Tag: Politics

Friends again with our overseas cousins?

Sir Winston Churchill.
His bust got pitched.

Mike Fahy: Interesting article in The UK Telegraph (London) noting that the Tea Party of December 1773 sparked the American Revolution against George III. But the modern-day grassroots Tea Party may play a key role in ejecting Barack Obama from the White House in 2012, thus restoring Anglo-American relations.

Unlike the Obama administration, the new wave of conservative leaders in the United States recognise Britain as America’s most important ally, are suspicious of EU-style supranationalism, and understand the great sacrifices that the US and UK have made in the defence of liberty and freedom across the world. One thing is certain if President Obama loses the White House in 2012. His successor definitely won’t be throwing a bust of Sir Winston Churchill out of the Oval Office.

Editor: Those 1773 tea partiers got a lot of their ideas from the once mother country, now didn’t they?

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Off-cuff unintended candor

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Boss Tweed rewarded his followers, 1869

Obama answering Velma Hart at yesterday’s town hall, said you’re the kind of people “we want to reward.”

We?  Who’s we?  He being top dog in U.S. government, he must meant the government.  What’s the government got to do with it?

We, meaning the whole rest of the country, find ourselves rewarded mostly by our own efforts, not a beneficent government, even in social security payments, which I know something about, which depend on past earnings and keeping up with FICA payments.

He says things like that because of his swollen notion of where gummint (my usual term in this context) fits into our (most people’s) lives, with special attention to his role as top dog.

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GM getting help from its DC friends

The headquarters of the United States Environm...
EPA HQ, where good things happen

Hey, if gummint can’t give a hand to Gummint Motors, what will?

EPA introduces Vehicle grading to Push Chevy Volt

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation are asking the public what [they should know] to make the best economic and environmental decisions when buying a new car. The two agencies are proposing changesto the fuel economy labels consumers see on the window of every new vehicle in dealer showrooms.

To which Freedomist adds this advice:

Learn more and find out how you can view the proposed changes and offer your feedback.  Make Your Voice Heard- tell the EPA where they can put their attempt to sell a Government Motors Car (GM) by emailing them here: newlabels@epa.gov.

You should do this because of your abiding trust in gummint officials, both as to their wisdom and their loving care for you.

While you’re at it, you might do some checking from non-gummint sources, however.

From WSJ- the details of the plan

From Hotair- how GM will benefit

From Edmonds- how the American public overwhelmingly wants neither the grading NOR the overpriced electric car

Re: #3, so what? The American public is not to be trusted in the matter. Gosh!

O’Donnell, you’re soooo bad!

Get thee behind me, Charles Krauthammer.  I renounce you and all your works.

Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea partier Christine O’Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but Pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Barack Obama’s social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda,

he says in today’s Chi Trib, playing the tempter.

He just knows this to be true.  No chance for her, he would like to say, but as a pundit he must cover options, so to O’Reilly he said one in ten.

I say he believes it but is also repelled by the woman, who is socially conservative and un-Harvard-like in ways he finds repellent.  Like Sarah Palin. 

These women do not fit into his worldview except as viewed from the tip of one’s nose, head down slightly, just enough to make his point.

Sorry, Charles, you do not speak to my condition, I being for many months in a life of quiet desperation, politically speaking.

Later great (second) thought: Another interpretation is possible: Charles wants Obama held up at the pass so much that he’s extremely exercised about what he considers blowing the opportunity.  Which makes him too much the rational thinker, not enough the romantic.  The O’Donnell nomination is pressing Tea Party luck — too far, he says.  But this is no time to be squeamish, say the gung-ho revolutionaries, or at least rebellion-pushers.  Among which am I.

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Black appeal

Charles B. Rangel
Smiling more since reelection

In the midst of backhandedly congratulating tea partiers, NYT’s David Brooks has this:

Voters are upset about the economy, the debt and the culture of Washington. The Democrats are the party of government and of the status quo. They have done their best to remind people of that. This week, Democratic voters renominated Charles Rangel, the epitome of Washington scandal. Democratic voters in the District of Columbia ousted Mayor Adrian Fenty, one of the nation’s bravest education reformers, and replaced him with an orthodox pol.

But those are black voters, are they not, for whom blood is thicker than — what?  common sense?  I’d say so, in view of how harmful economic policy always hurts lower–  more than higher-income people.

Saboteur Murkowski

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Lisa, have you no shame?

Another from Mike Fahy, on top of RINO problems:

Lisa Murkowski (RINO loser in Alaska) apparently will launch a write-in candidacy thus giving Democrats an excellent possibility of having two U.S. Senators from Alaska. Bush’s Justice Dep’t gave Dems the other Alaskan senate seat two years ago by unethically prosecuting the incumbent Republican.

This is still further evidence that RINOs are more comfortable electing a Liberal Democrat than electing a Palin-endorsed Conservative Republican.

Murkowski’s announcement is scheduled for 8:00 o’clock tonight Chicago time. See Rich Lowry in National Review, and Anchorage Daily News, and Los Angeles Times.

This is how it’s done

Ehnorton
Won't you come home, dear lobbyist, won't you come home?

Eleanor Holmes Norton putting the arm on a lobbyist.

Reader D:

I heard this tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton on Rush’s show, or Glenn Beck’s yesterday.  Blago should feel put upon that he’s in the stocks while other pols are able to do this thing and get by with it.

I heard this tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton on Rush’s show, or Glenn Beck’s yesterday.
Blago should feel put upon that he’s in the stocks while other pols are able to do his thing and get by with it.

Fannie and Freddie our rich uncles

20090110 money printing-01
Doing our best.

Gummint offered pie in sky before you die, and look what happened.

Taxpayer losses from the government seizure of failed housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could reach nearly $400 billion, but likely won’t top that level as some had feared, the firms’ federal regulator said Wednesday.

Promise them anything, but give them — what? (Apologies to Arpege.)

Fannie & Freddie bought bad loans — heck, we can’t let bad things happen. Gummint is our big daddy, after all.

Hey, Daddy, I want a diamond ring, bracelets, everything
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me (scat)

Hey, Daddy, gee, don’t I look swell in sables?
Clothes with Paris labels?
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me (scat)
. . . . .
Daddy, I want a brand new car, champagne, caviar
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me . . . .

Listen to Sammy Kaye: Here.

O’Donnell summed up

"The Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Na...
"The Third-Term Panic", Thomas Nast, Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874

Guest blogger Mike Fahy sums up the Connecticut victory for O’Donnell:

I thought it could not get any better than Joe Miller’s defeat of Alaska’s biggest RINO last month. Delaware has not elected a Conservative since Caesar Rodney rode all night through a thunderstorm to sign the Declaration! It just gets better, and better, and better!

Miracles have become commonplace for Palin-endorsed Conservatives. Christine O’Donnell clobbered liberal Michael Castle, the political twin of Mark Kirk (RINO, IL), in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary, 53 percent to 47 percent.

Karl Rove bashed winner Christine O’Donnell as his entrenched RINO went down! Conservative writer Michelle Malkin labels Rove an “effete sore loser,” posting a photo of Rove thumbing his nose at you.

Karl Rove’s idiotic rant against Christine O’Donnell’s victory will undoubtedly appear in a Chris Coons campaign commercial. Obviously, RINOs are more comfortable electing a Liberal Democrat than electing a Palin-endorsed Conservative Republican.

The Freedomist reports that Rove was an undercover operative for Delaware RINOs while pretending to be a fair-and-balanced Fox analyst. Should Fox News fire Rove?

Last night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) announced their refusal to fund O’Donnell against Democrat Chris Coons (a self-described Marxist) in November. Palin, DeMint, and the Tea Party will fund O’Donnell in defiance of the GOP.

This morning the NRSC reversed their refusal to fund O’Donnell after receiving angry e-mails from NRSC contributors. NRSC chairman John Cornyn released a statement promising to support O’Donnell with an NRSC “check for $42,000, the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees.” Not true: The NRSC sent double that maximum amount to Mark Kirk, (RINO, IL)!

Another RINO lie: The NRSC pledged to stay out of contested primaries. John Cornyn, chair of the NRSC, said on 11/4/9: “We will not spend money in a contested primary.”

Delaware losers: virtually the entire Republican Party, National Review, Weekly Standard, Krauthammer, most second tier radio talkers, and cap™ global warmers everywhere.

Delaware winners: Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party, talkers Limbaugh/Levin/Hannity, Mama Grizzlys, and rank-and-file Conservatives everywhere.

This is a prelude to the next primary election: GOP v. Sarah Palin in Iowa’s 2/6/2012 presidential caucus. Sarah kicks it off this Friday with her keynote speech at Iowa’s annual Ronald Reagan Dinner. Donations accepted at SarahPAC.

Republicans who hate Republicans — loser Michael Castle refuses to endorse winner Christine O’Donnell, and loser Lisa Murkowski refuses to endorse winner Joe Miller.

“You betcha!” O’Donnell said in response to someone shouting the Palin catchphrase from the ecstatic election-night crowd. “There’s another woman I’ve got to thank. Thank you Governor Palin for your endorsement…she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.”

On with O’Donnell then! Fight the good fight again!
Sons of TyrConnell are valiant and true!
Make the proud Saxon feel Erin’s avenging steel!
Strike! For your Country! O’Donnell abu!
O’Donnell Abu (The Clan Connell War Song, circa. 1843)

Reader D:

Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.

I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )

Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.

These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

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Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.
I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )
Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.
These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

Karl doubles down

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Karl Rove as Emperor Palpatine in Fox's "American Dad"

Saving Karl Rove with Greta. Did she get a call from Roger Ailes? “Let Karl explain himself”? Probably not, yet . . .

Plus: Karl too smart here for his own good? Talks too much, floods us with data, Smarty-pants at head of class? You decide.

I think he should shut up. One thing to support one primary candidate over another, but to bash the nominee is not smart. He’s justifying himself in this, can’t let it go.

Reader D:

It’s too bad Karl stooped to the tactics of the Libs: When you can’t argue with a candidate’s political/social issues, attack their person. The Libs tried to dub “W” a drunk and a dummy. Reagan was an old actor who fell asleep during briefings. Almost any conservative is dumb AND crazy.

And choosing the more conservative candidate in a primary is different than choosing the less offensive of two candidates in the general election. That’s why I’ll vote for Kirk in the general…but not in a primary against a more conservative candidate.