Sunday Afternoon News & Notes

The Pro Bowl is today and I don't think anyone gives a damn, me included.

Here's what's going on in the world:

-A state-by-state roundup of Obama's poll numbers. About what you'd expect: the deep blue states still support him--but just barely. The red states disapprove across the board.

-Michael Moore is a fat hypocrite. But you knew that already (H/T: Hot Air):



-The Global Warming Swindle continues to unravel. The IPCC published what many consider the bible for global warming zealots but it turns out that two of the sources cited as proof that mountain ice was melting faster because of elevated carbon dioxide in the air used anecdotal evidence. The sources were a climbing magazine and a students dissertation. The global warming argument is falling apart faster than Tiger Woods' marriage.

-Liberals are in serious trouble. Note that the article says that the label "progressive" is poisoned. Now that that label and the liberal label are toxic to them, what will they call themselves next?

-Obama's State of the Union address was written on an 8th grade level, fourth most dumbed down ever. Note that George W. Bush's was written for a more intellectual audience. Can we stop the "Obama is just too damn smart for us to understand him" bullshit now? We understand him, we just don't like what he's saying and doing.

-A guy who had zero chance of winning the White House in 2012 says he's not running for the White House. Steele would have finished behind Mark Sanford if he chose to run.

Brit Intel Warns of Surgically Implanted Bombs

The battle against Islamic terrorism just took another turn:

A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.

Experts said the explosive PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate) would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber’s body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal.

A shaped charge of 8oz of PETN can penetrate five inches of armour and would easily blow a large hole in an airliner.

Security sources said the explosives would be detonated by the bomber using a hypodermic syringe to inject TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide) through their skin into the explosives sachet.

I'm not sure if this really possible or just terrorist's trying to scare us even more. US privacy rights will run head on with safety concerns and cause even bigger headaches for TSA and DHS.

Read the article where they mention that the technology is available but the outcry will be enormous from civil liberties groups.

Saturday Afternoon News & Notes

Snow is falling and that gives me an excuse to do nothing but write a few posts, watch a movie and perhaps take a nap.

Here's what's going on:

-Ken Gude of the far left Center for American Progress essentially calls New Yorkers a bunch of friggin' pussies for not allowing the trial of KSM in Manhattan. I'm sure a few Giant, Yankee and Ranger fans would enjoy a few minutes alone with the liberal douchebag, Mr. Gude. As for KSM, it appears that his case is back where it was before Obama foolishly said to move it to NYC.

-Listen, I hate the BCS as much as any college football fan, but with unemployment at 10%, two wars still ongoing and deficits higher than ever, is it in the nations best interest for Obama to seek to eliminate it?

-The Russians are back in the arms race and they have us in their sites. We, meanwhile, have cut weapons programs.

-We fought the Revolutionary War to break away from royalty and entitlement. Someone should tell Nancy Pelosi. While we're at it, we may want to explain that we have military men and women who are fighting every day and aren't allowed to have a drink but she uses military aircraft and parties like she's in a damn frat house.

-Haitians are still dying and flights for treatment to the US have stopped because Obama is trying to dump the costs on the individual states performing the life saving work.

-Jon Stewart rips Chris Matthews. I know, fish in a barrel, yada, yada...

Bush Officials Cleared on Turture Charges By Justice Dept.

Vindication:

For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.

While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report concluded that two key authors—Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor—violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter. But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed “poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state bar associations for potential disciplinary action—which, in Bybee’s case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry.

Of course they had to give a wrist slap but Obama officials, including AG holder know full-well that if they face a situation as Bush did or even one worse--possibly involving nukes or other WMD--they want precedent and have some latitude to get information quickly. I guarantee if the crotch bomber hadn't attempted to blow up a plane with 300 aboard, it may have turned out different.

Either way, George W. bush, John Yoo and Jay Bybee have been vindicated.

Obama Talks Down to GOP, Libs Wet Themselves

The One met at a retreat with Republicans. He lectured them on what partisanship means and other such things that he's an expert on after a total of about four years in Washington. The GOP were as stupid as ever by allowing cameras and Obama took full advantage but didn't really say anything substantive.

That didn't stop the leftosphere from getting all tingly though. Check out the links to this at Memeorandum. He fired up his dwindling base but everyone else is still in the malaise and watching him drone on for 70-minutes the other night didn't help his case. Still no real jobs plan and still no concrete economic plan so we're where we were last week/month/year.

To read a thoughtful post on what occurred, read Althouse instead.

Noted Environmentalist Warns of Global Warming

Quoth the leader of the International Panel on Climate Change:

leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar...

..."The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,"...

...leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."...

No, it wasn't the leader of the IPCC (but could easily have been as he's been known to slam the US and lie to get his way), it's Osama bin-Laden allegedly in a new video. Brilliant actually, nothing will motivate the world's leftists like blaming America for destroying the world with our large emissions of carbon dioxide. Hell, that could have easily been Barbara Boxer uttering those words instead of the man responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people in lower Manhattan.

I'm sure the global warming schemers have already devised a mechanism in their fetid little minds whereby they conveniently forget and forgive that the dust from the towers, the carbon released from the burning of the fuel and the oil released by the French supertanker Limburg into the Red Sea. The Earth was just collateral damage in the greater battle.

A new alliance is born, folks. On one side we have theocratic ideologues who hate the US and will abide no questions contradictory to their religion and on the other we have al-Qaeda. A marriage made in Paradise.

Thursday Night News and Notes

Villanova is rolling in college hoops. Keep an eye out for them as they are loaded.

Here's what happening:

-Chris Matthews remains a complete idiot. But you knew that.

-So does the SEC for that matter.

-GM and Chrysler took bailouts and rule by unions. They remain in a horrid fiscal condition. Ford took no money and made a profit. I'm not shocked even a little bit. That says more about the current Obama push to demonize business than anything.

-Sort answer: No.

-David Shuster is a scumbag. Breitbart should have been smarter.

-The NAACP is suing police for not doing enough to stop black on black violence. Er, where are the "community organizers to stem the violence?

-Not sure what the hell the editorial said but I love the rebuttal.

Thoughts on the SOTU

We needed leadership and got the exact opposite. We needed Barack Obama to stand up there and tell us what he plans to do to get us out of the economic chasm we are trapped in. Instead we got a wonkish 70-minute speech filled with lies and platitudes. It was a stump speech when we needed a rousing fight speech. We needed Reagan in 1983 or even Clinton in 1994 (who was hyper-partisan but at least sounded mostly presidential) but instead got Carter in every year.

I don't really want to discuss the contents of the speech but want to say what you will never hear anyone in the MSM say: Barack Obama is a public speaker. His cadence is irritating while he has no sense of when to break for applause lines. He drones instead of soaring. My son said he watched an interview and stopped counting at 50 "ums". That from a 13-year old.

The SOTU is not supposed to be a political speech per se but one in which the sitting president explains what he's planing and how it will be accomplished. We got none of that. We got business bashing and class warfare rhetoric when the very same people he slandered are the ones who will get us out of this mess.

The Obama administration is one year in and acts as if they arrived last week. They're a group of amateurs who are winging it and have no sense of what the country is feeling and going through. The only substantive thing uttered by The One was the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The Joint Chiefs seemed to love that.

He had the chance to motivate people and instill hope and instead just added to the malaise.

Pro-Abortionist's Pissed About Super Bowl (TM) Ad

Tim Tebow recently ended a stellar career at the University of Florida. He won the Heisman and led his team to a national championship under unbelievable pressure. He will be a first round pick in the NFL draft and he's been one hell of a good role model--something we can't say about everyone in pro sports.

Tebow is starring in an ad to be aired on CBS during the big game where he is pretty thankful that his mom didn't abort him:

Tebow and his mother, Pam Tebow, appear in the advertisement, which was financed by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. In the expected ad, Pam recounts how doctors recommended she have an abortion after developing complications while pregnant with Tim. The ad also shows how Tim went on to become one of the most successful college quarterbacks in the country.

"I know some people won't agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe," Tim Tebow said.

Women whose husbands have wronged them and they're still pissed about it because they can't get another date from groups like NARAL, NOW and something called Women's Media Center are a bit upset that Tim would celebrate such a thing like, well, being born. For the same reason they hate Sarah Palin for carrying Trig to term knowing he had Down Syndrome, these group despise Pam Tebow because she sold out their agenda and actually went ahead and gave birth to a future Heisman winner. I mean, how dare she? Plus she was a missionary and home-scholled her kids...what a rube.

I'm no major anti-abortion supporter and hardly a church-going Christian but the pro-abortion types irritate me by defending the indefensible.

I leave you with the semi-literate words of the leader of NOW:

Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women disagrees, saying the commercial is "not being respectful of other people's lives."

"It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else's," she said.

And abortion is totally "being respectful of other people's lives" right That is except those that aren't actually born to live them because their mothers listened to you. I find you "offensive" Ms. O'Neill. Being alive is infinitely superior to the alternative.

The noted eugenicist and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is probably looking up with a proud look on her face although she only advocated aborting minorities.

Monday Night News and Notes

The Saints squeak one out and the Colts come back to win. It should be an interesting Super Bowl.

Here's what's new:

-Is Obama the most arrogant president we have ever had? Here he shows that he's solipsistic and he takes a shot at Bubba Clinton in the same sentence:

The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’

I can't friggin' wait til we take back the House and watch Nancy Pelosi's botox explode out of her mug while Obama spins like a top about it not meaning anything.

-Did Obama actually use a teleprompter to talk to school kids?

-I can't wait until the try Stimulus--The Sequel. We all loved Stimulus I so much. Joe Klein thinks we're just a bunch of idiot bumpkins for not thanking Obama for giving us more of our money.

-I thought the economy couldn't get any worse. I was wrong.

-In Whose Apartment were the Blueprints for Auschwitz found? Why the Secret?

Rest in Peace Lance Corporal Jeremy Kane

Jeremy Kane lived one town away from me. I never met him but I feel like I knew him. Jeremy Kane is no longer with us but he is one of my heroes:

At 13, Jeremy Kane was deeply affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The event shaped his life, and led him to a fateful choice.

"He knew he had to do something for his country, and that was join the military," said his mother, Melinda, of Cherry Hill. "He wanted to serve."

To drive home the point, Kane joined the Marine Corps on Sept. 11, 2006, during his freshman year at Rutgers University and served as a reservist.

On Saturday, three months into his deployment in Afghanistan, the 22-year-old lance corporal was killed when a suicide bomber attacked his unit in Helmand Province.

This hits home because my own son is 13. What if 9/11 had occurred today and he had to experience the tension, horror and disbelief we all did that day? Jeremy Kane was affected and that affectation lasted to the point where he joined the Marines. He didn't have to, he wanted to because he thought it was the right thing to do for his country. I did the same and can understand what he felt.

Mr. Kane's father was a pathologist and he went to a good high school and college. He could've have let someone else join and could have rationalized it a million different ways. He chose not to let someone else fight but to do it himself.

I leave you with the words of his mother:

"I want people to know that this was someone from Cherry Hill," she said. "He had options, and this was his choice.

And thank God for people like him. Yes, he's one of thousands who have pay the ultimate price to defend our freedom and they are all heroes. Mr. Kane knew the risks and enlisted anyway because he's a true American who knew what this nation is about and it's about people like him defending people who don't.

Thank you Lance Corporal Kane and Semper Fi.

Obama's Spending Addiction

There's one thing you can generally count on from Democrats in an election year. They will cater to the black constituency whom they ignore all other times; They will try to go to the right to make themselves look less liberal; and they will always put off any tough decision until after the election is over.

Obama knows that the Dems are scared and the Brown win in Mass. only made them more angst-ridden. He also knows that the reason Brown won and Dems are trailing in many races is because people are pissed about the gross spending he's done with our money. He can't ditch health care now or he loses his far-left base, which is the only solid bloc he has left. So he has to play the game of talking about deficit reduction.

But like a heroin junkie, he's gonna kick that spending habit tomorrow...or in this case, he'll beat that jones in November:

Trying to win the votes of fiscal moderates, President Barack Obama formally endorsed legislation Saturday creating an independent commission with the power to force Congress to vote on major deficit reduction steps this year, after the November elections.

Obama’s statement gives new momentum to efforts in the Senate now to attach such legislation this coming week to a pending debt ceiling bill. But the endorsement comes so late that it risks being seen as just a ploy to win over swing Democratic senators whose votes the White House needs to lift the federal debt ceiling.

Everyone opposes it because the Dems need pork to win and the GOP sees massive tax increases and has the foresight to know who Obama's going to try to blame.

The GOP has to stand united and throw this piece of shit proposal back at the White House. Hammer him that he has to reduce spending before they will even talk about it. Not slight spending cuts but a full-scale rollback of government spending cutting out the fat in every sector. Eliminating programs that are useless or redundant and abolishing cash cows like the NEA.

It's time for the GOP to stand as one with the backing of the nation and scream at Obama to stop. Give him no room to maneuver and no quarter. This is a war that we've turned decidedly in the last six-months. Brown's win was the Battle of Midway following last November's Pearl Harbor. We've stemmed the tide and won a decisive victory where we didn't expect to. It's time to mobilize and continue with a strong front that challenges every single spending increase the administration proposes.

Saturday Night News & Notes

Here's what's new in the world:

-If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a man who doesn't live up to his responsibilities. Levi Johnson is that man and that would make him a shithead scumbag.

-The union thugs are ratcheting up the rhetoric concerning health care. Hell, they got a gift from Obama and hope to keep that gift.

-L.A. County firefighters rescue a man trapped in the rubble in Haiti for 11 days.

-Rep. Denis Kucinich (D-Mars) threatens O'Reilly with the (un)Fairness Doctrine.

-Terrorist's are going to be tried in America. A huge hurdle was cleared today.

-Steven Crowder interviews Ted Kennedy's ghost:

The Sad Turnaround of Charles Johnson

As those who've read this site over the last seven years know, I was a huge fan of Charles Johnson's site Little Green Footballs. Charles fought the good fight and wasn't afraid to call Islamic terror what it was when a great many cowered due to fear of violence or due to fear of being called bigoted. I have to say that along with Glenn Reynolds and Tim Blair, Charles' blogging style and writing style had the biggest effect on what and how I write.

A year or two ago, Charles took a dark turn. He started writing daily about a Flemish right-wing group and equated them to Nazi's. He went so far as to accuse Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs of supporting the group because they attended a conference where a bigwig of the Belgian group was spoke--a conference Johnson himself was invited to but declined. From there, it went downhill quickly. Johnson made it a mission--or jihad if you will--to start calling out conservatives and worse still for a blogger, banning numerous commenters from his site. It was ugly to watch his site devolve into a site that no longer commented on events of the day but became one of attacking individuals by name and tarnishing them with a wide brush. It became personal. Those commenters who were loyal to his site but who took a dissenting view were banned and some from even reading the home page of the site. That is Charles' right but it stank of solipsism and self righteousness. Also of extreme arrogance.

He once posted something and I e-mailed rebutting him. He e-mailed me back instantly and was pretty arrogant. I proved to him that he was wrong and it didn't seem to please him too much.

That's about the time I gave up on Charles. I used to have a widget at right showing his posts and linked to him often. Hell, Charles has linked to me numerous times and aside from an Instalanche from Glenn Reynolds, which I've had several times, Charles links led to probably six of the ten biggest traffic days I've ever had. He even commented here once and challenged the left wing to bring it on.

He also went on a rampage against anti-evolution believers and went straight into the ditch. Amazingly, he called them science deniers but has now become a huge advocate for global warming when it's now clear that the "hide the decline" community has destroyed what was "science".

Anyway, I went to his site the other night and it was like I was a guy who walked into a vegan convention gnawing on a turkey leg. The commenter's don't even listen to reason or facts anymore, they seemed...shell-shocked. They are loyal to their leader and anyone who says anything remotely anti-LGF is fair game. It was embarrassing for Charles and he doesn't even see it.

Just something to get off my chest and this piece about Charles in the New York Times reminded me. It goes without saying that if Charles had been a left-winger and moved to the right the Times wouldn't have published this.

This is inside baseball to those who don't follow blogs daily but something that needed to be said.

Exit question: Does anyone get the feeling that Charles went left because he thought the nation was going left and it was a good business move? If so, he was mistaken big time as this glorious week has proven.

The aformentioned Pam Geller responds to the surprisingly even piece in the Times as does Robert Spencer.

Air America Shuttering is Latest Example That Liberalism Doesn't Sell

It was only a matter of time but the the frail entity that was Air America has been euthanized and put out its (and our) misery:

It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America’s business. This past year has seen a “perfect storm” in the media industry generally. National and local advertising revenues have fallen drastically, causing many media companies nationwide to fold or seek bankruptcy protection. From large to small, recent bankruptcies like Citadel Broadcasting and closures like that of the industry’s long-time trade publication Radio and Records have signaled that these are very difficult and rapidly changing times…

When Air America Radio launched in April, 2004 with already-known personalities like Al Franken and then-unknown future stars like Rachel Maddow, it was the only full-time progressive voice in the mainstream broadcast media world. At a critical time in our nation’s history — when dissent on issues such as the Iraq war were often denounced as “un-American” — Air America and its talented team helped millions of Americans remember the importance of compelling discussion about the most pivotal events and decisions of our generation.

Er, millions? Try tens. If they had millions listening they'd still be on the air. Add to that the fact that the discussion was not the least bit "compelling". They bashed Bush, bashed Palin and bashed conservatives in general and did it without intelligence or a sense of humor. Americans will listen to partisan talk as shown by Rush and Hannity but they will not listen to mean-spirited talk, especially if it's not funny.

Liberalism doesn't sell real well unless it's hidden such as we see on NBC, CBS and ABC. When it's overt--such as the case with MSNBC and CNN--it fails miserably. We are a center-right nation and hour after hour of listening to pro-abortion, big government talk is grating at best. You can only spew so many Palin is stupid, Bush is a chimp, Cheney is the devil rants before people say enough.

The problem is that Air America had no substance and the talk was far from intelligent. The vile drunk Randi Rhodes proved that you can go too far but going to far without actually eliciting chuckles is a death blow. Imus goes too far daily but he's funny about it.

Can we now put to rest the liberal canard that Rush is only the most-popular because he's subsidized by rich righties? Air Scamerica had large infusions of money and still resorted to ripping off kids...and hiring cheap hookers.

Adios Air America and don't let the door hit ya in the ass. I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of them being relegated to the dustbin of history.

Hat tip: Hot Air.

The Legacy of Obama's 1st Year: The End of American Economic Dominance

America has been an economic force for the last 175-years. From building ships to building cars to building planes to building computers, we ruled the world. We developed and implemented weapons programs that brought the Nazi's and Soviet Union down and sent a man to the moon using our great American ingenuity and the power of American business.

Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Procter and Gamble, Walmart, Microsoft, Xerox, IBM, Exxon...the list is endless. American business was the engine that drove our prosperity. We all enjoyed the highest standard of living because of the men and women who came up with ideas, secured funding to make them reality and sold them to the world.

Alas, those days are gone.

Why do I say this? The following is all from today:

First Obama's cutting a small business lifeline:

The Obama administration will stop American banks from taking gambles--a practice that has worked for a century:

The president's proposal aims to remove private-equity investments, the hedge fund business and proprietary trading from banks, and put a stronger lid on bank acquisitions.

The proposal might prevent Wall Street giant J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) from buying another bank, or diversifying in some areas--though it wouldn't mean the bank's end. Shares of the bank fell 6.6% Thursday.

...Private-equity investments have done little harm to banks. "Virtually every regional bank in the country has some amount of private equity," for example in small business development co-investments, the banker said. Ceasing such investments "pulls a huge amount of money out of small business" at a time when the economy has just begun to recover, the banker said.

Regional banks might also run into problems with a ban on proprietary trading. Regional banks often have small investment banking operations to help business clients access the capital markets, and the banks have to hedge a clients' bond offering with proprietary positions, the banker said. Strictly speaking, a bank's investment portfolio could be considered a proprietary position.

We've slipped on the list of "economic freedom" as well, falling below Canada:

Jan. 21--Blame government spending and industry bailouts: The U.S. economy is not the freest in North America, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom.

The index, issued by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, ranks the United States as the world's eighth-freest economy in 2010, a slip of two places from 2009.

And finally, Russia is diversifying and the big gainer will be...Canada:

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Russia’s decision to buy Canadian dollars reflects the North American country’s relatively strong fiscal position, and “substantial” pressure on the U.S. currency to depreciate.

Flaherty, speaking to reporters today in Windsor, Ontario, said the U.S.’s budget deficit and “other challenges” in the world’s biggest economy are making the U.S. dollar less attractive compared with other currencies.

“Investments by other central banks in Canadian securities and the Canadian currency is a recognition of the fiscal health, relatively speaking, of Canada, which is strong,” Flaherty, 60, told reporters. “There’s downward pressure on the U.S. dollar, which results in upward pressure on other market currencies.”

The U.S. dollar has declined against all but one of the 16 most-active currencies over the past 12 months, prompting major reserve-holding countries such as Russia and China to express concern that their U.S.-denominated investments may decline in value. Canada’s dollar gained 21 percent against the U.S. dollar over that time.

Damn, I say we invade Canada, take their oil and sell Quebec. Er, on second thought, we'd pretty much have the equivalent of a really large Vermont.

Polls Closed, Updates Abound (Update: Brown WINS!)

Ok, it's 25-minutes since the polls shut down and the early and often and dead voters went home. No numbers thus far but there is some news:

-Pollster Frank Luntz is having trouble getting Coakley supporters to sit for his usual election night group.

-O'Reilly just said with 7% in Brown leads by 3%; 51-48%.

-Allah predicts heartbreak, but then he generally does. (Note: as of 9:13 Hot Air has crashed.)

-AP also has this showing results in Ashland: 54-45% for Brown.

-Early results show Brown by 7% with 238 of 2168 Precincts Reporting. That's 11%.

-36% Brown by 5%.

-Update: Some heavy hitters call it for Brown. As it stands it's Brown by 7% with 63% in. It's over and Brown has done it.

-None of the nets have called it but it's over. The big loser is Barack Obama. Who would want that guy to come in and stump them? He lost at Copenhagen...twice in a few months. He couldn't push Corzine over in deep blue New Jersey and he's failed to carry Coakley over the finish line. Reid and Pelosi are a close second.

-County by county here.

-Lots of major websites are crashing. The entire country is paying attention.

-Coakley concedes! Fox, AP, MSNBC and everyone else calls it for Brown. The look on Maddow's face was awesome.

-Chris Matthews looks like he's constipated. I guess no tingles up his leg tonight.

-Maddow and Matthews are spinning like whirling dervishes calling Tea Partiers "hypocrites" and spewing the typical lib rhetoric that it wasn't policy, it was message. Please, please, please keep that mindset until November.

-Norah O'Donnell is apoplectic. It's like a funeral at MSNBC. I've never had fun at a funeral until tonight. Hell, O'Donnell is even wearing black. Maddow sounds like his dog died.

Massachusetts Senate Update

Polls close in 52-minutes. I wouldn't expect to get info right away but you never know. Hey, the AP is so good, they had the results a full 6-hours before the polls closed.

-The Mass. race has started a cat fight between the pussy, whining chief liberal and the RINO over at MSNBC.

-The Dem get out the vote effort thoughts they were picking up Dem Coakley backers. They had it half right.

-"No one is using the coat check at Coakley HQ" Heh.

-Coakley screams voter fraud and Brown makes her look stupid once again.

-What to look for in Mass. results.

A Memorable Day for the GOP

They don't necessarily deserve it and should serve a bit more time in exile for selling out their base by passing the prescription drug bill and running up what were once considered huge deficits (until Obama). But the GOP has been gifted a horrid first year by Obama and generally loathesome Dem candidates in two big races in the last couple of months. We have new life it seems.

First off, Chris Christie took over for Jon Corzine in New Jersey in what can only be a harbinger for the new year. Corzine made McGreevey look sane and centrist with his ultra-liberal policies. Businesses ran for the exits and taxes went sky-high. Christie has vowed to cut spending and if he doesn't thisae state will not elect another Republican for twenty years. I think he'll do okay but he is facing massive deficits and a bloated beuracracy.

The other big event is the possibly impending win by Scott Brown. No real exit polling, only anecdotal info but there's huge turnout. The polls close at 8:00 EST. Much more on this later. It could be a momentous day for us on the right.

Update: The Inquirer didn't even put the Brown-Coakley race on the front page but instead put some drivel about Obama mobilizing his grassroots. The biggest story of the new year is being intentionally ignored by the Inqy. About what I expected.

Taxachusetts Senate Race Update

Big news from the Peoples Republic this morning.

-Obama went yesterday and had a teleprompter mishap. He was heckled too.

-Intrade has Coakley down to 40% 35%.

-Typical liberal response to Coakley's floundering campaign...Blame Bush! Guys, Bush has been out of office for a year. Remember, you all had those stupid 1.20.09 stickers on your bumpers? Note that Patrick Kennedy gets her name wrong more than once.

-Jim Kramer predicts a huge rally on Wall Street if Brown wins.

-Expect the votes to be counted as slowly as possible if the initial results favor Brown. Also, expect many allegations of voter fraud, especially with the SEIU mobilizing.

-Inside the polling.

There's no way I can emphasize the importance of this election enough. A Brown win will not only energize the GOP throughout the nation but it will energize the Conservative base more than they already are (which is considerable). As Tapper notes, Coakley is a "canary in the coal mine" for the Democrats.

If we have any hope of winning back the nation and stopping the socialist Juggernaut, it starts here and now. The GOP will have to trend right and maybe this will give them the backbone to actually stand up for what is not only good for the country but what is right.

-Update: "I like my women blonde, my Johnny Walker black and my Democrats quivering."
Amen, brother.

Sunday Afternoon News & Notes

The Vikes are putting it to the Cowgirls so it's a good day all around.

Here's what's new:

-John Yoo eviscerated Jon Stewart and libs are in hugh dudgeon because of it.

-The IPCC is forced to rescind a written prediction based on what they call "science" that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035. The fallout from the Climategate e-mails continues and will reverberate for years.

-Is hyper inflation in the near future? Short answer in my opinion: definitely. You can't print billions of dollars and not have a subsequent rise in prices. I'm not an economist and don't even play one on this blog but that seems pretty straight-forward economic theory. Maybe we'll finally relegate Keynesian economic theory to the dustbin of history after we get out of this mess in four or five years.

-The man known as Chemical Ali who was directly responsible for gassing Kurds in Halabja in 1988 will hang for his crime. That should about do it for Saddam's henchmen.

-Barbara Boxer is now in trouble. My Lord, if we could get rid of Reid, Boxer and steal a seat in Mass., the repercussions would be enormous. Dude, I'll take a Brown loss tomorrow to see Barbara Boxer's concession speech and the look of smug arrogance replaced by disappointment. Libs are feeling the building wave coming to swamp them. They ignored us and called us "teabagger's" and other such childish terms but we'll all be doing the "happy dance" (shown below) once this all plays out.

The Continuing Incompetence of the UN

In the immediate hours after the devastating earthquake struck in Port-au-Prince, I paid close attention to how things ramped up and where the first response would come from. I knew the answer but thought maybe, just this once, the UN would actually live up to what their responsibilities. I was wrong of course.

The US military was put on alert and the USS Carl Vinson was dispatched to the region. The Marines and Army were tasked with the job of securing the airport so that relief flights could begin and the Air Force begin shipping supplies as soon as they could load. them. President Obama ordered a quick response and our men and women did what they've always done; left their families to help those in need.

NGO's such as Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross ramped up fund raising efforts to meet the costs and demands and urban search and rescue teams from cities such as New York were organized and sent to assist in rescue efforts. Church groups who do the grunt work mobilized with hands-on assistance and money to alleviate what suffering they could.

While all this was happening, not once did I hear the letters UN muttered or see a single blue helmet on the streets of Haiti. All I've heard is the UN telling the US they want more when they themselves have had a presence on the island for decades and things have gotten progressively worse. Ban Ki-moon is going today and will only get in the way much as Hillary Clinton has done with her ill-advised photo-op. I say to them; take a step back and let the professionals handle it.

We are starting to see a response from other nearby nations whose communist leaders are hailed by American leftists such as Castro and Chavez but nothing that could rival what we do. Where for that matter are the Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia who not long ago suffered a catastrophe on the same scale?

It's always Americans--our people, corporations and military--who respond without thinking twice. They give knowing that we can make a difference where no other nation can. It's events like this that just increase my level of pride in this nation and assuage the recently declining notion feeling that we are a country that is exceptional.

A Political Earthquake is Imminent

In the waning hours of the Coakley-Brown campaign, we're seeing the polls still trend toward Brown. Obama is set to land in Massachusetts (using our tax dollars and spewing massive amounts of carbon into the air) to prop up the flailing Coakley effort. The largest entitlement program in history hangs in the balance and the future of our nation over the next decade comes down to a special election in a deep blue state that has elected a Democrat in every federal election in recent memory.

Here's how the healthcare fiasco could shake out: Suppose Brown does win, the Dems will have to work fast to pass the healthcare fiasco. Chances are it will be close and the Massachusetts authorities will call for a recount to ensure that the outcome was indeed valid plus they will have to count the mail-in ballots. In other words, they will work as slow as possible. However, the GOP is set for legal action:

Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.

Kirk has vowed to vote for the Democratic bill even if Republican Scott Brown is elected but not yet certified by state officials and officially seated in the Senate. Kirk’s vote is crucial because without the 60 votes necessary to stop a Republican filibuster, the bill will be defeated.

This would be a devastating loss for President Obama and congressional Democrats. The bill, dubbed ObamaCare, is the centerpiece of the president’s agenda. Brown has campaigned on becoming the 41st vote against ObamaCare.

But in the days after the election, it is Kirk’s status that matters, not Brown’s. Massachusetts law says that an appointed senator remains in office “until election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy.” The vacancy occurred when Senator Edward Kennedy died in August. Kirk was picked as interim senator by Governor Deval Patrick.

Democrats in Massachusetts have talked about delaying Brown’s “certification,” should he defeat Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Their aim would be to allow Kirk to remain in the Senate and vote the health care bill.

This will make Bush v. Gore look like arguing a parking ticket as the Dems have almost grasped the holy grail--healthcare reform--and will not go away without a knock-down, drag-out brawl. They will use every means to get this done including invoking arcane rules and procedures and will never stop if they have any avenue to subvert the will of the people.

Grab the popcorn because this is about to get really good.

Saturday Afternoon News & Notes

I like the Saints and the Colts today. Chargers and Vikes tomorrow.

Here's what's going on in the world:

-The entire last decade of inane liberal quotes in one place. I'm surprised Hawk only came up with 40.

-Frank J. on the Doomsday Clock.

-I criticized Pat Robertson the other day for saying the quake in Haiti was retribution for making a "pact with the devil". Now I have to take idiot actor Danny Glover to task for driveling on about the earthquake being caused by the failures in Copenhagen to reach a global warming agreement. To moronic Global warming zealots, this is the typical response.

-Tylenol has now issued a recall for 60-million bottles of tainted medicine.

-You can't make this shit up: Joe Biden is holding a meeting on transparency within the administration and the meeting is...behind closed doors with no public or media access.

-Subsidizing the unions with backroom deals and our money.

-Many people--including most US Democrats--abhor the military and everything those in it stand for but when it comes to responding to natural disasters, they are the first ones called. The US military goes in fast and does the dirty work while the UN does nothing and tells us we have to shell out more money.

The Coakley Meltdown Continues

Martha Coakley is way out of her league. She acted as if she just had to say yes to running and the Senate seat that opened when Ted Kennedy passed would automatically be hers. Now one can understand how Coakley could feel this way as Massachusetts has been safely Democratic for decades...hell, they even elected John Kerry and keep sending him back. Plus Coakley has been living in a liberal bubble and had no idea what was happening outside Boston.

Now it turns out she had no idea what was happening inside the limits of Bean Town either. Check this radio interview in which she dismisses Rudy Giuliani as "a Yankees fan" and then inexplicably dismisses Curt Schilling as the same:



Schilling is legendary in Boston for bringing them their first World Series in nearly 9-decades. He was the one Boston player who came up big against the hated Yankees and Sox fans will love him forever.

Schilling responds of course and just makes Coakley's rhetoric sound more embarrassing and amateurish:

But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….

Nice.

Add to that Coakley's friends are getting her in more hot water and Barack Obama is slated to visit the state on her behalf and he's not the big draw he once was.

BTW, the polls are breaking in Scott Brown's favor.

Update:



Update: Stunned would be the response from most liberals with regard to recent events.

Thursday Night News and Notes

Ah, liberals are so self-righteous and smart aren't they? Mika Brzezinski--daughter of one of Jimmy Carter's worst advisers and that's saying something--poke fun at Sarah Palin for not giving a straight answer to the Glenn Beck question "who is your favorite Founding Father"? You could just hear it in Mika's voice that she abhors the hillbilly from Wasilla. So who does our lefty heroine Mika name? Hamilton? No. Washington (whom Palin named)? No. What about Jefferson? Er, no. She names Abraham Lincoln; a man not born until after the Founding Fathers had done their work. I for one am partial to Teddy Roosevelt who wasn't actually a Founding Father but neither was Honest Abe. Brzezinski's idiocy below:



-Massachusetts is now a toss-up. An electoral explosion is about to take place and it will sink the health care bill. Curt Schilling (yes, the former Phillies and Sox pitcher) has a take on Coakley's latest faux pas and probably her worst one thus far as far as Boston is concerned.

-Harry Reid is wheeling and dealing with the thugs who run the big unions. Hope, change and transparency. The exact opposite of Obama's America.

-Remember Scott Ritter, the guy who was a hero of the left when he went against Bush on WMD, even though he said they were there? He's been busted again for pedophilia. For libs, that's a resume enhancer so he should be back working for some Democrat soon enough.

-Haiti is hurting bad but the US has secured the airport and the carrier Carl Vinson is on the scene. Stories are coming out and they are not pleasant. Here's one that will hopefully end as well as circumstances allow:



-I'm guessing Ben Nelson is not remembering his little health care vote extortion ploy in a good light. He was booed by his constituents while getting a pizza. Damn I can't wait until November.

Playing the Class Warfare Card

Obama has been hammering away at those on Wall Street who stand to make huge bonuses. It's purely populist pap and Obama knows it but he has to say it despite the fact he brought in Geithner and everyone else who were big on...Wall Street.

I heard some woman on Hannity complaining about this fact and the fact that her interest payment for her credit card was increased from 6% to 22% and said that no one deserved the obscenely large bonuses. Hannity, of course not being the sharpest tool in the Fox News shed, driveled about not getting in to debt, yada, yada, yada.

What he should have said is this:

Let's suppose you make $70,000 per year at your banking job, which is indoors and doesn't require a large amount of personal risk nor hard work. Now suppose you were offered a bonus of, say 10% of your pay or $7,000. Would you take it? Of course you would. Now suppose a guy who was laid off works in construction. He works 12-hour days and busts his butt constantly. He is making $30,000 per year since construction jobs have been reduced 50% under Obama and guys in that field will take anything for whatever pay is offered. Suppose his boss gives him a 10% bonus as well or $3,000. After taxes it will be about $2,200. He probably would look at your bonus as obscene.

My point is that it's all relative. The people on Wall Street worked hard to get where they are, paid a gaggle of money for schooling and took some personal risks to get where they are. Like I tell people when they bitch about pro athlete's getting huge paychecks; would you turn it down? If someone is willing to pay you a salary for your skill set, you should get all you can, period. That's capialism and anyone who says they would take less is either lying or a blithering, liberal idiot. I'm willing to bet that uber-liberal Susan Sarandon has never taken less money so the gaffe guy or makeup girl could get more in their take home pay.

Obama is laying the groundwork for a huge tax increase on the so-called rich but it will be an increase that will stifle hiring for months or years. A return to the 70% Carter-era rates would be disastrous and playing the class envy card to do it is completely expected but shameful just the same. He's playing to peoples darker side and he damn well knows it.

A Baseball Fan's Take On McGwire

I know, shocker! Big Mac was on 'roids.

While being 100% against the use of steroids, I can't completely condemn him and here's why.

Baseball was in a bad place in the late '90's and the fans were still pissed about labor strife. Canceling the World Series in 1994 was just too damn much for those of us who live and die with our teams.

People deserted America's game in droves and I felt like we were seeing the end of it's popularity. We heard that soccer, lacrosse and spring football were going to replace it.

Enter the Maris homerun chase with McGwire and Sosa and all of a sudden baseball got a shot in the arm (pun definitely intended). They were both roided up but no one cared because our love of baseball returned.

Neither deserve the Hall of Fame either...at least as long as they keep Pete Rose out but I digress. Not when McGwire's arms made Popeye look like a pussy and Bonds' head grew a few sizes making him look like the Elephant Man while smashing records that should be re-instated tomorrow.

So, for the record, I abhor that Big Mac cheated but I appreciate what he did to bring baseball back. That's the extent of my sympathy and admiration.

As an aside to McGwire: Dude, the crying thing is bullshit and you know it. Have you opted to stop testosterone and inject estrogen? Man up, dude, it's friggin' embarrassing.

Wednesday Night News & Notes

A long day with work, buying the first-born top of the line catchers gear and him practicing. Just rolled in after starting the day at 4:45. Three day weekend ahead so life's all good.

Anyway, here's what's happening.

-Haiti is an absolute horror show. From the way P.J. O'Rourke described it in one of his books...All the Trouble in the World I believe, the situation has gone from brutal to grotesque over the last few decades. The last thing they needed was a natural disaster after suffering floods a few years ago. They are predicting at least 100,000 dead and that will surely climb. Prayers to them all but not to the vile Pat Robertson who has earned his place in hell in my opinion. God's not going to be too happy with old Pat when he calls him home.

-Dem staffer and Coakley aid who attacked a Weekly Standard reporter: "Hey, sorry for body slamming you, dude". Link to the far-left Greg Plum so click at your own risk then wash your hands. Pic at right is Coakley not caring that a man asking her questions is flailing on the ground.

-Good Lord! The Commissioner of the IRS uses a tax preparer because he finds the tax code "too complex". Here's an idea a-hole, simplify the tax code with a flat tax so that you and "Turbo Tax" Timmy Geithner can figure it out.

-Why the Eunuch Bomber chose seat 19A. As if you're not scared shitless enough about flying.

-Uber-Lib Alec Baldwin turns on Obamacare. When you lose Hollywood, it's time to scrap the whole ridiculous bill. BTW, when I think of Alec Baldwin, I always think of him this way as portrayed in Team America: World police:

Tuesday Night News and Notes

New posts below.

Here's what's new:

-America's most well-endowed dude lives with his mother and is unemployed. Another myth shattered. I'm thinking the dude wears size 40 shoes (NSFW).

-Google has been kissing China's ass for a decade. Now they learn what dealing with a government that slaughters innocent in Tienanmen Square is really about.

-Miami suffers cold nightmare, sex offender's most-effected. My heart pumps piss.

-Imus smokes Halperin and Heileman.

-Oliver Stone has gone completely off the rails.

Steel Worker About To Get Union Hall Beat-down Tomorrow

The steel worker gets paid 50 bones by the flailing Coakley campaign and he says thanks for the coin and hoists a Brown sign anyway.

Uh, dude, you do realize your mug is all over the Internet, right?



Here's Scott Brown's Reaganesque moment that will resonate with people for a long time:



As for Coakley; she's as amateurish as the Commander in Chief.

Monday Night News and Notes

Here's what's going on. New posts below.

-Sarah Palin inks a contract with Fox News. I like it. She can hone her delivery skills and will reach a huge audience. Of course, the loser libs are in a frenzy about it as they are about every single thing with Palin.

-Racist majority Leader to campaign by calling GOP racist. What could possibly go wrong?

-Obliterating any good will people had left toward the Edwards duo. Devastating takedown by Heilman and Halperin.

-Code Pink is not only anti-American but pro-terrorism. Absolute scum, but you knew that.

-A potentially huge oil find in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. Too bad Obama and Pelosi won't let us actually make money off of it.

-Liberals are now Progressives, global warming is now climate change and jobs saved or created is now "jobs funded". Obama is just making shit up now.

Can the GOP Steal Ted Kennedy's Seat?

Er...probably not but there's more hope then we've had since Mary Jo Kopechne was left to die at Chappaquiddick.

Scott Brown is giving the "hand selected" candidate Martha Coakley fits in Massachusetts and today, through internet words of mouth and blogs links he's raised over $800K. He was hoping to break $500K but that was surpassed hours ago.

Here's the link if you want to throw him some shekels.

If we could take this seat, it would definitely put the Dems into a full-on tizzy and Harry Reid would be whirling like a dervish on the Senate floor. Damn, I think I almost pissed my pants just thinking about it.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the Dems who were forced into voting for Obamacare bailed out before it could get final passage because of a GOP upstart taking Kennedy's seat? Think about it; Massachusetts has it's own version of Obamacare and that is the only campaign issue right about now. Imagine if Coakley lost what it would say about socialized medicine.

Sunday Afternoon News & Notes

After the Eagles suffered a second ass-kicking by the hated Cowboys, I was loathe to watch the playoffs today. Of course I'm a sports junkie so I tuned in and now am watching the Ravens smack the Pats. I sure hope the next game is better.

Anyway, here's what's news:

-The GOP candidate for Teddy Kennedy's seat is either up one or down 15% depending on the polling firm. Either way, the fact we're discussing it says quite a bit. Ace has more.

-As with every attempt at subsidizing industry, Obama's "green jobs" initiatives are a failure. How bad of a failure? Try $135K per job created (or saved?)

-Generally, one can tell the future of a culture by how they raise their young. What's this foretell?

-Savor the schadenfreude; Hugo Chavez socialist utopia not really doing all that great.

-Ethanol has been an epic failure. Originally it was promising but it proved to be expensive and damaging to numerous economic sectors. Now that they've subsidized it to the extent they have, it's just like every other government program that ends up a mess, we're stuck with it.

-What happened to the History Channel? I love the Military History Channel but the parent channel is off the tracks.

-David Horowitz has a new site. Check it out including this smack down of both Chrissy Matthews and Ronnie Reagan, Jr.

Return of the Dixiecrats

You may remember the bigoted men of the Senate collectively known as Dixiecrats. They did everything possible to keep blacks "in their place" including filibustering the voting and civil right legislation LBJ was trying to pass. They included Bill Clinton mentor William Fulbright, Al Gore, Sr. and ex-KKK leader Robert Byrd. I had assumed they were gone but their spirit lives on:

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) apologized Saturday for referring to President Obama in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as "light-skinned" and as having "no Negro dialect."

Who the hell uses "Negro" anymore except old school bigots? Reid is a national disgrace and watching him lose his seat in November will be even sweeter.

But wait, it's not only the Senate Majority Leader but an ex-president:

[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.

We all knew Bubba was a philanderer but he always played the part of the new-Southerner who was post-racial. Note as I said before, his mentor was a raging racist as was the father of his VP.

This is nothing new, the Democrats have been using African-Americans for decades. They have done nothing to help them, in fact they've instituted policies that have destroyed once proud black families and laid waste to inner cities. Democrats talk about what they will do to make life better for them every four years and then forget them until the next election.

Anyway, this is essentially what we all knew but it's interesting that we will now have two major politicians groveling to The One.

So Much For Good Economic News; 85K Jobs Lost Last Month

The Obama administration has been talking "green shoots" and other such nonsense about the economy over the last few months with no real data to support the claim. We all want to get out of this economic swamp and Obama knows that in an election year the only thing that will save the House and Senate is some kind of economic turnaround so they caress even the most gloomy numbers to make them better. They talk of a 2nd stimulus when the first has driven us deeper into trouble and other such magic potions and elixirs that will be the magic that will bring us back to where we were four years ago.

None of it works and the employment numbers get bleaker and bleaker:

(Reuters) - U.S. employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, confounding expectations the labor market was finally stabilizing and piling pressure on President Barack Obama to spur job growth.

The jobless rate held steady at 10 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday, but it would have marched higher if a surprisingly large number of discouraged jobseekers had not left the labor force.

November payrolls were revised to show the economy actually added 4,000 jobs rather than losing 11,000, as initially reported, breaking a streak of 22 consecutive monthly losses. With revisions to October, however, the economy lost 1,000 more jobs than previously estimated over those two months.

Unemployment remains the Achilles heel of the economy's recovery from its worst recession in 70 years, with job creation critical to sustaining the recovery when government stimulus fades.

Note the word "unexpectedly" isn't used in this assessment but usually whenever the MSM writes about a new jobs report, those of us living in the real world where Barack Obama is not the Messiah generally expect it to be worse.

Anyway, the recession grow deeper and we haven't even seen the effects that will follow once states realize that the feds can't quite prop up their budgets anymore and the easiest way to cut obligations is to clear the payrolls. How bad will that be? Way worse than even I can dare to fear. Look at this chart taken from a Rockefeller report:

I ask you, where is the money going to come from? States are being starved for revenue, the federal government can't afford anymore debt and if they try to buy more, who will buy with the Chinese growing wary?

That leaves only a massive increase in taxes by the states such as bumping up sales taxes thus stunting purchasing and further hurting jobs and manufacturing. States have no options but to start shedding workers and it won't be blue collar jobs because of union pressure so it will be the middle class management-type positions flooding the job-seeking market with many people who haven't worked in the private sector previously and probably willing to take any job available subsequently driving down earning power. A truly vicious cycle.

But it gets worse. States will severely curtail funding for municipalities and that will drive up property taxes--generally included in ones mortgage--leading to a new round of foreclosures and more bank failures. Again, a vicious cycle.

It's not all bad news, however. If the public pressure keeps up with Tea Party gatherings and people contacting their congressman about every vote, we may be able to cut the administrations legs out on everything from health care to a second stimulus. Incumbents are scared to death right now as are liberal bastions and they know that if we don't stop spending, Democrats will be sent to exile so far out they will see Sarah Palin's house from their front porch.
So how do we make this better? We start by voting out every incumbent who voted yes on the stimulus and health care. We also demand that those we choose to support are those who will not vote for another entitlement, pledge to reduce deficits and will cut spending instead of increasing taxes. We must then pay attention and hold them accountable and not just while in the recession but when we come out of it and start prospering again. We must find men and women--from both parties--who support low taxes on business and individuals and make raising taxes a thing of the past.

This is the time for action and the repercussions can be like ripples expanding for a generation. We can make fiscal sanity the norm instead of a rarity.

The Democratic Schism Widens

Republicans have a problem. We are broken into some what disparate groups with differing agendas and aim. However, we all believe in the same goal and that is to regain the House, Senate and eventually the Executive branch.

We have Palinist's who believe in core Reagan principles that have been shown to be quite effective in building a steady majority. We also have the more centrist, elitist sect that resides in the DC bubble and preaches a more moderate view and a softer stand. These are the people who were whispering in Bush's ear that expanding Medicare was a good idea.

The problems on the right are nothing compared to the ever-expanding rift developing on the left.

Health care has exposed what was a hidden breach where hard-leftists and socialists want American remade into a Euro-type state where businesses are either owned by the government or heavily regulated by it. They also want cradle to grave reliance on the government as we see in Sweden.

On the other side we have more centrist, Truman-type Dems who don't want radical changes but paleo-Democratic policies that include a strong defense, social safety nets and strong unions.

This fragile coalition that was united under Obama last year is now in a full-blown war. Here's an example. That's one of many mind you.

My point is that we are seeing pixels spilled by the millions with the more socialistic (and full-on communistic) Dems spewing vitriol at other Dems that was once only saved for George W. Bush. With old Chimpy McHitler out of the picture, they've aimed their sights at those they believe are ideologically impure and in doing so are ripping their party to shreds.

The GOP hasn't had an opportunity like this in two decades or more and if we continue seeing what we currently are we'll have a plethora of pick-ups in November.

Thursday Night News and Notes

National championship being played out right now with Texas threatening but Bama holding tough at the goal line.

Here's what new in the world:

-Shocker! GOP elitist's don't like Sarah Palin. Note to GOP elitist's, most people don't really like you so it's a mutual feeling.

-If gay marriage can't pass in New Jersey, it isn't passing anywhere. Funny how the back-door attempts to go through state legislatures failed about as miserably as putting it to a vote did.

-So much for global warming:


Those who have a vested interest are coming up with every excuse why it's still relevant.

-A pop quiz on The One's first year.

-A $290,000 speeding ticket. Dude should've just kept going and outran the cops in his Ferrari.

-You should be reading Roggio every single day as he's the best at reporting the daily events in the War on Terror. Drop him a few bucks if you can.

-You probably should be reading No Pasaran as well for coverage of events in Europe.

Obama Finally Realizes We Are At War With Islamo-Terrorist's

It's about damn time too as we have credible reports of up to 25 plots and one attempt that would have succeeded but for passengers taking things into their own hands.

Obama had to make a stand and project strength after dithering for the last ten months and calling terrorism anything but. His national security team treated our national security as a joke and that was on full display when Obama's top terrorism--Michael Leiter--guy didn't see the need to cut short his ski vacation after the plot was revealed (Leiter: An attempted plane bomb? Did anyone get killed? Okay, what time do the lifts start running?)

Obama actually said "the buck stops here" and accepted responsibility. He didn't blame Bush and he didn't fire anyone even though the aforementioned Leiter should get canned immediately.

Now that he's acted tough, will he back it up with actions or was it just rhetoric? We'll see.

Here's the AP's take:

Health Care Supporters Dropping Faster Than Democrat Candidates

The latest is the Governator who after actually considering what the health care bill will entail decides that no, he won't be back:

In his annual “State of the State” message today, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdrew his support for the health care reform measures Democrats are attempting to finish up in Washington, DC.

“While I enthusiastically support health care reform, it is not reform to push more costs onto states that are already struggling while other states get sweetheart deals,” the governor said.

The White House had in the past brought much attention to Schwarzenegger’s previous support for the effort.

“Health care reform, which started as noble and needed legislation, has become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes,” Schwarzenegger said. “You’ve heard of the bridge to nowhere. This is health care to nowhere.”

Arnold, dude, you need better speech writers. "health care to nowhere?" Pathetic.

Sorry for the slight digression but Schwarzenegger is realizing what many of us have been saying since the beginning of the debate; someone will have to pay. It's either the states or the feds but in both cases it's the citizens. Ahnuld got caught up in the liberal mindset that government revenue is his money to work with and forgot that it's money taken by force from workers and businesses. It's purely and simply tax money, which by definition is not money created by a good product or idea but taken under threat of prosecution from those who are the lifeblood of the country.

Perhaps if Arnie didn't have DiFi and Babs Boxer as his senators and was blessed with elected representatives with better political cunning (read smarter) who could have held out and got a deal like Ben Nelson did, his states' health care costs could be paid by wage earners in "clinger" states like Pennsylvania, Alabama or Oklahoma.

Obama's Lie After Lie After Lie After...

Politicians still haven't caught on that every word they say is on the Internet, every appearance is archived and it's all a search engine click away.

Obama repeatedly said his administration would be the most "transparent ever" and repeatedly said that the healthcare debates and discussions would be available "on C-Span" and streaming on the net. Instead, we have backroom deals that funnel $300-million to Louisiana for one vote and millions to Nebraska to cover MediCare payments for another (a deal coming back to bite the recipient mind you).

Below we have video of Obama saying on numerous occasions that he would allow us to see the sausage being made when on the trail but now that it's crunch time it's all smoke-filled (figuratively, not literally because Granny Pelosi would never allow cigars anywhere near these talks) rooms and midnight votes.



Allah has fun busting on Robert Gibbs' squirming while trying to explain that the lies are in fact not lies.

Tuesday Night News and Notes

Here's what's new, new posts below.

-The Dems are dropping out in droves. Now Sen. Byron Dorgan is bailing in what could be a portent of the way the Dems think the mid-terms will go. That will be a GOP pick up for sure if they don't act their usual stupid selves and blow it somehow.

-Michael Yon is handcuffed by customs officials in what will surely be another embarrassing faux pas on top of many recent ones.

-Yeah, that whole bailout thing is working really well.

-The Obama administration may be different than the Clinton's in one respect; the Clinton's took the silverware while Obama is robbing us so badly with crony schemes that the only thing left may be the silverware.

-Start paying attention to the race for Ted Kennedy's seat. A Republican within 9% is striking and may be another sign this will be a great year for the GOP.

-Nancy Pelosi is shameless. But I'm redundant.

Accountability Sorely Lacking in the Oval Office

Harry Truman once had a sign on his desk that read "the buck stops here". Oh how the Democrats have changed in the last half-century plus.

The current Dem in the oval-shaped executive suite is the antithesis of what Truman embodied. Truman faced the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American service people and ordered the Enola Gay to drop a nuke than ordered another drop soon thereafter. Obama spent months letting our military suffer from a lack of troops while he debated what to do. He then ordered those troops into place but put a price on their heads by showing he's not going to let them win.

Truman was shown up by MacArthur and he promptly fired the enormously popular general (and then called him a "dumb son of a bitch" to boot). Obama has been shown up by an McChrystal, embarrassed by Geithner and Napolitano, put in danger by Desiree Rogers who allowed what is now known to be three people into the White House during a state dinner and pretty much let down by everyone he selected to serve him. He's fired no one. He did fire Greg Craig but that was because Craig went against Obama's liberal tendencies in closing Gitmo, not for incompetence.

How bad is it? So bad that Sally Quinn is actually calling him out. She gets it wrong but baby steps my friends, baby steps:

One of the first lessons any administration needs to learn is that somebody has to take the hit for whatever goes wrong. If another culprit is not identified, the president gets the blame. One incident after another in the past few months has shown that members of this administration would rather lay low and let Barack Obama be the target. This has got to stop.

No, they don't lay low on their own, Obama orders them to lay low, says there's nothing wrong, let's things simmer than admits that yes, there were mistakes made but let's let bygones be bygones. Note this example from today whereby Napolitano made a statement about "the system" having "worked" in the case of the would-be Nigerian suicide bomber that should have had her on the first plane back to Arizona.

The One is soft and everyone knows it. Our Enemies, Allies, those on the periphery and the American people know that it's true. American's don't like wimps and they are realizing with shock that we in fact elected one.