Moe Lane

…If Only They Dared edition:

…Obama is a fighter for the progressive cause. Progressives are upset with him because he is a loser.

- James Taranto (H/T Instapundit).  To which I’ll add: I will not say that I am no longer scared of our eventual candidate facing President Obama in the next election, because I was never scared in the first place.  But I will say that it is pleasant to see more and more members of the Republican party catching up to my position.

Mind you, Mickey is going to be cruel every time a labor union cries; that man is one of the most stubborn Democrats that I’ve ever seen, and I’m from a Boston Irish Catholic background.

Extra points for Mickey’s link to dKos’s we-totally-won-and-I-hate-grapes-anyway post; I normally wouldn’t link over there, but watching Moulitsas be desperate enough to try to actually recruit a Wisconsin Republican Senator to the losing side has a certain raddled charm to it.  Besides, it’s going to be darned difficult to laugh at those people today if I don’t throw some of them links…

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PS: There’s another round of recalls next week.  Us winning there too will help us rack up a nice score.

I normally just let such gratifying feedback to my posts…

…pass without formal notice (or indeed, any notice at all, past a serene chuckle); but I’m indulging my inner geek this fine morning by saving up for the Esoterror Factbook, and I think that the fellow above would grind his teeth just a bit if he provided what would be undoubtedly involuntary help.  So, feel free:

Alternatively, there’s always the Navy SEAL Foundation.

Annnnd there we go… Four.  AP won’t make it formal, but Alberta Darling beat Sandy Pasch.
Twenty (thirty?) million bucks and they get… the Republican in the Democratic seat; and the guy with the girlfriend is in firm recount territory.  And, oh, yes: we keep the State Senate. That was the one thing you absolutely had to do, and you did not do it.

Wisconsin Democrats: you’ve earned this.

Loser, Beck

Moe Lane

PS: No, you haven’t thrown a scare into the Republicans. No, you didn’t show us a thing or two.  You just made us mad.

PPS: Yes, I’m actively attempting to make money off of your pain and anguish.  Why not?  Your party leadership does it to you all the time, after all. (more…)

Sorry.

I’m still trying to decide whether Twitter is really a good medium with which to make real-time sardonic commentary about a movie.

I sometimes wonder if he writes these at 3 AM, with a bottle of whiskey on the table, the only light a naked bulb from the ceiling – and the window open to hear and see the first sounds of the coming Mob.

Bad economic times not only make people less generous and more defensive when thinking about social policy; they undermine public confidence in the wisdom and/or trustworthiness of elites.  A national political establishment forced to face the unsustainable nature of the fiscal path it has long followed is an emperor without clothes.  Elite commitment to affirmative action and the rest of sixties race policy remains strong — but elites of all races are going to have less and less ability to control the direction of American social policy.

The conditions for a Category 5 hurricane are all there; it is easy to see a political reaction taking shape in this country that would make the Tea Party movement look like a PTA bake sale.  They say that great storms start with trivial causes: a butterfly waves its wings and, when conditions are just right, the wind begins to grow.

The country is so angry now that it would not take much more than the right butterfly in the right place to take us to the next stage of struggle over the Great Society legacy.

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Via Ace of Spades Headlines: below is a current snapshot of recent sales in Amazon UK’s Sports and Leisure sales.  Sales of certain items have, ah, trended:

Personally, I have to join in AoSHQ’s endorsement of the Louisville Slugger.  My dad was an old-school labor negotiator – private sector, of course!  None of this public sector union nonsense for him - and he swore that wood was simply more intimidating than aluminum.

So there you go.

I don’t think that I need add anything to this one.

Tim’s site is here.

• On the Left: Groups like Moveon.org exist to be the Democratic party’s tools for attempting to manipulate the American people.
• On the Right: Groups like the Tea Party exist to be the American people’s tools for attempting to manipulate the GOP.

That’s it.  Just thought I’d share.

I would like to offer this analogy, for anybody out there dealing with an individual or individuals who seem convinced that the problem with the 2009 ‘stimulus’ was that it was not large enough:

Imagine, if you will, you have a friend, and he’s a drunk.  And he’s in trouble: he needs five hundred bucks to get out from under his bills, but he doesn’t have it, and things get a little worse every month because of it.  So you give him five hundred bucks… and he goes on an epic bender.  Now, here’s the question: would he have been fine if you had given him five hundred bucks for the bender, and another five hundred for his bills?  Or a thousand?  Of course not: doubling or tripling the money that you gave him would have just meant that he would have gone on a longer bender, with better ingredients.

Because that’s what drunks do.  That’s why they’re considered drunks.

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…Well, not the best thing ever, but this appeared in comments here (by reader Donald Dohm), and it is cool on multiple levels.

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