Gov Manchin (D CAND, WV-SEN) values real estate values over miners’ lives.

The Manchin administration in West Virginia has decided that the needs of its new, state-owned technology park outweigh the needs of miner safety.

Let’s walk through this: Continue reading Gov Manchin (D CAND, WV-SEN) values real estate values over miners’ lives.

#rsrh QotD, DCCC deer in headlights edition.

Byron York (and this is why we like him):

Shortly before the Republicans rolled out their plan in Sterling, Virginia, I called the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I asked spokesman Ryan Rudominer whether, since we now have the GOP agenda, there is a similar document laying out what Democrats will do if voters return them to power in the House. There was a moment of silence on the other end of the call.

“I’m sorry, you mean, like, a current one?” Rudominer asked.

…and further commentary unnecessary.  Except to note that forget an agenda: these winners don’t even have a budget.

(H/T Hot Air Headlines)

‘Hippie punching.’

Executive summary: David Axelrod conference-called lefty bloggers to beg for their help in the November elections (because they’ve been ever so useful so far in the 2010 election cycle); and apparently the lefty bloggers are feeling quite aggrieved and put-upon for being called upon to do as they’re bid. One even went so far to as to categorize the entire interaction between the Democratic establishment and the netroots in furtive, sexually shameful terms (one hopes that this… no, that’s too vicious a comment to make); apparently, this is something that happens often enough that it has the name of ‘hippie punching.’

‘Hippie punching.’

You know, this is a new one for me: I don’t think that I’ve ever heard this particular turn of phrase before. From context, I assume it means “to smack around progressive activists, safe and secure in the knowledge that they lack the internal dignity, elementary sense of self-worth, and bare minimum of personal courage necessary to do anything about it.” If it doesn’t… well, it should.  Because that’s what’s going on, here.  The Democratic base is restless, so it gets the privilege of yelling at a soon-to-be-gone-anyway administration official a little as payment for all its good work in keeping establishment Democrats at the money troughs.  And once they’ve gotten it out of their system, it’s back to rubbing the lotion in their skin, or they get the hose…

Moe Lane

PS: To push back on something Allahpundit wrote (said he, genially):

Have tea partiers had any calls like this yet with the GOP leadership? All in good time, all in good time.

We have already had calls like this, in point of fact: in no particular order, they were called the Pennsylvania, Florida, Maine, South Carolina, Colorado, Delaware, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska primaries.  And those are just the ones that immediately come to mind.

Shorter Moe Lane: we are not tame.

Crossposted to RedState.

Erm. O’Donnell was actually correct about Britney Spears.

You know, I’m going to have to agree with Stacy McCain, here. This 2003 statement by Christine O’Donnell, about Britney Spears?

“And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And she’s doing that because she doesn’t want to sacrifice this enormous platform that she’s built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks.”

The one that The New Republic is calling crazy? Yeah, that one: I don’t know if TNR noticed or anything, but in 2007 Britney Spears had an extremely public nervous breakdown where she shaved her head and got tattooed because, quote, “I don’t want anyone touching me. I’m tired of everybody touching me.” The title of that article is, by the way, “Bald and Broken: Inside Britney’s Shaved Head” – and it rather explicitly signs off on O’Donnell’s notion that the stress felt by Britney Spears of being Britney Spears was breaking the woman.  Oddly enough, nobody over at TNR took the trouble to castigate the author of said article (Sheila Marikar) for taking this position… probably because Sheila Marikar wasn’t standing between a Democrat and a Senate seat. Continue reading Erm. O’Donnell was actually correct about Britney Spears.

Andrew Cuomo (D CAND, NY-GOV) lied about voting for Bloomberg.

Given that Mayor Bloomberg has wandered up and down the map in his quest to be loved for who he truly is*, this may not be very surprising. How can a legacy politician whose most marketable skill is his last name be expected to keep up with the political peregrinations of a rank opportunist and party-switcher? – still, you’d expect better than a room-temperature IQ performance here. Andrew Cuomo is supposed to be someone special. And not in the mean sense of the term.

“Have I voted for the mayor? Yes,” Cuomo said.

Actually, he didn’t. The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer.

Translation: “Has he voted for the mayor? No.” Personally, if I had ever voted for Bloomberg the shame and anguish at my lack of judgment would have been burned into my soul, but that sort of thing apparently weighs lightly on the consciences of Democrats. No wonder Carl Palladino‘s surging.

Moe Lane

*A quest made utterly futile by the fact that he’s, well, Mayor Bloomberg – and thus inherently unlovable.

Crossposted to RedState.