The Secretary of Logic (pictured) will be sitting today's show out to enjoy some earned time off during the Christmas break. In his place will be yours truly sitting in from 9am - Noon EST talking about the vital issues of the day and analyzing them with logic aforethought. On the proverbial docket will be an interview with the American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord, who has written a column on the New York Times admission on December 25th that the Death Panels Sarah Palin warned about in the summer of 2009 are being implemented on January 1st courtesy of Health care czar Donald Berwick.
Also up for discussion will be how Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to deal with the EPA's intrusion into his state's business on January 2nd as well as Chris Matthews' apparent endorsement of the Birthers' demands.
Some other things to ponder.....
Why is Michael Bloomberg issuing public statements in Spanish?
Is CPAC destined to be divided over the issue of homosexuality?
What did New Black Panther Party Leader Malik Zulu Shabazz say that should warrant a visit by the FBI?
Let's take a look at two people. The first is a woman named Erika Gandara and the second is New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Gandara was the last remaining police officer in a northern Mexico town called Ciudad Juarez because other qualified individuals were either dead or scared off by the drug cartels. She fought alone to the very end when her house was set ablaze and ten thugs kidnapped her. Based on what happened to a police chief in a nearby town who suffered a similar fate, Gandara's chances for survival are slim.
The abduction came barely a month after the female police chief of another city was executed by drug cartel thugs.
In the latest atrocity, a gang of 10 descended on Erika Gandara's home in Guadalupe, set the house and two cars on fire, and ran off with her, witnesses said.
Now let's take a look at the cowardly mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg who has not only been sucking up to the Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf but he has now reduced himself to speaking Spanish at a press conference for his "Spanish-speaking audience" about the recent snow storm.
Here we go. The battle between fiscal conservatives and social conservatives is heating up within the largest annual meeting for Conservatives - the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). In a classic case of one step up, two steps back CPAC extended an invitation to GOProud only to see two prominent conservative groups, the Family Research Council (FRC) and Conservative Women of America (CWA), drop out.
"We've been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and have managed a couple of popular sessions. However, we will no longer be involved with CPAC because of the organization's financial mismanagement and movement away from conservative principles," said Tom McClusky, senior vice president for FRC Action.
"CWA has decided not to participate in part because of GOProud," CWA President Penny Nance told WND.
FRC and CWA join the American Principles Project, American Values, Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage in withdrawing from CPAC. In November, APP organized a boycott of CPAC over the participation of GOProud.
The American Conservative Union, longtime organizers of CPAC, disclosed just before Christmas that GOProud would be considered a "participating organization," the second highest level of participation. As a "participating organization," GOProud has a voice in planning the conference.
The decision followed two hotly contested CPAC board votes over GOProud. The first vote ended in a tie. The outcome of the second vote has not been officially disclosed, but a source at ACU leaked the decision favoring GOProud to the media.
I seem to remember when Barack Obama and Bill Ayers were targeted for heading up the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) in 2008, the left came back with the argument that CAC's founder - Walter Annenberg - was a conservative. What we're seeing happen at CPAC could perfectly illustrate what could have happened to Annenberg's legacy; it was incrementally tarnished until it was smeared by the likes of Bill Ayers. HERE is an article from The Swamp from August, 2008 on that very subject.
Besides, I'm partial to what Jim DeMint has to say about fiscal vs. social conservatism:
"You can't be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative. A large part of the expansive government is to make up for a dysfunctional society because our culture is falling apart; the family is falling apart."- Jim DeMint, November 2010.
The Blaze has more on the CPAC controversy as well as this video of Ryan Sorba at CPAC last year, in which he condemned the conference for inviting GOProud.
HERE is Lord's article.
