We could laugh at the jokes, but of course, the joke is really on us: This incompetent bumbler is in fact President of the United States!
Ba-dah-BOOM!
Category: Democrats
Joe Biden Invents Phony Gun Statistics — Because SHUT UP HATERS, That’s Why!
Stephen Gutowski describes the goofball’s latest anti-gun idiocy:
By combining, apparently in his head and on the fly, the demonstrably inaccurate “80,000 plus people a year” with the debunked claim that 40% of gun sales in America don’t require a background check, Mr. Biden reaches the completely unverifiable claim that “between 30,000 and 50,000 who get a gun who are not qualified. Probably higher.” That claim, the child of two other blatantly inaccurate claims used to forward gun control agendas, is, of course, itself used to forward a gun control agenda.
Facts? Logic? Who needs silly stuff like that, when you’ve got President AngryPants ranting against his opponents as moral inferiors? Besides, there’s always “shameless emotional bullying — political necromancy,” and the familiar “absolute moral authority” of victimhood employed to silence rational policy debate.
Our political, academic and media elites deliberately foment this atmosphere of hysterical emotionalism that empowers, for example, the insufferably smug Lawrence O’Donnell to blame the NRA — ! — for the Boston Marathon bombing.
The decadent creatures who would rule over us are forever “Hijacking crises for fun and profit,” as Ed Morrissey says. Or, more to the point, they are hijacking crises to augment their power and enhance their narcissistic enjoyment of imaginary superiority to the rest of us.
The Hope Industry
What? You thought this was about philanthropic humanitarianism?
A boldfaced Obama name can rake in upward of $25,000 per month from a client just by dialing into a conference call and drafting a memo from time to time. Four clients means more than a million dollars a year with virtually no overhead. “You can run a business like that on an iPad and a cell phone,” says the former administration official. The godfather of this approach is ex-Clinton strategist Doug Sosnik, famous for conducting his business meetings in jeans from coffee shops and hotel lobbies.2 David Plouffe and Stephanie Cutter have both adopted the Sosnik model.
Has anybody found out whatever happened to Peggy Joseph?
Why Is the New York Times Now Campaigning for Anthony Weiner?
First, the dishonest puff-piece feature, now a transparent “news” plug for Congressman Meat-Tweet. What’s going on here? I’ve got a few hunches about their motives, but no time to explain my theory just now. But there was time for Neutral Objective Journalism at ViralRead:
The New York Times has attempted to assist Weiner’s political rehabilitation, publishing an 8,000-word profile feature about the Democrat who resigned in June 2011 after he was caught sending photos of his bulging underwear to women via Twitter.That article in Sunday’s New York Times magazine was denounced by popular conservative blogger Ace of Spades as “a deliberate lie from start to finish” because of how the story by Jonathan Van Meter obscured the role of the late Andrew Breitbart in exposing Weiner. Breitbart.com was the first news organization to report on the so-called “WeinerGate” scandal. Van Meter’s article disparages Breitbart as a “not entirely reputable right-wing blogger.” Monday, Breitbart.com featured on its front page a lengthy account of WeinerGate excerpted from Andrew Breitbart’s book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World.
Why Won’t Democrats Answer Questions About Kentucky Eavesdropping Scandal?
The minute I mentioned the scandal involving Progress Kentucky’s secret recording of Mitch McConnell, the lady on the phone at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said, “I’ll put you through to his voicemail” — meaning DSCC spokesman Justin Barasky, who didn’t return my call. Gee, I wonder why?
The question of connections between Progress Kentucky and Democrat officials is not merely a matter of public relations, but also a matter of federal campaign law, which regulates “coordination” between political campaigns and outside groups. . . .
A Kentucky Democrat said Thursday that the Progress Kentucky activists bragged to him about their secret recording of McConnell. Did anyone at DSCC have knowledge of Progress Kentucky’s recording prior to its publication by David Corn at Mother Jones? McConnell has asked the FBI to investigate the recording, and it is not yet known whether potential violations of federal campaign law are part of that investigation.
You can read the whole thing at Viral Read. I’m not the only reporter getting the runaround from Democrats on this story. Dan Riehl asks: “What Did Brad Woodhouse Know and when did he know it?”
Yeah, as soon as their “progressive” pals get caught in shenanigans, Democrats do their Sergeant Schultz act: “I know nuzzink!”
Mark Pryor: Reliably Unreliable
As much as conservatives hate RINOs, liberals hate “Blue Dog” Democrats like Sen. Mark Pryor, and I have a hard time convincing conservatives that they should hate Pryor as much as the Left does.
Blue Dogs are majority-makers for Democrats, providing liberals with a tissue-thin pretext for pretending that the Democrats are not wholly controlled by far-left radicals (which of course they actually are). Democrats’ pretense of being a “mainstream” party — a fiction their stooges in the media help impose on the minds of gullible low-information voters — is made possible in large part by ridiculous frauds like Mark Pryor, a fossil vestige of the corrupt Clinton era in Arkansas.
Nobody with an IQ above room temperature believes a word Mark Pryor says about anything, and the exactly two reasons the White House and the national Democrat Party establishment have lined up to support Pryor in his (probably doomed) 2014 re-election campaign are:
- They believe Pryor can raise enough money from big corporate donors that the DSCC won’t have to spend money on his behalf, leaving them a free hand to defend seats they might actually keep; and
- The Democrat Party in Arkansas is so hopelessly weak that they can’t find any primary challenger to Pryor who stands a snowball’s chance in Hell.
Make no mistake: Pryor is completely doomed next year, and Democrats know it, but they have to maintain the illusion that Pryor might get re-elected, because otherwise the math tilts significantly toward the GOP’s chances of taking of the Senate, and once the big-money donors see that result as likely, Democrats are going to have a hard time raising campaign cash. This is why, by the way, Democrats were so desperate to make it look like Mitch McConnell was in a “scandal” — a desperation that didn’t work out too well — because if the Dems can’t challenge any GOP seats in red states, there could easily be a campaign-donor stampede toward the Republicans next year.
If you want to see Mark Pryor’s future, just look at what happened to Blanche Lincoln four years ago: She got challenged by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the Democrat primary, barely survived that, and then lost by a whopping 21-point margin to John Boozman in the general election.
Blanche Lincoln is now a corporate lobbyist for Wal-Mart, and Mitt Romney carried Arkansas with 61% of the vote last year.
Any attempt to find a Democrat other than Pryor for this year’s Senate race would probably require putting their face on milk cartons or something: “Have you seen this missing Democrat?”
The next Senator from Arkansas will be a Republican, and the question is whether there is enough of a moonbat constituency in Arkansas to run a “progressive” challenge against Pryor, which might encourage him to announce his retirement early.
Meanwhile, this two-faced “Blue Dog” weasel is still in the Senate, trying frantically to pretend that he’s a viable hope for re-election, which requires him to pretend he’s not out of touch with folks back home: He was FOR the assault-weapons ban before he was against it!
What a freaking joke . . .
‘Democrat Ethics’
You seldom see those two words in the same sentence, except when a Democrat is convicted of ethics violations or — as occasionally happens — pleads guilty to felonies. The Democratic Party is the most successful criminal organization in American history, and the amazing thing is that they haven’t yet stolen everything that’s not nailed down.
But have patience, they’re trying as hard as they can.
Anyway, the bungling dimwits thought they’d uncovered a Republican scandal, namely Mitch McConnell’s discussion of the fact that Ashley Judd is as nutty as a Snickers bar, information they obtained by means of electronic eavesdropping by a couple of “progressive activists,” which phrase is apparently a Kentucky synonym for criminals:
According to the version of the story now being told by local Democrat official Jacob Conway, two activists with Progress Kentucky “bragged to him about how they recorded the meeting” at McConnell’s campaign headquarters, using an iPhone to record it from the hallway.
A Democrat National Committee official LOLed at calls to denounce the secret recording, and accused McConnell of “trying to distract” from the fact that Republicans considered making an issue of ”a woman’s decades old mental health issues.” Except that it wasn’t “decades old.” Judd sought help for her mental illness as recently 2006 . . .
Read the whole thing. You can’t make this stuff up.
Progress Kentucky strategist Wile E. Coyote twitter.com/TSZarathustra/… | @tszarathustra
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 11, 2013
UPDATE: Didn’t I say you can’t make this stuff up?
Profiles in #p2 Courage: @progressky‘s Shawn Reilly throws volunteer Curtis Morrisson under the bus: twitter.com/joearnoldrepor…
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 11, 2013
UPDATE II: The rats are fleeing the sinking ship:
Jacob Conway, the Jefferson County Democratic Party’s executive committee member who originally accused Progress Kentucky of making the recording, told NBC News he was on his way to talk to the FBI about the allegations. And the group’s treasurer confirmed he had quit his position after the audio was published.
“At this time based on advice of both friends and counsel, I will be not be making a public statement available until everything has been reviewed by an attorney at this time,” Douglas L. Davis told NBC News. “I have resigned my position as treasurer and did not and do not condone any allegations of illegal activity that might have taken place.”
Remember: This started when David Corn of Mother Jones thought he was exposing a Republican scandal.
2009: @jamesokeefeiii destroys ACORN. 2013: @davidcorndc destroys @progressky. What’s that, Andrew? Yeah, LOL.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 12, 2013
Oh, those awful, awful “secret recordings”!
President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama’s Budget
Let’s start with the most obvious signal of unity: If President Obama has lost a liberal like Taylor Marsh . . .
President Obama is daring the right to blow this chance [to reach a deficit[-reduction deal]. Unfortunately, the game of chicken the President is playing with people’s only avenue to stay out of poverty in advanced age, which hurts women more than any other group, is actually what he believes should be done.
It’s certain that progressives and their allies will never forget that Barack Obama was the first Democratic president to suggest carving away F.D.R.’s New Deal. That chained CPI cuts are a shadow war on women, from none other than the first African American president in history, who certainly should know what this means.
He’s also lost a would-be Democrat superstar:
“Not only does President Obama’s plan fail to put our finances back in order, it would cut benefits for our seniors, which is wrong,” said Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, who faces former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford in a May 7 election to fill the 1st District House seat vacated by Tim Scott’s appointment to the Senate.
“The fact is, we have to balance our budget, cut our spending and lower taxes for small businesses to create jobs,” Colbert-Busch, sister of cable-TV comedian Stephen Colbert, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this budget takes the opposite approach; it raises taxes, doesn’t balance and doesn’t cut enough – when we should be laser-focused on slashing wasteful and duplicative spending.”
The budget hatred is all across the board today: Liberals hate the president’s first baby-steps toward entitlement reform, while Republicans hate the tax increases and say Obama really isn’t doing a damned thing to fix the budget deficit:
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio slammed President Obama’s $3.8-trillion budget plan Wednesday as filled with “recycled liberal ideas,” saying the proposal is “useless” because it was delivered two months late.
“President Obama’s budget is a blueprint for a recession,” said Rubio, who is widely viewed as a leading hopeful for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. “Filled to the brim with middle class tax hikes and debt spending, the recycled liberal ideas in his budget have failed time and again to create real vibrant economic growth for the American people. Our nation needs a plan that reflects the principles of limited government, free enterprise and a strong national defense.”
Ed Morrissey’s verdict: “Obama wants Republicans to agree to tax hikes today for down-the-road cost savings in entitlement programs that are necessary whether we hike taxes or not. In exchange, he wants to increase spending in most or all other categories.”
For those who prefer to get their presidential bullshit unfiltered, you can read Obama’s Rose Garden speech at WhiteHouse.gov, including his attempt to blame Republicans for his own idea, the sequester cuts:
My budget also replaces the foolish across-the-board spending cuts that are already hurting our economy. And I have to point out that many of the same members of Congress who supported deep cuts are now the ones complaining about them the loudest as they hit their own communities. Of course, the people I feel for are the people who are directly feeling the pain of these cuts — the people who can least afford it. They’re hurting military communities that have already sacrificed enough. They’re hurting middle-class families. There are children who have had to enter a lottery to determine which of them get to stay in their Head Start program with their friends. There are seniors who depend on programs like Meals on Wheels so they can live independently, but who are seeing their services cut.
That’s what this so-called sequester means. Some people may not have been impacted, but there are a lot of folks who are being increasingly impacted all across this country. And that’s why my budget replaces these cuts with smarter ones, making long-term reforms, eliminating actual waste and programs we don’t need anymore.
Also, the president knows you need some “fairness” talk:
Over the past two years, I’ve signed legislation that will reduce our deficits by more than $2.5 trillion — more than two-thirds of it through spending cuts and the rest through asking the wealthiest Americans to begin paying their fair share. . . .
But if we’re serious about deficit reduction, then these reforms have to go hand-in-hand with reforming our tax code to make it more simple and more fair, so that the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations cannot keep taking advantage of loopholes and deductions that most Americans don’t get. That’s the bottom line.
Just in case you haven’t yet smashed your computer in a frothing rage, here’s video of today’s Obama speech:
Don’t blame me. I’m just reporting this crap.