Or, in which Pelosi tells the White House to get off her lawn… So a big story (at least in our circles) from Sunday was the belated admission from White House Press Tool — ahem, Secretary — Robert Gibbs that, like we’ve been saying for months, there’s actually a chance that the Democrat House Caucus will lose their majority in November. First, welcome back to | Read More »
Y’know, for a guy who constantly gets hung up on “civility,” this party-hopping pissant sure can sling the insults. The exchange, broadcast on 1210 AM’s Dom Giordano Show [but not archived on the station's site], began when Specter challenged Bachmann to articulate what, exactly, she stands for, according to a readout on the clash published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s lively Early Returns blog. Bachmann first | Read More »
He’s ticked me off big-time, this time. In a discussion on tonight’s episode of Hardball of what the Democrats’ options would be in the event of a Scott Brown victory, Chris Matthews said this: You have GOT. To be kidding me. Audie Murphy served twenty-seven months in the European Theater of World War II. At least a year of that time, it appears he was | Read More »
Ladies and Gentlemen (and the rest of you, too), MoveOn.org is panicking in Massachusetts. Here is your proof: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Adam Ruben, MoveOn.org Political Action <moveon-help@list.moveon.org> Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:51 PM Subject: Urgent: A Republican in Ted Kennedy’s seat? To: [Redacted] Democrats are at risk of losing their 60th Senate seat putting a right-winger in progressive champ Ted Kennedy’s | Read More »
Okay, I’ve waited all day for Erick to be a self-promoting blowhard, and it seems that he’s not gonna do it. So darnitall, I’m gonna do it for him. Here is our lovable fuzzball himself on Colbert: And here, in a longer segment, is the same fuzzball making an appearance on this morning’s edition of Morning Joe: Awriiiiiiight.
Mitt Romney. Please pardon my snickering. You see, I’ve been seeing Ed Morrissey and other bloggers pound the table (don’t misunderstand me, I want them to do so) about how the RNC gave Scozzy Bear a million bucks to lose a primary — and then endorse the Democrat. But I digress. The RNC was there for The Scozz, and now they’re not there for Scott | Read More »
I know, I know, Newt is on the outs with the conservative movement ever since NY-23. And quite honestly, he deserves it. But in the category of “broken clocks are right twice a day,” Newt really hits the ball out of the park in this speech. He’s aging into RINOhood, but this is excellent. More on why, after you watch the video. Toward the end | Read More »
…for the nutroots to notice his existence? In my daily exercise of trawling the interwebs for something that makes me laugh, I was skimming through the Daily Kos; and I found a headline that caught my eye: Why there will never be a right-wing dKos: and why they can’t find more/better Republicans. Now I’m always interested in the mental contortions of the opposition grassroots — | Read More »
Oh yes, I’ve done it this time. In case you’ve not seen the horrifically bad Indiana-Jones-Meets-X-Files movie, the title refers to the updated version of The Fonz jumping the shark; at one point during this movie, Indiana Jones climbs inside an old refrigerator to survive a nuclear detonation. It works. Later in the movie, we are expected to fear for his safety when he engages | Read More »
The lame-duck British Government can’t get crushed out of existence fast enough. Israeli officials reacted angrily Thursday night to a British decision to advise retailers and importers to use labels to distinguish between West Bank produce being grown in the settlements or by Palestinians. One official charged that Britain was singling out Israel and encouraging a boycott. According to a statement released by the British | Read More »
Seems there are many ways to celebrity these days. There are a few consistent themes, however: You must be ridiculously talented You must be ridiculously stupid You must be ridiculously beautiful Pick two. For starters, there’s Tiger Woods. He fits the bill of a 1-2 celebrity — very talented, but unbelievably stupid. I’m still unsure of how, exactly, one marries a Swedish supermodel; and renegs | Read More »
And now for something completely different. I am hardly the first to write about this subject, but I’ve had this subject rolling around in my head for a few weeks now…I want to talk with you (hopefully in the comments) about the collectivist philosophy of the Left. Specifically, I want to talk to you about the difference in public treatment of collectivists who have moral | Read More »
But what else is new? One of my favorite things to do in the blogosphere is fisking idiotic posts. I’m bored, it’s snowing, I’ve actually played a full game of Monopoly with my little brother…he won, but we finished. So I went looking for something fun to fisk on the DailyKos. This is a bit old, but DUDE. It’s past the make-me-angry stage, and well | Read More »
I have an idea so crazy, it just might work. I see that our lovely socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is offering an amendment to the health-insurance bill that would change the whole bill to a single-payer bill. So here’s the gist of my totally crazy, probably-won’t-actually-work, Senatorial jiu-jitsu idea: Get ten hardcore Red-State Senators to actually vote this crap into the bill. I told you | Read More »
So Saith The One. So let it be written, so let it be done. I’m being overdramatic, but this kinda ticks me off. If you don’t have the time or are too lazy to click the link to find out exactly what’s on the other side, here’s the gist of what happened at today’s Jobs Summit: The President walked into a room full of officials | Read More »
Chris Matthews is well known for his movie references — at times, they can be interminable. Before his Gone With The Wind reference last night, he most recently compared Rush Limbaugh to Bond villain Mr. Big, wishing someone would “jam a CO2 pellet in his head[...].” I’m a bit of a movie buff myself, as it happens; and I happen to be very pro-military. So | Read More »
I don’t put a whole lot of stock in the theorizing of a guy who thinks the Republican party should shrink (kick out the conservatives) to grow. That said, Frum didn’t write this; and if the following is even partially true, the White House deserves to get burned at the political stake for this. Sean Linnane writes on the FrumForum.com: Earlier this week, news broke | Read More »
I’ve been watching the media reaction to these White House party-crashing morons with growing irritation. Here’s why. These crackpots, who were not on the guest list, were allowed within a hair’s breadth of the President of the United States. Before this, nobody outside of Faulkier County, VA knew who they were — or cared. These people, who it appears are slightly less nuts than Balloon | Read More »
I may have seen this suggested here before, but for the life of me I can’t find it. So if you front-pagers read this, please know I’m not plagarizing intentionally… We need a plan in place for when we take back Congress. It’s not enough just to elect conservatives like Marco Rubio, Bob McDonnell, and Jim DeMint. To take back Congress, we are also going | Read More »
…about the military. I hesitated for about four milliseconds before starting to write this. You’d think that it would be an unpopular decision to attack Glenn Beck on Redstate.com — it seems a bit out of place. But he’s gone too far this time, and he needs to be called on it. Glenn Beck thinks his nephew shouldn’t re-enlist. By extension, I shouldn’t enlist. Here’s | Read More »
…especially in the Senate races. I don’t have a whole ton of time to get this down, so this is going to be a bit quick and dirty. Here’s my main thought: How unbelievably politically bad for President Obama would this headline be, E-Day Plus One: Mark Kirk Wins Obama’s Senate Seat in Shocker Well, it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as if Kirk picked | Read More »
It was once observed, by a man far smarter than I, that the first thing one gives up in politics is his vocabulary. I’ve noticed that this is getting more prevalent, of late. Defining things out of existence is at near-epidemic levels now; from the President’s erasure of the term “war or terror” to the flatly fictitious “deficit reduction” efforts of the Senate health-insurance bill. | Read More »
To quote one of my favorite speakers (Dinesh D’Souza), “I feel a bit like a mosquito in a nudist colony — where to begin?” I sit here today, in a bit of physical pain. My chest, arms, abs, and quads all ache from the beating they took last night. I had an unreasonable amount of difficulty getting out of bed this morning, not because I | Read More »
But at least he has a great tan. Via HotAir.com, Rolling Stone interviewed the Silver Fox earlier this year, and Charlie Crist made it very clear where he stood on the stimulus package: But when I interviewed Crist this spring for my piece The GOP Jihad, here’s what he told me he’d have done had he had a darn vote: Rolling Stone: Just a final | Read More »
Jenny Sanford. Check this out: Next year South Carolina will elect a new Governor, and what will happen then? Well, it depends on who we elect. It would be a real shame if our next Governor chose not to stand up to the big spenders in Columbia who have grown state government so massively in recent years. Or if we had a Governor who was | Read More »
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