Although he likes Republican ideals on domestic issues. Also note: he didn’t add the ‘socialism’ bit; that was whoever-it-was that sent the thing viral. Also: dislikes Obama, cool with socialism, and thinks that the original ‘Hope’ artist is two-faced.
Stories like this are why I love this country. We are simply too big and too majestic to be fettered by any requirement of a narrative that makes coherent sense.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
And it is unlikely that I’m going to write anything better today than this testimonial from it:
“Nothing goes with sitting naked in the dark watching Golden Girls
re-runs on mute while listening to REM’s “Everybody Hurts
” like six or eight bottles of Boones.” – Michael (Syracuse, NY)
I mean, I’m pretty sure that the National Endowment for the Arts would fund that.
Ace over at AoSHQ wrote a reasonably comprehensive, well-worth-reading post about why he agreed with Andrew McCarthy disagreeing with the NRO editorial board over ex-Gov. Palin’s successful use of ‘death panel‘ rhetoric in shaping the debate. I’m not going to try to reinvent the wheel; as I said, Ace’s post is well worth reading. I’m just going to note that I’ve spent the last day or so trying to figure out a way to get Palin to favorably mention tort reform in her next Facebook note… and that it never even occurred to me to try to get the NRO editorial board on-message.
Not that it wouldn’t be great if they did, of course. It’s just… well…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
[UPDATE]: Language is a bit rough, but you’ll probably like the sentiments.
Already by about 50 million, which is real money for anybody (except a Democratic legislator, of course). It’ll likely get worse:
The popular program is being blamed for hurting charities that rely on donations of cars to fund social programs.
Those charities say their donations have fallen up to 12-percent already since “Cash for Clunkers” was implemented.
They fear that as time goes on, their annual donations will drop 25-percent, which amounts to more than 100-million dollars.
See also Reuters. Below is a list of national charities thus affected (the link has a longer list of state/local ones) : Continue reading Cash-for-Clunkers hurting charities.
No, really.
If you planned to check out a library book, visit a city clinic or have your garbage picked up on Monday, you’re out of luck.
The City of Chicago is basically closed for business on Aug. 17, a reduced-service day in which most city employees are off without pay. City Hall, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices will be closed.
They technically ‘moved’ this reduced-services day from New Year’s Eve, and if somebody wants to believe that they won’t have to have that day be reduced-services – or that there won’t be other reduced-service days added – well. Continue reading The City of Chicago government will be closed today for lack of funds.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Michelle Malkin readers. More on this topic here.
(Via Hot Air Headlines) I understand that it’s probably legally wise for the White House to assign responsibility for Axelrod’s health care spamming to all those evil, evil advocacy organizations, but really:
“We are implementing measures to make subscribing to emails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individual’s behalf.”
If the petitions were only presented in hardcopy form, somebody had to enter those email addresses into the system. If the organizations in question had provided a digital list of email addresses, somebody had to add them to the White House’s distribution list. If the organizations in question had signed up those email addresses one at a time, somebody on the White House Staff needs to explain why he or she didn’t even set up a please-click-to-confirm-your-registration system.
Somebody with a name.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Despite their ultimately-sincere protestations to the contrary, it’s a well-deserved award: Girl Genius
Again, congratulations.
Moe Lane
PS: Now GO FINISH GURPS GIRL GENIUS, DAMMIT. We wants it, we does.
Verum Serum wants to know, “Will Obama Really Sellout Liberals and Drop the Public Option?” Off-the-record pushback to the contrary, probably: when it’s been suddenly made clear that your job is to actually convince the American public that the current plan is better than no plan at all, no individual part of a plan is non-negotiable. The real question is what progressives will do about said sellout. I predict ‘nothing,’ past the usual whining. They never do.
And I look forward to writing another post like this when we push the administration into endorsing meaningful tort reform. Which, as I have noted earlier, is not negotiable.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Won’t you come home, Russ Carnahan? Won’t you please come home?
My name is Russ Carnahan (D, MO-03), and I’m lost:
(via Dana Loesch. Also note: Ed Martin is running against this guy.)
I was last seen a week or so ago, hiding in a garage after a get-together I threw ended with some people that I invited beating up a guy. I’ve dropped off the face of the earth since then. No Twitter*, no blogging, nothing from work… I’m just gone. Now, I’ve had a bit of a sheltered life, and I’m not used to it when things go bad: so I may in a bad place right now. If you see me, please let Ed Martin (R) know; he thinks that I need to take a break anyway, and he’d like to talk to me about it.
I may be with one or more friends, who are also missing: Continue reading Have you seen me?
Haven’t I done this one already? Apparently not.
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