No bounce in the polls resulted from the BambiCare/Race-Baiting press conference July 22. Obama’s approval rating among likely voters sank under 50% on July 24, where it remains 5 days later.

Bummer.

I wonder how an across-the-board income tax cut, corporate tax cut, and capital gains tax cut might go over?

Just askin’. No reason at all……..

It looks like, due to popular demand, we’re going to be doing quick turn around on the RedState Gathering and spending a year planning it.

Considering we’ve put this one together in about 3 months, imagine the possibilities of a year of planning.

This Jim Geraghty post about the travails of Rep. Waxman, and this Leon Wolf one about the travails of Senators Dodd and Conrad, reminded me that I wanted to point two things out to our Democratic colleagues.

1. If you hadn’t ignored the fact that two of your Senators were involved in long-standing real estate shenanigans, you might not be facing a situation where one of them is currently destroying the narrative of health care rationing;
2. If you hadn’t encouraged the Speaker of the House to encourage putting in charge of the Energy committee somebody who hates seeing more of it produced, the equivocators on that committee might not be so frantic about having to vote for a health care rationing bill.

Karma. It’s what’s for dinner.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

We’ll find the time.

Here they are.

Besides, do we REALLY want to 1) distract from the Obama Implosion; 2) set up Joe Biden, who gaffes in multiple languages and continents, to become the President? If Obama wasn’t natural-born I’d support a special amendment for Obama just to prevent Biden from becoming President. Yikes.

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), has been a United States Senator since 1981. He has never voted ‘no’ on a Supreme Court nominee, out of the 11 or 12 he’s voted on. He’s one of those guys who preaches comity, getting along, all that jazz.

But even he can’t stomach Sotomayor.

The hoped-for filibuster never had a chance, but the Obama administration’s magical plan to sail a blatantly leftist and activist nominee through the Senate with little appreciable resistance has foundered on its own idiocy.

They played the expected race card weapon with ferocity, but the Republicans nevertheless exposed her on cross-examination, and her unconvincing lies about her own record and her own beliefs impressed neither left nor right. It won’t be 60-40, but it also won’t be a replay of radical ACLU counsel Ruth Ginsburg’s nomination in 1993, which went 96-3.

According to Mike Hendrix, it’s the people who don’t want to talk about things like this at all, at all:

In The Atlantic Monthly, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead noted that the “relationship [between single-parent families and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime. This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature. The nation’s mayors, as well as police officers, social workers, probation officers, and court officials, consistently point to family break up as the most important source of rising rates of crime.”

Let me repeat: Control for single-parent families and there are no differences between the races when it comes to crime.

It’s hard to argue that there isn’t a reluctance in this country to discuss the possibility that some of our cultural choices are maybe not working out so hot. Even alluding to it feels kind of strange, really. Kind of taboo – and not in the kinky way; in the ‘we do not speak of this matter’ way.

My RedState colleague Francis Cianfrocca will be doing a daily podcast over at The New Ledger called, obviously, ‘Coffee and Markets.’ Today’s edition is on the current status of the economy, specifically the recession: and how we’re going to discover that ‘ending the recession’ is not the same as ‘things are better now.’ Check it out.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

A hat tip to Drudge for finding this video clip of John Conyers’ speech to the National Press Club on Friday.

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

(H/T: Instapundit) He does a discreet amount of I-told-you-so in this bit about just how useless that ‘stimulus’ package was for the economy:

…which is perfectly within his rights to do so, given that he turned out to be correct. But it’s actually not too late to do something about that; as Senator Kyl (R-AZ) notes, we’ve not even spent 10% of the money allocated as of yet. We could stop, reset, and try again with something that’s something more than merely a vast payoff for Democrat-friendly groups and factions. Something efficient, cheaper, and targeted with specific goals in mind. Easiest thing in the world to do, really.

All the President has to do is get up there and admit that he was wrong, and that we were right, and he needs our help to fix his mess.

Crossposted to Moe Lane