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Thursday
Aug262010

Is Daily Kos afraid of Anna Little?

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateThursday, August 26, 2010 at 3:46AM

Oh my goodness gracious:

NJ-06: Is longtime Dem endangered? GOP internal poll says he is

If this internal poll is to be believed (and the standard caveats, of course, apply), then the climate for Dems in this cycle might be even worse than has been often projected. A new internal poll, by National Research, for longshot Republican candidate Anna Little claims that she might not be a longshot, after all. The poll shows longtime Democratic incumbent Frank Pallone leading Little by just six points (40-34). This would be a stunning result, if true, in a district where Barack Obama won by 60-38 and where Pallone has won every election since 1992 with at least 57% of the vote.

Notice how they ignore the far more relevant election result, that being Chris Christie’s thumping of John Corzine by 15% in the 6th just a year after Obama’s win. 

Methinks the answer to the question, then, may very well be yes, with the standard caveats…of course.

Buckle up folks! It’s gonna be one hell of a season!

GO ANNA GO!

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Saturday
Jul172010

A Justice McNamara Dispatch: Juuuuuust a bit outside!

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateSaturday, July 17, 2010 at 1:21AM
I would like to choose political candidates based on how they throw a pitch.
Your ability to throw a baseball says a lot about you, much like your shoes. We all remember Bush going to the rubber in Yankee Stadium and throwing a strike.
We also all remember Obama throwing like a girl.
Quick question…do you think Sarah Palin would throw a better pitch than Obama? Hmmm…thats a close one. Prince Harry, a damn aristocratic Englishmen who was going to throw it like he was playing cricket, with a straight arm, nevertheless figured out how to throw and threw it like a man. I think all candidates should go to a mound and throw a pitch before commencing their candidacy. I want to see what you got. One will have a little better feeling of someone who throws like Bush than someone who throws like Obama. It shows a small level of competency and also athletic skill.
In fact, I would love to conduct a social experiment where each candidate, say candidates 1-10, all throw a pitch and then give a 5 minute speech about why they should be elected, all in front of a crowd. After the speech, I would be willing to wager that those who can throw will receive higher marks from the crowd than those that can’t.
Now, this really only applies to men because we don’t expect women to know how to throw. I also have talked with many friends who have played baseball, like myself, and we agree that it is very difficult if not impossible to teach someone how to throw a baseball. It’s an athletic skill than you either have or don’t. Nobody ever taught me anything about throwing; I just did it. And it is very easy to see if someone knows how to throw. It’s all in the wrist. People who cant throw push the ball like a shot putt; they bend the elbow and push it up and out. That is how I would throw with my off hand.
I am going to think of candidates; Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich etc., and think who would be able to throw. I want to see all of them throw, because that will say a lot about them. 
Justice McNamara

Russ:
First the limp-wristed throwing style of Barack “Lamar” Obama…


Next, George W. Bush…
Yeh…it’s not even close.
Here’s W under less stressful circumstances:
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Thursday
Jul082010

Frank Pallone issues shocking statements concerning the Gulf oil spill

Comment2 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateThursday, July 8, 2010 at 11:18PM

Pallone, Corzine and Gore: A Triumverate of Stupid (shamelessly stolen from MoreMonmouthMusings.com)The guy just can’t help himself:

For Immediate Release
Contact: Anna C. Little for Congress Inc.
P.O. Box 382
Highlands, NJ 07732
(732) 216-4771
anna@annalittleforcongress.com

Congressman Pallone Issues Shocking Statements Concerning the Oil Spill
Mayor Anna Little Rebukes his Act of Blame Shifting

Highlands, NJ—Democratic Representative and 22-year incumbent Frank Pallone has recently issued critical comments, stating what he would have done in the president’s place to prevent the disastrous effects of the gulf oil spill, much to the chagrin of Highlands Mayor and Republican Nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s 6th District, Anna Little.  

“Were I president,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) told Politico, “I would have gone out and hired the best experts in the world and put together a consultative panel to advise the president and his Cabinet secretaries, and peer review or second-guess everything BP said they would do throughout this entire time.”

(source:  http://www.bluejersey.com/diary/16121/frank-pallone-on-bps-feelgood-pr-campaign)

Strangely, Pallone seems to forget that he was already in an extremely influential position as a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to prevent or at least ameliorate the effects of the spill.

Mayor Little sharply criticized Representative Pallone’s personal lack of initiative before and after the gulf crisis when she noted that “as a senior member of the congressional committee with oversight jurisdiction over these [Environmental] operations, Frank Pallone is culpable. It is inexcusable that our government, through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, could have and should have prevented this disaster, yet did nothing… It is little wonder that the American people have such a low esteem for Congress.”

(source: http://www.examiner.com/x-34769-Essex-County-Elections-2010-Examiner~y2010m6d24-Anna-Little-lambastes-Frank-Pallone-on-oil-spill)

Pallone’s recent criticisms only magnify his own failure to take the proper measures that could have prevented or minimized the BP disaster. Mayor Anna Little, in stark contrast, has demonstrated that if elected to Congress, she would hold herself directly accountable to those who elected her.  

Yes you read that right. If Francis were President he would have gone out and convened experts to advise him on second-guessing BP…when he sits on the committee that has oversight jursidiction for…second guessing BP!

See, that’s how you get things done in Progressivepalooza. Does anyone in Washington want to just plug the friggin’ hole?

We know full well now that Frank Pallone sure as hell doesn’t. Don’t be fooled.

Pallone Not For New Jersey on Facebook

Pallone Not For New Jersey on Twitter

Pallone Not For New Jersey on Youtube

Vote Anna Little in NJ6.

She doesn’t need a committee to convene an advisory panel to advise a consultative consultant to advise and consult and commit to plugging the mother &^%$# hole!


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Saturday
Jun262010

A Justice McNamara Dispatch: Greeeeat, thanks a lot Barack

Comment4 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateSaturday, June 26, 2010 at 5:09PM
This is a nightmare for Petraeus, this is the last thing he wanted. He is the man for success in Iraq, but now he can’t win here. We are better off fighting on the moon. It will also cause problems for Obama, because like a moron he called this the ‘war of neccesity’ but he didn’t know the first thing about it. Per McChrystal and Petraeus himself, there is no Al Qeada in Afghanistan. So what are we doing there? And let’s not forget that 9/11 was planned in West Palm Beach and Minnesota and SD and Phoenix, not effing Kabul.
 
Plus, when defeat is imminent, the questions will start ‘why was Petraeus successful in Iraq with Bush but not in Afghanistan with Obama’?
Justice McNamara

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Monday
May102010

Grand Wizard of Hate acknowledges that Obama is a fraud

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateMonday, May 10, 2010 at 12:44PM

Well, not exactly, but you tell me what “selected” means:

Keep it up Lou!

h/t Reverend Guido McLovin

 

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Thursday
Apr082010

Best...Comment...Ever

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateThursday, April 8, 2010 at 2:24AM

 

No. Seriously…or else what. (via HotAir)

A political battle royal is likely to begin soon, with Israeli officials and their supporters in the United States protesting what they fear would be an American attempt to impose a settlement and arguing to focus instead on Iran. The White House rejoinder is expressed this way by one of the senior officials: “It’s not either Iran or the Middle East peace process. You have to do both.”


I am beyond words with this fool.

nyx on April 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM

Yeh, what he said.

Russ

 

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Friday
Mar262010

Hook 'em while they're young

Comment2 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateFriday, March 26, 2010 at 9:29PM

 

Benito Baby

Remember, this chick is from the same Country that banned a bunch of cartoons ripping on Islamic Bombheads. Now, I of course don’t think the ‘baby dictator’ series should be banned, I only point out the fact lest we un-remember the hypocrisy.

I got 10 says this broad loves her free health care. Lotsa time left over to dress her baby up as Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Hitler and call it “art”.

Speaking of drooling over all the wonderful things people freed from worrying about their health care could accomplish…

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”

Apparently the artistic giants who brought us Jesus Christ in a bucket of piss just didn’t have the inspiration they needed for true greatness.

Obama’s gonna change it.

Hook ‘em while they’re young folks.

Russ

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Friday
Mar262010

How do you spell "unsustainable"?

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateFriday, March 26, 2010 at 3:25PM

O-b-a-m-a:

President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation’s economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday.

In its 2011 budget, which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Feb. 1, the administration projected a 10-year deficit total of $8.53 trillion. After looking it over, CBO said in its final analysis, released Thursday, that the president’s budget would generate a combined $9.75 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

“An additional $1.2 trillion in debt dumped on [GDP] to our children makes a huge difference,” said Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “That represents an additional debt of $10,000 per household above and beyond the federal debt they are already carrying.”

The federal public debt, which was $6.3 trillion ($56,000 per household) when Mr. Obama entered office amid an economic crisis, totals $8.2 trillion ($72,000 per household) today, and it’s headed toward $20.3 trillion (more than $170,000 per household) in 2020, according to CBO’s deficit estimates.

In other news, watch Claire McCaskill explain how this “Demon Bill” will only get “stronger and stronger” as time goes on. I have to assume she simply misspoke and that “stronger” actually means “shittier”. I guess we can let ‘ol Claire off the hook for this one.

(Note to RCP…open up the embeds assholes!)

Via Mises DailyWhy do I have a feeling that we’ll reach the 100% tipping point much sooner than the CBO expects?

Because the CBO is almost always wrong, or at least they are almost always “off” by a couple trillion here and there.

This obviously isn’t just an American thing either. Here’s how Reason Fellow Marius Gustavson describes it:

Strauss-Khan has been a leading advocate for massive fiscal stimulus, launching this idea at the World Economic Forum two years ago. However, recent developments have clearly demonstrated that, to quote Niall Ferguson, “there is no such thing as a Keynesian free lunch.” In his view, the effects of the stimulus have been much more moderate than expected, and “explosions of public debt incur bills that fall due much sooner than we expect.”

In other words, the day of reckoning is already upon us, at least for the PIGS, and it is moving closer by the day for the United States and the United Kingdom.

Read the whole thing for an explanation of how and why we are where we are.

Hint: It ain’t because we spend too little.

Grab yer gators folks!

Russ

 

Russell Cote-September 12, 2010. Washington, D.C.

 

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Wednesday
Mar242010

What...Obama Worry?

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateWednesday, March 24, 2010 at 5:00PM

The love affair, as they say, is officially over: (via Ace)

Posted via email from The Resistance

h/t Justice McNamara

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Wednesday
Mar172010

A Justice McNamara Dispatch: There is only one Jim Fassel

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateWednesday, March 17, 2010 at 1:35PM

“I am raising the stakes right now, … If this is a poker game, I am shoving my chips right in the middle of the table. I am raising the ante. Anybody who wants out, can get out.”

It was Nov 22, 2000. The New York Giants has just lost their second straight game to the lowly Detroit Lions at the Meadowlands, the fans and media were as angry as Tony Soprano when he found out Janice took out a loan on Livia’s house.

Obama has tried to give a version of this speech, but his problem is that he does not connect with people emotionally. He just doesn’t. It’s just part of his personality. Sometimes I wonder if he is a robot as he appears to often lack any emotion at all. Look left, look right, read teleprompter, speak in clipped measure, thank everybody, leave, repeat.

The most amazing aspect of this entire episode is this…they tell me Obama is the greatest communicator ever, that nobody can give a speech like him, but he can’t sell this. Obama…can’t…sell this. He can give a prepared speech sure, but anything other than that incurs a lot of ‘umms’. Since he can’t sell it, he now has two weeks to save everything. Two weeks. That’s it. If Jesus rises and this bill hasn’t passed…its dead.

AP-via WSJ (click image for source)If it passes it will pass 216-215. I would wager any amount on this. If it fails, there is a very good chance the vote is 215-216, though anywhere between 210-215 is possible. The fact that the WH is now going after people like Kucinich shows that they really don’t have the votes as they have given up trying to convince people like Stupak. The Kucinich moves smells of desperation. The possibility exists that Pelosi will believe she has 216 votes, and then on the floor someone has a moment of consciousness and changes their vote to no. It’s possible.

That said, if I had a gun to my head right now, I would say it passes 216-215.

Justice McNamara

**Update (Russ)**

I received this from JM yesterday but, being at the Surge, I couldn’t get it posted until now. News today is that, of course, Kucinich is a yes.

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Sunday
Mar142010

Time to Pick a Side Fencesitters

Comment3 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateSunday, March 14, 2010 at 1:41PM

Nate Beeler sums up the present ideological battlefield. Behold the vast “middle”:

Nate Beeler-Washington Examiner

The mystical “center” of American politics has been a myth as long as I’ve been alive, like unicorns and the dodo bird. It may have existed at point prior to 1977, that I can’t say for sure. But there is no center now and there most likely never will be again. We need to make ideological oppressivism (a/k/a liberal progressivism) a permanent remant of an era gone by. A dirty little mistake in American History that you tell your grandkids to scare them when they’re bad. “Don’t ever grow up to be a liberal little Johnny…or you’ll wind up serving drinks to the lawyers in Hell.”

Well done Mr. President. Let nobody ever tell me again that this man hasn’t accomplished something great. He’s managed to draw the long overdue political and ideological battle lines more starkly than anyone of his predecessors could, in only a little over a year in office.

That is no small feat.

Russ

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Monday
Mar082010

83rd Time's the Charm

Comment2 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateMonday, March 8, 2010 at 2:32PM

Fine, I don’t know the exact number but, this is close enough:

Obama made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress worked on a rescue plan for sweeping changes in health care that seemed earlier in the year to be on the brink of passage. The current two-step approach calls for the House to approve a Senate-passed bill despite opposition to several of its provisions, and for both houses to follow immediately with a companion measure that makes a series of changes.

As you all well know, the problem is that we just haven’t gotten it yet. We just don’t understand how awesomely awesome Obama’s plan really is. He just hasn’t reached us yet.

I think he figured out how to do it:

President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of health care legislation stalled in Congress.

“Let’s seize reform, the need is great,” Obama said at an appearance that had the feel of a campaign rally.

“How much higher do premiums have to rise before we do something about it?” said Obama, making the first in an expected string of out-of-town trips to pitch his plan to remake the health care system.

That’s it. There just hasn’t been enough fearmongering as of late. We don’t know who the evil-doers are yet.

This is the best part though:

Obama has long identified the insurance industry as an obstacle to changes along the lines he seeks, but the administration’s actions and rhetoric seem to have escalated in recent days.

The president’s proposal would give the government the right to limit excessive premiums increases - a provision included after one firm announced a 39 percent increase in the price of individual policies sold in California. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, convened a White House meeting with insurance executives last week, and followed up with a letter released in advance of Obama’s speech.

It asks companies to “post on your Web sites the justification for any individual or small group rate increases you have implemented or proposed in 2010.”

How rich is that! They don’t have to a) read the bill or, b) post it online for us, but he gets to demand that insurance companies put their reasons (which, if you’ve ever actually seen an insurance company actuarial table, you know nobody will understand) for raising premiums online.

What a farce.

Russ

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Friday
Mar052010

Harry Reid: Only 36,000 People Lost Their Jobs "Today"...Drinks are on the House!

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 3:22PM

Sweeeeet:

Sometimes I lament the fact that we’re no longer gonna have this guy around to laugh at after November. Sometimes.

In other great recession news, Heritage lays out exactly why this recession will never end, at least while Barack Obama keeps doing stuff:

Our economy’s job creators have been trying to send a message to the Obama administration for months: stop creating so much uncertainty in the tax and regulatory environment so that we can figure out how to invest our money and start creating jobs. Stop taking over car companies. Stop shedding financing contracts. Stop taking over 1/6th of our economy. Stop raising taxes on our energy sector. Just stop.

Our economy will eventually recover and start producing jobs again, probably very soon. But that recovery has already been delayed by an administration that saw this recession as an opportunity to fundamentally rewrite our nation’s relationship with the federal government. Unless this administration completely abandons its far reaching transformation agenda, this recovery will be a very slow one.

I gotta be honest with you, I think Heritage is being too optimistic here. I don’t think the economy is going to start producing jobs anytime soon. As long as Obama continues doing what he’s doing with health care, phony environmental issues, private sector bailouts and takeovers, etc. ad infinitum, no business owner in their right mind is going to start investing in projects, labor, materials or hardware because the consequences of Obama’s plans are so disastrous.

This is one of the fundamental reasons why central planning will never, ever work. Everytime, everytime, the government intervenes in the market it slows or halts private sector investment while the intervention is ongoing. Then when the dust settles, the market regroups and starts working around the regulation which, inevitably, will be one that hampers growth. Then another regulation comes down and the process repeats itself. This is why no regulation ever seems to be good enough and why “hybrid” socialist/capitalist markets never, ever, ever work. The two are irreconcilably antagonistic.

I for one am thus far just giddy that the Republicans have been the Party of No.

Russ

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Friday
Mar052010

Hey You Know What's Actually a Good Idea? Military Tribunals.

CommentPost a Comment | | AuthorRuss DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 11:12AM

Oh for the love of God:

This would be an about face for the Obama administration which has consistently insisted trying Mohammed in civilian court would be a powerful symbol of U.S. rule of law.

In November 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder announced his intention to do just that. But a firestorm of criticism erupted from New York officials who did not want the trial held in Manhattan, and from Republican lawmakers who did not want a civilian trial.

White House advisers are considering recommending alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed be tried in a military court, not a civilian one in New York, a senior administration official confirmed Friday.

If the president accepts this recommendation, his administration would be reversing itself on two fronts, the location of the trial and the type of trial.

“We are evaluating based on New York City logistical and security concerns on trial in federal courts,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday.

Is this administration’s on-the-job training just too goddamn much for anyone else? Next they’ll tell us ‘hey on second thought, I don’t think we can pay for this massive health care bill’.

Actually probably not.

If you want to see some pictures from the December 5th event to protest KSM’s Manhattan trial, check it out.

You know this is the right call when the ACLU calls it a “death blow” to justice:

“If this stunning reversal comes to pass, President Obama will deal a death blow to his own Justice Department, not to mention American values,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU.

If the President flip-flops and retreats to the Bush military commissions, he will betray his campaign promise to restore the rule of law, demonstrate that his principles are up for grabs and lose all credibility with Americans who care about justice and the rule of law,” he said.

It’s more accurately the exact opposite of what that guy just said. But if you take your cues on “American values” from the ACLU, perhaps you should be tried in a military tribunal.

Just sayin’.

Russ

H/T Justice McNamara

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Wednesday
Mar032010

The Filthy Lying Hypocrite-in-Chief Makes it Official

Comment2 Comments | | AuthorRuss DateWednesday, March 3, 2010 at 2:21PM

We’re doing this and we couldn’t care less what the unwashed rabble thinks:

“Now is the time to make a decision about how to finally reform health care so that it works, not just for the insurance companies, but for America’s families and businesses,” Obama said at the White House, kicking off what he promised would be another full-on campaign to pass reform.

And without saying the word “reconciliation,” Obama signaled that he’ll pass reform with Democratic votes only if necessary – all but daring the Republican to get on board or watch Congress go ahead without them, using the parliamentary tactics that would require just 51 votes in the Senate.

Once again, you stinking hypocrite, what’d you have to say before today?

Want a foreshadow of the spin you’ll hear from the Left?

“No matter which approach you favor, I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform. We have debated this issue thoroughly, not just for a year, but for decades. Reform has already passed the House with a majority. It has already passed the Senate with a supermajority of sixty votes,” Obama said.

Ohhh, ok, it’s already passed so now 50+1 is all good. That about how it works?

“The American people want to know if it’s still possible for Washington to look out for their interests and their future,” Obama said. “I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it’s right. And so I ask Congress to finish its work, and I look forward to signing this reform into law.

He just doesn’t get it does he. I’ve said before, numerous times, that I just don’t think Obama is intelligent enough to grasp the concept that no, the American People most certainly do not want to know if Washington can “look out for their interests”. The American People want Washington to get the fuck out of the way and let us live our lives.

Sorry, but throughout this entire charade, I never really thought for a heartbeat that something as tyrannical as socialized medicine could ever actually occur in the United States of America. I guess I just grew up believing that this was the land of the free.

I may have been mistaken.

Russ

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