Game Changer: Massachusetts earthquake puts everything in play

Scott Brown’s stunning electoral victory in Massachusetts yesterday confirms to the world what we have known all along: patriotism and common sense are alive and well. Real Americans remain a majority in this country, and the massively-funded, corrupt Democrat machine, engorged with our tax dollars, radical billionaire money and lock-step union support, cannot buy elections, even in hardcore Democrat states, once the sleeping giant has awoken.

And make no mistake about it: we are wide awake!

The Democrats were certainly hamstrung by choosing an impossibly bad candidate. Martha Coakley made a fool of herself repeatedly, yet throughout it all carried herself with an astonishing sense of conceited entitlement, seemingly contemptuous of even having to campaign at all. Meanwhile, her campaign took on an air of ugly thuggishness. Two scenes captured on video during this short campaign say it all. Everyone has seen the first one, where a reporter is pushed to the ground by a Coakley supporter while Coakley stands by doing nothing. Remember, she is the Massachusetts attorney general. The second one has received less attention, but is even more telling: a female reporter getting thrown out of a Coakley campaign office with shouts of "Nazi." Someone even used the "F" bomb. What class acts.

The real problem is that Coakley defines what the Democrat Party has become today: arrogant, boorish, incomprehensibly ignorant and downright thuggish. Former Vermont Governor and Presidential candidate Howard Dean, for example, reacted to Brown's victory by saying that now Democrats have to get tough, and not "deal with Republicans anymore." Stunning. So that’s what we've been witnessing all year, with Democrats violating Senate rules, holding closed-door meetings, locking Republicans out of discussions, rejecting outright any Republican proposals and violating their own promises of "transparency." But they haven't been tough enough. Simply amazing.

Scott Brown's election was certainly about healthcare. Massachusetts already has its own expensive plan. They don't need or want even more government intrusion. It was also about national security. Brown's own internal polling convinced the campaign this was true. People feel insecure with this President and his administration, and with good reason.

But it was even more than that...

Maybe the Dems really ARE that stupid

Can we hope?

Completely aside from the virulent backlash Congressional Democrats and the White House are facing for their blatantly corrupt, disingenuous and destructive agenda, Democrat senatorial candidate Martha Coakley has an additional huge handicap to overcome: herself.

A few weeks ago this column wondered aloud how the Obama administration and the Democrat Congress could be so careless about their plummeting poll numbers and the growing backlash all over the country against their destructive agenda. It concluded that they must know something we don't, i.e. that they had a secret plan to win in 2010 and 2012.

The last sentence of the article read: "can they really be that stupid?"

Well, whatever the Dems have up their sleeve, in Martha Coakley's case, the answer seems to be an unqualified "yes."

A hilarious article by David Freddoso at the Washington Examiner (Coakley tests the limits: How many gaffes will it take to lose in liberal Mass.? January 15, 2010,) catalogs some of the incomprehensibly stupid things this woman has said. These rank alongside the infamous "I invented the Internet," by Al Gore, and VP Joe Biden's string of fence-post-stupid comments, like the one about President Roosevelt going on TV in 1929, or his prediction that Obama would be tested by an "international crisis". No, I take that back. Even Coakley can't hold a match to foot-in-mouth diseased Joe, but she is vying for a close second. Borrowing from Freddoso's article:

•She said in a televised debate with Republican candidate Scott Brown that there are no more terrorists in Afghanistan.

•When asked about her foreign policy experience, she said -- on television -- that her sister lives overseas.

•She said on the radio yesterday that freedom from coercion against one's religion does not extend to the workplace if you're Catholic and you happen to be a doctor or nurse.

Additionally:

•Coakley ridiculed her opponent for standing out "in the cold" and shaking hands with fans at Fenway Park.

•Instead of pressing flesh with the voters in the last few critical days, she held a Washington fundraiser populated by health care and drug lobbyists.

•At said fundraiser, one of her handlers pushed an inquisitive reporter to the ground as she looked on.

•Although photos show her looking directly at the pusher and the reporter on the ground, she later said: “I know something occurred, but I’m not privy to the facts. I’m sure it will come out, but I’m not aware of that.”

•Her campaign misspelled "Massachusetts" in a recent ad.

According to Fox News, in a radio interview Friday night Coakley also called Boston Red Sox former star pitcher Curt Schilling "A Yankees fan." As Fox relates:

Coakley hit a foul ball when the show's host, Dan Rea, noted that Schilling is supporting Brown. "And another Yankee fan," she said, apparently stunning Rea. "Curt Schilling, a Yankee fan?" Rea asked, prompting Coakley to quickly backtrack. "Ok, I'm wrong," she said. "The Red Sox great pitcher of the bloody sock?" Rea asked, referring to the World Series game that Schilling pitched with an ankle injury that caused blood to stain his sock. But Coakley swung back. "Well, he's not there anymore," she said.

"'Ok, I'm wrong,' she said..."

Yeah.

Not to be outdone, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee got into the act with a recent ad superimposing Republican Scott Brown over a picture of the World Trade Center and calling it Wall Street "greed and corruption". Has anyone told them what happened on 9/11? They found out apparently because the ad now has a different high-rise in the background. Same idiotic message though.

Ben Smith of Politico reported this under the heading, A Trade Center image in DSCC spot, with links to both the before and after advertisements. Both ads end with the same message: "January 19, Your Vote Matters."

Yes, it does.

Perhaps they are coming unglued after all. For when all else fails, the Dems' now resort to calling in the boys in purple - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU buses have been making their appearance in Massachusetts, and as SEIU President Andy Stern says "We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power." We saw it last summer with astroturfing SEIU thugs showing up at town halls to intimidate and sometimes beat Tea Partiers. SEIU union thugs beating on boy scouts may become the new way of winning elections for Democrats. No wonder they have so much admiration for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. SEIU's eye-popping business-as-usual corruption figures prominently in the annals of scandal-plagued Obama friend and former Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich. SEIU has been described as "ACORN with an advanced degree."

I will not hold my breath for the outcome of this race. Obama will be traveling there to work his vote fraud, er, community organizing charm on the electorate. Still, it would be perfect justice to see the Quisling of the Senate finally replaced with a candidate who actually represents Americans, instead of one like Martha Coakley, who only represents interests of the far, far, virulently destructive left. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

More of what the Dems know: we might have guessed

In a recent article we discussed the possibility that Democrats will introduce universal voter registration (UVR) legislation this year, and offered that as an explanation for their seeming carelessness in the face of plummeting poll numbers. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal was quoted in the article as asserting that UVR will open the nation up to massive vote fraud. The reasons are straightforward and many: 1. registering people using existing government databases will result in many duplicates; 2. many of the lists contain names of illegal immigrants; 3. the list could be expanded to include felons currently ineligible to vote.

The notion of universal voter registration has been, like most leftist agenda items, a long time in the making, but flying beneath the radar for all but those paying close attention. As a result, most of us are behind the curve. The left can thus present universal voter registration as a much-needed "reform," with talking points and ready answers to objections all lined up, while the rest of us struggle to assess the damage it will do. But it will do damage, potentially permanent damage to our representative republic.

Voter Registration and Registration Fraud

Most of the calls for UVR cite the fact that about 30 percent of eligible voters remain unregistered. (In the last election cycle 29 percent were not registered.) The radical left Nation magazine effuses:

It doesn't have to be this way. Registration rates in other countries frequently run upwards of 90 percent (both Canada and France hit that mark, for example, while Venezuela stands at roughly 94 percent, and Russia about 97).

Venezuela and Russia. How has voter registration worked out for them? Not exactly the role models for democracy if you ask me, but then for the folks at Nation, they're all of a piece. Just ask Bill Ayers.

These folks also argue that UVR will prevent voter registration fraud. If the feds do all the registering, they reason, groups like ACORN that have been tied to rampant registration fraud -- not to mention all their other illegal activities -- will be disenfranchised.

But a look at who is supporting the idea gives the lie to that one. An article appeared last year on Alternet.org, a leftist website run by former Mother Jones publisher Don Hazen. Titled Consensus Builds for Universal Voter Registration, the by-line was Project Vote. This is the same Project Vote where Barack Obama cut his teeth organizing for the Senate election of communist-sympathizer Carol Moseley Braun. Project Vote is at the forefront of the voting rights movement. It is also an ACORN subsidiary.

In 1993, Bill Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act into law. Commonly known as Motor Voter, the law allows for people to register to vote at welfare offices, motor vehicle departments and other government agencies. These agencies are required to provide necessary forms and even promote voter registration. Democrats billed Motor Voter as a method to make it easier for "disenfranchised voters" to become registered. Note that there was nothing except their own inertia preventing eligible people from registering to vote before this was passed, but the Democrats are all about saving the "poor and oppressed," especially when most of those poor and oppressed will be guaranteed democrat voters.

A 2008 Project Vote report titled Unequal Access: Neglecting the National Voter Registration Act 1995-2007 claimed that, "40 percent of voting-aged citizens from households earning under $25,000 were unregistered." The report further complains that "Thousands of eligible low income voters could be brought fully into the democratic process every day if states fully complied with the NVRA." Once again, these people are perfectly capable of bringing themselves into the "democratic process" if they so choose, but that's not good enough for Democrats. The report also observed that 20 percent of qualified citizens making $100,000 or more remain unregistered, but that didn't seem to bother them.

Motor Voter was anticipated to create a massive potential for voter registration fraud. Events since its passage seem to have borne that out. And while supporters of the law claim that vote registration fraud does not necessarily lead to vote fraud, the danger is clearly there, especially from absentee ballots and in states where only minimal identification is required. It also creates opportunities for voting activists to challenge elections. If the registration process is flawed, they argue, why not the election process itself?

As explained earlier this week, the Motor Voter law was the brainchild of socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Instigators of the Cloward/Piven Crisis Strategy, these two radical activists spent a lifetime dreaming up ways to wreak havoc upon our government, hoping that the crises they fomented would ultimately lead to its collapse. ACORN has been the main vehicle for execution of this strategy. Therefore, the filing of excessive and fraudulent voter registrations may be an end in-and-of-itself. It certainly has created chaos and undermined the integrity of our voting system.

It also could be the pretext upon which the left intended to base their push for universal voter registration. And while there is little doubt, given the current condition of federal and state databases, that such a move would create all kinds of duplication, Democrats would achieve their goal of getting all of those unregistered democrats on the roles. Then all they'd have to do is get them to the polls. No longer having to sully itself with fraudulent registrations, maybe ACORN could turn its attention more fully to get-out-the-vote activities it illegally conducted for the Obama campaign in 2008.

Illegal Immigrant Voting

Critics fear that universal voter registration will allow many illegal immigrants to register and vote. UVR proponents will dismiss the "illegal immigrant" objections by countering that such individuals either won't be counted or could be weeded from voter rolls depending upon the methodology used to register voters. Congressional opponents of UVR will of course seek amendments making sure illegals and felons are excepted. But that is a throwaway for the left. They have something else in mind.

Separate and distinct from UVR legislation, Congress intends to move forward once again on immigration "reform." According to Reuters, the Obama administration has already signaled its intention to push for this in 2010, including "a path to citizenship for the 12 million immigrants living here illegally." There are probably more than 12 million at this point. Since during the healthcare debates the Democrats reduced their estimates of people needing coverage from 47 million to 30 million to subtract out illegal immigrants, implicitly that suggests they believe the current number to be 17 million.

Getting the illegal immigrant vote is key for Democrats in 2010. While registering low income people to vote will guarantee more democrat voters, it may not in-and-of-itself provide the winning margins Democrats need to overcome their growing unpopularity. And while amnesty would provide Democrats with a huge pool of potential new voters, without UVR, the logistical problem of getting them registered to vote in time for the 2010 elections would remain. UVR would solve this problem, guaranteeing these people to be registered to vote the minute they achieved citizenship.

But it doesn't end there. Once again, separate and distinct from UVR, legislators are contemplating granting felons the right to vote. A bill, S 1516, was proposed by Democrats in the Senate last summer. While the Senate bill deals only with felons who have served their time, don't expect it to end there. An organization called ProCon.org claims that in 2004, there were 5.2 million felons "disenfranchised" from voting. That's a lot of potential democrats.

This week the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Washington state law banning felons from voting. Fortunately saner heads still exist and the state of Washington has asked the Supreme Court to review the 9th Circuit ruling. The Obama administration likely agrees with the 9th Circuit however, having appointed felon-rights advocate Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

So, look to Congress to propose both immigration reform and felon "voting rights" legislation. For all this to work, however, Congress needs to propose universal voter registration first. That way they can pretend that illegal immigrants and felons will not be included. This may be why John Fund was so confident UVR would be proposed sometime in January 2010.

But it doesn't even end there. Expect to hear calls for abolishing the Electoral College and moving toward direct Presidential elections. That's in the works too. It can be accomplished without Constitutional amendment. State legislatures can vote to give all their electors to the winner of the popular vote. Direct elections will become law when enough state legislatures have passed legislation to make up a majority of the electoral vote (270 of 538). Only five states holding 61 electoral votes, Hawaii, Washington, Illinois (go figure), New Jersey and Maryland have signed on to this so far, so it will take longer to accomplish. But direct elections will be the last nail in the coffin for our beloved Republic.

Add to this the deliberate sabotage of our economy with unprecedented deficit spending, stimulus bills that stimulate only Democrats while unemployment rises to Depression-era levels, cap and trade legislation that threatens devastating tax increases justified by a hoax, a healthcare bill that will make us all sick while dramatically ramping up costs, add in all the other garbage legislation designed to keep us distracted, distraught and demoralized and you have a prescription for an unprecedented takeover of our country from which we may never recover.

I had hoped it wouldn't come to this. But if it is their agenda to use UVR, illegal immigration and felon votes to steal the 2010 election, and I believe it is, they need to know that we are going to do everything within our power to stop them. They represent gangster government, a radical cabal aiming to consolidate power once and for all by duplicitously using our own institutions against us. If they attempt this, they have lost the legitimate right to lead, and those institutions, by definition, will have been corrupted beyond repair. It will be left to us to get rid of them, and it will be our right to do so, by any means at our disposal.

What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration

Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats while seemingly unconcerned by their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago: "what do they know that we don't?"

We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at a David Horowitz Freedom Center forum. Watch the video:

Fund describes the proposal as follows:

In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overriden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: 'take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver's license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be...'

Fund anticipates that Congress will attempt to ram this legislation down our throats like they have been with the "healthcare" bill. What a surprise! Fund covers the vote issue at greater length in his book, How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections, a very good read.

Leftist groups are already arguing that universal voter registration will solve all the problems with our voting system. But the left created most of these problems. The radical leftist Nation magazine, for example, absolutely loves the idea of universal voter registration. This is the same magazine, however, that advanced Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven's Manufactured Crisis strategy. The Cloward/Piven strategy was designed to undermine government institutions by overwhelming them with impossible demands for services. Cloward and Piven focused on welfare, housing and voting as the main targets of this strategy, and the radical group ACORN was specifically created for the purpose of executing it.

The Nation article enthusiastically lists Cloward/Piven-inspired organizations like Project Vote, the ACORN group where President Obama cut his teeth. It also discusses the left's efforts to push enforcement of the Motor Voter law, and explains how universal voter registration could assist in these efforts. Cloward and Piven were the ones who crafted Motor Voter legislation in the early 1980s and pushed for it's enactment until 1993, when President Clinton signed it into law. Cloward and Piven considered Motor Voter to be their crowning lifetime achievement. The picture below, from White House photo archives, shows Cloward (light grey suit) and Piven (green coat and navy dress) standing directly behind Clinton at the Motor Voter signing ceremony.

The left has predictably launched vicious smear attacks against John Fund for bringing universal voter registration to our attention. A Google search of the issue brings up any number of nasty ad hominem attacks. Most notable is Media Matters, the leftist group whose sole purpose seems to be smearing Republicans and defending the left's indefensible policies. They put up this gem: "Right-Wing Ass Weasel John Fund Doesn't Like Universal Voter Registration because of ACORN." Media Matters, what a class act!

The problems with universal voter registration are numerous and obvious. Many state lists include vast numbers of illegals, including some states which allow illegals to obtain driver's licenses; because many homeowners have more than one home there will be duplicates; because so many people are on so many separate federal and state government agency lists, there will be duplicates, and because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking capability these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected. Add to this the fact that Dems hope to extend voting rights to felons and the whole thing begins to look like a nationwide Democrat voter registration drive facilitated by taxpayers.

Universal voter registration will create massive vulnerabilities to systemic voter fraud nationwide, and if Democrats have proven anything in recent years, it is that they can win elections that way. The George-Soros-funded Secretary of State project (SOS) was designed to take advantage of such vulnerabilities and may have been developed in anticipation of the universal voter registration plan. Al Franken's stolen election in Minnesota was a trial run for the SOS project. Longtime ACORN friend Mark Ritchie was elected Minnesota Secretary of State in 2006 with Soros's SOS and ACORN money, and what followed in Norm Coleman's Senate runoff election was a frighening demonstration of just how far Democrats will go to win. Franken won the runoff and the Democrats got their filibuster-proof sixty vote Senate majority.

The Motor Voter law was correctly identified as a facilitator of vote fraud. One of the few legal issues Barack Obama actually participated in as a lawyer was a 1995 suit against the State of Illinois, which he brought on behalf of ACORN. Then Republican Governor Jim Edgars saw the newly passed Motor Voter act as creating the potential for massive vote fraud and refused to implement it. With the assistance of the Clinton Justice Department, Obama's legal team won that suit. Obama himself actually participated very little, a strategy that seems to have served him well in life. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, after identifying himself in court proceedings, Obama sat back and let "the heavy-hitters at the Justice Department make the arguments..."

It is not surprising that the Democrats are now choosing to push this new initiative, for universal voter registration will be Motor Voter on turbochargers. And who better to sign it into law than the President from ACORN.

More on universal voter registration:

Dems positioning to rig November elections?

Radical Islam and America’s Future

Political Islam, i.e. radical Islam, is actually a cutout for continued communist aggession against the West. This is perhaps the most justifiable explanation for the resurgence of radical Islam in recent years, though it receives scant recognition.

We knew this to be true back in the 1970s and 1980s, when the communist-inspired PLO began its operations against Israel. We knew that Hezbollah and the other Muslim terrorist organizations got their training, weapons and support from Syria - a Ba'athist (Stalinist Arab Communist Party) country. We knew by extension that Syria, like all Soviet client states, was acting on behalf of the Soviet Union.

But after the Soviet Union "fell" in the 1990s, suddenly we were confronted with "Muslim" terrorism. Still the same actors, still the same support networks, still the same tactics, yet now it was supposedly a dire new threat. And if you think horrific public killings and suicide bombings – even using children – are an Islamic invention, ask anyone who served in Vietnam. Communist tactics, all. Even before the communists, Japanese frequently used this tactic in WW II. A very good article on Alternet.org, The Hard Truth About Suicide Bombers had this to say:

Martyr missions made their official twentieth-century debut in the Second World War with the Kamikazes; they showed up again in the 1960s, when Viet Cong sympathizers exploded themselves amidst U.S. troops. Their debut in the Islamic world was not until the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war.

If you listen to statements from jihadists like Osama Bin Laden, their justification for war against the West is based on the same tired slogans repeated by leftists since the 1930s, i.e. that America and its allies are "imperialist," "greedy capitalists" "exploiting" the rest of the world, yada yada, only now it is the Muslim world we are supposedly oppressing.

Meanwhile, strong evidence has surfaced that al Qaeda is stage-managed by the KGB. This was the assertion of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko – poisoned in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210 by Putin’s KGB assassins. Litvinenko asserted, among other things, that al Qaeda number two, Ayman Al-Zawahiri is in fact a KGB agent. And it is he, not Bin-Laden, who many believe calls the shots. Other Russian dissidents support this claim.

Some will argue that it was Hasan Al Banna who initiated the modern “Islamic resurgence” when he founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. And it is true that this group was the springboard for most of the modern jihadists groups known today. A later leader, Sayyid Qutb, was, if anything, an even greater Islamic purist than Al Banna. Yet the Soviets’ have historically demonstrated an uncanny ability to capture such movements for their own nefarious purposes. The Islamic jihadists are no exception.

This assertion provides the most compelling internally consistent explanation for the left's enthusiastic embrace of Islam. Consider: the left is supposedly all about women's liberation, equality, saving the "oppressed of the earth" and is militantly opposed to religion and religious intolerance in all its forms. If this is true, then on ideological grounds the left should be at war with radical Islam, or at least see it as a dangerous competitor, because radical Islam is the most intolerant, misogynistic, oppressive, religiously fanatic bunch of lunatics in the world -- except perhaps the communists.

National Lawyers Guild (oldest US communist front) Lawyer Lynn Stewart, who was convicted of communicating messages to Islamic radicals for her client, the jailed blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, gave it away when she said:

They [radical Islamic movements] are basically forces of national liberation. And I think that we, as persons who are committed to the liberation of oppressed people, should fasten on the need for self-determination…My own sense is that, were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries…to liberate.

There it is: "...were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries… to liberate." You have to know leftist terminology. "Liberate" everywhere and always refers to imposing a communist regime, for that is always the leftists’ long run goal. So what she is saying is that these movements are actually communist movements in disguise. And indeed, the statements by radical Islamic leaders, though couched in Islamic phraseology, essentially advocate the same thing.

This does not mean that radical Islam is not a threat in-and-of-itself.

Just as most American liberals are unaware that their purpose is to give legitimacy – "mainstream" if you will – the radical left's communist agenda, most Muslim Jihadists are unaware that they fight on behalf of the same ideology. Many of them believe the exhortations of their Imams. Many truly believe they are working on Allah's behalf to create a worldwide Muslim caliphate. Because of this, they have to be considered a stand-alone threat.

And herein lies the purpose of this post.

This 1/2 hour video is an abridged version of a 1.5 hour documentary, the Third Jihad, narrated by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. An American and prominent Muslim himself, Jasser states that after 9/11 he dedicated his life to battling radical Islam. It came out last year. If you haven’t already seen it, watch it and forward it to everyone you know.