Month: August 2012

#rsrh Chick-fil-A calls cops on… the Media.

And that says it all, doesn’t it? I’m still traveling, so no immediate link; but let me note to folks out there that the story is pretty darn symbolic. When it comes to a topic like, say, gay issues, you end up with an amazingly (if you just read the papers) broad spectrum of opinion among the Right. It can, in fact, range from actual support (hi!) through general tolerance and from there to personal disapproval and go from there to active political resistance. In other words… our actual reaction to the issue varies.

But we all f*cking despise the Media.

Harry Reid, pederasty, and the sudden defense of Rick Santorum.

[UPDATE: Random politeness requests that I note that Ethics Alarms has splutteringly responded to me.  Random professional pride suggests that I note that my “let’s add an ‘as-near-as-I-can-tell’ to that one” impulse did what it had to do: which is to say, handily avoid the need for a potentially embarrassing correction.  Random schadenfreude more or less demands that I cheerfully note that my larger message – that entire “self-absorbed, pretentious websites that hate hardcore social conservatives” thing – seems to have… hit the target pretty mostly on-target, nu?  It’s so nice to have them admit that you’ve had an impact.  Particularly when doing so rips off any… pretenses… that might have existed.]

Via Instapundit comes this shocked, shocked, tut-tutting examination of the recent unforced error that Harry Reid has found himself in. The background: it was recently demonstrated that the Senate Minority Leader was and is apparently able to lie in public and get away with it. Specifically, Reid demonstrated that he could make up a story about Mitt Romney evading his income tax – see here for a brutally precise examination of why anybody who believes this attack by Reid should not be allowed to operate heavy financial institutions – and be… not humiliated and shamed for it. Alas for Harry Reid, there is a critical mass of people who are currently unwilling to simply let things like this slide, which is why Harry Reid’s name is currently being linked with pederasty even as we speak. Also, apparently Reid was unprepared for this, which is why his office did not actually, well, deny the charges*.
Continue reading Harry Reid, pederasty, and the sudden defense of Rick Santorum.

#rsrh DCCC crawls, abases itself for the amusement of Republican Sheldon Adelson.

This is a marvelous sentence.  I love reading this sentence.  It is a sentence full of pure, innocent enjoyment:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued a public apology Thursday afternoon to billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for charging that the Republican mega donor was tied to the Chinese mob and a prostitution ring.

I’d give you the background, except that you can see it all, right there: the DCCC accused Mr. Adelson of being a pimp for the Chinese mob, Mr. Adelson cast Summon Elite Lawyer Ninja Squad in response, and then the DCCC suddenly realized that they were in deep, deep legal trouble. It’ll be interesting whether or not this is enough to get Adelson’s attack dogs to heel; personally, I’d want at least an actual scalp or two, but then I’m a partisan political hack, not a billionaire.

#rsrh Barack Obama stiffs another political pit stop.

Via Instapundit comes this heartwarming story of Barack Obama’s inability to pay his campaign’s bills, either. Executive summary: the city of Newport Beach went 35 grand in the hole from an Obama campaign stop, they’d like the money for that because it wasn’t official business, and the Obama campaign is busily demonstrating that it’s ALL official business with that crowd. Andrew Malcolm is holding out the delirious hope that Newport Beach will send out bill collectors, but that’s unlikely. Barack Obama may not be able to afford giving back 35 grand, but he can certainly afford, say, sending out the bureaucrats and regulatory agencies. There’s so many ways that you can use those to wreck somebody’s day.

Moe Lane

PS: Of course Mitt Romney pays his bills. Does he LOOK like a Democrat?

#rsrh Unemployment up to 8.3%. Because Obama won’t fix the economy.

Good news? Larger number of jobs gained than usual. Bad news? 163K jobs isn’t actually ‘good.’ Really worse news? Unemployment ticked up to 8.3%.

As was just said on Twitter by Lori Zeganto (and I’m sorry that I can’t link to it directly, via this platform): that 8.3% unemployment? Barack Obama built that for you.

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#RSRH The rules do change.

As this picture shows:


It’s not that I had my picture taken with Ted Cruz, who will be most likely the next Senator from Texas; it’s that we live in a world now where soon-to-be-Senators can get that way via alternate, non-traditional, yet very legitimate paths. Which is neat.

(pause)

I don’t know why I’m looking down, though: no, wait, I do. Ethyl alcohol.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, that *is* getting to be a notable mustache. Thank you for noticing.