Things Are Koo-Koo Krazy

Following President Obama's second inaugural, he's finding opposition from some unlikely sources.

During the 2012 campaign, a video went viral featuring a Cleveland, Ohio woman, Michelle Dowery, who was praising a government program that makes available free cell phones to low income individuals. The phones came to be known as "Obamaphones." In that same video, Ms. Dowery expressed displeasure with the GOP candidate, Mitt Romney, saying the former Massachusetts Governor, well, uh, "sucks - bad."

However, in interviews with Libertarian talkradio host, Alex Jones, Ms. Dowery now states her displeasure with the President, his performance and his honesty. In issues ranging from an increase in her payroll taxes despite promises that Obama would not raise any taxes on individuals making less than $250,000 a year to cell phone companies getting rich off the Obamaphones which in her view provide insufficient airtime minutes for users, all the way to gun control (Ms. Dowerey believes that individuals need guns to protect themselves from criminals as she claims the police have not done so in her community), the former Obamaphone lady has no further love for Barack Obama. We include the full interview below.

In an even weirder turn, the generally left leaning, anarchist, hacktivist group, Anonymous has put out a video slamming Obama's gun control proposals, making the point that many gun advocates have expressed that existing laws against guns, murder, etc. have done little to curb violence in America that limiting the liberties of the law abiding will have no effect as well.

To be clear, Anonymous does not have a central policy wing and statements are made in the crowd-sourced, structure free environment that is the Anonymous movement. Suffice to say, however, Anonymous does not generally fall along traditional conservative lines. An Anonymous affiliated Twitter account released the following statement:

Anonymous, however, has no ideology except an overall belief in the resistance to tyranny, government abuse and censorship.

And that was only day one of term two!

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Wednesday

He's Back! He's Animated! He's the Governator, and he's still useless! Official Trailer.

 
Assemblyman Tom Donnelly (R-Claremont) has introduced an anti-illegal immigration bill (AB26) that is patterned after Arizona's controversial SB1070 (currently in legal limbo). A small crowd of 100 gathered at a rally in Sacramento on Monday to cheer on Donnelly. Donnelly is also a founder of the California Minutemen and a member of the increasingly irrelevant California GOP. Even though AB26 will face a quick and certain death in the Democrat controlled Assembly, the bill will certainly help push the Republican party even further into the abyss.

UPDATE: R.I.P. AB26.


Here at Mayor Sam, we occasionally get an intelligent and thought out comment from a reader. Here is one such comment that caught our attention regarding Kevin James' sputtering meltdown on MSNBC  (Thank You, Anonymous);

"In the Mathews interview, it was Kevin who came out on the attack, and his target was Obama. His argument seems to have been that talking to any group that we see as our enemy, no matter how secret the negotiations, is "appeasement." The implication was obviously that Democrats as a group are soft, cowardly, unable to stand up to bullies, and in general, wimps. This line has been a part of Republican nastiness for decades, and is of course inconsistent with more than a century of modern history. Wilson and FDR stood up to Fascism, Truman and Kennedy and Johnson stood up to Communism, and on the other side, we had Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes cutting secret deals with China, North Korea, Islamic terrorists, and these deals eventually became public.

I don't really care about Kevin's ignorance of the Munich Pact, other than it suggests a certain lack of depth in his education. The fact that he got rolled by Mathews says something about his own toughness under pressure though, and his words suggest that he is prone to excess and right wing extremism. This isn't the Kevin we have seen recently, but it should make us wonder who the real Kevin is."

It's a real nail biter in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Race- at post time incumbent David Prosser is up by only 1600 580 356 votes over challenger Joanne Kloppenburg. Republican Prosser was expected to sail to an easy victory until Gov.Walker's nasty union busting law brought out a last minute effort to replace him with Kloppenburg. Gov. Walker's so called "Budget Reform Bill" will likely be reviewed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, hence the effort to oust Prosser. Recount for sure on this one.

UPDATE : Kloppenburg now ahead with 100% of precincts reporting!

Breaking News! Anonymous Delivers

Or at least someone claiming to be Anonymous delivers.
The Westboro Baptist Church websites (including godhatesfags.com) are offline following a threat from Anonymous that if Rev. Phelps and his wacko followers did not stop picketing the funerals of soldiers, their sites would be hacked. It is now evident that Anonymous has followed through on that threat. Watch the clip to the end for the big surprise!!

Now you see 'em, now you don't