The Underground Conservative

I’ve changed the look of the blog a little with a new logo. Hope you like. The older logo was a photo collage that looked too cluttered for my usually minimalist taste.

Here’s a look at our new bumper sticker calling for an investigation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

You can get the bumper sticker at our newly opened Cafe Press shop.

Hey, if Congress can waste its time and our money investigating baseball players and the Valerie Plame non-issue, why can’t they investigate the root cause of our current economic troubles?

If the American public were to watch this video and learn the truth, they’d storm Capitol Hill with pitchforks and torches:

Hat tip to Hot Air.

Spread the word about this video, see below.

Lessee…

Joe Biden, Democrat, says paying higher taxes is patriotic. Okay, check.

Meanwhile, Charlie Rangel, Democrat, fails to pay taxes on rent money he’s collecting on his villa in the Dominican Republic. Check.

So, therefore, Joe Biden has just called Charlie Rangel unpatriotic.

Sounds logical to me!

The same type of whiners who whine that the Patriot Act is a violation of their privacy and that their phone calls will be listened to, have broken in to Sarah Palin’s PRIVATE e-mail account. Yeah.

Michelle Malkin has more:

Sometime early this morning, between approximately 3:00am - 4:00am, members of an infamous group of hackers broke into Gov. Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo e-mail account. The incriminating discussion threads included screenshots of Palin’s e-mail and private e-mail addresses of her contacts.

If that’s not bad enough, some sleazebag website called Gawker is publishing Sarah Palin’s private e-mails. No, we’re not going to link to those scumbags.

But it’s okay because as MM notes, they’re being investigated. By the FBI.

Have you ever heard of Gianna Jessen?

Chances are you haven’t, especially if you rely on the so-called “mainstream media” for your news.

Let me let her website, Born Alive Truth, tell you her story in its own words:

Gianna’s biological mother was 17 when she had a saline abortion in her third trimester. After being burned alive for approximately 18 hours in the womb from the saline solution, Gianna was delivered alive in a Los Angeles County abortion clinic. The procedure left her with cerebral palsy…

Stated simply, Gianna would not be alive today if she had been born/aborted in Barack Obama’s Illinois.

I found her story so inspiring I’ve added her website’s banner to the sidebar of this blog.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.

Rick Rescorla was a Vietnam War hero who, though of British birth, served in the U.S. Army and fought at the battle of Ia Drang, which was depicted in the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers Once.”

If that’s not enough heroism for one lifetime, he gave his life on September 11, 2001, helping to save the lives of nearly 3,700 of his co-workers from the firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Think about it: the number of dead on 9/11 might well have been double had it not been for Rick.

I posted about Rick on my other blog, Castro Death Watch. But you can read more about him here and here.

We owe it to Rick and others like him to remember 9/11.

House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush ‘a total failure’

Oh yeah, Nancy,don’t forget this:

The public’s view of Congress is even worse. Its approval rating has hit a new low of just 18 percent, down from 23 percent last month, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll.

The last media outlet on Earth that you’d expect to expose one of the Left’s most cherished myths, did just that this morning. The Washington Post–yes, the POST, not the Times–actually published today an editorial titled “‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.”

You could’ve knocked me over with a feather when I ran across it.

The editorial was based on the report released last week by the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence. Of course, the lamestream media jumped all over Senator Rockefeller’s–the committee’s chairman–comment that the report “proved” that Bush lied (only, of course, Rockefeller stopped short of using the word “lie” himself).

But the Washington Post’s Editorial Page Editor, Fred Hiatt, actually did something novel: he took a look at the report itself! And look at what he found:

But dive into Rockefeller’s report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.

On Iraq’s nuclear weapons program? The president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”

On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president’s statements “were substantiated by intelligence information.”

On chemical weapons, then? “Substantiated by intelligence information.”

On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.” Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? “Generally substantiated by available intelligence.” Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.”

I sense a recurring theme here… “substantiated by intelligence.”

Here’s the money quote:

…(T)he phony “Bush lied” story line distracts from the biggest prewar failure: the fact that so much of the intelligence upon which Bush and Rockefeller and everyone else relied turned out to be tragically, catastrophically wrong.

And it trivializes a double dilemma that President Bill Clinton faced before Bush and that President Obama or McCain may well face after: when to act on a threat in the inevitable absence of perfect intelligence and how to mobilize popular support for such action, if deemed essential for national security, in a democracy that will always, and rightly, be reluctant.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from the Daily Kooks, Keith Olbermann, Al Franken, Congressional Democrats, etc. If anything, just as those who claimed in their day that the earth was round, or that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa, expect Mr. Hiatt to be treated like a heretic by the Left. Indeed, you only need to see some of the comments posted to this editorial to see that this is already happening.

…well, okay, it’s her CAMPAIGN that’s dead (or in its last throes, at least), according to AP/Yahoo! News and Michelle Malkin:

Definitely a two-popcorn bag night if you’re a political junkie. It’s the final Democrat primary night of the campaign season. Polls close in South Dakota at 9pm Eastern and in Montana at 10 pm. The scene is set for Hillary’s farewell.

With grace or gritted teeth?

Expect a strained mixture of both–with a large dash of “I am Woman, Hear Me Roar.”

MM also notes that she doesn’t believe the “Hillary for VP” hype. Myself, I think for sure there’s some talk, but Obamessiah must be thinking that if Hillary were his VP, she’d spend more time and effort trying to upstage him in advance of her run for the presidency again in 2016, than she would being a good veep.

I’ll be more than happy to pack your bags, honey:

SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie “Bernard and Doris,” is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, “It’s a critical time, but I have faith in the American people.”

Yeah, I have faith in the American people, too. And from what I see, if I were you, I’d take me up on that offer to pack your bags for you, real soon. It won’t last.

This veteran salutes all those who have served and are serving, especially the fallen.

• The President’s speech from Arlington National Cemetary today.
• Video of the President’s speech.
• Arlington National Cemetary official website.