Ann... Ann.. Ann.... You do have your head up your ass.... but like the proverbial clockon the wall, you do happen to tell the right time every so often.... I agee about Dick 'the blooming AssHole' Blumenthal.... although perhaps not on all of the same grounds as you.....
so.... I wonder what Ann thinks about Lyin' Joe Lieberman... aka the Bi-sexual Bi- partisan who screws both Democrats and Republicans... both up the Ass.... (HAR).... nominal9 On Oct 13, 8:16 pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > *There's a Reason They Call Him 'Dick'* > by Ann Coulter > Posted 10/13/2010 ET > Updated 10/13/2010 ET > > http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39409 > > If the Bush administration ever treated terrorism suspects the way > Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal treats law-abiding citizens > and small businesses, even conservatives would have blanched. > > This activist, interventionist Democrat -- like his identical, slightly less > oily twin, Eliot Spitzer -- decided at age 5 he was going to be a U.S. > senator and then the first Jewish president. And he doesn't care how many > lives he has to destroy to get there. > > Currently, Blumenthal is running for the U.S. Senate against Linda McMahon > in Connecticut. He must be stopped. > > Even his ideological ally, The New York *Times*, thinks he must be stopped. > That paper ran a front-page expose on Blumenthal's lies about having served > in Vietnam, violating a century-old Times tradition of never printing > information unflattering to a Democrat. > > Blumenthal apologized for lying about being in Vietnam, saying, "I take full > responsibility." Who else was he considering blaming? The voices in his > head? > > Among Blumenthal's taxpayer-funded citizen-persecution projects was the one > he waged against Gina Kolb, owner of Computer Plus Center in East Hartford. > > After selling $17.2 million worth of computers and servers to the state in > 2001, Kolb found herself being sued by Blumenthal for $1.75 million for > allegedly overcharging the state $500,000. > > Publicity-whore Blumenthal sent out an accusatory press release about Kolb, > saying: "No supplier should be permitted to shortchange or overcharge the > state without severe consequences." > > Soon thereafter, Kolb was arrested at her home on seven first-degree larceny > charges, courtesy of Connecticut's crazily hyperactive attorney general. > > Wonder why you have a $4 billion deficit, Nutmeggers? Blumenthal's endless > investigations into responsible, law-abiding citizens like Kolb have now > cost more than the entire Iraq War. (And that's just the cost of the paper > for Blumenthal's 12 billion press releases!) > > A court dismissed all charges against Kolb and her company in 2008. But not > before this female businesswoman had her company completely shattered by the > pathologically ambitious attorney general. > > I'm sorry, I know you need to be on television every single day, Dick, but > that's not enough of a reason to destroy innocent citizens' lives, much less > use taxpayer money to do so. > > Kolb was far from the only innocent citizen persecuted by Blumenthal. The > reason we know her story is that, instead of moving as far away from > Connecticut as she could, Kolb turned around and sued the state for > violating her constitutional rights. > > The jury agreed, awarding her $18 million for Blumenthal's "pattern of > conduct" that destroyed Kolb's business and impugned her integrity. > > Noticeably, the attorney general who spends most of his waking hours phoning > reporters, holding press conferences and issuing press releases did not make > a peep about Kolb's total vindication in court, despite his having earlier > blackened her name. Perhaps he was busy attending a fake Vietnam veterans' > reunion that day. > > To the contrary, Blumenthal continued using the power of his office to > persecute Kolb. This is the problem with government officials using taxpayer > money to further their own political ambitions: No one could tell him to cut > his losses and stop harassing Kolb. > > Blumenthal filed a blizzard of motions -- at taxpayer expense -- appealing > the jury's verdict in favor of Kolb. One of them finally succeeded in > getting a judge to reduce the damages to Kolb, who presumably is now living > in Hawaii under an assumed name so Blumenthal doesn't start making crank > calls to her. > > (She should go to Vietnam! Blumenthal will never find her there!) > > Connecticut taxpayers spent millions of dollars harassing this innocent > businesswoman, successfully destroying a profitable, job-creating computer > company in the state and one law-abiding taxpayer in the process. Thanks, > Dick! > > Blumenthal's 24-hour publicity office managed to produce a gleaming press > release on the reduction of Kolb's damages award, in which he vowed to > "continue fighting to overturn this verdict." > > Asked by Charles Kochakian of the New Haven *Register *about the case and > whether Blumenthal ever released a statement when a victim of his legal > harassment was vindicated, Blumenthal essentially said: No one is ever > vindicated. Just because no wrongdoing was found, he said, doesn't mean > wrongdoing didn't occur. > > Welcome to Connecticut, where you're guilty until proved innocent (and you > can never be proved innocent). > > Most shockingly, Blumenthal said he would never issue a press release about > one of his publicly accused targets being vindicated because "new evidence > may well emerge." > > "New evidence may well emerge" that Dick Blumenthal is a child molesting ax > murderer. But until it does, no one has a right to say so. Hello? ACLU? > Heard of Dick Blumenthal? > > Everyone in Connecticut knows Blumenthal's name, largely on account of his > daily press conferences for nearly two decades as attorney general, > announcing lawsuits to combat every minor inconvenience. Arby's served > jalapeno poppers at 114 degrees? Blumenthal is holding a press conference at > noon! > > This hyperactive, publicity-mad lunatic is constantly announcing new > lawsuits far beyond the purview of his office, like some New England version > of Hugo Chavez. This won him the title: "Worst Attorney General in the > Country" from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. > > He's sued power companies for contributing to "global warming," asking the > courts to impose cap and trade -- a bill so absurd neither Obama nor the > Democratic Senate will touch it. > > He's sued gun companies, trying to hold them responsible for criminal acts > by third parties involving guns. > > He's sued tobacco companies so he could extort millions of dollars for his > old law firm and other legal cronies overseeing the shakedown -- I mean > "settlement." > > Blumenthal is now in a tight race with Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate. I > understand why Connecticut would like to get rid of him, but that's no > reason to foist this menace on the rest of the country. How about sending > him to Vietnam? -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
