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Senator Rand Paul Lays It Down Like Every Republican Should

Posted on | February 21, 2013 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

The GOP should be firmly on #OccupyResoluteDesk’s sad little case just like this, 24/7/365:

@4:36 “This is the emotionalism that’s always used to argue against any cuts.”

Paul invites the question: just why are the bulk of other elected Republicans not stepping up to the plate?

via The Examiner

Update: Geraghty at NRO:
Here’s the 3 by 5 index card version of what the GOP’s message on sequestration ought to be:

  • Our current level of spending is unsustainable. Spending must go down. Period.
  • This is a 2 percent cut [in spending growth].
  • Sure, if we in the Republican Party had complete control of the government, we would be implementing the cuts differently. But we don’t.
  • Congress can only appropriate funds; it doesn’t run the departments and agencies that spend the money. That’s the power and responsibility of the executive branch.
  • If the Obama administration’s response to a 2 percent cut is really to let all the criminals out of the jails and end food safety inspections, then it is no longer disputable that he’s a Stuttering Cluster-you-know-what of a Miserable Failure.

Update II: Legal Insurrection links, “Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013”

Category: Rand Paul

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.21.13

Posted on | February 21, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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Policeman the subject of murder charges

Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty To Misuse Of Campaign Funds
Could face 57 months in prison, $100,000 fine



POLITICS
Pentagon Awash In Pink Slips

Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale

Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale

DoD officially notifies Congress of intent to furlough 800K civilian workers on March 1 to comply with sequester

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Obama Officials Plan Response To Thefts Of Trade Secrets

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Senators Raise Alarm Over Another Possible Sale Of Government-Backed Firm To Chicoms

Boehner To Obama: You Created Spending Cut Crisis, You Fix It

Governor Scott Agrees To Expand Florida’s Medicaid Program

Mitt Romney To Address CPAC

Alabama House Passes Bill Tightening Requirements For Abortion Clinics



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
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Singer Michelle Williams arrives at the Roc Nation Pre-Grammy Brunch

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Pakistani Shiites Vow To Continue Protesting Attacks By Sunni Extremists
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Category: Live at Five

Pete Domenici, Republican Sex Machine

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 9 Comments

You know how, whenever there’s a Democrat scandal, liberal blogs try to pretend like they don’t notice it? I hate that, and so I’m not going to pretend not to notice that former Sen. Pete Domenici, 80, fathered an illegitimate child in 1978 with the daughter of Domenici’s Republican colleague, Sen. Paul Laxalt:

She raised the son, Adam Paul Laxalt, as a single mother. According to past Virginia voter registration records, he was born in August 1978, 35 years ago. Michelle Laxalt would have been 24 at the time; Domenici would have been 46.

So, here you have a married Republican senator banging a chick barely half his age, a chick who just happens to be a fellow Senator’s daughter, and . . . Well, it was the ’70s, eh?

Back in 1978 — no, I’m not going to tell any of those stories. But I was a long-haired teenage rock-and-roller back then, not to mention a Democrat. How was I to know that Republican senators were partying down like the cast of Boogie Nights?

Also, I’ll point out that the Washington Post included Domenici’s party affiliation in the first sentence of the article, whereas by contrast when a Democrat congressman pleads guilty to federal felony charges . . . eh, not so much.

Finally, while it is embarrassing to admit that a married Republican senator fathered a baby with a chick half his age, at least he didn’t leave her to die in a submerged Oldsmobile.

 

Category: Democrats, Republicans, Scandal, Sex

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 9 Comments

That’s right, folks. Another corrupt Chicago Democrat — but I repeat myself — is on his way to federal prison:

With moist eyes and soft voices, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife pleaded guilty to federal charges on Wednesday related to years of using campaign funds for personal expenses that included purchases of Michael Jackson memorabilia and a Rolex watch.
“Guilty, your honor,” Jackson responded to U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins while dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief  . . .
Jackson admitted to diverting about $750,000 for personal purposes from 2005 to 2012.
Wilkins set sentencing for June 28, when Jackson could face up to five years in prison.
At a separate hearing later on Wednesday, former Chicago Alderman Sandra Stevens Jackson, 49, also pleaded guilty in a quavering voice to one count of filing false tax returns in connection with the misuse of her husband’s campaign funds.
The charge involved a failure to declare more than $600,000 in income from 2005 to 2011. The total came from campaign funds.
She wept openly after returning to the defense table. Wilkins set her sentencing for July 1, when she could receive up to three years in prison.

Swindling $750,000 and trying to hide more than $600,000 from the IRS, because Democrats, they’re looking out for the little guy.

Via Memeorandum, with more commentary from Gateway Pundit, Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters and Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: Oh, happy day!

 

Category: Chicago, Congress, Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Illinois

The Great Karl Rove Super PAC Scare

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 31 Comments

Having said nothing about all this previously, my inclination is to discourage pre-emptive panic among grassroots conservatives. Until we get down to cases — in a clear-cut situation where a Republican primary pits a solid conservative against a Establishment RINO type hand-picked by Karl Rove — there’s no point getting all angry or frightened about it. Look for an opportunity to beat one of Rove’s picks, to teach the Establishment a lesson, but in the meantime, keep your powder dry.

So, anyway . . . Newt Gingrich is now anti-Rove:

I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states. This is the opposite of the Republican tradition of freedom and grassroots small town conservatism…
That is the system of Tammany Hall and the Chicago machine. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican.

Allahpundit has further commentary on this theme at Hot Air. But you’ll excuse me for not buying Newt’s new act as populist defender of the Tea Party grassroots. When the entire Tea Party was backing Doug Hoffman in NY-23, Newt was for Dede Scozzafava.

“You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.”

 

 

Category: Election, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party

Dishonest Bill Schmalfeldt Got Banned from Daily Kos for Anal Rape ‘Satire’

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 36 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt of Elk Ridge, Maryland, a.k.a. “Liberal Grouch”

It’s noon, boys and girls, which means that deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt is now podcasting his fathomless rage against Lee Stranahan and other eeeee-vil people who, just coincidentally, happen to be on Brett Kimberlin’s enemies list. Schmalfeldt’s compulsive lying has been previously examined here, but on his podcast yesterday, the sociopathic sadist had the effrontery to accuse me of “dishonestly” cropping his photo to make him look scary.

Oh, cruel irony: That picture of Bill came from the same online file of images in which Schmalfeldt included obscene Photoshopped smears of his various enemies who, as I say, are so coincidentally coterminous with the Kimberlin enemies list. Not going to share those here, but you could ask Ali Akbar what Schmalfeldt “dishonestly” does to photos. Or just look at what Bill did to a Sarah Palin photo:

Schmalfeldt created that Photoshop of Palin bleeding with a stake through her forehead to illustrate a post he wrote under his “Bill Matthews” alias at the Examiner, a deceit he perpetrated after his harassment of fellow Examiner contributors got Schmalfeldt axed as the “Liberal in Baltimore” columnist at the Examiner. He returned as “Bill Matthews” of Wisconsin (despite being a Maryland resident not named Matthews) and kept up that charade until getting banned permanently from the Examiner in August.

Photoshopped images of Republicans spattered in blood is a favorite theme with Schmalfeldt, as shown by an image of Allen West he created to illustrate a May post at Daily Kos.

So much for the Schmalfeldt “image integrity” lecture, eh? My apologies for using “Schmalfeldt” and “integrity” in the same sentence.

Schmalfeldt is forever burning bridges behind him as he careens from disaster to disaster caused by his antisocial personality. He never accepts responsibility for his failures, always externalizing blame onto his scapegoated enemies. The classic example of this was when Schmalfeldt, clumsily attempting to smear “homophobic” conservatives, published a May 18 Daily Kos diary about anal sex.

Go ahead and click that link. Double-dog dare ya.

To say that Schmalfeldt’s graphic discussion of what he called “the Butt Stuff” was obscene and offensive is to understate the matter. Perhaps the most adequate description is “Too Disgusting for Daily Kos,” which is really saying something.

Schmalfeldt’s gross discourse about sodomy drew outraged comments from DKos readers, including “Cinnamon,” who remarked that it seemed “to have been written by a 14 year old, using one hand.” Schmalfeldt then added an unintentionally hilarious disclaimer:

UPDATE: To clarify for Cinnamon’s sake, this is not an indictment of all heterosexual men. I happen to BE a heterosexual man. A heterosexual teacher coerced me into becoming straight when I was just eight years old. I was permanently scarred by the experience of being told of the pleasures of heterosexuality. She never touched me or anything like that, but it was clear that SHE was a heterosexual and I admired her, so I decided then and there, this would be the lifestyle I chose. No, this is an indictment of STUPID heterosexual men who are either self-loathing closeted gays or believe that every gay man in the world wants to f–k him. I thought this was self-apparent throughout this satirical diary, but Cinnamon begs to differ and has slapped this diary with an HR to show her disapproval. Now that we are clear on the actual INTENT of the diarist, who uses satire to make his point (and not everyone “gets” satire, so apparently it has to be explained before it can be read), we begin.

In other words, if graphic discussion of “the Butt Stuff” offends you, it’s because “not everyone ‘gets’ satire.” Two days later, as progressives at DKos continued to pillory Schmalfeldt, he then offered a new Daily Kos contribution:

Please Stop Reading My Diaries. Thanks.
This diary, short and sweet, is really dedicated to the six people who found no humor whatsoever, thank you, in the piece I wrote yesterday about how it’s the “butt stuff” that male homophobes find so scary about “teh gey”.
It is not an apology.
It’s a suggestion.
Stop reading my stuff.

Evidently, this did not placate his critics and that day — May 20 — was Bill Schmalfeldt’s last as a DKos contributor.

This, then, is the character of the remorseless monster who will spend two hours today on his podcast attacking Lee Stranahan and others on the Kimberlin enemies list. 

Schmalfeldt does his twisted “show” five days a week to augment his blog and Twitter harassment of Stranahan. Did I mention that in July, Schmalfeldt created a “Dead Andrew” site to mock the late Andrew Breitbart and disparage Breitbart’s conservative colleagues?

There is nothing so low as to be beneath Schmalfeldt’s despicable hatefulness, including the most disgusting sexual references imaginable to Lee Stranahan’s wife and children.

You stay classy, Bill Schmalfeldt!




 

 

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Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

That Feeling When The Goal Is Known, But The Means Remain Ambiguous

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

The question of exactly how to re-engage the culture is a serious one, especially when approached from a Christian viewpoint. This is a political blog with a SoCon flavor that is neither hidden, nor preached like Jonathan Edwards. And yet, Jerry at Goldfish and Clowns issues “A Challenge to Conservatives” that tempts one to shift tone a bit, at least for a post (emphasis mine):

One of the more raging debate points these days within conservative new media is what exactly needs to be done as far as influencing popular culture. There is a general consensus that the right has abandoned the culture influencers — entertainment media, news media (insert obligatory “there’s a difference?” snark here) — in favor of either continuing to consume whatever is thrown its way by the aforementioned entities, regardless of how much it is slanted against they believe, or retreating behind a wall to create its own entertainment.
In both cases, it reinforces my belief that conservative new media is in the exact same position the contemporary Christian music industry was twenty to thirty years ago.

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Category: Blogging, Goldfish & Clowns

Ratings-Killer @Soledad_OBrien Fired by Obscure Third-Place Cable News Network

Posted on | February 20, 2013 | 44 Comments

Soledad O’Brien: Nielsen needed a microscope to measure her audience

America’s Least Popular Cable-News Personality™ has joined the growing ranks of the nation’s unemployed, and you’ll excuse me for being so late to blog about it, but it took a while before I could stop dancing long enough to sit down and type.

Inside sources at CNN lauded O’Brien as an “award-winning journalist” and “a big star.” The reaction at Jammie Wearing Fools:

How is it this award-winning big star has no ratings?

This has been the enduring mystery of Soledad O’Brien’s failed tenure at CNN, as I reported in March 2012:

Executives at CNN must be in shock at the catatrophic implosion of their morning lineup, as Starting Point With Soledad O’Brien (7-9 a.m. weekdays) recorded the cable network’s lowest ratings for that time slot in more than a decade. Fewer than 100,000 adults 25-54 tuned in to O’Brien’s program on an average day, according to the latest quarterly Nielsen numbers.
Inside Cable News called the CNN morning numbers “brutal,” and “an epic ratings collapse,” further adding: “CNN cannot continue to hemorrhage viewers like this much longer without taking drastic corrective action.”

O’Brien is destined to be remembered as the biggest flop in the history of television news. The nadir of her CNN career came in August when she was caught reading talking points from a liberal blog during an interview with a Romney campaign surrogate.

 


Category: CNN
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