Protocols of the elders of Palin
Dramatis Personae
Elder 1, political fundraiser
Elder 2, lobbyist
Sarah Palin, sancta simplicitas
ELDER 1: Sarah, we’re very disappointed in you.
PALIN: Why? [Read more →]
Entries Tagged as 'politics & government'
Michelle Obama takes on the menace of fat kids
Nancy Reagan used her powers of persuasion in her capacity as First Lady to get us all to “just say ‘no‘” to drugs. Now everyone knows that crack is whack, and only losers are users. Drug use is now the exclusive province of entertainers who take drugs purely for their value as entertainment to us. Barbara Bush focused like a laser beam on literacy, and taught a nation to read. The fact that you’re able to read this now is proof of her success in that endeavor. Hillary Clinton delivered on her promise of providing affordable and effective healthcare to every citizen, regardless of income level or pre-existing condition. Laura Bush focused like a laser beam on literacy, and taught a nation to read. The fact that you’re able to read this now is proof of her success in that endeavor.
We’ve been waiting for over a year to discover what weighty issue our current First Lady, Michelle Obama, would eliminate. And now we know, she is bringing her considerable persuasive heft to convince us all that we need to stop being so fat.
The Constitutional Option returns
Dramatis Personae
Joe Biden, Vice-President of the United States
Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader
Tom Udall, Senator from New Mexico
UDALL: I’m offering a resolution to end the filibuster.
BIDEN: Sounds good to me. [Read more →]
No worries, we’re doomed
Two recent events were undeniable… arithmetically indisputable, good news on the economic front. These of course were the rapid growth in Q4 of last year and the recent crash through the dirty-glass floor of double-digit unemployment. Gold prices are well down, oil is up but it seems that is mostly currency fluctuation. That’s good stuff. However public opinion is unimpressed. The recent spike which seems was captured only in Rasmussen’s robo-called three-day rolling average has endured scarcely a week. Even the Obies are going easy on the trumpets. So what is up? It’s quite simple. Everyone paying attention now knows that whatever blurps and blips take place in the short term, economically at least, we are fully and truly screwed. [Read more →]
Obama administration is soft on Chinese espionage
Today’s sentencing of Dongfan Chung, a 74-year-old former engineer for defense contractor Boeing who was convicted of economic espionage, makes the Obama administration’s recent downgrading of China as an espionage threat look foolish.
John Tkacik, a former State Department intelligence official, told the Washington Times, that the demotion of China to a second tier priority reflects bias in the National Security Council staff. The demotion was a political decision to assuage Chinese concerns that American intelligence agencies were exaggerating the Chinese threat.
Sarah Palin is going to wind up getting elected
I’m not a Sarah Palin fan. The idea of a populist “conservative” scares the living day lights out of me. Conservatism is supposed to be the ideology of people who think independently, who realize that they can’t vote for their own self interest and expect to have a functioning, viable country.
But if the left keeps on dragging her out into the spotlight, she’s going to win high office.
Man, am I ever glad we’re spending money on the Haiti “relief effort”
Even though I feel sympathy for the plight of the Haitians, I’m the kind of person who LOVES to say “I told you so“.
The protest in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince was one of the largest since the January 12 quake that killed more than 200,000 people and left over 1 million homeless. It reflected still simmering anger among survivors over problems in the massive international relief effort.
Aid agencies from around the world have moved tons of rice and other food into Haiti but distributions to the hungry and homeless have been slow and sometimes chaotic.
Bonfire of the Vanities Part II
Dramatis Personae
Mike McGuinn, Secret Service agent
James O’Keefe, conservative enfant terrible
Sean Medlock, a/k/a Jim Treacher
O’KEEFE: Are you sure you can get me into the White House?
MCGUINN: You’re not gonna bug their phones, are you? [Read more →]
Jackie Gleason cheers as Obama ends moon visit
“One of these days, Alice… POW! Right in the kisser. Straight to the moon!”
Well, America’s favorite domestic abuser might have been a little more upbeat, were he alive to see these days. While he never succeeded in putting his his wife on the moon with a killer uppercut, it seems as though the government is finally going to help simplify the process of placing Americans on our closest celestial neighbor.
Future headline: Boy, 7, in critical condition after light bulb raid
February 3, 2015
A Culvert County second-grader is in critical condition tonight after a SWAT team shot him four times in the process of serving a warrant to check his home for illegal light bulbs.
NOW’s Super Bowl ad
Dramatis Personae
Terry O’Neill, President of NOW
Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff
O’NEILL: Hello. We in the pro-choice community feel — in light of Pam and Tim Tebow’s horrific and offensive Super Bowl ad, where they ignorantly glorify the choice of life — that we must respond, by encouraging all pregnant women in crisis to make the one and only correct choice. [Read more →]
Exaggeration nation: Disappointed
Feel like a chump nowadays? Mark Morford’s disappointment is better than yours:
My God, did you hear that pathetic State of the Union? That guy, that President Obama? Disappointing times a thousand, am I right? What the hell happened to him? Why is he so weak and ineffectual? Why the hell can’t he step up and fix the entire planet in under 400 days like he promised he would, in my dreams and fantasies and impossible liberal grass-fed organic tofu greengasms? Doesn’t he know I put a goddamn bumper sticker on my Subaru for him? I’ve never done that for anyone. Bastard.
Heartbreaking.
Obama SOARS on Rasmussen!
Read it and WEEP, Righties! From the low on December 22nd this is a recovery of eighty-one percent! Give or take. Hey, what is a rounding error among friends? Or enemies? Of course there are some complications. [Read more →]
A ford in our future?
When Governor David Paterson appointed Rep. Kirsten E. Gillibrand as New York’s junior U.S. Senator last year to replace Hillary Clinton, most New Yorkers had never heard of the upstate Congresswoman. They were just glad the ordeal was over. The selection process, which included a lengthy and undignified public dangling of Caroline Kennedy, was a disaster for both the unqualified Ms. Kennedy and the inept Governor. Now the power elites are scrambling to keep Gillibrand in office in the face of a new challenge: Harold E. Ford Jr., lately of Tennessee, who has suddenly discovered that he is an ambitious New York pol. [Read more →]
The teacher’s union strikes again
My headline is a more accurate representation of the information about President Obama’s plans to overhaul No Child Left Behind, as presented in the New York Times.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D): Makin’ it rain
I usually try to stay away from populism. Having lived around cows for much of my life, I know, vividly, exactly what herd behavior is, and how much we don’t want it in human society. But the Speaker of the House, Ms. Nancy Pelosi (D), has earned a good dose of populist rage, and I think we should give it to her.
This is the bet
You are an elected Democrat. You have voted for Obamacare and you may be asked to do so again. In any case, the two of you are now married. But Left and Right agree, she is on life support. Sentiment aside, do you want her to live or do you pull the plug? [Read more →]
The modern-day John Doers
Next week, the first so-called “Tea Party Convention” convenes in Nashville. It bears an eerie similarity to a convention held long ago on celluloid.
In Meet John Doe — Frank Capra’s lesser known Christmas movie — Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper stage what they believe will be a harmless ruse to generate newspaper sales: Cooper pretends to be John Doe, who — disgusted with the level of inhumanity in Depression-era America — will jump off a building on Christmas Eve in protest. [Read more →]
Senate approves more sanctions against Iran
Today the US Senate passed a bill which will impose economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The plan is to “target companies that export gasoline to Iran or help expand the country’s oil-refining capacity by, in part, denying them loans and other assistance from U.S. financial institutions.”
I argued in a post I wrote last year for my blog that this is collective punishment, and is therefore immoral and shouldn’t be done. Despite our leaders’ hearts constantly weeping for the Iranian populace — “‘The situation in Iran is terrible and it’s worsening. People are dying in Iran as we speak,’ said Senator John McCain just before the Senate [sanctions] vote” — sanctions lower the standard of living for all Iranian civilians. [Read more →]
Realities in conflict
Ben Bernanke is the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank and as such has great influence over what you pay in interest in any financed transaction since he is basically the steward of the currency. He was a Bush appointment, a leading figure in the bank bailout scheme known as TARP and has been enthusiastically embraced by the Obama Administration and they want him re-appointed to another term. Why? Well haven’t you heard? Ben Bernanke saved the universe last fall. [Read more →]
