House GOPers Accuse Muslim Group Of Planting Spies In Government — But They Do Not Have A List
Okay, check this out, from The Hill:
Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill.
Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies” within key national-security committees in order to shape legislative policy.
Reps. Sue Myrick, John Shadegg, Paul Broun and Trent Franks, citing the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, called for the House sergeant at arms to investigate whether CAIR had been successful in placing interns on key panels.
Manchurian Interns infiltrating sleepy committee hearings? That does sound pretty frightful.
But don’t get too worried. I just checked with a spokesperson for Rep. Myrick, who seems to be leading this charge, and she confirmed to me that the group does not have a list of names of the infiltrators.
Though if the investigation does turn up a list, one imagines it just may be waved around at a press conference one of these days.
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OMG I thought McCarthy was dead. I must be just getting too old. I swear I’ve seen this all before..
Vietnam…Afghanistan…Generals who ALWAYS ask for more troops and are praised by politicians who don’t know their posteriors from a foxhole.
Again…how many times do we have to repeat history before we learned…how long must we be condemned to repeating this stuff?
rukidding, come to think of it, this does sound familiar, doesn’t it…
This sounds like a story more fit for “The Onion”. Funny how most stories about Republicans have that same feel to them nowadays. I can’t wait to hear that they are listening to Pam Gellar too so Charles Johnson of LGF can point out her ties to white supremecists.
yo SG, you’re not around enough these days.
a/k/a the “Even More Bat**** Crazy Than the Other Bat*** Crazy Republicans” Caucus
This is the same Trent Franks who want Obama to release his long form Birth Certificate, called Obama an enemy of Humanity and stood on the steps of the Capitol with a group of disabled children and their families and claimed Obamacare threatened the lives of the disabled.
Need I say More?
BTW, rukidding, I’m pretty much in agreement with you on AF/PAK. I didn’t protest the Vietnam War and the Iraq War for nothing.
Greg
I am here but usually lurking. So many comments now that its hard to keep up plus I have a sports blog going to but I try to throw my two cents in every once in awhile.
I think Republicans might be fooled into hiring a guy named Edmund Burqa!
good to hear, sg, thanks. good luck with the sports blog.
@Imsinca…THANKS! I no I get preachy on the subject of all the trouble and paranoia caused by chickenhawks and warmongers like Bill Kristol. I would give next year’s salary if we sent a platoon of Kristol…both Cheneys..you can fill in the blanks..to the border of AF/PAK for a year’s tour…and then six months later another tour.and six months later we could send them wherever SBJ wants to fight his “WAR”. Thanks for protesting Imsinca at least some of us get it. BTW I was sucker enough to volunteer…I was going to stop communism right now in South Vietnam BEFORE it got to Australia. Hey I guess we were successful after all!
@Liam…you’re on today…Edmund Burqa..LOL
Greg and everyone…I’m not actually this illiterate…I apologize…I actually can spell…but alas my typing and brain are not always in sync…see I almost type in sink. LMAO Perhaps I’ve just become hopelessly lazy because of spellcheck.
Capt. Lou Albano dead at age 76
While not yet official; death was most likely caused by
Grim Reaper Applying Sleeper Hold.
My husband was in Nam, before I knew him, and I already knew more than I wanted to know. I was 18 and away at school, still to young to vote for another 3 years, and we watched the draft numbers come up. That did it for me. We lost too many there and I knew quite a few.
My kids have lost quite a few friends in Iraq. One local who went to West Point on a full ride, flew a Black Hawk but got blown up on the side of the road. His mom and some of us other locals got a pretty big turn out on that protest. Such a waste.
I’m like you fighting terrorism is more of a police issue and maybe special troops. They had OBL in their sights once and it should have ended then.
Oh lord, I thought I would never see the day they started accusing a seventeen year old muslim girl intern of being a possible Al Qaeda spy… Expect blow back on this one.. Precious.
Speaking of 18 year olds; That reminds me;
Do Democrats have a national outreach program to get those who were 14, 15, 16, or 17 years old last year, to register to vote, once they become 18?
That would be a nice big influx of young voters to turn out on election day 2012. Those who are now 17 or 18 should be contacted, in order to get them involved in the 2010 elections. They could also be a big help in approaching the next wave of voters who will reach 18 in 2012.
You might want to suggest this to your local Democratic Party Organizations.
This is all just Right Wing Republicans breaking out their standard election year scapegoating play book. They have nothing else to offer people, so they are going to fall back on trying to scare people against G@ys, Muslims, Feminists, and Immigrants.
That is all you can expect to hear from them during the 2010 campaigns.
O my god – is this guy going to join forces with Michelle “I think members of Congress should be investigated to see if they have anti-American ideas” Bachmann?
This is pathetic.
Liam-
Its interesting- my stepdaughter and her friends were very interested in the ‘08 Pres. race and they were 16 and 17. In fact, we all had an election-watching party that night and it was cool to see those who could not yet vote get so into it. I think Obama had alot to do with it, frankly.
it just may be waved around at a press conference one of these days.
“I have here in my hand ….. !”
We’ve been there and we’ve done that.
Liam, I’ve heard a couple Republican congressmen also mention Medicare’s $38 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. Compared to that number, what else matters? In that nobody here bothers to address the issue, perhaps we should just wait until it’s just another (manufactured) crisis not to be wasted?
This sounds like a story more fit for “The Onion”. Funny how most stories about Republicans have that same feel to them nowadays.
You knew it wasn’t going to be a good ride when their first joke out of the box after it was certain Shrub was going to be president was, “Our long nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.”, and you found it both funny and worrisome.
“I’ve heard a couple Republican congressmen also mention Medicare’s $38 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. ”
And just because a couple of Republican congressmen say this, that makes it true?
Whatever happened with the Likud spies who were in Dough Feith’s office?
Here’s part of another great Bob Cesca piece. He’s like me hooked on HCR until it gets done. I can barely keep up with anything else.
“The next several weeks will very likely see new levels of stupid from both Congress and the establishment media. Much of this stupid will revolve around the public option and how exactly the cartel ought to be regulated. As we look forward to violently bashing our heads against our keyboards every time Politico posts another anonymous quote from an intern stationed in the White House basement’s steam pipe distribution venue, it’ll be crucial to remind our elected representatives about how, in the past, America has risen up to confront enemies both foreign and domestic.”
“Remind them that we’re Americans, and Americans don’t easily suffer threats and thuggery, especially when it comes to matters of life and death. Here and now, we refuse to be pushed around and gouged and coerced and, in some cases, killed for the sake of insurance industry profit-margins and executive bonuses, and we expect the politicians who are tasked with serving us to hold accountable the corporate criminals responsible for it.”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/punishing-the-health-insu_b_321420.html
“As we look forward to violently bashing our heads against our keyboards every time Politico posts another anonymous quote from an intern stationed in the White House basement’s steam pipe distribution venue, it’ll be crucial to remind our elected representatives about how, in the past, America has risen up to confront enemies both foreign and domestic.””
God I love Cesca – my favorite writer at HuffPo. Though Steve Webber is better than I would have thought possible. He’s damn funny, too.
Wasn’t it Tom Delay’s Republican Majority that rammed through a Medicare Prescription Drug bill, that explicitly forbade Medicare from negotiating for large group purchase drug price reductions?
Strange, how Republicans did not give a rat’s arse, about unfunded liabilities then.
Like I keep point out; Republican only get concerned about costs when they are out of power. When they are in power, they blow up the national budgets, and create massive annual deficits, even when they are hand annual budget surpluses.
The odd thing about it is, even thought the create massive budget deficits, they alway seem to to create recessions, and depressions, with massive job loses, at the same time.
Republicans promising Fiscal Restraint, is like a Bordello Madam promising chaste entertainment.
No edit feature, so once more;
Wasn’t it Tom Delay’s Republican Majority that rammed through a Medicare Prescription Drug bill, that explicitly forbade Medicare from negotiating for large group purchase drug price reductions?
Strange, how Republicans did not give a rat’s arse, about unfunded liabilities then.
Like I keep pointing out; Republicans only get concerned about costs when they are out of power. When they are in power, they blow up the national budgets, and create massive annual deficits, even when they are handed annual budget surpluses.
The odd thing about it is, even thought they create massive budget deficits, they alway seem to also create recessions, and depressions, with massive job loses, at the same time.
Republicans promising Fiscal Restraint, is like a Bordello Madam promising chaste entertainment.
Tena
I think he might have stolen my head and keyboard line though. LOL
And you want to know the most hilarious part. Pretty much every political pundit out there is predicting large Republican pickups in 2010. If the Republicans are pathetic, what does that say about the Democrats?
It says nothing about the Democrats. It only says something about political pundits.
A year out from the 2008 Elections, what were those pundits projecting then?
They sure hit that outcome on the head, didn’t they. Can you say Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton? Last year, at this time, all those political pundits could, and did!
“I think he might have stolen my head and keyboard line though”
Well get in line – everybody basically stole it from someone else.
I know a couple of bloggers – one who now writes comedy for Lizz Winstead – who used an animated graphic of a person banging their head on the keyboard as their logos.
Are you now, or have you ever been…
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
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Tena: Thank-you for being the first on this blog to reply to this topic. For lack of $38T feedback over the past couple weeks, I was beginning to wonder if I really existed.
You would have little way of knowing that it takes a bit more than a couple Republican congressmen for me to broach a topic like Medicare’s $38 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. I had first heard about this from even shadier characters, but turns out their numbers came from years worth of regularly published GAO documents. And I still need to confirm rumors I’ve heard that the CBO’s calcs are MUCH worse.
Another recent source with credibility here is Barney Frank who, as ignored by everyone on this blog, simply finger-pointed to red herring observations in response to Rep Paul Ryan mentioning the #1 healthcare issue as Medicare’s $38T in unfunded liabilities on CNBC 10/7. I’m told Barney is not uninformed on the topic, and instead of refuting the claim chose instead to direct the discussion elsewhere.
Of course another source is President Obama who tells us healthcare will bankrupt the country, but somehow never seems to mention just how dire the unfunded liabilities actually are. It would seem healthcare is an important enough crisis for us to trust him and embrace his “solutions”, but not to worry about the true, devastatingseverity of our plight.
Further to your point on whether the $38T unfunded liabilities are true, as per my tag I couldn’t agree more. I would love some help in proving/disproving the magnitude of the numbers, because if they’re anywhere near accurate, NOTHING else matters.
Any takers?
Liam: Re: your concerns about who caused the unfunded liabilities, I’m more than agreed, there’s decades of way too much blame to go around. Including our own blame for remaining uninformed and silent even to today. From my perspective, anyone who ignores the liabilities, who isn’t first and foremost educating the country on the issue, is 100% to blame. For if the numbers are right, devastation looms larger everyday. To honest, patriotic, non-partisan people, numbers this big DRIVE the solution set.
Even though the unfunded liabilities overwhelm the topic, I feel the need to correct a frequently quoted distortion. President Clinton did NOT hand President Bush a budget surplus. By my layman definition, an annual budget surplus would contribute to a year over year reduction in the accumulated Federal debt. According to the Government’s own website, the last time the debt went down was 1957. http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
Now, granted, the 90’s annual deficit was getting smaller. But shouldn’t Clinton’s “credit” be shared with Reagan’s peace dividend and economic policies, artificially lower interest rates, and the tech and housing bubbles (both were well under way in the mid ‘90s)? Of course I also can’t remember the last time anyone mentioned 9/11’s impact to Bush’s finances.
In short, if we’re to survive what’s coming, we’ld all do well to stay a little more objective, and pursue truth with a little more vigilance.
Long before “Muslim Mafia” was published several members of Congress had warned of CAIR’s disturbing origins. One of the first consistent and fearless critics of CAIR has been Democrat Senator Charles Schumer who said: “We know [CAIR] has ties to terrorism…intimate links with Hamas.” Senator Schumer made these statements during a September 2003 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security where the evidence against CAIR was laid out in detail. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad was invited to testify at this gathering, but chose to avoid the meeting and instead submitted a crude and absurd written statement listing CAIR’s “accomplishments” and childishly attacking critics.
Senator Schumer continues to give unapologetic support in efforts to investigate and exclude CAIR from involvement in government programs, including “training” the FBI. In February of 2009, Senator Schumer joined Senators Kyl and Coburn in contacting the FBI to state their support for the FBI severing ties to CAIR saying “We certainly support that action…”
Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer has also called out CAIR. She recalled an award to CAIR’s Basim Elkarra when she researched and learned of his involvement with CAIR and CAIR’s ties to Hamas. In addition to recalling the award, Senator Boxer also told CAIR to remove her statement endorsing CAIR from their web site. CAIR blasted Senator Boxer saying her actions were rooted in “Islamophobia.” Senator Boxer made clear her feelings about CAIR when she said: “To praise [CAIR] because they haven’t been indicted is like somebody saying, ‘I’m not a crook’”
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