Day: November 11, 2013

Getting Whiggy With It!

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  Political Parties

First, it is Veteran’s Day….may I say  Job well done!  To everyone else…..do NOT allow the government to forget these brave souls…they deserve more than we can ever give them……

Clever title if you know anything about Hip Hop……..

Time for another one of the Professor’s history lesson……let’s get busy!

Have you heard of the Whig Party?  Think back to your days of having to take American Government or Civics………The Whigs, an 18th century political party that gave the US two presidents, Harrison and Taylor….both of whom died in office….(now we could take a break here and come up with a conspiracy or two……NAH!)…….

The party was eventually killed by the question of slavery in the expansion west……there were deep fissures within the party over whether to allow or outlaw the practice…..(we could run a parallel here with the division withing the GOP/Tea Party……) 1856 was the last election that the Whigs were a viable political party…..although their beliefs have hung around for decades…..

Speaking of hanging around for decades….there is a modern Whig Party…a resurrection if you will……the modern party was resurrected by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and is a very pragmatic party with beliefs as such…….

  • Fiscal responsibility – “The Modern Whig philosophy is to empower the states with the resources to handle their unique affairs.”
  • Energy independence – “Reduce dependence on foreign oil by developing practical sources of alternative energy. This will have the simultaneous effect of changing the national security dynamic.”
  • Education/Scientific advancement – “Increased public and private emphasis on fields such as space, oceanic, medical and nanotechnology. Also, providing common-sense solutions to enhance our educational system from pre-school to university-level studies.”
  • States’ rights – “Each state can determine its course of action based on local values and unique needs.”
  • Social progression – “Government should refrain from legislating morality.”
  • Veterans’ affairs – “Vigilant advocacy relating to the medical, financial, and overall well-being of our military families and veterans.”

"Modern Whig Party Owl" logo

Somewhere in this post I bet you are thinking…where is the Prof.  going with this history lesson……glad to oblige an answer…….

(AP) – Voters in Philadelphia have elected a Whig to public office for what the victor believes may be the first time in nearly 160 years. Robert “Heshy” Bucholz, a member of the Modern Whig party, campaigned door-to-door and won 36 votes to his Democratic opponent’s 24 on Tuesday to become an election judge in the city’s Rhawnhurst section. Election judges, who serve four-year terms, receive about $100 annually and are responsible for overseeing equipment and procedures at the polls.

Philadelphia’s last Whig mayor was elected in 1854. It’s hard to verify whether Whigs won any lower offices after that. Previously an independent, Bucholz said he joined the Whigs three years ago because their fiscally conservative but socially liberal views represented a “middle path” between Democrats and Republicans. The government shutdown “pretty much told us we can’t trust either party and the system is broken,” he said. Of course, he probably trusts one Republican: His wife, Dinah, a registered Republican was also elected Tuesday, as an election inspector.

Is this the resurrection of a good third party…..not one of the crap parties that spring up from time to time……..if interested please check into their site and decide if they fit your beliefs better than the two major parties….my bet is…YES THEY DO!

Oh The Horror! The Scandal!

I have quietly waited to see if any of my conserv colleagues would have the nuts to write about one of their “super” scandals….Benghazi.  I mean really……for a month or more we had moron after moron jumping on the situation that occurred in Libya as some sort of nefarious scheme by our prez and Sec of State……remember?

Think hard…it will come to you.

Since FOX, Breibart, Jones and the others have not seen it necessary to report on this situation …..I will do it for them……(you are welcome…you toads)…….

(Newser) – CBS’ 60 Minutes today backpedaled away from an attention-grabbing report on the Benghazi consulate attack that it aired two weeks ago, saying it had “learned of new information that undercuts the account” of its key source, a security officer who was protecting the US mission when it was attacked. Dylan Davies, using the pseudonym Morgan Jones, criticized the compound’s defenses, amidst an action-packed account in which he raced to the consulate, climbed a 12-foot-wall, and knocked an extremist out with the butt of his gun. He’s put out a book with the same story, published by Simon and Schuster—which is owned by CBS.

But when the FBI interviewed him, Davies said he’d sat out the attack, instead remaining at the villa where he lived, the New York Times revealed last night. That interview is “completely consistent” with the incident report Davies filed with Blue Mountain, the security contractor he worked for. That incident report was leaked to the Washington Post last week, but Davies called it a lie put out by the “big people” he was upsetting, and CBS stood by him. Now, though, the network appears to have taken down the video, and says it may yank the book as well.

Okay, here is a synopsis…..this prick LIED!

It is stuff like this that tells me that most of the Right ‘news’ sources are NOT creditable in any way…….I pity…and yes I said PITY….. anyone that is ignorant enough to turn to these self-promoting pricks for news or information…..

I recently wrote to a friend of this blog, a conserv, about the lack of creditability that I find in some of the Right wing news sources…..and this is just what I was referring to when I made my comment……sorry, most of them are as worthless as tits on a boar, as far as news goes……and I gladly utter the 4 most beautiful words in the English language……I TOLD YOU SO!

Closing Note:  I check all the major ‘news’ outlets for the Right and not one has this story…..only CBS has the nuts to admit they were had by this con man…..

Just as I thought……the hacks that pretend to carry news would rather stick with a lie than admit they were wrong……a lie that drives their narrative and that narrative is everything for they have NO class or feel NO responsibility for predicating the lie….as long as the agenda does not suffer.  These people are cowards and liars…period!