Tuesday, November 2. 2010
We will not be live-blogging, drunk-blogging, stoned-blogging, pajamas-blogging, nude-blogging, or otherwise reporting or commenting on election returns tonight.
Furthermore, we promise to post no profound statements about "what this election really means."
 Having some friends over late tonight for a couple of hours to watch the election returns.
We'll have a jolly time, regardless of the results. Richard Baehr advises me not expect too much.
All I want is a "restraining order," for now.
Mississippi floods are what maintain the delta. New Orleans itself is threatened by manmade river engireering - levees and canals.
It's the old Law of Unintended Consequences.
From Buddy -
ANY WONDER WHY CALIF. IS GOING BROKE?
California Academic Performance Index (API) California Access for Infants and Mothers California Acupuncture Board California Administrative Office of the Courts California Adoptions Branch California African American Museum California Agricultural Export Program California Agricultural Labor Relations Board California Agricultural Statistics Service California Air Resources Board (CARB) California Allocation Board California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority California Animal Health and Food Safety Services California Anti-Terrorism Information Center California Apprenticeship Council California Arbitration Certification Program California Architects Board California Area VI Developmental Disabilities Board California Arts Council California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus California Assembly Democratic Caucus California Assembly Republican Caucus California Athletic Commission * California Attorney General
Those are just the As. The rest are below the fold.
Continue reading "California state agencies"
With special reference to Dick Blumenthal, at Am Thinker
 I just voted. I enjoyed it.
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
Related: This Is America, Stupid! And it's not just the economy. It's the disrespect for the wishes of the electorate, who pay for everything.
The elite without a country
Sharpton: Blacks Unemployed Because Of Racist Republicans
Al should write for The Onion
Chavez Says Venezuela's Golf Courses Should Be Seized, Put to Other Uses
Chavez should write for The Onion, too.
Tina Brown beclowns herself
She could write for The Onion too.
Was stimulus Barack Obama's 'original sin'?
Slaughter at Baghdad Church- 52 Murdered Including 3 Priests During Al-Qaeda Siege , and Churches Set Ablaze
in Russia's Muslim Caucasus
These perps obviously need better jobs, social workers, teachers with better pensions, and more understanding. Or are they just still mad about Gitmo?
MAINE FAMILY ROBINSON’S Top Ten The Hell With It, I’m Outta Here Movies
Somewhat related: The houseboat on the Pawcatuck River
The ‘big dog’ in campaign spending. Unions.
Who's Afraid of Marco Rubio?
Marco looks like a star. They always go after the potential stars, drive up their negatives or break their legs.
Americans are about to give Obama a bloody nose. Why? He just doesn't share their core values
Young Voters Say They Feel Abandoned.
Pathetic.
Monday, November 1. 2010
This is what it's all about, from the admirable Rasmussen in the WSJ: A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP.
Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.
A quote from the article:
Central to the Democrats' electoral woes was the debate on health-care reform. From the moment in May 2009 when the Congressional Budget Office announced that the president's plan would cost a trillion dollars, most voters opposed it. Today 53% want to repeal it. Opposition was always more intense than support, and opposition was especially high among senior citizens, who vote in high numbers in midterm elections.
Repubs need to read the message carefully. Voters are rightly on guard and suspicious these days.
My chimney sweep was here at noon (to check my flue after my fire on Friday). As he was scoping out my chimney and sending his brushes and vision device up there like a colonoscopy, he commented "I hope we send a clear message to Washington tomorrow."
He is retired career USMC. He still lifts and runs every day, and it is obvious. Oorah. His son is a SEAL.
(He has a very good business going - at $150 per chimney, he was booked up solid from August through December, and does a second round in Feb. for heavy users. His preferred customers have multiple chimneys. Like a dentist, he sends out reminder postcards to his people each July to make appointments. He has a deer- and turkey-hunting cabin on 200 acres up in West Nowhere, NY, has a modest life and doesn't really need the money, so he uses his income to bring his entire family, including grandkids, on one-month European trips every June. He rents a big house with a cook and housekeeper in a different place each year, flies the the folks over and back whenever they can get free to come, and rents cars for them. Last year, he did Scotland. In past years he has done a Greek island, Tuscany, the Czech Rep., Sweden. This June he plans on Sicily, which I told him I felt was an excellent choice).
I said to this hearty, red-blooded American: "I think we will send a message, but who will be listening?"
Get your chimneys cleaned, Maggie's Farmers. We cannot afford to lose any readers in house fires.
More at Theo -
From the prior weekend. Big fields, especially compared with our small fields in New England. This is south of Gambier, near Homer.
 Most of the time, anyway. I did vote for Lieberman running as an Independent, rightly or wrongly, because the Repub did not have a chance and I did not care for the Dem.
For national elections, I vote Party most all the time. Why? Because when they get to Washington they cease to be individuals, and become captive of their party caucuses. That's the way it works.
Whether smart or dumb, free-thinking or robots, they have to play the game if they want to get anywhere. The leaders call the plays.
Thus, in the end, you are voting for a vote in Congress, not for a person. In primaries, I vote for my preferred candidate, but in national elections I vote Repub only because their caucus is more Conservative than any alternatives.
Voting for "who you like better" is childishly naive and foolish in the extreme. You aren't voting for who you want as a social acquaintance.
If you vote for a Dem, no matter how much you may personally prefer the guy or gal as a social companion, all you are really doing is to put another vote in the Left's pocket. Parties vote as herds, in Congress. That's why they have people called "Whips."
A vote for a Dem is a vote for the current Obama agenda. If you like the Dem approach to life, by all means vote for whomever they are running.
Otherwise, don't.
He thinks the numbers predict a historic Dem smash-up. Says Jay:" I had to rub my eyes and look a second time. I could barely believe it."
I think it's all about turn-out.
From Fernandez' Aftermath at Pajamas:
...the sheer ferocity of the campaign suggests that all sides see it as a Rubicon, which once crossed means that more is to follow. Perhaps nobody sees 2010 as an end, only as the beginning of a very fundamental struggle.
The proximate cause of the conflict, even though he is ultimately not its basic antecedent, is the president. The Washington Post calls Barack Obama the divider-in-chief. He didn’t create the fence; he simply made it impossible to straddle it. The president has made it necessary to choose political sides. In a way, Barack Obama has done more than any recent president to cast the issues starkly.
It has been made clear as day to voters that a vote for a national Dem is a vote for a Leftist agenda.
 Lots of Conservatives are excited about the elections tomorrow. It's this year's political World Series. With the numbers running for election, etc., a 45-seat Repub House pick-up would be fairly normal for a first midterm, so anything over that would be a big deal. I have no idea what to expect. All I know is that a wave-type Repub House victory will be like closing the barn door after the cows got out, and that it will be - and will be intended to be - a refudiation (thanks to Mrs. Palin for that handy neologism) of the Dem's national agenda.
Krauthammer:
Over the next two years, Republicans will not be able to pass anything of importance to them - such as repealing Obamacare - because of the presidential veto. And the Democrats will be too politically weakened to advance, let alone complete, Obama's broad transformational agenda.
OCR Editorial: What Tuesday might mean
Politico: Grim Dems await huge House losses
WSJ: A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP
Only partly true, I think.
Democrats blaming the victims
They called us names
We don't like that.
Parker: Obama's missing sense of humor
Especially about himself.
Via Driscoll:
“Only one question remains — what area of the private sector — aside from the slip-and-fall attorneys — isn’t hated and vilified by the Obama Democrats?”
Realted from Gerson: Obama the snob
His politics, somebody told me, are those of "the typical upper class Liberal, Ivy-educated, suburban white woman." Well, I see more Alinsky than Escalade in the dude, but I might be wrong.
Barone's Obama's Economists Missed What Voters Plainly Saw
The line from the Obama camp is that voters are confused, ignorant, misled or even racist; they can't be rejecting the president's party on the merits. But voters, in rejecting the Obama Democrats' vast expansion of government, may be more sophisticated than their supposed betters. Leave the private sector alone, they seem to be saying, so it can recover from the financial crisis recession and once again create the bounteous and unscripted growth that has been the norm in American history.
WSJ: CBS Phone Recording Sets Off Firestorm in Alaska
This sort of thing has a history at CBS...
Dick Morris reviews Daniel Hannan's new book
Sunday, October 31. 2010
Scare a Lefty tonight. She's a witch!
From an interview with an attendee at the Sanity Rally in DC yesterday:
"Socialism is cool, dude. Look at France, everything is free. Free doctors, great unemployment benefits, free housing, great food. You can retire early. It works, man. The government pays, and the people have the good life."
There are people in this world with no moxie, no grit. Very sad, for them. They want me to be their "brother's keeper," but I am not this guy's brother. I have my own brothers.
Furthermore, the fratricidal Cain's "brother's keeper" rebuke to God was a complex and subtle statement.
Diogenes would find an honest man in Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor for The Examiner. Rare in Washington, D.C., Tapscott has not been compromised by decades there, retaining clear conservative vision and fortitude, always reaching out to promote others rather than himself.
In his editorial, Tapscott writes of the coming major Republican gains and the widespread disillusionment with Democrats� statism, �the message for the GOP: Voters seem willing to give you one more chance to do what you've promised for decades -- cut federal spending, reform entitlements, and restore limited government. Don't blow it.�
As always, Tapscott demands much of our politicians, and of us. He and we will likely have many disappointments.
President Obama will still have the veto, and shows little proclivity to be any less ideologic or self-centered. Even at the most optimistic gains next Tuesday, the Republicans � even if all stick together in legislative battles � will not have a veto-proof weight in Congress. Plus, the regulatory bodies, stocked with Obama allies, will continue to push the left�s agenda.
If the Republicans are wise, there will be many, many opportunities, however, to stall the Obama administration�s leftward march and to expose its waywardness. That will well-serve Republicans and Americans as we consider the 2012 choices.
But, rollbacks, especially major ones, are unlikely, for now.
Just consider, post-1994, how the liberal Congressional minority and its allies in the media even successfully resisted cuts in the federal funding for PBS. And, consider how President Clinton cooperated with Republicans for major welfare reform, compared to the partisan rigidity in all things exhibited by President Obama.
Many will, thus, feel the wind slackening from our sails during the next two years, unless we keep to our oars toward the shore of 2012, to replace President Obama and to send even more courageous Republican conservatives to Congress.
Mark Tapscott and I once reminisced together about how we both started out, lonely in overwhelming Democrat locales in 1964, to see through perseverance following that the growth of a new, vibrant conservatism onto the national stage and mind. I am as optimistic as ever, and so should you be, if we persevere.
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Mark Tapscott, also, points us to this Halloween video:
Swamp Thang Thriller from RightChange on Vimeo.
 Body paint Halloween pics via Tiger
The killjoys come out on Halloween.
Has Boxer ever done anything useful?
The Looming Congressional Investigations
I want the truth out about how Fannie and Freddie - out of control government agencies - caused the financial mess.
City Journal: Already strong in New York, the Working Families Party looks to go national.
Unions Give More Campaign $$ To Dems Than Corporations To GOP
Government unions own the Dems
A bummer from Rick Moran: WHY THE GOP WILL PROBABLY FAIL
Saturday Night Card Game (Bill Maher Out Juan-Williamses Juan Williams, Media Silence Erupts)
Marco Rubio outshines Sarah Palin
The 20 most gerrymandered districts (h/t, reader)
Sinecures with no competition is the goal. No knowledge or skills required, great benefits, a sense of importance, and no heavy lifting or real world responsbility.
Obama appeals for an end to partisan politics — with a jab at GOP
France... "Spoiled and Selfish".... America's View
Inequality Statistics and Poverty Facts
Ronald Reagan was the Tea Party
He was. And even he could not shrink the leviathan.
Michelle: The rise & resilience of conservative women
WSJ: Requiem for the Pelosi Democrats
Radical in the White House:
Katherine Lopez interviews Stanley Kurtz on his new book, Radical-in-Chief; as does Hugh Hewitt — who not too long ago would hang up on all the unserious rightwing “nutters” who intimated that Obama was a Marxist or socialist, in between shilling for whatever candidate the GOP establishment put forward.
Turns out that the evidence, largely circumstantial, but compelling nonetheless, suggests that Obama is a candidate trained in stealth socialism, both a product of — and culmination to — the New Left’s long march through the institutions. Of course, today the “New Left” self-identifies as “liberal” or “progressive,” to hide their socialist/Marxist roots. Their governing style is “pragmatic,” “forward thinking,” and “transformative”; and their message is one of economic populism, class warfare, and identity politics — all couched in the Orwellian inversions of protected groups, set-asides, government-approved speech, and the nannystate tentacles of a growing liberal fascism, into the (ironic) buzzwords “fairness” and “tolerance” and “security.”
Watts:
Reducing human CO2 emissions will likely have no measurable cooling effect on planetary temperatures.
Politico: Suburban nation, but urban policies
Pajamas: NPR and the Liberal Subculture that Worships It
Bunch of good stuff at Moonbattery
Luke 19:1-10
19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it.
19:2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.
19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.
19:4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.
19:5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today."
19:6 So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.
19:7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner."
19:8 Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much."
19:9 Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.
19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
Saturday, October 30. 2010
The attack-dog presidency: two liberal Democrats denounce Obama for "pitting group against group for short-term political gain that is exacerbating the divisions in our country"
Also related: US midterm elections: Barack Obama's world turned upside down as Democrats face electoral disaster
The man is not behaving well, and his behavior does not reflect well on the office he holds. He should know, at least, that if there needs to be any nasty and dirty lashing out, it ought to be done by somebody other than the president.
Americans do not want to make an idol of a president, or of the office, but I think they like to feel that the prez aspires to be the president of all the people, even those who hold policy differences.
Is the mask slipping, revealing an inner anger, a coldness, a disrespect for the American people, and an indifference to truth?
Or is it just Chicago gutter politics, brought to a national stage?
Whatever it is, it is not seemly - and I think it is disturbing to the country. It certainly is disturbing to me to learn that "our" Prez regards me as more of an enemy than he does Ahmadinejad.
And, if he views me that way, how can I be expected to view him as my President?
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