Senator Roy Moore

KAUS:5 Reasons Why Moore’s Win Matters Luther Strange is Cantor II. Which House Republicans want to try out for the role of Cantor III by backing the Pelosi/Trump amnesty? Not many, I suspect. The pundits may tell them the Alabama race was all about vague anti-Establishment anger, or the failure to repeal Obamacare, or about “local dynamics.” Elected Republican legislators, with their careers on the line, know better. 1. Moore won without Trump: Only a few days ago it was fashionable to declare “there is no such thing as Trumpism”–there was only Trump, and his changing positions. Trump’s voters would simply follow whichever way their leader led — even, most controversially, into a deal with Democrats to give formal amnesty to the illegal immigrants known as “Dreamers,” who had been protected by an Obama executive action (DACA). But, in Alabama, Trump said ‘Follow Big Luther’ and his base said, ‘No thanks. We’ve found a Trumpier candidate.’ Turns out there is such a thing as Trumpism without Trump: 2. Moore won without Drudge: This one’s more surprising. Drudge’s website has been a rock of support for both Trump and Trump’s underlying cause of immigration-skepticism. Given the pro-immigration bias of the mainstream press, he’s seemed indispensable. ... But the idea that the king of alt media could be sidelined and scrappy Breitbart would fill the void must terrify the GOP “governing wing.” Remember when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s defeat by an anti-amnesty outsider in 2014 sealed the doom of the massive, heavily hyped “Gang of 8” amnesty? The bill had already passed the Senate, but when Cantor went down House Republicans who valued their job security didn’t want to go anywhere near it. 3. Bannon won: They mocked when Bannon left the White House and pledged a vague campaign to somehow support Trump while still attacking him as he strayed from his former populist “America First” ideas on immigration, trade, and war.  ... 4. Jared Kushner was wrong again: ...How much awful advice from his son-in-law is the President going to take? 5. Immigration Amnesty lost big: Two weeks before the Alabama election, some polls apparently showed a very tight race. About this time, Trump held his infamous dinner with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi at which he seemed to cut a Dem-friendly deal to give amnesty to the “Dreamers” — in exchange for a grab-bag of feel-good border security measures that did not include his promised Wall. Candidate Moore denounced the deal. Worthwhile: Full Micky Kaus INSTANT PAYOFF!   Sen. Bob Corker Won’t Seek Re-Election

Mr. Johnson Goes to Washington

Mr. Johnson Goes to Washington Wisconsin Senator and tea party favorite talks about the frustrations of his first two years as a senator, his version of the 'Buffett Rule,' and what could happen if Mitt Romney wins. “ For starters, he says, Congress doesn't operate with anything close to the efficiency of a business: "If you're going to compete against an organization, Congress would be the perfect one to compete against." ... the Senate in 2010 included 57 lawyers (Mr. Feingold was one) but zero manufacturers and just one accountant. With Mr. Johnson, the Senate gained a manufacturer and an accountant. He pulls out a pen and draws a diagram of Congress—a big rectangle containing a bunch of incongruent circles. "You've got all of these cookie-cutter offices. They're all stove-piped. They're all silent. A bunch of cats that don't play well in the same box. It's competitive. You see the exact same piece of legislation with somebody else's name on it. What's that about?" The senator believes the 2012 election is seminal not only because he thinks it's our last chance to make a U-turn on the road to serfdom—"this election is literally about saving America"—but also because it offers Republicans a singular opportunity to educate the public about the country's problems, and in doing so, earn a mandate for fixing them.  [Full] Johnson very much reminds me of Sen. Hank Brown (R CO -1991-1997).   (He was criticized by professional Senate Dems for being a "greedy businessman in it to protect his own interests). He quit after serving two terms to return to that business, saying "two terms are enough."  ”

Rep. Louie Gohmert

Rep. Louie Gohmert sees President Obama as one of the biggest threats to this nation.

“ "Well for one thing, I see the president is a divider, not a uniter. He said the opposite, but what we've seen is he's using class warfare, he's dividing America. He's trying to say, if you don't have a job then you need to look around and be jealous of people who have money, who have a job and want what they have. "He has encouraged the Occupy movement as being a good thing. There hasn't been a president in our history, that as a sitting president, encouraged protesters. ... That makes no sense unless you have a divider, not a uniter."  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R TX) ” Obama's patronage of the OCCUPY movement cannot be mentioned too many times.  It puts him in the Bürgerbräukeller.

Virginia the Role Model

Obama's Virginia Defeat Democrats were trounced in Tuesday's state legislature election, despite the president's heavy investment of time in the state.

“ Mr. Obama was the first Democrat to win Virginia since 1964; he beat John McCain by seven percentage points; and he did so on the strength of his appeal to Northern Virginia's many white-collar independents. Along with victories in North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada, the Obama Old Dominion win in 2008 inspired a flurry of stories about how Democrats had forever altered the political map. Virginia Republicans added seven new seats to their majority in the House of Delegates, giving them two-thirds of that chamber's votes—the party's largest margin in history. The GOP also took over the Virginia Senate in results that were especially notable, given that Virginia Democrats this spring crafted an aggressive redistricting plan that had only one aim: providing a firewall against a Republican takeover of that chamber. Even that extreme gerrymander didn't work. Every Republican incumbent—52 in the House, 15 in the Senate—won.  [FULL] I stated before my opinion that Virginia has the best government in the union. They are conservatives who ran as conservatives;  and govern as conservatives.  This latest result then is no surprise.  What is surprising is the GOP's insistence on favoring old guard moderates at every turn. Perry falters, Romney keeps rolling Newt moves to second DRUDGE Despite this latest lesson from Virginia, the GOP's old guard are determined to put an apparatchik at the top of the ticket.  I loved Newt; own his little red book of sayings.  But Newt is essentially a big gummint guy, and to pretend otherwise is  deception.  Cain may not be the best we have to offer, but he is the best we've got. IMO

John Bolton and the COLB WTF?

Lightning Bolt

“   One issue The Donald has thrust into the public spotlight through the sheer force of his personality is the birther conspiracy, which suggests that President Obama may not have been born in the United States and therefore may not be eligible to be president. Bolton, who does not “have any doubt” that President Obama was born in Hawaii, said that promoting the birther conspiracy is almost a disqualifying issue for a candidate. “I think it’s close to a disqualifying issue,” he said. “Why the president doesn’t show his birth certificate is beyond me. I’ve got my birth certificate. Do you want to see it? I’d be happy to show it to you. But the notion that it’s an issue worth talking about I think is at a minimum overtaken by events and, B, not entirely rational.” ”

There is nobody in government I respect more than John Bolton.  His integrity is unquestioned, his bollocks large. Now, alas, he joins the list of other decent people who've expressed this opinion of Obama's [non-existent, so far] birth certificate.  A list of people I have subsequently asked this single question: What is it that thus convinced you? Nobody so far has answered. Perhaps it's as simple as this: “ Why the president doesn’t show his birth certificate is beyond me. I’ve got my birth certificate. Do you want to see it? I’d be happy to show it to you. But the notion that it’s an issue worth talking about I think is at a minimum overtaken by events and, B, not entirely rational. [...] ” An issue overtaken by events? Not rational? How can the question of a conspiracy to overthrow the United States Constitution, and with it the government it established, be overtaken by events?  Okay, if we're all laboring in a gulag, I suppose that would make the question moot, but that hasn't occurred, yet. Of course Bolton's comments were directed at Donald Trump, whose candidacy Bolton does not take seriously (and, John himself has shown interest in running).  I continue to be gobsmacked by this stance, from people who should know better.  Do they know something I don't know? Or, is it something like this: Because if it wasn't a suicide, nobody could handle what that portends  (about Clinton). That was the answer an anonymous Senator (thought to be Sen, Inhofe) gave in 1994, to a question about the lack of congressional interest in Vince Foster's strange death. So, until something with substance surfaces, that explains the mountain of existing substance questioning Obama's story, I will continue to believe my lying eyes. As should you.

Cain Mutiny

More Cain Mutiny I do sort of cotton to Morgan Freeman's declaration however

House Republicans in Revolt

Hear Hear! House Republicans in Revolt   If you're over sixty, your morning boner.

“   We're hearing that the Republican Study Committee and GOP freshmen were almost in open revolt at the Republican conference this morning over the initial round of cuts set out by Paul Ryan. The Ryan ceiling falls shorts of the headline number of $100 billion set out in the Pledge, and is therefore considered vastly insufficient. Says a source familiar with the meeting, "It sent a clear unequivocal message to leadership - ‘Houston, you've got a problem.'" The leadership assured conservatives at a RSC lunch later in the day that the message had been received. Says a GOP leadership aide, "The bill that passes the House will cut substantially more. [House Republicans in Revolt] ” For many of us, this is the first experience of seeing people we elected actually standing on the principles we elected them to stand for. Larwin's Lynx

Christie's da man!

Chris Christie commutes man's sentence for being manly

Hail DeMint!

DeMint comes out against tax deal, says GOP must do ‘better than this’

“ On both counts. I’m glad the President recognizes that tax increases hurt the economy. I mean, I guess that’s progress. But frankly, Hugh, most of us who ran this election said we were not going to vote for anything that increased the deficit. This does. It raises taxes, it raises the death tax. I don’t think we needed to negotiate that aspect of this thing away. I don’t think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point.   Hugh ... we don’t need a temporary economy, which means we don’t need a temporary tax rate. A permanent extension of our current tax rates would allow businesses to plan five and ten years in advance, and that’s how you build an economy. DeMint is right.  The path Republicans take here will define them in as being serious as hell, or face savers who settle for Pyhrric victories.  If they choose the latter, they can never rise above that mark.

Bachman Revolts

Michele Bachmann "If John Boehner's the only candidate running [for speaker], I'll be voting for John Boehner."

If it's true that women voters have nearly destroyed this nation, and it is; it's also true that conservative women are aggressively so.  They make good leaders.

Hoyer gets punched back byy Lollar

Did Steny Hoyer punch his Republican opponent? Yes Not one "knuckle punch in the back," but two.

As it turns out,  my Tuesday report on the interchange between Steny Hoyer and his Republican opponent, ex-Marine Maj. Charles Lollar, was pretty much dead-on.  American Thinker has a full report + 2 videos.  It's worth watching the top video just to see Hoyer lying through his removeable teeth; and then Lollar taking the scalpel to him.  Booo-yahhh!

Carly of Arc

Congregatio pro Doctrina Fide

“ After Carly Fiorina won California's Republican Senate  primary, many analysts expected her to shake off her conservative mantle and make a lunge for the moderate middle in the general election against liberal incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. That's not how it has played out. Fiorina refuses to run as a moderate ” It's been an article of faith for conservatives, that when Republican candidates run as conservatives, they win.  When they succumb to the GOP ruling class riptides, they lose. Say Amen and sing Hallelujah!

Chris Christie Acknowledged

Where the Left Acknowledge Their Failed Policies?

“ I have to give a high-five to Gov. Chris Christie. The New Jersey Republican was on “Morning Joe” today and showed why he is not only a rising star within the GOP, but also a model of leadership for politicians who have lost touch with their spines.- WaPost ”

Obama mistakes Chris Christie for a Saudi Sheik?

Christie Keeps on Coming

NJ Gov. Chris Christie on "Morning Joe"

“ Andrew Ross Sorkin: How do you do this in other states? How do you make this politically palatable? And you have a spine, but I've got to tell you, a lot of other politicians don't. Christie: Well, they better get one because the times demand it. And if what you're going to do is just play the same old game and not speak directly to people and not treat them like adults, then you are bound for failure. Listen, all I'm doing is speaking the truth as I see it, and other people have to make their own judgments. ” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Michele Bachman

Political Throb-ons

“ Rep. Michele Bachmann appears on Bill O'Reilly's show, and is told that she is "second to Sarah Palin in far left angst... They're after you now." "I think it happened with a competing cable network that took an interest in me, and it's only grown," she responds. "Now, it's almost like I have personal stalkers, only they have Tv shows, so it's kind of an interesting phenomenon." Bachmann also suspects that MSNBC has a "stereotype for women" in which she does not fit into. ”

Tom Tancredo, a principled man.

principled - based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality; "principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"; "a principled person"

That definition of principled was, I thought, necessary before I spoke of Tom Tancredo as a principled man.

Tom Tancredo- Principled Man Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, indeed all professional Democrats are highly principled people.  Based on their life code anyway; - in politics, whatever it takes to achieve statist government ascendancy, to include lies, voter fraud, mayhem, criminal violation of the law, thuggery, anything! - is not just condoned, but expected.   Elected Democrats are the "made men" of politics.  For the rest of us, traditional standards apply.  Last week former congressman Tom Tancredo issued an ultimatum to two Republican primary hopefuls for Colorado governor, Scott McInnis and Dan Maes, unless they agreed to his conditions by Monday.  “ Those conditions:  They must commit to withdrawing from the race the day after the Aug. 10 primary if polls show the winner trailing likely Democratic nominee John W. Hickenlooper. Republicans immediately denounced Mr. Tancredo, calling on him to rescind his threat and predicting his candidacy would spell disaster for the party's chances in November. But the way Mr. Tancredo sees it, he's doing the Colorado Republican Party a favor. He says the Republicans have no chance of winning the race with Mr. McInnis, who's embroiled in a plagiarism scandal, or Mr. Maes, an unknown who was recently fined for campaign-spending violations. "We're at the point where Scott is not a viable option," said Mr. Tancredo in an interview Sunday. "So I have a responsibility to the conservatives in this state to do what I can to make sure John Hickenlooper isn't elected." If Mr. McInnis withdraws his candidacy after the primary, the state Republican Party can form a vacancy committee to select a replacement candidate, which, Mr. Tancredo acknowledges, "won't be me." -Wa TIMES ” The public Tancredo is nothing if not  principled.  When it comes to protecting the nation against the Mexican invasion, none stood higher than Tom.  The American Conservative Union issued ratings for potential presidential candidates in 2008, and Tancredo took first with a lifetime ranking of 99 out of 100.  True to his word, at high noon yesterday Tancredo declared run against GOP.     Three cheers for Tom!

Christie Has Risen!

New Jersey Governor Defies Political Expectations

Conservative runs as a conservative in  liberal state; wins; then governs as a conservative; wins. Yawn.

De Mint and Palin - Warriors

Back-Assward Thinking

“ South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint has bet on the right horse in an impressive string of Senate primary contests this year --  including Mike Lee's win this week in Utah -- but the freshman Republican's biggest challenge will likely be how he and his band of conservative outsiders fit into the GOP establishment. ”

DeMint expands clout all the way to Utah is a story about a Senator from South Carolina's backing of conservative candidates, gone on to defeat establishment Republicans in primaries. How will they fit into the conservative establishment?  Egad, They don't, thank you. They will, hopefully,  become the establishment. Like every other American at the time, I was ecstatic after Newt's engineered overthrow  of 40 years of House Democrat rule in 1994.  Here's the first thing I remember him doing as Speaker.  An audit revealed several million dollars missing from a House management slush-fund.  Newt promptly announced there would be no further investigation; no recriminations.  Spirit of bi-partisanship, don't ya know.   It was  McClellan failing to press his advantage after Antietam. The Republican establishment, amazingly,  failed to recognize, or chose not to engage it, that the Democrat Party had become systemically corrupt, was at its core Marxist, and inimical to the promise of American freedom.  Hollering "We want our country back" today is a sterile exercise without recognition that, for all practical purposes, the Democrat Party is a greater immediate threat than fascist Islam.  One of the promises made in 1994, this one from Tom De Lay, was impeachment proceedings against activist judges.  That it did not happen. I suspect, was not De Lay's doing. It would be a good place to begin this time; a good promise to make.

Dale Peterson

This, boys and girls,
is how to campaign

Renaldo Christie?

Can it be ...?

Renaldo rides again -- with a Joisey accent?

After seeing this title  all day yesterday, I finally got around to reading N.J. gov. sets tone for US.  Upon taking office Christie declared a state of emergency, signing an executive order that froze spending, and then, in eight weeks, cutting $13 billion in spending. In March he presented to the Legislature his first budget, which cuts 9 percent of spending, including more than $800 million in education funding; seeks to privatize numerous government functions; projects 1,300 layoffs; and caps tax increases. Teachers unions are incensed, fighting Christie’s proposal that — in order to avoid cuts to education — teachers accept a one-year wage freeze and contribute 1.5 percent to the generous-by-every-standard healthcare plans they now enjoy for free. Christie is adamant about lowering taxes. After taxes were raised 115 times in the last eight years, he said the wealthy are tapped out. Property taxes rose nearly 70 percent in the last decade, and studies show top earners — the 1 percent of taxpayers paying 40 percent of income tax — are fleeing the Garden State. The goal is not just to crawl out of crisis but ultimately to lead, said Christie in his budget address. “If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind ... by going first, we can become first.” ” Wow.  Before turning in, I checked e-mail.  A blogger, whose judgments about people I find entirely copacetic (save for a curious lapse with left-tard Ezra Klein?)sent this memo (in its entirety). “ Re: GIRL BONERZ http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/video-chris-christie-destroys-reporter-for-calling-him-confrontational/ ” There are very few, if any, Republicans who earn girl bonerz.  The party is loaded with grievously ambitious pretenders who, while adept at responding to shifts in the political winds, never display the skill to tack into them.  By my count, along with Sarah Palin, Christie makes two.  Let us pray.