The resurgence of left-wing extremism

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 23, 2009 10:26 AM

Well, DHS isn’t going to be issuing alerts about it any time soon. But it’s here: the resurgence of left-wing extremism.

Data point – MoveOn.org wailing about torture and indulging in Cheney Derangement Syndrome:

Data point – Hillary cackles at serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation.

Data point – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ups pressure for ‘truth’ panel on torture

Data point – Soros acolyte Rosa Brooks, al Qaeda apologist and military-basher, now ensconced at the Pentagon.

Data point – Radical Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh’s Senate confirmation hearing for a key State Department legal adviser slot set for next Tuesday.

Data point – Department of Haplessness and Stupidity Secretary Janet Napolitano — fresh from pooh-poohing terrorism and illegal border-crossings, botching 9/11 history and issuing hit jobs on limited government conservatives and veterans — is now pushing for repeal of Real ID Act:

A post-9/11 law that sets federal standards for state driver’s licenses and identification cards is under fire from the head of the agency enforcing that law, the Department of Homeland Security.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week said she is working with governors to repeal the Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005 and went into effect last year.

The bill is popular in Washington, but is scorned by many governors who bear the responsibility and cost of validating that holders of driver’s licenses are citizens or legal residents of the United States.

Napolitano, former governor of Arizona, said she has met with governors of both parties recently “to look at a way to repeal Real ID.” She said she wants to substitute the federal law with “something else that pivots off of the driver’s license but accomplishes some of the same goals. And we hope to be able to announce something on that fairly soon.” Napolitano made her remarks Tuesday in response to a question at a conference of the Anti-Defamation League.

On Wednesday, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, a sponsor of the law, said he was “angered” by Napolitano’s comments. “Real ID is a necessary program for keeping America safe. It is the will of Congress and also a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission,” Sensenbrenner said.

“When the Democrats took over the majority in the 110th Congress, they said they wanted to implement all of the 9/11 Commission recommendations. I am highly disappointed that they are going back on their word by repealing this important recommendation, and substituting it with a weaker, less safe program that provides terrorists with too many avenues to attack.”

We have lost our war footing. Welcome back to the Sesame Street school of national security. Feel safer? Me neither.

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IrishSpy comments: “The Sesame Street School of National Security goes with their Hundred Acre Wood foreign policy. Honey for all!”

Indeed.


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  1. #685518
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm, emjem24 said:

    Red State Skeptic said:

    Have you never heard that expression? No wonder you’re a Republican.

    No wonder you’re a clueless bafoon. You’re going to base political affiliation on cultural expression knowledge? BTW, I’ve heard of the expression. It’s overused and often hackneyed. You’ve used it before and it’s kind of lame. You must be pretty young to think you’re the only one who has any familarity with pop culture.

    Social history is a part of my knowledge base. You have a lot to learn about people and life and if you’re going to use overused and hackneyed cultural references as a barometer to one’s political leanings.

    My suspicion is, though, that you don’t think that deep or that out of the box. Get over yourself (another overused and hackneyed cultural expression).

  2. #685519
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On April 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 pm, emjem24 said:

    You’re a bigot.

    I’m not even going to address the rest of the ridiculous crap you wrote, but how does stating the fact that white supremacists are Republicans (not necessarily the other way around), while acknowledging the otherwise hateful bigots on my side, make me a bigot?

    For the record, I love white people, I love the South, I love Republicans, I hate a LOT of liberals, and rap music is the bee’s knees.

    Have a good night.

  3. #685524
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:12 pm, conservative in europe said:

    For the record, I love white people, I love the South

    If you are going to argue a statement, at least give us the credit of knowing what you said from the beginning. All of this was a lie based on what you said earlier.

    Oh, and you are a bigot.

  4. #685527
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm, emjem24 said:

    Red State Skeptic said:

    But you do have a monopoly on the white supremacist vote. Deal with it.

    As you already advised one poster do, I’m going to use YOUR OWN WORDS to advise the following:

    Why don’t you know something before you open your mouth, or at least check it.

    Your statement is grammatically incorrect but it will do. Take your own advice, bigot.

  5. #685530
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    if you hate blacks and Mexicans, you’re a Republican.

    so if you hate whites and Americans, you’re a Democrat.

    I get the picture now. Thanks for helping me out with that.

  6. #685533
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm, emjem24 said:

    Red State Skeptic said:

    …while acknowledging the otherwise hateful bigots on my side, make me a bigot?

    Care to cite? When did you do this? I must’ve missed it. Then again, you’ve apologized for Dems in most of your comments while heaping contempt on Repubs. Can I see some examples from, I don’t know, contemporary politics?

    For the record, I love white people, I love the South, I love Republicans, I hate a LOT of liberals, and rap music is the bee’s knees.

    No, I think you should fully embrace your bigotry instead of making this lame-brained, pantywaisted statement and closeting it up like Senator KKK Byrd to make himself more socially acceptable to trendy, whatever feels good at the moment Dems like you.

    No, the statements that you make (constantly) on this site indicate that you’re not only intolerant (which is an accusation you’ve made against others) but a bigot.

    Again, embrace your bigotry. That IS why Obummer is president. Reverse racism and bigotry know no boundaries in the Dem party.

    And, dude, rap music is the biggest bunch of sexist, misogynistc crap I’ve ever heard. I can’t help but hear it. I live in a black community. Then again, I’m just not as “tuned in” to culture as YOU are. :roll:

    You wrote it. You own it.

  7. #685534
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 pm, conservative in europe said:

    emjem24,

    Amen.

  8. #685538
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:32 pm, emjem24 said:

    conservative in europe said:
    emjem24,

    Amen.

    Thanks, Conservative in Europe. I need a shower from indulging RSS. Ick.

    Have a good one.

  9. #685540
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pm, conservative in europe said:

    I keep telling myself not to feed them..

    Take care.

  10. #685546
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    red state is a troll.

  11. #685554
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 6:55 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Since RedState has hi-jacked this thread…

    Let me see if I can turn the stampede in a different direction.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044199838345461.html

    This is an IMPORTANT article on where we are, and how to get to where we should be.

    READ IT…

    My belief is that a tax revolt will be the lever that opens this box.

    Stop being cowed, fearful dupes, and open your minds to the possibilities of trying what has not been tried.

    STARVE THE BEAST

  12. #685559
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm, rightisright said:

    On April 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm, greysheepdog said:

    Great post, eye opening, but not surprising, another libturds twisting n the wind.

  13. #685560
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 pm, MuscleDaddy said:

    And while we’re all watching the latest pretty-shiny thing.

    The “Cybersecurity Act of 2009” rumbles along.

    – MuscleDaddy

  14. #685565
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm, Ragspierre said:

    The Washington Post of Jan. 24:

    “Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack … learned that his new workplace contains a post office, fitness centers, cafeterias and 6,900 employees. But he remained uncertain about exactly how many employees he supervises nationwide. ‘I asked how many employees work at USDA, and nobody really knows,’ he said.”

  15. #685584
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm, Living in the PSRK said:

    OT: Found this in my wanderings:

    As a black man, I love it when ignorant white women like Janeane Garofalo speak for all blacks. It’s thrilling to me that Janeane would take time out of her busy Hollyweird life to protect me and my peeps — the downtrodden, the oppressed…the lowly Negro.

    For her efforts, I thank Garofalo, and anoint her Janeane Garofalo: White Chick Protector of the Lowly Negro…

  16. #685594
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm, Leatherneck said:

    For th record, I would like to state I am not a racist.

    I do not like nobody, nobody likes me, and that is how I like it.

  17. #685603
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm, Dan Lee said:

    All of this torture theater that the Obama administration is putting on? It’s a smoke screen with a complicit Main Stream media..

    If this gets by, we’re screwed..
    http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/23/commentary/op-eds/doc49f02b854584d519659188.txt

  18. #685607
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm, undresiege said:

    McVeigh was NOT a right winger…

    I don’t know if we’re playing semantics, or if you have some idealistic notion that no “true” conservative would do what he did, but I don’t follow you.

    Not all consevatives are religious. He was a registered republican. He was an NRA member. He strongly opposed Big Government. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Was Eric Rudolph a ringwinger?

    BTW, I’m not saying McVeigh represents the lot of you, or even a close, but let’s me accuate here. BTW, yes I know that there have been leftwinger terrorists, including Bill Ayers. An animal rights terrorist was just placed on the Most Wanted List this week. He was likely a leftwinger, but I don’t know for sure. Let’s be real here.

    Redstate:

    You might want to take that back. Sorry if you did and I missed it. Or tell me to mind my own business, but it’s nuts to say that only Republicans are racist, no democrats are racist, or some insinuation of such.

    Racists vote democrat, republican, both, other, or not at all.

  19. #685647
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    RSS and the Left DO consider the signers of the Declaration of Independence White Supremacist-even the anti-slavery signers such as Ben Franklin. Their mantra is Dead Old White Male European Racist Patriarchy. That would seem to exclude Blue and Green Old Dead Male Europeans I suppose.

    But there is really no use in arguing with these leftist clowns-they do not believe their own talking points–lying might to too harsh a term but not inaccurate by any means. Tim McVeigh did not upset them, 9/11 did not upset them–those were merely opportunities/crisis not to be wasted as Rahm Emmanuel stated so well. These people such as RSS are NOT merely the other side of an issue–they are indeed enemies-self defined.

    I for one look forward to the day of reckoning. Their long anticipated show trials might be a good opportunity. Their beloved Night of the Long Knives just might bite them on the butt in this country; we shall see. Sorry RSS but what works in Europe just might not work here-we are a different people.

    Besides how does a damn Coconut end up being called a White Supremacist? I am not sure if I am being complimented or insulted. Please enlighten me. Call Coconut 1212.

    red state is a troll on a roll.

  20. #685653
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 pm, jangar said:

    The resurgence of left-wing extremism

    Didn’t know it was ever suppressed.

  21. #685655
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 pm, jangar said:

    Not all consevatives are religious.

    There’s your answer. McVeigh had no respect for life and the rule of law. He had a screw loose.

  22. #685674
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm, Buy Danish said:

    Pooh has been replaced by The Goldilocks Doctrine.

  23. #685696
    On April 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On April 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    (snip)
    You can’t be a Muslim conservative? Well, I guess now you can’t after conservatives have spent the last 8 years smearing their religion, but it was the 90s. (Anarchist = small government.)

    Actually, anarchy is no government, or the failure of government. Currently, libertarianism is the small government contingent.

  24. #685722
    On April 24th, 2009 at 12:39 am, sbw999 said:

    Query: Since Jimmy Carter’s presidency have Democrats done anything but weaken this Country, militarily and socially?Is there any being on the planet more morally bankrupt than a Democrat?

  25. #685727
    On April 24th, 2009 at 1:08 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Just a reminder that a left-wing extremist, whose claims of eligibility have never been properly verified, is now acting as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of our entire military.

    Hawaiian officials never authenticated Obama’s birth location nor the Certification of Live Birth Obama’s campaign produced at his campaign headquarters and only showed to a small, controlled, and politically-friendly audience (Annenberg Political Fact Check) who then made false claims that they had examined the “original Birth Certificate”.

  26. #685728
    On April 24th, 2009 at 1:09 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On April 24th, 2009 at 12:39 am, sbw999 said:

    Query: Since Jimmy Carter’s presidency have Democrats done anything but weaken this Country, militarily and socially?Is there any being on the planet more morally bankrupt than a Democrat?

    There is no significant difference between the agenda of the Democratic Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA.

  27. #685798
    On April 24th, 2009 at 8:39 am, jangar said:

    There is no significant difference between the agenda of the Democratic Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA.

    A sad fact to this is a number of otherwise decent southern Democrats that feel they have to go along with the party agenda just to get re-elected. Both parties (D & M) have morphed into something far from what they should be, and against what is best for the American people.

  28. #685803
    On April 24th, 2009 at 8:43 am, b-cat said:

    There is no significant difference between the agenda of the Democratic Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA.

    This is true. Additionally, there is no significant difference between the agenda of the Republican Party and the agenda of the Democrat Party.

  29. #685817
    On April 24th, 2009 at 9:09 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “there is no significant difference between the agenda of the Republican Party and the agenda of the Democrat Party”

    Sorry but that is a bit too strong. Did the Republicans get it wrong on spending when they could have shown fiscal restraint? Could Republicans have shown what conservativism is and can do and how the country and us could be so much better and did not? Yes. Very much so. But to say the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are one in the same is simply not true.

  30. #685832
    On April 24th, 2009 at 9:48 am, Speakup said:

    Speaking of left wing extremism

    Issue: AMMO RESTRICTIONS (DeLeon)

    Description: This bill would establish a program administered by the Department of Justice for licensing handgun ammunition vendors, as specified.
    The bill would establish a database maintained by the department to serve as a registry of handgun ammunition vendors.

    This bill would require that commencing July 1, 2010, unless specifically excluded, no person shall sell or transfer more than 50 rounds of handgun ammunition in any month unless he or she is registered as a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined. The bill would also provide that no retail seller of ammunition shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale, any handgun ammunition in a manner that allows that ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the retailer or employee thereof.

    The bill would further provide that handgun ammunition may only be purchased in a face-to-face transaction and only if certain conditions exist.

    This bill would, subject to exceptions, commencing July 1, 2010, require certain ammunition vendors to obtain a thumbprint and other information from ammunition purchasers, and would require submission of that information to the Department of Justice, as specified.

    This bill would provide that a person enjoined from engaging in activity associated with a criminal street gang, as specified, would be prohibited from having under his or her possession, custody, or control, any ammunition.

    The bill would prohibit supplying or delivering, as specified, handgun ammunition to prohibited persons, as described, by persons or others who know or by using reasonable care should know that the recipient is a person prohibited from possessing ammunition.

    Latest Info: 04/21/2009 – Today, AB 962 passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee.

    Action needed: Join your local NRA Members’ Council

    California Firearms-related Legislation

  31. #685837
    On April 24th, 2009 at 9:52 am, sonofdy said:

    Mcveigh was a right winger and ayers was a left winger. Both killed with bombs. Mcviegh is dead and ayers is a left wing hero.

    That in itself is very telling.

  32. #686306
    On April 24th, 2009 at 4:59 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On April 24th, 2009 at 9:09 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    But to say the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are one in the same is simply not true.

    Correct.

    The Communists totally control the Democratic Party, but while they have made significant inroads into the Republican Party (a la the John and Meghan McCain wing) they don’t yet control the Republican Party. However, they did manage to win the battle for our party’s Presidential nominee. They lost the battle over the VP nominee, but they did (and continue to do) everything they could/can to destroy Sarah Palin.

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