Moe Lane

If this was happening in some other country, I would be laughing hysterically right now.

Taking a new position, Axelrod said the White House only objects to state-specific arrangements, such as an increase in Medicaid funding for Nebraska, ridiculed as the “Cornhusker Kickback.” That’s being cut, but provisions that could affect more than one state are OK, Axelrod said.

That means deals sought by senators from Montana and Connecticut would be fine — even though Gibbs last week singled them out as items Obama wanted removed. There was resistance, however, from two committee chairman, Democratic Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Chris Dodd of Connecticut, and the White House has apparently backed down.

Since it’s happening in mine, I’ll merely note that there is no reason that anybody should be surprised by this (Hot Air certainly isn’t). The President does not have a name for keeping his promises. Also: if you gave money to the Democrats in the last decade because you wanted less corruption and favor-trading in Congress… well, let’s just say that all sales are final. And you aren’t getting any of that money back any time soon.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I’ve been trying really really hard not to get too involved in the CA GOP Senate primary: it’s on the other side of the country, I know and like folks in all three primary campaigns, and any one of the three choices would be far superior to Senator Barbara Boxer. So I don’t want to contribute to any random political drama.

That being said: if you were wondering what the Fiorina campaign was going to come up with after DemönSheep, wonder no more.

As God is my witness, I don’t know if this helps or hurts the Fiorina campaign. It’s just sort of… there.

Moe Lane

Not… a literary reference Decidedly not.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Check out the new polling site Unlikely Voter, btw: not my site, but run by the guy who runs my site.

[UPDATE] I wasn’t joking about the ‘re-election money’ thing.

Here is something interesting: this paragraph (from an article begging Democratic legislators in Republican districts to sign off on health care rationing, for the greater glory of liberal urban Democrats)…

Hardened? Consistent? Solid? You must be joking. Look at the Rasmussen survey cited by Caddell and Schoen. Nine months ago, it showed likely voters supporting the Democratic health-care plan by 5-point margin. Then they opposed it by an 11-point margin. Then they favored it again by 5 points. Then they opposed it by 15 points. Then they were split. Then they opposed it by 19 points. Now the margin is back down to 11. Who knows where will it be next week?

…and this graph*:

…are coming from the same data source.

(more…)

Oh, my aching head (Via Glenn Reynolds).

Look, I understand that lawyers have to sometimes defend scumbags. And sometimes lawyers have to defend women-beating, Jew-hating, homosexual-murdering, psychopathic fantasy ideologist scumbags. But decent lawyers – as in, ‘not evil’ – do not brag about succeeding in that defense.

And the government should not hire from the pool of lawyers who brag.

Please. Fight us on this. Please.

Moe Lane

*I do not concede that we should be necessarily putting these particular women-beating, Jew-hating, homosexual-murdering, psychopathic fantasy ideologist scumbags through our civilian court system, mind you.

Embrace the haircuts. EMBRACE THEM!

I Ran (So Far Away), A Flock Of Seagulls

Because I broke down and eventually read The Revolution Business; gratuitous bashing of the last administration aside (I had Charlie Stross figured as being too smart to auto-date his books like that), it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. The Trade of Queens finishes it all up, which is probably all to the good.

And so, farewell to The Cat in the Hat.

I am not mocking this.

After all, I have no room to talk: I play role-playing games. Admittedly, it’s been a decade or so since I was in a campaign that didn’t have at least two female players*, but the principle remains clear: in some indefinable way, this man is my brother.

It’s a geek thing… which means that many of you probably do understand, God help you all.

Moe Lane

*This is a bit of a brag. Or even a full brag.

Because you ain’t so tough.

And this ain’t 2008.

Confident Axelrod challenges GOP: ‘Make my day’

One of the president’s top advisers confidently predicted Sunday that Congress will pass healthcare reform and dared Republicans to advocate repealing it during the 2010 elections.

We ran a Republican in Massachusetts on the explicit promise that he’d do everything in his power to spoke the wheels of your party’s disaster of a health care bill – and he won in a walk.  We’ve got states like New Jersey calling for junking the current mess and starting over.  And the ‘debate’ so far consists of a lot of people trumpeting their ‘no’ votes, almost nobody bragging about their ‘yes’ votes – and nobody brave enough to admit yet that they plan to go from ‘no’ to ‘yes.’  And you still want to dance?  OK, then: let’s dance.

Davey.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

We’re having folks over tonight; I have to run now, in fact, to get the kid out of the house so that vacuuming may occur.

They’d probably want to talk to my wife: she’s a long-time paper-and-paper roleplayer who does not play video games, but who has spent 100+ hours playing Dragon Age: Origins, with no regrets; and who would be going out and playing their other games if only we didn’t have two kids. I imagine that there’s at least three demographic sub-groups there that Bioware would like to target. I mean, sure, they know how to get me, but it’s not precisely hard…

“Hating is a form of caring.”

Context here.

Change your clocks.

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper