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Alabama Democrats to Barack Obama: ‘Hey, Thanks for Killing Our Party!’

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 9 Comments

Alabama’s leading political columnist summarizes the near-total destruction:

Both our U.S. Senators are Republicans and after November we only have one Democrat in our seven member congressional delegation. . . .
With Dr. Robert Bentley’s election as our 53rd governor we have now voted for a Republican for governor in six of the last seven contests. That means that at the end of Bentley’s term in 2014, a Republican will have been governor 24 out of 28 years and a Democrat only four.
When Kay Ivey is sworn in as lieutenant governor it will be the first time since 1901 that a Republican governor has served with a Republican lieutenant governor. All seven of our constitutional offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and agriculture commissioner are held by Republicans. Eight of our nine State Supreme Court justices are Republican, as well as 12 out of 12 members of the Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals. That makes our state judiciary 20 out of 21 Republican.
The most shocking and telling story of the 2010 tsunami is the sweeping away of Democratic control of the State Legislature. This was the last bastion of Democratic control and the Republicans took both chambers. Both the House and Senate had been overwhelmingly majority Democratic for 136 years. However, the Senate went from having 20 Democrats, 14 Republicans and one independent, to having 22 Republicans, 12 Democrats and one independent. The House went from having 60 Democrats and 43 Republicans with two vacancies to having 62 Republicans and 43 Democrats. Then four more Democrats switched parties last week making the numbers in the House 66 Republicans and 39 Democrats. This gives the Republicans a filibuster proof majority in both the House and the Senate.

And, by the way, Roll, Tide!

Category: Alabama, Barack Obama, Election

Rep. King on Pigford Reparations Vote: ‘That Debt Was Paid for in Blood’

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 5 Comments

Wow. Just freakin’ wow.

“We’ve got to stand up at some point and say, ‘We are not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.’ That war’s been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there’s no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one’s filing that claim.”
— Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican   

Press release:

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) today issued the following statement after the lame duck Congress passed legislation appropriating $1.15 billion to fund the controversial and fraud-plagued Pigford settlement program. Although estimates suggest that the total universe of black farmers who could qualify for Pigford compensation only encompasses 18,000 people, over 94,000 people have submitted claims under the program. The Pigford funding request was included in H.R. 4783, the Claims Resolution Act of 2010, which passed the House of Representatives on a 256-152 vote yesterday afternoon. Congressman King voted against the legislation.
“The unaccountable lame duck Congress has irresponsibly voted to spend $1.15 billion on a Pigford settlement program that is severely compromised by fraud,” said King. “This means that people who have never farmed and people who have never been discriminated against by the USDA will be receiving tens of thousands of dollars in cash and debt relief simply for having filed a false claim. By ignoring Pigford fraud, Congress has allowed the program to change from one designed to address black farmers’ discrimination claims to one that now serves as a modern day slavery reparations program. The American people should be outraged by this vote and the new Congress should make an investigation of Pigford fraud a top priority.”

More from the Iowa Independent.

Category: Congress, Iowa

Oklahoma City Mayor: Satanism? OK! Lingerie Football League? Not OK!

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Mayor Mitch Corbett is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas Banned Women Playing Football in Their Underwear:

ReasonTV.com via Nick Gillespie on Twitter. The mayor says he won’t let the LFL use the Civic Center, even though a satantic church was allowed to use the Civic Center in October. Background stories here:

Category: Football, humor, Rule 5

Memo for Meghan McCain

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 18 Comments

“Let the in-fighting continue. . . . I don’t need some blue blooded elites who have accomplished nothing on their own to keep telling me what is right for my country. . . . I don’t need a bunch of spoiled brats who only got into the ‘best’ schools because of what other members of their family have accomplished telling me what is best for me and my country.”
— Monique Stuart

UPDATE: Columbia University alumna sweet dumb babboo Meghan didn’t know what “blue blood” meant. Good thing Sarah Palin didn’t use sangre azul or something. Ace of Spades totally clobbers it:

“Blue blood” has a variety of tones to it. Blue bloods think of it as a good term. Often it’s used in a purely descriptive, neutral way — people are objectively “blue bloods.” Same as saying they’re wealthy. Not really open to much debate.
And sometimes it’s used derisively, as in “entitled little beer-empire princesses who supposedly go into Columbia based on nothing but academic potential (wink, wink) and yet never read a single book in which the very common term ‘blue blood’ was used.”

Read the whole thing, and notice that Ace finds himself compelled to defend Sarah Palin even though he’s not exactly on board the Mama Grizzly 2012 Victory Express. Like I say, she’s making the right enemies, and that can be a very valuable asset in politics.

UPDATE I: A great sentence from Monique, summing up the basic problem with Meghan:

If she spent half as much time hatin’ on women from the party she claims to stand in opposition to she might actually be an asset to the party she claims to be a member of.

Which is a damn fine sentence, although it reminds me of a joke Lewis Grizzard used to tell:

A grad student at the University of Georgia has a research project that requires him to access rare documents available only at the Harvard University library. So he catches a plane to Boston, takes a bus to the Harvard campus and stops the first student he meets.

“Excuse me, sir, could you please tell me where the library’s at?”

“At Harvard University, we don’t end our sentences with prepositions.”

“All right,” says the Georgian. “Then could you tell me where the library’s at, asshole?”

That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are.

Category: Meghan McCain, Monique Stuart, Sarah Palin

Lame-Duck Filibuster!

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 5 Comments

Proving my saying that “gridlock is our only hope,” Mitch McConnell throws a 42-vote Republican filibuster into the path of Democrats’ lame-duck agenda (see McConnell and Jon Kyl’s letter to Harry Reid in PDF format) unless Democrats permit a vote to extend the Bush tax cuts. Jennifer Rubin from her new WaPo blog:

Liberals scream “obstruction!,” but think about it. The government runs out of money in two days and a huge tax hike looms over the economy. But what are the Dems doing? “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” a settlement with black farmers and the DREAM Act. In other words, they are throwing the final crumbs to key Democratic special interest groups while the rest of the country’s business takes a back seat.

Democrats are the Veruca Salt of American politics, always throwing tantrums and shouting: “We want what we want and we want it now!”

Even after a monumental ass-whupping, they still expect everyone to kowtow to their every whim.

Category: Republicans, Senate

A Nation of Wankers

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

Remember how everybody made fun of Christine O’Donnell for having spoken out against masturbation in the 1990s?

“We need to address sexuality with young people, and masturbation is part of sexuality, but it is important to discuss this from a moral point of view. . . . The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery so — you can’t masturbate without lust.”
— Christine O’Donnell, 1996

Well, Dr. Grace Vuoto contends that masturbation has helped cause the decline of marriage:

[Masturbation] is the ultimate “safe sex” and the ultimate consequence-free sex. The explosion in Internet pornography by the late 1990s and in the 2000s is in essence a manifestation of an ultimate fixation not with the opposite sex’s body parts, but with one’s own body parts. A society of masturbators must also be a society that supports same-sex relations: masturbation is the quintessential homosexual act.
We thus now have an entire generation of young people that are obsessed with their own body parts. Never before, in the history of this nation, have we had such a widespread masturbation craze. . . .
Thus, when a Pew Research survey reveals that more Americans view marriage as obsolete or cannot even define it, it is not surprising. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Category: Marriage, Sex

Dave? Dave?

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

No, sir, I’ve never heard of any such person as “Dave Bowles,” although I did once know a certain Maurice Bowles. But that fellow was a strapping young ROTC cadet, not some grizzled old retired lieutenant-colonel.

So if this “Dave” character tries to tell you any crazy stories about a long-haired dopehead guitar-banging rock-and-roller he knew in college, don’t believe a word of it.

And, by the way, Dave Maurice, you ought to update your blog more often.

Category: Blogging

And Let Me Add, ‘Roll, Tide!’

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 3 Comments

Bemoaning the likelihood that Republicans will win their current battle with Democrats over extending the Bush tax cuts, progressive blogger David Kurtz reaches for an interesting analogy:

It reminds me of the line attributed to the old football coach Bum Phillips, speaking about the legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant: “He can take his’n and beat your’n and take your’n and beat his’n.” Translated: He could beat you with his players then turn around and beat you with your players.

To quote a certain resident of Knoxville, “Heh.”

While I’m unwilling to attribute Bryant-esque strategic brilliance to GOP congressional leaders, it’s certainly pleasant to see liberals as demoralized as Tennessee fans on the Third Saturday in October — 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 . . .

Category: Alabama, Football, Instapundit, Taxes
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