Category: The Lonely Conservative

Obama’s Problem? ‘Being So Bipartisan’!

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Last night, as for nearly every night in recent months, I was struggling to find an answer to the question that has been haunting so many Americans: Where did President Obama go wrong?

I mean, Peggy Joseph said he was going to make her mortage payments and everything, and David Brooks promised — based on a careful examination of Obama’s pants creases — that this man had the perfect temperament for the job. Some had said he ranked up there with the greatest of all time. And yet, strangely enough, so many of my fellow Americans seem to have been disappointed in his presidency.

This has perplexed me for weeks on end, until last night, when I saw this quote at The Lonely Conservative: 

“[P]art of the problem with the president was by being so bipartisan and trying to not, you know, try to be one country about everything, he let his opponents set him up.”

Yes! That’s it exactly! And if there is anyone in America who knows all about being bipartisan, it’s Van Jones:

They Told Me If I Voted McCain That Clueless Gits Would Run Amok, And They Were Right!

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by Smitty

Via The Blaze, #OccupyResoluteDesk is all about the excuses:Via The Lonely Conservative, after three years of this goat rope, Obama’s losers still mis-underestimated the deficit by 4/5 of a trillion dollars.

Sure makes me glad that Barack successfully kept Sarah Palin away from levers of power.

Shout Out To Article V Fans

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by Smitty

Nothing is perfect, even the U.S. Constitution. Even if it were perfect, it would still be of value to kick the tires, at least for the edification of the kickers. Some don’t like the Electoral College. There are some problems I see with the stealth movement to snuff the EC, though:

  • The path chosen seems to ignore the Article V Amendment process. Rather than Amend the Constitution, the approach taken seems to be to tackle each state’s rules individually.
  • The goal of the project is to eliminate yet another aspect of statehood itself.
  • The people interested in this seem to be the cretins driving some of the economically unsustainable ideas afflicting the country, e.g. ObamaCare. What is it about bad thinking, like a clogged toilet, that seems to fill some heads with crap?

Listen, Leftie losers: make an Article V case, or study silence.

Weiner Schnitzeled?

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by Smitty

Trying to go for a slightly less gruesome title than The Lonely Conservative. I can’t think of too many people I’d rather see squeezed out of Congress due to gerrymandering.
If they screwed up and left me in charge, I should like to see an open source map algorithm, as well as completely open data used to generate the smallest ‘reasonable’ congressional districts. There would still be politics about how the algorithm is constructed, and how input data are delivered, I am sure.
However, achieving transparency in our government should involve removing as many places for people to trade horses in smoke filled rooms as possible.

Oh, and here is a bit of topical ‘HEH‘.

Syracuse Post-Standard Portrays Buerkle as Supporting ‘Massive Budget Cuts’

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Freshman Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle is the most vicious, reckless, wild-eyed budget-slasher in American history, according to the largest newspaper in her district.

The editors of the Syracuse paper — evidently picking up the “slash-and-burn” theme used by the New York Times — obviously think their readers are idiots who can’t do math. If Obama has proposed a budget with $1.65 trillion in deficits, how big a slice is $61 billion?

Having seen many previous examples of biased reporting in her local paper, The Lonely Conservative addresses herself to their reporter:

Note to Mark Weiner and the Post Standard: We’re broke! What part of that don’t you understand? Are you hoping we turn into Greece so you have a big story to cover? I’m beginning to wonder.

Amity Shlaes for Senate?

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Adam Brickley has an interesting suggestion for New York Republicans:

The GOP needs a high profile opponent who will force Gillibrand to explain herself – and given her record we don’t think she can. The only question is who can do this while raising the money to compete in expensive New York
Our suggestion is Amity Shlaes – syndicated columnist, first rate historian, and bestselling author. She is the very antithesis of Sen. Gillibrand, and she has a huge national following that could fund an insurgent campaign with small donations. Her history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man, has become essential reading among economic conservatives of all stripes – from tea partiers to establishment moderates to Ron Paul devotees. Hence, we have absolutely no doubt that her legions of devoted fans and readers could fund a gargantuan campaign without breaking a sweat, giving her more than enough ammo to both win the GOP nomination and bury Gillibrand under a hail of advertising.

Read the whole thing. Brickley is the blogger who launched the “Draft Palin” blog back when nobody had ever heard of Alaska’s governor. Matt Lewis at Politics Daily says Brickley “has an uncanny ability to spot talented candidates that others overlook.”

Upstate blogger The Lonely Conservatives says “Run, Amity, Run!”