We occasionally report on matters other than politics. Occasionally we even report on things personal to the Real Sporer himself. Yesterday, Ted’s partner Andrea (i.e. the “Flanagan” in “Sporer & Flanagan P.C.”) received a little publicity herself.
The Des Moines Register’s “Juice” publication gave the above pictured Andrea a nice write up.
Congratulations, Junior.
After initially giving tacit endorsement of the Iranian Islamofacist crackdown that crushed the hopes for democracy in Iran the Obama Administration quickly offered an even more insightful and illuminative display of Labor/Socialist/Democrats' embrace of dictatorships everywhere.
While music fans and child molesters the world over were mourning the death of Micheal Jackson, an ally of Hugo Chavez, Honduran President Mel Zelaya produced a hemispheric thriller of his own. Zelaya was looking to follow in the Chavez footsteps as “President for Life” in Honduras. Zelaya had planned a rigged referendum (we’re sure Jimmy Carter was invited as the perpetual useful idiot that dictators employ to validate their gaffed electoral facades-see Venezuela and Iran) by which to set aside the inconvenient constitutions that term limited their respective unpopular regimes.
Unlike the politicized Venezualan military, the Honduran military demonstrated it's committment to protect their nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic, grabbed Zelaya and promptly exiled him to Costa Rica.
Just like Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Zelaya planned to end Honduran democracy with a whimper. After Zelaya called a referendum that would have amended the Honduran Constitution to allow him to serve unlimited terms, the Honduran Supreme Court held such a referendum cannot be called by the President, only the National Assembly and only after a two thirds vote (oddly, exactly what the Honduran Constitution says). Zelaya simply ignored both the Court and the Constitution and obtained ballots from……..you guessed it, Hugo Chavez. The Honduran Attorney General then said that he would prosecute anyone participating in holding the plainly unlawful election.
The commanding general of the Honduran Army told Zelaya that El Presidente would have to comply with the Supreme Court's order. Zelaya then fired the general. While the Supreme Court was reinstalling the commanding general thugs working for Zelaya apparently stormed the warehouse in which the ballots were stored and began distributing them. The Honduran Army then acted to enforce the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran Attorney General and removed Zelaya from power.
Where President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the whole cadre of Democrat leftists could find only moral equivalency between the Iranian mullahs and the hundreds of thousands of freedom seeking protestors it had no such handicap in supporting a local thug like Zelaya.
Obama quickly declared the coup illegal (although the Honduran army was acting to enforce orders of its Supreme Court and AG to prevent Zelaya from conducting an election to make himself President for life) and is even now aggressively promoting Zelaya’s cause to the United Nations. A mere casual or narrow observation of the Obama Administration's outrage over Honduras could create a humanitarian basis for all the hubbub about Zelaya. After all, the L/S/Ds have exiled global terror threats to tropical resorts like the Bahamas or Palua and the Hondurans sent Zelaya to Costa Rica. But a more careful examination reveals something much more sinister and dangerous is afoot.
Americans need to take a good hard look at the nations Obama perceives as allies and enemies of the United States. President Obama has been unable to find word one to criticize the demon regimes in North Korea and Iran, other than the academic discussions that such regimes’ conduct may be destabilizing. However, from the day on which President Obama took office he has repeatedly insulted the British, the Canadians and the Israelis while supporting Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, China, Russia, and now Honduras.
While the Obama foreign policy objectives seem oddly inconsistent with the last thirty years of American policy (don’t forget it was President Clinton who made regime change in Iraq official American policy) the pattern is even more frightening.
Even as these words are written, the Obama Administration allies have introduced Joint House Resolution No. 5 before Congress. HJ Res. 5 will repeal the 22nd Amendment to our own Constitution-term limits for the President. Apparently, President Obama now views himself as an acolyte of dictators Chavez, Ortega and Zelaya and not merely domestic racists, radicals and terrorists like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayres.
Republican House Leader John Boehner is surely beginning to grow on us here at TRS. Boehner started slow in his first two years. Not surprisingly, Boehner was unable to create a Republican identity separate from that of the Bush Administration. Now, in confronting the most reckless and irresponsible social and economic agenda in American history Boehner is beginning to find his footing.
Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly recall the Labor/Socialist/Democrat mindless eight year attack on George W. Bush’s economy. Notwithstanding the inherited Clinton recession, the inherited corporate scandals, the inherited growing energy crises (just ask “Grayout” Davis about that one in 2002) and, of course, the most devastating exogenous shock to ever strike the American economy, 9.11, the L/S/D claimed that 5.4% unemployment was a “jobless recovery” back in 2004.
Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly also recall that the L/S/D claimed that the Bush economy, roaring along at full employment throughout all of 2006 was in dire need of change or the American dream would be gone with the wind.
Finally, Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly recall President Obama’s demand for a dead of night passage of the fiscal fantasy described as his trillion dollar “stimulus” package, without congressional, much less national, debate or unemployment would reach eight percent.
When unemployment blew past that eight percent worst case scenario, the President floated his usual astucious red herring with the datum defying claim that the stimulus was "saving jobs", nothwithstanding the complete absence of any economic evidence to support such macro gibberish. Now, with unemployment over nine percent and headed toward double digits, Boehner asks a simple question, where are the jobs?
Well L/S/Ds, where are they?
The French, whose cultural and political significance is so often cited by American liberals as worthy of emulation here in the USA, are now actually outlawing the wearing of the burqa and the najib. The cosmopolitan French President described the burqa and the najib as follows: “The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement.”
On the other hand, President Obama addressed the issue through his usual combination of dissimilation and multicultural pander. First, the President indicated that the burqa and the najib were merely a scarf covering a woman’s head. A burqa does indeed cover a woman’s hair so one cannot say the President is lying. However, a burqa also covers the entire body from head to foot with only a mesh screen over the eyes. A najib is a scarf, typically Johnny Cash style (all black for the music neophyte) with slits for the eyes. So, the President was also concealing the whole truth.
The President then panders and implies that burqas and nijabs are welcome in America. President Obama apparently sees nothing wrong with a Seventh Century cult practice, already rejected throughout most of the Islamic world itself, designed to deny women all identity.
One is well led to wonder at the extent of the self-deceptive sophistry that is undertaken by the NOW gang, those aging pants suit wearing and bra burning free lovers of 1968, to reconcile President Obama’s embrace of the ultimate physical symbol of gender repression with their giddy support for President Obama?
The increasingly irrelevant feminist leadership could regain some desperately needed credibility, and possibly self-esteem, by joining the Republicans, the party that gave women the right to vote, in our historical and international battle to vindicate the rights and improves the life of women throughout the world. While the answer is probably “no”, as it was when President Clinton was serving Arkansas red-hot to the interns and volunteers in the White House, the invitation is certainly worth the extending.
Vive la France!
Oh yeah, Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index goes negative for the first time in the Obama Presidency.
Thirty two percent strongly approve of the Obama job performance and thirty four percent strongly disapprove.
We have nothing to fear from criticizing the Marxist regime of poverty at home and appeasement abroad except a media that already hates all things Republican and conservative.
Let’s go get ‘em this week.
Should we not all wear green on Monday in solidarity with those Iranians that truly do want a democratic government and a place in the mainstream world?
They may not be a majority and they may not be entirely to our liking but they are certainly better than the genocidal terror regime that governs the present Iran.
We may very well be watching history and, if so, Americans should do what we have always done and stand in support of freedom and democracy.
So stand and be counted among the international supporters of freedom on Monday, June 22, 2009.
At a time that the mainstream media is doing its disingenuous best to perform last rites for conservatism and the GOP the actual numbers stubbornly resist surrendering the ghost.
This morning we awaken to Gallup reporting the continued erosion of public approval of President Obama’s agenda of Marxist poverty at home (except, of course, for the “proletarian” elite) and appeasement and surrender abroad. Gallup now shows Obama’s job approval slipping again, this time to a historic low of 58%. A seven percent drop among non-party voters leads the decline.
While some would say 58% is evidence of widespread public support real history, which did not begin with election of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, speaks to the contrary. George W. Bush, who won by a much smaller margin, was at 57% job approval at the same time in his presidency. Bill Clinton sat twenty percent behind at 37% with Ronald Reagan little better at 43%. George H.W. Bush was sitting pretty in the low 60s in June of 1989. We couldn’t locate a June 1977 poll for Jimmy “Ayatollah” Carter but his first year average was 63% so it’s safe to assume June was close to the average.
So maybe the world in learning that our All Powerful Leader is not, after all, the one for whom we’ve all been waiting.
Even better, Gallup polling data release earlier this found self-identified conservatives were the largest segment of the American electorate at 40% with liberals at a mere 21%. The conservative numbers are superior to the same time in 1993 and we all know what happened in ’94.
America does need substantial change but it appears that the public is learning that the Labor/Socialist/Democrat vision of a federal government that decides what we eat, what we drive, where we live, how much we earn and how much medical care we receive is not the change they had in mind.
So, Bahamas Tommy Harkin resorts to race baiting to deflect attention from his support for the Waxman/Markey energy tax by sponsoring a resolution to apologize for, wait for it .......
Slavery. Yes, slavery.
Weren't the 360,222 Union Army deaths in the Civil War a fairly vivid expression of regret for slavery? Like most liberals, Harkin ignores the nobility bespoken by that statistic.
History always repeats itself.
1935-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles (that ended WW 1) and remilitarizes Germany with a new navy, air force, and armored and air borne divisions. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1935-Italy invades Ethiopia. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1936-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and remilitarizes the border with France. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1937-Japan invades China at the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1937-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and occupies Austria. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1938-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and occupies half of Czechoslovakia. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.
1939-Nazi Germany violates both the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich accords of the same year and occupies the remainder of free Czechoslovakia. The West didn’t even bother to protest.
1939-Nazi Germany invades Poland. France and the UK declare war on Germany, and then do nothing. The US does nothing.
1940-Japan occupies the entire Chinese coast. The US does nothing.
1940-Western Europe is occupied, the UK stands alone. The US begins nothing more than Lend Lease.
1941-Japan occupies French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). The US finally implements trade sanctions.
1941-Japan attacks the US at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam and elsewhere.
Now, a mere seventy years later, western and especially the American pacifists are re-learning the lessons of appeasement. Like their fascist god fathers of the 1930 and 1940s, the monsters in Teheran and Pyongyang are again testing the West. The mullahs and their handpicked lunatic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the most bizarre and brutal dictatorship of the Kim dynasty in North Korea have taken stock of recent history and now are following an all too familiar historical road to Armageddon.
The North Koreans have been slowly been evading compliance with the 1953 Cease Fire agreements, while building a relatively advanced nuclear armament and an ICBM system with which to deliver it. Bill Clinton might have been the last American President to have the ability to stop the North Koreans short of war back in 1994; but then again Kim might have already been able to deliver dirty weapons to Tokyo when then President Clinton so famously recalled the planes, which would certainly explain the recall. President Bush scared the Koreans for several years but then the American left convinced them that the politically weakened President would not attack them and they resumed nuclear testing.
The Iranians have been taking and promoting acts of war against the United States for more than thirty years while also pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The Iranians have seen the United States doing essentially nothing to contain them. Even worse, the Iranians learned how they could benefit from the Western liberal rage at the Bush Doctrine of preemption. There is a reason the Iranians and North Koreans and their terror allies cheered the election of the weakest American President since at least Herbert Hoover.
The world has become very much more dangerous in the last twenty-four hours as North Korea has formally abrogated the 1953 Cease Fire; begun the rapid testing of numerous new missiles and delivery systems having already threatened to attack American and South Korean ships.
Change indeed America. Change indeed.
The loud wrenching sound and terrifying tremor that was observed in Washington DC and north-east Virginia was not an earth quake, tectonic or political. Geologists and historians have confirmed that shaking that was seen and heard earlier this morning was not, as initially thought, a natural disaster. No, the terrestrial tumult was caused by the simultaneous attempts of Justices Earl Warren, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Clark, Harry Blackmun and William Brennan to rise from the their graves in Arlington National Cemetary in protest of today’s nominee to fill one of the chairs that they once occupied on our nation’s court of last resort.
President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor confirms that the Labor/Socialist/Democrat social agenda prioritizes social organization in the face of not just constitutional barriers like; say, the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection, but the basic principle of the American judiciary-justice. As reported in the May 14 edition of the New York Times, the proposed, and probably inevitable Justice, actually uttered the following words:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Nothing has to be read into Judge Sotomayor’s words-she has actually stated her belief that race and gender alone produce superior judicial results. Can anyone who followed the borking of Justices Thomas and Alito, and Chief Justices Rehnquist and Roberts, much less Judge Robert Bork himself, imagine the L/S/D response had any of those Republican nominees stated a belief that white men inherently produce better conclusions and purer justice?
Such a statement of racial and gender bias is antithetical to everything for which historic warriors for equality, like Justices Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, and so many others, worked into American common and Constitutional law. The majesty of the United States derives in no small part from our search to create a blind law that identically treats similarly situated people. Now, those Justices are told that their legacy to us has been wrong-the law needs “empathy” through racial and gender based life experience.
Then again, these are the same people who invented Jim Crow so maybe the 21st Century L/S/D embrace of racism and sexism should not be all that surprising after all.
From 2004 on the liberal critique of the Bush era foreign policy centered on two irreconcilable premises: President Bush was a cowboy who engaged in a unilateral approach to the world while refusing to engage in unilateral diplomacy with the two rouge states, Iran and North Korea. As is historically indisputable, the Bush Administration was committed to the “six party” talks with North Korea and the European led multiparty negotiations with Iran. Strangely both the Bush Administration and our 2008 nominee, John McCain, refused to engage in a fundamental foreign policy debate with the liberal press and the L/S/D candidates, notwithstanding the lack of fact or reason to support the adversaries’ argument.
As a result the incredible became conventional wisdom. Candidate Obama, metronomically turning from teleprompter to teleprompter, promised a new, humble foreign policy where his messianic personality would create international consensus before acting in America’s interest. Candidate Obama promised to engage in direct negotiations with Iran and North Korea, in the apparent belief that his own power of persuasion would cause the leadership of Kim Jong-Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to abandon their lifetime of anti-Americanism, and their nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.
President Obama’s appeasement of Iran has become so desperate that he has promised American support for Iran’s continued development of its nuclear program if Iran allows international inspections of that nuclear program. Within hours the genocidal minded President of Iran rejected any restraint on its nuclear program. The Iranian response is not particularly unexpected. Unlike the joyful crowds of American and European socialists and pacifists, the reader should not forget that Iran greeted President Obama’s promise of a new consensus building United States by launching a new longer range and more accurate ICBM, and one that was capable of carrying a nuclear payload.
Employing the same logic that supported their critique of the Bush foreign policies, the President, the Labor/Socialist/Democrat congressional caucuses and their allies in the dominant media and academia now claim that the Iranian development of nuclear weapons and the ICBMs with which to launch those nuclear warheads makes the average American safer.
North Korea has engaged in a very similar course of conduct since George W. Bush left office. Having recently test launched a new ICBM, capable of carrying a larger nuclear payload a thousand miles farther than the previously known range of Korean ICBM, last night, on the eve of Memorial Day, the North Koreans tested their yet most powerful nuclear weapon. North Korean possession of nuclear weapons and continued improvement of its ICBM capacity is consistent with North Korea’s stated intention of acquiring a capacity to hit the continental United States. Yet, somehow, we are to believe that the Korean developments increase American security and promote American policy.
While it is, of course, clear, that the United States and our allies in Europe and Israel have become far less safe since the Obama Administration took control of American foreign policy, President Obama is popular with the American and European left and, in the end, that’s all that really matters isn’t it. 
Our raison d'être here at TRS
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” John Stuart Mill
We at The Real Sporer believe that the crises of our generation is the preservation of a United States of America based on fundamental rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Oddly enough, our generation, that grew in the quiet and secure 50s, 60s and 70s and thought we could escape history now find ourselves at the cross roads of history. At a time when the prevailing media, academic and even now industrial elites find the easy road of paternalistic socialist totalitarianism more expedient to travel we are convinced that only preserving the more traditional America will better provide the well known blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to us and our posterity.
In the real world, the Republican freedom agenda is the only alternative to the thought police and rations commissar of the socialist nanny state. But the agenda that we share with the founding generation, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, will never again prevail if we don't fight our generation's battle to renew America's commitment to freedom with our socialist adversaries.
Our mission statement is therefore clear: provide the information and argument that leads to a Republican Renaissance and Republican governance.
