I’m ‘Sick to My Stomach’ of Pete Sessions Running the NRCC into the Ground

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He’s becoming a joke:

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions is trying to referee an increasingly bitter Florida 24th District primary, criticizing a new mailer from Florida Republican Craig Miller questioning rival Karen Diebel’s mental fitness as out of bounds.

Dan Riehl’s had the facts on this situation for weeks. It’s not that she’s a bad person but, as I said two months, she seems to be suffering from emotional stress since her husband died in a tragic accident.

It has been clear since last October — when Pete Sessions tried to dodge the blame for the Scozzafava debacle — that the NRCC was suffering from a severe deficit of competent leadership.

FL-24 is a three-way primary and Diebel, allegedly the beneficiary of establishment favoritism, is the weakest candidate in the race. This mess could have been prevented, the fact that it wasn’t prevented is yet further evidence of Pete Sessions’ mismanagement at NRCC.

If the GOP fails to win a House majority Nov. 2, you know who to blame.

How to Do an Awesome Blog Post

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Begin with an introductory sentence that ends with a link to your inspiration:

There will always be a fringe, living in its own private madhouse, that will never accept truth regardless of how it is presented.

As night follows day, the link is followed by a blockquote selection from the inspiration. Here, you have several options. You can just end it with some quick snark, or go on an extended rant.

Alternatively, you can try to relate the inspiration to something that’s trending on Memorandum. And what do I see linked here? It’s a headline:

Exclusive: Jimmy Carter headed to
North Korea on rescue mission 

Notice that I’ve blockquoted that, in a large boldface font, so it actually looks like a headline. It helps if you include a photo of Jimmy Carter with a sarcastic caption.

One need not know anything about Jimmy Carter or North Korea, or the specific object of Carter’s Pyonyang misson, in order to make snarky comments about this headline. But let’s blockquote the story anyway:

His goal is to bring back Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a 30-year-old man from Boston who was sentenced to 8 years in prison in April, about three months after he was arrested crossing into North Korea via China.

Who in his right mind would try to sneak into North Korea? Aijalon Mahli Gomes is from Boston, so he’s used to living in a communist hellhole. Let the socialist scum rot in prison. But wait — there’s more:

Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, had offered to go to pick up Gomes and has been working on the case for months.

Yeah, it figures: This guy from Boston must be a Democratic voter, and Kerry wants to get him out of North Korea and back home before Nov. 2, so the guy can vote for Barney Frank. This shows Democrats must really be freaking out over the mid-term election, and are afraid that Republican challenger Sean Bielat is gaining momentum.

Let’s make a deal: If this Boston guy gets to come home, the North Koreans keep Jimmy Carter.

And that is how you do an awesome blog post. Please visit Jerry Wilson’s “Goldfish and Clowns” blog. He’s into NASCAR and Christine O’Donnell.

Brandi Milloy: Heatwave at the Border (And Xenophobia Never Looked Better)

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OK, anybody who ever questioned Roger Simon‘s judgment — his ability to spot top-quality video news talent — start apologizing now. Click the picture to watch, you disgusting sexist swine:

My advice to Roger: Change the name PJTV to “BrandiTV.” Also, please assign Brandi to do a story about the bond-market bubble. I’ve tried to get readers to pay attention to this serious threat to our nation’s economy, but the minute I start talking “bond yields,” people’s eyes glaze over. Ten minutes of Brandi interviewing leading economists? Yeah, they’d pay attention to that.

Also, Roger: Thanks for sending Brandi to interview J.D. Hayworth, a true conservative who’s going to win the Arizona GOP primary against that old bald What’s-His-Name:

J.D. HAYWORTH for U.S. SENATE
Because Brandi Milloy Said So!

Hat tip: Instapundit, you rogue dog, you.

Bumped: Philanthropic Outlets

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by Smitty

As the son of a son of a sailor, I cannot fail to link Dan Riehl’s USS Ranger post. It looks like they’re mooring her on the Columbia River, East of Portland, AFAICT. The store link features a vampire novel for that goth in your life. I opted for PayPal.

Switching from the big, steel, welded artificial shes to the living, breathing ones that could be your mother, sister, wife, or daughter, [UPDATE: the splendid KillTruck], posting at Snark & Boobs, is emphasizing neither snark nor boobs in this thoughtful outreach post:

I have a thing for prostitutes. A fascination that has become a demented joke among those that know me, but it didn’t start as one. After the loss of a child and rape, I can’t think of a worse situation for a woman to find herself in than trading sex for money. There is absolutely nothing empowering about servicing a dirty stranger in a dirty place for a wad of dirty money. I can’t fathom a bad act so bad that anyone deserves to endure that even once, let alone over and over and over just to survive. I don’t look at prostitution as a crime. I look at it as a symptom of desperation, a desperation none of us are above succumbing under the right circumstances. This is the part where a lot of conservatives invoke personal responsibility, which is a valid argument if the one making it has never needed a second chance. Not to mention the fact that social problems like addiction, sexual exploitation and the breakdown of the family have obvious implications on American society, regardless of the current size of government. And so, as a Christian I’m commanded to offer a hand out to anyone with a hand up, as an American it just makes sense in the big picture and any woman that could turn a blind eye to the exploitation of her sisters should be forcibly liberated of her ovaries. . . .
Meanwhile, Episcopalian priest, Becca Stevens, has been pulling women out of the gutter for for over a decade, literally. Stevens is the founder of Magdalene, a 2 year residential program for women overcoming prostitution, addiction and homelessness.

It is a blessing to be able to shop on the Thistle Farms site to support the Magdalene effort, and I hope you consider such.

Update: Little Miss Attila-lanche!