Moe Lane

This was picked in honor of Representative Stupak’s fierce crusading hearing against the evils of… bottled water*. My wife mocked this one, and she doesn’t do politics. Anyway:

Talking Heads-Once in a Lifetime

Once In A Lifetime, Talking Heads

Moe Lane

*Seriously. Although I should note that Stupak’s fellow-Democrats weren’t taking this as such, themselves, given that he was pretty much the only one there at the panel. Let me sum up the level to which your tax dollars were properly spent with this quote from the Milbank piece:

A small dog escaped from the Democratic staff room and made its way to the witness table before being apprehended.

You just know that was the high point of the proceedings.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

No, not a typo.

[UPDATE]: I’m hearing that Scott Rigell will be working with the NRCC. Another good recruitment pickup for next year.

It’s amazing how quickly Democratic Congressmen pick up the bad habits of their older colleagues. In Glenn Nye’s (VA-02) case, shameless double-talk. The NRCC is happy to point out how you can’t really be proud of getting a cap-and-trade bill passed that you cynically voted against:

It actually gets even better than the campaign commercial says: according to this Democratic site, Rep. Nye bragged about his support and opposition to the cap-and-trade bill to the same person (via Jim Geraghty).  Just in case the posts go away later, here are the screen captures:

Nye1
Nye2

Seldom does one see this level of self-serving nonsense by a Democratic Congressman be so brilliantly expressed.

Moe Lane

PS: He has a GOP challenger, of course.  Scott Rigell, a local auto dealership owner, former Marine, and long-time Republican with one heck of a buyer’s remorse at this point.  Cook has the district at Rep+5, and this one’s on everybody’s list.  Remove yet another seat from the Safe Democrat list: that’s been happening a lot lately, huh?

Crossposted to RedState.

First that I’ve heard of this, actually:

Looks like it could be fun*. The website’s pretty comprehensive.

Moe Lane

*In an anti-Alien Nation sort of way.

Short version: the public trusts the GOP over the Democrats 8-for-10 at this point, and we flipped the Abortion and Social Security categories.  That being said, the numbers readjusted themselves in the Democrats’ favor 5-for-10 as compared to last month‘s.

Rasmussen has only put these numbers out here so far, unless I’ve missed it.  The shift down for the Democrats may be a trend; it may also be an inevitable result of the Republicans improving their position in eight out of ten categories from May to June.  Either way, I don’t think that it’s an accident that most of the GOP increases are in areas that have been in the news for the last month; particularly taxes, and particularly health care. The Democrats may want to consider adopting a strategy of visibly doing nothing at all, on anything…

Moe Lane

PS: Also, the upcoming monthly financial reports for the various committees are going to be very interesting.

Crossposted to RedState.

I concur.  He is one of those indispensable adornments to the movie industry.

Click on the link for the video; below is The Simpsons episode that I was inevitably reminded of.

811 The Twisted World of Marge Simpson

So you’ve heard about the private Philly swim club that had turned away a bunch of day campers after their first (bought and paid for) visit, allegedly for being, well, minorities.

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This will go up at some point, but the President is not having a good week.

Yeah, a little sparse, but I wanted the post on Twitter. I suppose that I could have just Tweeted it, but I already published it, so: oh, well. It’s going to be interesting to see if Gallup will also show a drop: in some ways, it’d be worse than Rasmussen’s. Gallup’s polling has been a lot less volatile over time.

Crossposted to RedState.

Contra The Other McCain, this is a necessary ad:

…which is not me saying that Smitty1E was wrong to criticize it; merely that his objections address his concerns of the underlying philosophy of the Republican Party.  The above is a blunt political ad, and its message -“The Democrats are messing things up, and we’re not Democrats” - would be diluted by a segue into why the Democrats are messing things up.  This ad isn’t here to reaffirm the Right’s opinions, in other words; it’s there to point out objective reality to the Middle, and hopefully to goad the Left into over-reacting.  (more…)

…some people don’t really have a digestive system that can handle meat: some people have ethical or religious strictures to consider; and some people simply don’t like animal protein. That’s cool: I’ll just double up on the steak and let them have my potato salad, which I generally don’t eat anyway. I even know a couple of vegans who aren’t annoying about being vegans, which is the problem that most people who have a problem with vegans have with vegans.

All that being said: this is truly a wonderfully passive-aggressive note:

Or possibly just aggressive.

General staff oversight FAIL, too.

It’s like this administration goes out of its way to lower expectations (via Andrew Malcolm):

(They spelled the President’s name as ‘Barak Obama.’ On an official diplomatic agreement.)

This is what happens when you use spellcheck as a crutch; at a guess, somebody added “Ehud Barak” to the relevant computer’s custom dictionary a while back, thus making certain that the little red dots didn’t appear under the President’s misspelled name. And then nobody bothered to do three full re-readings of the document, using two different people. And the Chief of Staff is apparently too busy failing to live up to expectations for 2010 recruitment to live up to expectations for keeping the White House staff on its toes. (more…)

Nice little song.

These Dreams, Jim Croce

Peaceful. Kind of a long day, although not a bad one.

While I agree with Ed Morrissey that seeing Senator Jim DeMint make Senator Kay Hagan admit several times that there was a double standard in the way that they killed his call for a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve (a very popular House initiative) while not applying the same rule to their own pet clauses, I also agree that it was prefaced by what some might consider somewhat dry (but necessary) exposition. So here’s a cut-down version:

Very quickly: Sen DeMint of South Carolina is trying to put in an amendment calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve into a bill, so that it can be voted on. Senator Nelson of Nebraska promptly pops up and calls for the amendment to be removed, as not being germane: Senator Hagan of North Carolina promptly approves that call. DeMint then goes on to mention specific other clauses that would also apply, in order to get Hagan to a) admit that they fall under the same rule and b) highlight the fact that they won’t be removed, too. The fact that I think that this is funny no doubt says awful things about my sense of humor, after going on eight years being involved in following politics; but it never hurts to highlight hypocrisy.

We will now pause for the inevitable “You guys were just as bad!” ‘response,’ which is of course a code phrase for I must immediately attack anything that threatens to destroy my faith in the inherent virtue of the Democratic Party. Given recent polling, I have hopes for some truly entertaining exercises in denial.

Moe Lane

PS: Senator DeMint will be at the RS Gathering, by the way.

Crossposted to RedState.