An Embarrassing Defeat for Biden

Posted on | March 4, 2021 | Comments Off on An Embarrassing Defeat for Biden

This failure is an example of Biden’s basic incompetence:

Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday evening.
In a statement, Tanden wrote:

Dear President Biden,
I am writing to you to withdraw my nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It has been an honor of a lifetime to be considered for this role and for the faith placed in me. I appreciate how hard you and your team at the White House has worked to win my confirmation. Unfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no path forward to gain confirmation, and I do not want continued consideration of my nomination to be a distraction from your other priorities.I am incredibly grateful for your leadership on behalf of the American people and for your agenda that will make such a transformative difference in people’s lives.
Sincerely,
Neera Tanden

The White House confirmed the withdrawal.
Tanden was facing bipartisan opposition from senators due to past comments she made on her Twitter feed. . . .
Biden’s cabinet picks have mostly sailed through the Democrat-led Senate. Still, Biden’s choice to lead the OMB, which heads efforts to ensure an administration’s priorities are reflected in legislation and regulations, was derailed when Sanders questioned Tanden about her “vicious attacks” against both Republicans and progressives on Twitter, including “me, personally.”
Manchin’s announced “no” vote against Tanden made her confirmation unlikely given Republican resistance to her nomination.

This is a shades-of-Jimmy-Carter level of embarrassment. Tanden was (is) a credentialed member of Team Clinton, and was president of the Center for American Progress, a Podesta-founded, Soros-funded progressive think tank dating back to the anti-war, anti-Bush era. And she was another of those “historic first” sort of identity-politics tokens. But she ruined her chances by constantly blabbing all over Twitter:

With her withdrawal, Tanden becomes the first nominee to a White House Cabinet post to be sunk by her old tweets, which were sharply critical of a number of lawmakers. Biden’s administration had emphasized the historic nature of Tanden’s nomination; she served in President Bill Clinton’s White House and had experience running a major think tank, and if confirmed, she would have been the first woman of color and first Asian American woman to lead OMB.
But much of Tanden’s résumé was overshadowed by her proliferous online posting — at least 1,000 tweets raking both Republicans and leftist Democrats over the coals — that Tanden quietly started deleting in November 2020.

Biden can barely remember his own name, but the Internet never forgets.

Category: Democrats

In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 3, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

You’d never guess she (Prinz Eugen) was part shark.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: California Falling
EBL: Andrew Breitbart, RIP, also, Texas Independence Day
Twitchy: Investigation Underway After Photos Of Undercooked Meals Served To MI National Guard In DC Go Viral
Louder With Crowder: Hidden In Nancy Pelosi’s “COVID” Relief Bill – A Personal bailout For Federal Employees
Vox Popoli: Social Media Hacks, also, The New Chariots Of Fire

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Left Vs. Christianity
American Conservative: Running Biden vs. Governing Biden (Pick One)
American Greatness: John Brennan “Increasingly Embarrassed To Be White Male”, also, MI NG Whistleblowers Say Troops Made Sick By Undercooked Meals
American Power: Poor F***ing George Stephanopoulos
American Thinker: President Trump’s 2021 State Of The Union Address
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily “He’s Back” News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Approves Animal Rights Law, Still No Word On Protecting Human Rights
BattleSwarm: Austria’s Antifa Protests Deportation Of Rapists, also, Legislator Proposes Renaming Austin Overpass “Steve Adler Public Restroom Highway”
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, What Is Wrong At Blue Origin?
Cafe Hayek: Bernie Sanders Is To Economics What Roadrunner Cartoons Are To Physics
CDR Salamander: Where Are We Heading? Watch Deputy SecDef Hicks
Da Tech Guy: Well-Deserved Pushback Against Chicago Monuments Project Underway, also, Aa Great Kurt Schlichter Piece That Misses The Point
Don Surber: Occasional Cortex Barks About A Racist Robot Dog
First Street Journal: Way To Promote That “Unity”, Lexington Herald-Leader! also, Maybe Gun Ownership Isn’t The Problem?
The Geller Report: Biden Removes Dr. Suess From Read Across America Day, also, Biden Resumes Filling American Jobs With Foreign Workers As 17 Million Americans Remain Unemployed
Hogewash: A $15 Minimum Wage is Racist, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Faith-Friendly Vigil Knows When To Make Us Laugh, Cringe, also, TCM’s Reframed Defends Classic Movies From The Woke Mob
The Lid: News Flash – Democracy Has Already Been Undermined By The Left’s Behavior Since 2016
Legal Insurrection: Six Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Reprinted Due To “Racist & Insensitive Imagery”, also, DHS Secretary Mayorkas Claims “Loving Parents” Send Unaccompanied Minors To The Border
Nebraska Energy Observer: Takeaways
Outkick: Texas Lifts Mask Mandate, Goes For 100% Business Occupancy, also, Former Texans Coach On JJ Watt – “Selfish, Only Cared About His Stats”
Power Line: Kamala Harris & Other Leftists Spring Rapist From Jail, also, Wake up To Woke Before It’s Too Late
Shark Tank: DeSantis Crushing Crist, Fried In New Florida Poll
Shot In The Dark: Checklist
STUMP: Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: West Virginia Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Son Tay Raid Commander Dies At 100, also, “Wikipedia Is Badly Biased”
Transterrestrial Musings: Acme To Take Over As SLS Prime Contractor, also, Space Tango
Victory Girls: Cancel Culture Costs University of Texas Millions
Volokh Conspiracy: New Colorado Bill Would Create Commission To Restrict “Hate Speech”, “Fake News”, & “Conspiracy Theories” On Social Media
Weasel Zippers: Famous AZ News Anchor Resigns – “Journalism Is Dead”, also, California Is 1984
The Federalist: Teachers Union Boss Who Lobbied To Keep Public Schools Closed Caught Taking His Kid To Private School, also, After Denying There’s A Border Crisis, Biden Admin Says It Needs Thousands Of Beds For Migrant Children
Mark Steyn: The Hundred Years Ago Show, also, Come Rain or Come Shine

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Governor Gropo

Posted on | March 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Governor Gropo

Gosh, he was a Democratic Party hero just a few weeks ago:

A third woman came forward on Monday to accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate sexual behavior, saying he grabbed and kissed her at a 2019 wedding.
Anna Ruch, 33, told the New York Times that the 63-year-old governor made unwanted advances toward her and planted an unsolicited kiss on her cheek at the reception in Manhattan.
“He said, ‘Can I kiss you?’” Ruch recalled. “I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.”
The allegation comes after two former state staffers accused Cuomo of sexual harassment on the job — including one who claimed the governor kissed her without warning at his Manhattan office, which he has denied.
Unlike the other two women, Ruch has never been employed by the governor or the state, according to the Times.
Ruch, a former member of the Obama administration and the 2020 Biden campaign, said she met Cuomo at the crowded wedding reception in September 2019.
Within moments of being introduced, Ruch claims, the gov put his hand on the small of her lower back, which was exposed in an open-back dress.
“I promptly removed his hand with my hand, which I would have thought was a clear enough indicator that I was not wanting him to touch me,” she told the Times.
But the governor apparently didn’t get the hint.
He allegedly noted that Ruch seemed “aggressive” — and then placed his hands on her cheeks and asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend of Ruch’s to hear, according to the report.
“I turned my head away and didn’t have words in that moment,” Ruch said.
Ruch said she was so shocked, she had to ask a friend whether the gov’s lips had actually touched her face as she was pulling away. She was told that he kissed her cheek.
The pal captured the creepy encounter in a series of photographs, including one Ruch also provided to The Post that shows Cuomo grasping her face.
“It’s the act of impunity that strikes me,” Ruch said. “I didn’t have a choice in that matter. I didn’t have a choice in his physical dominance over me at that moment. And that’s what infuriates me.”

See, there was a time — in the 1980s, when Cuomo was the strutting young scion of a political dynasty and Donald Trump was still a Manhattan real-estate mogul — that a guy could make a move like that and the worst he risked was maybe getting punched by the girl’s boyfriend. But nobody was going to punch Andrew Cuomo back in the day, and so he got used to putting the moves on any chick that caught his eye. Well, times have changed and Cuomo is now 63 years old. On what planet does a guy his age think it’s OK to make a move on a chick 30 years his junior? I mean, flirting is one thing, but . . .

Anyway, he was becoming an embarrassment to the party, with his COVID-19 policy that killed thousands of little old ladies, and so now we have women “coming forward,” as they say, to tell everybody that Cuomo’s a creepy old pervert. Next up? The hair-sniffing Joe Biden. As soon as Biden’s dementia becomes undeniable, the women will start “coming forward” to destroy Creepy Uncle Joe.

Cynical? Yeah, but these are Democrats, remember.

Category: Democrats, New York, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | March 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in February. Your purchases help keep your favorite burrowing marsupial in coffee and protein bars, and are very much appreciated.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Georgia Homeowners Are Armed
EBL: Andrew Cuomo Is In Trouble, also, Media Panic Alert – Nordic Runes At CPAC
Twitchy: Will Others In Media Follow Molly Jong-Fast’s Lead On Being “Really Embarrassed” By Previous Fawning Coverage Of Governor Cuomo?
Louder With Crowder: Brian Stelter Is Very Upset! Claps Back At Donald Trump Jr. Calling Him A “Genderless Potato”
Vox Popoli: Lockdowns Are Fake Science, also, This Is What One Calls A “Failure Cascade”
Stoic Observations: The Black Substandard

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: An Open Letter To President Joe Biden
American Greatness: “The World’s Largest Bookstore” Gets Into The Censorship Business, also, Where Are All The Retractions Of The Brian Sicknick Story?
American Power: Anti-CRT Activist Christopher Rufo Challenges NYT’s Michelle Goldberg To Debate
American Thinker: The Federal Reserve Is Taking Us Into Uncharted, Deadly Waters, also, The Left’s Latest Battleground Is Your Neighborhood
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Former Cuban Military & Security Officers Urge Military Not To Follow Repressive Orders Against The People, also, Violent Repression In Cuba When Protestors Break Into Chants Of “Homeland & Life”
BattleSwarm: Followup On Kerasal Foot Cream, also, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Demonstrates Punching Back Twice As Hard
Behind The Black: India & Russia Successfully Launch Satellites, also, Biden Fires Boeing From SLS, Gives Job To Acme
Cafe Hayek: A Serious Argument Contains Serious Argumentation
CDR Salamander: The Future Of European Naval Power – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: A Switch In Time Might Save Nine But Dooms 300 Million, also, The Left Proves Archbishop Chaput’s Maxim Correct
Don Surber: Make Ben & Jerry’s Pay Reparations, also, #NeverTrumper Starts Astroturf Party
First Street Journal: Prison Is For More Than Keeping Bad Guys Off The Streets
The Geller Report: Iran Refuses To Discuss Nuclear Deal With Failure Biden, also, Biden State Department Officer’s Antisemitic Website Exposed
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Supernova 1987A
Hollywood In Toto: Rush To Judgment Director – Reporters Fear Our Film, also, Hollywood Reporter Accidentally Admits Truth About Woke Rules
The Lid: Mad Maxine Waters Libeled Navy Vet As “Dishonorably Discharged” – Now She’s Losing In Court
Legal Insurrection: Kristi Noem – “COVID Didn’t Crush The Economy, Government Crushed The Economy”, also, Hyatt Hotels Push Back On Leftist Boycatt Calls
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, CPAC – The Heavy Hitters
Outkick: Aaron Rodgers Gives $1 Million To Small Businesses, also, MMA’s Colby Covington Jumps All Over Red Chinese “Finger Puppet” LeBron James
Power Line: Kristi Noem At CPAC, also, Rachel Levine – Wanted Or Wanting?
Shark Tank: Roger Stone Fends Off Another Witchhunt
Shot In The Dark: Waiting, As Always, For The Facts
The Political Hat: The Multiracial Fight Against Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Make Room For The Ladies, also, Portland “Direct Action” Event Looks Familiar
Transterrestrial Musings: Chinese-American Rights Group Calls CRT “A Hateful Fraud”, also, A Modest Proposal For Republicans
Victory Girls: Obama Says “White Resistance” To Blame For Preventing Slave Reparations
Volokh Conspiracy: The State Of The Legal Struggle Over The CDC Eviction Moratorium
Weasel Zippers: Boston Public Schools Cancel AP Classes For All Students Because Too Many AP Students Are White/Asian, also, School District Cancels Dr. Seuss Over “Racial Undertones”
The Federalist: The Explosion In Queer Sexuality Among Kids Is Not A Natural Trend, also, Seattle Tax Dollars Provide Heroin Pipes, “Booty Bumping Kits” To Homeless Addicts
Mark Steyn: This Ole House, also, Ikiru

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Trump Approved 10,000 National Guard for Jan. 6, But Pelosi Rejected Troops

Posted on | March 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Trump Approved 10,000 National Guard for Jan. 6, But Pelosi Rejected Troops

This should be huge news:

President Donald Trump has confirmed reports he requested 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of the January 6th rally in Washington, D.C., only to be rebuffed by authorities.
Speaking [to] Steve Hilton on “The Revolution,” the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size:

“Everyone said we’ll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to before. I have spoken to big crowds, hundreds of thousands of people, more than that, but hundreds of thousands of people.”

In response, Trump said he “gave the number” to the Department of Defense, insisting that 10,000 members of the National Guard would be needed.
“They took that number, from what I understand, they gave it to people at the Capitol, that is controlled by Pelosi, and I heard they rejected it because they didn’t think it would look good,” added Trump in the interview after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech.
Trump’s comments follow reports that Pelosi discouraged the Sergeant at Arms from deploying the force and an implausible timeline whereby Pelosi approved a request for the National Guard before it was even received by former Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving.
The news confirms reporting from Vanity Fair, mostly ignored by the mainstream media . . .

Read the whole thing. Don’t expect to see this on CNN.

Category: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi

Rule 5 Sunday: Cathryn Li

Posted on | March 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Cathryn Li

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Cathryn Li is a Malaysian model of Chinese ethnicity; she plays the piano, does the social influencing thing, and starred in Special Female Force. a Hong Kong action flick. She also caught a lot of flak for a “body shaming” post on Instagram, which she later explained wasn’t meant for the general public but rather for women who wanted to work in the Asian fashion business. Here she is wearing…well, we’re not sure exactly what it is, but on her it looks good.

Lingerie? Bondage gear? Your guess is as good as mine…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1274, Morning Mistress, & Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Stumbling Into War Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Il Trovatore, Yma Sumac, The Queen Of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Annie Murphy, Ernani, Bad Decisions, La Traviata, Un Ballo In Maschera, and MAGA CPAC 2021

A View From The Beach: Krista Kemp, Fish Pic Friday – There once was a girl from Nantucket – Morgan Matson, Tattoo Thursday, Virginia Bans Balloon Releases, Some Wednesday Wetness, A Modern Harper Valley PTA Story, Thursday Tanlines, There’s (Still) Gold in Them Thar Hills, Your Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Valerie Perrine, and Bacon Time is Dreaming of a Hot Summer.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Police Kill Juan Hernandez

Posted on | February 28, 2021 | Comments Off on Police Kill Juan Hernandez

Don’t expect to see the #Justice4Juan hashtag trending on social media, nor is it likely that the police shooting of Juan Hernandez will give rise to a #LatinoLivesMatter movement. No, I think everyone in America will agree, Juan Hernandez needed killing:

A former Camp Lejeune Marine who was convicted in 2014 for the shooting death of his wife was gunned down by police in Pennsylvania after officers say they witnessed him beating a transgender woman, who later died as a result of her injuries.

(Did you catch that? Just seven years ago, this guy was convicted of murdering his wife, but was already back on the streets where he was in the process of beating a tranny to death when cops killed him. Explain to me again about our “mass incarceration” problem?)

At about 11 a.m. Friday, New Wilmington police were called to a home on South New Castle Street. When officers arrived, they found 33-year-old Juan Carter Hernandez beating 24-year-old Chyna Carrillo with a blunt object. When officers ordered Hernandez to stop, he ignored them and continued beating her, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The officer shot and killed Hernandez at the scene. Carrillo was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, where she died.
The officer who killed Hernandez has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure during the investigation process.
Hernandez was released from prison in North Carolina in 2019 after he pled guilty to second-degree murder in Onslow County Superior Court. He was sentenced to 8-10 years and four months in prison for shooting and killing his 20-year-old wife Kandace Hernandez in their home in Richlands, N.C. on July 20, 2011.
At the time of the 2011 shooting, he was wanted on a federal warrant for desertion from the United States Marine Corps.

No one — absolutely no one — is protesting this guy’s death. However, the family of the wife he killed in 2011 is speaking out:

Tammy Larew, Kandace’s mother, says she was always worried Hernandez would hurt another girlfriend after killing her daughter.
Now that she’s seen news of Chyna Carrillo’s killing, she says her worst fear has come true.
“I just scream. This should not have happened. I knew it was going to happen,” Larew said.
Kandace grew up around Youngstown and began dating Hernandez here.
The couple moved to North Carolina due to his career in the military and got married. . . .
[P]olice had been called to their home several times for domestic disputes.
“Kandace was on the phone with my husband six minutes before she was killed, wanting a bus ticket home,” Larew said.
In July 2011, Hernandez killed Kandace in their home. In court, he pleaded guilty to second degree murder and claimed he reacted in self defense.
But Larew wanted to go to trial.
She thinks Hernandez should’ve served more than eight years in prison.
“They say there wasn’t enough evidence and they were going to get him to take a plea deal, and I did not want that,” Larew said.
She thinks a longer sentence would’ve protected Chyna and other women from Hernandez.
“A few people ask me, ‘Do you feel that you got justice now because he’s gone?’ No. I mean, he’s gone, but he still did what he did to my daughter and to Chyna,” Larew said.

Police say Hernandez knew Carillo and they don’t think it was a “hate crime.” So I guess it was . . . a love crime?

Welcome to 2021. Lots of “social justice” out there, allegedly.