The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

President’s Cousin Devastates BHO’s Centerpiece Legislation

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

The doctor has weighed in. To summarize, the diagnosis is that the President is his own man, and no one can take that away from him, but the country really can’t sustain snorting all this policy Drano.

Let’s you and I hold a public discussion on America’s health care for those C-SPAN cameras once and for all. I know your administration is desperately attempting the full-court press to promote your health care reform as it continues to suffer badly in all the polls, and you with it. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius even said Americans need “re-education.” Let’s finally give Americans the honest and cordial discussion they deserve. You know that I have dedicated my life to serving patients, and nowhere will you find a person who will be more respectful to you. You also know I hold nothing against you personally. I understand you may feel, as a lawyer, that you’re a little out of your element discussing health care with a physician, so I urge you to bring Dr. Berwick along. America deserves to hear, at least one time, from the man who holds more health care power over them than even a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Until then, what should we do? We must defund, repeal and replace Obamacare before it defunds America, destroys the finest health care system in the world and replaces it with a European social-welfare government-run version.

Can we really repeal Obamacare? Let me be clear. Yes, we can.

Dr. Wolf, you rock.

Category: Barack Obama, Blogging, Health Care

Democrat Agrees: Ray McKinney’s Right!

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Democrat Agrees: Ray McKinney’s Right!

Video version of a radio ad now running in Georgia’s 12th District:

How scared is John Barrow? He spent $1.3 million on his re-election campaign through Sept. 30.

RAY McKINNEY for U.S. CONGRESS

UPDATE: Just got off the phone with a source in Georgia. We’re now in the post-Oct. 15 period when campaigns must report major donations ($1,000 or more) within 48 hours. Ray McKinney’s about to report $12,000 in major donations in the past two days. Obviously, this is a key race, and every dollar counts. Maybe you can’t give $1,000, but how about giving Ray $20? How about $50?

Category: Congress, Election, Georgia, Ray McKinney

Anne Lamott At Salon With Your Hooey Of The Day

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

This Salon post, “Why I believe in a Democratic comeback” merits stepping out of “Don’t get cocky” mode long enough to explain something to the author.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. The almost certain victors are already in full gloat mode, and that’s why the rest of us feel lower than a gopher hole, as Molly Ivins said to me after Bush v. Gore. Nothing you try seems to work. But as I experienced dozens of times in tennis matches as a youth, if you don’t give up, sometimes there’s a shift under your feet, and you win one unexpected point, and then another, and somehow, miraculously, you pull ahead.

It’s like this, Anne: Read more

Category: Democrats, Progressivism

REPUBLICAN BIKINI SCANDAL: N.Y. SENATE RACE ROCKED BY PHOTO UPDATE: SHOCKING NUDE PHOTO

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

Democratic operatives are once again planning to expose the scandalous news that a GOP candidate has a daughter who looks hot in a bikini, sources say.

Longtime New York political observers were shocked by the disclosure that Republican Joe DioGuardi has a daughter, Kara, who was a judge on American Idol, during which she revealed what one commenter called her “hawtness” in a bikini:

Along with Dan Collins of Piece of Work in Progress, we will continue to monitor developments in this emerging news story, which is potentially even more shocking than the Marcela Hoeven bikini scandal that previously rocked the North Dakota Senate campaign.

UPDATE: The investigation into this shocking scandal continues, and Dan Collins has just confirmed the existence of a so-called “sideboob” photo of Kara DioGuardi:

UPDATE II: While the mainstream media continues to ignore this shocking story, our investigation has now uncovered the biggest Republican scandal since it was learned that Scott Brown once appeared as a Cosmo centerfold. Yes, indeed, Republican Senate candidate Joe DioGuardi’s daughter Kara posed nude:

And how does Joe DioGuardi respond to this shocking scandal? He keeps attempting to distract New Yorkers by talking about so-called “issues”:

What’s really important to New York voters: That Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand votes for the Obama agenda of reckless deficit spending, or that Republican Joe DioGuardi has a smokin’ hot daughter?

We report. You decide.

JOE DIOGUARDI for U.S. SENATE
Because His Daughter’s Way Hotter
Than Kirsten Gillibrand

Category: Election, Massachusetts, Rule 5, Scandal, Senate

UPDATE: Republican Bill Hudak Hits Democrat Tierney on Taxes, Racketeering

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | Comments Off on UPDATE: Republican Bill Hudak Hits Democrat Tierney on Taxes, Racketeering

While Sean Bielat’s fun-filled campaign against Barney Frank has been getting lots of national coverage, the Republican Bill Hudak’s campaign in Massachusett’s 6th District has been chugging along against embattled Democrat Rep. John Tierney, whose wife was convicted of federal tax charges two weeks ago. A poll by the local Lynn Daily Item found that 46% don’t think Tierney should seek re-election. Hudak has been airing this hard-hitting ad:

Hudak’s campaign just picked up the endorsement of Mitt Romney, and Republicans are calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation of Tierney, who in 2006 voted against a ban on offshore gambling — the federal crime in which his wife’s racketeering family is involved. Hudak has also hit Tierney on the Obama administration’s policies that hurt the local fishing industry.

There’s two days left in the Hudak Money Bomb, and I want to remind you of this photo I took last week in Beverly, Mass.:

If you don’t give Bill Hudak $20, you’ll break that little boy’s heart.

BILL HUDAK for U.S. CONGRESS

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Bill Hudak, Congress, Corruption, Election, Massachusetts

Call It Like You Hear It

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

The opening phrase of the clip “It doesn’t give them comfort and solace for me to tell them. . .,” arguably, means he is disclaiming the assertion that he saved the world from a depression. Of course, he would enjoy it if you took the clip as a whole to mean he’s the savvier savior.

Credit where due: Senator Harry Reid is a man of low animal cunning. Nevadans, you know what to do.

Category: Nevada, Politics

Flip Side Of The Coin

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

So, NPR’s use of ‘Juan Begone’ has ended in a $2 million dollar contract for Mr. Williams. Well, that’s capitalism for ya.
What I’m wondering, putting Soros’ $1 megabuck grant to Media Matters, the recent canning of Rick Sanchez don’t point to internal financial turmoil within the various Lefty outlets, and the non-success that is Parker/Client 9 From Outer Space, is whether Juan is symptomatic of something bigger.
If the cash flow was regular, wouldn’t these relatively minor utterances from the various media personalities fail the ‘So, what’ test?
Stay tuned after the election, when the ratings vacuum starts to suck down some bigger names, and we arrive at MSNBC-NN-BS, in a vain experiment to see if bigger acronyms are correlate with, you know, viewers.

Category: Media Bias

A Hate Hoax in Arizona?

Posted on | October 22, 2010 | 6 Comments

Let’s wait for law enforcement to investigate this incident, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts that no Republican is responsible:

The FBI is investigating a toxic substance found inside a package that was sent to the office of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, a spokesman for the congressman said.
Staffers checking mail in the congressman’s Tucson, Arizona, office Thursday found a white powdery substance and drawings of two swastikas inside an envelope, Grijalva campaign spokesman Adam Sarvana told CNN.
The Tucson Fire Department confirmed the substance inside the envelope was toxic, he said.
Almost a dozen people were inside the office at the time, he said. All of them were checked on-scene by local authorities and sent home.
Scientists at an FBI laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, are now conducting a full analysis of the substance, Sarvana said.

Arizona Nazis? Stipulating that such persons actually exist, why would they wait until two weeks before Election Day to perpetrate a crime like this? Here’s video from KVOA-TV in Tucson:

As the local reporter says, this incident occurred less than 24 hours after Grijalva debated his Republican opponent, Ruth McClung. How did that debate go for Grijalva?

The candidates in the tightening Congressional District 7 race gave voters some clear choices in a nearly two-hour debate in Rio Rico on Wednesday night. . . .
McClung supports school vouchers, saying parents deserve a choice. Grijalva doesn’t. “That will further rob our public schools of the resources they need to educate our children,” he said.
McClung supports a permanent Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 near Tubac, while Grijalva said mobility is important in making the checkpoint effective.
And while Grijalva said the border is more secure now than it has been in the past, McClung said the border is far from safe. “So far, all we seem to be getting from the federal government is lawsuits, and on top of that, we’re getting boycotts,” she said, contending her opponent’s early call for economic sanctions over Arizona’s new immigration law damaged the state.
The debate . . . came as the nationally respected, nonpartisan Cook Political Report dubbed the race a “tossup” and as the national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been forced to spend money in a district that had long been considered safe.
Grijalva, other than saying the state’s economic woes cannot be laid exclusively at his feet, did not directly address his decision earlier this year to call for a limited boycott of conventions and conferences in the wake of the passage of the state’s controversial immigration law.

The state’s immigration law, SB-1070, is “controversial” only so far as “controversial” can be accepted as a synonym for “overwhelmingly popular” — favored by 70% of Arizona voters.

So you see that the narrative in local news, coming out of Wednesday’s debate, was that voters had a clear choice, that the race was now rated a tossup, and that Grijalva was trying to avoid talking about his call for a boycott of his own state. And within 24 hours, the story suddenly changes to swastikas and toxic powder?

“How the Left Fakes the Hate: A Primer,” by Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: A Memeorandum thread, with reports by MSNBC and Politico. Grijalva’s offices have been threatened before, but this swastikas-and-toxic-powder business . . . well, question the timing.

Oliver Willis of Media Matters calls this “Tea Party Terrorism.”

Right. “Send the Body to Glenn Beck.”

UPDATE II: Keith Olbermann is certain that this is an attack by the Glennbeckistani Legion of Hate:

UPDATE III: Contrary to what Grijalva said, the suspicious powder was non-toxic, according to the FBI.

Category: Arizona, Crime, Election, Ruth McClung
« go back — keep looking »

    About

    This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

    Subscribe to our feed

    Search

    Admin