Obama Knows Not to Alienate a Huge Part of the Electorate

The NY Times saying that Obama developed a strategy of meshing the Tea Party with the GOP. Now, while that may be abhorrent to the GOP establishment, to most Americans that would be an asset, not a liability.

Obama quickly back-tracked and slammed the Times for the report (even though everyone knows his administration floated the balloon out there and got unwelcome feedback). He knew that he had to choose between pissing off the Times and giving the GOP ammunition. He knows the Times will stay with him like the proverbial abused spouse whose husband swears he'll never hit her again and believes him...until the next time he ties one on and comes home with a little rage from his job.

The strategy would be an epic failure and someone with an iota of brains--a rarity in this administration--thought better of it and decided to hang the Times out to dry.

Be ready for much more of these trial balloons.

KKK Kleagle and a Man Who Allowed Woman to Die are Icons, Witchcraft Bad

This shows just how FUBAR the dems are. Ted Kennedy plunged off a bridge one night while hammered, allowed a young woman to drown while he ran away, slept and called his lawyer and he was a revered figure.

Robert Byrd started a KKK klan that targeted blacks and did it so he could get ahead politically and he was considered the dean of the Senate.

Christine O'Donnell said she dabbled in with craft when she was in high school and she's unfit to be elected to the same august body that those two reprobates squandered our dollars in for decades.

That's today's Democrat party. That's today's media.

No wonder both are in the position the sinking position they're currently in. Same for the country.

Thursday Night News & Notes

Welcome to the day evening before TGIF. Here's what's happening:

-Democrats were ecstatic that Mike Castle was knocked off by Tea Party candidate and Sarah Palin acolyte Christine O'Donnell. They were going to hold the seat you see because O'Donnell is an idiot just like every other woman candidate who believes in God and is a Republican. But it took no time for Harry Reid to ruin any mojo that Chris Coons had by referring to him as his "pet". Dude?

-The GOP elite has been knocked back on their collective heels by the power of the Tea Party but after a 10-count, they seem to have come to their senses for the most part.

-The Dems are in a schism as well as there's open revolt against Pelosi. Maxine Waters supporters were booted from a San Fran Nan event so they didn't embarrass her highness. Nancy Pelosi must be a racist...and pretty much dumb as a box of rocks.

-A sitting Democrat representative uses her position to shake down a lobbyist and is caught on tape doing so. The media is burying it so deep that it would take a backhoe to find it. How much of a dumbass is she for leaving the message on a voicemail and how fucking stupid are people in DC to have elected her?

-I'd have turned it on and duct taped it shut but that's just me and I'm a heartless bastard.

-Axis of Idiocy but still something to be watched and smashed should circumstances dictate that course of action.

-They do make it too damn easy, don't they? A must see.

-Let's end this with an epic Soulshine from the Allman Brothers Band with Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes trading epic licks. Remember, make your default feeling happy, life is much easier to deal with on an every day basis...even when things are bad:

This Here Big Tent Should Be a Big Tent

Allahpundit notes that John Cornyn is getting some heat from the establishment GOP (read: those who bow to evangelicals) about attending a Log Cabin republican meet up.

All credit goes to Cornyn for saying the hell with it and attending an event the aforementioned evangelicals believe is akin to the anonymous sex clubs Tom Hanks frequented in Philadelphia. He's getting it and it has everything to do with Tea Party madness as he would considered it political suicide to have contemplated it previously.

And therein lies the problem I've always had with the establishment GOP; they always inject social issues into the debate when at this point we have no room for it. We are facing economic Armageddon and most people are too damn concerned about paying for food and their house and less about whether Jim and John want to hook up or get married. Abortion is distasteful but we have the opportunity to get control back and set things on a more even keel fiscally and that will be impossible if we get into the gay marriage or any other social issue. The Christian right is a non-factor and that's how it has to remain if we have any shot at taking back the entire Legislative branch.

The Tea Party is a movement that has the ability to shift the political landscape in ways we'll not realize for a decade. The most important way would be to smack the religious sector in the mouth and make them understand that the majority of Americans and--dare I say--the majority of the new Right just doesn't give a damn if two women want to exchange vows. I never have and I'm a hard-core conservative with a strong libertarian streak.

This is our time and the moment can be turned to dust by the zealous Christian minority. We, as a party have no choice but to be welcoming to all who preach fiscal responsibility. This is a different America than it was thirty years ago, an America where the main tax-paying demographic grew up knowing guys who were gay, a girl who chose an abortion and a dude who smokes weed as a hobby but is still pretty damn cool. It's not the party of Reagan when it comes to social issues but it is when it comes to faith in what America was, is and will be. Why exclude those who were born gay?

Imagine the coalition we could form if we included those we've traditionally shunned.

Monday Night News & Notes

Here's what's going on in this crazy world:

-The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing expecting a different result (to paraphrase Einstein). Obama evidently never lectured on insanity.

-The PuffHo runs the numbers and they ain't pretty for the incumbents.

-Democrat donors are getting the hell off the sinking ship in so many ways.

-Lefty actors continue to show their ignorance.

-Some pseudo-Christian idiots in Florida think it will be a swell idea to burn the Koran. I agree with General Petraeus that their moronic idea will lead to bad things for our troops.

-Yes, the Senate is in play.

Obama Trying to Act Like an Alpha Male

It's kind of depressing when a decidedly beta male tries to be a leader. He's pretty much surrounded himself with yes men and like-minded folks who are in way over their collective heads and now when the Democratic party needs a Reagan they instead get a whiner who channels his inner Jimi Hendrix (a definite alpha male BTW):

"Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true," he told a crowd largely consisting of union members.

Poor baby, these "powerful interests" talk bad about you. How fucking pathetic. We need a man who says here's what I've done and here's how I thought it would work but it didn't and we'll stop at nothing to get people back to work. Instead, we get a guy complaining that he's not treated with the reverence he thinks he's earned when in fact he's earned nothing.

Perhaps he missed the briefing where 22 service members were killed in Afghanistan last week and the total amount killed in that country during Obama's administration now exceeds those killed during the 7+ years Bush was CinC. As an aside, Code Pink has been exposed as the partisan shills they've always been known to be. It was all about power and ideology with these socialist hags and never about our troops. But I digress.

So here's where we are: we have an impotent president who's nothing more than a stuffed shirt academic in the midst of the worst economy we've seen in decades. I fear for the next two years.