Moonhowlings

Corey Stewart is apparently wants to save all defense spending while taking a chainsaw to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.  His latest email blast in his bid for Lt. Governor is shocking!  His own words:

There is no question our Federal Budget has ballooned to epic proportions, but arbitrarily slashing defense spending is the wrong way to try and reduce the federal deficit.

90,000 civilian Department of Defense employees will be furloughed; this alone will be a $648.8 million hit to the economy of Virginia.

If Washington wants to get serious about reigning in spending, they must go after entitlements. Entitlement programs currently occupy 62% of our federal budget, with 44% of that being comprised of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Those programs are increasing beyond the rate of inflation and, when combined with Obamacare, will eat up 18.5% of our national economic output.

Did he really use the words “go after?”  Does he realize that many senior citizens have only Social Security  to rely on?   Is he declaring a war on senior citizens and the poor?  It sure sounds like it.

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Are we going to have to go through all of them?  Oddly enough, the Republicans have skipped the really unbaggaged intelligent ones.  Both Romney, Newt and Jon Huntsman are intelligent and knowledgeable.  However, Newt has so much baggage it will be hard to elect someone so unlikeable. 

Stewart has declared Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich and Cain to be zombies who don’t even know they are dead.  Jack Abramoff has called Newt corrupt.  You know you are bad when that guy thinks you are corrupt.

Does everyone remember this statement from Corey, Washington Post Oct 19th?

Stewart said that developers were pleased with the direction the board has taken as a whole in easing permit restrictions, building roads and other key infrastructure and keeping taxes low.

He said that he has never taken donations from developers while they have a project pending before the board.

I’ll bet “developers are pleased with the direction of the board!”  Does Avendale ring any bells?!

Tell me, please, why do people spin the truth when the facts can so clearly create obvious contradictions.  From today’s Inside Nova:

On Oct. 7, Bruni Peters of Fairfax-based RK Realty contributed $10,000 to Stewart – just 11 days before Stewart and the rest of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously approved a comprehensive land use amendment and a re-zoning of one of Bruni’s future mixed-use properties.

At issue is the Hunter at Haymarket development. Thanks to the board’s vote, a six-acre portion of a 44-acre parcel of land off U.S. 15 was approved for office space. The board also approved a higher density residential zoning for nearly 10 of 15 acres that were originally designated semi-rural residential.

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 President Obama has managed to end 2 out of the three wars this week. 

Gaddafi has been killed thus ending our involvement with Libya.  Additionally, President Obama has announced that all Iraqi troops will be home by year’s end. 

Many of the hawks like Lindsay Graham and John McCain have criticized the president for pulling out and leaving the country unprotected.  But was this really Obama’s doing?  According to benchmark records, President Bush signed an agreement with the newly formed Iraqi government to leave all Iraqi territory by December 31, 2011.  Hmmmmm….why is this Obama’s fault?  

 Some might say he was a poor negotiator.  Others might say he honors prior commitments of other presidents. 

One of Stewart’s best skits….

Jon Stewart blasts the media for leaving out #2 guy in the straw poll–Ron Paul.  He got just a couple hundred votes less than Michele Bachmann who has dominated the media attention. 

Stewart says he is being treated like the 13th floor in a hotel.  According to Stewart, Ron Paul is the real deal and he is being ignored.  Watch as Jon Stewart proves his point.

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Jennifer Buske has written an article about the area plans for the Sesquicentennial for the Washington Post entitled “As Civil War anniversary nears, Manassas sees a historic opportunity.”   In the Friday the 13th  article she writes what begins as an ode to deceased event planner Creston Owen and takes us though the history of the arriving at the Sesquicentennial.  Included in the article is a comparison between the Manassas Battlefield and Gettysburg.

Any attempts to compare the two battlefields ended about the time of the battles themselves.  Manassas is not Gettysburg and never will be, based pretty much on location, location, location, both then and now.  Gettysburg pretty much is a dedicated battlefield.  Manassas is a suburb of D.C.  And here is the gist of the problem.

According to the Washington Post:

Playing off the excitement of the sesquicentennial, Corey A. Stewart, the Board of County Supervisors chairman, said he wants to begin branding Prince William as a military history corridor where people can stop at the battlefield, the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the future American Wartime Museum. That attraction is scheduled to open in 2014 and cover every era of war from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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It seems that Corey Stewart is still attempting to flirt with running for the U. S. Senate, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. In an interview, Corey boasts that people either love him or hate him:

“I’ve been a very controversial figure, and people either love me or hate me,” said Stewart, 42.

The moment of blithe self-awareness followed a ceremonial announcement of his bid for re-election as at-large chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. Elected countywide, the position answers to more than 400,000 constituents.

But with political ambition to spare, Stewart, an affable international trade attorney and spirited conservative, has designs on higher office — a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Corey still doesn’t get it.  No one I have ever talked to hates Corey.  They dislike his style of governance–that fly by the seat of your pants way of saying one thing to one person and the opposite to the next person.  Corey has a reputation for breaking his word.  He signs pledges he does not keep when a better deal comes along, such as his sell out on the Avendale property.  His total disregard for previous pledges to guard the Rural Crescent was highlighted on this blog.   Most people who know Corey say he is affable and fun to be with.   Many who know him simply don’t trust him, having been screwed over in the past.

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No one says good bye like Jon Stewart.   No words can decribe it quite like Stewart

 America at Not-War

There is something for everyone in the Tuesday night Jon Stewart segment. Want to make fun of Joe Biden?  check!    Want to hate Obama?  check!    Criticism America?  check! Salude America?  check!  Make fun of Sarah Palin and her Palinisms?  check! 

Stewart does a great JFK imitation. Palin does a great Palin.  And no, it isn’t an Obama Doctrine.   What president hasn’t been cutting and pasting!   The Delicate Dance of the Presidency is highlighted. 

So was there something here for you?  Stewart even addressed Emma’s concern.  You gotta love a guy who covers everything.   Squirmish?  OMG.  Dan Quayle has returned. 

Jon listens in on the fake David Koch phone call.  It seems that Badger Boy is not quite the honorable young lad he would have us believe. 

  Stay tuned.  Badger Boy will appear in the morning.  Prepare to be embarrassed.  If you think fake doctor notes and vanishing Dems are bad…

 So, is it ok to trick the Democratic legislators?  I thought the coyote was supposed to be the trickster, not the badger. 

It sounds like Governor ‘Badger Boy’ Walker has a trick or two up his sleeve and might have some explaining to do. 

Interview with the prankster  from the Buffalo Beast

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It’s official.  Former Virginia Governor George Allen will run for the U.S. Senate for the seat currently held by Senator Jim Webb.  As a matter of fact, George Allen ran for the same seat in 2006 and lost to Senator Webb.  Part of Allen’s problem was a screwed the pooch remark made about a Democratic operative who had been shadowing him.  He called the young man, Macaca, attempting to be funny.  It wasn’t and Allen still bears the scars from his unfortunate mistake.  The Democrats were all over that mistake. 

George Allen speaks of it today.  According to the Huffington Post:

“I made mistakes and I take responsibility for them,” Allen said in an interview with Bearing Drift, before seemingly attempting to play off the slur as a fabricated word that other people had mistakenly interpreted as offensive, a move that he similarly attempted in 2006.

“I needlessly drew a college student who was following me around all over Virginia into the race, and I should not have. He was just doing his job and I should not have made him part of the issue,” Allen said of S.R. Sidarth, the Democratic tracker of Indian descent he was addressing. “It was not done with malice, and if I had known that that made-up word would be connoted as a racial insult I would not have said it.”

After Allen used the phrase in summer 2006, it quickly became a racially-charged ball and chain that is largely thought to have sunk him in his battle against his opponent, Democrat Jim Webb.

As George Allen, who was the one time darling of Virginia Republicans, attempted to address the perceived macaca problem, our very own Corey Stewart was quick to seize the opportunity to throw Allen under the bus:

Stewart, who is heading to Richmond, Va. on Tuesday to talk to party activists and court donors ahead of his own likely Senate bid, said he, along with other Republicans in the state, is “concerned that [Allen's] not going to be able to shake off the ‘macaca’ moment.”

 

Corey might want to think about his own transgressions in the loose lips department. The moonhowlings folder has all sorts of gaffes that I feel certain the Allen campaign would find useful. A few Allen aides could use our search engine to pull out highlights, or should I say  low lights of many a slip of the tongue made by Stewart.

Jon Stewart analyzes the latest Palindrome.

Strange, he sees the same things I do. The slightest criticism becomes persecution.   UFB.  He didn’t even call and ask my opinion, this time.

Palin threw down the gauntlet by sayings ‘for those on the left would have no standards if it weren’t for their double standards.’  I sure hope she isn’t counting on MY vote, since I bet she includes people like me in her ‘left.’  So when asked why I don’t care for her, I will just go with that: 

Where is he wrong in his assessment?  It pretty much comes from the Caribou’s mouth in this one. 

Chairman Corey A. Stewart

State of the County Address

January 11, 2011

They met here, in Prince William County, on July 21, 1861, to engage in battle.  It was supposed to be a quick battlefield victory for the Union and bring about an early end to the civil war.

 But Union forces were routed in this first major battle of the war.  The North was shocked.  There was little celebration in the South, however, as both sides realized the war would be longer and more brutal than they had imagined. 

 This year, we will commemorate that battle.  We will give thanks that the war ended the scourge of slavery and preserved our nation.  The war was not so long ago.  We may meet living children of those who fought.  And perhaps, most importantly, we will come to understand our own place in history. 

 When you elected this board in 2007, the county—and the nation—was entering the longest and deepest economic downturn since the end of World War II.  The housing market had gone from boom to bust, and county tax revenues were plummeting. 

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That Jon Stewart.  He’s an activist.  Oh well, that’s apples and oranges.

1.  Jon Stewart addressed the 9/11 first responders bill with interviewees on Thursday night.

2.  Shep and Chris Wallace responded to Jon Stewart of Friday.  There was no 3 days of 9/11 first responders special by Shep.  That was simply a lie.

3.  Shep flipped Fox, to his credit. 

The Tres Amigos, Fox and Friends, were really on Jon Stewart’s pork chops though.  The Gretch had the nerve to say people already thought Jon Stewart was real news. Hmmmm…and what about HER show?  Real news or satire?

Who cares.  He’s an activist.  {{{snicker}}}

The New York Times had nothing but praise for the efforts of Jon Stewart: