Another target for the anti-Wal-Mart mob?

You know, a couple of days ago RedState reported on a quote-unquote ‘grassroots’ organization that was planning to picket a developer’s house in opposition to Wal-Mart..  If that sounds familiar, that’s because you’re remembering the 500 epic heroes of SEIU who gathered together last year to terrify a fourteen-year-old kid as part of their unionization drive.  Are these the same types?  Probably: if we’ve learned anything over the last two years, it’s that the Left doesn’t have the first clue of how to run a functional, legitimate populist movement.  That’s half of the resentment of the Left towards the Tea Party, right there*.

Still, let it never be said of me that I’m not willing to help out fake activists: so if they’re looking for a too-outspoken private citizen to scare, I got one for them.  She’s not just a Wal-Mart ally and supporter.  She’s a stay-at-home mom with two kids – girls, so that should be extra exciting for a certain sort of “protester” – so they’ll have an audience for their anti-Wal-Mart fear-mongering.Her first name is Michelle, and her home address is One-Six-Zero-Zero Pennsylvania Avenue:

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Let me just pile on Steve Cohen (D, TN-0[9]) here.

As you probably know, Rep. Cohen responded to the President’s call for civility by calling the Republican party a bunch of Nazis.   Because that’s what he does; and I don’t really expect bigots like him to change.  Cohen is precisely the sort of person who can’t feel big until he’s made everybody around him small; and since people like that rarely have the ability to change things in any real capacity, Steve Cohen will be a bitter, spiteful man until the day he dies.

But I do have a request for TN-0[9] Democrats: can you please find a primary challenger for him that isn’t a racist himself or herself, this time around?  Your last two primaries have been the political equivalent of the Iran-Iraq war: the most moral option in both was to root for injuries.

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#rsrh Gun-grabbers emulate Quixote.

Word is that the remaining gun-grabbers in Congress are looking to exploit the Tucson shootings by introducing a magazine capacity restriction bill – because, of course, violent paranoid schizophrenics are absolutely legendary for their reflexive tendency to obey the law – which will promptly die in a corner somewhere, crying and alone.

Seriously: this isn’t 2007.  The GOP is in control of the House, and we have precisely zero interest in doing Red District Democrats the favor of giving them anti-gun legislation to vote against.  Wasn’t it fun to have the ability to decide what bills go forward, Rep. Pelosi?  Do you miss the power?  Yes?  Glad to hear it.

Yeah, well, we’ve just had four years’ worth of lessons in Why Being The Minority Party Sucks.  Don’t be surprised that we took notes.

Moe Lane

USA continues to deny pandas…

…the sweet, sweet release of extinction.  Yup, we’re keeping the ones that we have at the National Zoo for another five years.

Seriously, that species wants to die. What do they have to do to make people understand that?

Moe Lane

PS: This post may have been affected by a glass of Chocovine.  And by ‘glass’ I mean ‘tumbler over ice.’  What’s the alcohol content on this stuff, again? …14%?

Oops.

Paul Ryan slices and dices Obamacare.

You know, the Democratic party is probably really regretting not targeting Paul Ryan’s seat last quarter.  Not that it would have actually worked, but at least they could have told themselves that they tried to avert events like these:

For those without video, this is three and three-quarter minutes’ worth of Rep. Ryan ripping apart last year’s useless CBO report on Obamacare costs, with some additional commentary added in on how you can reconcile said CBO report claiming that Obamacare will reduce the deficit while the CBO is saying elsewhere that Obamacare will increase the debt.  Short version: when looking at the deficit the CBO was forced by the then-majority party to make assumptions that they couldn’t make while looking at the debt.  Shorter version: Democratic politicians lie. Continue reading Paul Ryan slices and dices Obamacare.

Book of the Week: Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook

I picked Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook for a pretty simple reason: I just got a thank-you note from a couple of friends who got married recently, and it referenced cooking.  Well, this is a cookbook that I have found invaluable, particularly since I’m the one who cooks dinner for the family.  You see, I know how to follow a recipe, and I know how to adapt a recipe, so arguably I know how to cook… but I don’t know how to cook a lot of the stuff that I like to eat.  If you know how to follow directions, but you lack the knowledge base past “put foil on pan.  Put meat on foil.  Put dial on broil and wait until meat is cooked through” then this book will help you with your secret shame.  It will tell you how to make lemonade – and don’t laugh; the proportions are not immediately obvious.

And so we… move… Known and Unknown: A Memoir. Am I being paid for that product placement? I wish.

Salon’s Joan Walsh lies to her readers.

Stupidly, too.

Ace of Spades lays it all out: the short version is that Joan Walsh not only deliberately altered a quote from Obama’s Tucson speech to cut out a passage critical of the Left’s obscene reflex to blame the Tucson shootings on the Right; she then had the unmitigated gall to invite her readers to look to the altered quote as proof that the President was not “pointing fingers as he urged us not to point fingers.”  Ace waxed pretty wroth about this, and you should read the whole thing; I took a half hour to put together a video that may hopefully demonstrate exactly how badly Walsh corrupted the President’s words.

I’m also going to point out that Joan Walsh would probably be among the first wave of pundits to call for the firing of a conservative who tried to lie to his or her readers the way that Walsh lied to hers.  I note this not to shame her: clearly, she has none in the first place.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Lieberman to retire?

That’s the scuttlebutt, and it’s not really surprising; you can only be hated on a visceral level by your own party for so long before the strain gets to be too much*.  Puts the total in the Senate up to three, so far:

  • CT (Lieberman) – probable Democratic hold
  • ND (Conrad) – presumed Republican pickup
  • TX (Hutchison) – Republican hold

…and no, we’re not going to take that Republican hold for granted.  Although I expect that the DSCC will spend a ridiculous amount of money chasing that phantom.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t expect that the first wave of House retirement announcements to start for a while yet.

*And we’re talking hatred, here.  You think that the Ladies from Maine are despised by the GOP base?  That loathing is a pallid, empty thing when compared to what the netroots routinely say about Lieberman.

Crosshairs in the crosshairs.

This is starting to get old.

Byron York is a very smart guy, and he’s done yeoman work in cataloging CNN’s horrible, horrible use of ‘crosshairs’ terminology in days gone past.  But I’d just like to hammer this point home: said use of the term by CNN did not cause the following groups:

  • PETA
  • People who don’t like MasterCard
  • Mystical nature spirits responsible for flooding conditions in California*
  • People who don’t like the suspects in a missing-person case
  • The FDA
  • An unnamed US military commander who doesn’t like an Afghan warlord
  • People who don’t like Obamacare
  • People who don’t like Michelle Bachmann

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