We call this ‘free fall.’
…Actually, we call it “a really, really good one-day result falls gets cycled out of the three-day average” – but going from 51/46 to 45/52 is still a pretty dramatic event.
Also, funny.
Moe Lane
PS: Hey! Why doesn’t the President make some more speeches? That should perk things right up.
PPS: Rasmussen is also noting that the President’s favorable ratings (50%) are at pre-speech levels, too.
Crossposted to RedState.
Nothing against Shannon Love’s excellent article (via Instapundit), but the Marines put it more succinctly.
Crossposted to RedState.
While I agree with Tim Blair that karma is… kind of entertaining, sometimes… I think that the most important thing that should be taken away from this video is the frustration and worry in our soldiers’ voices as they try to line up a shot that doesn’t endanger either a kid, or some guy just walking along.
By the way: using kids like this is an actual war crime. I note this because those elements of the Left that are now calling for abandoning Afghanistan (a sentiment that I, like POWIP, do not share, and never mind who the President is) can always use this kind of moral and ethical calibration.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
They analyze the President’s performance to date, and conclude that his new life goal should be… mediocrity.
What all this means is, barring some unforeseeable world event, Obama’s will probably not be a historic presidency. He will have some successes and a lot of failures. His opposition won’t roll over, and his party will refuse to go along with his more costly, and thus risky, schemes. He won’t coast to reelection.
So Obama now has the chance to be the sort of president Bush would have been if the World Trade Center towers had not come down. Here’s hoping he makes the best of it.
Via Instapundit. I personally doubt that it will happen; there are far too many Democratic partisans out there who absolutely need this President to be… whatever it is that they are not, and know that they are not. They will not be pleased to see this administration try to revise its hopes and goals so as to be more in line with its abilities, and they will do their level best to stop that change.
Just the way it is.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Yesterday, the Senate surprisingly adopted the Johanns Amendment (which denies ACORN HUD/transportation funds), 83-7. Obviously, House Republicans will need to introduce (and presumably pass, in a similarly lopsided manner) their own version, in order to make it clear to the Democratic-controlled reconciliation committee that this is not to be reversed when they think that nobody’s looking. This amendment will need someone to formally offer it – and clearly the choice must be Rep. Joe Wilson (R, SC).
Discuss.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
You Belong With Me
…you know, I can see why this won Best Female Video. It’s… nice.
Moe Lane
…I don’t know. I’m a sucker for movies evocative of the Golden Age of Atomic Horror Movies, but I don’t know. Must ponder.
Via the Anchoress, what I was about to post when it got interrupted by the previous post:
No attempts to go for the filthy lucre. This one is strictly for nice.
Meet the Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7*.
I would like to have all of you read something that came to the MoeLane.com mailbag a few days ago, in response to this post. I normally don’t bother posting these – I just pass around the funnier examples – but I decided that I’d save this one.
Author : Goou (IP: 67.159.54.26 , 67.159.54.26)
E-mail : goou@goou.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=67.159.54.26
Comment:
Just reminding you that you’re a piece of sh*t. No one cares about Acorn.
Ahem. Hot Air reports:
Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding. A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor. Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing. The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.
The nay votes?
Continue reading Senate votes to strip ACORN of federal funding, 83-7.
As one of my colleagues (who should get a personal site, so that I may not be able to steal stuff like this) notes, the nice thing about the Internet is that you can have a new Greatest. Thing. EVAR. every day.
If there is a way to make this combination more synergistically awesome, it is not readily apparent to modern science.
Moe Lane
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