ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count.
That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
Stevens, who turned 85 on Tuesday, also revealed that he will not ask President George W. Bush to give him a pardon for his seven felony convictions.
Great. Just great. It’s no loss to get rid of Stevens himself, but we need that seat. With massive voter fraud underway in MN to try and get Franken in there and a runoff upcoming for Chambliss’ seat, we are inching closer to the Democrat supermajority that will spell the end of prosperity as we know it.
With a filibuster proof supermajority, I don’t think most people realize how dangerous the Democrats will be.
The most notable, of course, is Hillary Clinton herself being mentioned for Sec State, who he spent 18 months relentlessly hammering on for being part of the “problem” and the “establishment.”
How well do you think this sits with his campaign and the voters who put him in there to “change” everything that he’s just bringing Clinton’s freaks out of cold storage? Probably not too well, I would think.
Beyond that, I doubt I am the only one sincerely frightened by Bill Clinton being able to look over Hillary’s shoulder and offer his “thoughts” on foreign policy. And you know he will.
So far, advisers to Obama’s transition team have reportedly compiled a list of 200 executive orders or administrative actions the new president can carry out soon after taking office.
Great. All we need is a Chicago politician with his hands wrapped around arbitrary power. After a couple of damaging orders to reverse Bush’s bans on abortion aid and stem cell research, I can only surmise the next few orders will deal with removing the Constitution as the document of power in the country and banning companies from making a profit.
We ain’t gonna survive four years of this madness.
Across the Pond has some good lists what orders to expect from Obama.
The Obama team is considering getting read of Bush executive orders that:
–“…barred the use of U.S. funds by family planning groups overseas that provide abortion counseling.” (Bloomberg)
–“…linked assistance for combating AIDS in the developing world to requirements that health workers emphasize monogamy and abstinence from sex over condom use.” (Bloomberg)
–“…blocked California from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.” (Bloomberg)
–Allowed “drilling in fragile lands in Utah.” (Reuters)
So we’re looking at increasing support for infanticide (pretty soon we’ll just have a drive thru for it) and stop providing counseling on abstinence and monogamy in AIDS-stricken countries and instead just let them have 50 partners a week and infect the whole continent. Good call, Comrade Obama.
The next two are more economic-related. Why should we drill for oil on our own lands, after all? It surely makes NO sense to get oil that exists on our own land instead of importing it. Never mind that over half the populace would like us to drill. In an Obamadministration, there’s no room for public choice. All things follow the will of The Chosen One.
The Obama team is considering new executive orders that would:
–“…create a National Energy Council to coordinate all policymaking related to global climate change.” (Post)
–“…chart a new course for immigration enforcement.” (Post)
–Require “that greenhouse gas emissions be considered whenever the federal government examines the environmental impact of its actions under the existing National Environmental Policy Act.” (Post)
What? Obama, considering CREATING more government agencies to grow the size of the Fed and increase its stranglehold on our daily lives? Say it ain’t so, Joe? (at this point, Joe Biden would walk in and spew some random/incorrect statistics and then be pulled off the stage with a cane). Of course he’s going to create more agencies. Communism is about expanding the size of the centralized government, not reducing it.
A “new course for immigration enforcement” is just Lib-speak for amnesty, to the degree that we have not seen in the history of the United States. Open borders, free government services and more.
And, of course, we can’t forget some environmental alarmism in the equation. What would an Obama administration be without some tears shed over the poor earth that we are raping and pillaging with our pollution machines? Just wait til he appoints AlGore as his “climate czar.” We’ll be back to horse and buggy days in no time. Except for AlGore’s private jet, of course; he couldn’t call himself a liberal if he wasn’t a hypocrite.
But the Obama team is likely to keep an order that:
–Gave the executive branch “broad latitude for covert action in countries with which the United States is not at war.” (Associated Press)
Well, we knew he’d like that one since he’s, oddly enough, wanted to invade Pakistan for like a year. He must have had some run in with Pakistanis back in his “organizing” days.
CHICAGO — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
A very interesting position to take from the Change Candidate who said that the old ways of Washington were no more and who insulted Hillary nonstop in the primaries for being part of the problem in Washington.
So, does this mean that people are going to figure out that the whole “Change” thing was just a campaign promise to get elected? No, probably not. Quite unfortunate.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!
MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
Matthews wasn’t done with his odd new job description . . . An incredulous Scarborough kept pressing, astonished at such a complete 180 from Matthews’s repeated insistence during the Bush presidency that he had to hold the government accountable.
SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work?
MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.
I guess it’s going to take a little longer before the GOP gets the message. Just days after getting resoundingly beat in the Presidential election because they put a moderate who “could win” as the head of the ticket, now they are offering Democrat Joe Lieberman a spot in the party.
Seriously? The problem is the party is TOO moderate, not that we don’t have enough moderates. I swear, McCain’s defeat should have been the wake up call to these fence-sitters that we aren’t going to win by running on a reaching across the aisle ticket. We need to get back to our roots.
California voters have adopted a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, overturning the state Supreme Court decision that gave gay couples the right to wed just months ago.
The passage of Proposition 8 in Tuesday’s election represents a crushing political defeat for gay rights activists, who had hoped public opinion on the contentious issue had shifted enough since the state overwhelmingly passed an earlier gay marriage ban in 2000 to help them defeat the measure.
What an absurdly surprising, but nonetheless welcome, victory for traditional values. It’s simply further proof that the secular progressives do not own our great nation just yet. If the most liberal state in the country can take a stand, that bodes well for conservative values across the rest of the nation.
Maximum projected Electoral Votes for John McCain, by my calculations, is now 241, well below the 270 threshold.
Obama is now projected to win California, making him the President Elect and the 44th President of the United States of America once it rolls around to January 21st, 2009.
I would say that this is a sad day for our country, but it’s more than that. It is a sad day for capitalism, free enterprise, economic strength, military might, unborn babies, freedom of speech and everyone who likes to make money and NOT give it away to the government.
American voters have made a terrible mistake today. I can only pray that the damage wrought by this socialist and his cronies will not destroy this country before we have a chance to fix it in four years.
