Category Archives: U.S. Senate

by | October 29, 2012 · 9:49 pm

Biden’s Big Brain

April 3, 1987: Campaign stop in Claremont, New Hampshire

In this clip, Joe Biden is asked about his academic credentials, but rather than simply answering the question, he goes on the offensive, saying, “I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship — the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.” Biden went on to claim that he “ended up in the top half” of his class and that he had “graduated with three degrees from college.”

Problem is, none of that is true.

Wikipedia’s bio on Joe Biden says he was academically “undistinguished” in high school and that he graduated with a B.A. from the University of Delaware in the 26th percentile (506th place in a class of 688).

Conservapedia says Biden graduated with a J.D. from Syracuse Law School in 76th place in a class of 85. That’s the bottom 10% … a far cry from the “top half” of the class.

So that’s two degrees, not three, and neither of them were even remotely distinguished.

The Washington Post, hardly a source for right wingnut lies, agrees Biden was “a mediocre student in college and law school.”

NONE of these sources mention any academic honors whatsoever, certainly not a “full academic scholarship” to law school, something which would be prominently displayed in any leader’s resumé IF IT HAD EXISTED.

And while he was attending Syracuse Law School, Biden plagiarized a law review article, which is grounds for expulsion. He managed to weasel his way into just getting an F and a chance to take the course again.

In my experience, students who graduate in the 26th percentile of their college class do not get considered for academic scholarships, full or otherwise. And even if he’d ever had one, they’d have pulled it after he got that F for plagiarism.

And speaking of plagiarism, maybe Syracuse should’ve tossed him out of law school so he would LEARN HIS LESSON. Getting an F and a REDO clearly did not do the trick, because in 1987, Joe Biden DID IT AGAIN.

He was forced to drop out of his first presidential bid in 1987 after it was discovered he had plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party (UK) leader Neil Kinnock. The totally weird thing is … Biden didn’t just rip off some of Kinnock’s good lines. He actually read off PERSONAL DETAILS about Kinnock’s own life as if they were his own history!

Sadly, the stoopid voters of Delaware continued to keep him in the Senate and then the Dumbocrats who didn’t take his second presidential bid seriously at all made him VICE PRESIDENT to the man he had once described as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”

And they call US racists?! Sheesh.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

http://www.conservapedia.com/Joseph_Biden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joseph-r-biden/gIQAT0JR9O_topic.html

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by | October 25, 2012 · 12:48 pm

THE THURSDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

As the days dwindle down to single digits in advance of Judgment Day,we are seeing a marked increase in intensity,vulgarity,puffery,stupidity and conspiracy. I am convinced there must be some kind of Divine Intervention taking place to prevent the GOP from getting a majority in the Senate.Why else would two experienced politicians like Akin and Mourdock walk blindly into the moral trap they knew the media would set for them?True,they spoke their conscience and stayed true to their faith,but they had to know the press would savage them mercilessly.

Akin refused to drop out of the race and the GOP-e pulled all his funding.Unions are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into McCaskill’s feckless campaign to secure a seat for the least-deserving person in the state.Mourdock spoke the truth,but that mattered not a whit to the media lapdogs who seized on his comments to avoid having to mention the e-mails that proved Obama has been lying about the Benghazi massacre since day one.The most frustrating part is knowing that no one responsible will ever be held to account for it.Maybe a state department flunkie will be offered up for sacrifice,but how many times have we been witness to atrocities perpetrated by this regime that will come to no consequence?They know we wouldn’t dare prosecute any democrat,much less a black one.

Speaking of which,Colin Powell is once again endorsing Obama,proving race trumps all to even semi-black folk.I was going to add a link,but there’s no point to it now.Obozo drew 18,000 to a campaign rally yesterday,in 2008 there were over 100,000 disciples gulping the hopenchange kool-aid.Seems there’s a whole bunch of folk who just aren’t that into the poser anymore.Meanwhile Romney speaks to an overflow crowd at the RedRocks in Colorado.Everything seems to be pointing to a significant Romney victory,so why is the race still supposed to be so close?

There have been reports of problems in the early voting in North Carolina with machines recording votes for Obama when the vote was supposed to be for Romney.This is how Harry Reid turned a 4 point deficit on election day into a 6 point win.The SEIU was ‘maintaining’ the voting machines in Clark County,by far the biggest in the state.It makes you wonder how many dem-run counties and states with crooked SOS’s will overlook the myriad improprieties that will occur. We can protest all we like,they’ll still do it and get away with it by playing the bogus ‘voter disenfranchisement’ card.This may be pure speculation on my part,but we shall see soon enough.

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by | August 25, 2012 · 9:20 am

THE SATURDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

AN OPEN LETTER TO TODD AKIN

Congratulations.You stood on principle even after making a foolish comment you thought would pass with an apology.You’ve held elective office for 24 years.You should have realized by now the media will set republicans up at every chance and when you do say anything the slightest bit controversial they will descend on you like a pack of ravening dogs.A sincere apology is only accepted by those with grace and civility in their souls.The democrat party has none.

Crossroads GPS pulled $5 million in ads they were going to run to help you and the RNC pulled their support,still you remain defiant.Your BFF,Mike Huckabee encouraged you to stay in,even though you went from 3 points up to 12 points down to the most reviled woman in Missouri.Remember it was Huckabee who stayed in the 2008 to split the evangelical vote with Romney until the establishment eunuch McStain prevailed.We all saw how that worked out.

You boast you’ve raised $100,000 since you took your principled stance.110K is pocket money in the high stakes contest we are now embroiled in.

There are plenty of Missourians who would never vote for AireClaire,but what you have done is dampen the enthusiasm of conservatives with your obstinance.Given the inherent vote fraud that regularly occurs in St. Louis and Kansas City,you have,in effect,handed a senate seat to the least-deserving liberal bootlick in the state.Additionally,you have quite probably foisted four more agonizing years of a vile-smelling maggot from Nevada as majority leader on our beloved land.You not only have condemned yourself,but you are dragging Romney down with you.

You’re for the sanctity of life.We get that.So are most of us on the right.But we must keep things in perspective and choose the hill we want to fight on.You have, unwittingly or not,done that for all of us.Perhaps you are satisfied being a martyr for your cause,but that will be cold comfort when a wretched piece of scum is grinning broadly at her victory party election night,knowing her seat was gift-wrapped and handed to her.

Thanks again,Todd.For nothing.

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by | August 22, 2012 · 7:14 pm

A Heartbeat Away

They say Obama’s resume would fit on the back of a postage stamp, but Joe Biden’s pre-Senate resume actually makes Obama’s look substantial.

There is no record at Wikipedia that Joe Biden held any job whatsoever before he somehow passed the Delaware bar and got hired on as a public defender. At least Obama scooped ice cream and had an office job for a year or so before law school, then worked for ACORN, taught Constitutional Law and served a term in the State Senate before presuming to declare he was fit and ready to occupy a seat in the United States Senate.

And don’t ask me how Biden managed to even get into law school in the first place, considering his college grades. Maybe Daddy made a call?

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by | August 21, 2012 · 7:21 am

THE TUESDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

It never ceases to amaze how in this age of instant communication bits of information can be spread around the world in seconds.Two days ago nobody except we political junkies ever heard of Todd Akin.Now the fate of the Senate majority may rise or fall on whether he steps down by 5:00 PM today or decides he can win with virtually no support.Recall during the Obamacare fight Ben Nelson wavered,and could have been a national hero had he not taken a bribe referred to as the ‘Cornhusker Kickback.’ Had he held to his principles Republicans from around the country would have sent him donations and he could have been a senator for as long as he wanted.Sadly,liberals are inherently cowardly and he sold the country out.He became a pariah in his home state and decided to retire rather than seek another term where he was sure to lose.Bart Stupak fell for an empty promise from the liar-in-chief and suffered the same fate.Obama used these fools to get what he wanted and then sent them off with virtually nothing to show for it.

No,it’s not right that democrats can say anything they please and are never held to account while one slip can cost a republican their carreer,but it is what it is.As William F. Buckley famously stated,don’t choose the most conservative candidate,choose the most conservative candidate WHO CAN WIN.We are all hoping Akin has a ‘come to Jesus’ moment,but I don’t hold out much hope.Maybe we are called ‘the stupid party’ for a reason.

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by | August 8, 2012 · 12:07 pm

The Obama Administration Terminated 20,000 Pensions!

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Barack Obama and his cronies in the Democratic Party, in the big unions and in the mainstream media are evil.

Period.

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by | August 3, 2012 · 12:19 pm

The people can smell it for what it is

Reid Accuses Romney of tax evasion on Senate floor [:49]

Senator Harry Reid was born in Searchlight, Nevada, in 1939. His boyhood home had no indoor toilet, hot water or telephone. He met his wife in high school. They married in his Mormon church in 1959 when he was about 20 and she was about 19. Her family (Jewish) disapproved. After school, he practiced law briefly, then got into politics and stayed.

1969-1970: Nevada state assembly

1970-74: Nevada lieutenant governor

1977–81: Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission

1982-86: U.S. House of Representatives

1986 – present: U.S. Senate

The five Reid children all went to college and three of them went to law school as well. Since Reid grew up poor and worked his way through law school, one might wonder where he managed to come up with the bucks to educate five kids to that degree when he has been working for a government salary since shortly after graduating from law school.

Keep wondering, because Harry Reid refuses to release his tax returns.

Best guess, he is currently worth somewhere between $2.6 and $5 million. That is quite a rise for a man who endlessly reminds us he was born poor and whose salaries have been a matter of public record for the past 43 years. His peak salary in politics is now where, as Senate Majority Leader, he is paid $193,400.

I refuse to say he EARNS $193,400, because he is largely responsible for the fact that the Senate has not passed a federal budget in three years. Since passing a budget is pretty much Job One for the U.S. Congress, you can appreciate my reluctance to give Reid credit for earning his exorbitant salary.

How does a man who’s only “product” is legislation manage to sock away millions? And how does a LAWYER (who himself refuses to disclose his finances and whose party leader refuses to disclose any of his personal documents) actually stand on the floor of the United States Senate and accuse Mitt Romney, MINUS ANY ACTUAL EVIDENCE, of being a tax cheat simply because he won’t do what Reid himself won’t do?

Senator Reid, until I see evidence to the contrary, I am going to ASSUME … MINUS EVIDENCE … that you enriched yourself off your government position, through cronyism and other backroom dealings.

Check out who else is on the Hypocrisy Train with Reid in suggesting Romney must be a tax criminal because he refuses to lay his finances out for all the world to see …

  •     Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader, refuses to release her financial information. Pelosi said Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns makes him unfit to hold high office.
  •     Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, refuses to release her financial information. She accused Romeny of showing a “penchant for secrecy.”
  •     Missouri Democrat and Obama groupie Claire McCaskill is one of only 17 members of Congress who have shared more than the minimum financial disclosure required by law. However, since she filed separately from her wealthy spouse, her “disclosed” financials show only her salary. Remember what Reid said about Romney’s investments in Bermuda being evidence of tax dodging?  One guess which Missouri Democrat has a wealthy spouse with investments in Bermuda.

Thankfully, Mitt is refusing to be cowed or bowed by any of this bull crap. I’m loving this guy more and more!


Sources:

http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/politician/democrat/harry-reid-net-worth/

http://nevadanewsandviews.com/archives/2975

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/18/156632/most-members-of-congress-keep.html

H/t to Pistol Pete

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by | June 30, 2012 · 4:39 am

Do Democrats do ANY work?

Rand Paul gave a scathing rebuke to the Democrat-majority Senate on Friday for not giving anyone time to read the bills they bring up for vote.

As evidence, he held up a 600-page bill they’d gotten that same morning and were going to vote on in 30 minutes!

The Senate’s own rules say that bills have to be posted online for at least 48 hours before being voted on, but this 600-page violation had stuff that had been stuck into it the night before that had nothing to do with the bill itself!

Paul announced he had presented a bill to Congress that says legislators should read the bills before we pass them.

Somebody has to place a bill before Congress saying that Congress should DO ITS JOB?

No wonder their approval rating is in the toilet!

Paul also reminded everyone that the Democrat leadership has not produced a budget in three years. That’s also against the rules.

They bitch about how “obstructionist” Republicans are, but even when Republicans wrote a budget FOR them, they refused to vote on it.

Senator Paul was definitely frustrated as he asked,

“How are we going to get to compromise if they don’t show up for work? How are we going to get anything done if they don’t obey their own rules?”

Read the rest of “Rand Paul Tears Dem Senators A New One” @

http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/06/rand-paul-tears-dem-senators-a-new-one/

As for their fearless leader …

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by | June 22, 2012 · 4:00 am

MSM war bias

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As far as the Democrat Media Complex is concerned, wars are only newsworthy when there is a Republican in the White House.

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Sources:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/unlike-iraq-abc-nbc-pbs-msnbc-skip-2000-death-marker-afghanistan

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110330092541.aspx

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110329043748.aspx

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110329040644.aspx

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Filed under Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Democrats, George W. Bush, Iraq, Media Bias, Middle East, Republicans, U.S. Senate

by | April 11, 2012 · 11:42 am

Obama’s rate of debt increase is THREE TIMES Bush’s

July 3, 2008: The day before Independence Day, Candidate Obama said that it was irresponsible and unpatriotic of Bush to allow the national debt to rise by $4 Trillion over his 8 years in office. What is three times worse than irresponsible and unpatriotic? Criminal and treasonous?

In 2008, Obama said that Bush added $4 Trillion to the national debt “all by his lonesome.” Not that he wants to take sole credit for the $6 Trillion that’s piled on since he moved into the Oval Office. We wouldn’t want to confuse the issues by noting that it’s Congress that writes the budget or that it was the Democrat-controlled Congress that took over in 2007 that did most of the debting Obama attributed to Bush.

At least, under Bush, Congress actually produced a budget. The Democrats who have been in charge of the Senate since Obama took office don’t much bother themselves about doing what is undoubtedly their single most important job and something they are paid handsomely to perform … but don’t, because they’re way too busy blaming the Republican minority for keeping Obama from creating Ameritopia. This is also what Obama does whenever the debt comes up. Blame Bush. Blame Republicans.

It’s astonishing how much raw power one acquires simply by checking R on a voter registration card, isn’t it?

Republican Bush managed to add $4 Trillion to the national debt “all by his lonesome” and the Republican minority under Obama has managed to block just about everything poor old Obama and his good-hearted Democrat majority have tried to do over the past three years!

I really must look in the back of my closet. Seems to me, there should be a red, white and blue Spandex body suit back there somewhere. I wonder if it has a cape.

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