Archive for March, 2008

This post has nothing to do with Indiana except that I have family involved. The most spectacular thing happened this morning that my wife and I just found out about.

My in-laws live in the Northern Virginia area just a few minutes from the beltway that surrounds Washington D.C. An ant crawling on the Beltway will cause traffic to halt to a complete standstill. For those of you how doubt me, just ask someone who has lived in or around the District. So imagine what the below picture caused.

My father-in-law is the man talking to the police officer. By the way, he escaped unharmed. Praise God!

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Mothers hide your daughters and Fathers guard your homes because Bill Clinton is back in Indiana today and he’s brining a Hobbit..I mean, actor Sean Astin with him. Sound dangerous? Well, the hobbit not so much, but the “first black president” and the Original Dyngus is back on the campaign trail for Hillary! in Northern Indiana. Chelsea Clinton is joining in the caravan as well, but I try to leave family out of the equation.

So why is Samwise Gamgee joining in the fun for Hill-dog? Well, as we know already, Bubba is set to speak at Dyngus Day in South Bend. Samwise was also in “Rudy” the popular movie in South Bend about a plucky young kid who makes Notre Dame football team. Even though “Rudy” is no “Hoosiers” (although still a good movie), Samwise is probably pretty popular up North.

Former President Clinton, seen here with Barack Obama’s lunatic pastor Jeremiah Wright, was in the Hoosier state just a little more than a week ago, but is back visiting South Bend, Logansport, Rochester, ending the day in Lafayette. The four Democrat students at Purdue I’m sure will pack the place.

Anyway, if anybody is able to get some pictures of today’s festivities from around the state, send them here. We know how much Slick Willie likes the ladies.

Happy Dyngus Day everyone. With Indiana mattering very much in the Democratic presidential primary, you may be seeing more and more posts on what’s going on at the national level between Barack and Hillary.

Apparently one of Barack Obama’s key supporters made a ridiculous statement just as the campaign was trying to survive the fall-out from it’s friend the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The target of the charge was not America in general (as was the case with Mr. Wright) but former President William Jefferson Clinton, otherwise known as Monica Lewinski’s Ex-Boy Friend. Speaking in North Carolina last Friday, the ex-President stated:

“I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country. And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.”

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With the surprising news of Attorney General Steve Carter’s Easter announcement that he will not seek another term, the rumor mill is already beginning as to who might take his place come November on the Republican ticket. Several candidates have already been mentioned on blogs today including Deputy Attorney General and Carter’s own pick Greg Zoeller, Elkhart County Prosecutor Curtis Hill, Locke Reynolds attorney Tom Wheeler, and even Secretary of State Todd Rokita.

One name that should be added to the list is Gibson County Prosecutor Rob Krieg. Krieg has been elected twice in a democrat county and is as well known in the 8th Congressional District as any Republican due to his long-time service as a top aide to Congressman John Hostettler. Krieg has made a name for himself as a common sense conservative who isn’t afraid to enforce sexually oriented business laws and for supporting pro-family and fiscal conservative causes. Krieg would be a formidable candidate at the Republican state convention where Republican delegates from southern Indiana could make a substantial difference for him.

Though others in this list would make fine Attorneys General, Krieg would have this northeast Indiana Republican Chairman’s support if he chooses to seek the position.

Remember a few years back when you would get those annoying robocalls or sales calls during dinner? Remember when they suddenly stopped? Remember who is responsible for that? Well, if you read this blog, you’re politically astute enough to know that the answer to that last question is Attorney General Steve Carter. Turns out, Carter is not running for re-election after two terms in office.

Steve Carter may not be known by many people (at least that’s what doing phone banks told me), but more than the Do-Not-Call List, he’s also pursued fraudulent absentee ballot voting in the Region and most recently, Carter has been working out a deal with MySpace and other social networking sites to keep skeezy older guys from committing internet crimes against Indiana’s tech savvy youth.

Politically though, things are about to get interesting. And that includes the State GOP Convention where Carter’s replacement will be chosen.

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I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.

(Job 19:25 - NASB)

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On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” Then they remembered his words.

(Luke 24:1-8 - NIV)

Happy Easter everyone!

From the Seymour Tribune comes this prime example of how the media in the 9th District merely repeats what Baron Hill says without ever investigating the facts.

The article goes on at length about how Baron Hill is a centrist.

It even quotes him talking about examples of how he is so moderate.

The problem, of course, is that the things that Baron is citing as examples of his centrism are anything but, and (in the case of his abortion example) they are manifestly untrue.

“I’m a centrist,” Hill said over the weekend, returning home to the district. “I’m not an ideologue. Centrists are problem solvers, and you don’t solve problems by working at one extreme or the other. The only way you can do that is by reaching out.”

To this, I merely give two topical and pithy quotations:

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This ad will start airing statewide tomorrow.

Yeah, I know this is a blog about Hoosier politics, but the Indiana primary is coming up and the Obamassiah is just digging himself deeper and deeper.

Here is Barack Obama, describing his grandmother as a typical (ie racist) white person, when asked about how he referred to her negatively in his recent speech.

You know the speech; the one on his hateful racist pastor that induced a new round of absurd media obasms.

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it.”

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Hoosiers looking for a short and attractive comparison of the major presidential candidates should check out AdvanceUSA’s 2008 Candidate Comparisons for the general election.

AdvanceUSA compared the three remaining major presidential candidates and compared them on twelve issues of concern to conservatives. Since the Democrat party nominee has not yet been determined, comparisons were made for the two likely match-up scenarios (Obama vs. McCain and Clinton vs. McCain). These comparisons have been written to be non-partisan, so 501(c)3 groups (including churches) should feel free to distribute these informative voter resources.

This resource is a brief but accurate overview of the major differences and similarities of the candidates running for president. Use these comparisons to reacquaint yourself with the candidates or to provide objective facts when trying to convince your friends and family to support or oppose a particular candidate.

Anyone is welcome to print and distribute as many copies as they would like.

Good friend and fellow contributor to the site, Chris Faulkner, informed me of something pretty interesting today. Bill Clinton is returning to Indiana for more stumping for Hillary. Turns out Bubba’s going to be in South Bend on March 24. That’s right, Dyngus Day! Oh, what a day that will be. Ladies and gentlemen, have your camera phones at the ready.

Note (by Brian): If you do catch some video footage of Bubba and upload it to YouTube, please let us know.  Additionally, keep your eye out for interaction between super delegate Rep. Joe Donnelly and Mr. Clinton.  Donnelly has not yet declared support for either of his party’s presidential candidates.

Count on conservative Republicans to raise the bar higher than the Democrats.  Although elected in ‘06 on a platform that proclaimed reform, Democrats have done little in the way of substantively reforming the process of pork barrel spending.  It took House Republicans to call for a one year hold on earmarks and it took House Democrats to turn them down on the offer.

Although the problem of pork barrel spending is a blight in both parties, Republican candidates at every level are taking the initiative to call for a suspension of earmarks until real reform can be put in place.  In Indiana three congressional candidates have taken up the call for reform by calling for a zero-earmark policy until changes can be made.  Former Republican Study Committee chairman Mike Pence has announced that he will not be making any appropriations request for fiscal year 2009 because “…it is clear to most Americans that the way Congress spends the people’s money is broken, especially when it comes to earmarks.”

The two other candidates calling for a moratorium on earmarks are Luke Puckett, running against Joe Donnelly (D) in CD 2, and Mike Sodrel, facing off against Baron Hill (D) in CD 9.  Puckett is advocating for a two year suspension of the earmark process and Sodrel released a statement on Friday calling for a 1 year suspension stating “Earmarks can be beneficial when much needed dollars are sent to local communities, but the system needs to be fair, responsible, and transparent.”