Author: Moe_Lane

I’m gobsmacked. So is Sen. McCain. Heck, so is Sen. Durbin.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Avoiding boggling gets harder and harder every day:

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted Friday that he is “in the dark” about the national health care bill currently under construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In an exchange on the Senate floor, Republican Sen. John McCain asked Durbin, “Should we not at least be informed as to what the proposal is that the Senate Majority Leader is going to propose to the entire Senate?” Durbin’s answer: “I would say to the senator from Arizona that I am in the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership.” Durbin explained that during a Democratic caucus, Reid and the small group of senators involved in crafting the bill turned to their fellow Democrats and “basically stood and said, ‘We are sorry, we can’t tell you in detail what was involved.'”

Transcript here.

I can say nothing else except that while this is not enough to persuade me to show some sympathy to Dick Durbin (whom I despise for his attacks on minority students), this is still no way to run a railroad.  Or a Congress.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Warmingists shiver in Copenhagen.

No, really: those poor folks are stuck with bundling up and marching against global warming in what has become stereotypically freezing weather.  Although some of them have found a way to keep warm via physical activity:

Hundreds of youths dressed in black threw bricks and smashed windows as at least 30,000 people demonstrated in the centre of the city as world leaders debate global warming.

The rioters, whose faces were covered, went on the rampage in the heart of the city, prompting swift arrests as some 50 policemen in riot gear intervened.

The cops are probably swearing that Al Gore’s not there yet: if he was, the rioters would be snowed in right now, which would probably cut down on the property damage a little.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, yes, yes: they’re claiming it’s ‘climate change’ instead of ‘global warming’ these days.  I’m not all that interested in the theo-linguistic gymnastics that believers have to go through to not have to address the fact that it’s almost 2010 now and still no sign yet that Soylent Green is people.

Crosspsoted to RedState.

Actually, I agree with both Reynolds *and* Yglesias.

The country is indeed ungovernable.

…By Democrats.

I mean, seriously: remember what life was like four years ago, when it was the GOP running things?  Miss it yet?  You should: rather more of the people reading this had jobs back then.  And fatter retirement accounts.  And better value in their houses.  And soon – very, very soon – lower taxes.

Remember, folks: the GOP can run things without Democratic input. At least, the Democrats certainly spent six or so years saying that we did*.  In contrast, the Democrats can’t run a Sunday School picnic without a Republican supervising them every step of the way.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t really think that Reynolds would disagree with this.  Or that Yglesias would agree, although I mention that last only out of completeness.

*Which is, by the way, not true.

Crossposted to RedState.

Sarah Palin, William Shatner, and an Illuminatus! reference*.

Half the right-sphere has linked to this by now, but I’m going to put it up anyway, because I have to quibble with Allahpundit: this isn’t really revenge on Shatner.  He was in on this.

And good on him.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t know if THAT WOMAN is running in 2012.  Based on that clip and other outside observations, I now think that THAT WOMAN is going to be stumping for candidates in 2010.  And that she’s going to be a net benefit for the GOP in doing so.

And if anybody from the Other Side tells you that they’re looking forward for her to do precisely that, ask them in your sweetest, most dulcet tones if they were equally looking forward to us being out of Afghanistan and Iraq by now, too.  Or us closing down FISA.  Or… well, you get the point.

Continue reading Sarah Palin, William Shatner, and an Illuminatus! reference*.

Copenhagen Disaster Porn lacks only the Wilhelm Scream*.

(H/T: Hot Air) Feast your eyes on what the Copenhagen folks decided to start their conference with:

…Whoops! Sorry, wrong video. Obviously, I meant this one:

[pause]

Yeah, I know: they would have been better off with the first one. If for no other reason that they could have gotten their putative message in at half the time.

Moe Lane

PS: Never go back for the stuffed polar bear. Never go back for the stuffed polar bear. What are they teaching kids in school these days?

Continue reading Copenhagen Disaster Porn lacks only the Wilhelm Scream*.

Ah, the Maryland MVA.

We’re trying to get a stolen license plate on the commuter car replaced; only they’ve held up my wife all morning over the fact that they’re listing the family car as uninsured. Despite the fact that they issued us license plates for said car when it was purchased six months ago, which they wouldn’t have been able to actually do if the car was uninsured. God knows that they came up with every other possible reason for not giving us plates. And now she has to go stand in line again.

But hey: the government will be absolutely stellar with managing your next kidney transplant for you.

Quote of the Day, Angelina Jolie edition.

As part of her actually-not-entirely-unreasonable assessment on the problems in the Sudan:

In addition, when the administration says it intends to work to “improve the lives of the people of Darfur,” I would like to know what that means, besides the obvious point that their lives could hardly get worse.

Wouldn’t we all.

Moe Lane

PS: I knew that you aren’t all that enamored of the current administration, Angelina; but I hadn’t expected you to be so… unilateral.  Careful, this is how it starts.

Crossposted to RedState.