Nothing short of a blood oath to the conservatives will suffice at this point: Mitt Romney must be prepared to fight, kill and die to repeal ObamaCare. His poor choices of advisers, mealy-mouthed attacks on O’Care, and weasel-worded self-defense of RomneyCare make it clear he is only slightly inclined to repeal the greatest threat to the nation in 100 years. Mike Leavitt must go. Not | Read More »
AK Rep Don Young (R) got into a verbal tussle with a historian witness named Brinkley at a congressional hearing over the ANWR and drilling, etc, ad infinitum. The actual content of the “shut up” “no, you shut up” event is irrelevant. What matters is the fact that I really wanted to see Brinkley climb across the tables and up the dais and beat the | Read More »
Herewith is proposed an amendment to be added to every bill until it sneaks in and passes. The Honesty in Taxation Amendment This amendment removes the ability of the Federal government to withhold taxes of any kind from any persons’ paycheck or electronic pay for work. From this time forth, all taxes formerly collected before the issuance of paychecks shall be instead listed at | Read More »
The Takeaway, or 30-second pitch: If the government can’t guarantee your tiny Social Security payment, shouldn’t you be able to invest that money yourself and make twice as much, ten times as much as Social Security? The Social Security Trust Fund is empty. Congress started raiding it in the 1950s and has spent all that money. Today’s workers’ Social Security taxes pay today’s retirees’ payments. | Read More »
John Gruber’s Daringfireball.net led me to http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=1 by Nicholas Kristof. Gruber’s DF lead-in posed an interesting question. Nicholas Kristof on U.S. Income Inequality Nicholas Kristof argues that the U.S. is at the level of plutocratic banana republics: CEOs of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the | Read More »
Recent news accounts of a closed-door Senate meeting/luncheon mention “moderate” Republicans like Scott Brown of MA wondering aloud if there was still room for “moderates” in the Republican party. In a word, Senator, No. That is if you define a moderate as someone who, to steal Peggy Noonan’s analogy from today’s WSJ Online, starts negotiating from the 18-inch mark on the 36-inch Yardstick. A digression: | Read More »
The grammar is awful, but this party-first stuff is guaranteeing Bobby Bright will return to the House. Here are stories on the uproar as the local Republicans attempt to punish Harri Anne Smith, but only incite the hatred of the conservative base. I, for one, will be giving serious thought to tearing down Republican candidate signs everywhere along the rights-of-way until I get my pound | Read More »
This movement was defined in Boston more than 200 years ago, regardless of what any modern group or faction might claim. That’s why the name Tea Party was chosen by Rick Santelli and others: It is a known definition, shared and understood to a large degree without further clarification. It is not a laser beam. It is not a sniper’s bullet. It is a battering | Read More »
When I began using Apple® Macintosh™ computers, I was the only guy at a tiny Alabama newspaper who was not afraid to learn how to make the little box with the rainbow logo do what we wanted it to do – namely print to the monster imagesetter made by VariTyper. What I found was so gloriously understandable that it surpassed simplicity. This little Mac had | Read More »
According to HSA Sec. Janet Napolitano: In the pre-dawn summer of 1944, nearly 200,000 troops from the allied nations attempted an invasion of Normandy. More than 90 percent of the ships sank with all hands on board due to the overloading of ammunition not accounted for in the ships’ manifests. Of the troops sent, less than 1 percent reached the beaches. In the face of | Read More »
RE: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/100152 Wehner’s kernel is that Glenn Beck’s belief in a greater organization orchestrating the destruction of what America stands for is angst-mongering and threatens the Conservative movement in addition to the Progressives. Abso-freakin’-lutely. And not just because it doesn’t take a conspiracy for like-minded people to nudge an entire nation toward socialism. It just takes similar goals and patience. Think Comintern. If you define the | Read More »
From Human Events’ own site. And a money quote: Republicans, not surprisingly, overwhelmingly support replacing everyone in the Congress. Their views have not changed. But Republican voters are disenchanted with their team as much as the Congress itself: 69% of GOP Voters say Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the party base. Conservatives have continued to put the GOP on notice that the Party | Read More »
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Is Apple’s iTunes App Store rejection policy. They routinely, or randomly (who can tell?) reject apps for things like using a clock image to represent time. Reason? Because Apple uses a clock image to represent time on it’s apps. One problem: said rejection was the 3rd version of the app in question to go online — and all the previous versions had used the same | Read More »
The American people do not trust you, either. Until Republicans prove they can fight off the special interests and stop the wild spending, they are as untrusted by the masses as the Dems. So many Redstaters apparently think that the thing which is bad for the Dems is, de facto, good for Republicans. Sure, we may get elected in droves in 2010, but if we | Read More »
Just watched Michelle Malkin on Glenn Beck’s FNC show. And boy is she wrong about how the American people feel about politicians. Malkin tried to link the radicalism, anarchy and bullying of the wacky left to the bad opinions Americans have about politicians. Democratic politicians, in her way of thinking. I beg to differ. Sure, she is right insofar as she went, but she is | Read More »
Perhaps we need to push a few buttons, hard. The national socialists groups in America are attempting to drown out any September 11/12 protests by proclaiming there should be a national day of Service at that time. Hm. I think maybe those of us who own businesses should simply shut them down and send our employees home for the entire week after 9/11, with the | Read More »
In a previous diary, I touched on the disconnect between (mostly) Federal representatives and the American public. I think the roots of this disconnect are almost completely tied to the social and economic structure of Washington DC, and that of the major state capitals’ political echo chambers. This disconnect is largely a product of group-think spawned not-so-much by snobbish elitism as by living the life | Read More »
What the left (and right) is missing is the germ of WHY people are coming to town halls. They think we are scared by rumors or misunderstanding. We are not scared. More of US have read the bill(s) and their assorted proposed amendments than members of Congress or their staffs or the wacky bunch of lobbyists who wrote most of it. What we are is | Read More »
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