Moe Lane

It’s a wider problem then just with Weigel, of course. Still, mildly embarrassing, what?

Here’s the exchange, for those morbidly interested.

• Original post by Weigel: “Erick Erickson’s Bad Advice.”
• Leon Wolf’s response: Hey @daveweigel, I am sure @EWErickson cares what an Obama voter thinks about his advice to the GOP. [By the way, Weigel did - along with a lot of other people who should have known better.]
• Weigel’s response to Leon: @LeonHWolf Your ad hominem argument is an excellent rebuttal to my history-based one. Well done!

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Question (via @JonahNRO): Why Are Obama’s Re-Elect Numbers Suddenly Dropping?

Answer: Because he sucks and people are paying attention to that now.

Seriously, we over-analyze this stuff, sometimes.

As @pinkelephantpun and @toddstarnes notes about the dueling press conferences today: Republicans are having one at 9 AM, the Democrats at 10 AM, and the President at 11.  Which means: 9 AM, 10 AM, and some time around noon.  Level of combined semantic content?

[pause]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Why, yes, I do feel better now.  Thanks for asking!

Full disclosure: I supported and support the legislative repeal of DADT. So (via @BrianFaughnan) I am personally a little ticked about this:

The Obama administration Thursday evening asked a federal appeals court in California to reconsider its order last week temporarily blocking the U.S. military from enforcing its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays and lesbians serving in the military.

…not least because, CNN’s spin to the contrary, there is something more going on here than how the LA Times categorized it:

The Justice Department argued that the government wants to stick with the timetable set in last year’s congressional action to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It provides a grace period for retraining to integrate gay service members, and a 60-day evaluation to certify that the change won’t hurt military readiness.

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(Video canceled in order to tell all y’all how awesome I am, for given values of ‘awesome.’  Rather sad values, at that.)

I called this.  I so totally called this.

I said it first on Inauguration Day, 2009 (on RedState, too): and I said it again in November 2010, twice.  I knew that it was going to happen, and so did you.  But here’s the kicker: ThinkProgress didn’t.  And that’s why they’re so personally and professionally ineffectual – just like most of the Online Left.  They don’t know themselves and they can’t be bothered to know us… and, fortunately, we don’t have the poisoned luxury of either type of willful ignorance, ourselves.

The best part?  I can point and laugh… and they won’t change their behavior one iota.  Pride’s a harsh master, eh, what?

Moe Lane

PS: Please, no applause: just throw money.

…although I think that Project Valour-IT could use the cash more, frankly.

Ace mentioned it, so I went looking for it:

It might not suck.

They simply cannot answer this simple, straightforward, almost stripped-down question:

Is the President really willing to risk the U.S. defaulting on its debt just to avoid having to vote again on a bill before the Presidential election?

…Because there is no good answer to it. If the answer is ‘no,’ then the President will be imitating Governor Mark Dayton on Minnesota and accepting the extremely reasonable and fiscally sensible requirements of Congressional Republicans*.  If the answer is ‘yes,’ then the President needs to explain why he’s treating the situation as if it’s the modern-day equivalent of the Alvarez Event.

Hence the ducking of the question.  The cowards.

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Oh, this is entertaining.  The government shutdown in Minnesota is about to end not with a bang, but a whimper:

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker Kurt Zellers and Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, saying he “reluctantly” agrees to accept the Republican budget proposal from June 30 if it will end the government shutdown .

Hey, Dayton can be as reluctant as he wants about being brought to heel. Just as long as he’s brought to heel. (more…)

…felt physical pain at having to write this:

Reagan’s base was so enthusiastic in 1984 not just because he did and said conservative things but because he was riding a wave of growth and jobs into that election. They could look at their candidate and say: “See, his policies work; screw you, you dumb liberals.” Obama supporters can make no such claim.

One hopes.

Moe Lane

PS: The rest of the article can be summed up in one sentence: If the President doesn’t get unemployment down and the economy back up and running, he’s [expletive deleted]. Blind squirrel, nut, and so forth.

Aside from Ms. Tara Hollis, of course – note that I’m not going to make fun of her for running.  I could, but there’s something endearing about meeting a Democrat who actually still believes that her party is really committed to democracy and egalitarianism and anything else besides the creation and perpetuation of a paternalistic nanny-state run by people who think that they’re too smart to work for a living.  Besides, Hollis will have that presumption beaten out of her soon enough by her fellow-Democrats; there’s no need for me to get involved even if I wanted to.

Anyway.  It’s the middle of July; the deadline for declaring is in less than two months; and there ain’t nobody else stepping up to the plate. What gives?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Bobby Jindal for Governor, of course.  And he should come to the RedState Gathering, too.

Mila Kunis*, demonstrating that she is actually in fact the child of refugees from Eastern Europe:

GQ: Your new movie is called Friends with Benefits. Ever been in one of those relationships?

Mila Kunis: Oy. I haven’t, but I can give you my stance on it: It’s like communism—good in theory, in execution it fails.

Smart woman, except that Communism isn’t particularly good in theory, either.  Still, there are times when you have to be diplomatic about the strange and frankly distasteful religious sensibilities of the locals, and God knows Hollywood is full of people who don’t like being told that Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people… (more…)

The alternate title for this is “Elections have consequences, Michigan edition.”

The short version (H/T:  Instapundit) is that the Lawrence Public School district of Michigan got caught abusing their emergency broadcast system to explicitly notify people of an ongoing campaign to recall new Governor Rick Snyder, to the point where they gave directions and times for people who wanted to sign a petition.  When this was noticed, Lawrence Public School District Superintendent John Overly fell all over himself admitting the mistake – although apparently this was not enough of a mistake to actually formally bring before the school board.  And then there’s this exchange:

Capitol Confidential asked Overley if that meant he had known ahead of time that something concerning the recall was going to be sent out.

“We’re not going to ever let this happen again,” Overley asserted.

That would be a ‘yes,’ then. (more…)