Lamar! Czar! …and that joke will get old fast.

‘Rain of hellfire.’ If I had told people six months ago that this was going to be the level of the rhetoric coming from the Democrats I would have been soundly mocked for it.

Suffice it to say that Senator Alexander (R, TN) is amused at the DNC’s decision to play Teh GREAT Internetz Defenderz!!!11!1ONE!1!!!!11!:


(Via @nicklaus)

Hard not to be amused: it’s not every day that you see a major party organization threaten to unleash a “rain of hellfire” on health care rationing opponents.  Or, as we here in Reality Non-Unicorn like to call them, “56% of the population.”

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, Lamar! was theoretically on to talk about the difference between positions that require Senate confirmation and postions that don’t (free hint: the Obama administration likes the latter.  A lot).  But why should I pretend that the DNC is anything except the White House’s sockpuppet?  Nobody else is.

Crossposted to RedState.

Well, it’s official: No Roots HQ for me.

For various reasons (only some of which are financial, but all of which are personal), I’ll be not attending RootsHQ this weekend. ‘Fortunately,’ I’m only out the registration fee.

…this sounds a lot more ominous than it actually is. It’s not really ominous at all, in fact; it was just that getting to the RS Gathering used up too many resources to make this weekend viable. Still, I’m sorry to miss anybody who I might have run into there.

I believe that the techincal term for this is ‘tagging.’

My congratulations to the Left: you’ve given the Right a taste for guerrilla art.

acorn-funded-prostitution-zone

That’s on the specially-treated against graffiti wall of Shepard Fairey, who is of course best known for ripping off an AP photo to create the most iconic political image of 2008 – and the most ironic one of 2009 (not to mention, one of the most parodied).  For extra humor, Fairey likes to do precisely this kind of guerrilla art himself… and he’s probably swearing at Big Government‘s Best. Weblaunch. EVAR. right now anyway, which is a definite bonus.

Moving back to the main point, there’s at least one other tagging example (see BG’s link above for it); my guess is that they’re using a stencil and some spray paint.  As a law-abiding Republican I of course heartily wave smy finger* in the direction of whoever is doing such naughty things – bad street artists!  Bad!  No biscuit! – and I am explicitly shaking my head and intoning that this sort of thing not be duplicated…

Moe Lane

*Admittedly, I know that I’ll get it back: wait, no, that’s MoveOn.org.  Ach, well, these people all live in each others’ back pockets anyway.

Crossposted to RedState.

It says a good deal about my unique political situation…

…that my first reaction on reading this article on Dan Halloran, the neopagan Republican running for Queens City Council (H/T: Ben Smith) was to see whether I knew the guy. It was possible, if not likely: even if Halloran is a member of the SCA folks from NYC tend not to go too far south for events. It’s a weird demographic thing.

What? Look, if he’s down with a general small-government program I don’t care if he worships an ongoing reconstruction of the original Germanic gods.

Moe Lane

PS: City Council races are fun, apparently. This is all part of a quite entertaining brawl.

Crossposted to RedState.

The DNC goes after a peculiar demographic: Bush voters.

I hope that they spent money on this:

Look, I think that George W. Bush’s current unpopularity among the American people is a bit unfair, but I recognize that it exists – so trying to excuse the current President’s habit of doing end-runs around the nomination process because he’s just like Bush* is, well, dumb. The majority of the populace will react badly to the comparison and the percentage that won’t react badly will also not take it particularly seriously.

Michael Silence (via Instapundit) wants to know what the point was for this campaign ad.  I refer him to Andrew Klavan for the answer.

Moe Lane

PS: No, by the way.

*Not that he is, more’s the pity.

Crossposted to RedState.

Today is the 150th anniversary of the accession of Emperor Norton I.

(Via Fark) That would be Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.  Those of you who have not been so fortunate as to have been taught proper American history may peruse his history and accomplishments here: a copy of his famous proclamation may be found below.

17 September 1859
At the peremptory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the past nine years and ten months of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these U.S., and in virtue of the authority thereby in me vested, DO HEREBY order and direct the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in the Musical Hall of this city on the 1st day of February next, then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring, and thereby cause confidence to exist, both at home and abroad, in our stability and integrity.

Probably the best modern testimonial for his Imperial Majesty was done by Neil Gaiman, although R. Talsorian Games gave it a very credible shot.  And I don’t have much else to say on the topic, except that very few people ever had an unkind word for Norton I, and none of them had them twice in public.

Moe Lane

Four links.

  • This is an epic-level rant on just how badly the media mucked up covering the ACORN implosion: I am privileged to have read it.
  • It was via Little Miss Attila, who randomly referred to Warren Zevon in a surrealistic manner that pleased me.
  • This is an epic-level comment on Constitution Day: likewise. I don’t think that a better comment has been written in the last 24 hours.
  • Although this one via Ed Driscoll gives it a run for its money.
  • There shall be no five.

Crossposted to RedState.