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by Smitty

Title reference, for those who would mis-interpret.

Weiner, the Left punts on 3rd down, systemically. It’s part of failing upward, which is what you do when you hate liberty and just want a nipple from a federal family breast stuffed in your face.

It takes a very special person to try to talk tough while the arrows of reality are placing picturesque perforations in his rapidly deteriorating perimeter. All things considered, Weiner, that little big horn of yours has assured its place in the Andrew Sullivan Museum of Junk.

Given the location of the Little Big Horn, one wonders if you’ll be moving to Montana soon, where you can be a dental floss tycoon?

by Smitty

Kevin Jackson in Taki’s Magazine:

Obama promised to deliver his ideas with no subterfuge. Unlike his actions in the past such as sealing his college transcripts, there would be transparency with jobs. Obama would not treat jobs like his birth certificate or his Harvard writings and other musings. Lobbyists are not welcome here, as jobs are the order of the day, and almost three years into his presidency we need to know that jobs are Priority #1.

Quite a good read, overall.  The Obama Bible, AKA The New Book of Jobs, is territory that one could mine endlessly.

Now, if only Kevin could give the President some Moses-like success. . .

by Smitty

Costa at NRO has an update:

No longer in the national spotlight, Miller remains active in politics, speaking at tea-party rallies. I caught up with him in this small, suburban town, just north of Philadelphia, about an hour before he spoke at a tea-party event at a local farm, where he endorsed upstart Senate candidate Marc Scaringi, a former Rick Santorum aide, who is challenging Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.).

Over coffee, Miller told me that he is not ready to endorse a presidential candidate, but finds Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann near the top of his list. He also thinks that Sarah Palin, despite the buzz, will jump in. “My gut is that she’s going for it,” he says. “I know the polling data and facts on the ground may suggest otherwise, but she would be a wonderful addition to the fray. I think she would enliven the debate. She would embolden and motivate the tea-party base, bringing an outside-the-establishment perspective, which is really needed.”

Equally provocative stuff at the link.

As with Sharron Angle, Joe Miller showed that ye olde evil Ruling Class Overlords will fight for their right to party on the Titanic, rather than let anyone save the ship.

by Smitty

Just because you’ve become comfortable with the list on the ship of state does not justify inaction to correct the flooding problem.

Althouse references Ed Kilgore:

Every moment they spend sparring over the New Deal and Great Society is a boon to Barack Obama. Even if the incumbent cannot win a referendum on his own presidency, he can win a competition between the ghost of Barry Goldwater and the ghosts of FDR and LBJ.

Boo, hiss. I voted for Ross Perot in ’92, and I’m unafraid to support a non-GOP conservative with the integrity to face down our problems.

• Quantitative Easing is theft.
• Social Security, and all federal entitlements, really, are a Ponzi scheme.
• Frivolously spending more than we can ever possibly repay is immoral.

I can moderate that slightly by allowing for some gradual righting of the ship of state: we don’t have to try to do things so rapidly that people are wildly tossed about. That’s a style point. Substantially, any candidate had better explain where they’re rigging pumps and doing some serious de-watering.

Trying to ‘make nice’ with our problems, in the name of appeal to moderates does nothing but ensure the ship of state will capsize. At that rate, shag it: just vote for BHO, and let’s flip this byotch soonest. I, for one, have good swimming skills.
Therein lies the rub: it’s not about me, it’s about caring enough not to let a ship driven by Progressive fools capsize without an extended struggle for liberty.

by Smitty (via Insty)

Surber ojects vigorously to rock stars ascribing American citizenship to themselves:

No, Bono, is not an American — one day a year or 365. Who in the heck does this pompous Irish think he is standing in Canada and presuming that he is an American? When did he stand in line to get the paperwork done so he could establish a residency? When did he take and pass the Citizenship Test? When did he raise that right hand and swear to God and everyone else his allegiance to the Greatest Land Of All?

He is not even a Bono. His name is Paul David Hewson. He does not even pronounce the name right. That is a long O as in Sonny Bono, who was a true American son of legal immigrants who worked his way up from nothing, learned the music business, built an entertainment empire and then became mayor of Palm Springs and a congressman.

In defense of Hewson, at least he was never romantically linked to Cher.

But Bono is not the first to make this claim. One predecessor was the German thrash outfit Rammstein:
Something about dudes in space suits rocking on the moon just strikes me as funny. Sharp-eyed Twitter users may recognize my avatar, mooched from this video. (Follow me, please: it’s embarrassing that RMS has four times the followers that I do.)

But, hey: if Rammstein is living in America, and Bono is an American, should Bono go ahead and front the band? Maybe they could go on a tour performing Grateful Dead material through a squishy-Christian/thrash filter. Is there a career for me managing musical acts?

by Smitty

It hurt, but I feel better. Still won’t swing Catholicism:

by Smitty (via Volokh)

Is it a tax or not a tax. . . shows the need both to revisit first principles and to admit when they have reached their limit. The distinction between taxes as internal to the country, and regulation of commerce is external to the border, is a good one.

Note that the tax/regulation distinction can be stated simply.

Note the general confusion concerning the funding nature of ObamaCare. Is it commerce, is it a tax, is it regulation of inactivity? The smartest guys in the room cannot, while coloring within the lines, make a simple statement of what picture ObamaCare paints and how it squares with America as we know it.

Every GOP candidate should be running on sticking a fork in ObamaCare as a first-day task.