"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
by Smitty
Troglovision is, reportedly, a sad blend of myopic and jaundiced. They’ve narrowed the location for the 2012 RNC to one of four cities. Lance is already bellyaching that it’s too far, for any of the four possible values of ‘it’. Continue reading Troglopundit Talking Out Of An Absurd Hat →
by Smitty (h/t Gateway Pundit)
Fortune smile on Judd Gregg. Given a Sophist in the shape of Orzag, Gregg is cuts through the intellectual fog with the simple truth: Continue reading Theft is Theft is Theft →
by Smitty
The Good
Close friend of this blog Mike LaChance blogs over at Breitbart’s about the brain trust in Braintree, Mass. The sound of all of the Lefty sphincters slamming shut has to do with the crowd of intrepid citizens, who, realizing that the difference between themselves and the bozos in office is that the citizens have greater integrity, are running for office. He concludes:
With the election of Republican Scott Brown, Massachusetts became the subject of national interest over the last month. If this new wave of average citizens turned candidates follow through with their goals, Massachusetts may set a new standard in politics which hearkens back to America’s roots.
A government truly of, by and for the people.
Beyond, the Founding Fathers smile in approval, one surmises.
The Bad
Makes My Brain Itch has an example to the south of LaChance’s, in the People’s Republic of Maryland:
So the Democrats want to amend the Constitution…
Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-Md) has introduced an amendment to attempt to overrule the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United vs FEC. The proposed amendment will read:
“ARTICLE—
“SECTION 1. The sovereign right of the people to govern being essential to a free democracy, Congress and the States may regulate the expenditure of funds for political speech by any corporation, limited liability company, or other corporate entity.
“SECTION 2. Nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.”
It suddenly occurs to me, after a good workout, that ‘tool’ is ‘loot’ spelled backwards. Rep. Edwards, if you watch the clip, truly believes that this, rather than, say repealing the 16th & 17th Amendments, or snuffing the Federal Reserve Act, is what we should be doing. I’ll go ahead and register sadness. I simply think she has no significant grasp of organizational behavior, and doesn’t realize she’s pissing in the wind here, or she understands all too well that the result of this amendment would end up the opposite of its stated intent.
Gillespie at Reason TV offers the good representative a trio of sedatives for her tension:
Now, I shouldn’t pick on Stacy, but a jolly swipe completes the triptych. The excellently named Caught Him With A Corndog (whose secret origin remains mysterious) has a post offering a bit of Skynyrd and an entreaty to support RSM. Now, while we can’t invoke that title without an Ennio Morricone reference, the need to support Stacy’s latest madcap adventure stand before us. So please consider the tip jar while this blog grips you with the Ecstasy of Gold:
Yeah, natural blonde — blonde eyebrows, even. Twenty-something. After back-to-back long-term relationships, she’s on the dating scene for the first time . . . well, ever, really. And she’s in Washington, D.C., a magnet for arrogant beta-males-who-think-they’re-alpha.
And she’s got a blog: Date Me, D.C.!
If that doesn’t haul in the traffic, I don’t know what will. A few weeks from now, I’ll be e-mailing her asking for linkage.
BTW, I hear John Edwards is back on the market.
Just sayin’ . . .
“Anything done by any Republican is a scandal, if I decide it is, because being a Republican is such an inherently shady choice to begin with, you just know they must be up to shenanigans.”
Lefty journalists have operated by this principle for years now: “Hey, look, Joe Congressman (R-Somewhere) is on the banking committee and accepted X-thousand dollars in campaign contributions from — wait for it — bankers! Assign our Investigative Unit to this story immediately. We’ll do a five-part Special Series and win a Pulitzer. This could be bigger than Watergate!”
Meanwhile, Chris Dodd is whoring himself out to Countrywide and nobody really seems to notice. Can’t make an A1 headline out of that story, because front-page news about a Democratic scandal might lead to the election of (gasp) a Republican. Which brings us to the topic of the latest Olbermann rant: Sarah Palin acting as a distributor for her own book and perhaps making a buck or two in the process:
Olbermann decides to take a dig at Hot Air en route to suggesting that it’s somehow sinister and unethical — perhaps even felonious — for Sarah Palin to buy discounted copies of her own book and then resell them.
Arrest me, too, then. I’ve resold a few dozen books that way. Demand for Palin’s book is somewhat greater than demand for Donkey Cons, so that she’s ordering thousands rather than dozens, but so what? Lots of authors act as vendors of their own books on a smaller scale, and the fact that Palin’s book is a runaway bestseller is the only reason anybody notices. (Hint: If you click that Donkey Cons link, it takes you to my Amazon Associates page, and I collect a few cents for every book I sell. The shameful scandal of it all!)
Olbermann? He’s less popular than syphilis. And speaking of social diseases, Andrew Sullivan is operating by the Olbermann Rule when he pursues the paranoid certainty that, whenever a famous Republican woman has a baby, there must be a smoking gun somewhere.
JSF of Valley of the Shadow explains how Barack Obama’s political experience left him unprepared to cope with conservative opposition:
When you study President Obama’s background, he never had to deal with Conservatives or Republicans. . . In Illinois, he never had any hard fought campaigns in his general election. And come 2008, it was going to be a Democratic party year so the only real opposition he had was from Hillary! . . .
President Obama has a Huffington Post understanding of the Right, or the Right as seen from the Left. Not once has he ever spoken to a Conservative to understand his or her views. I say President Obama should invite Rush Limbaugh to the White House for a week to learn about Republicans and Conservatives. . . .