Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was the master of the "big lie" tactic in which a lie, no matter how outrageous, is repeated often enough that it will eventually be accepted as truth. Goebbels explained

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

The above was taken from The Jewish Virtual Library.

The following was Rush Limbaugh's adaptation and application to the party of the Democrats.

Let me reread this with the proper adaptation; "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the [Democrat Party] can shield the people from the political, economic, or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the [Democrat Party] to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the [Democrat Party]," and that's why I'm reading it to you. Repress dissent? Repress dissent? Well, who's the dissent? I am the dissent! There are a number of us who are the dissent, and what do they do? Well, they're trying to gin up the Fairness Doctrine to silence us. They've got a bunch of websites that are bought and paid for by Clinton, Inc. and George Soros that are attempting and have been attempting for many years to discredit those of us who dissent, and they're doing any number of things, engaging any number of tactics to shut down opposition speech. They just don't want to hear it. Political correctness is nothing more than liberal censorship.

Who are you going to believe?

This is exactly why we need to support the Republicans in the GWOT by getting out the vote in November 2006. Without our support, the Dems might actually take control of Congress. Democrat defeatism will not make us safer here at home. The following is the text of the Resolution :HRES 861 EH

H. Res. 861

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

June 16, 2006.

Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a Global War on Terror, a long and demanding struggle against an adversary that is driven by hatred of American values and that is committed to imposing, by the use of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;

Whereas for the past two decades, terrorists have used violence in a futile attempt to intimidate the United States;

Whereas it is essential to the security of the American people and to world security that the United States, together with its allies, take the battle to the terrorists and to those who provide them assistance;

Whereas the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorists failed to stop free elections in Afghanistan and the first popularly-elected President in that nation's history has taken office;

Whereas the continued determination of Afghanistan, the United States, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be required to sustain a sovereign, free, and secure Afghanistan;

Whereas the steadfast resolve of the United States and its partners since September 11, 2001, helped persuade the government of Libya to surrender its weapons of mass destruction;

Whereas by early 2003 Saddam Hussein and his criminal, Ba'athist regime in Iraq, which had supported terrorists, constituted a threat against global peace and security and was in violation of mandatory United Nations Security Council Resolutions;

Whereas the mission of the United States and its Coalition partners, having removed Saddam Hussein and his regime from power, is to establish a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq at peace with its neighbors;

Whereas the terrorists have declared Iraq to be the central front in their war against all who oppose their ideology;

Whereas the Iraqi people, with the help of the United States and other Coalition partners, have formed a permanent, representative government under a newly ratified constitution;

Whereas the terrorists seek to destroy the new unity government because it threatens the terrorists' aspirations for Iraq and the broader Middle East;

Whereas United States Armed Forces, in coordination with Iraqi security forces and Coalition and other friendly forces, have scored impressive victories in Iraq including finding and killing the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi;

Whereas Iraqi security forces are, over time, taking over from United States and Coalition forces a growing proportion of independent operations and increasingly lead the fight to secure Iraq;

Whereas the United States and Coalition servicemembers and civilians and the members of the Iraqi security forces and those assisting them who have made the ultimate sacrifice or been wounded in Iraq have done so nobly, in the cause of freedom; and

Whereas the United States and its Coalition partners will continue to support Iraq as part of the Global War on Terror: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) honors all those Americans who have taken an active part in the Global War on Terror, whether as first responders protecting the homeland, as servicemembers overseas, as diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;

(2) honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition, and of the Iraqis and Afghans who fight alongside them, especially those who have fallen or been wounded in the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices of their families and of others who risk their lives to help defend freedom;

(3) declares that it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq;

(4) declares that the United States is committed to the completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq;

(5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the Iraqi people on the courage they have shown by participating, in increasing millions, in the elections of 2005 and on the formation of the first government under Iraq's new constitution;

(6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote global peace and security by standing with the United States and other Coalition partners to support the efforts of the Iraqi and Afghan people to live in freedom; and

(7) declares that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

Attest:

Clerk.

Do we really want to trust the nations security to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? 

In other words, they don't have one! So why would you vote for them in November?

(HT to Pat Cleary at Redstate .)

(Cartoon by Glenn McCoy at Slate .)

Hugh Hewitt has written a new book, Painting the Map Red , and I have entered the contest at Radio Blogger to try to come up with the most creative graphic to promote it.

The following is my entry:

So go. Buy the book. Read it, and help Spread Freedom Throughout the Land.

Imagine my surprise when I read the following article written by Tony Snow for Town Hall yesterday. This will get you started:

“By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance.

Democrats know this. Using provisions in the independent-counsel statute that permit people named in a report to review the allegations against them and file rebuttals, attorneys close to the Clintons have spent the better part of five years reviewing every jot and tittle of the charges arrayed against their clients and friends.

This careful and continuous monitoring of the report explains why Sens. Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin and John Kerry took the highly unusual step earlier this year of trying to slip into an Iraq-war spending bill an amendment to suppress every word of the Barrett report. (Every other independent counsel finding has been printed in its entirety, with the exception of small sections containing classified material. emphasis mine)

Alert Republicans, pushed by talk-radio listeners and bloggers, managed to short-circuit that effort, but Democrats patiently pursued their goal. They got what they wanted recently, when the House and Senate met to iron out differences in yet another appropriations bill. Democrats inserted language that would prevent public release of the 120 pages of the report listing the Clinton transgressions. They offered what may have looked like a good deal. They promised not to object to letting Barrett continue with any prosecutions already underway.

Republicans negotiators, led by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich, took the bait. They agreed to keep the public in the dark about the important stuff in exchange for a big, fat nothing. Unbeknownst to Bond and Knollenberg, Barrett shut down his grand juries three years ago. “

Read Tony’s whole arcticle Publish the Barrett Report Now.

As a lifelong Missouri resident of Missouri, and a supporter of Senator Bond, I have alsways thought he has been doing a good job as the ranking Senator from Missouri. This article makes me wonder if perhaps he is starting to get senile. He seems to have been asleep at the switch that day. You can contact Senator Bond by clicking here, or by calling him at (202) 224-5721. I think we should send a message to Senator Bond, “Beware of Democrats bearing gifts”. I think we should also remind him that it was we who put him in office, and that we can find a Republican replacement for him if he doesn’t wake up.

After reading Tony’s article above, I decided to do a little research and see what else I could find out about “The Barrett Report”. It seems that there has been a good deal written about it, but only in “conservative” circles. Where is the MSM? Oh, I forgot. This story doesn’t help their Liberal and Democrat friends agenda. So here are a few references and excerpts for your reading pleasure.

First, from the Wall Street Opinion Journal dated April 22, 2005, An IRS Cover-Up? where the writer says this about The Barrett Report:

“So what don’t Democrats want everyone to know? We’re told that early on the Barrett probe moved away from Mr. Cisneros and his mistress and focused on an attempted cover-up by the Clinton Administration, especially involving the IRS.”

And Hiding the Cisneros Report, in the same publication on October 7, 2005, where the writer says this:

“One possible motivation isn’t hard to imagine: Senator Clinton is running for re-election next year (never mind any possible Presidential ambitions), and she can’t be excited about the possible release of a report that might reflect poorly on the Clinton Administration’s IRS and Justice Department, especially with the IRS having been run by her friend, Peggy Richardson. Our calls this week to Mr. Kendall and Williams & Connolly for comment on the delays were not returned.”

Followed by A Cover-up of the Barrett Report? in National Review dated November 18, 2005, where Byron York says:

“There has been a major setback for people working to secure the full public release of the report by Clinton-era independent counsel David Barrett. A House and Senate conference committee has agreed on language that could keep key portions of the report secret forever, despite the efforts of Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to make it public. Democrats, led by North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, led the fight to keep the report away from public scrutiny.

The conference report gives the judiciary panel that oversees Barrett the authority to “make such orders as are appropriate to protect the rights of any individual named” in Barrett’s report. What that means, in practical terms, is that Section 5 of Barrett’s report, the portion of the document that is thought to be most controversial, dealing with the behavior of the Internal Revenue Service during the independent counsel’s investigation, might never be released.”

Finally from The American Thinker on November 21, 2005, Congressional Omerta, which says this about The Barrett Report:

“What in the world does the Barrett report contain that requires three US Senators and the entire Democratic membership Committee on Government Reform (now that’s chutzpah) to bury? Why did the Conference Committee overseeing IC Barrett agree to keep the most critical part of the report buried after the DC Court of Appeals finally halted the flood of motions by William & Connolly that sought to push the reports release into the 22nd Century?

Americans love a good mystery almost as much as they love sunshine.Independent Counsel Barrett has fought for disclosure to the very end. The order by a panel of the DC Court of Appeals that the “sealed” Section V of Barrett’s final report be made available to nine named members of Congress for distribution by them to other members and staff is tantamount to tearing out the last chapter in a mystery novel.

The American public will hear of the published-but-restricted contents of Section V via anonymous leak and innuendo, and the redacted portions will be subject to surmise based upon political advantage. The order by the Court of Appeals is a compromise that will satisfy no one.”

I think it is time that we the people should know what’s in this report. After all we paid 20 Million tax dollars for the investigation and the subsequent findings, now PUBLISH THE WHOLE REPORT so we can see for ouselves!

Contact your elected representatives using the Congressional Switchboard at 202-225-3121, before this report is buried and sealed from the public for all time.

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” -Josef Stalin

“That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us ‘n*****s’. It was part of the dehumanizing process. The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in order to justify that which they wanted to do and not even feel like they had done anything wrong. Those advocates of taking life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder, they call it abortion. They further never talk about aborting a baby because that would imply something human. Rather they talk about aborting the fetus. Fetus sounds less than human and therefore abortion can be justified…

* * *

Abortion is black genocide. What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?”

Go read the rest!

In Fact so much has been written, Howard Fineman wrote an article a few days ago entitled, Conservative Crackup, where he states:

“The “movement” —that began 50 years ago with the founding of Bill Buckley’s National Review; that had its coming of age in the Reagan Years; that reached its zenith with Bush’s victory in 2000—is falling apart at the seams.”

Unfortunately for Mr. Fineman, Rush Limbaugh has dissected his piece, and wrote on Monday in the Opinion Journal Online, There’s a crackdown over Miers, not a “crackup.”. Using logic and reasoning against Mr. Fineman’s article, he says this:

“The real crackup has already occurred–on the left! The Democratic Party has been hijacked by 1960s retreads like Howard Dean; billionaire eccentrics like George Soros; and leftwing computer geeks like Moveon.org. It nominated John Kerry, a notorious Vietnam-era antiwar activist, as its presidential standard-bearer. Its major spokesmen are old extremists like Ted Kennedy and new propagandists like Michael Moore. Its great presidential hope is one of the most divisive figures in U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton. And its favorite son is an impeached, disbarred, held-in-contempt ex-president, Bill Clinton.”

On another front, the left has done everything they can to pull a scandal out of the alleged Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame leak. Mark Kilmer over at Red State writes an article, What’s New with the Joe Wilson scandal. Here is a taste:

“Don’t let the press lull you to sleep with their gawdawful grasping at evanescent straws, re: the Joe Wilson scandal™. There could be big stuff afoot.”

Kilmer’s last line is the greatest!

“I almost feel bad for these folks. Someone give them a decent scandal.”

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