A. Second Only to the Bible

Q. Is Seize Freedom by Thaddeus McCotter the greatest book in all human history?

I don’t want to say which one of our commenters has spent several days harassing encouraging me to say a good word for Rep. McCotter’s book. Nor is it my inclination to disclose the vast wealth boundless gratitude that I’ve been promised in return for saying such a good word.

All I’ve got to say is this: Go buy Seize Freedom: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age — with a foreword by Greg Gutfeld — and commit every word to memory, as if your life depended on it.

Seize Freedom — or else!

UPDATE: Sissy Willis said Seize Freedom isn’t available on Kindle.

OH, HELL, YES IT IS!

Going-In Position: The Opposite Of Jim Moran’s Ideas Are Good Ones

by Smitty (via Lee Hernly)

VA-8’s Clown Prince of Goofballs, “Gentleman” Jim Moran, can be relied upon to touch his forehead to the deck whenever required for the President:

Rep. Jim Moran sounded a similar warning Friday. The Virginia Democrat said the McConnell proposal “is not about what’s in the best interest of the country” but about “weakening the Democratic Party for the next decade.”

“We’re dealing with people who care first about making sure that President Obama is not reelected,” Moran said.

“This is a much more defining vote than many have accepted,” he added, referring to Democratic leaders.

Moran said the leaders’ desire for a quick debt-ceiling hike is understandable, as several powerful finance agencies have warned this week that the United States’ sterling triple-A credit rating is in jeopardy if Congress doesn’t act soon.

“They’re figuring we’ve got to raise the debt ceiling, so we don’t have any choice but to do it on [Republicans’] terms,” he said. “That’s why we’re at a disadvantage.”

Mr. Moran, sir: no one cares about these sad, legacy political parties. What a shame your intellectual state doesn’t permit you to see beyond partisan crap and the beltway, which does mostly encompass your district.
Jim Moran: proudly combing the ideological rigidity of Barack Obama, the intellectual flair of Joe Biden, and the BAC of a Kennedy.

Previously:

Pig Skin In The Game

by Smitty

The Blaze notes that even the overpaid prima donnas of the NFL managed to get their act together and finish negotiations.

Unlike the clowns inside the flat bowl outlined by the beltway.

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Other than the effort to win re-election, these political football players don’t have enough skin in the game. I’d like to see the budget law deadlines codified, and none of these creeps getting paid if they can’t do their flipping job. Will Dingy Harry Reid reach 1000 days with no budget?

As a thought experiment, consider docking the Senate Majority Leader and the rest of these creeps day-for-day while they haven’t done their job. That’s not a precedent to go setting, but the threat of it might trigger some useful motion. Screw you, Nevada, for afflicting the rest of the country with this knucklehead.

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Holy Freaking Crap: White House Spokesman Admits It’s Just Kabuki? UPDATED: Now With Video

Headline at Ace of Spades HQ quotes Jay Carney:

To Even Ask That The President Show His Plan
Is To Repeat a “Republican Talking Point”

Which is, of course, a blunt confession that Obama is concerned about nothing but politics. He’s not trying to solve a problem. He’s ginning up a phony crisis and doing a kabuki dance to score P.R. points against the GOP with an eye toward securing his re-election 15 months from now!

One hesitates to say President Kabuki has hit rock bottom, because there’s probably no limit on how far down the low road he’s willing to go.

UPDATE: Allahpundit has the video:

Rhetorican says we now have an Underpants Gnome-in-Chief.

William Teach prefers to call him “President Snippy Pants.”

Thug Crushed By “U Shouldn’t Mug Committee” Retiree And Concern Over Debt Ceiling, But Mostly USMC Retiree

by Smitty (via Digg)

Police say a man who robbed a business in north Houston is dead after apparently being run over by the person he robbed. Kenneth Kobobel Sr., a 72-year-old Marine veteran chased down his attacker in his car pinning him against a fence. The assailant attempted to shoot Mr. Kobobel, but his injuries from being hit by 4000 lbs of car ended his life before he was able to commit any additional crimes.

A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines …

. . . would cost $249 if I booked today for an Aug. 3 departure from Reagan National in D.C.

You may ask, “Why Iowa? Why Aug. 3? Why a one-way ticket?” Here’s the story at The American Spectator:

Atlanta businessman Herman Cain will begin a nine-day bus tour of Iowa next week, leading up to the Aug. 11 Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News and the Aug. 13 Ames Straw Poll. . . .

The “Common Sense Solutions” bus tour kicks off Aug. 4 in Des Moines. I’m thinking of booking a one-way flight because it’s my first trip to Iowa and, while I’ll be following Cain’s bus tour across the Hawkeye State, I also want to catch up with as many of the other candidates as I can before the straw poll.

My general idea is to get a solid on-the-ground perspective of the political landscape in Iowa, to talk to organizers, activists and operatives, developing sources so that all I have to do — as we move ahead toward the February 2012 GOP caucuses — is make a few phone calls to get the straight lowdown. Continue reading A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines … →

Wishful Thinking On The Left

by Smitty

William over at Alan Colmes’ joint has a magic chart culled from Think Progress that shows Tea Party activity is down in 2011. From Think Progress:

This study only looked at events organized by Americans for Prosperity or Tea Party Patriots and their affiliates — other Tea Party groups’ event numbers were not readily available. The two groups, however, serve as complimentary proxies for the overall movement.

Meanwhile, via Director Blue, we have a Ushanka post about Tea Partiers rallying outside of Speaker Boehner’s office.
My excuse for less activism this year is that I’ve been ‘cooling’ my heels in Afghanistan. I figure the bulk of the the fellow Right Wing Extremists out there have been (a) engaging in other forms of activism than holding rallies, and (b) girding their loins for 2012 which is when we absolutely have to ‘bring it’.
What say ye?

Update: Tea Party DC is awaiting a permit for a 27 July rally, noon to 1PM. I’m going to plead the fact that I’m writing this from the Labor and Delivery ward of the hospital. Dunno when the World’s Youngest Blogger is going to arrive, but his early commitment to McCainism (the systematic refusal to adhere to a schedule) is strangely admirable.

Zilla Wins the Internet

Over the weekend I did a post about Zilla’s fundraiser to avert doom. Thanks to your help, doom was averted and now — shades of Russ Emerson — Zilla is under assault by the sub-humans at Democrat Underground who call her (among much else) “a far-right racist . . . bigotbot who ran smear campaigns against John Hall.”

Zilla is a Tea Party activist who helped Republican Nan Hayworth defeat that pinko swine John Hall by a 53-47% margin in NY-19.

My buddy Chris Cassone is from NY-19 and he could recite for you chapter and verse of why Hall is a despicable commie. To call John Hall a stinking pile of excrement would be an insult to perfectly useful fertilizer, and whatever Zilla did to help defeat Hall, she was doing the Lord’s work. So for her to be under attack by the demented denizens of DUmbville is a high honor indeed.

Go hit Zilla’s tip jar — maybe she can buy some disinfectant to help wipe the toxic taint of those troll DUmmies off her blog.