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LIVE AT FIVE – 03.28.12

Posted on | March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Justices Question Obamacare

President Obama signs the "affordable health care" act as Marcelas Owens looks on

Conservative justices have sharp questions for the Solicitor General

Gingrich Lays Off Staff, Replaces Manager
Cash flow fail affecting campaign and strategy


Former Army Chief Mofaz Takes Charge Of Kadima
Ousts Tzipi Livni as head of moderate Israeli party



POLITICS
California Democratic Treasurer Perpetrated $7 Million Fraud

Accused Democratic treasurer Kinde Durkee

Swindled over 50 pols and orgs out of millions over a decade, now being prosecuted by DOJ

Elderly Sanford Couple Forced From Home After Erroneous Spike Lee Tweet

Romney, Obama Battle For Women Voters

Judge Shreds Case Against Hutaree Militia

Romney Says He’d Be Happy To Have Santorum As VP

Bipartisan Group Offers Alternative To Ryan Budget

“Joe The Plumber” Loses Privacy Suit

Religious Freedom Rally Shakes Missouri Capitol



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Falls Below $107 As US Supplies Rise, Indicating Weak Demand
Stock Futures Edge Lower Before Consumer Data
New EPA Rules Expected To Halt New Coal-Fired Power Plants
US Consumer Confidence Flat In March
Wells Fargo Face Investor Class-Action Suit
Grains Futures Mixed, Livestock Prices Rise
Apple To Offer Refund Over Aussie 4G iPad Claims
Kinect For Windows 1.5 coming In May
Netflix Facebook App Illegal In United States
AVG Nukes Stalking Ads At Press Of BIG SHINY BUTTON
XBox Preemptively Strikes At Apple TV With Comcast, HBO, MLB
Government Finds Block Of Frequencies For Wireless Broadband Use
Report: Amazon Planning Three New Fire Tablets



SPORTS
Magic Johnson Group Buys Dodgers For Record $2 Billion

Magic Johnson

Former Nationals president Stan Kasten also part of the group buying the Dodgers from Frank McCourt

Kentucky Women Fall To UConn In Regional Final, 80-65



Sabres Thump Capitals 5-1 To Take Final Playoff Slot

Kobe Scores 30, Ends Warriors’ Hopes Of Upsetting Lakers

Diggins Hits Triple-Double As Irish Rip Terps, End ACC Season

Healthy Brad Lidge Ready To Step In As Interim Closer For Nationals



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Olivia Munn Dating Joel Kinnaman From “The Killing”

Olivia Munn and Joel Kinnaman

She’s his arm candy for the second season premiere

Octomom Poses Nude For Rent Money

LiLo – Everyone’s On Board To End Formal Probation



Bush Frontman Gavin Rossdale Headed To Jail

Jennifer Lawrence To Play Bridget Jones

“Sopranos” Beauty Jamie-Lynn Sigler Dating Nationals Minor-League Infielder Cutter Dykstra

Madonna: “I Don’t Support Drug Use And Never Have”



FOREIGNERS
Assad Accepts Cease-Fire; Opponents Are Skeptical
Fidel To Meet Pope; No Reform On Cuban Agenda
ECOWAS Suspends Mali, Sends Military Delegation To Bamako
Border Violence Threatens Sudan Deal
Egyptian Junta To Jostle Islamists For Constitutional Privileges
Obama Makes Joke Of His Missile Defense Gaffe
Strauss-Kahn’s Lawyers To Argue For Immunity In Maid’s Civil Suit
Bankers Warn Of “No” Vote Risk As Irish EU Referendum Set



BLOGS & STUFF
Weekly Standard: Obamacare On Trial – The Individual Mandate
Professor Bainbridge: Obamacare’s Supreme Court Disaster
NRO Bench Memos: Obamacare Oral Arguments A “Train Wreck”
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid Attacks Jeffrey Toobin For Defeatism On Obamacare
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Kennedy’s “Heavy Burden Of Justification” Approach
American Thinker: Maintaining Crisis Momentum
Jonah Goldberg: Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Narrative Interrupted – George Zimmerman A Registered Democrat
Kerry Picket: Spike Lee Re-Tweets Incorrect Address Of Trayvon Martin Shooter
Nick Gillespie: Twelve Schools That Suck When It Comes To Free Speech
Don Surber: EPA Goes Bananas On Coal

Category: Live at Five

Big Fake Boobs

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 49 Comments

“I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.”
— Kendra Wilkinson

“Look, clearly we’re gonna have to go on a fairly tight budget to get from here to Tampa.”
— Newt Gingrich

It would be terribly mean-spirited to use the phrase “big fake boobs” as a cheap excuse to make fun of Newt Gingrich again. According to the latest Wisconsin poll, however, Gingrich is on his way to yet another fourth-place finish, while refusing to admit that his campaign has lost whatever actual political rationale it had before he lost Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

So as long as Newt wants to keep pretending that he’s still a viable candidate, the ridiculousness of his make-believe campaign — as fake as a Bunny’s boobies — is legitimate news, just like the latest idiotic quotes from Hef’s ex-girlfriend Kendra are legitimate news. The Gingrich pseudo-campaign crossed a bold new frontier of hopeless desperation in Delaware yesterday:

Monday’s event, held in a state that doesn’t vote for another three weeks, also seemed to signal a new phase in the campaign. Event attendees were allowed to take pictures with the candidate for $50 per photo. Before tonight, supporters took photos with Gingrich for free.
Charging for photos, in addition to news that the campaign canceled a trip to North Carolina, contributes to the narrative that Gingrich is struggling to stay afloat financially.

Well, no duh. Team Newt burned through $5.9 million in January and $2.9 million in February, the campaign’s expenditures averaging more than $146,000 per day for the first two months of the year.

Despite its high-rolling ways, the Gingrich campaign recorded exactly one victory (South Carolina, Jan. 21) during that 60-day period, along with two second-place finishes in Florida (Jan. 31) and Nevada (Feb. 4), third place in Colorado (Feb. 7) and Arizona (Feb. 28), fourth-place finishes in Iowa (Jan. 3), Minnesota (Feb. 7), Maine (Feb. 11) and Michigan (Feb. 28), and fifth place in New Hampshire (Jan. 10).

Not exactly the kind of strong performance you might expect from a serious contender burning $146,000 a day, you see. When we learned on March 20 that Newt’s campaign was essentially bankrupt — with $1.5 million in debt, slightly more than its cash on hand as of the end of February — it was only a matter of time before the whole phony sham collapsed under the weight of its own expensive fraudulence.

“It is hard to identify a spot on the remaining primary map where Gingrich would be a stronger challenger than Santorum.”
— Walter Shapiro, The New Republic

“Gingrich’s status as a Republican primary candidate has slipped from longshot to sideshow.”
— Molly Ball, The Atlantic

“There is no path for Gingrich. . . . His strategy has come and gone and that’s the bottom line.”
— G. Terry Madonna, Franklin and Marshall College Poll

Yeah, I’m collecting quotes like that these days, because everybody can now see what I’ve been describing ever since Newt melted down at his Feb. 4 Las Vegas press conference: The Neutral Objective Fact that Gingrich’s campaign was falling apart right in front of our eyes, even while he was on TV every night telling everybody he was going “all the way to Tampa.” The Bernie Madoff approach to “viability,” as it were.

On March 19 — the day before his February FEC report exposed his bankruptcy — Gingrich published a Red State column attacking Rick Santorum and insisting that he, Newt Gingrich, was the “only . . . candidate in this race who can offer the change our country desperately needs.”

Now Newt’s hustling folks for $50 a photo.

If he can find about 2,900 people a day to pay that much, he can afford the kind of campaign he was running in January and February, when he won exactly one primary out 10 contests.

And good luck with that, huh?

UPDATE: Wow. Talk about timing. Latest news from Politico:

Newt Gingrich is cutting back his campaign schedule, will lay off about a third of his cash-strapped campaign’s full-time staff, and has replaced his manager as part of what aides are calling a “big-choice convention” strategy . . .

Which is to say, it’s over.

And as Allah says, any suggestion that Newt will get the nomination at a brokered convention is “pure fantasy.” If Republicans go looking for a candidate who can make the case for fiscal discipline, I’m sure they’ll pick the guy who spent his campaign into bankruptcy.


Category: Election 2012, Newt Gingrich

Carpet Dime

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Who said #OccupyResoluteDesk couldn’t deliver at least 10¢ worth of change the dog can relieve on?

via Fausta

Category: Fausta, humor

Another Liberal Narrative Gone Wrong

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 62 Comments

Women, minorities, David Plouffe’s credibility hardest hit:

The individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting is a registered Democrat.
George Michael Zimmerman, born Oct. 5, 1983, registered as a Democrat in Seminole County, Fla., in August 2002, according to state voter registration documents.

UPDATE: More mean-spirited hate-mongering from those notorious right-wing propagandists at Fox CBS News:

New information is putting a new twist on the Trayvon Martin case.
It has come out that the unarmed teenager was suspended from school, and is accused of beating up the man who then shot him dead.

No justice! No peace! No credibility!

UPDATE II: If Obama had a son, he’d look Tweet like Trayvon.

UPDATE III: Professor William Jacobson reminds us that no liberal narrative is a complete joke until Karen Finney gives us a pious sermon:

Karen, sweetheart: Grab any misogynistic slur from Trayvon’s Twitter stream. Now, apply it to yourself. And don’t say I never gave you anything special.

UPDATE IV: Nothing does more for the cause of civil right than teenagers walking out of school and ransacking a drug store.

UPDATE V: Never let a crisis go to waste!

 

Category: Crime, Democrats

Mitt Romney: Proud to Be Republican

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 9 Comments

Oh, darn: I forget the “sarcasm” tag!

Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Republicans

Spilled Milk and Misplaced Anger: Political Psychotherapy Session

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 97 Comments

Newt Gingrich in Fort Myers, Florida, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012

“Somebody in the Newt camp tossed an ‘internal memo’ over the fence to Matt Lewis. Long story short, they’re lowering expectations in Florida. And as I pointed out in my American Spectator column, second place in Florida is worthless — it’s winner-take-all. Team Gingrich just blew through about $2 million for nothing.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 30

In a comment on Smitty’s post this morning, Pagan Temple begins his complaint with these two hypothetical regrets:

“If Palin hadn’t been run out of the race, or if conservatives could have gotten behind Bachmann . . .”

Thus our friend expresses a common misunderstanding about politics, namely that candidates are not responsible for their own fates.

First, ask yourself, “By whom was Palin ‘run out of the race’?”

She decided herself not to run, and it seems to have been a sort of slow-motion process. While I hate to imply that I have any special kind of inside information (which displeases Governor Palin and her aides), my first inquiries into Palin’s 2012 intentions led me to the belief that she was in wait-and-see mode.

One reason I jumped on the Cain Train early was that I felt we needed a populist outsider to carry the Tea Party momentum from the 2010 mid-term campaign into 2012. Cain’s people were flashing the green light, while we were seeing mixed signals from Wasilla, so I got on board with Herman and figured that if Governor Palin decided to get in later, nobody would blame me for any choice I made between the two. But I was pretty sure I’d have a few months before I had to worry about such a choice, because there were many reasons to suspect that Palin would be in wait-and-see mode for a while.

As the Republican field took shape, trying to read the tea leaves as to Team Sarah’s plans became quite a widespread hobby amongst political observers. By the time I went to Iowa for the run-up to the Ames straw poll, it seemed obvious to me that she’d decided to sit this one out. Back in June, Palin had made a point of praising Rick Perry, whom she had endorsed in his 2010 primary against Kay Bailey Hutchison, and by August, he was getting ready to make his big entrance into the campaign. If Palin really liked Perry, it didn’t make sense to think she would jump into the GOP race against him.

That’s one reason I was so skeptical when Peter Singleton and Michelle McCormick insisted on buying me lunch in Des Moines and telling me about their volunteer Iowa for Palin efforts. (See my Aug. 22 American Spectator column, “Still Waiting for Sarah.”) Everybody became frustrated as the will-she-or-won’t-she speculation dragged on, all the way into October, and I developed a private theory about why Palin dragged her feet so long. Read more

Category: Election 2012, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin

God Bless Lisa Graas

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

God bless Lisa Graas. Go read all of the Catholic Bandita’s Ten Things [She] Learned About Stacy McCain:

3.) He’s liable to shout, in a crowded restaurant, “WTF?!?!?” if (actually “when”) Carl Cameron breaks into a Santorum speech and steals his thunder (intentionally?), and he is liable to shout in a manner loud enough so that he can be heard by everyone in the (very large) building over loud music and five televisions that are playing at the same time. Also, fist-waving, albeit subtly (if fist-waving can be subtle) may be seen.
2.) He actually interviews people, but only at political venues. He’s not too keen on polling waitresses and customers at the Waffle House, unlike me and Peter. Incidentally, at the Waffle House in a Tennessee town where we stopped, there was one Obama supporter, one Romney supporter, one Paul supporter and one Santorum supporter.
*I ordered and enjoyed a big bowl of grits.

Read the whole thing. I also agree with Lisa in her post that Mrs. The Other McCain is a saint.

Whenever I signed on with Stacy, I guess it was after CPAC ’09? I remarked “You remind me of someone with whom I got into a lot of trouble.” Somewhere in the middle of his irreverent character is something fundamentally American. The major reason I, and, probably, the rest of the fan club, abet him is that we understand we lose that fundamentally American aspect at our peril.

Find your inner Stacy McCain or Lisa Graas, as the case may be, and let’s be about recovering the country.

Category: Lisa Graas, Mrs. Other McCain

Is Mitt Worried About Maryland?

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 23 Comments

I live in Hagerstown, Maryland. Last night the TV in my office was tuned to Fox News and, during the commercial breaks, they kept running an anti-Santorum ad from the pro-Romney “super PAC,” Restore Our Future.

This ad, portraying Rick Santorum as a soft-on-crime pork-barrel phony, was airing at least twice an hour on Fox News last night. I assume these spots were purchased through the local cable-TV provider. So . . .

Why is the Romney campaign worried about Maryland?

With all the “inevitability” talk, it seems strange to me that Romney’s super-PAC would be spending money to run attack ads against Santorum in a state that everybody expects to be an easy win for Mitt.

Frankly, I think the Louisiana results — which showed that Gingrich’s support has finally collapsed and conservatives have shifted decisively to Santorum — put the scare into Romney’s top advisors. Team Mitt must be a lot more worried than they’re letting on, or otherwise I wouldn’t be seeing all these ads on cable TV in Hagerstown. And because I want to be “fair and balanced,” here’s an ad for Rick Santorum:

I wish Santorum’s campaign was running ads in Hagerstown. Sarah Palin says “don’t retreat,” and I agree. Go give Rick some money so he can buy more ads.

(P.S.: Today my office TV is tuned to MSNBC. At least they’re not in the tank for Romney, and I don’t have to watch any super-PAC ads, either.)

Category: Election 2012, Maryland, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
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