Photo credit: St. Louis Beacon  STL Beacon political reporter Jo Mannies has the story.

“The funds which will cover her salary will probably be exclusively or almost exclusively federal in nature.” We received this email yesterday on our tipline. The writer seems very knowledgeable and we assume they are a casualty of Governor Nixon’s recent state job cuts due to the terrible Obama economy.  Mr. Jackson, The position which Ms. Coleman [...]

I coudn't adequately express my feeling about the McCaskill/Obama fundraiser in words, so I decided to put my thoughts to song.

Claire McCaskill is a big fan of Obama, but I bet you didn't know how big a fan. Try to see how many times she has put aside her pretenses of being a moderate Democrat to do Obama's bidding.  I'm sure I missed a few.

This ad has been playing here locally:



Looking at some of VoteVets' ads posted on YouTube, you get the impression that they are for clean energy and are environmentally focused ... and not at the expense of soldiers' lives.  That sounds all well and good, but it appears that the group is not as noble as it presents itself.  It turns out, thanks to Donald Douglas of American Power, that this organization is backed by George Soros.

Here's Douglas' super-sleuthing exposé:

Disgusting: VoteVets, Soros-Backed Antiwar Group, Uses IED Attacks in New Global Warming Disinformation Campaign!

This is perhaps the sickest antiwar advertisement I've seen in some time. Can you imagine troops getting blown up on video used to sell the radical left's global warming agenda? The clip's below, from the Soros-backed VoteVets. Note how the spot's running as a click-thru web-ad at Daily Kos, where it reads, "TELL CONGRESS TO DEFEND AMERICA BY PASSING CLEAN ENERGY CLIMATE LEGISLATION" and "OIL MONEY IS FUELING TERRORISTS AND FUNDING OUR ENEMIES" (screencaps here and here):

We send $1 billion a day in oil money overseas -- often to nations that don't like America very much. Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorists and funds deadly attacks on American forces, like EFPs specially designed to piece our armor.

This is what our troops are up against, everyday ...

At the VoteVets entry we find a link to George Soros' Center for American Progress, "Quadrennial Defense Review Should Spark Interagency Climate Conversation."

Actually, VoteVets doesn't care a bit about Middle East oil dependency. Founder John Soltz has been in the news before. Melanie Morgan attacked him and VoteVets in 2007 for supporting al Qaeda in Iraq. See, "VoteVets.org Scam Exposed," which links to this Wesley Clark ad: The Stop Iran War website is still up.

Melanie eviscerated John Soltz in a 2007 PBS debate, saying that VoteVets advocacy was "shameful and really disrespectful to our troops":

... let me also say that I certainly would hope that the Democrats, if they’re planning their strategy meetings with people like Mr. Soltz and MoveOn.org, others who are meeting daily in telephone conference calls, which we are not, by the way, on our side, that al-Qaida is listening to their results, as well ....

And by the way, please keep Melanie Morgan in your prayers. She's fighting the good fight against thyroid cancer. See, "I Ain't Dead Yet, Says the Cowgirl."

Ed Morrissey
Hot Air
March 8, 2010

When allegations of sexual harrassment involving Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) arose last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer claimed that he warned Massa’s office to forward them to the House Ethics Committee or he would do it himself, and that they duly complied.  In an interview yesterday, Massa — who will resign from office today — claimed that Hoyer lied, and that he first heard of the allegations after Hoyer went public with them.  Massa accused Democratic Party leadership and the White House of railroading him in order to get him out of the way of ObamaCare:

Roll Call reports this morning that on the local radio show he hosts in his district, Massa said he had not been informed of the sexual harassment allegations before they became public. He claimed that Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., spoke falsely when he said he had brought the matter to him previously, Massa said. “Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me, at all, ever, not once,” Massa said. “Not a word. This is a lie. It’s a blatant, false statement.”
He also railed against Hoyer for discussing Ethics Committee business with the press. “Never before in the history of the House of Representatives has a sitting leader of the Democratic Party discussed allegations of House investigations publicly before findings of fact. Ever.”
Massa, who voted against health care reform in November, accused Democratic leaders of driving him out of office in the cause of passing health care reform. “With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.”
The comment that landed Massa in hot water, he claimed, was a sexual proposition he made in jest at a table full of drunken male staffers at a wedding reception on New Year’s Eve. He also said that the complainant was not the man he allegedly harassed, but an offended third party who witnessed the incident.

If that’s true, then Massa has a perfect remedy at hand: don’t resign. After all, he’s under no particular requirement to do so, except for his own conscience.  His resignation isn’t a necessity based on his decision to retire at the end of his term.  Under the circumstances, his resignation looks more like an admission of wrongdoing (beyond that of making a crude joke at a cocktail party), and if that’s not the case, then he should rescind it.
Why did Hoyer and Pelosi make such a public spectacle of the ethics investigation?  That may have a slightly less paranoid explanation.  Charlie Rangel had just embarrassed the House leadership, and with a series of scandals threatening to turn 2010 into a rerun of 2006 from the opposite direction, both Hoyer and Pelosi certainly had enough motive to grandstand to the press.  That may not have been motivated over Massa’s vote on ObamaCare, but just as a way to look proactive rather than reactive to the latest ethics eruption in the press.
Massa is ill with cancer and says he needs to leave Congress to focus on his therapy.  That’s certainly understandable.  But Massa can’t claim that Hoyer and Pelosi railroaded him out of office if he resigns on his own for health reasons.  If he wants to be the “deciding vote” on ObamaCare, all he has to do is stick around.  If he doesn’t, that’s entirely his decision, but it sounds like a smoke screen rather than an exposé.  (via JWF and CentristNet)

Update: Here’s the audio of the interview, via The Right Scoop:

-- And in case you missed this from yesterday.
Massa: Rahm Emanuel "Would Sell His Own Mother" For Votes

Micheal Walsh
Big Journalism
March 8, 2010

The Left is obsessed with finding “racists” under every bed but their own.  No need to go into the long history of institutional racism on the part of the Democrat Party and its stalwarts, no need to remind people that Albert Arnold Gore, Sr. — father of Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and grandfather of Albert Arnold Gore III, the Hillbilly Dynasty! — was one of the Democrat senators who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — no need to get into the cozy relationship the Democrat Party has had with the Ku Klux Klan, or its utter dedication to the oppression of black people, usually in the guise of “compassion,” “fairness,” or “tolerance.”

Nope, no need at all.  Not when the Left has a stalwart soldier such as the disgraced figure of fun, Dan “Lucy Ramirez” Rather, the cashiered-with-a-fig-leaf former anchorman of the CBS Evening News, unsuccessful litigant and now soon-to-be-former talking head on various low-rated cable shows.
Here he is on the Chris Matthews Show (yes, for some reasons Chris Matthews does not get enough exposure on his low-rated show on MSNBC, so the NBC brass gives him a Sunday show as well).  Notice how quickly the leg-tingler-in-chief shuts up Gunga Dan once the word “watermelons” emerges from the “global correspondent’s” mouth:

He couldn’t sell watermelons even if you gave him a State Trooper to flag down traffic.

Bret Jacobson
Big Government
March 8, 2010

There are serious protests going on in Albuquerque by a local Carpenters union. But one company is fighting back and the story is starting to get interesting. It turns out things aren’t exactly as they seem:
So temp employees without benefits are being hired by a union to protest a company that offers good wages and benefits? As Tony The Tiger would say, GRRREEEEEAAAAT.
Best part: the union watchman suddenly forgets English. Obviously, this is nothing new but it’s so easy to confuse people in the community who aren’t used to hearing about these kinds of campaigns.

Learn more at a site put up by the company under attack.

Mark Polege
Keyboard Militia

24th State
March 8, 2010

24thState.com produced this wonderful video slideshow of photos taken over the past year of St.Louis Tea Party events, along with a few other locations. A few of my photos also had the honor of being among the many captured moments that placed a special bookmark in our lives in 2009 during the birth and growth of the Tea Party movement. More of my photos can be seen on Flickr.

The state-run media was sooooo desperate to find something to attack Sarah Palin on yesterday that they forgot to factcheck their latest smear.

On Monday, the leftist media was thrilled to report that Sarah Palin used the Canadian health care system when she was a child. The Huffington Post, the Washington Post and Matthew Yglesias were happy to report this line this line from her speech this past weekend in Calgary:

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic? ”

This, they suggested, proved she endorsed the Canadian and US democrat’s socialist health care system.

But, unfortunately they didn’t have all the facts.
Ben Smith later in the day posted the corrections:

CORRECTION: Whitehorse is in Yukon, not Saskatchewan, and Palin, as a young child, lived closer to itthan earlier reported.

UPDATE: Here’s some more context: “My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not – this was in the ’60s – we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.”

ALSO: Socialized medicine apparently only kicked in in Yukon in 1972, post-Palin.

Another attack on Palin falls flat.
Bummer.