Jaime Herrera makes Breitbart's GOP traitor list.

Gee.  Imagine that.

Not like I haven't been warning folks since Cathy McMorris parachuted her back in here after an 11 year absence back in 07.

But I guess you should expect this sort of thing when your cardboard cutout of a congresswoman votes to allow illegal aliens to take the place of multi-tour, battle hardened combat veterans, among other things.

20 TRAITORS: REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED TO GUT AMERICA’S MILITARY USING AMNESTIED ILLEGAL ALIENS0

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by MATTHEW BOYLE14 May 2015Washington, DC556

Despite 20 Republicans defecting to join Democrats, Republicans and conservatives won big on Thursday evening: An amendment from 

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)

80%

passed onto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) stripping amnesty for illegal aliens from the defense bill.

Brooks’ amendment, which stripped from the NDAA language that was inserted during the Armed Services Committee markup by 

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)

0%

—a freshman liberal Democrat who wants to amnesty all the illegal aliens in America—passed the House of Representatives 221-202 on Thursday evening.

“Today is a great victory for Americans and lawful immigrants who wish to serve America in our Armed Forces,” Brooks said in a statement after the vote. “I asked my colleagues to consider how much American families are struggling in an anemic job and wage market and how much the Gallego amendment makes job and income prospects for Americans even worse. It makes no sense to me that, at the same time the Army is downsizing and issuing pink slips to American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, there are Congressmen who seek to help illegal aliens deprive American citizens and lawful immigrants of military service opportunities. I’m pleased the House chose to stand up for American citizens and protect the Constitutional duty of Congress to set immigration law. Today’s vote was the fourth rejection of the President’s unconstitutional DACA program, with Republicans overwhelming standing up for the will of the American people and the citizens and lawful immigrants who want to serve our country.”

Gallego’s amendment would have allowed illegal aliens who have received President Obama’s first executive amnesty—the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which some 800,000 or so illegal aliens have received—to enlist in the United States military. It would have come with an NDAA that reduces America’s force size—meaning the NDAA would have, if it weren’t for the Brooks amendment bolstered by conservatives like Reps. 

Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

79%

 and Dave Brat (R-VA) among others, put illegal aliens ahead of Americans. What’s more, it would have used a defense bill—rather than an immigration bill—to do it.

Despite the massive Republican success and passage of the amendment, a whopping 20 Republicans still joined all the Democrats in voting against the Brooks amendment. They are: Reps. Jeff Denham (R-CA), 

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO)

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, 

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)

40%

, 

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)

41%

, 

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL)

40%

, Charles Dent (R-PA), 

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)

34%

, 

Rep. Bob Dold (R-IL)

35%

, 

Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY)

42%

,

Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY)

32%

, 

Rep. John Katko (R-NY)

20%

, 

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)

32%

, 

Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ)

40%

Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ)

40%

, 

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)

40%

, 

Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA)

35%

, 

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

32%

,

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)

40%

, 

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)

42%

, and 

Rep. David Valadao (R-CA)

27%

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Analysis of Boldt dumping GOP affiliation. (Updated)

(FULL DISCLOSURE:  I freely admit that I am totally opposed to Marc Boldt's election this time, just as I was last time, since he's completely sold out to the left; forgotten/ignored GOP principles, supports the CRC scam in it's entirety and wants to hang tolls around our neck for the next several decades that will destroy a great deal of small business in Clark County as a result.

NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.

Further, Marc Boldt is my brother-in-law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)

It was inevitable at some point, I suppose: Marc Boldt has dumped the GOP.

Boldt, who is a Republican Precinct Committee Officer for Precinct 620 even though he has never shown up to a GOP meeting or function since he was first elected 3 years ago, has served as a genuinely Republican state representative for 5 terms and an allegedly Republican county commissioner for 2 more.

I don't believe, in the end, that it's going to help him all that much... particularly since, when he announced, he claimed he as running as a "conservative Republican" which later segued into a "moderate Republican" which has now led to "not Republican at all."

But what this DOES do is end any restriction on Boldt from rabidly campaigning for his fellow democrat's votes.  Further, no longer being a Republican spares him from those "inconvenient" pro-life questions: he won't have to worry about that now, and it frees up the fringe-left like Jimmy Moeller and that ilk to trot out their support of him... since principles are meaningless in the face of getting elected these days.

This will be grist for the democratian's mill: they hate Republicans generally and conservatives particularly; one need look no farther than Lefty Lou Brancaccio's jihad against Benton, Madore, Mielke, me, and even the more moderate Brent Boger. Expect a series of articles and Lefty Lou editorials telling us how wonderful it is that Boldt has dumped the GOP and how far Boldt has come since the democratian demanded his resignation while he was a state representative.

The result is their rabid support of RINOs: Kimsey, Herrera and now, Boldt.

That all three of them rabidly support the CRC/Loot Rail scam likely has a lot to do with it to be sure.

But in the end, the problems that plagued Boldt in 2012 still remain:

He supported the CRC/Loot Rail scam

He campaigned for the hated CTran tax increase and he authored the CTran taxing districts that exclude tens of thousands of us from having a vote on their tax increases... but not from paying the taxes he set up.

He voted for an unconstitutional gun confiscation ordinance against my advice.

He spiked any effort to hold any kind of vote on the CRC Scam.

He rabidly supported the Charter scam as something of a hypocrite, given that he served 8 years as a commissioner and never once tried to change the government structure while HE was in it.

In fact, he voted so democrat the local GOP kicked him out... which makes me wonder why he's a GOP PCO.

In his announcement, Marc says:

As a county commissioner, I built a strong record of working with everyone—Democrats, Republicans, and those with no preference. As the only position on the county council that is elected countywide, the Chair needs to be able to represent ALL of Clark County, regardless of their party.”

He also built a strong record of ignoring those he would govern on the CRC, on tax increases, on advisory votes and on CTrans.  In short, he essentially ignored Tom Mielke, his fellow Republican on the commission while he doggedly supported the CRC Scam and rarely failed to vote with democrat Steve "I'm not a voice of the people" Stuart.. which led to his removal, first from the GOP and then from office when he was soundly thrashed in 2012 by David Madore after only receiving 30% of the vote in his own commissioner district.

How that kind of nonsense equates to some sort of record of "representing ALL of Clark County" is utterly absurd.

Locally, the C3G2 haters will rabidly applaud his departure from the GOP, of course.  For all the good it will do them.

Marc Boldt means the CRC Revival and Marc's efforts to yoke the 65,000 commuting families with a $2000 or more per year toll just to go to work..  Marc Boldt means higher taxes (He raised the sales tax without asking us and he raised property taxes 6 out of 8 years he was a commissioner) Marc Boldt means the people will be ignored... again... just like he ignored us last time.

So, there you have it.  And much more to come.

When Jaime Herrera lies.

It's disappointing that the local GOP did not kick this worthless, cardboard cut out of a Republican out on her keister.

But while expected, it's even more disappointing that she has to lie about it.

I got this article in an email... and I glanced at it, expecting the usual "It's all about me" garbage this empty suit is most known for... and almost fell out of my chair at this one obvious lie:

“I was honest about who I was before I was elected. I have not changed … I stuck to the issues that the people elected me to work on and I beat every Republican I ran against in the primary,” Herrera Beutler said. “If I change that now, I think that would be dishonest.”

This is an utter and complete lie.  The rag, which knows better, and her apologists will just let it slide, of course, but the record is something completely different.

She won because the Bellevue Mafia and Cathy McMorris and the rest of the GOP establishment bought her and own her like the 13th Amendment was the 13th Suggestion.

When Marc Boldt got Jaime the appointment to the state House at the behest of his buddy, McMorris back in 07, this very rag described her as a "...young, 'family values' conservative."

Most recently, because she carries the rag's water like Gunga Din, they now describe her as a "Republican moderate."

I'm not altogether sure how that metamorphosis took place without the rag noticing, but I have to agree: she marketed herself as a fake conservative and now, well, she's become a RINO.

People, of course, did not vote for the truth of what she is; they voted for the lie of what's she's told them she is.

I don't buy the lie.  I'm much more a "record speaks for itself" kind of guy, and her co-sponsorship of SEIU legislation while she was in the House confirmed the deal for me, not that her cowardice and her mailing it in like Brandon Vick hasn't doubled down on my opinion of her worthlessness... because it has.

That she publicly confuses why and how she ever got elected with the truth is just a big part of the problem I have with that simple idiot.

She has accomplished nothing since McMorris parachuted her back in here after an 11 year absence or since my brother-in-law scammed her the gig by making the deal with 2 Cowlitz county commissioners... one of who works(ed) for the county making big bucks, having been hired by Marc at more money as a staffer than as a county commissioner after his one term tenure was up.

The reality is this:

She was, in fact, lying about who she was, what she'd done and what she would do when she was elected; her keepers keep her away from the public as much as they can... and she's lying about who she is, where she's at and what she'll do now that she's fooled so many into supporting her when we could have had someone with the basic competence and courage to be effective at the job.

"Worthless" doesn't come close to describing her.

Don't swallow political labels: do your own research and draw your own conclusions.

As my 27th and final year directly involved in political campaigns has ended with my retirement from those endeavors, I've learned a great deal along the way about communications generally and labeling particularly.

"Labeling" is an important aspect of the political game.  We, as Americans use labels, apply labels... love labels for their descriptive power and their simplicity.

And, of course, we've allowed ourselves to be misled by labels since they also make us lazy and cause us to check boxes in our lives instead of doing the work, digging down and getting to what's real... and what isn't.

Politicians use labeling as the major component of defining their opponent or their issue(s).  Leftist political thought, for example, is based essentially on lies, exaggeration and personal animus designed to achieve one goal and one goal only: political advantage.

Just recently, that thug of a US Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid (democrat - Nevada) acknowledged that he lied on the floor of the US Senate in his efforts to define Mitt Romney.  That goes to the heart of the matter: there is no lie a politician won't tell to get what they want.  The lies plague the political spectrum on all sides and positions... and in many instances, labeling = lies, since all of it is done to achieve some goal... a mind set... an attitude.

I'm as guilty of this sort of thing as the next guy.  I apply labels of a descriptive nature to a wide variety of those in the political realm.

However, the labels I apply are labels earned.  My labeling is a result of research and analysis of the political reality; not what those in the cross hairs want you to believe, but instead, what they really, truly, genuinely are.

My motives are in no way to achieve some benefit for me as an individual.  In fact, my labeling has caused me a great deal of personal pain as I oppose family members politically.  But I simply cannot brook any favoritism merely because you happen to be married to my wife's sister.

When, for example, I point out that Molehill Moeller is a fringe-left whack job, I don't apply that banner for any personal political gain... I'm not running against him or anyone else... ever.  No one is paying me to point out his arrogance, animus, self-aggrandizement, lies, exaggerations and complete lack of concern about the will of the people.

Those labels and that definition are based on 20 years of observation and analysis and watching that clown work.

And that's the thing concerning labels.

I have this really, really odd idea about what representative government is SUPPOSED to be.

I've seen, in my experience, non-representative government in action... such as, among others, East Germany for example.

And I grew to hate it with an unrivaled passion.  I grew to hate what they did and how they did it.  And many of the governing principles are being applied here... at all levels... today.

My emphasis in the writing I've done here for the past decade has been the continuation and constant drumbeat of the importance of representative government... what it means and how we're losing it.

When we elect someone to an office, their responsibility to our will doesn't end with the night of the election.

They continue to be responsible to us and our will for the entirety of their time and tenure IN office.

That's a relatively simple concept to grasp.  But what happens on the part of many is that the longer they're in office, the further away from that will those people elected become.

Recently, for example, the Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives was tossed out on his keister in the primary by a guy no one had ever heard of who'd been outspent something on the order of 25 to 1.

Eric Cantor was the victim of his own distance from those he was tasked to represent.

And the longer he was in office, the further from that collective will he became.  As a result, he became the first sitting Majority Leader to ever lose in a primary.

The first.

In history.

Cantor's defeat SHOULD have been a clarion call to every elected official in the country... if not the world, at least in the true democracies.

You CAN be replaced.

I've long since failed to be moved by party labels.

While the RINO's among us, for example, would have us blindly follow ANY Republican, claiming that we MUST have GOP control of the US Senate and House, and the State Senate and House, here's where I point out that the differences between democrat control and GOP control ultimately have proven far to few to come close to being worth the effort.

No change has been implemented as a result of GOP control of the US Senate.

Obama is still using the laws and our Constitution as his own personal roll of toilet paper.

He's still, essentially, getting what he wants at our expensive, causing damage that will remain unrepairable during the entirety of our children's children's lifetimes.

So, what was the point?

The GOP State Senate wants us to be giddy about the general fund budget, but it's the GOP that's attempting to increase our gas tax the largest amount in our state's history to make it close to if not THE highest gas tax in the country while Clark County gets a few crumbs compared to Puget Sound's 12 course feast.  ($160-$200 million out of $15 BILLION)

The GOP State Senate did nothing to hold the liars behind the pot scam accountable for their lie of a campaign... except, of course, to cut their campaign-promised pot tax of $582 million a year of revenue in half  (A STILL impossibly high number for the liars to ever meet)... and how is THAT going to "fix all of our budget problems?"

These things are, of course, facts.  In presenting these facts, I apply labels and definitions.

These are all subject to the eye of the beholder.  But with a degree in government (Political Science) as a former state party executive director and a veteran of 6 years on legislative staff with precisely ZERO personal benefit to gain from any of this, I would venture to say that my view on these issues is the absolute least biased analysis you're likely to see.

For example, Chuckie Green is using the sheep he's running at the C3G2 hate site for his own personal political gain, since he's going to destroy himself politically with their help this November... presuming even a half-competent campaign from his opponent.

That's been the basis for his hatred of David Madore generally all along: so he can use his fellow haters as a political trampoline.  Think in terms of Jon Russell sucking in those poor people in Culpeper, VA.

It's a plain as the nose on your face.

So, do yourself a favor: do your own research.  Draw your own conclusions.

And when someone like Marc Boldt claims he's going to run for county council chair as a "conservative Republican," give yourself CPR, regain your breathing, laugh yourself hysterical, and call that lie out for what it is.

And then remember why he was kicked out of the GOP in the first place... and that had he, in fact, taken the conservative Republican approach to the CRC/Light Rail scam and the CTran taxing district, he would never had lost in the first place and he'd still BE a county commissioner.

Labels, then, are meaningless.  In politics, they're meant to portray something and make it easy(er?) to understand.

But that does not make them true or accurate.  And you, as the governed, have only yourself to blame if you fall for, say, a label scam like Jaime Herrera is a Republican or Tim Sheldon is a democrat or Brandon Vick was REALLY on 6 different committees.

The responsibility for your gullibility rests entirely with you.

Unity in both the local and national GOP?

There's pretty much a fist fight going on in the GOP.

It's between those who slavishly accept anything with an "R" after it's name as the genuine, must-be-supported-at-all-costs-and-at-all-times article and those who take a somewhat different view.

Here, locally, we're cursed with individuals in office who completely forget their GOP heritage and what their district wants merely because they became elected...

The worst local example is fake Republican slimeball Tim "The Liar" Leavitt, who famously lied his way into getting elected and remained that way because his opponent in his re-elect ran a terrible campaign from the start.

Leavitt's Lie?  That he was "opposed to tolls" on his pet CRC Scam.  I called that a lie from the moment I heard it.  I was right... Leave-it flipped on that scam about 60 seconds after he was elected... and he's been a scumbag ever since.

Now, don't get me wrong.  Except for the occasional claim that he's GOP (Which you rarely hear except on those infrequent occasions when he needs it...) he's hardly big about his passing acquaintance with the party.

So now, we have what I refer to as the establishment types... beating the hell out of the Ron Paul types... who have this annoying habit of actually showing up...  and oddly, if memory serves, those who actually show up are the ones who run the world.

The establishment types at every level want us to simply ignore the records of anyone with an "R" after their name and vote for them.  Period.

No effort can be made to hold those electeds accountable for their perfidy, should they chose to engage in it.  Once elected, we have no say.

Our utterly worthless congresswoman and her incessant self-aggrandizing use of her child as a political accessory, for example, has recently come under some scrutiny lately.  Her abysmal failure to vote like a Republican, her slavish devotion to the establishment, her votes to raise the debt ceiling, her utter and complete failure to take any concrete action on the CRC /Loot Rail scam... these are the kinds of things that get the people of this area who actually pay attention kind of angry... since clearly, her ONLY mission is to remain in office... representing the people be damned.

I attended the PCO meeting a while back as an observer... where her obvious censure should have taken place... as should Greg Kimsey's.

The insanity I heard from various PCO's who have no more of an idea what their job is or how politics works was enough to make a statue weep.

And let there be no doubt: there is a schism in the party unlike any I've ever seen.  The problem the establishment nay-sayers have is that politics and political effectiveness are outcome-based business.

And the local GOP has NEVER had the level of success it currently does now.

An entirely GOP county commission, 12 out of 15 legislators GOP... most county offices... that's not a record the establishment can point to.

But the county mechanism demands unity.  One elected official wrote the following in the midst of the GOP fist-fight ongoing:

It seems like we are fighting amongst ourselves and hating on each other more than focusing on defeating the enemy. I guess this is where my coach in me comes out. Without good chemistry and putting team before self at times you won't have long term success. It seems some want to run the ball and others to throw a long bomb and have forgotten that the purpose of a political party is to win elections so you can implement your agenda. There are multiple ways to do that. Unlike most other countries we are a 2 party system. That means we have multiple factions in each party. I am confident we all don't want Another Democratic president and would like WA state to move farther right. Each of us have our own opinions on the best way to accomplish that, but we have the same goal. Let's focus on the goal. We are fighting with ourselves while our opponent is pulling flanking maneuvers. Say what you want about all our GOP elected officials and the local party leadership, we may not be in agreement on everything, but I know everyone of us want a smaller less intrusive cost effective government and to decrease the power of the left in this country.

These broad political strokes are of course true, as are the opposite for the left.

The problem?

Who blinks?  Both around here... and nationally?

Who backs off their righteous position?

The problem is that both sides have some level of merit.  The current regime is, of course, acting out an agenda and using the GOP mechanism to do that, namely, to take over a party to use for the PaulBot Agenda.  The local establishment and certainly the establishment at every level is well aware of that.

And, where they've been successful, the establishment finds itself on the outside looking in and that is DEFINITELY not where they want to be.

They're used to being feted.  They're used to being stroked and going to the banquets and getting the tickets to the National Convention and so forth.  They HATE to be out of power.  They HATE it when the local GOP won't endorse them because, well, they're establishment.

Correspondingly, a great many of those who are in or who have been in (Such as myself) hate it when we bust our collective asses to get people elected who then proceed to forget all about their GOP roots and vote in committee and on the floor like they're a slightly inebriated Chuck Schumer.

It's not that they CAN'T remember: it's that the system co-opted them... from Ryan Hart who traded his endorsement while Clark County chair of that clueless moron of a congresswoman for a rather highly paid job working for her ($68000 a year or so, isn't it?) to Marc Boldt who almost immediately fell under leftist influence when he became a county commissioner and then proceeded to sell us out on the CRC and tax increases and so forth... and Greg Kimsey, whose hatred of fellow Republicans (Using the term very loosely here... Kimsey is anything BUT a Republican) David Madore and Tom Mielke led him to break a wide variety of laws generally and confidences particularly as he lied his way to success with the county charter scam...

There are others who, in time, allow themselves to be seduced by a system that is designed to take advantage of their weaknesses and human frailties.  It wears almost everyone down in time... not unlike water going through granite.

So, as I said: it's not that they CAN'T remember: it's that usually... in time... they choose not to.

Whether the reason is reward (Steve Stuart for selling out Clark County on the TriMet eminent domain vote) or cash... (Hart for the Herrera endorsement... how much has he made since 2010?) the concept of principles and integrity gradually wear away...

And we get what we have.

All of this plays a role in the unity aspect.

Those controlling the local party now would have a much weaker hand if those we elected actually upheld something approaching GOP principles.

But far too many of those elected, don't.  And every one of them who "forgets" or who "looks the other way" or "compromises" or substitutes their "vision" for the will of the people they, allegedly, represent... strengthens the hand of those from the "other" side.  It feeds their ability to point out the obvious: those elected far too often forsake those who voted for them... and need to be replaced by those who will actually listen.

The establishment wants us to overlook all that.  And many who have their own, equally insidious agenda or levels of ignorance... do that with ease.

But frankly, the establishment's loss here is no one's fault but their own.

They've been out-played, out-thought, out-hustled and ultimately... they failed to show up... not, unlike, come to think of it, Marc Boldt... who's failed to show up to just about any known GOP function even though he's been an elected PCO for the last 3 years... 

The establishment simply doesn't care.  For them, it's a matter of labels, start to finish.

And it's not possible for "the twain to meet."

If the establishment intends to reestablish control over the party, they are going to have to do that thing which they've failed to do to date.

They are going to have to be more like the Paulistinians and less like the establishment they so zealously guard.

They have to shut up the strident.  They have to stand back and ponder why so very many are so unhappy with how they've been running things.  They have to commit to change... and it's likely to be painful change... because history has taught us that when a popular uprising has succeeded... as this one has succeeded... merely painting a vision of going back to the "good old days" will never be enough to restore control... and trying to... as they are trying to now using the worst possible people to make it happen... just plays into the hands of their obviously loathed political enemies.  (For a reference, look up the Russian Revolution: when the White Russians took places that had been held by the Reds, they immediately returned to the old, unpopular government forms that the Reds had just deposed... and they never stood a chance as a result.)

The establishment MUST change.  Or they will continue to lose.  It's inevitable.

It's a hard lesson to learn for those in politics: the democrats refuse to learn it and they get hammered at just about every election around here... because of that refusal to change.

Here, everyone believes themselves to be right.  But possession is 9/10th's of the law.  And right now, the establishment possesses nothing.  They should adjust accordingly... or they will merely be a footnote in our local political history.

Defining political hatred.

For those of us actually in politics, it's one of the biggest obstacles to progress of any sort.

It's not unlike the inculcation so favored by the Nazis... and the more militant scum operating under the extremist islamic banners.

First, the definition: many people have many ways of looking at it.  But practitioners of political hatred are typically unaware they're practicing the art.

Second, a major perspective of this sort of thing is that you have a side.  And the "side" is held blameless no matter what happens or how.

The OTHER side is, thereto, held responsible for everything and anything that goes wrong, no matter what... no matter how that is or what happened.

For example, leftists spew this kind of utter garbage:

"voter suppression is what's happening in the states with Republican legislatures that have reduced the number of voting days, limited voting to one day during the work week and require specific picture ID that many don't have in order to vote, all in the name of preventing nonexistent voter fraud."

(This kind of partisan hatred is absolutely exposed in the face of headlines such as this one: )

Correspondingly, taking advantage of the illegal alien vote is what's happening in the states with democrat legislatures (What few there are)  that have increased the number of voting days, made voting legal around the clock for weeks and require no ID or proof of citizenship of any kind in order to vote, all in the name of getting the non-citizen vote.

What this fringe-left whack job uttered is a crock.

I, for example, have all the ID I need.  So does every American alive.

Those who don't are, primarily, not those here legally.

I'm not remotely interested in allowing those lacking citizenship or majority the opportunity to pollute our elections.

Were it up to me, I'd cancel every voter registration in the country, require re-registration and require proof of citizenship to register.

I would get rid of mail-only ballots.

I would require proof of identity of everyone voting.

Now, leftists rather stupidly refer to this as "voter suppression."

They lie to themselves and to everyone else by lying about the lack of availability of ID.

They claim that minorities would be "disproportionately" impacted.

That's not only a lie... it's an outright lie.

But the left is stuck in a loop.  They know it's not true... but they simply don't care.

And when you know something like this is not true, and you keep repeating the lie over and over... never once remembering that all of the restrictions apply to everyone equally... and the only people who would have a hard time getting legal ID are those who are, well, illegal?

That's not politics speaking... that's common sense.

But political hatred extends to both sides... not just the left.  It's a product self-delusion and reliance on labels as opposed to actual job performance.

My favorite two local examples are Jaime Herrera and Brandon Vick.

They're both elected.  They both claim to be Republicans.  Neither have accomplished anything in office; one, congresscritter Jaime makes people believe she's opposed to the CRC Scam (which she is not) while the other mailed in his entire first year in office, costing the district I live in 50% of it's representation in the legislature.

I despise them both for being utterly worthless and abysmal failures in office.  And, as I pointed out, they're both GOP.  I, on the other hand, am a former Executive Director of the State GOP, so one would be more likely to think I'd rabidly support ANY moron as long as they have an "R" after their name.

One would be quite wrong, because if this past legislative session has taught me anything, it's taught me that political labels are utterly meaningless.
That idiots like these two are in office makes that a huge reason to blow off the party label altogether... and if it were up to me, I'd make these positions all non-partisan and get rid of party influence altogether.

There are more alleged GOP'ers I wouldn't vote for on a bat.  Marc Boldt, Ann Rivers, Scott Weber (County Clerk) Greg Kimsey (County Auditor who broke the law to campaign for the Charter scam while lying his ass off about it) to name a few.

On the local leftist side in office is Jimmy "Molehill" Moeller.

Few I can think of outside those scum running the democratian have done more harm to our community; lied with greater frequency and caused more divisiveness and hatred than Molehill. He's a democrat, typical of the out-of-touch, downtown mafia variety that doesn't give a rat's ass about the will of the people.  Hell, Molehill has even sued his own constituents.... and yet, they're stupid enough to keep electing him.

He's not the only one on his side of the aisle who could do with an ass-whoopin' using a political wiffle bat.

But I also vote for both sides.

I voted democrat for Prosecutor (Tony Golick) while voting GOP for Liz Pike and refusing to vote at all in the Vick/Mussolini Mikey Briggs race or the Weber/Pauli-Hammond (Isn't it nice that the democrats got rid of the bunch of losers running their political operation.... only to replace them with a bunch of losers that couldn't even beat a liar like Scott Weber?) race.

I also skipped voting for Congress and county auditor.  And political fist-fights like one I know of going on right now because, horror of horrors, the local GOP apparently didn't invite that empty-suited disgrace of a worthless congresscritter to speak at the next Lincoln Day Dinner... which I never go to anyway... certainly accomplish SOOOOO much.

There's one side that consists of the rather mindless, slavishly devoted old school types who find themselves mortally offended that the cardboard cutout of a fake congresswoman wasn't invited... or wasn't invited to speak.

Well, hell... we may as well invite Michele "Klingon Princess" Obama to beat her gums considering anything that witch has to babble about is in basic lockstep with Ridgefield Barbie.

But the insults are flying around here over the perceived slight that our worthless git of a congresswoman apparently "wasn't invited" to the Lincoln Day Dinner.

Why bother?  All she'd do is babble about her infant child that she uses like a pair of earrings and then lie in her defense of the House GOP Establishment.  That's the only speech this empty suit has permission to give.

Having attended the most recent PCO meeting... which I haven't gone to in years and I can't see myself bothering to do again anytime real soon... I was astounded by the ignorance those slavishly supporting this clueless manikin showed at the proceedings... yet there was quite enough juvenile crap going on from the get go, since few people in attendance have even a remote clue concerning political science and the whole thing appears to be based on personal animus and one upmanship.

I suppose, in the end, it's a microcosm of the professional political hatred expressed in the rank partisanship crippling us from the White House downwards.

A more spontaneous, amateurish version to be sure.

And I use all of this to illustrate that political hatred is typically unthinking, unfeeling, ignorant and insupportable.

Yet, it's what's for dinner at all levels of the political world today.  And it's another element in the equation that has caused me to call it a career when it comes to campaigning.  

Who needs this kind of cancer in their lives?