A Root Canal, Or A Post On Taxation. You’re Opting For The Dentist?

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | Comments Off on A Root Canal, Or A Post On Taxation. You’re Opting For The Dentist?

by Smitty

There was an excellent panel yesterday on a topic that is so important, it isn’t addressed with any seriousness: taxation. Sure, candidates and parties natter on about it in a purely class-warfare sort of way. But that’s all hormonal whinging, turning emotion into power. Quite successfully, too. Which is why all that ‘fair share’ and ‘1%’ talk is as inevitable as death.

Yesterday saw Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Stephen J. Entin offered some remarks with humor that easily achieved British levels of dryness. Shorter wonks: a non-suck tax code is achievable, but requires a determined, engaged electorate. I emailed Entin about online availability of his slides. Afterward, I asked DHE if the lack of a budget for 3+ years meant all talk of tax reform was moot “on our current course”, and he seemed affirmative on the point. AFP events are non-partisan, and the problem of our mad, mad tax code is certainly bipartisan. But if we’re to have a snowball’s chance, we have to have other than a tin-pot dictator at the helm.

DHE:

SJE:

‘Real’ Conservatives Of The Sunshine State, Crist Edition

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Former Florida Governor and Anderson Cooper wannabee Charlie Crist was on The Shark Tank’s radar:

Crist recently gave a ‘full-throated’ endorsement of Senator Bill Nelson over Connie Mack, and Speaker Weatherford offered his take on Crist’s “evolution”-

I guess it’s his coming out party, so to speak, so he is coming out and letting people know where he really stands philosophically-I don’t think it surprised a lot of us- he governed as a Democrat.

Seeing Crist gaily tread the Arlen Specter Trail just goes to show: you can lead a man to Chick-Fil-A, but you can’t do much about his Dairy Queen cravings.

WHO IS ‘MONTANA COWGIRL’?

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | 17 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C.
During the question-and-answer session following a panel discussion at the Americans for Prosperity Summit at the Washington Hilton, a Montana activist stood up and began to explain a scandal involving a liberal blogger in his home state.

The anonymous “Montana Cowgirl” blog has been doing professional-style “oppo” research work against conservative activists in the state. Two years ago, the Associated Press reported that “Montana Cowgirl” was working from a state government IP address:

The Department of Administration, provided with detail on the IP address of some posts, was able to identify that the blogger had been accessing — all day long at times — the state wireless guest system through a hookup in the Office of Public Instruction using an Apple Macintosh laptop.
The agency spokeswoman at the time, Jessica Rhoades, said neither she nor anyone else at the agency was doing it. Rhoades, who recently went to work for the governor’s office, said the agency’s information technology found at that time the wireless system could theoretically be accessed by someone sitting in the parking lot.

John Adams of the Great Falls Tribune observed at the time:

[W]hoever MT Cowgirl is, that particular blogger has shown an “uncanny knack” of tracking down insider information before anyone else, including most journalists, and has been a major cheerleader of [Democrat] Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
Speculation about her/his identity has been a hot topic for many months within Montana’s political circles. MT Cowgirl blogs with a ferocity and frequency that’s dazzling, but she does so anonymously and without any accountability. She doesn’t hesitate to post a “rumor,” and she has at times angered fellow progressives.

It is believed by some Montana activists that “Montana Cowgirl” is actually an attorney employed in the governor’s office. Paying a political opposition researcher from taxpayer funds would almost certainly be illegal and yet, as the activist who raised the issue  at today’s AFP panel pointed out, there has been no investigative follow-up on this potential scandal, and the media have mostly ignored it.

So the question remains: WHO IS ‘MONTANA COWGIRL’?

Hitler: ‘My Main Goal of Supporting the German Community Outweighed the Collateral Damage to Poland …’

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | 13 Comments

This is a slight paraphrase of how the obnoxious a–hole justifies his bullying of a Chick-fil-A employee at a drive-through window:

Adam Smith berates a Chick-fil-A employee, got fired, and now has released a new video apologizing to Rachel, who was his drive-thru victim. He goes on about how she handled his rant with grace, patience, and apologizes for his actions. He wishes her the best of luck in her future endeavors.
Then…he explains why he went to Chcik-fil-A and went on a rampage. He says his “main goal of supporting the gay community outweighed the collateral damage that Rachel became” and admits that he only saw her in that aspect. He then details how we need to stop “rationalizing our destructive actions this way … we need to start seeing people as people.” He admits he failed his own test.

Watch the video at Legal Insurrection. Keep in mind that Smith only had this remorseful response after he shot video of himself hectoring Rachel and took the time to upload that video to YouTube, evidently expecting to bask in the admiring applause of his fellow liberals. It was only when the self-righteous bully failed to gain the anticipated admiration — and indeed, became an instant symbol of the bullying intolerance of the anti-Chick-fil-A boycotters — that Smith experienced remorse.

Smith first attempted to delete the video, only to discover the lack of an “unpublish” function on the Internet. After he was fired from his job, he now retroactively avows his “main goal of supporting the gay community,” as if this explains why a corporate executive with an MBA thought it would be a good idea to post a video of himself heckling a poor woman working at a fast-food drive through window.

Andy at AOSHQ says, “When something billed as an apology has a 7+ minute run time, you’re doing it wrong.”

Apologies for the Godwin’s Law violation in the headline, but the collateral damage to Adam Smith’s reputation was outweighed by my main goal of supporting the fast-food community.

Is Obama Doomed?

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | 30 Comments

John Hinderaker looks at the Rasmussen poll numbers and notices the general decline in President Obama’s support over the past few months. Defeating an incumbent president is always difficult. It’s only happened three times in the modern era: Carter beat Ford in 1976, Reagan beat Carter in 1980 and Clinton beat Bush in 1992.

The weird thing is that while, in retrospect, the losers in those elections appear to have been doomed from the outset, in the late summer of their final year in office, their prospects for re-election still seemed quite viable. Few of the pollsters and pundits realized, in August 1980, that Jimmy Carter was three months away from losing a landslide to Ronald Reagan.

Is Obama already doomed to defeat in November? Or will events between now and Nov. 6 determine his fate? I lean toward the latter view.

It’s still “jump ball,” anybody’s game, and the next 94 days will be decisive. But when it’s all over, regardless of who wins, most people will see the result as having been more or less inevitable — the Loser will appear to have been doomed, and the Winner will seem destined to victory.

Tennessee Democrat Party Denounces Democrat Senate Candidate

Posted on | August 3, 2012 | 31 Comments

Rachel Maddow spent five minutes on MSNBC tonight having a conniption over what is, for Democrats, a disheartening development:

Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union that will bring an end to America as we know it. On Thursday, he became the Tennessee Democrats’ nominee for US Senate.
Clayton, an anti-gay-marriage activist and flooring installer with a penchant for fringe conspiracy theories, finished on top of a crowded primary field in the race to take on GOP Sen. Bob Corker this fall. He earned 26 percent of the vote despite raising no money and listing the wrong opponent on his campaign website. . . .
Clayton’s primary victory is only the latest blow for the Tennessee Democrats in a state that’s becoming redder every year. Democrats lost three congressional seats during the 2010 midterms, plus control of the governor’s mansion. Corker, a rising GOP star who edged Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. by just 2.7 points in 2006, is now virtually assured of another six years in Washington.

The Tennessee State Democrat Party denounced Clayton, prompting many Tennesseans to remark, “What? There’s still an actual Democrat Party in this state? I’ll be danged!”

Maddow was bemoaning how the Democrat Party has basically “withered and died” in states like Tennessee, a development I call “a good start.”

Bishop E.W. Jackson At Fauquier County Tea Party Protest

Posted on | August 3, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

WARRENTON, VA–Thursday August 2nd there was a zoning hearing, where family farmers from a nearby town were up against the authoritarian power of the zoning board.

The facts in the case seem incredible:

“Fauquier County has crossed several lines by violating sensitive private property rights and individual liberty. The County is breaking the law, and is trespassing on the rights of farmers, wineries, and their patrons from and visiting the Commonwealth of Virginia. Perhaps even more egregious are the County’s Orwellian allegations that a pumpkin carving and a birthday party for eight 10-year-old girls transgressed the County’s zoning ordinance, and constitute grounds to cite and fine farmers.”

The second half of the Bishop Jackson’s remarks get more Virginia-centric, emphasizing George Allen’s support for these local farmers in particular, and Virginians in general, against the collectivist leanings of the Fauquier Counting Zoning board, and Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine:
It’s easy to let yourself get gloomy due to the waves of negativity rolling off of the Left, amplified by the media. However, liberty-loving Americans came from across Virginia to Warrenton yesterday to support individuals under oppression from local bureaucrats. It was truly heartening. There is still plenty of fight remaining in Americans, oh yes indeed.

George Allen for Senate

Tim Kaine couldn’t keep the restrooms open when he was Governor. Don’t let Kaine thug your commode, or your farm.

Previously:

• Tom DeWeese Of American Policy Center At Fauquier County Tea Party Protest
• Tea Party Protest In Support Of Virginia Farmer Over Fauquier County Zoning
• Why Is Fauquier County, Virginia, Waging War Against Small Farmers?

Obamanomics: Good News and Bad News

Posted on | August 3, 2012 | 13 Comments

You’ll probably want the bad news first: The unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in July, a number in which the New York Times desperately seeks to find good news for Obama, which would actually be bad news for everybody else, because if the New York Times deceives people into thinking Obama’s policies aren’t a complete failure, his policies — which are, in fact, a complete failure — might continue another four years.

The good new is this: The College Republican National Committee is undeceived about the grim reality of Obamanomics:

Joblessness Among Young People Remains High

Washington, DC – August 3, 2012 – New jobs numbers released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that young people continue to be dealt a tough blow under this economy.
Youth unemployment sits at 15.3 percent while unemployment nationally rose to 8.3 percent. Breaking that down even further, for 18 and 19 year olds, unemployment is up to 22.2 percent.
“My generation continues to suffer under the Obama economy. We are facing record high unemployment and even higher underemployment and see no sign of that changing anytime soon if we keep President Obama in the White House,” CRNC Chairman Alex Schriver said.
A Harvard Institute of Politics poll from earlier this year revealed that 74 percent of young Americans consider jobs and the economy to be the number one voting issue for them going into this election.
“President Obama has had four years to turn this economy around and get Americans back to work but instead we consistently see abysmal jobs reports month after month. It’s time for real change in the White House” Schriver added.

More good news: The a–hole who made a video of his obnoxiousness at a Chick-fil-A drive-through window is now among the unemployed.

UPDATE: Speaking of college:

1. The obnoxious a-hole’s “profile was scrubbed from [the University of Arizona’s] faculty listings Thursday,” the Arizona Daily Star reports. The obnoxious a–hole had previously taught MBA students at the university, from which he graduated in 1999. So he’s probably about 35 years old and just destroyed his career and reputation because of his own hateful, arrogant, moralistic self-righteousness. If Obama gets re-elected, this jerk will probably get a job — at the White House.
2. Please notice the “Back to School” Amazon ad below. If you shop via our Amazon links, you get great bargains, and free shipping on most orders over $25, plus it kicks me a small commission at no extra cost to you. Shop early, shop often. It’s for the children.

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