Say what you like about the NRCC: they have a firm grasp of the essentials, here.
Mike Pence Calls On Colleagues To Choose Freedom-will they?
“This debate is not just about health care, it’s about who we are as a nation.”
“Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan.
Do we want to give over our freedoms and choices to the government, or keep them for our selves?
“In the coming hours we’re going to take a vote of incalculable significance to the American people. And we will see what our so-called ‘Blue Dog’ Democrat colleagues are made of.” -Mike Pence (R) for Indiana’s 6th Congressional District.
h/t redinbleustate
Scenes from the class struggle in Cleveland, OH*.
Or, by the flexible standards of Eugene Robinson, evidence of the ongoing civil war within the Democratic party:
In a rare two-way race between two members of a third party, a member of the Green Party is beating out a member of the Communist Party for a seat on the Cleveland City Council.
Apparently both the Green and the Commie are also Democrats; Kuchinich had shown the light of his countenance upon the latter, to no real effect (the Greenie won). Aren’t local elections fun? The people reading this should really get into their own…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
State Agents SEIZE computers from New Orleans ACORN office…
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Federal-agents-seize-computers-from-NO-ACORN-office-69391912.html
I am ALWAYS thrilled to share news from around America that focuses attention on the CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE known as ACORN!
Must Be Hard To Be A Lefty
They are arguing that any indications that Hasan was motivated by his religion should be treated as nothing more than the crutch of a madman, and that no broader conclusion can be drawn from that.
They are SIMULTANEOUSLY arguing that any indications that Hasan was motivated by stress from being deployed should be treated as indicative of a broad trend and that deployments are abusive to all soldiers everywhere.
Hmm. It’s like they have contradictlexia.
So, how badly did the administration muck up the recovery?
(H/T: AoSHQ) This badly:
We are, literally, off of the chart: when they came up with the original they apparently didn’t think that we’d have an unemployment rate above 10%. But never fear: the President has a plan. He’s going to declare that passing health care rationing is the key for improving the economy – Mickey Kaus’ facepalm, or no…
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Yes, it really is a Democrat War on the Internet
It’s not just treaties and regulations that the Democrats are using to wage war on the Internet as we know it. They’re not above using laws, too:
Internet service providers may become legally responsible for scam web sites and spam that passes over their lines if a new piece of legislation, the Investor Protection Act, gets turned into law. The act, which passed through the House Financial Services Committee today, requires ISPs to filter fraudulent sites and emails that falsely claim to be from certain brokerage firms affiliated with the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) if the ISP is “aware of facts or circumstances from which it is apparent that the material contains a misrepresentation.” If the communications are not blocked, ISPs could be liable for damages.
This is incredibly stupid. We don’t hold the USPS liable for mail fraud. ISPs should be no different.
Bill Sparkman’s death a suicide?
Via Hot Air, a report that the Bill Sparkman investigation may be taking an unexpected turn:
Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said no final conclusions have been made in the case. In recent weeks, however, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government.
Obviously, the most important thing to find out here is the truth. I admit to a little concern here: if investigators are not finding evidence of a political motivation for the killing, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Sparkman wasn’t murdered. The circumstances of the man’s death always seemed at least a little ritualized; I’m hoping that the investigators are being very careful about not prematurely coming to a conclusion.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
