With a line like that, it seems almost redundant to read the rest of Jules Crittenden’s post.
Note: “almost.”
Via Instapundit.With a line like that, it seems almost redundant to read the rest of Jules Crittenden’s post.
Note “almost.”
Via Instapundit.
There was a moment where Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Can you figure out when it was?
Indeed, you did.
No argument from me: you won.
In fact, let the record show that your official response to the GOP’s offer of assistance and advisement was “I won.”
So, it’s all yours. Your responsibility, your obligation, your reputation on the line. Not ours: yours.
Because, after all, you won.
Crossposted at RedState.
As we all know, the President decided to not Executive Order the Mexico City policy out of existence yesterday – can’t imagine why, at all, at all – but today is another day, and the betting is that he’ll get around to it Real Soon Now. So the real question is, when? Does he do it first thing in the morning and get it over with, or does he do it just in time for it to miss the Friday night news?
Hey, this is actually an important question: this is going to be the first thing he does in office that is guaranteed – absolutely, completely, and unquestionably – going to bother a significant hunk of the people who voted for him. How he handles it is going be… ah, diagnostic.
Moe Lane
PS: Notice that I’m doing President Obama the courtesy of assuming that he has at least as much spine as President Bill Clinton did.
PPS: That being said, if I was a betting man I’d be betting for somewhere around 4:45 PM.
Crossposted at RedState.
…but I can’t help but notice that if I were trying to get out of a potentially disastrous PR meltdown (9/11 victims’ families versus “human rights groups”) while not immediately infuriating my base over Gitmo detainees I would start by getting a 120 day delay-of-game, too. After all, we could be very easily worrying about more important things by May.
No, seriously, think about it: why does he need four months for review? Didn’t he already have a couple of years to come up with a plan?
(Via AoSHQ.)
That’s quite a lot, really. Maybe not quite record-breaking, but still quite a lot:
A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say
Reporting from Washington — More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 inauguration.
Though early estimates ranged as high as 2 million people, satellite images of Obama’s swearing-in suggested the crowd was probably about half that, said Clark McPhail, who has been analyzing crowds on the National Mall since the 1960s.
Not the three million or so that the consensus had come up with, but… passable. Very passable. Besides, tons of people watched it on television or online, no doubt.
After all, you wouldn’t actually have to do anything to see it that way.
Moe Lane
PS: How did Bush do? Bless your heart, if I didn’t care then, why should I care now? I’m sure that he had less than Obama did, if that’s what’s worrying you.
I was going to more or less skip the political commentary this morning, but this was too silly to pass up. Via Hot Air Headlines:
Will Obama Bring Home the Neocons?
“Neoconservative” and “neocon” have become terms of abuse, denoting right-wing extremism. But the original neoconservatives began mostly as left-leaning intellectuals who only deserted the Democratic Party after it fell under the influence of the counterculture during the Vietnam War. With Barack Obama about to become president, is there any chance neoconservatives will finally return to the roost?
A month or two ago, the question would have seemed preposterous.
Speaking as a “neoconservative:” it still does. Continue reading Optimism Run Mad Watch, Inauguration Day Edition.
For those who don’t read it, the conceit behind Darths & Droids is that it describes a fake roleplaying campaign, using still photos from Phantom Menace
No, the infuriating part is that David Morgan-Mar effectively proved that a make-it-up as you go along, ad hoc last-minute changes scattered throughout the narrative, the players didn’t read the background material given them by the GM and can’t even remember any proper nouns, everybody’s pushing the rules as far as they’ll go, pretty much typical roleplaying game campaign would also be better than Lucas’ vision.
Frustrating. But funny!
Moe Lane
*Who, by the way, has damn good roleplaying reflexes. If she actually existed, I’d let her play in my campaign.
The first one is the most red-meaty, I think.
Palin on Bloggers and the World of Journalism
“Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me….I’ll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig’s real mom. And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We’re gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it’s been quite cryptic the way that my son’s birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism.”
Via Hot Air Headlines.
