Gallup has a new poll out as of yesterday. Gallup’s headline says that Americans favor GOP challengers over incumbents. But if you add the figures for Republican newcomers, 38%, to the figures for Republican incumbents, 15%, the total is 53% of voters favor Republicans. The total for Democrats, 16% plus 24% the total is 40% of voters favor Dems. Quite a spread.
Gallup 09-03-10 Poll
No wonder there is talk of a Republican sweep in November.
Michael J. Gross, in Vanity Fair magazine published a slam piece on Palin. The writer put it together for Palin haters. It’s made up of innuendo and “Anonymous Sources”. Palin was asked about it on Hannity’s radio program and, quotesmith that she is, she called him and other reporters who use the same tactics ‘Impotent, limp, and gutless’. And she did it twice. Here is the audio:
Most “green” advocates are extraordinary hypocrites demanding that the masses cut back travel, be cold in the winter, hot in the summer and basically scale back their standards of living. Ad Jesse Jackson to the list, he loves government mpg mandates, government subsidized green jobs and stratospheric UAW wages to go with them. Karma nailed Jesse this week.In Detroit to advocate for more green cars, he had his massive Cadillac Escalade stripped.
Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.
Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.
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Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.
You gotta love the irony. The theives simply did to Jesse what Jesse does to America.
It isn’t our anger. It isn’t our guns. It isn’t that we have adopted Alinsky’s tactics. It is, quite simply, this.
The much-analyzed speeches at the Glenn Beck Lincoln Memorial rally weren’t as notable as what the estimated 300,000 attendees did: follow instructions, listen quietly to hours of speeches, and throw out their trash.
Just as stunning as the tableaux of the massive throngs lining the reflecting pool were the images of the spotless grounds afterward. If someone had told attendees they were expected to mow the grass before they left, surely some of them would have hitched flatbed trailers to their vehicles for the trip to Washington and gladly brought mowers along with them.
This was the revolt of the bourgeois, of the responsible, of the orderly, of people profoundly at peace with the traditional mores of American society. The spark that lit the tea-party movement was the rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who inveighed in early 2009 against an Obama-administration program to subsidize “the losers’ mortgages.” He was speaking for people who hadn’t borrowed beyond their means or tried to get rich quick by flipping houses, for the people who, in their thrift and enterprise, “carry the water instead of drink the water.”
The left wants desperately to believe that tea party types are radicals, racists, haters, freaks… We aren’t that. We are the mainstream. We are America. They know that. The Real Revo won’t be about revolution, it will be about restoration.
I find Doctor Zero to be one of the most lucid, clear thinking, insightful, and skilled writers in the blogosphere. I can only wish for his abilities. His most recent column is called ‘After The Fall’. In it he has a world of wisdom for those of us on the right. First, and perhaps foremost, we will not be able to reverse the efforts of the Progressives in one election cycle. They have been at it for too long:
The highest priority for Americans is the repeal of ObamaCare… Outright repeal must wait until Obama has been replaced in 2012, but a Republican Congress can neutralize the worst provisions of the bill….
There is some concern that a successful Republican Congress will engineer enough prosperity to pump air into the Obama re-election campaign. Knowing ObamaCare was dead would send a euphoric surge through an economy that has spent the last couple of years curled up in the corner, hugging itself and whimpering as it awaits the next beating from Democrats…
If the Republican wave in 2010 is an isolated outpouring of voter anger, we’ll have trouble finishing the job in 2012, and could soon find ourselves right back where we started. It’s not enough for the electorate to “throw the bums out” this year.”
Clooney, 49, told The Sun newspaper that apart from his charmed life, one world event with which he has become intimately involved — the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan — remains a personal albatross.
“I’ve been honored to be able to lend my celebrity to help wherever I can, especially on behalf of the United Nations,” he said in a wide-ranging interview. “But in the case of Darfur it’s been the greatest failure of my life.”
Clooney and his journalist father Nick smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps four years ago to show the impact of the civil war that is estimated to have killed more than 300,000.
Since the, Clooney said little has changed.
I, for one, am stunned that anyone can continue with anything so trivial as tribal warfare and genocide when George Clooney asks them to stop. Have they no idea how handsome, charming and talented he is?
That headline isn’t from the Onion. Seriously. The Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Restaurants to see if they are marketing to children. Here is Advertising Age.
The Federal Trade Commission is once again handing out subpoenas to companies that market food to children and teens.
Three years after initially delivering what is technically known as “orders to file special report” to 44 marketers, the FTC last week began sending subpoenas to 48 companies in order to prepare a follow-up to its 120-page report issued in 2008, “Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities and Self-Regulation.”
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But Mr. DiResta, a former director of the FTC’s Southeast Regional Office, did say that marketing food products to children very much remains on the FTC’s radar.
“The FTC sees marketing to children as a high priority,” he said. “They see children as a vulnerable group that warrants special protection, just as they did the elderly. Given the new technological developments, like iPhones and location-based marketing, they see the emerging technologies can really have an impact on kids.”
I am shocked – SHOCKED – to find out that Chuck E. Cheese is marketing to children. I had no idea that they actually would stoop so low as to direct their marketing at an under 16 demographic. I am proud that our government watchdogs are able to decipher the hidden code in slick marketing such as the Chuck E. Cheese slogan: “Where a kid can be a kid!TM” Thank God we have Federal Agencies on top of this threat. We can all sleep better knowing these public guardians are standing watch.
You just know that there is something cooking. Sometime between now and election day, the Democrats will trot out something to make themselves look good and/or the Republicans look bad. The tax cut for businesses might be it but I am guessing there is something bigger than that in the works.
Your task is to predict the October Surprise and memorialize your prediction here. If we predict it now, it will make it less effective when it happens. Furthermore, if your prediction is correct, you will be slathered with praise and endowed with the undying respect of your fellow Revoistas.
So let’s hear it. What will be the impending October Surprise?
Democrats have seen the writing on the wall and it says, “you are screwed in November.”
As was predicted on this site over and over, the crypto-Marxist economic snake oil of the Obama Administration has failed and done so spectacularly. The economy is barely breathing and current GDP growth is slower than population growth. That is a recession: You know it, I know it and the American people know it.
With less than two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars – to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
Among the options under consideration are a temporary payroll tax holiday and a permanent extension of the now-expired research and development tax credit, which rewards companies that conduct research into new technologies within the United States.
Administration officials have struggled to develop new economic policies and an effective message to blunt expected Republican gains in Congress and defuse complaints from Democrats that President Obama is fumbling the issue most important to voters.
That is good news but, you know damned well that as soon as the November elections are over, Obama will go right back to far-left economy-destroying policies.
Have you noticed that the name of the new wahabi channel in Spain is the same as the 9/11 victory mosque?
Cordoba. Why Cordoba? They say this:
The name Cordoba was chosen carefully to reflect a period of time during which Islam played a monumental role in the enrichment of human civilization and knowledge. A thousand years ago Muslims, Jews, and Christians coexisted and created a prosperous center of intellectual, spiritual, cultural and commercial life in Cordoba, Spain.
(Straight from the Cordoba Initiative website… )
The truth takes a quick history lesson of Moorish Spain:
A thousand years ago the Moors were charging jizya (non-muslim faith tax) to Christians and Jews throughout the Spanish peninsula. Mordern day portugal was the last holdout (where the Christian reconquest was mounted from).
Abd-er Rahman bought the Christian section of the church in Cordoba (Mezquita) and expanded the Mosque.
Al-Mansur popped up in the late 900′s. In 997 his army captured Santiago de Compostela (the jumping off point for the Christian reconquest). The Christian shrine was sacked. Prisoners took the basilica doors/bells to Cordoba and installed them in the Mezquita (former church turned into mosque). Centuries of Christian reconquest were crushed by Al-Mansur.
Do you notice the motivation here? They take souvenirs from places they destroy and add them to their trophies (mosques). They are using the Spanish name to throw the lazy off their track. Their true motivation is the same as it was a thousand years ago… stopping the advance of western Christians!
Another fine how do you do from our socialist administration.
PHOENIX – The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office’s defiance “unprecedented,” and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and jail policies that discriminate against people with limited English skills
Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents the federal government first asked for 15 months ago.
Arpaio called the Justice Department actions harassment at a news conference Thursday morning in downtown Phoenix. His office has said it won’t hand over additional documents because federal authorities haven’t said exactly what they were investigating.
“They have hundreds of thousands of reports, hundreds of thousands,” Arpaio said. “They’re so broad, we’re trying to narrow it down. We’re trying to work with them.”
“…And I do know that candidates — and I include myself — that are running for election or re-election are not rational people. I mean, we don’t want anything to interfere with our re-election. And if some pollster comes and says that, you know, five out of 10 people are against this, then we take both sides. You know?”
In another attempt to shirk their Constitutional responsibility, while simultaneously castigating and prosecuting anyone who attempts to take care of problems on their own, the Feral Government has ceded Arizona land to Mexican drug cartels.
“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
…assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers along the southwestern border were on the increase – up 46 percent against Border Patrol agents alone.
At the same time, the Justice Department brought a lawsuit to stop a new immigration enforcement law in Arizona, saying it violated the Constitution by trying to supersede federal law and by impairing illegal immigrants’ right to travel and conduct interstate commerce.
Mr. Cutler said it was “outrageous” for the BLM to direct travelers to dial 911 to report suspicious activities since the calls do not go to the federal government but to state and local police. He said the signs are telling Americans to call state and local law enforcement authorities to deal with border lawlessness while at the same time telling Arizona that only the federal government can write and enforce immigration laws.
The way the right wants to tell the story — and, I’m afraid, the way it will play in November — is that the Obama team went all out for Keynesian policies, and they failed. So back to supply-side economics!
The point, of course, is that that is not at all what happened. A straight Keynesian analysis implied the need for a much bigger program, more oriented toward spending, than the administration proposed. And people like me said that at the time — we’re not talking about hindsight. To wit:
Once there was a farmer who had a horse who was a bit sick. The horse could still work, but he tired easily. The farmer wanted to cure his horse. He mentioned the problem to a man from the city – Chicago I think – and the city man said that he should give the horse two tablespoons of turpentine each day. The farmer took the advice and started the treatment.
Two weeks later the horse was worse and could barely work at all. The townie dude said that the solution was to double the dose. So the farmer started administering four tablespoons of turpentine per day.
A week later the horse was so sick that it couldn’t work at all. The city slicker told him he wasn’t really taking the cure seriously and to double the dose to eight tablespoons of turpentine per day. So the farmer did.
Later, when the farmer was burying his dead horse the dude from the city drove by. As he did, he slowed down and yelled out the window to the farmer, “You obviously didn’t give him enough turpentine!”
It is a long process, but the left is starting to understand that President Teleprompter Obama is pretty much just an extension of an electronic device.
Now Matthews isn’t all they way there yet. He understands that Obama is pretty much just reading what is put in front of him. What he doesn’t quite grasp is that, without a teleprompter, Obama doesn’t “connect,” he blathers almost incoherently. Matthews is never going to see much of Obama without a teleprompter because without the teleprompter, there is nothing to see.
South Korea would like to sell American collectors American made M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines. They have some of the antiques left over from the Korean war and would like to make the perfectly legal rifles available to Americans. Obama says no way.
The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.
The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.
A State Department spokesman said the administration’s decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.
“The transfer of such a large number of weapons — 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines — could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes,” the spokesman told FoxNews.com.
“We are working closely with our Korean allies and the U.S. Army in exploring alternative options to dispose of these firearms.”
Bear in mind that the M1 is a perfectly legal rifle that is bought and sold in America everyday, Tens of thousands of them are already in the hands of Americans. This is just one more way an anti-gun administration makes it harder for Americans to own the arms Americans want to own.
