Gee, I hope that Shrum is ignored.

It’d be awful if the Democrats were to take Bob Shrum’s advice about how to salvage the 2010 elections by having the President give “a major speech that redraws the dividing lines.” God help the Republican party if Obama ever decided to break with tradition and do one of those. We’d all be doomed.

DOOMED!

Moe Lane

PS: By the way, if you’re wondering how seriously you should be taking Bob Shrum, consider this: last year by his own admission Shrum was working under the assumption that the Republican party “would be punished in the midterms.”  Meanwhile, last year I was talking about how getting back the House of Representatives was in fact a realistic goal for the GOP.  But then, I’m of this country, while people like Shrum generally seem to act like they’re merely from it.

Just saying.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Meet Linda McMahon (R CAND, CT-SEN).

Linda, of course, is running against CT AG Dick Blumenthal, who rather famously lied about his war record a few months back. We talked earlier today about the steadily-tightening race in Connecticut:

Linda has sites here and here; the latter is her MyLinda2010 site, and is geared towards activism.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Agreed, Gibbs: Obama is not Bush.

As you may recall, White House press flack Robert Gibbs earlier this week announced his frustration with his party’s fringe Democrats who are unaccountably upset that they trade money and effort for… well, Gibbs’s frustration and contempt. It was fascinating to watch – for that matter, so was the latest extended whine from Alan ‘counting-the-days-until-his-permanent-MSNBC-gig’ Grayson on the subject* – but my sense of honor requires me to make an admission. When Gibbs said:

“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”

…I am forced to agree with him. Barack Obama is not like George W. Bush. Continue reading Agreed, Gibbs: Obama is not Bush.

#rsrh QotD, We Told You So Edition.

Via Jim Geraghty‘s Morning Jolt comes this observation by Macsmind:

This is astounding that at this point in his presidency the die is already cast, but it is. What’s more astounding is that the press by and large still hasn’t let the cat out of the bag. Obama wasn’t qualified to be president. He didn’t have the experience nor the skill to pull off the job. We wrote about it but no one listened. Now it’s painfully clear.

Indeed, he wasn’t; and indeed, we did. There is actually a temptation to not say ‘I told you so:’ after all, we are told over and over and over again that rubbing people’s noses in something isn’t… nice. And that’s true. At the same time, Macmind also notes that we were more or less here before with Carter, and we didn’t learn anything from the experience, so maybe a little nose-rubbing is actually necessary

#rsrh Race Card Overdrawn.

(Via Instapundit) Dag. I’m starting to think that Jon Stewart’s going to be the official Democratic BS Limit Alarm for the rest of this administration’s term: when even he can’t buy it anymore, it’s over. Witness the death of the Race Card:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Race Card Is Maxed Out
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Again. Dag.

Bill Clinton denies role in WH/Sestak bribe.

Background: as you may recall, starting last year (and as recently as May 2010) Joe Sestak began to allege that the White House offered him an administration job in exchange for dropping out of Pennsylvania’s Senate Democratic primary.  These allegations were both surprising and unsurprising; unsurprising because such offers are made all the time (something similar was reported in Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary), but surprising in that it’s usually not admitted to so openly, given that such offers are also against the law.  Sestak never recanted and the administration claimed that he had garbled a perfectly-innocent and certainly not felonious invitation by President Clinton to have Sestak serve on a commission.  As Sestak had gone on to win the primary anyway, it seemed obvious that all parties involved on the Democratic side of things wanted to let the matter drop quietly.  As for Clinton… he never said anything at all on the subject, really.

Until now (see also here).  Bill Clinton’s now denying that he tried to get Sestak out of the race. Continue reading Bill Clinton denies role in WH/Sestak bribe.

Movie of the Week: Monsters, Inc.

As I recall, Monsters, Inc. was the first Pixar film that had me going “You know, they seem to have a knack for this. When are they actually going to make a mediocre flick?”

Still wondering.

And so, farewell to Kung Fu Panda – which I briefly misremembered as being a Pixar flick. Which is, of course, a massive compliment to its makers.

Book of the Week: The Forgotten Man.

I forget why I picked up The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression – but I’m in the middle of it now, and it’s pretty good. It’s odd: I know that the Left in 2008 thought that they were electing a combination of FDR & JFK; and I know that I’ve said several times that who they actually voted for was a Spock-has-a-beard version of George W Bush. But I’m starting to suspect that what actually happened is that we finally reelected Herbert Hoover… who didn’t learn a thing from the experience, tanjit.

And so, farewell to The Affinity Bridge.

Moe Lane