Burt’s Eye View: Henry Waxman Responds

A while ago, I wrote a piece titled “Blowing the Whistle on Waxman.”  In case you missed it, I explained that Henry Waxman and I had been friends beginning almost 50 years ago at UCLA.  I also said that we had seen each other infrequently over the intervening years once he went to Sacramento as a state assemblyman and later to Washington as a member of Congress. 

Over the years, I moved politically from left to right, while Henry moved from left to far left to over the edge.  Still, I had a soft spot for him and, as a result, refrained from including his name when I would list the usual suspects, those left-wingers like Pelosi, Reid, Rangel, Boxer and Murtha, who were doing their utmost to destroy America. (more…)

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Tags: ageism, Cap and Trade, Congress, henry waxman, Pelos
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 4:49 pm in Politics | 25167853 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/10/29/burts-eye-view-henry-waxman-responds/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Henry+Waxman+Responds2009-10-29+23%3A49%3A20Burt+Prelutsky

Burt’s Eye View: Blowing the Whistle on Waxman

I have come clean in the past about having been friends with Rep. Henry Waxman.  We had met in the late 1950s at UCLA and wound up spending a lot of time over the following decade playing cards.  In fact, once, some years later, I received a phone call from a guy profiling Waxman for the Washington Post.  He wanted my impression of the young, pre-Congressional fellow.  I told him that Henry was a terrible poker player, but was very astute at hearts.  I said it made perfect sense because poker is a cut-throat game, every man for himself, whereas hearts is a game that involves constantly changing alliances.  I regarded it as a perfect metaphor for a career in politics.

I knew from personal experience that Henry was a fish when it came to poker, but it was some time later that I found out how truly awful he was.  Before being elected to Congress, he had gone to Sacramento as a state assemblyman.  Wherever politicians congregate, you will find two things — poker games and lobbyists.  As you can imagine, lobbyists are not there to win money from those they spend their lives trying to influence.  But it seems that Henry was so inept that, in spite of their best efforts, they kept beating him.  This so embarrassed the lobbyists that they finally banished him from the game.  (more…)

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Tags: Baseball, Cap and Trade, henry waxman, poker, regulation
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 9:51 am in Politics | 23503498 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/10/01/burts-eye-view-blowing-the-whistle-on-waxman/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Blowing+the+Whistle+on+Waxman2009-10-01+16%3A51%3A12Burt+Prelutsky

The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

‘NewsBusted’ 9/01/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Cap and Trade, chelsea handler, David Letterman, Douglas Brinkley, Fairness Doctrine
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 6:03 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 2166302 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/02/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-90109-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right-2/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F01%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-09-03+01%3A03%3A40NewsBusters

The Cold War At Home

The news is really unbelievable these days. All that I once thought were core American values and traditions are now being washed away in a sea of propaganda and political attacks from the radical Left, which now rules supreme and knows it. The Left in power is now waging an ideological war not only against conservatives, but any dissenting Americans who get in their way. Worst of all, they are using the full machinery of the government and their Lefty media lapdogs to do it all, and in the same fashion as Ahmadinejad’s government is demonizing the Green protesters in Iran.

It is chilling to witness, in the United States of America of all places. Civil political discourse is a thing of the past. You cannot oppose ObamaCare without being a swastika-waving corporate Nazi stooge. Never mind the fact that no one will tell us exactly where all the hospitals, doctors, and nurses to treat 50 million new patients will magically materialize from, or how it will all be paid for.
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Cap-and-Tax, cold war, DHS, FCC
Posted Aug 31st 2009 at 7:12 am in News, Politics | 212846125 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/31/the-cold-war-at-home/The+Cold+War+At+Home2009-08-31+14%3A12%3A14John+T.+Simpson

Mr. President, Please Don’t Bogart the Blunt

After a long day at work on a commercial shoot, I decided to unwind with a little internet and cable television. Politics and punditry are my hobby, not my main source of income, so I indulge in a little cable news and internet sites as time permits. I’ve always felt it important to see the world outside the “echo chamber” of like-minded folks, so my television sits for far too many hours on MSNBC and the Huffington Post is bookmarked on my browser.

What struck me from a few hours of watching leftist television and reading leftist gobbledygook is how far detached from reality these people are. It’s not a simple case of them having a few points wrong, or looking at things from a bizarrely biased perspective; they truly make statements and cling to ideas that have no basis in reality. As conservatives struggle to find apt metaphors to explain their opponent’s mindsets and delusions, I think I may have figured it out.

The left in our country is high.  Completely stoned out of their minds. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, Cash for Clunkers, FDR, michael moore, Obama
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 7:03 am in Featured Story, Politics | 210310213 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/08/30/mr-president-please-dont-bogart-the-blunt/Mr.+President%2C+Please+Don%27t+Bogart+the+Blunt2009-08-30+14%3A03%3A43Leigh+Scott

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter: Real-Life Walt Kowalski

Polish American Walt Kowalski, played to anti-hero perfection by Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, stands against corruption and lawlessness and wins. But not before sacrificing his life. Kowalski is a Korean War veteran and retired auto worker living outside of Detroit. He is old and tired, and just wants to be left alone after the death of his wife. But fate and duty had other ideas. He carries a long held guilt over killing a surrendering soldier in the Korean War. His death redeems, not just his soul, but the soul of his town.

Events lead Kowalski to resist a local takeover by a Hmong youth gang. The Hmong are an ethnic Southeast Asian people, primarily from Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. In real life Michigan, they are among the fastest growing immigrants. Many Hmong people emigrated from South Vietnam after Democrats shamelessly withdrew monetary support from South Vietnam in 1974. The Paris Peace Agreements thus became toothless and North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam. “Boat people” fled Vietnam and the insane, murderous Pol Pot created the Cambodian Killing Fields. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Asian Americans, auto industry, CAFE standards, Cap and Trade
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 1:09 pm in Film, Politics | 21246258 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrulle/2009/08/28/rep-thaddeus-mccotter-real-life-gran-torino-hero/Rep.+Thaddeus+McCotter%3A+Real-Life+Walt+Kowalski2009-08-28+20%3A09%3A31Michael+S.+Rulle+Jr.

Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Sometimes, I must confess, I find myself feeling like one of those cursed individuals like Job and Sisyphus.  In my case, the curse takes the form of trying to be rational in a mad world.  My particular albatross is trying to make sense of the liberal mind.  No sooner do I try to delve into it than I pop out on the other side.  It’s as shallow as a midget’s footbath. 

For instance, I understand why liberals opposed invading Iraq.  It was because George W. Bush instigated it.  They voiced no objections when Bill Clinton took us into Somalia and Kosovo, and now that Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan, you don’t hear them whining that it’s a quagmire, that the Afghanis had nothing to do with 9/11 or demanding that Obama spell out his exit strategy and specify the date of withdrawal.  But, given all that, I would have thought that at least the tree-huggers would have campaigned for regime change in Iraq, based not on Saddam Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds and his history of torture and rape, God forbid, but for having set fire to the oil fields of Kuwait in 1991, probably the worst man-made ecological disaster in history.  (more…)

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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Cap and Trade, Hannity, Michael Vick, NFL
Posted Aug 27th 2009 at 10:27 am in Politics | 209230205 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/08/27/re-arranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/Rearranging+the+Deck+Chairs+on+the+Titanic2009-08-27+17%3A27%3A28Burt+Prelutsky

The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?

I recently wrote a critique of the art community’s lack of dissent in the face of many controversial decisions made by the current administration. Entitled “The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident,” one of the key points argued in the article was the potential danger associated with the use of the art community as a tool of the state. Little did I know how quickly this concern would be elevated to an outright probability. 

Sometime between when I finished the critique and when it went live online, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to take part in a conference call that invited a group of rising artist and art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”  (more…)

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Tags: "The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident", 'Health Care Reform, Buffy Wicks, Cap and Trade, Lyndon B. Johnson
Posted Aug 25th 2009 at 12:44 pm in Art, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 209182602 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche/The+National+Endowment+for+the+Art+of+Persuasion%3F2009-08-25+19%3A44%3A51Patrick+Courrielche

‘NewsBusted’ 8/21/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Billie Jean King, Cap and Trade, Fidel Castro, Global warming, Hugo Chavez
Posted Aug 21st 2009 at 8:47 pm in Political Humor, Video | 20925023 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/08/21/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-82109-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+8%2F21%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-08-22+03%3A47%3A49NewsBusters

A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To a Town Hall Meeting

Imagine the glee I felt when I heard that my wonderfully approachable (yeah, right) Congressman, Henry Waxman, was making a rare visit on August 21st to the district he represents.  He wants to hear from us, his loyal constituents, at a town hall style discussion at UCLA focusing on the Cap and Trade legislation.

As a citizen, candidate, and voter in Mr. Waxman’s district, I thought that this would be a plum of a chance for Rep. Waxman to hear what’s on my mind.

That is when it got weird.

Firstly, I found out that one had to RSVP to the event to reserve a space. OK, I thought, Henry Waxman’s personal popularity has never been higher and people really want to be around him so his magic can rub off on them. Maybe they expect quite a throng and thus must have crowd control in place to make sure that the event runs smoothly. (more…)

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Tags: Ari David, Cap and Trade, Congress, health care, henry waxman
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 10:07 am in Politics | 20841875 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/adavid/2009/08/20/a-funny-thing-happened-on-my-way-to-a-town-hall-meeting/A+Funny+Thing+Happened+On+My+Way+To+a+Town+Hall+Meeting2009-08-20+17%3A07%3A30Ari+David

The Straight Poop On Radical Islam

I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible Americans actually began to believe it.  Now we have a president who not only kowtows to a Saudi prince, but carries on as if Israeli homes are more threatening than Iranian nukes.

What is wrong with our leaders?  Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties?  The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union.  Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country?  If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Africa, al qaeda, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank
Posted Aug 13th 2009 at 8:52 am in Politics, Religion | 204482108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/08/13/the-straight-poop-in-radical-islam/The+Straight+Poop+On+Radical+Islam+2009-08-13+15%3A52%3A13Burt+Prelutsky

Obama’s Six-Month Report Card

It has been six months since the Administration took office and the far left have taken complete control of the government.  Has our capitalist past been improved upon?  Or, is the socialism we have had thrust upon us making us worse off?  Has the foreign policy of appeasement and apology made the world a safer place?  To put it more simply, are you better off now than you were six months ago?  Unfortunately, the answer is not only “no,” but “much worse.” 

When the President took office in January, the entire world was full of “Hope.”  The far left and moderates that put him there were hoping for “Change.”  Well, they got the change, but I do not think they were “hoping” to get the type of change they got.  (more…)

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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Cap and Trade, Domestic Policy, foreign policy, healthcare reform
Posted Jul 28th 2009 at 10:23 am in Politics | 190542124 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/07/28/obamas-credit-card/Obama%27s+Six-Month+Report+Card2009-07-28+17%3A23%3A01Frank+DeMartini

Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

The term “Jump the Shark” has been with us for a while. The clever metaphor is used for the moment when something of cultural significance begins to lose its luster, and descends into lameness.  It is a reference to the T.V. show “Happy Days,” specifically the episode when Fonzie water skied over shark infested waters.   This is the precise moment where the show began to decline.

Republicans and conservatives are dancing with glee every time a new poll comes out showing Obama’s poll numbers going down faster than a Hilton (Perez or Paris) after a nice dinner and a couple of cocktails. The support for things like Universal Health Care, closing Gitmo, and Cap and Trade are sinking even faster. Yet, that’s not the whole story.  Something else is going on here.  Something that begs the question: Has Liberalism “Jumped the Shark”?

Ehhhh…

Over the last sixty days or so, we’ve seen some amazing things. We saw a “wise Latina,” a self-described “affirmative action baby” claim that her statements were taken out of context or merely “meant to inspire,” and that race has nothing to do with her job performance. The White House has re-branded the $787 billion “stimulus package” a “stabilization package.” Our Vice-President, devious genius that he is, stated that we need to, “crazy as it sounds,” spend like lunatics to avoid bankruptcy. A gay blogger and gay civil rights champion called a black guy “the worst thing [he] could think of…a faggot.” We saw our government allow Iranian protesters, who peacefully challenged a rigged election, get shot in the street. Concurrently, we demanded that a tin-pot dictator be reinstated after his government got wise to his schemes and legally booted him. (more…)

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Tags: 'Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, Fonzie, gitmo, Jump the Shark
Posted Jul 24th 2009 at 8:33 am in Featured Story, Politics | 190162262 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/07/24/has-liberalism-jumped-the-shark/Has+Liberalism+Jumped+the+Shark%3F2009-07-24+15%3A33%3A12Leigh+Scott

Daily Gut: The Death of Awareness

It used to be that the most important job in the world was to “raise awareness.” Everyday we were told how important it was to do it for issues like AIDS, global warming, and indoor plumbing. But just as raising awareness had become fulltime jobs for millions of people bearing clipboards and acne, in some very important arenas the crusade is now being undermined. Destroyed, even.

Look at the issues that will potentially devastate your bank account. There, “raising awareness” no longer matters. It happened first with the stimulus bill.  It was far more important to push that mess through than it was to actually read it. Nationalized health care? Beyond knowing that we need it right now – what else is there? And what of this cap and trade muck? It’s way too dry – too bad there aren’t any Cliffs Notes. (more…)

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Tags: AIDS, bumper stickers, Cap and Trade, Cliffs Notes, Global warming
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 11:17 am in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 187838107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/20/daily-gut-raising-awareness-about-awareness/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Death+of+Awareness2009-07-20+18%3A17%3A06Greg+Gutfeld

Obama Wants to Buck Us Up

In speaking to the American Nurse Association in the Rose Garden today, Mr. Obama, speaking of the urgent need to pass his hugely exorbitant and grossly ineffective health care bill, said, “”We need to buck up people here,” Obama said. “That’s what nurses do. It’s time for us to buck up the Congress. We need to get this done…”

And I agree – that the President is doing his level best to buck this country up. 

His bucked-up foreign policy has signaled weakness to our detractors and encouraged aggression from those who would destroy us. 

He bucked up our financial institutions by taking control of over 600 banks.  He bucked up the automotive industry with at first his bail-outs with strings, and firing CEO’s, and placing stipulations, regulations and mandates on formerly private companies.  (more…)

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Tags: "buck people up", Cap and Trade, health care, Obama, Sotamayor
Posted Jul 16th 2009 at 5:27 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 185238294 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/07/16/obama-wants-to-buck-us-up/Obama+Wants+to+Buck+Us+Up2009-07-17+00%3A27%3A10Gary+Graham

‘Cap and Trade’: 1000+ Pages of Economic Chaos

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, more commonly known as the Cap and Trade Bill, is dangerous for the country and potentially disastrous for the economy.  I cannot say this more simply.  This bill which is designed to lower emissions and stop global warming will do nothing except raise the average Americans’ expenses and cause the loss of many American jobs. 

The bill passed in the House last week by a margin of less than ten votes.  The vote was mostly among party lines.  However, many Democrats sensing its disastrous consequences actually voted against it.  In fact, if it were not for eight liberal minded Republicans, the bill would have failed. It is going to the Senate shortly and must be stopped there at all costs.  As for those eight Republicans, I suggest they start looking for employment themselves. 

Global warming is allegedly caused by the burning of fossil fuels.  This Cap and Trade bill is supposed to lower emissions caused by such energy sources.  It is the dream of former Vice President Al Gore who has made a mini-industry out of global warming and who does nothing personally to stop it.  This typical Democratic hypocrite burns more carbon based fuels than 10 average Americans and yet he claims that we, as a country, are not doing enough to stop this potential disaster to the planet.  I wonder when the last time he flew on a commercial airline was.  But, that’s another column completely.  (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Cap and Trade, ecology, Global warming
Posted Jul 12th 2009 at 3:02 pm in Politics | 17963853 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/07/12/cap-and-trade-is-dangerous/%27Cap+and+Trade%27%3A+1000%2B+Pages+of+Economic+Chaos2009-07-12+22%3A02%3A51Frank+DeMartini

Henry Taxman Lowers the Drinking Age

The scene below is from Christopher Bell’s illuminating documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.”  The film is about steroid use in American sports. While I disagree with Mr. Bell that the issues he and his brothers have faced with steroid abuse are the fault of American society, the film as a whole is great. Mr. Bell tackles the issue from all sides, which is refreshing in the NPR, Michael Moore, PBS era of blame Bush documentaries.  Of course Mr. Bell does take a few shots at President Bush (how else could he get funding?), but less than most.

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In the clip director Christopher Bell takes Henry Waxman to task over steroids.  In addition to being Mr. Bell’s congressman, it was Mr. Waxman who called for (along with Republican Tom Davis of Virginia) the infamous baseball hearings back in 2005. As you will see Mr. Waxman doesn’t know much about steroids or the legal drinking age (he states it is 18 “across the nation”).  Why exactly did he call for public hearings on an issue he knows nothing about? (more…)

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Tags: "Bigger Stronger Faster", Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bev Mo, Cap and Trade, Christopher Bell
Posted Jul 10th 2009 at 4:25 pm in Reviews | 18001452 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/07/10/henry-taxman-lowers-the-drinking-age/Henry+Taxman+Lowers+the+Drinking+Age2009-07-10+23%3A25%3A07John+Romano

Daily Gut: Pop Goes The Nukes

So if there`s one thing we learned recently, it`s that it`s not nuclear war that can wipe everything off the map. It`s the death of a pop star. Think about the things that mattered back in June: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, cap and trade, that insipid health care infomercial – and ask yourself what happened in regard to any of those issues in the last few weeks.

A. Nothing?
B. Anything?
C. A lot?

The answer is C, but we just didn`t see it.

We know that some of our brave troops died fighting for freedom. Protestors in Iran were violently silenced too, fighting for a glimmer of what we have. You can also be certain that the opportunity to actively undermine fascism in Iran has passed – our President choosing “wait and see” over “hope and change.” He also snuck a few hundred pages of climate-bill baloney past us in the dead of night. (more…)

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Tags: "Project Runway, Afghanistan, arms reduction, Cap and Trade, Charm School
Posted Jul 9th 2009 at 10:51 am in Daily Gut, Politics | 17998239 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/09/daily-gut-pop-goes-the-nukes/Daily+Gut%3A+Pop+Goes+The+Nukes2009-07-09+17%3A51%3A01Greg+Gutfeld

Is America Waking Up?

Why has America done so well in world affairs since 1776?  Selfishness?  Divinity?  Ruthlessness? Sheer luck?

If you believe the current batch of Democrats who are turning Washington into a permanent liberal fiefdom, divinity has had no hand in world affairs.  And if it did, we’d surely be the receiver of its wrath.  America is mean.  America’s selfishness is all that is wrong with the world, says the left.  We are not the shining city on a hill, as a wise old man once told us we were.

The mainstream press got a real rude awakening this week as the Washington Post attempted to do publicly what they have always done privately: sell influence.  Further to that, Helen Thomas and Chip Reid of CBS gave Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs an earful for the administration’s canned YouTube town hall.  Hand-picked attendees and staff-picked YouTube videos does not a town hall make.  Gibbs flubbed over that one like a teenager getting caught sneaking in to an R-rated film. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, God, liberty, Obama, same sex marriage
Posted Jul 7th 2009 at 3:46 pm in Politics | 177598124 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/07/07/the-american-ocean-society/Is+America+Waking+Up%3F2009-07-07+22%3A46%3A28John+Romano

Down is Up, Unfair is Fair and Ignorance is Bliss

I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the trick.

You see, evil doesn’t just show up.  It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in.  It tricks you.

Murdering babies is called Pro-Choice.  Unfair Censorship is called The Fairness Doctrine.  Outlandish Taxes and the Death of Freedom is called Cap & Trade.  Sounds like Fish & Chips.  You gotta figure out the trick.

I’d been wondering why the liberals are so passionate about this Health Care thing.  It couldn’t be because they actually care about sick, poor people.  If they did, they would visit hospitals, and give ten percent of their gross salaries to Compassion International and World Vision, like us stupid church go-ers do. Biden gave $ 62 to charity last year.

No, there’s gotta be a catch.  I guess this question was sitting in my brain and during my sleep, my brain was working on it, because when I suddenly awoke at 3 a.m.  I had the answer.

Euthanasia! (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Cap and Trade, Compassion International, health care, Obama
Posted Jul 7th 2009 at 12:48 pm in Politics | 178482486 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/07/07/ignorance-is-bliss/Down+is+Up%2C+Unfair+is+Fair+and+Ignorance+is+Bliss2009-07-07+19%3A48%3A04Victoria+Jackson

Kill Polar Bears, Drink Coke to Save the Planet!

Everybody knows that Global Warming is real.  The debate is over.  No one with any real common sense would dare challenge the fact that human CO2 production is directly related to rises in temperature.  To save the earth from massive disaster we must all take action NOW.

Luckily our Great Leader and the people in Washington who look out for us poor, ill-educated masses have set “Cap and Trade” into motion.  The heathens and “anti-intellectuals” will cynically point out that “Cap and Trade” is a massive tax, a way to further grow government, a way to control behavior and a way to benefit Democratic supporters and lobbyists.  But those of us who righteously follow “smart power” know better.

Saving the planet.

Cap and Trade isn’t enough.  I’ve taken a few minutes to scour the halls of knowledge (i.e. the Internet; Wikipedia and the Huffington Post to be specific) to relay a couple more things that you can do to stop the biggest threat to our planet right now!

1) Drink more carbonated beverages.   That’s right, enjoy that delicious Coke, Diet Coke or A&W Root Beer.  See, the bubbles in soda products are made from…you guessed it, deadly CO2.  When you drink it, your body absorbs the CO2, emitting far less CO2 than the contents of the original soda. Your body is like a little CO2 destroying factory.  So, drink up.  But please note, I didn’t say drink more Pepsi products.  That’s because I own stock in Coke and not Pepsi.   I don’t think Pepsi puts as much CO2 into their drinks as Coke. Yeah, that’s it.  Pepsi has 5/10th less carbon byproducts per linear ounce than Coke, so drink Coke. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, Coke, Global warming, gore, Obama
Posted Jul 7th 2009 at 5:01 am in Politics | 177510158 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/07/07/kill-polar-bears-drink-diet-coke-to-save-the-planet/Kill+Polar+Bears%2C+Drink+Coke+to+Save+the+Planet%212009-07-07+12%3A01%3A31Leigh+Scott

Democrat Utopia Nothing More Than a Fantasy

Cap and Trade, the biggest tax increase in American History, sailed through Congress without anybody even bothering to read it. What will prove to be perhaps the biggest historical change to the American way of life seemed nothing more than a Congressional mouse click, the Terms of Service Agreement on a new software installation. What is it about Democrats that they have such trust in other Democrats?

There was no debate, no discussion; in fact the bill wasn’t even finished when they started voting on it. Yet they all knew they would like everything in the bill, and rushed the vote. I’m somewhat envious of the common goal they all seem to share, but I’m also suspicious of why nobody bothered to read it. Granted it was fifteen hundred pages, Fourth of July recess, and the deposit on the Martha’s Vineyard cottage wasn’t refundable.

I think there is also something else at work here: Democrats tend to have more faith in the system than they have in the individual. When President Reagan tried to close the Department of Education, he was considered to be against education. It’s not just spin, Democrats really think that way. They feel it’s important to keep the Department of Education, because without it, there will be no education. Without the Department of Health, we would all be sick; without the Department of Commerce, the economy would fold. Ditto for the FDA, the FCC, FAA, and the rest of the alphabet soup. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Cap and Trade, charit, Congressional Budget Office, Department of Commerce
Posted Jul 3rd 2009 at 11:56 am in Politics | 175046174 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/07/03/trust/Democrat+Utopia+Nothing+More+Than+a+Fantasy2009-07-03+18%3A56%3A03Tim+Slagle

Climate Change Republicans

The Waxman-Markey climate change bill is more about redistributing wealth from traditional energy companies to new “Green” and yes, Democrat-friendly energy companies.  President Obama is the first politician in the history of the United States that is judged not on job growth, but the unquantifiable jobs created or saved.  I guess climate change will be the same.  Yes, it is 75 degrees now, but it would be 115 had Waxman-Markey not been passed.  One cannot prove otherwise.

The climate change bill passed the house 219-212.  Without the eight votes below, the bill would not have passed.  44 moderate Democrats voted against the bill.  Here is the list of the eight Republicans that made Henry Waxman’s dream of less economic growth in the US possible:

Michael Castle (DE)
Mary Bono Mack (CA)
Dave Leonard Lance (NJ)
Dave Reichert (WA)
John McHugh (NY)
Frank LoBiondo (NJ)
Chris Smith (NJ)
Mark Kirk (IL)

Outside of Mark Kirk (who makes a point of reading entire bills), I can’t imagine that anyone else, Democrat or Republican, did. (more…)

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Tags: Budweiser, Cap and Trade, Chris Smith, climate change, Dave Leonard Lance
Posted Jun 29th 2009 at 5:35 pm in News, Politics | 17297411 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/06/29/meet-the-eight-%e2%80%9crepublicans%e2%80%9d-that-sold-out-the-united-states-of-america/Climate+Change+Republicans2009-06-30+00%3A35%3A36John+Romano

Late Night Awards of the Week

While the President was pitching health care and the Speaker was rounding up support for Cap and Trade, the Late Nights were focused on Mark Sanford: a Republican governor that seemed like a comeuppance for Democrat Rod Blagojevich. In fact many of the hosts brought up the Illinois Governor in their jokes.

Craig Ferguson said after Spitzer and Blagojevich, the most normal governor was Jesse Ventura. He also said that a family values governor having a mistress is like Al Gore needing four SUVs to bring his lunch to him.(It was disappointing that Ferguson didn’t see the irony in his remark, because Al Gore DOES require multiple SUVs when he travels) Funniest line went to Conan O’Brien, who said the affair was a shock, because usually, Republicans don’t do well with Hispanic women. (more…)

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Tags: Blagojevich, Cap and Trade, Chastity Bono, Conan, jimmy fallon
Posted Jun 29th 2009 at 4:03 pm in Political Humor | 1733066 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/06/29/173306/Late+Night+Awards+of+the+Week2009-06-29+23%3A03%3A33Tim+Slagle

Obama’s EPA Ignores Inconvenient Truths

John Hinderaker of Poweline has alerted everyone to the release of the suppressed EPA Carlin/Davidson report along with incriminating emails by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.  President Obama and his administration have again been appropriately exposed. Obama’s intent can no longer be in question, and his deceptive activities are instructive as to the role the United Nations will play in his plan to address the use of American wealth.

Because the American news media has not properly and openly questioned Susan Rice about her deliberations with the IPCC, nor the U.S. intentions concerning proposed international “monies” related to CO2, you are obliged to read the referenced CEI and EPA documents yourself;  pay close attention to the copies of the emails contained in the CEI disclosure.  Here are the essential elements and findings of the Carlin/Davidson report dated March 9, 2009: PDO-Pacific decadal Oscillation / AMO-Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation/GCM-General Circulation Models/ IPCC- UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/CCSP- Climate Change Science Program/ TSD- Technical Support Document [click to enlarge]: (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, climate change, EPA, Global warming, Obama
Posted Jun 29th 2009 at 2:33 pm in Politics | 17361832 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschultz/2009/06/29/obamas-epa-ignores-inconvenient-truths/Obama%27s+EPA+Ignores+Inconvenient+Truths2009-06-29+21%3A33%3A55Dwight+Schultz

Daily Gut: The Bystander in Chief

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

Somehow, that statement doesn’t blow your mind like “hope and change,” but that’s exactly how Obama feels about Iran.

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

Which, as you know, is a stance that has never stopped our President from immediately re-imagining health care, trying to end enhanced interrogations, or reducing carbon dioxide emissions via something ridiculous called cap and trade legislation. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, carbon dioxide emissions, enhanced interrogations, hope and change, iran
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 at 1:54 pm in Daily Gut, News, Political Humor, Politics | 1673428 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/23/daily-gut-the-bystander-in-chief/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Bystander+in+Chief+2009-06-23+20%3A54%3A23Greg+Gutfeld

The Breath Tax

The rationale for the “Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” otherwise known as Cap and Trade, is that environmental catastrophe awaits us if we do not control the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) flowing into the atmosphere. This hysteria has been propelled by alarmists using computer models to predict (not to prove) that what-used-to-be-called-Global-Warming-before-it-became-clear-that-the-earth-is-cooling-so-it-is-now-called-Climate Change is caused by man made emissions of carbon dioxide.

The scam–ur uhm–I mean the idea works like this: government will set a limit on the amount of CO2 companies may produce. Companies will then be forced to purchase emissions permits for every ton of CO2 produced. Companies that exceed their limits will be able to purchase or trade for additional permits with companies that emit less than their allotted cap. Waxman-Markey seeks an “80 percent reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050”?  And a “100 percent auction to ensure every ton of carbon is paid for.”

While supporters of Cap and Trade attempt to direct our attention to large-scale carbon emitters in the coal and oil industries make no mistake; the repercussions from this tax will be felt in every American household. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, Clean Air Act, climate change, EPA, Global warming
Posted Jun 1st 2009 at 11:20 am in News, Politics | 1487184 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/06/01/the-breath-tax/The+Breath+Tax2009-06-01+18%3A20%3A30Joseph+C.+Phillips

Beware the Earth Day Scam

I am sure you have received e-mails from scam artists around the world telling you that they have something of value they want to bring to the United States. If you would just be so kind as to help them your life will be improved too! If you have fallen victim to one of these scams you know that you got nothing and some of your money ended up in a foreign country.

Today the granddaddy of all financial scams will be launched again. It is known as “Earth Day.” Do not fall for this scam! This con game may seem like a new idea, but it’s been around since the seventies, just like Mr. Obama’s “new” idea about saving the country by building some light rail. This scam seems to pop up every Spring in one form or another. This scam has also been circulated under the names; “Global Warming,” “Climate Change,” “The Green Movement,” and “Ecology.” Recent variations have used the names “Carbon Credits” and “Cap and Trade.” (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, climate change, Earth Day, ecology, Global warming
Posted Apr 22nd 2009 at 12:46 pm in Political Humor, Politics | 11249816 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/04/22/beware-earth-day-scam-released-today/Beware+the+Earth+Day+Scam+2009-04-22+19%3A46%3A44Jeffrey+Jena