Let's cut to the chase, Rush brushes aside the BS and spells it out.

RUSH: In a just political environment, these hearings taking place in the House right now with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker would be enough to nullify any future electoral victory on the part of Democrats.  What has happened up there today, ladies and gentlemen, so far is a complete disgrace and a total assault impugning the integrity and character of a four-star general sitting in full-dress uniform by telling him before he's even testified that his testimony is a lie.  The Republicans need to get a pair, stop being so docile and referring to these people as their friends, and finally realize that it's time to wipe them out politically before you get wiped out by them yourself.

Exactly what we've been screaming for the last year! And take the RINOs with you too.

Dennis Kucinich is doing his best. Joining the ranks of the Dixie Chicks and Nancy Pelosi, Kucinich goes on Syrian TV and calls "Bush's occupation of Iraq illegal". After calling General Petraeus a traitor yesterday, the Democrats won't even use the phrase War on Terror. I'll agree with that. It's the War Islamic Fascist Killers have brought to us.

As has been brought up for consideration in the last week or so, the subject of treason during this time of war is something we need to discuss. Seriously. Tomorrow, General David Petraeus will report on the situation in Iraq, where we struggle in the overall clash with radical Muslim Jihadist Killers and their allies. All reports from reasoned reliable sources indicate the Surge is working, and their has been some movement on the political front of a very difficult and tricky cultural situation involving centuries of tribal clashes in Mesopotamia.

Any good news, as has been documented, spells disaster for the Democratic party, the Mainstream Media that supports it, and the cultural Leftist Progressive Movement in elite and socialist America.

One of the most extreme Progressive Liberal Socialist groups in America, funded by George Soros, MoveOn.org, has as reported by the Weekly Standard, done the following:

MoveOn.org is running a full-page advertisement in the New York Times under the headline: "General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House."...MoveOn.org is suggesting that General Petraeus has 'betrayed' his country. ...And consider this comment by a Democratic senator from Friday's Politico: "'No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV,' noted one Democratic senator, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. 'The expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us'

Will Middle America wake up and consider this issue of who the Traitor is? I don't know. Why don't we ask our neighbors and workmates? I can't wait to hear the answers. It will say volumes about the great sleeping middle of America.

The New York Times has it's knives sharpened, and has jumped with both feet into the attack on General Petraeus and the military's successful early stages of the Surge. In a classic Liberal flip flop, the Times now ignores the Democrats earlier indignant righteous demands that we "listen to the generals" and says the following:

Mr. Bush, we fear, isn’t looking for the truth, only for ways to confound the public, scare Democrats into dropping their demands for a sound exit strategy, and prolong the war until he leaves office. At times, General Petraeus gives the disturbing impression that he, too, is more focused on the political game in Washington than the unfolding disaster in Iraq. That serves neither American nor Iraqi interests.

Shocking I say. Seriously though, folks, I'm on board with those who call for a national discussion on what constitutes High Treason in this time of war. That aside, I'm pleasantly able to mention that a HUGE step forward has possibly been achieved by the Iraqis, in time to stick in the Democrats where the sun don't shine. Newsday reluctantly reports:

Talk about ruining a Democrat's Sunday morning! Imagine, the Iraqis actually get it, and see the Democrats as their enemies, and realize political reconciliation is as important as defeating Al Queda.

We can win this war if we want. And most of us do. Maybe the Iraqis are starting to see some glimmer of daylight.

It's one thing to smear and slander a political opponent in Washington. Expected even, in this day and age. But, as Captain's Quarters' notes:

the same Senators who didn't cast a single vote against this highly-regarded commander taking over the effort in Iraq suddenly feel that Petraeus would conspire with George Bush to deliver a dishonest report to Congress.

I've expected, and along with a multitude of others, predicted this, yet........the utter lack of any patriotism or integrity in the Democratic Party makes me want to vomit. To preempt the good news, they're calling the upcoming, Congressionally mandated report from General Petreaus the "Bush Report" in an effort to discredit the General before he even speaks. They will stoop to no depth to pursue their Progressive Socialist agenda. God help us defeat them.

With the future already completely invested in the outcome of the struggle in Iraq, this age is seeing a blindingly fast movement to write history, before it's even been made. It used to be history was written by the winners. Now both sides write it and then we argue over who's we'll believe.

Case in point: Petraeus looming report may well paint a picture of much success and an opportunity for victory if the will is applied. Being a direct threat to the Democrats (our victory that is), they formed their own report by the GAO that paints a different picture, one that the Liberal anti war crowd can cheer about. Who to believe? This one is simple, all we heard as a mantra for months by the Democrats, was, "listen to the generals!" So take their advice this one time only please. Why not listen to the GAO reports conclusions? Its' flawed and dated.

The Weekly Standard notes:

The GAO report reflects everything that has been wrong with the discussion about Iraq since the end of 2006. ...the report ignores completely a number of crucial positive developments that were not foreseen when the benchmarks were established and that, in fact, offer the prospect of a way forward that is much more likely to succeed than the year-old top-down concept the GAO was told to measure.

And... it's outdated conveniently to the advantage of the Democrats:

One of the most striking things about the GAO Report is its failure to take adequate notice of the Anbar Awakening and the general movement within the Sunni Arab community against Al Qaeda In Iraq and toward the Coalition. "Anbar" appears twice in the document, both times in a comment noting that violence has fallen in that province, but without reference to the turn of the Sunni population against the terrorists

So the battle to write history rages. I'm betting on the generals.

I'll admit, I'm taking more delight in this story than most others in a long time. Ted Kennedy is the symbol of just about everything that's wrong with half of America. And now, the moonbats are turning on him. Rightly so. But a little too late and a little too sanctimonious. Sorry Liberal America, you guys are still losers. You let this guy run the show too long, a liar, a cheat, a traitor and a  murderer. Everything you accuse the President of being. Yet Kennedy is in reality the guilty party. Only the voters of Massachusetts deserve more blame.

What's the hubub about? Seems an article in Real Clear Politics is making the case that Liberals Are Turning On Ted Kennedy.... for blocking a wind farm off Nantucket that would ruin his view (5 miles out) and put turbines "where I sail". And more, the effort was aided by the other East Coast Rino Loser Soon To Retire, John Warner.

This will amount to not much, but I'll take it as a much needed "feel good" moment for the Right. Anytime I hear Ted the Snorkler taking heat, something must be going right with the world.

For months upon months, Townhall bloggers have been arguing that the Media, big and small, are filled with biased Liberal staffers who push their agenda upon America, relentlessly trying to sway public opinion towards their ideology of Socialism, at the expense of our Capitalistic, Judeo Christian based Republic. And now that the report the Democrats demanded from General Petreaus to be given by President Bush looks like it may not be the one they wanted, the true nature of these citizens are laid bare.

We now get Tim Robbins slandering our troops (but they support them) and Brian DePalma making a movie about a rape/murder with the openly stated intent to end the war in Iraq. Shocking, I say. The Weekly Standard notes;

Says Pete Hegseth of Vets for Freedom: "These statements reflect the utter ignorance of Robbins and DePalma about what American soldiers are actually doing in Iraq. At every opportunity, they use their celebrity status to bash the very soldiers and Marines who are fighting for them. They reflexively side with radical Islamic terrorists rather than take an honest look at the situation in Iraq."

DePalma himself says to Reuters:

"So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real." "The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war,"

So let's look at this in perspective. A handful of criminals in the Army commit a  crime, and a movie is made to disparage hundreds of thousands and change the course of our nation's attempt to defend itself from Islamic Fascist Killers who would destroy us. YET.... when literally dozens of criminals come to America and murder AMERICANS here on our streets, we have the same Liberal Progressive Democrats shouting us down, saying that the fact they are illegal aliens has NOTHING to do with the situation. Thus the clear hypocrisy of the Left and all it's subscribers.

Townhall Bloggers have been shouting about the negative spin on everything Iraq for eons now. And so we get Ralph Peters in the New York Post writing:

So why don't you hear more about our military's successes? It goes beyond the old media dictum that "if it bleeds, it leads." Plenty of journalists have staked their reps on our predicted failure in Iraq - and they hate the reversal of fortune the surge is achieving.

You mean like the AP, Ralph? They're feverishly spinning bad news about the report. Instead of honestly acknowledging our success on the ground, they spin it as we've predicted all along.

Bush's critics point to mounting evidence that while the troop buildup may have halted the escalation of sectarian violence in Baghdad, the Iraqis are making almost no headway toward political reconciliation.

The other day, Zogby made it clear. 2/3 of Democrats think we've lost the war. 4% of Republicans. Who do you think is making their opinion based on real facts? John Solz at Huffington Post comes out with a laser beam of intelligent analysis of the same facts we hear:

In short, those on the ground aren't seeing progress, and don't want to suggest a policy that would be based on the premise that progress is being made. They're not seeing progress with their eyes, and they don't see it in the statistics or facts.

"They're not seeing progress with their eyes, and they don't see it in the statistics or facts." ??? Are they kidding me? Over and over we see the truth be spun and twisted as Liberals who hate a successful strong capitalistic Republic refuse to see themselves that we can and will win a war we want to.

So fellow TownHall bloggers, this leads me to congratulate you all for being ahead of the curve on all the issues, even ahead of the main New Media voices. Consistently, I'll read analysis by the main bloggers and media outlets days after you all have been saying the same thing. Good job, all hail the New Media. This is an unprecedented era in media communications.

Have you been wondering if there's been a problem with our military, evidenced by reports about places like Haditha and AbuGhraib? If you have, it's no wonder, we've had Congressmen declare our troops to be murderers, storm troopers, breaking into innocent homes, killing civilians, air raiding innocent villages, torturing and humiliating prisoners. The Enemedia went into full press to create the impression about the Armed Forces' work in Iraq, as being thuggish, unprofessional and frankly, just the way they described them in Vietnam.

Surprise. Nothing could be further from the truth. Last month, we saw most of the Marines in the Haditha incident have the charges dropped. And now, the NY Times cannot hide it's frustration and resentment as....

there is a possibility that no marine will be convicted for what happened in Haditha.

This hit piece drips with disappointment. Let's be real. The Mainstream Media and Progressive Liberal America hates our military as much as they hate our Republic's Capitalistic, Judeo Christian values and philosophies. But I'm especially angry at them for attacking the very people who are willing to die for them.

Remember how the world was outraged at how barbarous our military was putting underwear on the head of the Islamic Fascist Killers we had in custody? How John McBackstabber called for an end to "torture". Well, yet another teeth gnashing disappointment for the Progressive Movement Agenda championed by the Enemedia. The Washington Post was reluctantly forced to report:

The only Army officer to face a court-martial for the notorious detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was exonerated of mistreating detainees by a military jury yesterday, ending a series of prosecutions that stretched over more than three years.

Why aren't these events being trumpeted as loudly as the unsubstantiated charges were in the first place?

Liberals hate America and are un patriotic, and resent our military. That means the ordinary citizens, lawmakers, journalists and members of academia who think Progressive is a better term for Communist. The can't admit it to you, or even themselves. They won't see the complete failure of Socialism in Great Britain, France, Canada or South America. They're frustrated ideologues who have no clear base of reasoning to justify their opinions, except...they hate a winner, and are working very hard to take us down.

God Bless the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

Butler County Ohio has a Sheriff named Rick Jones. Remember that name. Because he consistently flouts political correctness, and the Progressive Socialist Agenda pursued by the local Democrats, Mainstream Media and Open Borders Advocacy groups. Tuesday, here in Cincinnati (the Queen City), 160 people were arrested at a poultry processing plant. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported (to it's chagrin):

“We identified 180 people for questioning and 161 turned out to be illegal,” he said. “I think those numbers speak for themselves.”

Naturally, the Open Borders crowd was not amused:

Advocates for immigrants said the raid was an arbitrary and unfair action that hurts immigrant families and does nothing to solve fundamental flaws in American immigration law. "We’re looking for them to be not so aggressive with workplace raids until we get a comprehensive reform bill passed,” said Jason Riveiro, president of the League of United Latina American Citizens of Cincinnati.

Jason, I beg to differ. The only flaw involved with our immigration law, is the refusal of Progressive and Establishment America to enforce it. Let's all say it together......YES WE CAN. As for Sheriff Jones, he said

“If you come to this county,” ...“you can’t come here and commit a crime and go unscathed.”

My main man. Pro Criminal groups complained to the Enemedia about "fairness":

One of the main concerns for Latino leaders is that amongst the people that have been detained and put in those buses, are parents of children who's future right now, is uncertain. Jorge Neri, President of Lulac in Butler County: "Most of these kids are US citizens, they are in school right now, what is going to happen to those kids. A lot of single mom's a lot of women work in this plant."

But Butler County had a different view on options:

(Brian Moskowitz, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Ohio and Michigan)  tried to head off criticism by touting efforts to evaluate the workers detained Tuesday to determine if they have family or children who rely on them for care. If they do, he said, they may be released pending deportation proceedings.

Butler County children’s services officials also were at the plant to make sure no children were left without supervision because a parent or guardian was arrested. Officials said no children had been taken into the county’s custody as of late today.

These are the actions of mainstream conservative Americans who do care about our nation. In spite of the outcry by the Media and Criminal enablers, we the people demand our sovereignty be defended. I'm losing ANY sympathy I may have ever had for Illegal Aliens when their proponents try to subvert our rule of law.

So, to Geraldo Rivera, who asks, "what are you going to do? Deport 20 million people?" I answer, one or one hundred at a time. Doesn't matter to me, just keep going. And....this....Rick Jones for Governor. ASAP.

Where's the doggone fence?

Great Britain's Socialist rag, the Guardian has polled enough Leftist Progressives (mainly women) who agree with their version of society in order to release a finding that, gasp, prisons sometimes create bad people. Shocking, I say. So it follows that we should decriminalize everything, and just be kinder to the criminals. Yeah, that's the ticket. And then we can extend that to the terrorists....then....close Club Gitmo.

The ironic part is among those polled,

There once was a Great Britain and many of those people are still alive, but they've surrendered to the politically correct version of Socialism, and to the spreading Islamicism that will soon over take England. Funny, only France is starting to awaken to their peril.

This is the road the Progressives in America would lead us down.

That light bulb of intellectual power and deep foreign policy experience, Barak Obama has spoken out on yet another war. But this is the one the Democrats truly should cut & run from. It's time to cut our losses, save any more expenditures, and remove all the troops from..........New Orleans. In the New York Times, it said:

In his plan, Mr. Obama will call for creating a National Catastrophe Insurance Reserve, which would be paid for by private insurers contributing a portion of the premiums they collect from policy holders. Working with the industry before a disaster, he said, would create a “backstop” to protect homeowners and business owners against catastrophic loss.

Do you think these "private insurers" will just hand over the money? Get ready for your insurance rates to go up up up. That's what amazes me about the moderate middle. They just don't see that every time the Democrats say they are raising taxes on any business, anywhere, it's ultimately going to be paid for by us. Every single time. Wake up you sleeping idiots!

Yes, the charasmatic Obama thinks he has a brilliant plan to save the Big Easy, all filled with plans to spend your money on a losing cause. Hey Obama, "the war is lost.....bring the troops home......it's the wrong war at the wrong time......you should be attacking Houston with all your social engineers, that's where the terrorists went."

The logic of New Orleans has always evaded me. Why live in a big bowl next to the ocean? It's like the people who live out on the islands along the Atlantic, or on the sides of hills in California that turn to mud. Make it required to sign a waiver against using our money to rebuild when the inevitable happens.  The New York Post reports that it appears that in the midst of the drive to fix New Orleans:

among engineers and experts, that resolve is giving way to a growing awareness that another such disaster is inevitable, and nothing short of a massive and endless national commitment can prevent it. Despite having spent a billion dollars already, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers now estimates it will take until after 2010 to strengthen the levee system enough to withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, roughly the size of Category 3 Katrina. For now, even a modest, Category 2 storm could reflood the city.

It's time to bring the Army Corps of Engineers home. Let New Orleans go. Ray Nagin's chocolate city should become the brown of mud and seawater, and sink into the Gulf of Mexico.

Are you getting dizzy yet? The energy and momentum is swinging between the push of two incredibly powerful forces in our lives. This is real stuff, the battle for how we will defend our lives, which are endangered by Islamic Fascist Killers. The Enemedia has picked up the Democratic talking points and is spinning their news to support the Progressive agenda. The New Media valiantly tries to counter this misinformation with it's own effort.

The New York Post weighs in about the Vietnam comparison:

Bill Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard:

Monisha Bonsai in CNS writes:
Some in the GOP do have the courage of their conservative convictions. Not RINO Warner, (who should retire from office), but those in the Republican party who are mounting an Ad campaign addressed to those cowardly Republicans in less than solid districts. The New York Daily News reports:

Republicans weighing a U.S. military withdrawal in Iraq got hit this week by a blitz of intimidation (?) ads - paid for by fellow Republicans. The TV and radio spots targeting 37 House and Senate Republicans urge support for President Bush's (?) war and not "surrender."

That's funny, I thought Al Queda was trying to kill us. Amazingly, in the footsteps of the Brooking Institute's  positive report about the Surge (for which the authors are now demonized by the moonbats), comes a body shot to the Democrat Anti War party. Democratic Congressman Brian Baird says:

Having been there, in the region five times and in Iraq itself two times in just the last four months, I think it’s pretty clear to me that a premature withdrawal would lead to greater chaos in the country and that that chaos would expand within the region.

If the American public would just show the same political fortitude and courage as the combat volunteers in Iraq fighting for us here at home, we can win this war in Iraq, and then keep it going against those who'd seek to destroy us. Namely, the Democratic Party.

The Turning Away. This is the sort of thing we used to read would happen in New York City years ago on a daily basis. And dismissed it as the typical New York thing. But in truth, it's an American Urban thing. As people get crammed in closer and closer to each other, they become alienated from each other, and afraid of each other. Fox news reports that in Minneapolis,

A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman's cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors in Minnesota said.

It's so easy to say, "I'd get my baseball bat or gun and go bust down that door". But the truth is, at the moment of action, most people are afraid to get involved. But to not even call police? That's the erosion of our National Character. That's the decline of American Culture. That's the lack of values that conservatives decry and the battle front and center in the Culture War, and one of the main differences between Liberalism and conservatism. Sure, it's possible that some of those who turned away were conservatives. But I don't think so. It's not conservatives who are glibly calling the retreat, cut & run, surrender from Vietnam a "success" like Time magazine contends. It takes courage and faith to stand up to evil. Much easier to rationalize and view things in a "relative context".

The beat drones on. Like a Roman war ship with men anchored to the oars, relentlessly pounding out a rhythm pushing the craft through the waves. 2007 wearily moves past us, and the scenery is blending together like the billboards on the interstate.

The Progressive Liberal Democrats are invested in our defeat in Iraq. With shame. The Enemedia works tirelessly to spin all news to fit their ideological support for the Democrats, with shame. The Congress achieves nothing (a good thing) except an all time low approval rating. Hysterical Deranged Liberals (oops I know they prefer Progressives) lash out wildly at Karl Rove and begin to wonder who they'll find to spew their vitriolic pathological hate towards, when George Bush leaves office. China continues to fill the world with cheap and dangerous goods with no quality assurance (do you have a set of their USED chop sticksd? Ummm ummm.). Russia wants a new cold war possibly to give Putin domestic support for his totalitarianism. Al Queda get picked off one by one, and has a dwindling supply of volunteers to blow themselves up (hey Osama, it's your turn). The Iranians are quieting the rhetoric and sending arms and soldiers into Iraq (is this the next war Hillary's talking about) to kill Americans. he Republicans still haven't realized that conservatism wins, and they actually need their base to win in 2008. Illegal aliens still cross the desert (where's the fence) as the politicians pay lip service to sovereignty. People are actually defending Michael Vick (????) in the latest example of the culture of victimhood. Nobody cares about Barry Bonds anymore, outside San Francisco. T A judge tells a Cincinnati Bengal it's not his fault he didn't show up for his probation appointment, it's the NFL's for promoting alchohol. You heard it, another great judicial example of the culture of victimhood.

The only thing startling me today, is that for the second year in a row, after more than a decade of failure, The Detroit Tigers are battling for first place in late August. Now that's something new.