One more bit of proof that the only thing it takes to be a liberal is ignorance -- and to be a liberal talk host, you just need to be unashamed about putting that ignorance on display to the world.

Take lib talker Mike Malloy.

MALLOY (1:30): Good evening, truthseekers, Mike Malloy here, thanks for tuning inÂ…you know as well as I know that the death of Senator Ted Kennedy is the death of a man, absolutely, and everything he was to the people in his extended family, but we also understand itÂ’s the death of an era, one of the remaining, if not THE remaining lynchpin of liberalism in this country is gone.

Aand you know what the term lynchpin means. So with the death of Ted Kennedy last night, liberalism in this country has lost its champion; the person who, in the modern era, personified liberalism to a greater degree than anyone in Congress; I think that his death heralds the beginning of a very, very very dark period in this country.

I remember feeling that way in 1963 and in 1968-when his two brothers were murdered by the right wing in this country.

Let's see.

JFK was killed by a communist who had deserted the Marines, defected to Russia, and objected to the president's tough stance vis-a-vis Castro and Cuba.

RFK was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who objected to senator's steadfast support of Israel.

These certainly don't sound like any version of conservatism I'm familiar with.

On the other hand, it does sound like the ignorance of history -- or willful dissemination of falsehood -- that the Left has been known for and which Alinsky encouraged.

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Over half of all Americans oppose the bill.

As August winds down, the good news for President Obama and congressional Democrats is that support for their proposed health care legislation has stopped falling. The bad news is that most voters oppose the plan.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey show that 43% of voters nationwide favor the plan working its way through Congress while 53% are opposed. Those figures are virtually identical to results from two weeks ago.

As has been true since the debate began, those opposed to the congressional overhaul feel more strongly about the legislation than supporters. Forty-three percent (43%) now Strongly Oppose the legislation while 23% Strongly Favor it. Those figures, too, are similar to results from earlier in August.

Which does, of course, raise the question: if these folks in Washington are our representatives, why are they intent on acting against the wishes of the citizens they represent? If they did that, they would do to this proposal what Ted Kennedy did to Mary Jo.

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Looks like the Democrats are trying to exploit Teddy Kennedy's death for political purposes before the corpse has even cooled.

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the only senator to have served longer than the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), mourned his friend Wednesday, saying his "heart and soul weeps."

Byrd said he hoped healthcare reform legislation in the Senate would be renamed in memoriam of Kennedy.

Other Democrats followed the lead of the Distinguished Kluxer from West Virginia.

You know, I agree with the sentiment. It would be appropriate to turn the bill into such a tribute.

I encourage Republicans to use the bill to appropriately memorialize Teddy Kennedy — by doing to it what last and least of the Kennedy brothers did to Mary Jo.

I'd started the day attempting to keep Kennedy's death appropriately apolitical -- but if Democrats want to turn it into an occasion to Wellstone, it is not unreasonable to take the gloves off.

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Even though it is Democrats throwing the bombs.

A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously injured an attorney.

About two months after the October bombing, federal law enforcement officials searched the downtown loft of Milton H. "Skip" Ohlsen III, seeking "evidence related to the planning, execution, and/or cover-up of the bombing in Clayton, Missouri, on October 16, 2008." Ohlsen in recent weeks has been at the center of a swirling political scandal that is threatening the political careers of at least two Missouri Democratic legislators.

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Ohlsen was arrested on federal fraud and firearms charges on Dec. 18, 2008, in an unrelated case, according to federal court records.

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Ohlsen, 37, is the former Democratic operative involved in the federal investigation into the failed 2004 congressional campaign of Jeff Smith. Both Smith, now a state senator from St. Louis, and Steve Brown, a state representative from Clayton, have been involved in that federal inquiry, according to state government sources.

And by interesting coincidence, both Smith and Brown entered guilty pleas to corruption charges related to that 2004 campaign and resigned from office. It appears that the two men hired Ohlsen to illegally produce and distribute campaign literature in a manner that violated federal law, and then lied about it to federal investigators.

Dirty elections and acts of terrorism -- brought to you by your friends, the Democrats.

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It is too long, too complicated, and passed too quickly for members of Congress to really know what they are voting on.

"I love these members that get up and say 'Read the bill.' What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill."

Unfortunately, Conyers’ solution is to vote for the bill without reading it, and without even giving it a serious examination. It seems to have never crossed his mind that a bill that is too complex to be understood without “two days and two lawyers” to figure it out is probably too complex to be implemented in a coherent manner without delegating way too much discretion to unelected bureaucrats.

And while this statement came in the context of the health care debate, I think it is equally applicable to ANY piece of legislation. If it is too long and complex to be read and understood by members of Congress – or the American people – then it probably should be split up into more manageable pieces for the good of the nation.

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In 2004, Massachusetts Democrats decided that the people of Massachusetts didn’t need two senators if one of their seats fell vacant – a position heartily endorsed by the state’s senior senator, Teddy The Hutt. The reason? The election of John Kerry as president would have allowed a Republican (Mitt Romney) to fill the seat. Now, however, with death breathing down the neck of the last and least of the Kennedy brothers, the Senator from Chivas Regal insists that his vacant seat must be filled immediately for the good of the state and the nation – because, after all, there is a Democrat occupying the Governor’s office in Massachusetts.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in a poignant acknowledgment of his mortality at a critical time in the national health care debate, has privately asked the governor and legislative leaders to change the succession law to guarantee that Massachusetts will not lack a Senate vote when his seat becomes vacant.

In a personal, sometimes wistful letter sent Tuesday to Governor Deval L. Patrick, Senate President Therese Murray, and House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Kennedy asks that Patrick be given authority to appoint someone to the seat temporarily before voters choose a new senator in a special election.

If allowing the governor to fill a vacant seat was not that important five years ago, it certainly isnÂ’t that important now. And given that KennedyÂ’s illness has caused him to be MIA and Massachusetts without that second vote in the Senate for most of the period since his diagnosis, I fail to see how filling the seat becomes any sort of imperative once he is DOA. After all, the state will not have any less representation on the Senate floor than it does now.

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Since the Obama Regime is compiling an enemies list of American patriots who oppose his health care and other proposals, I've sent the following to his brownshirts.

Please add me to your compiled enemies list. As a patriotic American, I am proud to be added to such a list compiled by a nascent dictator like Barack Obama as he seeks to quash legitimate dissent.

All I've done is exercise my rights under the First Amendment, but if Barry Hussein wants to compile a list of his opponents, I want to be on it -- indeed, I consider it to be a badge of honor to be included on any such compilation by an totalitarian regime. After all, I've found that this site is banned in several foreign countries -- perhaps one day my own president will seek to silence me, too.

Fortunately, my senator has sent the following to the White House in an attempt to stop this totalitarian tactic from being followed by the proto-fascist in the Oval Office.

Dear President Obama,



I write to express my concern about a new White House program to monitor American citizens' speech opposing your health care policies, and to seek your assurances that this program is being carried out in a manner consistent with the First Amendment and America's tradition of free speech and public discourse.



Yesterday, in an official White House release entitled "Facts are Stubborn Things," the White House Director of New Media, Macon Phillips, asserted that there was "a lot of disinformation out there," and encouraged citizens to report "fishy" speech opposing your health care policies to the White House.  Phillips specifically targeted private, unpublished, even casual speech, writing that "rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation."  Phillips wrote "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."



I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed "fishy" or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests. 



By requesting that citizens send "fishy" emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House.  You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program.  As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights.


I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House.  I suspect that you would have been leading the charge in condemning such a program-and I would have been at your side denouncing such heavy-handed government action.



So I urge you to cease this program immediately.  At the very least, I request that you detail to Congress and the public the protocols that your White House is following to purge the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and identities of citizens who are reported to have engaged in "fishy" speech.  And I respectfully request an answer to the following:

• How do you intend to use the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and identities of citizens who are reported to have engaged in "fishy" speech?


• How do you intend to notify citizens who have been reported for "fishy" speech?


• What action do you intend to take against citizens who have been reported for engaging in "fishy" speech?


• Do your own past statements qualify as "disinformation"? For example, is it "disinformation" to note that in 2003 you said:"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan"?

I look forward to your prompt response. 



Sincerely,



JOHN CORNYN



United States Senator

Bravo, Senator Cornyn.

UPDATE: Looks like great minds think alike. It's Operation Go Flag Yourself! Great posts at Brutally Honest, Maggie's Farm, Bookworm Room, The Anchoress, Malkin

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