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ACORN: San Bernadino

"I killed him...I shot him."

Via Breitbart.

ACORN: An Outfit Only Burris, Casey, Durbin, Gillibrand, Leahy, Sanders, and Whitehouse Could Love

That's right. Those are the Senators who still support ACORN - the criminal enterprise that doubles as a stimulus money dump (when it's not helping 'aspiring politicians' and their 'hooker girlfriends' set up underage prostitution rings that import employees from El Salvador).

I used to think the worst thing about ACORN was that they campaigned for politicians I despise, on my dime.

Turns out, I didn't know the half of it.

Via Andrew Breitbart's Big Government & Michelle Malkin.

Jack Webb Lectures Barack Obama

h/t: Breitbart.

Howard Dean: Van Jones Was Duped into Signing "Truther" Doc

"Well, he was told by the people waving those clipboards around that he was signing something else."

Via Breitbart.

BONUS VIDEO: Maybe Van Jones was also tricked into producing and speaking on this record:

h/t: Powerline.

Ted Cruz: "Obama Understands the American People Don't Agree w/Him. The Purest Evidence of That is He Didn't Campaign on This"

Earlier this month, Ted Cruz - former Texas Solicitor General and candidate for Texas Attorney General - gave an inspiring, captivating speech to the RedState crowd in Atlanta.

I recommend watching the entire video, but there is one particularly notable part of the Q&A session (beginning at the 29:00 mark) that I want to highlight here. The question was from a recent Harvard Law School graduate in attendance, and he asked for Cruz' thoughts on the liberal mindset of the campus:

Q. ..."I checked out your bio, and I see you went to Harvard Law School, and I just graduated from there. And it was a very tough year to be on campus at Harvard Law School, Obama’s alma mater. The toughest thing about it was that there were conservative professors at the law school, and in general, who announced three weeks before the election that they were voting for Obama, and I remember emailing them and saying "I can’t believe you’re doing this." And they had no explanation or justification for what they were doing. So, I want to know if you can talk a little bit about your experience - because I know how hard it was for me to come up through Harvard, in a very liberal city and very liberal campus - and how a guy from Texas ended up there, and is now ending up as a champion of the conservative cause. What was your experience like?"

Cruz: “Well, thank you for that question. And I will admit, as I travel across Texas, and visit East Texas and West Texas, and they hear I went to Princeton and Harvard, that I have a lot to apologize for.

I will secondly point out that actually understanding the institution that is Harvard Law School, I think, is a very important part to understanding Barack Obama. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School five years ahead of me. And he is very much a creature of the Harvard Law School.

Now you have to understand what a radical community that is. When Obama and I were students there, it is no exaggeration to say there were more self-declared communists on the Harvard Law School faculty than there were self-declared Republicans. And it’s not even close! There was one open Republican on the faculty. There were at least a dozen communists. This isn’t me calling them communists – this is if you asked them, they would say “I’m a Marxist-Leninist. I advocate the principals of communism.“

Every idea that Obama has advanced is orthodox wisdom in the faculty lounges of Harvard University. And one of the problems in Washington is the Republicans fighting against it do not understand the radical objectives of this administration. All of these proposals are linked together, and they are linked together for an economic agenda of having a government takeover of the economy.

And Obama understands the American people don’t agree with him. The purest evidence of that is he didn’t campaign on this. He campaigned as a tax-cutting, small government conservative. Imagine if he had campaigned and said, a year ago, “If you elect me President, the first thing I will do is fire the CEO of General Motors. I will then take over the company, tear up the contracts with the bondholders, and hand it to the union thugs who are backing my campaign. But we’re just getting started! I’ll then propose tripling the national debt in 10 years, socializing one-sixth of the economy, imposing the largest energy tax in history. And then I’ll go on a world tour, apologizing to every two-bit tyrant on the globe. I won’t forget to stop in Cairo, and give a speech that Iran has a right to nuclear technology.

He didn’t run on that because he understands the American people don’t believe it.

And there’s a basic truth in politics. Conservatives and Republicans win nationally when we effectively communicate what it is we believe. And there’s a reason for that - the American people are fundamentally a conservative people.

Democrats win when they effectively obfuscate what they believe.

Here's the video:

Ted Cruz from David Thompson on Vimeo.

Via Dave_in_Fla at RedState.

Dick Morris: Dems Could Lose 100 Seats in 2010

That would be a breath of fresh air, for sure.

And from Obama's standpoint, not necessarily a bad thing.

Via Breitbart.

Gird Your Loins, Harry Reid - You're In For an Election Battle

It's still early, but this is an encouraging sign for conservatives heading into 2010: Harry Reid is trailing Republican challenger Danny Tarkanian by 11 points, according to a recent Mason-Dixon poll:

It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.

The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status.

Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.

Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party and ties him to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Barack Obama, both of whom are losing ground among centrist and right-leaning voters in the country.

Tarkanian, of course, has strong name recognition in Nevada (he played college basketball for UNLV and is the son of former UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian), but still, the double-digit lead comes only two weeks after he announced his candidacy (Lowden has still not officially entered the race).

Clearly, Nevadans are starting to get fed up with Reid...

h/t: Michelle Malkin.

RIP Robert Novak (1931-2009)

Word is spreading fast that Robert Novak has died this morning at the age of 78, after a year-long battle with a cancerous brain tumor.

Tim Carney, a writer for the Washington Examiner who worked closely with Novak on the Evans-Novak Political Report, shares a few thoughts on his former colleague:

Bob Novak hired me away from HUMAN EVENTS in late 2001. “Poaching,” HE Editor-in-Chief Tom Winter called it. I was not the first early-20s reporter Novak would pluck from HE’s newsroom. Nor would I be the last.

Work for us Novak reporters, in addition to writing the Evans-Novak Political Report, consisted of doing “the opposite of research,” as I put it. Rather than trying to find an answer to a question Novak had -- he had another staffer for that -- we would try to dig up scoops, leads, and unreported nuggets to feed him.

That Novak would hire a leg-man to go around Washington sniffing out news reflected the virtue at the heart of his work: His columns, while they resided on the op-ed pages, were built upon previously unreported facts that revealed and explained the machinations of government, the men and women in power, and the politics behind it all. His job demanded he get a constant flow of new information, but curiosity and a thirst for knowledge were natural traits for him.

Bob Novak was, above all, a reporter.

Read the rest here.

Sheila Jackson Lee Does Damage Control on CNN -- Minus the "Control" Part

This is one bizarre interview...

Via Breitbart.

@JoeyBiden Crashes 'Beer Summit', Tweets It

That's right, folks, Sheriff Joe Biden showed up to tonight's much-anticipated 'Beer Summit'.

The media has yet to confirm if he was actually invited.

First, the riveting raw footage. The racial healing was palpable, if not audible:

Now here's a first-hand account of the chat from @JoeyBiden (including a couple of pre-Happy Hour updates):

I just read the Constitution and I cant find where it says the VP has to make beer runs. They lied to me!!

Media not allowed @ the beer summit. But dont worry folks, I have the placed bugged. Will bring you play by play in an hour.

Im in full camoflage hiding behind the bushes with my ear piece in. My bandana is on. Waiting for the beer summit to begin

I've got a visual on Henry Gates. I've sent Jill to break into his house

awkward beginning to the beer summit. They've all sat down. Obama is silent. WH staff has not set up the teleprompters yet

Crolwey wins 1st round of flip cups. Gates says the game is racist. Obama calls Sotomayor who agrees. Crowley stripped of early victory

Henry Gates is currently using a pie chart to explain why he believes Corey Feldman is "the devil"

Discussion moves to Marthas Vineyard: Crowley "Ive never been there", Gates "A lovely place", Obama "It's my favorite state"

Gates has the hiccups

Barack just admitted he called Rosland Capital and told em G Gordon Liddy sent him

Beer summit now talking about favorite Presidents: Crowley- "Lincoln" Gates- "JFK" Obama- "Pol Pot" ?!?!?!?

Obama- "Now that the media has left and the beer is kicking in, why dont we all take our pants off" WTF??

Gates is breaking the seal. Currently taking a piss in Michelles garden

A bird just took a dump on Crowley. Obama blames Bush. Gates wants to keep it as a pet

All of us agree Henry Warnamount was racist for not giving Cherie Johnson CPR after she hid in his refrigerator.

Michelle is yelling out the window at Barack to "Come walk the damn dog. I am so not proud of you right now"

Barack is trying to say all 57 states in alpahabetical order. Gates-"If you were driving I would arrest the hell out of you right now"

Damn that was supposed to be Crowley. Is this really non alcoholic beer??

Barack keeps saying "waazzzz upppp" Even I know that commercials like 9 years old and not cool anymore

Gates just threw up on the table. "I swear to God I'll never drink again if you make me feel better" He had one beer

Things are getting fun. Baracks behind the camera on this

Ok folks, I have to leave the Beer Summit. Ive got to go spend a ton of money tonight so I'll wake up with more money tomorrow. Bye

[Be sure to follow the "VP" on Twitter here and check out "his" blog here.] If you still haven't had enough of the Beer Summit, also check out Hot Air and Jake Tapper's Political Punch.