his campaign signs when I was very young (I’m 50 now). Maybe he’s preserved and just propped up in his seat.
Now that I really think about it. I think it makes sense. Maybe she wants to establish the Department of Unfound Families!
This is a government boondoggle.
Bigger than Homeland Security, but in all fairness, probably not as useless.
I’d like to see an Oregon senator targeted too. Is Ron Wyden still around??
How about Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. Nearly everything he says deserves criticism.
Why can’t we choose Rosa Delauro?
http://www.house.gov/delauro/
“No matter how hard women work, or whatever they achieve in terms of advancement in their own professions and degrees, they will not be compensated equitably!” Why can’t we choose Rosa Delauro?
http://www.house.gov/delauro/
“No matter how hard women work, or whatever they achieve in terms of advancement in their own professions and degrees, they will not be compensated equitably!” <–Threatening women
“Providing assistance to those in need is a moral responsibility.” <–Trying to legislate morality.
“`That’s absurd,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the House Appropriations Committee’s senior Democrat on farm issues. “What we’re doing by delaying this information is that you put the public health at risk, and you put the industry at risk. Who’s going to feel comfortable with our products?'” –The San Francisco Chronicle
Anti-Farmer?
George Voinovich!!!
He might as well be a democrat, and he sucks! Yes, I am from Ohio.
hangs head in a Voinovich/DeWine inspired state of shame
Rosa? Hmm. I’m curious. Does she draw the same salary as the MEN in congress? If so, then she is obviously a HYPOCRITE!!! Not a bad target. Is she good looking? does she look cute when she’s angry?
And what’s this about Moral Responsiblity? Obviously she’s referring to Post Embryonic Americans.
Does she not know about Church and STATE! What right does she have to impose HER values on US!
Man, these people are whack jobs. They’ll say anything to get elected and waste tax payer money.
Next thing you’ll know they’ll be saying the Pledge of Allegiance and acting like they mean it.
Let’s choose somebody who looks funny when they get angry. I think that’s a good criteria.
Or somebody with a hot PR person.
Tammy Baldwin is an excellant choice to destroy but she is in the house. She is so left she makes Kerry look conservative
I’m telling you guys, go for the freaking socialist. It’d be so EASY.
Let’s not name anyone, just start making accusations and see who comes forward.
I kind of lean toward the utterly innocuous Kent Conrad of North Dakota. He is known by maybe three dozen people in the entire world and is significant to probably four of them. His website lists his views and the things he thinks are important, in particular:
“Senator Conrad and Sesame Street’s Elmo promote healthy habits for North Dakota’s children.”
What? He doesn’t give a hoot about the rest of America’s children? How about the adults? The police, fire-fighters, service people? Two links to RealMedia movies show what he is about. One is about brushing of teeth, the other about proper diet. Sounds pretty egregious to me. Furthermore, Elmo? Could the inconspicuous, virtually unknown Conrad be the source of the Sesame Street memo of Scrappleface fame?
But here is where he really crosses the line:
“Senator Conrad Urges Secretary of State Rice to protect North Dakota’s vital water interests.”
Involving State signifies international implications. Could Conrad be promoting conflict with Canada? Perhaps invasion to secure North Dakota’s water rights? This bears further investigation.
The idea is inspired, but your target is all wrong. If you want to REALLY show power pick some leftist media pundit instead of a politician.
Not only would it be easier to find a legitimate grievance that’s regularly overlooked by the unwashed masses; it would degrade the enemy’s ability to defend itself.
Politicians have staffs to preserve their principal’s sanity: columnists don’t.
To Patriot Xeno’s point, I think the way to get attention is to go after someone who is up for reelection in 06 – then both sides of the blogosphere would get engaged (and you want the libs to mount a defense to further emphasize your power and demoralize them). Red State and Kos have a list of seats that may change parties in the next election posted right now.
Three on the list:
Sarbanes (MD)
Conrad (ND)
or Byrd (WV)
So based on your first UPDATE – Conrad’s the man.
Although the KOS kids were unhappy that he didn’t immediately co-sponsor the anti-lynching resolution and his office didn’t have a good excuse why – I bet they would defend any attack on him as they consider him vulnerable in 06 and they won’t want to lose the seat.
Pro-lynching is something to work with and he wasn’t present to vote against Al Gonzales so you can peg him as pro-torture (if he cared enough he would have been there to vote right?) Make the libs defend that – their brains will explode. Plus the Elmo thing is just creepy.
Yeah, Now we just need to make it illegal to be a democrat, their all liars criminals and immigrants. Ship em to cuba I say, let ol’ castro feed em.
Pick a moonbat up for re-election in 2006!
THAT is how you choose a target.
I would have said Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, but he just got re-elected. Keep him on the backburner until 2010.
Two moonbats up for re-election in 2006 are TED KENNEDY and HILLARY RODHAM.
If we can destroy both of them, then we win the war.
I think Patel has the best idea. Pick one that is up for reelection next. Nothing says we can’t pick on them all. Shucks, make up a list, check it twice, I’m sure they’ll be at least naughty ones, er. never mind that last one. Prioritize, establish a plan, then attack, er publish, er whatever it is we do.
“The direction looks good. The stars seem to be aligning for a bright future,” Sen. Mary Landrieu said after a midday tour of the plant, which makes external fuel tanks for the space shuttle.
Clearly, with this comment she is ENDORSING ASTROLOGY!! As part of Religious Right Wing Message Machine (TM), I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!
Oh boy, I’d love to pick on Sarbanes (D-MD) but I think he’s going to lose to our Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) anyway. Pick on Mikulski (D-MD) instead ’cause she looks and talks like Yoda. Unfortunatly, she’s not up for re-election until 2010. Wait, that gives me plenty of time to pick on her!
If you’re looking for a congressman, try Robert “Bud” Cramer. I’m still mad at him for voting for the assault weapon ban then voting to repeal it. talk about taking both sides of the issue.
Quote from Mary Landrieu for which she must apologize:
“Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.”
HOW DARE SHE AGREE WITH US!?
Oooo, and there’s this one:
“From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state’s colorful past and its future. ”
I don’t know about y’all, but that sounds like a racial slur if I ever heard one! Our “colorful” past?! Yeah, you’d LIKE to celebrate the state’s colorful past of SLAVERY!!!
You all are what’s wrong with this country. I am a middle of the road type of guy and I think it is you that will drag this country into the gutter with your hate and lies. Do you ever stop to listen to yourselves? What is wrong with you people? I remember a day when I could love America because everyone here stood for truth, justice and the American way. Superman is the shit! You are all just shitty.
Wipe your ass, Jake.
Kurt Conrad (Senator, ND) looks ripe for the picking. Check out this webpage for his feelings on Homeland Security:
It is important to note that many types of bioterrorist attacks are difficult to contain. If the initial attack happens in a faraway city, for example, all it takes is for one infected traveler from that city to visit North Dakota for our state to have an outbreak.
That’s right — he doesn’t particularly care if some large American city is wiped out by a bioterror attack… unless some tourist brings the germs to North Dakota.
I am a resident of Louisiana and have met some of the Landrieu’s (like most Louisiana political families – there’s a ton of ’em).
Although I don’t know Mary, I did see her with her kids at Laser Tag a few weeks ago. So at least we know she’s teaching her kids to aim straight.
Any, most Dems in Lousiana are far more conservative than those RINOs from the great white north (can anybody say Olympia Snow?).
Junglejake cracks me up,
but spacemonkey’s idea seems to be to
be the best. Why name anyone? 😉
There’s a bad haircut on a multi- chinned governor in sheep’s clothing in New Mexico who is using state funds to try to lay groundwork for an ’08 run for the White House. From slapping his name on transportation projects to buying a $5.5 million jet to increasing taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars while claiming that he is cutting taxes on food, he is pulling the wool over dems’ eyes and painting a delightful fiction for the campaign. Go get him! Getting the truth out early can prevent Richardson from doing any more damage on a national level like he did at DOE or finding a job for the intern or conspiring with North korea. His latest is getting caught doing over 120mph and not pulling over for police because he was late for a meeting about traffic.
Senator Clinton, defend these remarks:
“Uh, every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.” September 13, 2001
You’re doing this backwards! You need to go Kos’ site and plant a harmless quote from a Republican, express your outrage, watch everyone else there act like lemmings and cry their outrage, then see if it gets picked up anywhere. Other blogs will wonder why those lemmings are all bent out of shape about nothing.
Why not go after one of those smacktards who requested UN observers to be present during the 2004 Presidential elections? Go after them for something REAL.