“If the question is which state has changed most in the last half-century, the answer might be California. But if the question is which state has changed most for the better, the answer might be South Carolina.”
Category: South Carolina
Lindsey Graham Sadly Abdicated His Elected Responsibility
by Smitty (h/t Doug at Malkin)
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that Jesus’s Golden Rule inspired him to vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court and suggested it would be a good thing for his Senate colleagues to also ponder Jesus’s words as they prepared to vote on Kagan.
What an insufferable twit! By the standard of the Golden Rule, we’re all theologically equivalent. Lindsey should, by this logic, be proud to confirm Lyndon LaRouche, should the POTUS, in some pique, see fit to nominate the gentleman.
“It is divine in its orientation, and it is probably something that would serve us all well if we thought about it at moments such as this,” Sen. Graham said on the Senate floor, as he pointed his colleagues to the Golden Rule and counseled them to look to the wisdom of “somebody far wiser than I am” as they cast their votes on Kagan.
You see, Senator Graham, the confirmation process is about getting people in place who understand and support the Federal Constitution. Starting from the document and its ideals, and moving on a path towards Elena Kagan, you should have realized that there was a “Bridge Out” sign on the road.
Maybe the people of your state hold you in some regard, but some asbestos knickers might be a good investment before you’re up for re-election.
More at:
The Lonely Conservative
Hot Air
Dan Riehl, an anti-bow tie bigot.
Update: Still more Graham affection at:
Carol’s Closet
Alvin Greene Rocks The House! New Ad Is A Scream
by Smitty (h/t BlueGrass Pundit)
Full props to Greene. You’ve got a campaign so uphill as to be purely vertical, so what are you going to do? Prep for your follow-on gig as an entertainment mogul or hip-hop personality.
Maybe he and the Lonely Island can collaborate on some John Kerry work, for example.
Zombie Folks Still Prowling For Brains
by Smitty
If you thought that enough shells of laughter had been sent into rumor zombie Will Folks, Right Turns Only informs us that no: no, it’s not been enough.
Rumors that Will Folks has scheduled a Million Paramour March have not been confirmed. Dishonest zombies, it seems, lack friends.
Athens Runaway Lands In Myrtle Beach, SC. Nikki Haley Blogging Ensues
by Smitty
Our old blog buddy Jesse is chilling on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, an aerial photograph of which graces the masthead at his new digs, Right Turns Only.
Starting off with a bang, Jesse catches us up on Democratic party tactics in the Gubernatorial race, where Nikki Haley toasted her GOP opponents to a well-deserved crisp in the primary.
Possibly unable to learn from a losing strategy, it looks like the Dems might be running from that failed GOP playbook, to read Jesse’s post, “First They Call You A Whore. . .“. Truly as fragrant as that paper plant in North Charleston, such ideas.
Maybe they can contact Ezra Klein and company for some more educated mud to fling. Instead of epistemic closure, maybe the Dems could attack, I don’t know, her purported lack of barbecue fu.
At which point she might break out a mean tandoor and just commence to own them.
I have no idea if that even applies to Nikki’s ethnic traditions, and apologize in advance for any cultural insensitivity on display.
Nikki Haley Wins GOP Runoff!
The Associated Press goes straight into the “historic” race-and-gender identity-politics stuff:
Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, won the Republican nomination for governor and Tim Scott, a black lawmaker, grabbed a commanding lead in his bid for the GOP nod for a House seat in South Carolina primary runoffs Tuesday, a measure of racial progress in the Deep South and the GOP.
Really? I mean . . . really? Why wasn’t the Associated Press all about “racial progress in the Deep South” for Alvin Greene?
Never mind, the key point here is that the scumbag axis of Will Folks, Larry Marchant and Jake Knotts has been defeated.
UPDATE: More good news Tea Party-backed Trey Gowdy beat Rep. “Bailout Bob” Inglis, who voted for TARP.
I Am No Matchmaker
by Smitty
However, with no fear of exceeding the realm of good taste, I would like to recommend that Kesha Rogers and Alvin Greene should do lunch.
Kesha can help Alvin get something more substantial than, you know, Wikipedia, going for the campaign. It’s going to be a tough slog, going after Ol’ Julep DeMint, and he really needs to get crackin’.
Should romance flower, the couple could enjoy a truly rockin’ Congress. I say this as a poor, bald soul with bad eyes, running to pear-shaped; a pitiful candidate for marriage, indeed. In other words, this post is not merely teasing for its own sake. We should be able to wish good fortune on all, even those with whom we disagree.
Slightly less charitable about the good Alvin Greene, while retaining good decorum, was Wesley Williams, J.D. The clip purports to be out-takes from the Kieth Olbermann interview.
Will Folks: Nikki Haley for Governor! (Because, Hey, I Tapped That Stuff)
Writing about “our founding editor” in third-person again.
Will Folks is not scum. He’s the virus that infects the slime that covers the parasites that inhabit the entrails of scavengers that feed on scum.
(Via Memeorandum.)
UPDATE: Sacred Honor Watch at AOSHQ.