The Obama regime had no problem calling for long-time ally Hosni Mubarak to step down, yet they won’t make the same call for Gaddafi, a man who has American blood on his hands and is currently orchestrating a bloody crackdown on protesters. This administration never ceases to amaze me.

(RCP) — White House press secretary Jay Carney says it is up to the Libyan people to decide if Gaddafi should go.

“I would repeat what i just said, and because it is a matter for the people of Libya to decide it is also clear that the people of Libya have continued use of deadly violence, his clear violations of human rights are totally unacceptable,” Carney said.

This guy just filed for reelection.

Congressman David Wu (D-Tiger).

(Ballot Box) — Despite recent news reports of bizarre behavior and calls for his resignation, Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) has filed for reelection.

Wu filed a statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday to be able to run for his seat in 2012.

Two major Oregon newspapers and Oregon Republicans have been calling for Wu’s resignation after revelations, originally reported by The Oregonian, that Wu had been exhibiting strange behavior, including dressing in a tiger costume and sending emails to his staff in the voice of one of his daughters.

Wu went on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday and admitted that he is receiving counseling and taking medication. He has called his behavior “unprofessional and inappropriate.”

When this is all said and done unions are going to be about as popular as cancer with the American public.

(Topeka Journal) — Kansas Republicans accused organized labor activists Thursday of forcing female legislators to endure sexually explicit and degrading comments while passing into the House chamber before a vote to end automatic deductions from paychecks for union political causes.

Democrats and a representative of the Kansas AFL-CIO disputed the GOP claims, and both sides pointed to video evidence to support their interpretation of events.

House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, said the vocal crowd crossed the line by engaging in salty commentary outside of the House chamber and by shouting inside the chamber when the paycheck bill came to a vote.

“There were comments of sexually explicit nature directed at both female legislators and female staff,” O’Neal said. “That’s the most disrespectful display from the gallery I’ve seen in 27 years I’ve been here.”

He said two union sympathizers attempted to intimidate a male House member into voting against the measure, which was passed 75-46 and forwarded to the Senate.

As word spread of tension on the third floor of the Statehouse, House members were instructed to enter the chamber by a back staircase. No one was injured, and there were no arrests.

The Kansas Republican Party fired off a news release blasting “union thugs” who “brought their street tactics to the Kansas House” where they offered a “taste of the bullying tactics being employed by unions across the country.”

“This conduct has no place in Kansas, especially not in our Capitol,” said Amanda Adkins, chairwoman of the state GOP. “Unfortunately, this only provides a glimpse into the ‘negotiation’ style preferred by these agitators.”

Adkins called on the Kansas Democratic Party to condemn the “threats and sexually degrading comments.”

Special Ed turning on Feeble Leader? — say it isn’t so.

We used to have a President who said he would walk with these folks, we used to have a President who said I’ll be there for you when it’s time but I haven’t found that President tonight and we’re two weeks into this starting tomorrow.

If the President can’t go on a road trip or say more than one sound bite to a local affiliate, and realize that this is what 2012 is all about, if he can’t unequivocally come out in support of every protester that has been out there peacefully trying to fight for their way of life and protect their kitchen table, if this president can’t do that, then he does not deserve a second term.”

Via The Blaze

Must be that Rocky Mountain high.

(Politico) — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper gushed over his meeting with President Obama — he was part of a group of Democratic state leaders who convened at the White House on Friday.

He told POLITICO’s Mike Allen that he gets “a little giddy” in the president’s presence, “just because he is such a good communicator and he has such a clear vision. It gets misinterpreted so frequently, but he is very focused on, you know, ‘How do we make those hard decisions?’”

Hickenlooper had kind words for Vice President Joe Biden, too. “He’s another great communicator . . . He’s so ebullient and so optimistic, you can’t help but want to be around the man.”

Keepin’ it classy.

Via Politico:

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is circulating a number of clips to reporters suggesting that Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) revelations of sexual abuse as a child is either a political stunt or a hypocritical move in the light of his endorsement of a congressional candidate who was accused of insensitivity to sexual assault — including this column by the editor of a Cape Cod website:

Many have questioned how Brown could let a pedophile run free instead of stopping what could be a serial molester who may now have been at it for upwards of 40 years. Among the “believers” are many who are appalled that a U.S. senator would throw a literary grenade at a respected Christian summer camp and not disclose a name so that Cape officials can pursue the attacker and defend their reputation.

On the other side are alumni and friends of the camp who accuse the senator of fabricating the whole matter for political purposes — or at least to sell more books — leaving Camp Good News with a damaged reputation and no way to refute his accusations.

Neither story line is playing well with readers of CapeCodToday.com. Those who believe Brown’s story feel that his political career cannot survive his sheltering of the molester. Those who feel he fabricated the account feel he should step down from office if he is proven to have lied.

DSCC also circulated a piece by the Boston Globe’s Glen Johnson and a column by the paper’s Joan Vennochi about Brown’s sexual abuse as it related to his decision to endorse Jeff Perry, a losing GOP congressional candidate who was accused of covering up a sexual abuse charge while he was a police officer.

Unions are a cancer.

(Rasmussen) — Americans continue to believe strongly that being a teacher is an essential job, but a plurality thinks it’s a bad thing that most teachers are unionized.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of American Adults view being a teacher as one of the most important jobs in our country today, down five points from May of last year but up slightly from when we first asked the question in May 2008. Twenty-one percent (21%) say it’s not one of the most important jobs, and 12% aren’t sure.

Thirty-seven percent (37%) say, in terms of its impact on the nation, it’s a good thing that most teachers belong to public employee unions. Forty-six percent (46%) disagree and say it’s a bad thing that most teachers are unionized. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.

Among adults who currently have children in grades K through 12, however, a majority (54%) now views unionized teachers as bad for the country.

Not sure about you guys but I feel so much better.

(National Post) — I guess we can all relax about the fate of the Middle East.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter assures us that he knows members of the Muslim Brotherhood “and they’re not anything to be afraid of.”

Jimmy Carter knowing members of the Brotherhood is his version of “some of my best friends are. . . .”

Arguably one of the worst U.S. presidents, Carter joins Barack Obama’s National Intelligence Director, James Clapper, in seeing no threat from the Muslim Brotherhood, which others see fomenting trouble in Arab countries.

Until embarrassed staff members corrected him, Clapper said the Brotherhood was a “secular” organization when, in fact, it’s whole rationale for existence is spreading Islam and Sharia law throughout the world. Some secularism!

Jimmy Carter’s latest pronouncements were at the University of Texas where he declared his “proudest accomplishment” as a one-term president (defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980) is that “I never dropped a bomb or fired a bullet, or shot a missile.”

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Get back to work commie trash-bags and live by the same rules as us in the private sector.

HT: Franky

The Mothership is coming for you, Louis. Obama too.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Nation of Islam is best known for promoting black nationalism and self-reliance.

But the Chicago-based movement is revisiting a core belief that isn’t as well known: the existence of UFOs.

The group’s annual Saviours’ Day convention this weekend will include a group of scientists discussing UFO sightings worldwide.

The idea of seeking the divine in the skies is deeply rooted in the Nation of Islam, whose late leader Elijah Muhammad wrote detailed articles about a giant hovering object called “the wheel.”

The Minister Louis Farrakhan has often spoken about a divine vision he believes he had aboard the wheel in the 1980s.

Shocker! Ok, maybe not.

(Daily Caller) — Communist and socialist groups including the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, the Communist Party USA, Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and the Democratic Socialists of America are voicing their support for the public-sector unions protesting Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to curtail their collective bargaining abilities.

The communist and socialist groups have parroted many of the union talking points being used by the unions on their websites and in their publications, such as those accusing the governor of trying to break their unions. They have also compared Walker to former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.

“Egypt, whose revolution has been a constant source of inspiration here, reflected in signs and chants — and Walker’s new nickname, Gov. Mubarak,” an article reads from the International Socialist Organization’s webzine.

The webzine also describes the unions’ protest of Walker’s plans to force a vote on curtailing public-sector unions as “class war in Wisconsin” and as an affront to “the standard of living of working people.”

The formerly Soviet-backed Communist Party USA (CPUSA) echoed similar talking points.

“Using the deficit as a scare tactic, the right-wing corporate Republicans are on a fast track to defeat every initiative of the Obama administration, to destroy unions and public services at the federal, state and municipal level, and at the same time protect tax breaks for the richest few,” Joelle Fishman, chair of the CPUSA’s Political Action Commission, wrote in an article posted on her party’s website.

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And exactly like the Muslim Brotherhood is doing in Egypt now, Hamas had originally said it had no interest in enforcing sharia law.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — After nearly four years of Hamas rule, the Gaza Strip’s small secular community is in tatters, decimated by the militant group’s campaign to impose its strict version of Islam in the coastal territory.

Hamas has bullied men and women to dress modestly, tried to keep the sexes from mingling in public and sparked a flight of secular university students and educated professionals. Most recently, it has confiscated novels it deems offensive to Islam from a bookshop and banned Gaza’s handful of male hairdressers from styling women’s hair.

The Hamas push toward religious fundamentalism is especially striking at a time of great change in the Middle East. With the Iranian-backed group firmly entrenched in power, Gaza seems unlikely to experience the type of pro-democracy unrest that has swept through much of the region.

Some argue that the case of Gaza could also be a warning sign for those pushing for quick democratic reforms in the region. Hamas rose to power in part by winning internationally backed parliamentary elections held in 2006.

There’s really no other way to topple Gaddafi, we’ve seen what he’s willing to do to unarmed protesters (airstrikes, helicopter gun runs, artillery).

BENGHAZI, Libya — Rebels seeking to overturn the 40-year rule of Colonel Moammar Khadafy repelled a concerted assault by his forces on cities close to the capital yesterday, removing any doubt that Libya’s patchwork of protests had evolved into an increasingly well-armed revolutionary movement.

Yesterday’s violence under scored the contrast between the character of Libya’s revolution and the uprising that toppled autocrats in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia. Unlike those Facebook-enabled youth rebellions, the insurrection here has been led by people who are more mature and who have been actively opposing the regime for some time. It started with lawyers’ syndicates that have campaigned peacefully for two years for a written constitution and some semblance of a rule of law.

Fueled by popular anger, the help of breakaway leaders of the armed forces and some of their troops, and weapons from looted military stockpiles or smuggled across the border, the rebellion has escalated quickly and violently in little more than a week.

Fathi Terbil, 39, the human rights lawyer whose detention first ignited the protests, drew a map of rebel-held territory in striking distance of Tripoli.

“It is only a matter of days,’’ he said in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the revolt began.

A turning point in the uprising’s evolution was arguably the defection of the interior minister, Abdel Fattah Younes al-Abidi, an army general who had been a close ally of Khadafy.

The break by Abidi, who has family roots near the revolt’s eastern origins, encouraged other disaffected police, military and state security personnel to change sides as well.

“We are hoping to use his experience,’’ said Terbil, who some called the linchpin of the revolt.

In parts of the country, the revolutionaries, as they call themselves, appear to have access to potentially large stores of weapons, including small arms and heavy artillery, automatic weapons smuggled from Egypt and rocket-propelled grenades taken from army bases, like the Kabila in Benghazi.

Good news, I think?

BENGHAZI, Libya, Feb 25 (Reuters) — Rebels in eastern Libya said on Friday they now controlled most of the oil fields east of the town of Ras Lanuf, and said they would honour oil deals as long as they were in the interest of the people.

The eastern Libyan town of Brega and its oil terminal are under rebel control, and soldiers who have defected are helping the rebels to secure the port, Reuters witnesses said on Friday.

“This area is controlled by the people,” said Mabrook Maghraby, a lawyer from Benghazi who is now involved with the local committees defending Brega.

Evil.

(JPost) — Evidence of execution-style murders in Libya as part of the growing turmoil in the North African country emerged in recent days based on videos uploaded on YouTube showing dead and bloody soldiers after they were executed for refusing to shoot demonstrators.

Other videos showed civilians preparing mass burials in Libya amid reports that as many as 2,000 people have been killed in the recent wave of unrest.

Meanwhile, former Libyan justice minister Mustafa Abdel Galil, who resigned from his post earlier this week, warned on Friday that Gaddafi may use biological and chemical weapons against civilians, according to an Al Jazeera report.

“We call on the international community and the UN to prevent Gaddafi from going on with his plans in Tripoli,” Galil told Al Jazeera.

“At the end when he’s really pressured, he can do anything. I think Gaddafi will burn everything left behind him.”

Pretty sad state of affairs when the left is being scolded by one of their own who happens to be the host of the Jerry Springer Show.

“I think where liberals may be doing the wrong thing is when they try to make fun of her because they’re making fun of a large section of America that has those fundamental beliefs that she has,” he continued. “And I think that’s dangerous. I don’t think that’s right to do. So I can honestly disagree with her, but I would never say anything disrespectful of her.”

Via Daily Caller

Note to Nevada voters: Dingy Reid’s just as liberal as avowed Socialist Patrick Leahy.

(The Hill) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is tied with eight others as the most liberal member of the Senate, according to a ranking released Friday.

Reid’s ranking represents a jump from the the 2009 list, which had him as the 22nd most liberal senator. In the 2008 rankings he was the 25th most liberal.

National Journal released its rankings of 2010′s most liberal lawmakers on Friday. On Thursday, it released rankings for the most conservative members of Congress. For both the most liberal and most conservative members, the composite score margin between the House and the Senate was about the same. In general, House members are further from the middle than their Senate counterparts.

Twelve senators made the top 10 (based on their composite score). See the rankings below:

Senate

1st. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — 83.3
1st. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) — 83.3
1st. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) — 83.3
1st. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) — 83.3
1st. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) — 83.3
1st. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — 83.3
1st. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — 83.3
1st. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) — 83.3
1st. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)— 83.3
10th. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) — 80.8
10th. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) — 80.8
10th. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) — 80.8

House

1st. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) — 96.7
1st. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) — 96.7
1st. John Lewis (D-Ga.) — 96.7
1st. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) — 96.7
1st. John Olver (D-Mass.) — 96.7
1st. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) — 96.7
1st. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) — 96.7
8th. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) — 95.3
8th. George Miller (D-Calif.) — 95.3
8th. James McGovern (D-Mass.) — 95.3

Pa-frigging-thetic.

HT:Jay