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Special Report
The Senator From Soros
Secret donors funded Feingold questions to judicial nominee; Washington Post involved.
(Page 2 of 5)
Let’s start at the beginning.
February, 2002.
The Dirksen Senate Office Building. A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Bush Third Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Judge D. Brooks Smith, the Reagan-appointed Chief Judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania..
The nomination, considered routine and well-received across the board by the legal community of Western Pennsylvania, where Smith has served with distinction for fourteen uncontroversial years, has run head-long into the politics of Senate Judicial confirmations. What the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette would eventually refer to as a “lynch mob.” Judge Charles Pickering’s nomination to the Fifth Circuit, has just gone up in flames, the target of these same left-wing special interest groups. With a scalp in hand and Democrats running the Senate, the groups have set their sights on Smith.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that I was a friend of the nominee, and because I had some experience in the arcane world of judicial nominations — and was now embarked on a writing career — I had some idea what to look for and took notes. Enough to get a small book together in 2005 recounting the episode. (The book, The Borking Rebellion, had long since been out of print until Amazon brought it back as a Kindle Book. The future of books? We’ll see.)
Here’s what was uncovered in the Smith nomination fight — all thoroughly documented — which unexpectedly now bears on the issue of, as the New York Times has phrased it, “secret donors” influencing the political process.
1. Chairing the hearing? Senator Russell Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. Sitting in for Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Feingold grilled the nominee. He questioned Smith using questions supplied from a secret strategy memo put together by lobbyists for three left-wing special interest groups all receiving funds from the George Soros-run Open Society Institute. The OSI, in turn is a 501(c)(3) — which means it both takes money from outside donors and does not reveal who those donors are. The Soros-funded groups who researched and wrote the secret memo on Smith were: The Alliance for Justice, the Community Rights Counsel, and the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. A copy of the secret memo had been leaked — and I have it still.
Here’s what matched up:
• AFJ-CRC strategy memo: begins by complaining about the number of free-market economics seminars Smith has attended. Feingold: begins his remarks by complaining about the number of free-market economics seminars Smith has attended.
• AFJ-CRC memo: cites the locale of the trips, citing them by name. Feingold: cites the locale of the trips, citing them by name.
• AFJ-CRC memo: complains about the funding of the seminars, complaining that it comes from “large corporations” like “General Electric, Texaco and Monsanto.” Feingold: complains about the funding of the seminars, complaining that it comes from “large corporations” like “General Electric, Texaco and Monsanto.”
• AFJ-CRC memo: complains that other funding comes from “right-wing foundations such as the Sarah Scaife Foundation [Richard Mellon Scaife] and the Claude Lambe Foundation [run by Charles Koch, Koch Industries]…” Feingold: complains that other funding has come from “very conservative foundations funded by Richard Mellon Scaife and Charles Koch.”
• AFJ-CRC memo: says “As the Dean of the George Mason Law School told ABC News 20/20, which did an exposé on these trips in April, 2001, LEC is ‘out to influence minds…If court cases are changed, then that is something we are proud of as well.’” Feingold: says “For example, the Dean of the George Mason Law School told ABC News 20/20 in April 2001 that LEC is ‘out to influence minds.’ …If court cases are changed, then that is something we are proud of as well.”
Interesting, no?
No one in these interest groups knew there had been a leak of their memo. Feingold, who gave the impression to his audience that the questions were his, never said a word about the memo from which he was deriving his questions to the nominee, simply plagiarizing the group’s questions outright.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Ticked Off American| 10.19.10 @ 7:28AM
This makes me sick.
George Soros seems to have way too much influence in the U.S. - not his country - and gets away with so much.
Hmmm. Why is that? Is that because he has funded so many crooked judges, senators and presidents that he just gets to sit on the sidelines and play Secret Money Donor.
George Soros has admitted his plans to:
1) Make sure Secretary of States are Democrats in all states so they get to count the votes.
and
2) Spread his trillions (yes, trillions, the U.S. seems to be missing untold billions from our coffers) to influence justices so left-wing lunatics sit on courts all across America to DICTATE what happens to good guys and bad guys. In other words, bad guys will get a pass and good guys (decent, conservative Americans) will get the book thrown at them.
George Soros should be arrested and stopped from his continuing destruction of America. He's Obama's puppetmaster and look where that has gotten us.
Jeffrey Lord, make sure this article finds it way into Feingold's hands for a reminder of why he will no longer be senator on November 3, 2010.
Shamus| 10.19.10 @ 7:42AM
Soros is not alone in his efforts to buy influence. Saudi Arabia has played this game for decades.
Eric Cartman| 10.19.10 @ 10:38AM
Soros is shorting the dollar and has been undermining it for a while. But I never hear the stupid party (Republicans) saying anything about it or even looking into it. I guess Steele is too busy riding around on the dumb ass bus.
Weezer| 10.19.10 @ 11:45AM
$0R0$ has been packing the Republican Party with hand picked people for the last two decades.
Ticked Off American| 10.19.10 @ 12:20PM
Eric Cartman and Weezer:
SOROS Moveon trolls.
Take a hike.
Your kind isn't wanted around here.
Patriot| 10.20.10 @ 6:21PM
Neither Cartman nor Weezer is a troll, moron: You must be a newbie or you'd know that.
You're a fool if you think the Republican party isn't tainted by George Soros--it is.
idalily| 10.19.10 @ 3:24PM
How does calling us stupid prove your superior intelligence, again? Oh, wait, it doesn't.
Nancy in NC| 10.19.10 @ 4:07PM
Why doesn't the evil bastard just die? Perhaps he's the devil incarnate, and will live forever. The question is what can be done about the puppetmaster that surely owns parts of both parties.
Nov. 2 is coming soon, but anyone that thinks our problems will end then is surely an idiot. It will take many decades of hard work by Patriots to clean this government of its ills, if it's possible at all.
Surely you jest when you speak of Soros being arrested...he's done nothing legally wrong. Ethically, he's a monster, but does anyone think he cares? He cares about absolutely nothing but the raw power he possesses and the souls of those he owns...for it's only worked because so many people have sold their souls for money and power.
I can't see how anything will improve till we find some good men and women willing to do the right thing...there's not enough of them.
mames| 10.19.10 @ 4:12PM
He is a naturalized citizen; since 1961. He is however not a patriot or a constitutionally limited republic supporter - in short a traitor.
sky| 10.19.10 @ 8:11PM
Thepost@email website
Impeach Don't Wait| 10.19.10 @ 8:51PM
"He is a naturalized citizen; since 1961. He is however not a patriot or a constitutionally limited republic supporter - in short a traitor."
Yes, so technically it's not foreign money. Secret donor money, yes. And the media connection is shameful indeed. I don't know where I ever got the notion that journalism was to be objective and free from partisan influence. Believe it or not, it's one of the notions I picked up in public school, back when I guess they mentioned such things. I didn't pay much attention to history and politics in those days, but those values came through loud and clear. I'm astounded at what passes for journalism these days. I thought there was a journalistic "ethic" or something. Sheesh...
Dee Smith| 10.21.10 @ 11:40PM
Isn't that Obama's birth year 1961 not a very good year for our Great Country
Barbara| 10.21.10 @ 12:40PM
Look what he did to Europe! Look what he has done in Germany! He was kicked out of those countries for what he did there. My question is why not kick him out of America!? Wait, he has obama and the others in obama's court all tied up in a nice little package for his program of US destruction!
Mary| 10.21.10 @ 8:29PM
You're right. For a while I thought Buraq Hussein was the most dangerous man in America but now I'm convinced it's Soros. I like what is happening tho, because it has finally exposed him for his evil ways. At last, maybe Americans will wake up to this man's desire to destroy America. Nothing would make me happier than to see him run out of the US - flat broke too. There's a special place in Hell for people like him.
hemipristis| 10.28.10 @ 4:38AM
No, Soros should be taken out.
Wis Mac| 10.19.10 @ 7:31AM
You should see the mailers I get from Feingold bragging about what a big defender of the 2nd Amendment he is. He was caught in a lie about Ron Johnson wanting to register guns and now he's dragged it back out even after it was proven to be a lie.
Patrick| 10.19.10 @ 1:48PM
Greetings fellow Komrade! How is it going over in your part of glorious Soviet Wisconsin?
Feingold is so crooked, he can walk under a snake with a top hat on.
As for other Wisconsin facts: Voting Democrat = Poop geysers. This year alone, Mayor Barret oversaw 9 Billion gallons of raw sewage flow into Lake Michigan.
LeoInTheWoods| 10.19.10 @ 7:36AM
Shades of Armand Hammer and Albert Gore. Does Soros say aloud, "the senator in my pocket" right out loud, too?
Robert| 10.19.10 @ 7:39AM
Puppets never arrest their puppet master. Soros is Goldfinger. Life imitates fantasy, only we can't walk out of the theater!
After 11/2 Goldfinger will more resemble the Wizard of Oz. VOTE like your life depended on it! IT DOES!
coal carrier| 10.19.10 @ 7:43AM
These conniving politicians should all be in prison. Where is the media? They are right there with them, hobnobbing at the cocktail parties. November 2 can’t come soon enough to begin the purge.
hemipristis| 10.28.10 @ 4:51AM
"where's the media?" LOLOLOL. That was a joke, right?
olainfree| 10.19.10 @ 7:57AM
And this is the same Feingold, who was the co-sponsor of the so-called campaign finance bill? It is to laugh at the hypocrisy of these scoundrels.
jrjr| 10.19.10 @ 4:47PM
Co-sponsored by the no-nothing, see-nothing, hear-nothing, amnesty okay -- then not okay, cross-over-the-aisle, John McShame.
Tim*| 10.19.10 @ 8:32AM
Sneaky Lil Bastard Georgie says,
“I made an exception getting involved in 2004,” Mr. Soros, 80, said in a brief interview Friday at a forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee, which promotes understanding of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
“And since I didn’t succeed in 2004, I remained engaged in 2006 and 2008. But I’m basically not a party man. I’d just been forced into that situation by what I considered the excesses of the Bush administration.”
Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”
After Bush's re-election, Soros and other donors backed a new political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance which supported the goals of the U.S. Democratic Party.Soros supported the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which many hoped would end "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Soros has made soft money donations to 527 organizations that he says do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.
Dee , Mesa Az| 10.21.10 @ 11:50PM
Soros in an interview Nov 2007 quote" I know exactly where the dollar will be next year" with a laugh. what happened Sept 15, next year was our early Oct surprise with Hanky Panky Paulson. I think they had to move it up ASAP Palin was leading in the polls mid Sept.
SOMEBODY HAD TO START A CRISIS!!!!!
Has anbody got ideas for a book called "How to manipulate the economy and get away with it again?"
Ken (Old Texican| 10.19.10 @ 8:42AM
WOW Folks,
I just read a local story... we had a 200% bigger turnout on the first day of early voting yesterday than turned out in 2006.
.....Yah think people are anxious to vote the bums out?
Check your local sources and get back to us here with what is going on in your areas' voting turn outs OK?
wodiej| 10.19.10 @ 3:15PM
Early voting in Indiana is busy. I voted yesterday and there was a steady stream of people.
On The Take| 10.19.10 @ 7:05PM
You really think all the crooks will have nothing to do with vote tampering etc. ?
Really?
No, really?
hoads| 10.19.10 @ 8:46AM
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in our corrupt government. Nothing would have been known if not for the leaked memo so how often does inside info get leaked like this--probably next to nil.
The fact is, our entire government has been co-opted by these nefarious "secret" groups--they are the ones writing these gargantuan bills. We need to start shining the light on these groups who seem to have the ears of our legislators.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.19.10 @ 9:14AM
What makes all this possible is the power grab inside the beltway and the article pinpoints how easy it is to corrupt absolute power.
scythe| 10.19.10 @ 10:53AM
Soros has partnered with Obama to destroy USA. When the hell is there going to be an investigation of this demon?
Stephanie| 10.19.10 @ 1:08PM
Don't you mean BOTH of these demons? Some of the pics of obama lately have been downright scary lookin'!
Yosemeti Sam| 10.20.10 @ 2:23AM
Um, do not overlook the closeted Dorian Gray portraits of the Leftoid backstream media - PEN1 - absent from true views of them.
Patrick| 10.19.10 @ 1:52PM
Most of what Soros does is legal, since he made sure the law was crafted to fit his machinations.
Horrifically unethical and insidious, yes, but legal. That's McCain-Feingold for you though.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.20.10 @ 2:31AM
Spot on!
Irony of ironies though - McGoo gets reelected and FeinRust gets the boot.
Must be the clarifying nature of - a CHEESE state.
What is it about bi-polar Arizonians anyway?
Napolitano. McGoo. Can't Arizonians get on the same page?
Nunya| 10.19.10 @ 11:07AM
Mr. Lord, excellent article!! If there was a mainstream media journalist with a shred of integrity, this would make the national news.
I've said for some time that I thought Obozo was an empty suit puppet for Soros, it appears he's not the only one. The Justice Department should investigate this, but we know they won't. They are puppets as well, and will protect their master.
Mr. Soros and his minions are contemptible, vile, and an abomination to this Republic. His policies are aimed at destroying this country so he can make more money. He's shorting the dollar and buying gold--because he hates capitalism?? No, he just hates freedom and is doing everything he can to enslave all of us.
May he rot in hell.
Mimi| 10.19.10 @ 11:48AM
Is he getting people to " BUY GOLD ". So he can short that....Why isn't he deported... nothing but TROUBLE. Where did all the 401k money go in 2008?...mmmmm!
surf66| 10.19.10 @ 12:17PM
so DO something about it.
RacerJim| 10.19.10 @ 12:40PM
OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE / ELIGIBILITY Rally in Washington on Saturday, October 23, 2010 – 12 Noon to 4PM.
Join us in DOING something about it!
RCV| 10.19.10 @ 1:52PM
It's Fruitcake Day in Washington!
Yosemeti Sam| 10.20.10 @ 2:38AM
Surely you must agree a protected CONSTITUTIONALLY-wise exercisized expression of freedom of speech.
You want Fruitcake Day?
Try the BHO White House - day by day.
Um, BTW, might you know the whereabouts of that Mao Zoo Dung White Christmas tree ornament?
You seem to be so - in the know.
RCV| 10.20.10 @ 12:50PM
I'll check with my sources, Sam, and get right back to you.
RCV| 10.20.10 @ 12:57PM
Sam - I've been assured that the President will make up for it this year by decorating the WH with pictures of Christine O'Donnell in a witch's outfit.
Patriot| 10.20.10 @ 6:26PM
I'd take a free-market witch over a freedom killing commie like Soros anyday, clown.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.20.10 @ 11:04PM
Pictures - equal in size to those depicting Pelosi on her broom?
LOL.
hemipristis| 10.28.10 @ 4:51AM
A Barney Frank holiday?
Al Adab| 10.19.10 @ 12:22PM
Saddest of all is the fact this is even a discussion. That we have so many of our own elected officials willing to collaborate in harm to their own country should deeply disturb all of us.
What do they gain from office that is so intoxicating that they foreswear themselves to obtain it? Money? Power? Position? Whatever the answer, it must be removed from the package. While it still exists, it will entice and subvert even the best of us.
RacerJim| 10.19.10 @ 12:37PM
All well and good Mr Lord, but you forgot the most important question.
What if Secret Foreign Donor Money -- transfered hundreds/thousands of times in very small amounts via the internet to the presidential campaign fundraising organization of a sitting U.S. Senator who reneged on his promise to accept FEC funding thereby exempting his campaign donations from FEC scrutiny -- were used to elect that U.S. Senator to POTUS?
Patrick| 10.19.10 @ 1:55PM
Oh, it was, there were stories on it.
Not that it really matters, since Democrats are immune to self-reflection, guilt, or remorse.
Hypocrisy is a quarrel that wounds only Republicans.
Steph| 10.19.10 @ 12:40PM
Democracy 21 lists their supporters on their website
http://www.democracy21.org/ind.....&SEC;={BF5ECB7D-47F4-42A2-B73D-2655EA0A19AE}&DE;={AE98C976-26CE-4A0C-AEEE-9B01501A54FC}
Aelfgyva| 10.19.10 @ 1:33PM
This entry is coming to you from Wisconsin, the state that elected and re-elected this fraud for the last 18 years. I wish you all could witness the TV campaign he is waging against his opponent, who is an upstanding man with a history of successful business ownership and employment practices. Feingold is flooding the airwaves with spots that are (and this is not an exaggeration) outright and blatant lies. They aren't even disguised anymore. Deceit, canards, mendacity and bald prevarication. He accurately reflects what the Democrat Party has become: Two-faced elites who have only one goal, the retention of power to impose control on us all and neuter the Constitution. This man and his party have become the true enemy of the people.
Typical Feingold/Barrett Dem| 10.19.10 @ 2:01PM
Lies! Vicious lies! I will have you reported to Party Headquarters!
Komrades, do not worry, we will have enough vodka, cigarettes, and fictitious names to stop these evil capitalist pigs in November!
wodiej| 10.19.10 @ 2:17PM
"Evil prevails when good men do NOTHING." Edmund Burke
Milwaukee| 10.19.10 @ 5:32PM
Last night I got a phone call from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal asking why I don't resubscribe. I explained it was the leftist politics of the paper. I will bet anything they will give this the same exemplary courage that they gave the New Black Panther voting intimidation case. Right. None. If these allegations are true Mr. Feingold should be going to prison.
hemipristis| 10.28.10 @ 4:53AM
I've told the NYT the Hawaii papers, TIme, Newsweek & Playboy the same thing (I like my porn free and without leftist politics, thank you)
Milwaukee| 10.19.10 @ 5:33PM
Coverage. I meant "same coverage" not "same courage". Since they are snivelling cowards, courage is something they lack.
Carol| 10.19.10 @ 10:40PM
I was going to reply to your first comment but a troll got in the way.
I'm in Colorado and the despicable Obama rubberstamp Michael Bennett is running disgusting ads against Ken Buck.
Lies, more lies and more lies on top of that.
Let's hope the people of both our states vote for the decent guys.
e Track from Saq| 10.19.10 @ 7:08PM
Does anybody really believe that if we don't induce,shall we say a little hang up,in these monsters that are wrecking our world that any of us survive.Ponder the stakes I mean seriously.There is no living with these democratic zombies.Dead to reason,while we have blood in our veins these strange folks seem to have acid.They will keep coming and coming and coming until we all are infected or dead and I mean really.
michigander_sandusky| 10.19.10 @ 9:08PM
If our founding fathers could somehow magically come back to life I believe their first agenda item would be to organize a second revolution. American politics is an ugly sewer.
Marc Jeric| 10.20.10 @ 12:40AM
Soros ia a currency speculator - he does not give a damn about the USA. After Abu Hussein al-Mombassa (or wherever in Kenya that marxist Muslim was born) is communizing America, with one only object that Soros wants - the demise of the dollar. Then his short positions in the dollar market can be bought back with an enormous multi-trillion dollar profit. He has done that in four other countries already - his trillions are not a fruit of his industrial investments but of his destruction of various countries' currencies and the resulting trading in those same currencies.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.20.10 @ 3:15AM
I do not believe that our military, FBI,
assorted intelligence agencies and
'concerned citizenry' cum NRA membership
are indifferent to the spectre of BHO et
al ilk coveting the prize of socializing/communizing America.
300 Spartans - went a long way to disrupt certain grandiose ambitions.
A plurality of 300 million Americans cum battle-hardened vets may equally go a long way to disrupt grandiose ambitions by the Leftoid Democrat party.
ghostwriter| 10.20.10 @ 3:54AM
Recall our near orgasmic excitement over the election of Scott Brown? Are you still in his thrall? Are you having a little buyer's remorse? Do you even know how he is voting?
I note above a lot of "Wait until Nov. 2!" Yes, wait until November 2. For the next two weeks we will dream of Utopia. Visions of sugar plums dance in our heads. And then the newly elected will spend more time fund raising for the next election than they will reading the Health Care BiIl that most of us have already read and don't like. Republicans are already talking of "reforming it" when what we need is repealing it.
But OMG, if we repeal it,we are just going to really look like the Party of No - and everyone is going to think it is some kind of Racist Rejection of Obamacare - and we really need to be loved. So, altogether now, why don't we jut slit our wrists and get it over with.
I will forever remember Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich sitting on little chairs on a lawn, finding common ground to sell us down the Potomac one more time.
They will do it because that is the way the game is played. Once they get to Washington, all their energy is focused on staying there. And burning the midnight oil reading long bills just gets in the way of their raison d'etre. So, never give your heart to a politician, he/she will break it every time.
I was called a cynic by another poster last week - not unkindly because he said he was more of a cynic than I am. I wonder why a realist is so often called a cynic.
I may be wrong, but I doubt it.
ghostwriter| 10.20.10 @ 4:05AM
If I have rained on everyone's parade, I am sorry. I will hum a few bars of "I Can Dream, Can't I?" for you.
I would be more optimistic if I had heard a single utterance by a single Republican as to how they plan to round up the the stampede.
You don't start Vast Projects with Half-Vast Ideas.
I'd welcome even a half vast one, which I haven't heard, either.
Mark Twain said it best. "Thunder is impressive, but it is lightin' that does the job!"
ghostwriter| 10.20.10 @ 4:12AM
Oh, geez, I can't even spell lightnin'. You'd be on the ropes, too if you lived in California and Jerry Brown was saying we are a RICH state and we are going to give a college education to even undocumented - - and he is ahead in the polls with that crap.
And that little chipmunk, Barbara Boxer is ahead of Carly Fiorina.
L.Banks| 10.20.10 @ 12:25PM
Thank you for the article on Soros and his influence on various Senators and political officials. Corruption abounds doesn't it? Old George is right in the thick of it with no regrets. I do not believe for a minute he is accepting this predicted Republican landslide because he has too many agents already embedded in our financial, political and economic system and in Washington. I would not be surprised to have him selling off parts of America to the highest bidder such as the Chinese.
A very close friend of mine works for the government told me how the Chinese are building up their military forces and lauching all types of GPS and other satellites and will be the number one military force on this planet. Then he mentioned how China instituted the one child one family program years ago and a lot of Chinese did away with any girls that were born to have a son. Now, he says what do you have in this country, but a lot of young men so what do you do with them...send them to war!
You know people we have enough enemies who want to do away with us outside our borders to allow someone or anyone like George Soros to do away with us from within. Pass this article on and if you do not like any of the candidates, run for office yourself
C. Barndorfer| 10.20.10 @ 1:59PM
Where's the proof for any of this or are we just supposed to buy your book in the hopes that all the info is in there? Do you at least have a scan of the alleged memo? Anything?
ghostwriter| 10.20.10 @ 4:04PM
Amazing, isn't it that we all sit out here with reliable knowledge of what George Soros is doing to us and the very people representing us in Congress would not refuse a donation from him. And can't write a law to stop his money flow because it might also stop their own!
We all have a friend "in the know" in government. . . Quote the friend and name the friend and he will deny it. And he won't be your friend anymore.
Two wars ago, When Bush "41" was saving Kuwait, a young man I encountered had some inside scoop (he had a friend in the Pentagon) about how many body bags had been ordered to bring home the residue of that fiasco.
Well, he reckoned without the "back-up lights" on Saddam's tanks, if they had any.
My informed friend railed on about George H.W. was...and Colin Powell was. . . until I said, "You know, it is a real shame you cannot leave your important work here and get back to Washington and tell them where they are going wrong.
But that would have entailed leaving his deck chair on the back of the aluminum can re-cycle truck he was in charge of. Guess his friend in the Pentagon was shaggin' cans in the mess hall, there.
The Sleeping Giant has not awakened - it is just having nightmares. It is crying for Mommy (Tea Partyers) to bring a glass of warm milk to make things all better, so he can go back to sleep.
And, Bardorfer, come off it with your "alleged" crap. Go look at Obama's alleged house in Chicago and the alleged vacant lot next door given to him by Tony Rezko - get yourself an alleged appraisal of that little chicken coop and ask yourself if there was a quid pro quo.
Where is Obama's alleged friend today? In jail, last I heard.
Find me an honest politician and I will find you one who never got elected.
Patriot| 10.20.10 @ 6:37PM
"People get the government they deserve." Thomas Jefferson
You're not a cynic, Ghostwriter, you're a realist.
We've allowed our government to become corrupt, and WE ARE the only ones who can clean it up!
Unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
eaglesdontflock| 10.20.10 @ 6:50PM
Axelrod is awfully certain they will retain control. If that is the case, we can no longer trust our electoral system. Soros is a plague.
C.Barndorfer| 10.20.10 @ 6:58PM
Ghostwriter, I say "alleged" because this editorial offers no proof of any kind of any wrong doing. You're obviously content to take the author at his word. I am not.
And I don't see what Obama has to do with any of this. This article is about Feingold.
Willey| 10.20.10 @ 8:20PM
This article is about the corruption of the treasonous Left, including Obama, the ACORN Community Organizer in Chief.
Troll.
JeffT| 10.20.10 @ 9:57PM
Glenn Beck has revealed much about this nefarious and mysterious man. He was dedicated to getting rid of George Bush. He was instrumental in getting Obama elected. His Tides Foundation and its lengthy and slimy tentacles spread across the political landscape. If we had real journalists, instead of memo-takers and fax readers, we would ALL know about this guy. But since he is now buying "journalists" at The Huffington Post, Media Matters and NPR, the waters will get even murkier.
dareisay| 10.20.10 @ 11:29PM
I read ever story I find on Soros, and still wonder why so many news organizations interview him, like he is some kind of a god...small "g".
Everyone knows what he has done to other countries, the British Sterling, the bank deal in France, and there is nothing they can catch him on?
At best, he should be in a prison cell...I remember the USA used to go after traitors and commies in this country!
Soros is also the one that funds illegal alien's marches in our streets, while our tax dollars are given to LaRaza, MALDEF....Soros wants no borders between our country, Mexico and Canada.
A few weeks ago, an article out of Britain said Soros was trying to get one world currency, the dollar is dead, and talked up China!
I am ashamed that our country allows so many immigrants here, that have absolute hatred for the USA and many want only to get on the government teat!
Patriot| 10.21.10 @ 12:19AM
Forget the immigrants who hate our country--it's the native born "Blame America Firsters" I can't stand!
ghostwriter| 10.21.10 @ 3:55AM
Barndorfer - I am not "content" about anything. Haven't been for years.
Not since Ted Kennedy could leave a drowning woman, show up at her funeral wearing a neck brace and go on serving in the Senate , drunk or shakily sober, for he rest of his life. No alleging there - he was never even arrested. Oh, wait, he allegedly did not know she was in the car, did not know she did not get out.
Not since BIll Clinton could lie to the press daily - "I did not have sex with that woman" and have it accepted by everyone but Mike Isikoff of Newsweek. Since we all saw Bill Clinton lie to a Grand Jury, I guess we don't have to call that alleged, do we?
On a local scale -
I am not content when 15 witnesses can see a punk empty a gun into a Seven Eleven clerk, the shooting caught on surveillance video and next day the paper will refer to him as the "suspect" who "allegedly" shot the clerk. And the arresting officers have to call him "the gentleman". The news article cannot describe him by name if he is under 18 and if over that age and still on the loose cannot even describe him in a racially profiling way.
And in California, if we ever get them to Death Row and we don't have the kind of lethal injection they prefer, we cannot go on with the execution. We had such a case just last month - I wrote a letter suggesting they just strangle him with his own shoelaces, like he did his victim. So you can see how I don't mind omitting the word "alleged" when referring to criminals and lowlife politicians taking funds from a lowlife George Soros.
One might say you are "content" to absolve everyone of every crime in the face of overwhelming evidence. One might, but I won't. I don't know you. And you don't know me either - which did not stop you.
Giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and never investigating anything is what got us in this mess, Dorf.
The last thorough, run 'em to ground, then grind them into the ground investigation we had in this country was when they were out for Richard Nixon's blood.
C.Barndorfer| 10.21.10 @ 9:12AM
None of what you wrote has anything to do with the allegations against Feingold and I never said not to investigate anything. In fact, I highly encourage any investigation into the claims made in this editorial, because until some proof emerges this whole article seems like a load of BS.
Let's start with the memo. Where is it and how do you or the author know it was from George Soros?
ghostwriter| 10.21.10 @ 2:48PM
Let's start with author's reputation for honesty, knowing Washington sources upon whom he can rely. Also, when a story has been spiked by the press, there is a political reason for not covering it. UNLESS IT IS A REPUBLICAN.
Sure, we can just stall out "until proof emerges" - which is usually after the election, Or never.
Proof does not emerge. You dig for it. This is a shovel-ready job.
None of what I had anything to do with Feingold - what I was alluding to was the delicate use of "alleged" we seemed to have adopted from Miss Manners.
We can go into Feingold's history and discuss that, if you want. It's like playing whack-a-mole, knock one sleaze merchant down and another one pops up.
Try this, you are a really rich old guy in failing health. You want your family well provided for and your fortune protected. Look at the roster of the Senate.. Run down it, Which would you appoint trustee of your estate?
Put Senator and money in the same room. When he/she leaves, your money goes with it. He needs it to get re-elected. And no mater how seedy the deal or dealer - its "Show Me The Money".
C.Barndorfer| 10.21.10 @ 3:16PM
"Sure, we can just stall out "until proof emerges""
Why do we need to stall at all? If this article is true, then the proof should be readily available from the author.
And I'm happy to talk about Feingold's history, but first I want to talk about the allegations in this article.
Again, where's the proof?
Willey| 10.21.10 @ 3:38PM
Watch Glenn Beck--he offers so much proof of Soros' treachery that Soros has donated $1,00o,oo0 to Media Matters to shut Glenn up!
George Soros is a threat to our freedom and he must be stopped.
Get him, Glenn!!
ghostwriter| 10.21.10 @ 10:41PM
We know Jeffrey Lord's reputation for the truth. You don't write for serious publications like TAS, Weekly Standard, National Review or guest on Paul Gigot's Journal show if your facts. opinions and analysis don't bear scrutiny.
We can google Jeffrey Lord, know his educational background, jobs he has held, everything.
Sadly, we know nothing about Barnsdorfer but his proclivity for lying on the floor, kicking and screaming , "I need proof." Give him proof - - he will say, " I need more proof! How do I know this proof is proof?"
" Barnsdorfer, if you are "happy to talk about Feingold's history", tell us what you know and what you think of Feingold.
All you have said in several postings is "these are allegations , where is the proof" - - obviously you did not get past the hypothetical preamble to Lord's factual material that describes just how Feingold operates and the secret fuel of his operation.
Armchair Experts critiquing the work of real experts remind me of a guy I heard of once - He knew 100 ways to make love to a woman, but he didn't know a woman.
C.Barndorfer| 10.22.10 @ 9:35AM
False allegations don't become true simply because the person making them has a certain educational background or job history.
I pity the innocent man that gets you on his jury...
stonefellow| 10.21.10 @ 11:30PM
Soros is from Hungary. The Socialists have destroyed the economy in post-Soviet Hungary. And now, Soros wants to do the same thing here.
He needs killing.
Patriot| 10.21.10 @ 11:37PM
Killing is a little harsh. Complete and utter public humiliation is enough for me.
BTW, Soros is a Communist.
The Major| 10.25.10 @ 2:17AM
To Patriot. I for 1 do not doubt your Patriotism
but you say killing is too harsh?? Conspiracies DO
work,,from time to time...Think about it,,.
Besides, do you really believe that ANY of the Left-wing media,,papers,,blogs,,TV news,,Cable News,,,would actually try to HUMILIATE the hand that feeds them??? Think about it!!! If one of them did it,,the rest would turn on them like rabid wolves,,to defend their lord & benefactor.
My opinion only.
DanO| 10.22.10 @ 1:05PM
My firm bid on a staffing order to hire government employees in Lake Co. Ohio. The bid was won by a Canadian Company called CGI. The funding of the project came for the "Stimulus." Further, CGI was hired by the US government to help other government agencies distribute the "Stimulus" funds effectively. So the Canadian company was hired by our government to distribute our tax dollars to themselves.
BTW- approximately 700 CGI employees contributed to Obama's Presidential campaign.
Our tax dollars went to pay off Obama's foreign cronies.
Mathilde| 10.23.10 @ 1:02AM
There are those who question Soros' bio in that the years between his supposed penniless arrival in Britain and his rise to immense wealth are rather murky. Given his stated dedication to Communism and a new world order, it makes one wonder if he wasn't so much "self-made" as "bankrolled" by "foreign sources" who have an interest in destabilizing the US economy and overwhelming the government. His "philanthropic" organizations not only infest the US; they operate in every part of the world. Can he really have accomplished this on his own or is he one of the serpents on the Medusa head of international communism? Sadly, he is Goliath and the Tea Party collectively (no pun intended) is David. Pray for divine intervention.
The Major| 10.25.10 @ 1:58AM
Maybe influence 'hustlers' like Soros should be "offered a deal he can't refuse". Maybe he'll get the hint & move to China like that other 'hustler' Maurice Strong. When you have that much money,,you can pay people to hide your past,,sound familiar???
The Major| 10.25.10 @ 2:08AM
To Mathilde of 10/23/10 , you are RIGHT. Soros' background is murky to say the least. He buys currency,,drives it up & sells it short. Makes Billions while the rest of the world suffers. Remember,Mathilde,,David started with only ONE little rock,,,knocked Goliath down,,then used Goliath's OWN sword to cut off his head. This can be done to any man,,even Billionaires,,,
financially speaking ,,of course. Jefferson said that sometimes a little revolution is a good thing.So lets just wait & see what happens Nov. 2
Pass the word,,,,, V O T E