Month: February 2012

Oklahoma Democratic state senator attempts to ban masturbation.

Gotta love the nanny state, huh?

Yes, I know that state Senator Constance Johnson thought that she was merely making a point about abortion.  That’s because she’s not very bright.  Very many people can tell the quantitative difference between a gamete and a zygote – even if they have to look up the words in the dictionary – and many of those people will not be amused at being lectured to like this.  Probably best for her to pretend that she meant it that way all along.

I’d say that this will make it hard for Sen. Johnson to rise further from her current position as state senator, except that Oklahoma Democrats are finding it quite hard enough to get ahead as it is…

#rsrh Drinking the Old Grey Lady’s tears on Super PACs…

…personally, I don’t find the system nearly as ‘corrupt’ or ‘pollut[ed]’ as the New York Times seems to – unless, of course, we’re simply taking both terms to be semantically equivalent to ‘got rid of legislators that the NYT liked’ – but in its way that just makes all the better this bitter, despondent, let-me-swig-more-rotgut-and-pound-the-typewriter screed about how Obama’s going to use those eeeeeeeeeeeevil Super PACS in his campaign.  I mean it, too.  Watching the anonymous author come to terms with the fact that he or she was deliberately and callously lied to will warm your insides.

Mind you, the author will still vote for Obama in November. Which is why I’m so contemptuous: don’t expect respect from me if you can’t even respect yourself…

Via Hot Air Headlines.

…Well, *this* was nastier than I intended it to be.

I’d change it, except that I think that it’s also true.

I think that Jonathan Last is misunderstanding Matthew Yglesias’ interests, here (the short version: the latter seems to think that American cities only had one newspaper apiece in the old days, and the former is mocking the latter in response).  The Yglesias ‘brand’ has always been ‘precocious youngster;’ which is easy enough to do when you’re a kid blogging from Harvard, but considerably harder when you’re a thirtysomething, fairly doctrinaire liberal who has had all the interesting bits burned away after spending several years in Establishment Left ‘journalist’ knocking-shops*. So, there’s not exactly a reason to avoid being sloppy: the occasional dumb mistake is perfect for simulating that fresh-faced look, no?

Now, I’m not saying that Yglesias deliberately got it wrong about how many American cities had multiple newspapers in the Good Old Days; I’m merely saying that he’s got no real pressing economic reason to do the necessary research.

Moe Lane

*Look it up.

The self-correcting conservative Democratic liar problem.

In today’s Morning Jolt Jim Geraghty observed, while implicitly dismissing former (involuntarily) Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper’s (D, PA) sudden getting religion over Obamacare for the cynical political move that it probably is, that the myth of the conservative Democratic Congressman was, well, a myth – and that he’s been saying that since 2010.  Well, I’ve been saying that, too – so I decided to look at all the examples of so-called conservative Democrats found in that article, and where they are no.  The results were amazingly gratifying:

  • Bart Gordon (forced to retire, 2010)
  • Bobby Bright (removed, 2010)
  • Dan Boren (cutting and running, 2012)
  • Gene Taylor (removed, 2010)
  • Heath Shuler (cutting and running, 2012)
  • Joe Donnelly (switching out to lose Senate race, 2012)
  • John Barrow (going out fighting [cruelly redistricted], 2012)
  • S.H. Sandlin (removed, 2010)
  • Walt Minnick (removed, 2010)

Continue reading The self-correcting conservative Democratic liar problem.

#rsrh How many dead Mexicans would it have taken for Eric Holder to fire people?

I’ve been meaning to ask this question for a while about Operation Fast & Furious. Because apparently the number was higher than 200; so I was just curious about how many dead Mexicans are functionally equivalent to one Obama appointee’s career.  Three hundred? Four hundred? An even thousand?

Or is the answer “Don’t bother asking?”

Barack Obama dangerously skips out early on Alfalfa Club dinner.

I am speaking pseudo-medically, here.

The entire article by Albert Hunt is possibly a bit too snide about various Republicans, but this part is at least on-point about Obama’s behavior at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner:

Obama hates such dinners. Some of his aides, in particular his political adviser David Plouffe, urged him not to spend an evening mingling with the 1 percent. Yet he chose to go, and attendees said it was the first time they could recall a speaker leaving before the other side had its fun. In addition, Obama’s 87-year-old predecessor was present.

Imagine the criticism five years ago if President George W. Bush had walked out on a dinner before Hillary Clinton spoke, with Bill Clinton in the audience.

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#rsrh QotD, …Dear God. FIREDOGLAKE Edition.

Believe me, it’s alarming to me, too: but Jon Walker has a point here about Obama’s excitingly new position on Super PACs.

When the Supreme Court handed down its Citizens United ruling, Obama still had one of the largest Democratic majorities in Congress in decades.  But Democrats still didn’t do anything about it. If they viewed that holding as truly critical, the Democrats could have passed a law addressing the issue. Passing legislation about campaign finance reform was simply not a priority for the Obama administration.

Continue reading #rsrh QotD, …Dear God. FIREDOGLAKE Edition.

“Bradying.”

I dunno.  This is all rather… uncivil, isn’t it?  Only a cruel and vicious person would laugh, surely.  And then there’s the video, too:

http://www.sweaterpunch.com/2012/02/bradying-makes-tebowing-look-cool/

Remember.  Only cruel and vicious people would find this funny.  Or the fact that the Giants came back from behind in the fourth quarter to beat the Cowboys [Patriots*].

Moe Lane

*Ah, my secret is out.  I may not have a favorite team these days, but I still retain a least favorite team.

#rsrh FAA bill moves out from Senate to Obama’s desk.

As everyone reading this probably already knew, long-term funding of the FAA has been a political football since the last time that it expired in 2007.  Well, they finally passed a bill… and in the process stuck it to various Democratic interest groups:

  • The labor unions were probably most badly hit, given that they had some privileges rolled back on them.  The rules were changed in 2010 by the Obama administration to make it much easier for unions to organize (essentially, they stopped treating not-voting as ‘no’ votes).  The House bill called for reversing that provision entirely; they instead compromised so that unions would need to have majority support (instead of 35%) in order to call for an vote to organize.  Big Labor shills are predictably livid about that.
  • No new taxes on jet fuel.  Greenies will not be happy.
  • The House version funded 60 billion over four years; the Senate version funded 70 billion over two.  The final version was 64 billion over four.  Government bureaucrats hardest hit.

Continue reading #rsrh FAA bill moves out from Senate to Obama’s desk.