Get Stuffed, Alan Colmes

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by Smitty

The biggest problem with waxing poetic about our beloved founders and the great love of country that conservatives think is lost on “the liberals” is that they’re nostalgic for a myth.

No, Alan, you’re the myth-head: there was indeed a time before the Progressives, when the country was not on a debt-slavery course.

Things like math, history, and economic may hurt your feelings, but they matter. Utopia is unavailable at any price, no matter how many unrepresented generations are taxed before their grandparents are conceived.

The common-sense demand for a Federal government and sober management is common sense, not a ‘Constitutional fetish’. Your quasi-religious belief in Progress, coupled with a systematic refusal to admit the utter failure of the Left’s ideas, renders your pronouncements laughable, where not sad.

No, the necessary course correction for the country is the Constitutional one. The bulk of the major problems besetting the country can be traced to the departure from the principles in the document. The Federal government wants to do State and local things, except where votes may not be delivered, e.g. Tennessee.

It’s going to be a long, painful, expensive ride recovering from your nonsense, Alan.

Thanks for less than nothing.

Wedding Bells For Limbaugh

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WASHINGTON, DC–Rush Limbaugh will marry long-time girlfriend Kathryn Rogers on June 5th, according to a knowledgeable source. The wedding is reportedly planned for Palm Beach, Fla., where both Mr. Limbaugh and Ms. Rogers live.

This exclusive news was received unexpectedly tonight while I was interviewing Liz Carter, a Republican Congressional candidate in Georgia’s 4th District. I asked Carter campaign operative Cheryl Prater to tweet this exclusive:

This post dictated via co-blogger Smitty, while I drive along Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the White House. Smitty has searched and found the following background on the Limbaugh-Rogers relationship:

The Huffington Post had the following tidbits:

The Palm Beach Post reports that 57-year-old Rush Limbaugh has a new — and much younger — girlfriend. Limbaugh has reportedly been seeing Kathryn Rogers, 31, for the past six months. Rogers (seen with Limbaugh at a Miami fundraiser last weekend) lives in West Palm Beach and works as a party planner for the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee.

Last May, Limbaugh announced that President Clinton was “intently chatting up” Limbaugh’s female companion at a New York restaurant, but he did not reveal her name.

Limbaugh divorced his third wife Marta in 2004 after 10 years of marriage. . .

Expect further news as we await official confirmation.

Smitty: A restraining order may be necessary for both Mrs. Other McCain and Stacy if the Shoe Leather Fund receives enough love to support the two of them flitting South to enjoy another honeymoon and crash Limbaugh’s wedding. Just sayin’.

Update: via Drudge BHO will apparently not attend the possible bachelor golf round:

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was: “Limbaugh can play with himself.”

PA-12: Mike Pence Sightings Confirmed In Support Of Tim Burns

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by Smitty

Renner’s Here! has your PA-12 update:

Congressman Pence, chair of the House Republican Conference, who’s been mentioned as a potential 2012 presidential candidate was at the Richland Township Fire Department near Johnstown yesterday, campaigning for Tim Burns in the May 18 special election.

Stacy, in a phone conversation, mentioned this bit down the post:

Burns for Congress campaign manager Tad Rupp told me that the campaign made close to 50,000 phone calls last weekend alone.

RSM was rather impressed with that figure, indicating that it shows tremendous enthusiasm, especially in contrast to Democratic Party turnout in primaries that have already occurred.

We can’t get cocky, though, and we can’t forget to hold the GOP feet in the fire after the election, or there won’t be enough hot water to support the Tea Party.

Doubling Down On Elena

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by Smitty

Jazz Shaw points out that you need a fairly stupid mark for Valerie Jarrett to be successful in her sales pitch. Valerie, if we think you’re selling used cars, as when the name Roberts comes up, you need to go away. You attempts to whitewash Kagan’s record WRT the military is quite offensive.

But if it’s OK not to think that John Roberts deserved support for the SCOTUS, then we should feel perfectly content, by Valerie’s measure, to think Kagan unworthy of an appointment, as well. Thanks, Valerie. Tool.

As Ramesh Ponnuru notes:

Elena Kagan helped to keep military recruiters from having equal access to the Harvard campus–based on what she called “the military’s policy” on don’t ask, don’t tell. When Congress voted to deny Defense Department funds to universities that discriminate against the military, she joined an effort to fight the law (called the Solomon amendment) in court. In effect, she was arguing that the school had a constitutional right to get government funding while discriminating against military recruiters. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the universities.

So on this issue it is hard to argue that Kagan was within the judicial mainstream. Her position is, additionally, hard to defend.

And then there is the smoking artillery that one expects may be found in the Clinton memos.

If we can’t have NoOneBarack Nominates on the court, it would be better to draft Hillary. One or two decades of Lefty nitwittery would be preferable to three+. Also, the possibility of a decent Secretary of State exists–could Colin Powell pinch hit until 2012?

The preceding rant is here.

Update: Sweet. A Second Amendment history only the ACLU could love.

Update II: Heh. Krauthammer:

On Arlen Specter having voted against Kagan for solicitor general, now shifting his position:

You almost feel sorry for Arlen Specter. I mean: Almost. This is a guy of so many twists and turns and retreats and swerves and reverses. It reminds me of a line in a Graham Greene novel where he speaks of his protagonist who says: “I prefer to tell the truth. It’s easier to memorize.”

Specter‘s got a lot of memorizing to do . . .

Tim James And The Mother Tongue

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by Smitty (via Forward Focus Media)

Disclaimer: I have no really strong opinion on language. For some, English is a Very Big Deal. Given that what we speak is a collision of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, plus anything else that sounded good and didn’t move fast enough, I have trouble sorting the language issue very high on the list. In a few hundred years, when English has absorbed significant Spanish, I daresay there shan’t be much fuss.

But it’s a big deal now:

And I appear to be amongst the narrow 4%:

Americans continue to overwhelmingly believe that English should be the official language of the United States and reject by sizable margins the idea that such a move is racist or a violation of free speech.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 87% of Adults favor making English the nation’s official language. This is the highest level of support yet but in line with what voters have been saying for several years. Just nine percent (9%) disagree.

Fine, make it the official language. However, it’s more significant to me that the Federal government remain Federal than calling it a Federal government vice der Bund.

Hopefully Tim James is as successful in Alabama as Bob McDonnell has been here in Virgnia.

Tea Party Victory!

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by Smitty

Correction: Councilman, not mayor.

Stacy is headed in to DC for one of those hush-hush meetings with the big boys and girls.

While driving and listening to WFMD, he heard about the stunning victory of one Brett Bidle, a freshman at Frederick Community College, the newly elected mayor councilman of Myersville, MD.

Brett said on the radio that he had never been involved in politics except through the Tea Party movement.

Frank Rich knew where the threat was coming from, but not where the decisive blow would be struck. Every political strategist in America will be flocking to Myersville to soak up the strategic acumen displayed by this dangerous radical, who has yet to be denounced by Charles Johnson.

There is something strangely Belgian about the name Bidle. Clearly he represents the vanguard of the Flemish Menace.

“I can’t take any credit for this,” said Stacy, who lives 15 miles away from Myersville. “But if it goes bad, they’ll blame me.”

From the article:

Myersville , a town of about 1,500 residents, has 979 active voters. On Monday, 84 residents cast their votes and one absentee ballot was submitted. Political neophyte Bidle was the top vote-getter with 60. Incumbents Gary DeMoss and Mark Flynn received 55 and 54 votes, respectively, Creadick reported.
“I’m happy to see that number,” Creadick said of the turnout. “These uncontested races — the last election the turnout was in the teens.”

Stand by for at least a hard-hitting interview with Stacy McCain, Brett, if we can’t get you on InstaVision.

Brett is 18 years old.

Update: Insta-lanche!

Clan Cameron Triumphs

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David Cameron just became Prime Minister of Great Britain, a Tory triumph that we conservatives here on the far side of the pond can cheerfully celebrate. Here’s hoping that the new PM will so scourge Labour — and that the island realm united under his leadership shall so vanquish Britain’s every foe — as to make men recall the famous war oath of Clan Cameron:

Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil!

“Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh!”

From the Lone Star to Wasilla, With Love: The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You!

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Sarah Palin was featured in the Mother’s Day edition of USA Weekend, which included this photo of Piper Palin on a rocking horse:

This morning, I received an e-mail from Allen Nieschwietz of the Brenham (Texas) Banner-Press, who asked if I could help him verify a bit of local news. Mr. Nieschwietz said that a Brenham resident had seen the photo and come into the Banner-Press office to report that he had built that rocking horse and sent it to the Palin family as a gift.

Nieschwietz wanted to verify this fact and solicited my assistance. Always eager to help a small-town reporter, I forwarded his e-mail to a couple of my sources and one of them quickly replied:

Thanks, Stacy. We got in touch with him to confirm that it’s the same rocking horse.

So residents of Brenham, Texas, will soon be reading about this remarkable local story in the Banner-Press, but I hope Mr. Nieschwietz won’t mind my scoring an online exclusive here first. (Hey, I started at a 6,000-circulation weekly in 1986 and didn’t make it this far by missing out on scoops.)

As for Piper Palin’s rocking horse, let us hope she absorbs some of that courageous Lone Star spirit that earned Texans their famous praise:

“They have fought grandly, nobly,
and we must have more of them.”

(Cross-posted at the Hot Air Green Room.)

UPDATE: Josh Painter at Texas for Palin takes the genetic-determinist view of courage, and I try to avoid arguing with Texans, when possible.