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Administration Shoots From The Bowels On ObamaCare Brief

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Via the WaPoo:

Lawmakers decided that requiring health insurance was the best solution “after years of careful consideration and after a vigorous national debate,” Verrilli told the court.
“That was a policy choice the Constitution entrusts the democratically accountable branches to make, and the court should respect it.”

Donald B. Verrilli Jr., you Orewllian crapflooder. Lawmakers decided this after ‘years of careful consideration’? Princess Pelosi and crew did the Judas Priest impression without even reading the Mike Foxtrot. Oh, you probably meant the consideration they gave their stock portfolios. And vigorous national debate? A plurality still think Obamacare should be repealed. No amount of Orwellian suppositories can substitute for liberty, Verrilli.

The ‘court should respect it’? Why is the will of the voters, expressed in 2010, not worthy of consideration?

I submit that this administration, and this particular piece of legislation, shall be viewed in hindsight as the high water mark of Progressivism. You’re on the wrong side of history, Verrilli.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Health Care

Cain Still Loved in New Hampshire

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

HOLLIS, N.H.
Herman Cain broke a lot of hearts when he quit the 2012 presidential race and, of course, he still has many admirers — but perhaps no more ardent admirer than Sue Belzil.

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in Iowa, Herman Cain, New Hampshire

Shorter Jay Cost: ‘Politics Is Not A Spectator Sport’

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Jay Cost in The Weekly Standard:

So, here’s the question of the day: why can’t the party of Reagan ever seem to nominate a Reaganite?
My answer: because conservative Republicans are not actually in control of their own party. Though they are its animating force – they give it policy ideas to implement, they turn out regularly to support the party in good times and bad, they advocate the party and its ideology to their friends, neighbors, and relatives – they are not in charge, and have not been since the 1970s (arguably the 1920s, but that’s another story altogether).

Concur with Bill:

It also leads me to the conclusion that we either change the party, or change parties.

Whether you keep the GOP or illegally harvest its elephant tusks, the point is that people have to participate. The effort required to scale a political party is non-trivial, or efforts like the Constitution Party would have more headlines. Which is why the Tea Parties have sought to change the GOP.

After Mitt’s concession speech (words which I’ll either weep over, or eat) there may be enough political will to Do Something, given charismatic leadership, e.g. Palin.

via Daily Pundit

Category: Blogging, Politics

Rick Santorum Speech in Nashua:
‘New Hampshire, Send a Message’

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | 13 Comments

HOLLIS, N.H.
When Rick Santorum arrived at the Hillsborough County Republican Party’s dinner Friday, the swarm of reporters photographers and TV cameramen following him was so huge that his own daughter Elizabeth and son Daniel couldn’t get near their father. This video begins with me entering the door and working my way through the media mob until, by the 2-minute mark, I was front and center:

Da Tech Guy was also at the Hillsborough County GOP dinner and has a massive photo/video compendium: “Americans want someone who believes in them.” Here are some of my own photos of the event:

Skip Murphy of Granite Grok interviews Senator Santorum.

Amid a media swarm, Santorum greets a Republican.

The media were banned from the actual dinner — but I was a guest of Mike Rogers of Granite Grok, so I got this picture of Senator Santorum greeting Mike’s wife. By the way, the entre at the dinner was prime rib served so rare, it still had a pulse.


These New Hampshire Republican ladies are undecided voters who had been for Romney until they heard Rick Santorum.


Michael Graham makes a point to Michael Barone.

Today I’ll be a guest on “Da Tech Guy on Da Radio” on WCRN-AM 830 from 10 a.m. until noon, and you can click here to listen live.

UPDATE: Permit me to say that this headline is a lie:

Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage

Rick Santorum is not “focusing on gay marriage.” He is being asked — asked repeatedly by reporters and by people at town-hall meetings — about his opposition to gay marriage, and he is explaining his opposition. He is not obsessed with the issue, but neither is he ever going to back down from what he believes.

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Rick Santorum

Anonymous: You’re Doing It Wrong

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

I suffered through this entire video:

How hard is it to run a manifesto through a speech synthesizer and upload it to YouTube? Even to obscure the account that delivered the video?

It’s bad enough to place yourself on a level with the Chief Executive, and order him about. What is worse will be when he gaffs you right off. Are you really going to try the Stratfor treatment? In a way, your feckless orders are as bad as campaign promises, Anonymous. The suspicion is that there won’t be any delivery.

How about applying your talent in a Tea Party mode? Let’s flog the GOP into something useful. Hiding behind opaque pointers is all fun and games on Slashdot; it’s not how adults set about driving improvement.

Category: Uncategorized

Two Excellent Arguments in Favor of a Jon Huntsman Presidency

Posted on | January 6, 2012 | 45 Comments

HOLLIS, N.H.
At tonight’s Hillsborough County GOP dinner I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Mary Anne and Abby Huntsman:

For all the grief I’ve given “Governor Asterisk” in the past several months, I must confess that his daughters were not only lovely, but also quite gracious. I gave them one piece of advice: “Whatever you do, don’t turn into Meghan McCain.”

They laughed: “Don’t worry about that!”

UPDATE (Smitty): Welcome, Instapundit readers! If I may pile on the advice, Chelsea Clinton might be worth a wide berth.

UPDATE II (RSM): Just want to point out that, despite the charm and pulchritude of Mary Anne and Abby, the Santorum surge is still the big story.

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in Iowa, Jon Huntsman, New Hampshire, Rule 5

Dan Riehl Joins The Downfall Parody Club With A Nice Outing

Posted on | January 6, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

This has NSFW potty mouth, but builds to a fine conclusion:

Having the viewer substitute a contemporary figure for Adolf alters the game a little bit. The contrast between Mitt’s wax museum facade and Adolf’s apocalyptic meltdown is spectacular here. I prefer casting Hitler as a senior diabolical mastermind, packing plenty of evil, but still needing to watch his six and please his truly evil overlords, e.g. Soros.

Perhaps if the blogs crank out enough of these parodies, the GOP will have an epiphany and realize that Progressivism needs to rejoin its old boyfriend Naziism on the scrap heap of history, and set about restoring liberty in this country.

Category: Dan Riehl

Newt Meets the Media in Nashua

Posted on | January 6, 2012 | 24 Comments

NASHUA, N.H.
Massive media mayhem here at the Hillsborough County Republican Party dinner at the Crowne Plaza, where Newt Gingrich was swarmed by the press:

Rick Santorum also spoke, but I’ll upload that later.

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich
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