Charlie Crist’s noon veto today of the GOP driven education reform bill in Florida is a teachable moment. Going along with the hyper-conseravtive elements of the party isn’t always the right thing to do. It wasn’t here. Crist’s veto today saved the party that cast him aside for a media darling whom is proving to be nothing more than a tool of a former govenor with a questionable agenda.

Marco Rubio never said why SB 6 was right for Florida- or any other state for that matter. He just has continued to ride the tsunami of justifiable rage at continuing Democrat confiscation of our nation. The bill he supported was unfunded, unexplained and largely left to still unhired bureaucrats on details But Rubio, nor any GOP leader in Florida’s legislature, never saw the raw hypocrisy of their folly.

What they acheived was so stunningly parallel to that which they had so recently condemned. SB 6′s passage was a virtual mirror image of Democrats’ national takeover of our health care. So alarming was the mirror, one easily wonders when any of it’s sponsors would have a Sir Alec Guinness moment of the River Kwai.

Predictably, GOP partisan calls of righteous contempt were aimed at Charlie Crist today. It was all an attempt to save his GOP senate bid you see. Unlike lathered up conservatives, Crist has a job to do as govenor of the nation’s fourth largest state.

Govenor Crist has now twice demonstrated he would do what he felt was right for his state without regard for political consequences. He continues to maintain that it was the right thing to do accept stimulus money for his financially unstable state at. Today he did not choose politcal expediency to curry favor with critics. He listened to people on multiple sides of an issue and made the decision felt was in the best interest of his state.

That’s judgement, leadership and courage. Marco Rubio’s rise is similar to that of Barack Obama, his celebrity largely media driven. Charlie Crist’s career now is looking like that of John McCain’s in comparison. Unlike Obama’s Illinois congressional record, McCain and now Crist have had to make tough calls. It’s what they were elected to do.

So maybe that independent maverick thing wasn’t so bad afterall.

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Like the attack against the member of Bobby Jindal’s staff in New Orleans Friday night, the attack against against a Tea Party assembly in Boston will go unreported and is on film.

The unpresidented quote from Barack Obama during the campaign to bring a gun if they bring a knife was frightening enough of it’s own weight, but his followers are acting on his behalf now in the streets of America’s. Neither he nor the MSM media which shares his views hold accountable such despicable behavior. It is the Democrat Party of which they not only both serve, but also answer.

UPDATES: Two bloggers, Tennessee Conservative and The Hayride have been doing the best reporting on the New Orleans incident and the shadowy groups that were involved in the protest and perhaps the assault.

UPDATE (504 AM Thursday) Left Coast Rebel was video, audio and photos of groups there to distrupt Boston’s Tea Party.

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The old campaign of Barack Obama transferred it’s mailing list to Organizing for America. Today Joe Biden sent out instructions for a letter to the editor campaign in suport of Obamacare. It includes a video of talking points that are to be included in the campaign. Here’s Biden’s note:

Friend –

Vice President Joe Biden

It’s astonishing that Democrats would be so obvious in their attempts to get their talking points out. Look for clear uniformity in the message and similar talking points.

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John Podhoretz points out the high level of hypocrisy with Palin when compared to two other female govenors whom left their posts to join the Obama administration:

Of all the lines of argument concerning Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska, surely there is none more disingenuous than the “she abandoned her post” line proffered today by Donny Deutsch on MSNBC and yesterday by Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post (whose article was entitled “Big Girls Don’t Quit,” another example of the bizarre double standard according to which it is acceptable to deride a 45 year-old Republican grandmother by calling her a “girl”). Strangely, neither of these commentators, nor anybody else for that matter, accused, say, Govs. Kathleen Sibelius of Kansas or Janet Napolitano of Arizona of “abandoning their posts” when they resigned to take cabinet jobs in the Obama administration. Nobody accused Rahm Emanuel of dissing his Chicagoland voters when he quit Congress weeks after winning reelection in November to become White House chief of staff. That these elected officials took other jobs in public service is meaningless; they all ran for full terms and decided that they wanted to do something else, so they went ahead and did something else. That’s fine, and so is Palin quitting for whatever reason she chose to quit. Being elected is not a prison sentence; just ask Barack Obama, who didn’t let his promise to Illinois voters that he would serve out a full term impede him from running for office; same with Hillary Clinton, for that matter.

Because its Sarah Palin, there’s always been an off-the-charts double standard. Even conservative commentators are caught up in the nonsense and are unable to think straight when it comes to Palin.

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President Obama and his party insisted that America’s standing in the world had diminished under George Bush – that we’d lost our moral compass. However, it is Obama and ultimately his own party which bears the responsibility for their backing of the enemies of America in the Honduran affair. Says the NY Post this morning:

It took a week for President Obama to say something of substance against the violent repression of anti-government protesters in Iran. Fear of meddling, he said, was the reason for the delay.

Even worse that when he does choose teams, he chooses the wrong one.

Is it that he just doesn’t understand what’s happening in Honduras or is he siding with Chavez and the Castro brothers? Either is unacceptable. As we’ve not heard anything from Obama or Hillary in the last few days, I hope they’ve realized their folly and are just waiting for the Hondurans to take care of themselves. We’ve not seen any high level meetings between Zelaya and US officials.

Still a better lesson to be learned is by the actions of the UN and OAS. It needs to be clear to to us now just how leftward leaning the organizations have become. Democrats owe an apology to John Bolton for taking them on to protect American interests and those of our allies. Talk about needing a reset button. It only took Obama and the Democrats 5 months to screw up foreign policy.

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After telling Americans he was supporting Barack Obama on the economy, just six months into his presidency Colin Powell if off the Obama bandwagon.

“I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all.”

H/T to Erick Erickson at
who simply says to Powell:

SUCKERRRRRRRR!

For Powell from me:

FOOL!

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No shock there.

AP reports say little about the ardent support Chavez is giving the deposed Zelaya, and scant attention is given to those who are fearful of Chavez’s involvement in the internal politics of Honduras.

Aside from yesterday’s UN and OAS statements condemning the legal action of the Honduran government to remove Zelaya, the Obama administration has been silent. My hope is that they realized that they have fubared this and are looking for a way out. OL

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Michael Ledeen posted this yesterday in NRO. Ledeen makes the clear parallel to Nazi Germany while outlining just how evil the Iranian regime is:

Meanwhile, the same forces deployed against us and our allies have taken to the streets to attack freedom-seeking Iranians. The same Revolutionary Guards who operate in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the usual foreign thugs and proxies (Der Spiegel reported five-thousand Hezbollah “fighters” had been sent into the streets of Tehran, and there are many other stories of sadistic Arabic speakers all over the country) have been beating, axing, shooting, stabbing, gassing, and clubbing unarmed peaceful protesters. As of late last week, Evin Prison in Tehran, long the regime’s Bastille, had run out of space for arrested citizens.

Ledeed offers some hope that the Iranian people still are fighting back but to be sure, American will one day be forced to deal with the regime. That day approaches.

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While Obama remains historically timid and his standing July 4 invitation to the savage Iranian regime still open, Betsy Newmark makes some suggestions on ways to help the freedom seeking Iranians:

This is the type of help that can go on below the radar so to speak. I’m hoping that these are the kinds of assistance that we’re doing that we just can’t talk about publicly yet.

The “timid” label may soon be considered inaccurate as Obama’s motivations gain greater scrutiny. Obama’s view of all things middle east and muslim are incongruent with a secular uprising in Iran. Particularly one so powerful that so thoroughly warms the hearts of Americans. With it becoming clear that a large segement of the Iranian protest longs for a gesture of support from Obama, his fence sitting becomes less and less defensible on an itellectual level.

If he continues along this path his associations with the likes of Rashid Khalidi will begin to define him. The Obama rhetoric will be seperated from the Obama actions such as his endorsement of the Saudi peace plan, brow beating of Israel on settlements and now his curious obstinance on Iran

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Daniel Pipes wrote two weeks ago in his analysis of the Obama speech to Cairo:

Barack Obama’s mention of “seven million American Muslims” in the course of his rambling and complex six-thousand-word address to the Muslim world from Cairo symbolizes the whole message.

Study after study has found that demographic figure about three times too high. But Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America relentlessly promote the notion of seven or even ten million American Muslims. Obama’s accepting their version amounts to a giveaway, a cheap way to win the approbation of Islamists who so widely influence Muslim opinion.

H/T to Richard Baehr at American Thinker

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