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Click the link, watch the video, and you’ll see why.

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PS: Referenced this, if you’re not a subscriber.  I personally watch this and Hair of the Dog every week.

I’m going to stop worrying about it and maybe play some Dragon Age.  Three more days…

God save me from the forces of reaction, and their false revolutionary consciousness.

I wouldn’t even bother with this, except that I ran into Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller earlier this week and he’s a good guy. So let me just correct the folks at the DC Coffee Party on something:

One participant, a younger man who brought along a college buddy with him, said the biggest difference between the Coffee Party and the Tea Party is that they believe the federal government is not something that should necessarily be demonized.

This is a couple of years old, but I suspect that light and fluffy is a good call right now.

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So here’s a picture of a monkey riding a dog.

Blessed if I know whether the dog’s happy about it or not.

I paraphrase.

Unemployment now stands alone as the top issue in Gallup’s latest update on the most important problem facing the country. Thirty-one percent of Americans mention jobs or unemployment, significantly more than say the economy in general (24%), healthcare (20%), or dissatisfaction with government (10%).

Via Hot Air.  If you’re wondering why the current ruling party is so determined to immolate its reputation, popular support, and future ability to pursue its policy goals on a Quixotic quest that the voting public doesn’t even support… well, it’s because the Democratic party at this point doesn’t know what else to do.  They’ve told themselves so many times that they are the champions of the public good – and that members of the opposing party are agents of Satan – that they are incapable of really understanding that a majority of the population would rather see some – any! – movement on jobs and the economy.  The Democratic leadership truly believe that their map has become the territory.  The Democratic rank-and-file (especially the ones in at-risk districts, which I am defining as “D+4 and better” these days) are not as subject to that particular delusion; which is why the head of the DCCC is telling them to shut up and hide until the vote is over.  Mind you, that’s to protect the leadership from the consequences of a no vote, not to protect the rank-and-file from the consequences of a yes vote.

Nothing will protect the rank-and-file from the consequences of a yes vote.

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Crossposted to RedState.

Probably not.  Although it’s as good an answer as any, I guess*.

…Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.

“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.”

Via Ann Althouse, via Glenn Reynolds. You can understand why Axelrod was so ticked, though: his entire career and reputation from now on rises and falls on his ability to promote the “Obama brand” – a key feature of which is, of course, the flat denial that there could ever be any sort of thing as an “Obama brand.”  Having people actually talk about the “Obama brand” in public was just one more thing that Axelrod didn’t need happening.  Particularly when it’s the White House social secretary; normally, they’re about the only people who can get away with calling an “Obama brand” an “Obama brand.”  Of course, normally the sentiments that lurk behind the concept of an “Obama brand” aren’t the building blocks of the primary governing strategy of a Presidential administration.

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*Read the whole thing only if you haven’t hit your ‘whining stories about people getting shafted by Washington’ quota for the day.  I’m really glad that we have modern medicine, but by God having it has completely redefined our definition of “tragedy.”

This is sort of dual-category. A big shout-out to the Democratic leadership, in fact:

Under Pressure, Queen & David Bowie

Ah, karma.

Live Free Or Die (Troy Rising) amused me not least for the fact that when I checked it out of the library* I had no idea that it was a probably-end-up-being-canon prehistory of the Schlock Mercenary universe. If you don’t know what that webcomic is: well, like John Ringo I’ll wait for you to get caught up.

Pack a lunch.

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*Stay-at-home dad now, remember?  So if that moves you to pity, hey, there’s always the tip jar…

ACORN is pretending that they may revisit the suit in the future; but then, they also pretend that election fraud isn’t practically a part of their mission statement.

Via The Other McCain and Inside Charm City.

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PS: ACORN driven out of Ohio. But watch out for name changes.

Chuck Norris’ birthday is otherwise known as ‘March.’

He celebrated it in typical fashion: close combat with a bear.

As per the tradition, the bear was spared.

All via AoSHQ.

…but the ones that do will need to hold themselves for a while until the laughter subsides. This is the only part of the Tattúínárdœla saga blog that I fully understand, but my God but this is what the Internet is for.

Star Wars Trilogy