Moe Lane

What a coincidence: I don’t regret him leaving the GOP, either.

Well, he’s the Democrats’ problem now… what?  Oh, yes, he still won’t talk about where he’ll end up. Translation: he’s going Democrat.

Enjoy!

Moe Lane

It will be today’s Don’t Let This Happen To You!

Here’s the timeline:

• Somebody wrote up a couple of medieval apple pie recipes for a website.  Being a medievalist, this writeup included the original recipes, which means that they included the original spelling.
• Cooks Source went onto the Internet, pulled the recipe, and printed it in their magazine.  No, they didn’t get permission.
• When the author found out about it, she emailed the magazine.  Her – very reasonable – demand?  Apologies on Facebook and in print, and $130 to the Columbia School of Journalism (well, it’s her call).
• Instead, she got… this. (more…)

I like to think of articles like these (via RCP) as being written at darkening twilight.  The author is sitting at his or her table, favorite bottle of wine to hand, pausing from writing only to swig from the bottle, or to sadly watch out the window at the valley below.

Watching and waiting for the first flickering signs of the torch-bearing Mob.

Of all the losses on election night for progressive politicians, the two that hurt most were Russ Feingold’s defeat at the hands of self-funded corporate clown Ron Johnson,

But he’s not bitter!

and Virginia Congressman Tom Perriello’s loss to Republican State Senator Robert Hurt.
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Sorry.  It’s just that this Pelosi-is-running thing is like blogging gold.  Or blogging crack.  Anyway, Allahpundit on the news that the soon-to-be-ex Speaker is pushing through, despite it all:

The good news: The GOP just became a prohibitive favorite to hold the House in 2012. The bad news: …I actually can’t think of any.

Given Allahpundit, that’s impressive.  Not that I can think of any, either.

Moe Lane

Tomorrow afternoon I take my long-suffering political widow out on the town; if I bring the netbook – shoot, a cell phone – she will probably Smite me.

Besides, it’s the aftermath.

I figure that this is staged – mostly because I don’t believe that MSNBC was unaware that Keith Olbermann was making campaign contributions to Democrats before they suspended him without pay – with the objective being getting the netroots up in arms and angrily demanding that the network reinstate their favorite pornographer.  A ratings ploy, in other words.

Either that, or they want to give his timeslot to Alan Grayson.

Well, it’s not like what Donald Rumsfeld leaving SecDef after 2006 was for the Left, but watching a hard Greenie like Lisa Heinzerling leave her position in the wake of the Great Shellacking is pretty good:

Lisa Heinzerling, the head of EPA’s policy office, will return to her position as a Georgetown University law professor at the end of the year, said EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan.

Within EPA, Heinzerling is one of the more dogmatic proponents of regulating greenhouse gases to the maximum extent possible under the Clean Air Act.

Via Hot Air: Ed wonders whether Heinzerling left under her own power, or was pushed. I’m guessing pushed: hardcore religious fanatics like Heinzerling are typically uninterested in being team players.  In a way, it’s a shame: watching her try to explain to an unsympathetic House investigation committee about why it’s suddenly necessary for the government to have regulatory power over our exhalations would have been fun to see.  Which is probably why the administration made her position carbon-neutral, the cowards.

Moe Lane

Bob Shrum, November 4, 2010: “Long after the midterm stories have faded, and the predictions of the President’s political demise prove as facile and false as they were with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, history will accord Pelosi an unprecedented scale of achievement for a House Speaker.”

Bob Shrum, September 30, 2010: “Democrats will hold the House and Senate. ”

Shrum will no doubt mutter that he was right about Boxer, Murray, Reid, and Coons (while resolutely ignoring that he was wrong about Sestak and Conway, and avoided completely talking about Giannoulias, Ellsworth, Feingold, Meek, and Lincoln); but he completely miscalled the House results, mostly because Shrum is incapable of recognizing that the American people did come out en masse in response to the Democrats’ policies.  It’s just that they came out en masse against the Democrats*.

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Watching Democratic soon to be ex-staffers try to come to grips with this marvelous economy that they’ve given the rest of us should be quite entertaining.

The Great Shellacking of 2010 will throw more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers out of their jobs.

Mind you, Erick Erickson over at RedState had some pointers for them.  Note the time stamp: this situation really shouldn’t have been a surprise to anybody.

(via @jeffemanuel)

Moe Lane

This is sort of my life now, in a weird way.

I understand that she’s not particularly rooted in objective reality – progressive Democrat, and all that – but surely somebody told her that this is a bad idea, yes?

…I was going to try to talk sense into the future-just-another-backbencher-Congresswoman-from-Frisco about this; but heck, this is the best darn idea that I’ve heard come out of the woman since she inflicted her presence on us back in the beginning of the decade. Yeah, go ahead and run, Nancy. Scramble for the scraps of your former power and be the butt of contemptuous pity by every player in Washington. If I had suggested this tactic, I’d be (rightfully) condemned as a sadist; but you want to do it all on your own, so have fun with that.

Moe Lane

Was it worth it?

Really worth it?

Oh, yeah. So totally worth it.

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