"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
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. Chávez for Press Secretary!
She even looks like the woman in the blue blouse in the Devo video.
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’ . . .
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.
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?
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 . . .
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?
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.
by Smitty
Cubachi catches up the latest details of the Florida Democrat idiocy, where they are now offering to pay for theft monitoring “in order to stop the crazy West accusations” after spilling Privacy Act information.
Stacy and I got to meet Allen West at CPAC. What a fine, solid American. Dems: you messed with the wrong dude. Recommendation to the Dems in Florida and elsewhere is to accept a crushing defeat in the election quietly, reflectively. Ponder where you’ve become an un-American, un-Constitutional pack of louts. Repent.
Update: Thanks to commenters for the spelling help. Sheesh.