Via Hot Air Headlines… good God.
…on Christmas Eve.
I mean, have they played enough of it to know of the old saying If you’ve been playing cards for a half-hour and you still don’t know who the dummy is, it’s you?
Progressives pressure Sanders, Feingold on public option reform
“Bernie Sanders can be a hero at this historic moment by declaring that any final bill must have a public option to win his support,” said PCCC co-foudner Adam Green. “That would change the entire calculus in House-Senate negotiations and force President Obama to finally fight back against Joe Lieberman’s threats.”
What? No, I was just idly curious.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
…off of The Other McCain:
Jumping in Pools says “The battering and blaming of the Republicans has to stop.” Mr. Kat, when those GOP windbags threaten the invariant principles in, for example, the Constitution, then they are a tumor, albeit a benign one. The most you’re buying from a RINO is time. The RINO’s non-command of principles will feed the Progressive decline, albeit more slowly than a Democrat’s. In a way, the Democrat is more admirable, because he’s not blowing any sunshine up the public bottom about his task.
“Dammit, Smitty, time is what we need right now. And if folks are worried about the direction of the GOP, they can always join up.”
I don’t really disagree with his main argument, mind. But this situation isn’t Bad Versus Worse. That was 2008, and Worse won. Now the situation is Worse Versus Stop Hitting Ourselves With The Hammer.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
…(‘this’ being #8 of Unintentionally Offensive Versions of Famous Logos), or I am very tired: it took me a couple of minutes to figure it out. Click on the link and see how long that it takes you.
But it is offensive, for a lot of people out there.
Slapdash, or scaredy-cat? Does it matter?
The lack of self-respect in the Obama administration astounds me, sometimes. From the (probably-now abortive) pushback on the call to shut down repatriating AQ terrorists to Yemen:
“I am aware of a lot of people pointing back at the way the transfers were handled under the Bush administration that apparently they have some concerns about that,” said the official, who had not seen the senators’ letter. “I didn’t hear many of those concerns at the time, but there were obviously hundreds and hundreds of detainees that were transferred under the old regime.”
The official hadn’t also seen Sen. Feinstein’s (D) own shared concern about said repatriation, which as Ed Morrissey notes is a serious problem for the drive to close Gitmo. But never mind that, right now: what gives with all the unforced errors? I mean, if this was an unintentional attempt to give offense, it’s pretty sloppy thinking; and if it was intentional, well, way to go with putting words in the administration’s mouth there, Sparky. A true progressive would have had the elementary courage to put his or her Bush Derangement Syndrome on the record.
Well, either way I can’t say that I’m surprised.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
…does that mean that Bush was like Spock*?
Before he left for vacation, Obama tried to shed his Spock mien and juice up the empathy quotient on jobs. But in his usual inspiring/listless cycle, he once more appeared chilly in his response to the chilling episode on Flight 253, issuing bulletins through his press secretary and hitting the links. At least you have to seem concerned.
[snip]
In his detached way, Spock was letting us know that our besieged starship was not speeding into a safer new future, and that we still have to be scared.
Heck of a job, Barry.
I’d like to note for the record that Maureen Dowd could have cut the rest of her article and just published that. Then again, she’d have missed out on all the reflexive Bush-bashing, convenient overlooking of the fact that the GOP is the minority party these days, and general complaining. Of course, if Dowd did she might have to face the fact that her basic message now about the God Who Failed is the same one that the Right was making last year…
Moe Lane
PS: That being said: that implied crack about the President’s ears is a little mean-spirited, Maureen. Yes, yes, of course you weren’t talking about that.
Crossposted to RedState.
Continue reading So, Maureen: if Obama is like Bush, and Obama is like Spock…
So I was catching up on my Iowahawk reading, and was laughing at this post on the Mighty Scarlet Iowahawk Jumpsuit. In a perhaps unguarded moment, I mentioned to my wife how I couldn’t decide whether Iowahawk wanted the jumpsuit that his girlfriend got him, or whether this was an escalating War of Silly Presents situation. She replied:
It could be something in the middle. For example, he was ranting about jumpsuits for a week and a half…
– not that I speak from experience or anything –
…and she decided to buy him one because he’s so obsessed with them.
I have the vague, undefinable feeling that I somehow lost that particular one. Which is odd, because I wasn’t even aware that I was playing.
Moe Lane
PS: And now she’s quietly embroidering. Like a ninja.
Take The Money And Run
Yeah, yeah, horrible message there.
(H/T: Hot Air Headlines) This post was originally a whole lot ruder – but when you demolish a persona like this with one Freudian slip, jumping on it seems almost like gilding the lily.
But if the threat of terrorism really does become a major issue in the midterms, it will reinforce another trend that doesn’t bode well for Democrats. President Obama has never done well with working-class white voters, and Republicans expect to make gains in districts where they represent an above-average share of the electorate. But as Ron Brownstein recently noted in the National Journal —citing the work of Democratic pollster Geoff Garin—college-educated whites, a key Obama constituency, seem to be souring on the president. Many of these middle and upper-middle-class voters are growing skeptical of the president’s economic agenda, fearing that it will mean bigger tax hikes than they saw coming during last year’s campaign. Michael Petrilli of the conservative Hoover Institution has argued that the GOP needs to win over “Whole Foods Republicans,” who can’t stand the culture war but who fret about the exploding national debt. What better way to draw these voters into a bigger tent than to promise a smarter, tougher, more effective approach to keeping frequent fliers safe and secure?
Considering that the GOP presided over the Homeland Security mess for seven long years, Democrats have a decent counterattack. Unfortunately, Republicans will do their best to run candidates in swing districts who are untainted by the Bush years.
Bolding mine – and ye gods and little fishes, but that was one seriously unforced error there. I mean, you tell me how to read that as anything except a fervent wish for conservative Republican candidates to lose the next election cycle.
Moe Lane
Fifteen years ago, this paragraph might have actually convinced me to go out and buy some of this stuff.
In 1991, Cisco’s tendency to cause a temporary form of inebriated insanity led the Federal Trade Commission to require its bottlers to print a warning on the label (above right). The FTC also forced them to drop their marketing slogan, “Takes You by Surprise,” even though it was entirely accurate. Read the FTC’s full investigation on their own web page at this link. Since those days, Cisco is harder to find outside the slums, although the FTC’s demonizing of the drink only bolstered its reputation for getting people trashed. Anyone who overlooks the warning and confuses this with a casual wine cooler is going to get more than they bargained for. Cisco will make a new man out of you. And he wants some too.
This is why I am not really upset that I am not fifteen years younger. I’m going to need every brain cell left that I’ve got.
Moe Lane
*Apparently the only thing not in it.
