The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Apparently, John McCain Doesn’t Think He’s Done Enough Yet to Destroy the GOP

Posted on | January 27, 2013 | 124 Comments

During Saturday’s panel on immigration at the National Review Summit, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies made the point that a Republican-backed “comprehensiive” bill would not only fail to win Hispanic support for the GOP, but would actually hurt the party. If any such bill becomes law, Obama and the Democrats would take credit for its passage, while the people who oppose amnesty — especially blue-collar white voters — would blame Republicans.

Of course, the living antithesis of political wisdom, John McCain, insists Republicans must pass amnesty:

MARTHA RADDATZ: So how do you convince Republicans about the path to citizenship?
SENATOR MCCAIN: Well, look, I’ll give you a little straight talk. Look at the last election. Look at the last election. We are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons, and we’ve got to understand that. Second of all, we can’t go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children who were brought here by their parents when they were small children to live in the shadows, as well. So I think the time is right.

 

Category: Immigration, John McCain

Rule 5 Sunday: Neuronengesang

Posted on | January 27, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Some of the following links may be NSFW. If clicking on them would get you in trouble with the wife/boss/SO/fellow workers/kids, maybe you shouldn’t oughta.


Subject to Change debuts with a nice assortment of pics, Bring The Heat Bring The Stupid returns with Jessica Chastain, Eye of Polyphemus does likewise with Maggie Grace, and Laughing Conservative presents Irina Shayk. Fishersville Mike has a Pro Bowl cheerleader from the Patriots, Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Lowering The Boom brings the – controversial!- Kate Upton. Reaganite Republican continues his series on Miss Universe contestants this week with Miss Ecuador, Blessed Blasphemy offers Karen Gillan for Robert Burns Day, Randy’s Roundtable tarts it up with Jessica Cediel, and the First Street Journal, as is their wont, posts (military) Women With Weapons.


EBL milked Rule 5 for all it was worth this week, with posts on playoff cheerleaders, the legendary Julie London, Jennifer Connelly, Sharon Tate (RIP), Gemma Arterton, and a gearhead gal in a bikini.


A View From The Beach leads off with Stana Kacik, then it’s Dogs, Wolves and Cave Girls; You Can’t Ban Evil; (Fantasy) Women In Combat; Ginger Explains Debt; Dresses From 3D Printers; Carla Bruni, Tax Refugee; Needed: Volunteer Womb (has cave girl content), Morons Find Comics Unrealistic, and Martian Rivers, Joan’s younger sister.


El Opinador Compulsivo begins with Valerie Baber (h/t Soylent Green’s Corsetcare), Halle Berry, Melissa Rauch (a/k/a Dr…no, it’s too much typing. Go see for yourself.), Sofia Vergara (yep, two links), something from the Today In Quebec files, It’s Tight Like That, and in Israel, “The State Is Stripping Us!” Now there’s a campaign slogan!


Speaking of Soylent Green, the week began with Spidergirl, Overnighty Mia, and Monday Motivationer Britney before continuing with Happy Hour Hawt Heather, Tuesday Titillation Candice, Humpday Hawt Jasmine, When Eye Bleach Isn’t Enough, Falconsword Fursday Homage, Fursday Evening Awesome, Corsetcare Appreciation Day, AM Arianna, and Just Jessica.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Gan Lulu, his vintage babe was Sally Field, and Sex in Advertising says It’s For You! Also, the obligatory 49ers cheerleaders. Dustbury offers Tiffani Thiessen and Jacqueline DuPre, and The Camp of the Saints presents Hayley Marie and the Rule 5 News 2013 Spring Bikinis Edition.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included AJ Lee, Yoko Kumada, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Lacey Banghard, Lynda Carter, India Reynolds, a random post with Emmanuelle Chiriqui content, and Adella Pasos.


Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery! Deadline for submitting links to next week’s Rule 5 Sunday through the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, February 2.



Category: Rule 5

Neo-Confederate Judges? Who Knew?

Posted on | January 27, 2013 | 32 Comments

Why did Scott Lemieux reach for the “neo-Confederate” epithet (he clearly means it as such) to describe the three federal judges who ruled against President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board? I’m old enough to remember when liberals claimed to oppose the “imperial presidency,” but I suppose that was because Nixon was president back then. Liberals are OK with imperial authority when that authority is wielded by Barack Milhous Obama.

Lemieux may have gotten “neo-Confederate” from the Random Epithet Generator software that is installed on the laptops of progressive bloggers, to help them express their Manichean worldview.

It is not true that liberals are moral relativists. In their worldview, that which helps Democrats is good; that which helps Republicans is evil.

Because the appeals court ruled against the Democratic president, the court is evil, and the question for the Random Epithet Generator to solve is, “What kind of evil is this?” Racist? Sexist? Homophobic? Greedy? Reactionary? Climate change denialist? These possibilities were crunched through the algorithmic progression of the Random Epithet Generator and rejected in favor of “neo-Confederate.”

Does the word actually mean anything in this context? Go read Lemieux’s rant: He doesn’t even try to justify the term. It is mere name-calling.

But who cares about credibility, when you’ve already been denounced by Glenn Greenwald as ”a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom”?

Category: Constitution

Hawkins: 15 Lies Of Liberalism

Posted on | January 27, 2013 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

A great article by John Hawkins:

9) …liberals want unity and bipartisanship, which they apparently believe they can accomplish by spewing pure hatred and smearing, demonizing, threatening, and lying about anyone who disagrees with them.

10) …it’s going to deliver equality of outcomes for everyone, which is true, if by “delivering equality of outcomes” you mean “make everyone poorer.”

11) …it cares about women — unless they’re conservative women, in which case liberals will insult them in the vilest of terms, attack their children, call them whores and laugh and hoot at the most grotesque sexist attacks against them. Every last insult ever hurled at someone like Sandra Fluke probably wouldn’t amount to what women like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter put up with on any given week with the full support of the same liberals who run off at the mouth about a “war on women.”

I had sent Hawkins a Tweet linking Al Gore’s wonderful, (emphasis mine):

Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.

That still remains the absolute dumbest thing I’ve ever seen from a public figure.

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Halcyon

Posted on | January 26, 2013 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Next 1,460 Days: I Still Hope He Fails

Hillary Gets Bitchy on Benghazi: ‘What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?’

Liberal Blogger: ‘How Dare You Smear Hillary by Quoting Her Accurately!’

Great @PJTV Bill Whittle Essay For Those Needing A Little Perk-Up

Gun-Grabbers Now Hunting Blue Dogs, Target Georgia Democrat John Barrow

Scientology ‘Advertorial’ Scandal Exposes Atlantic Executive as Truthless Swine

From the NTTAWWT Files: Feds Arrest Transvestite Priest for Dealing Meth

‘Arab Spring’ Update: Hostages Killed in Algeria; French Fight Islamists in Mali

FMJRA 2.0: Disco Boy

Should @TedNugent And The NRA Just Morph Into A Political Party?

When the Good Guys Win

Democrats: The Party of Criminals

Rule 5 Sunday: Chrome Angel

Convicted Felon John Tiessen: Crazy? Certainly, But Is He Also Dangerous?

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.21.13

How to Get Jennifer Schuessler to Give You a Puff Piece in the New York Times

Could Scarborough Be A Bigger Tool? And The Answer Is None. None More Big

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.22.13

Democrats: You Can Never Hate Them Nearly as Much as They Hate You

Ask Michele Bachmann About CBS News Political Director John Dickerson

‘Patriotic Progressivism’, The Moron’s Oxymoron

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.23.13

All My XXX’s Live in Texas

Let The 2016 Campaign Begin, With A Show Of ‘Support’ For Hillary

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.24.13

Jimmy Buffett: Feminist Hero?

Complete Decadence

Death by Criticism

Living Inside Your Head, Rent-Free

New Federal Charges Filed Against Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown

Gregory Kane Opines That Colin Powell Could Be A Latent Democrat

The Roe v. Wade Inversion

This Blog Votes We Accept @DarleenClick’s Apology

How Long Can the ‘Dollar Bubble’ Last?

Fear and Loathing at the #NRISummit: Can We Survive the Sarcasm Deficit?

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (22 the hard way)
  2. (tied) Hogewash and The Daley Gator (6 each)

Again, a number of folks who just missed the five-link cutoff – but regardless, thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit your links for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, February 1.

 

Category: FMJRA Award

What If Beck’s Experiment. . .Works?

Posted on | January 26, 2013 | 30 Comments

by Smitty

His proposed $2-billion city would be based on a free-market, limited government model. No location has been pegged down, but Mr. Beck has visited “three possible sites in three different states” and has spoken to two governors, said Mr. Beck’s TheBlaze TV website.
The self-sustaining city would include a ranch for food production, a media centre, a multi-denominational mission centre, a theme park, a research and development centre, a library, parks and baseball diamonds. It would have a communal marketplace that would serve as a public space for conducting small business and sharing ideas. Americans could either live in the city’s residential area or just come to visit.

If Rand’s book is any guide, the public sector will hate this, and every aspect of the Imperial Fed will turn on this and destroy it. Starting with the EPA, and running the gamut. Both as a personal kneecapping of Beck, and as an example for anyone else with the means to explore liberty.

One hopes to be proven in error there.

via NetizenKane

Category: Uncategorized

Sarah Palin Interview At Breitbart.Com

Posted on | January 26, 2013 | 65 Comments

by Smitty

Mark Levin reports

1. What’s next for you?
Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out of the comfort zone, and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism. That means broadening our audience. I’m taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation. We can’t just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience.
Focus on the 2014 election is also imperative.

The lady is among the more charismatic figures of our day. What one hopes to see is serious direction and substantial reform, i.e. that which the GOP is not delivering.

I don’t doubt the lady can do it. The question is the degree to which the GOP elite is willing to go ‘scorched earth’ rather than permit her to succeed. After all, it’s not “her turn”.

Read the whole thing.

Update: color Mataconis unimpressed:

Category: Sarah Palin

#NRISummit: Scarborough 2016?

Posted on | January 26, 2013 | 36 Comments

Joe Scarborough exits the National Review Institute Summit

Strange to say, on the “What’s Wrong With the Right?” panel this morning — which included Reihan Salam, Bill Kristol, Yuval Levin, John Podhoretz and Ross Douthat — the most stubbornly outspoken opponent of “big government Republicans” was MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.

Scarborough said that George W. Bush’s big-government measures “completely muddied the brand” of the Republican Party, and he was applauded by many of the 700 people attending the National Review Institute Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Was this the start of a 2016 presidential campaign for the former Florida congressman who has become the token Republican host on liberal-leaning MSNBC? Last fall, Scarborough dismissed reports that he was considering such a campaign, saying he has “the best job in the world” and “no desire to leave.” But one veteran political  observer noted the contrast between Scarborough’s engagement with the audience and the more aloof intellectuals on the panel: “That’s the politician in him.”

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