The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Rand Paul Has Made A Fine Transition From Rock And Roll

by Smitty His early rockabilly days were certainly memorable: Now that he’s on the November ballot for Kentucky Senator, he still remembers how to tell the opposition to “bring it on”, even if the “mike foxtrot” is delivered in parenthesis: While empathizing with Stacy’s disappointment over PA-12, if the Tea Parties around the country take […]

Axis Of Fedora Update: Stacy McCain Drained By PA-12 Reporting

by Smitty It really is a shame to see such a fine reporter and word-slinger laid so low. The frantic updates. The miles. The pictures. The constant masculinity threat of using the barbie cam. The deadlines. The obnoxious creep co-blogger, always looking for some smart-alec angle. They wear on a man, leaving tragic pieces of […]

Ah, The Ted Kennedy Criteria

by Smitty (h/t Terry Cowgill at Big Media) Giving Dick Blumenthal the benefit of the doubt, he probably didn’t wake up one morning and say to himself “I wonder if I could score some favor with the Veteran crowd by having them on about my service record. . .” while he was shaving. In general, […]

Matthew Yglesias Asserts That Dale Peterson Is A Dessert Thief!

by Smitty OK, that is the literal value of Matthew Yglesias’s summary of Ben Smith on Peterson’s AgCom ad. Of course, Yglesias meant ‘takes the cake’ in a figurative sense. Yglesias, an Ivy League graduate, and thus my intellectual superior goes on to opine (emphasis mine): special interests (i.e., “thugs and criminals”) benefit from the […]

YouCut: The Auto-Economic-Circumcision Game The Whole Country Can Play

by Smitty The evening Whip-Down brings the details: Today we announced the first YouCut winner, a proposal by Reps. Tom Price and Jim Jordan that would eliminate an unnecessary and duplicative, $2.5 billion welfare program. That proposal garnered over 81,000 votes out of more than 280,000 votes cast. Tomorrow, five new spending cut proposals will […]

PA-12: Shoe Leather Update. Burns Victory?–UPDATE: 175 Double Votes Due To Ballot Misunderstanding?

by Smitty Stacy McCain talked to a ‘Republican source’ at ~2:00 PM, who said “Turnout was low, which is good for Burns.” Details: He went by Latrobe, PA, and visited three voting locations. This confirmed the low turnout. In the 4th Ward, 987 registered voters. ~200 had voted by 4:00 PM. In the 1st Ward, […]

At First I Was Thinking, ‘Wow, Fisticuffs Between AZ Cops Over Immigration Law?’

by Smitty (h/t Miss Cellania)

Col. Patrick Murray, VA-8 Hopeful, On Strategy Room This Morning

by Smitty I’m waiting for Stacy to call in a field report from PA-12, from which we expect good news this evening. To tide you over, here is Col. Patrick Murray, one of two Republican hopefuls in the 08June primary, the other being Matthew Berry. Both are rock-solid candidates. One wishes the two resumes could […]

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