The Other McCain

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

I Think Stacy McCain And Ronald Reagan Share This

Posted on | September 22, 2010 | 13 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Power and Control)


On the other hand, I voted for Ross Perot, so someone help me with the lumber in me e’e. 😉

Rodger SimonKimball, courtesy of Insty, notes that the “Recession is Over”. Here is a great idea for one of those Republican Governors Association ads:
Kindergarten scene, bunch of kids playing. Bell rings. Matronly woman by the schoolhouse door yells, “OK, kids, recess is over!”
The children pick up balls, coloring books, jump ropes and the like, and file past the woman into the school, and she complements them: “Good job, Nancy, Steny, Charlie, Alcee, Harry, Lisa, Barbara, Barack! I hope you kids never forget the lesson of cleaning up and not leaving a mess for whoever follows.”

Category: Republicans

VIDEO: Delaware Democrat Chris Coons Says Obama ‘Made the Right Choice’

Posted on | September 22, 2010 | 7 Comments

Who’s saying “nutty” stuff now, huh?

“Somebody who’s going to work in responsible partnership with an administration that I think made the right choice on health care, on the stimulus, on the jobs bill.”
— Chris Coons

The Democrat has also said:

“My first vote would be for Harry Reid to be the leader, and to support, in general, the administration’s agenda.”

Check out this letter from a Delaware resident to the (biased liberal) Wilmington News-Journal:

I invite The News Journal to try printing the name “Christine O’Donnell” in a paragraph that does not contain the term “tea party” or “ultraconservative.” . . .
The Journal’s blatant liberal spin involving Christine is doing liberals more harm than good. The more you attack her character and give space to those bent on doing the same, the more you advertise that the whole bunch of you are terrified that she will win in November.
Your fear is completely justified. Time will tell. . . .
— Kay Meade

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Democrats, Election, Senate, Video

If Robert Gibbs Ejects, Maybe Mistress Jade Can, You Know, ‘Crack The Whip’

Posted on | September 22, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

American Power completely misses the point of the tenured English professor/dominatrix story. This is exactly the sort of ‘discipline’ we need to inject into our government and news media.

Lisa D. ChĂĄvez for Press Secretary!
She even looks like the woman in the blue blouse in the Devo video.

Category: American Power

Staff of Sen. Saxby Chambliss Not Really Helping Republican Image Problem

Posted on | September 21, 2010 | 28 Comments

Unless “ALL FAGGOTS MUST DIE” was the campaign theme GOP strategists were planning for this fall, somebody in the senator’s Atlanta office is about to join the growing ranks of the unemployed.

Just sayin’ . . .

Category: Gays, Georgia, Senate, Uncategorized

Fishersville Mike Joins Axis Of Fedora

Posted on | September 21, 2010 | 9 Comments

by Smitty


Fishersville Mike was caught in flagrente Starbucks on his way home from work. Yankee Phil has escaped our clutches for the nonce, but we’ll fix that as soon as possible.
Mwahahahahah.

Category: Fishersville Mike

As If I Actually Needed an Excuse to Post This Picture of a Blonde in a Bikini

Posted on | September 21, 2010 | 81 Comments

Conveniently enough, she managed to get herself involved in a serious political news story:

Now, far be it from me to throw the first stone here.

After all, who are we to judge?

Or more to the point, who are we to make tasteless jokes about Giovana Huidobro and her married (alleged) boyfriend, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Illinois)?

No, we musn’t be so judgmental. We must turn to the only voice of civility and reason in these troubled times.

Of course, I’m talking about Ace of Spades HQ.

UPDATE: Meet Jackson’s Republican challenger:

I am Isaac Hayes a community faith leader and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District.
I grew up in the Woodlawn community on the South Side of Chicago. Ideals of faith, hard work and liberty influenced my childhood and would become the foundation of my passion for service. My mother was a choir director, my grandmother a Sunday school teacher and my dad was both a Reverend and a United States Marine. . . .
I intend to continue my record of service to God and community as Representative of the 2nd Congressional District.
I currently reside in Park Forest with my wife of three years Latouna who shares my commitment to faith and service.

What else do we need to hear, folks?

ISAAC HAYES MONEY-BOMB!

UPDATE II: I am currently waiting for a return call from the Hayes campaign. Earlier today, Hayes issued a statement about the latest revelations about Jackson’s corruption:

Today, we have learned of new allegations concerning the involvement of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. in the Congressional Crime of the attempted purchase a United States Senate Seat. Sadly, I am not surprised.
Mr. Jackson has refused to tell the voters of the Second District exactly what the extent of his involvement was, but has decided to leave it to the press and the trial of ex-governor Rod Blagojevich to fill in the details.
It was the press that informed us Mr. Jackson was Senate Candidate No. 5 in the Rod Blagojevich indictment. It was the Blagojevich trial that informed us Mr. Jackson offered “pay to play” and was at an October 28, 2008 meeting with Raghuveer Nayak and Rajinder Bedi when the bribe was discussed.
Today, we have been informed by the press that Mr. Jackson directed Mr. Nayak to offer Rod Blagojevich six million dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate seat.
It is time for Congressman Jackson to tell the members of the Second District the truth. They deserve to know what he did and why he did it. They have suffered long enough under the three-peat of political corruption that has existed for the past thirty years.
We need a clean break from the politics of the abuse of power and public trust. We need someone with the character and values to represent our district with honesty and integrity.

Nothing in that statement, however, about Jackson knocking boots with the blonde bikini bombshell.

UPDATE III: Allahpundit notes this part of the story:

Before he dined with Huidobro and Jackson on Oct. 8, 2008, Nayak said he had a critical conversation with the congressman about the seat while the two were alone. Nayak, also a former Blagojevich fund-raiser, said that Jackson asked him to tell Blagojevich that if the then-governor appointed Jackson to the U.S. Senate, Chicago’s Indian community would raise $1 million for Blagojevich and — after Jackson was appointed — Jackson would raise $5 million for the then-governor . . .

This is called “community outreach,” see? Millions of dollars in bribe money from “Chicago’s Indian community,” blondes from the bikini-model community, etc.

UPDATE IV: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE V: Just got off the phone with Janet Restivo, press secretary for the Isaac Hayes campaign. The Republican candidate was attending a townhall meeting at the Lincoln Restaurant and unavailable for comment, but I’ll be interviewing him Wednesday.

Meanwhile, we have this statement from Rep. Jackson:

Not sure that this is an official statement, however . . .

Category: Congress, Corruption, Democrats, Election, Illinois, Rule 5, Scandal, Sex

Harry Reid to Gays: ‘I Really Want Your Votes. But First You Will Blow Me.’

Posted on | September 21, 2010 | 50 Comments

Or words to that effect, as the imperiled Senate Majority Leader — who’s losing ground to Sharron Angle in Nevada — was one of three Democrats to vote against repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”  policy:

All Senate Republicans and three Democrats voted to block debate on the bill after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would attach several leadership priorities, including an immigration-related provision, to the defense bill. Reid also attempted to limit the amendments offered by the GOP.
Reid was one of the three Democrats — the other two were Arkansas Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor — who voted to block debate. Reid’s vote allows him to bring up the bill at a later time.

Isn’t that special? It would have taken 60 votes to pass the repeal, and Harry could only get 59, so he told Blanche Lincoln — who is trailing by 25 points in her own re-election bid — that she could have a free vote to try to appeal to backward hillbilly yokels independent swing voters back home in Arkansas.

And this “allows him to bring up the bill at a later time.”

Feel the love, gay Democrats.

Honestly, wouldn’t you be better off voting Republican? What’s not to like about lower taxes and a foreign policy that’s all about kicking terrorist ass?

Sure, Republicans don’t support your pet issues, but at least they’re honest about it. Whereas, with Democrats, you’re like the slutty cheerleader who puts out to all the guys on the football team: The Democrats always get what they want from you — your votes and money — but they’re never gonna take you to the prom.

Maybe “at a later time,” huh?

HELP DEFEAT DIRTY HARRY REID!

Category: Arkansas, Election, Gays, Harry Reid, Nevada, Senate

105 Years Old, But The Ink Never Dries

Posted on | September 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Mike Walsh has a fine post at Big Journalism on gangster government, which concludes with a Senator Plunkitt quotation. He frames the challenge the Tea Parties face explicitely:

You see, [political parties] differ on tariffs and currencies and all them things, but we agree on the main proposition that when a man works in politics, he should get something out of it.
The politicians have got to stand together this way or there wouldn’t be any political parties in a short time.

It’s a trifle naive to hate political parties. We need them. There needs to be multiple vessels for gathering chunks of consensus, filtering out the whackos, and carrying forward related collections of ideas.
Parties are a means to an end, and, like anything else in culture, desperately want to become ends unto themselves.
What remains to be seen is whether the Tea Party de-emphasis on individual figures as centers of gravity will amount to much. The GOP elephant consumed the Ross Perot proto-Tea Party enthusiasm in the 90s.
This time around, the onslaught of the Tea Parties seems, more or less, to reveal a mousy backside behind the elephant maw.
I submit that the post-Progressive era will mean fewer “professional politicians” and something in the direction of everyone getting to catch javelins for 15 minutes.

Category: Politics
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