Tim is the front-runner in the GOP primary runoff for SC-01, and he took the time to talk with us about the state of the race and why he’s running.
Tim’s site is here: he’s a state representative and former Charleston County official. The runoff is June 22nd. There’s been a good deal of interest among RedState’s readers about this race thus far, and I expect that said interest will continue…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Yeah, I know: I’m a sucker for these. I saw Android Karenina
And so, farewell to Small Gods
Long a favorite curse word among such diverse groups as anti-EU agitators and the science fiction community
Belgians were voting Sunday in general elections that are widely seen as a vote on an orderly breakup of this country where 6.5 million Dutch- and 4 million French-speakers are locked in a quarrelsome union.
Polls predicted a solid showing for a mainstream Flemish party whose leader wants Dutch-speaking Flanders to sever its unhappy ties with Francophone Wallonia and, in time, join the European Union as a separate country.
Via @jstrevino. I don’t know: between the Congo Free State, World War II (not WWI), and of course the entire ‘HQ for the EU’ thing, should we just concede that Belgium had its chance, flubbed it, and break it down for scrap parts?
Moe Lane
Silent All These Years
It was a day.
AoSHQ (and Sarah Palin) reminds me of this:
Not the event itself: but the details behind it. It’s a little jarring to realize that there are people who can vote (and soon, drink legally) in this country who don’t have personal memories of the Berlin Wall; or what it represented. I was seventeen when this speech took place; and like the AoSHQ writer I considered Ronnie Raygun to be a fool. Because, you know, maybe the Commies weren’t as powerful as we thought in 1980, but they weren’t going anywhere. Right?
Yeah, seventeen and stupid. Continue reading #rsrh Tear down this wall.
I abjure it, and shake my fist at it.
That is all.
I just noticed that the President kind of likes to use that phrase a bit. I wonder if he realizes that it makes him look like a bit of a narcissist? Particularly since he’s clearly using that phrase in all those occasions to argue that while bad things that happen under his watch are always his responsibility, they’re never his fault. Even the Christmas bombing attack was declared by the President to be ultimately the fault of a pre-Obama watch list system. It’s frankly a far cry from ‘The buck stops here,’ which is at heart an admission that policy decisions flow from the top, and failures in policy are in fact in some way the fault of the people who are ultimately responsible for them. Then again, Barack Obama is also a far cry from being another Harry S Truman.
I look forward to the hate mail that will implicitly validate my argument.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
I’m not affiliated with this administration: I don’t have to use the weasel term ‘misrepresented.’
Basically, what happened was that Salazar added language to a report on the Gulf oil spill, and that said language called for a drilling moratorium. That’s not the lie: the Interior Secretary is allowed to make his own recommendations, even when they’re dunderheaded recommendations. No, this is the lie:
Salazar’s report to Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs and an immediate halt to drilling operations.
“None of us actually reviewed the memorandum as it is in the report,” oil expert Ken Arnold told Fox News. “What was in the report at the time it was reviewed was quite a bit different in its impact to what there is now. So we wanted to distance ourselves from that recommendation.”
Continue reading Interior Secretary Salazar lies about drilling peer review.
Not just “No.”
Not even just “Hell, no.”
The background: Obamacare assumed in its ‘official’ numbers cuts in Medicare payments to doctors; this has been scheduled for some time, but every year there was a ‘doc fix‘ to keep the cuts from being enacted. The merits of the doc fix can be argued later: what is important here is that the Democrats used these supposedly planned cuts to make Obamacare look fiscally responsible, and the Republicans loudly pointed out that the Democrats had no intention of actually making the cuts, thus giving one more data point to support the argument that Obamacare was a passel of lies. There was even a memo (later frantically declared fake, but never confirmed fake) noting that after the passage of Obamacare there’d be time to do the doc fix, so no need to talk about it at the time.
Lo. Obamacare has passed, and the President wants to talk about stopping the doc fix. Continue reading President begging GOP for doc fix favor.
It’s Saturday and it’s nice out – also, new computer. Yup, there’s a contradiction there. Anyway, this gave me the idea:
Everybody hang cool.
