What will Hitler-in-the-bunker say when he sees the world’s most famous deadbeat dad on the cover of every closeted small-town gay man’s favorite magazine?
(Hat-tip: Riehl World View.)
Month: February 2010
Review of The Current Edition of ‘The Delivery’
By Smitty
Reviewing the current Delivery:
Part I:
Bise and Driscoll explore the contrast between the “Great Awakening’s” seeming lack of evangelical character, vs. the fact that Progressivism has perhaps violated the Establishment Clause en passant with its Political Corectness dogma, and death merchanting (abortion).
Bise likens the famous “bitter people clinging to their guns and religion” line from BHO to a spitball from the back of the class that cruised through the other students and had them suddenly turn about with new eyes.
Driscoll thought the healthcare emphasis was hasty, and the economy should have been the priority. I think the administration:
- has no clue of the audience, and thought it clay,
- felt like the clay should be hit on as many fronts as possible to ram the agenda through.
Bise discusses Paul Ryan’s attempt to rationalize the budget deficit, which has a 100% GDP as debt in 2040, before life improves. Bise then thinks that the Tea Party’s pelican beak may overload its hummingbird ass with the size of the problem besetting the 112th Congress after November’s election.
Bise: once this Awakening reaches levers of power, it is going to be shocked by the magnitude of the problem. Bise and Driscoll float the idea that The PorkBusters were the proto-Tea Party.
Part II:
Bise offers an extended analysis of how his analysis was off for the Super Bowl. He omits that he had not counted on Barbara Espinoza‘s support for the Saints.
Then he does the Caps/Penguins game, and finishes off with a quick SuperBowl ads recap.
…inspiration…
Back to Ryan’s budget, the elected officials seem to be a bunch of scared priests of some pagan god, who know that the idol has failed, but fear the wrath of the mob. That is why I submit that the Tea Party movement has to get right out there with the firm respectful Mr. Hand, while not letting Mr. Fist escape the memory of the Weenies That Be.
Yes, it’s going to be a train wreck when the full scope of the disaster is unfolded, and the McCains and other artifacts who have provided us these decades of theater are going to become self-righteous about it. Let’s paraphrase Colonel Jessup:
Son, we live in a world that has entitlements, and those entitlements have to be guarded by bureaucrats with funding. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Mr. Tea Party? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the 10th Amendment, and you curse Progressivism. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That the 10th Amendment’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And the entitlement’s existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want Progress on that entitlement, you need Progress on that entitlement. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent building bureuacracy. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very stability that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick a Media Matters propaganda outlet, and start repeating fictions until they settle into the squish fact of the public mind. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think your Constitution says.
For reference:
Lefty Visualization And The Bookstore: Brown Must Bomb
by Smitty
Salon’s article title and blurb are all about projecting gloom:
If past is prologue, Scott Brown’s book will bomb
The new Massachusetts senator may soon join the long line of legislators who have penned forgettable tomes
And then, emphasis mine:
As the tea party hero who seized Ted Kennedy’s old Massachusetts Senate seat for the GOP, Brown may actually find a decent audience for his tome. (Decent by senator-turned-author standards, at least.) It’s an annual Senate tradition: Some solon gets it in his (or her) head to put the collected wisdom of his life into print. And in most cases, that wisdom — boilerplate title and all — winds up remaindered not much later.
And, so, like, what if there is substantive material about the lead-up to the election? One hopes they drag Stacy for an edit, like he provided on Michelle Malkin’s book.
What if there is significant thought about how to save the country from Progressivism?
What if Governor Paling flogs the tome, and really drives sales?
What if it, you know, doesn’t suck?
As the left navigates the Kübler-Ross model, the sheer ignorant silliness of it all, for example, advertising an opponent’s book still in the planning stages, continues to astound.
Just keep pluckin’ that chicken, Salon.
Word of Gov. Palin’s Tea Party Speech Reaches The Bunker
by Smitty (hat tip RFC Radio)
Pure, SFW, red meat satisfaction. Very nicely done.
“One year in, and he’s a lame duck”
You know, as the POTUS, he has every capacity to rely less on monologue, and belie that statement. I sincerely hope President Obama does, but have little hope that he’ll change.
Obama Budget Figures For Healthcare: This Calls For Johnny Lang!
by Smitty (via Insty)
American Enterprise Institute, emphasis mine:
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget continues a pattern of ignoring independent analysis and rigging economic assumptions to meet political goals. For the first time by any administration in memory, the Obama budget forecast rejects the Medicare Trustees’ projections for long-run healthcare cost growth. The reason: the Trustees’ projections undercut the administration’s narrative that increased federal control over private sector healthcare could painlessly reduce Medicare and Medicaid costs. The Obama budget instead assumes long-term health cost growth at twice the rate projected by the Trustees.
We may need to discuss a new National Anthem, and my entry would be Johnny Lang working out on “Lie to Me”
Lie to me and tell me everything is all right
Lie to me and tell me that you’ll stay here tonight
Tell me that you’ll never leave
Oh, and I’ll just try to make believe
That everything, everything your telling me is true
Come on baby won’t you just
Lie to me, go ahead and lie to me
Lie to me, it doesn’t matter anymore
It could never be, the way it was before
If I can’t hold on to you
Leave me somethin’ I can hold onto
For just a little while won’t you, won’t you let me be
Oh, anyone can see
That you love him more than me
But right now baby let me pretend
That our love will never end
Lie to me, go ahead and lie to me
Little Miss Attila: Blogging Guidelines
by Smitty
LMA has an excellent start on a list of guidelines for blogging. Absolutely nothing technical here; this is the etiquette piece that is sadly lacking.
It is also not a practical traffic guide, like Stacy’s How To Get A Million Hits piece.
One thing I’d add is to hold before yourself the bandwidth limitations of the medium. The bulk of the time, when someone has pissed you off personally, the problem has roots in misinterpretation or simple failure. Take your readers, your stories, other bloggers seriously. Yourself? Don’t be a doormat, but strive to under-react, and see if what’s ailing you doesn’t reveal itself significantly smaller on third or forth glance.
If You Don’t Like Avatar and Anderson Cooper, You’re a Kook
That’s the basic message of Jonathan Kay’s Newsweek column:
Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits, such as Bill O’Reilly, who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement’s more militant oddballs.
One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and scream, “USA! USA! USA!” But the tea partiers’ well-documented obsession with President Obama has hardly been diffused by their knack for finding new enemies. . . .
Read the rest. Kay goes on to list his own enemies — Joseph Farah, Roy Moore, Pat Robertson — and seems to proceed on the assumption that all populist resentment of the elite is equally baseless and illegitimate, without regard to either (a) how the elite gain their influence, or (b) what the elite do with their influence.
Grassroots protest movements often attract “militant oddballs.” Opportunistic charlatans will seek to piggyback their narrow agendas on popular movements. This is nothing new.
But have you ever seen Newsweek (or any other major media outlet) make a big deal about the Marxist organizations who turn out at every left-wing protest event? Ten years ago, I covered the “A26” anti-globalization demonstration in Washington:
Once you got past the Socialist Workers, there were still more entrepreneurial leftists, hawking the Worker’s Vanguard. Then there was the guy selling yellow “Mumia Must Live” buttons for a buck each. . . .
The place was positively brimming with rage against corporate capitalism, from T-shirts (“Mean Corporations Suck”) to handmade signs (“Corporate Press Is Not Free”). At the International Socialist Organization table, you could get a nice blue-and-white sign reading, “Workers of the World Unite and Fight.” Another group distributed red T-shirts lettered in black: “Abolish the World Bank! End the IMF! Dissolve the WTO! Socialist Party USA.” . . .
I’m not up to date on the various Marxist outfits represented at the A16 rally — League for the Revolutionary Party? International Action Center? — so I don’t know which ones are Trotskyists, which ones are Mensheviks and which ones are Maoists, but I know the original Big Red when I see it. The colorful banner proclaims, “People & Nature Before Profit$ … Young Communist League USA,” and the kids at the table are handing out the People’s Weekly World, official organ of the CPUSA. The Bolsheviks — who seized power from a backward czarist regime and actually managed to make things worse, who spent more than seven decades proving the murderous futility of revolutionary socialism — are still at it.
The major media never mentioned the kooks and commies who infested the anti-globalization movement, who also infested the anti-war movement during the Bush years. Yet Newsweek‘s columnist insists that the Tea Party movement is defined by kooks and conspiracy theorists.
And the media elite wonder why we don’t like them . . .
Celebrate the Revolution: No Gmail In Iran
According to TechCrunch.
That’s has ominous red-over-green tones to it.