There Is Just No Educating Of Tea Party People ---

You've been a bad, bad puppy

“ Lawrence O'Donnell: They truly did not know what the words debt ceiling meant. Look, let's admit it. It's true of most of the media, most everybody because these things were never covered before. And so they didn't know what it was. Now they were going to have to learn what it was, and they certainly weren't going to take their lesson from Washington about what the debt ceiling is. They were going to take their lessons from Sarah Palin about what it is. That's where they go. That's their catechism. That's where they check what they do next. So, there is no educating these Tea Party people. It's just a matter of how do you maneuver around them, and how do you govern. [O'Donnell: There Is Just No Educating Of Tea Party People] ” Bark Bark

Now if someone would kill the senate ...

Senate Kills House Debt Bill

The 22 ...

The no votes: 22 principled GOPers who balked Boehner

“ Justin Amash (Mich.) Michele Bachmann (Minn.) Chip Cravaack (Minn.) Jason Chaffetz (Utah) Scott Desjarlais (Tenn.) Tom Graves (Ga.) Tim Huelskamp (Kans.) Steve King (Iowa) Tim Johnson (Ill.) Tom McClintock (Calif.) Mick Mulvaney (S.C.) Ron Paul (Texas) Connie Mack (Fla.) Jim Jordan (Ohio) Tim Scott (S.C.) Paul Broun (Ga.) Tom Latham (Iowa) Jeff Duncan (S.C.) Trey Gowdy (S.C.) Steve Southerland (Fla.) Joe Walsh (Ill.) Joe Wilson (S.C.) ” Clap Calp Clap! Politico

Three Card Monty and Baseline Budget Cuts

Except when we're as corrupt and cynical as democrats, like now.

“ After swearing in the first republican Speaker since Joe Ma tin (R-MA) in the 83rd Congress, we will on the first day of session cut the number of committees and subcommittees, cut committee staff by one-third, ban proxy voting, require a three-fifths vote to pass any tax increase, eliminate"baseline" budgeting and use honest numbers, and announce an audit of the House's books.  -  Newt Gingrich introducing the "Contract for America" in 1994. ” Baseline Budgeting cuts mean  ...  (for them what dun't know) You spent $5000 on booze in 2008 You spent $6000 on booze in 2009, an increase of 20% You spent $7200 on booze in 2010, an increase of 20% At marriage counseling you agree to cut the amount of household money you spend on booze by a whopping 50%  in 2011!  SO .... Your wife is thrilled that she will have $3600 more in the household fund next year (50% of $7200) Too bad, because you were using baseline budget cuts, meaning that instead of increasing the booze bill by the projected 20% this year, you'll increase it by only 10% (and spend $7920). She shops for a new husband, but they're all like you. That's what damned near every "budget cut" in your lifetime has meant.  Not a decrease in spending, but a decrease in the amount of increase.  And that's what 90% of Boner's numbers are - vapor ware. I'm lousy at math, but you get the idea. Wait until Reid gets his hands on things,  He's a real pro; a Democrat.

Dickless Republicans Fold

Passed - by 2 votes

Whiny West

Rep. Allen West Slams Tea Party "Schizophrenia" That's right boobie. It's like pedohilia: Zero Tolerance

“ Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Tea Party groups wanting to primary him because he now supports the Boehner bill. "I think what we have to ask ourselves is 'if you're telling me that I need to vote no against the Boehner plan' then what am I voting for?" Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said on The Laura Ingraham Show. "I'm going to stand with this Boehner plan and once again, if the folks who one minute they're saying that I'm their 'tea party hero' and what, three or four days later 'I'm a tea party defector.' That kind of schizophrenia, I'm not going to get involved in it." [Full] ”

House Iron Men - number 18

Boner's new gambit culls the herd of sissies

“ The GOP's Seal Team 18 LAST UPDATED ON JULY 29 AT 11:54 a.m. House Republicans against/leaning no on Boehner plan (18) Todd Akin (Mo.) — Senate hopeful is a no Justin Amash (Mich.) — Not shy about breaking from GOP leaders Michele Bachmann (Minn.) — Said on July 28: "I will not be casting my vote for that bill. I cannot. I am committed to not raising the debt ceiling." She voted against CCB* Paul Broun (Ga.) — Against raising debt ceiling; voted against CCB* Jason Chaffetz (Utah) — Possible Senate candidate told The Hill July 28 he is a no Jeff Duncan (S.C.) — Told thestate.com, a South Caroline media outlet, that he is a no Tom Graves (Ga.) — Firm no Andy Harris (Md.) — Strong proponent of BBA**; Indicated to Baltimore Sun he is a no Tim Huelskamp (Kan.) — Firm no Jim Jordan (Ohio) — RSC chairman is strongly opposed Steve King (Iowa) — Firm no Raúl Labrador (Idaho) — Office said on July 28 he is leaning no Connie Mack (Fla.) — Voted against CCB*; firm no Mick Mulvaney (S.C.) — A no vote Ron Paul (Texas) — Against raising debt ceiling; voted against CCB* Steve Southerland (Fla.) — Lawmaker told AP he is a no Joe Walsh (Ill.) — Said on MSNBC he is a no Joe Wilson (S.C.) — Like others in S.C. delegation, Wilson is a no ”

NAACP Voter Fraud

Nice hit!  Your batting average climbed to .002

“ While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme. [Full] ”

Lasers

Boeing and BAE partner to put a laser on a machine gun, make the world a better place

“ Automated, computer-targeting machine guns are okay in a pinch, but sometimes putting 180 25mm slugs down range every minute just isn't enough. Sometimes you need a little more energy, and that's when you strap a laser on the thing. Boeing and BAE are partnering up to take the existing Mk 38 Mod 2 Machine Gun System, which offers a 25mm M242 barrel, and pair it with Boeing's directed energy system. The resulting beautiful machine is called the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System, offering the ability to fling both hot metal and even hotter photons against whatever targets would dare come in range. This integration is said to allow for these upgraded turrets to be easily installed and controlled on our naval vessels, vessels that are, for now, still stuck on the water. Apparently we're still a few years away from the Wave Motion Engine and FTL battleship travel. ” A safer place, yes.  If the Obama administration doesn't cut funding.  "The One" that just said "Billions for Food Stamps but not one penny for defense."  And we still won't be nearly as safe as if Boeing been allowed to take the last steps in its Airborne Laser program.  The futuristic weapon, conceived to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles not long after they blast off, stayed on the drawing board in the early 1990s. Then, it survived an effort to slash its funding at the end of the Clinton administration. And in 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gutted the program, telling Congress, "There's nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a workable concept." Right Gates.  And who in the military will risk their career to contradict you?  "Oh look, we just shot down a missle, too bad it doesn't work!"  Consider that Obama has spent what, $7 trillion?- $12 trillion? on social engineering in just his first two years.  All told, the Pentagon has spent around $5.2 billion on this project since 1996, according to the Missile Defense Agency, the Pentagon unit responsible for the program. Here's a short video courtesy of my  WSJ  source.   And please, don't get me started on the F-22 again.

Tea Party Hobbits versus Gollum McCain ...

Tea Party Hobbits versus Gollum McCain

“ This week Senator John McCain lashed out at fiscal conservatives during a debate on the debt ceiling, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial that denigrated "the tea-party Hobbits" who "could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor." But at least Frodo got the job done, which is more than we can say for the budget wizards in the Senate. Anyone with a literary bent would never use the term "Hobbit" as an insult  [continue] ” Support Our Troops in The House of Representatives

STFU Noonan

Peggy Noonan Tells Obama to Shut Up. If It Will Shut Peggy Up I'm For It. [American Digest]

Calling Bull-sh*t on Paul Ryan

Trust no one, verify everything. Calling Bull-sh*t on Paul Ryan.

“ (E-mail just received) Rodger, in 2010, you and millions of Americans put your faith in Republicans to get our nation's fiscal house in order by electing a GOP majority to the U.S. House. These men and women didn't come to Washington for a career -- they came for a cause that's bigger than you or me. It's the cause to get this country on the right track by paying off our spiraling debt, fulfilling the mission of retirement security and getting the economy growing again. Republicans in the U.S. House are working hard to keep our charge. We've made steady progress by passing a 2012 budget that cuts spending so government lives within its means, reduces the deficit, unleashes the forces of the free market to create jobs, reforms the tax code so it's fairer and tackles entitlement reform. Unfortunately, our budget doesn't have a chance of getting a fair shake by Harry Reid in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate -- let alone of surviving President Obama's veto pen unscathed. The only way Republicans can right our ship and get America on a sustainable path to economic growth and prosperity is to expand our majority in the U.S. House, recapture the U.S. Senate and elect a Republican president in 2012. [Blah-blah ask for money] Sincerely, Paul Ryan Congressman (WI-1) “ Paul Ryan Backs Boehner's Plan Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011 07:49 AM House Speaker John Boehner's deficit reducing plan has picked up one key supporter, Rep. Paul Ryan, according to his Op-Ed column in the National Review. "The Budget Control Act takes an important step in the right direction by cutting $1.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade," Ryan writes. "Critically, it does this without resorting to Senator Reid’s gimmicks and without imposing the president’s preferred tax increases on American families and the struggling economy." From the Cato Institute: “ Actually, the revised Boehner plan doesn’t cut spending at all. The chart shows the discretionary spending caps in the new Boehner plan. Spending increases every year—from $1.043 trillion in 2012 to $1.234 trillion in 2021. (These figures exclude the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan). ”

20 awesomely untranslatable words ...

I have tartled before, and I will tartle again.

Pay Me Now, Or Pay Me Later ... .

Guess what?

Your engine has siezed up suckers Pictue (I've been looking for for ages) found at saacforum

RE Our Default and Toxic Media ...

RE Our Default and Toxic Media

“ I accidentally DVR’d the President’s speech on Sunday night. I didn’t watch the speech itself, because I don’t watch any speeches these days, but I did catch Brian Williams’s (MSNBC) intro to the speech and it was an eye opener. Here’s my transcription of the intro with Williams’s verbal emphasis bolded:     President Obama has requested air time from the television networks tonight to speak from the East Room of the White House and tell the American people that unless the debt ceiling is raised the US will suffer incalculable damage and the economy will default. And in keeping with the back and forth nature of what has become a toxic debate in Washington, two minutes after the Presidents finish we will go to the Speaker of the House. The “economy will default”? What the hell? And since when is the opposition response considered part of a “toxic” debate? [Shannon Love] ”

Photochopping throughout history

Photo Tampering throughout History

I'm familiar with most of these, but the Lincoln and Grant pictures are a revelation.  I admit to being hyper-sensitive to left bias in all things, and I detect a flavor of it here in what's been selected, and their descriptions.  Your experience may differ. However,  there is a notable lack of any of the myriad examples of anti-Israel photojournalism fraud in recent times. Curious. Cuzzin Ricky

Friday Morning Fights

Friday Morning Fights

“ Potential Debt Limit ‘Plan C’ Emerges, Democrats Say (GOP ready to shaft Conservatives, again) Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:04:31 PM · by tobyhill · 13 replies Fox News ^ | 7/28/2011 | Ed Henry Democratic officials are cautiously optimistic that the outlines of a potential compromise – a “Plan C” – are emerging that could bridge the differences between plans pushed by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The officials said President Obama has spent the past couple of days quietly reaching out to leaders in both parties to try and start hammering out the details, though it's clear this is still only in the discussion phase and they are not close to a deal yet. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., hinted at such a compromise earlier... Romney 'Applauds' Boehner Plan     Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56:05 PM · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 22 replies National Review ^ | June 26th | Robert Costa Former Bay State governor Mitt Romney supports Speaker John Boehner as House Republicans move forward. His campaign says that he is reviewing the Boehner plan. "Governor Romney thinks President Obama's leadership has been an historic failure. He applauds Speaker Boehner for standing firm against raising taxes when our nation can least afford them," says Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney, in a statement to National Review Online. What the final deal is likely to look like (Hybrid of Boehner/Reid/ McConnell plans) Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:50:18 PM · by Qbert · 19 replies Washington Post ^ | 07/28/2011 | Ezra Klein [Snip] The smart money in Washington continues to be on some hybrid of the Boehner/Reid/McConnell plans. If I had to place a bet now, I’d say the final deal looks something like this: Cuts: $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending cuts, with somewhat more of the total falling on defense spending than in Boehner’s bill and somewhat less of the total falling on defense spending than in Reid’s bill. Committee: The bipartisan “Supercommittee” will be formed and charged with developing a plan that cuts the deficit by $1.8 trillion or more. Unlike in Boehner’s plan, future debt-ceiling increases will not require... ” Free Republic

Rush: We've Been Played for Saps by the Establishment ... .

Rush: We've Been Played for Saps, Folks

Alan West: caved because Wasserman was effective in saying he would destroy Medicare.  Paul Ryan.  PAUL RYAN!!?  Anyway, the teapartiers held their ground and denied Boehner his vote.  I'll guarantee you that this segment by Rush today is what cost him the 217 votes he needed. You may not agree with Rush's analysis, but after listening to this you'll at least be the best informed kid at the water cooler tomorrow.

Baghdad Bob Award Winner

House Delays Debt Plan Vote An earlier Roll Call story announcing that Boehner was postponing the vote on his massive $29B deficit reduction bill (Ahem) contained this Baghdad Bob Award winning spin on tea-partier resistance to that piece of crap.

“ A second Democratic aide said more seriously, “It’s clear Republicans are having trouble getting the votes on their side for Speaker Boehner’s partisan bill, which shows that they should be working with Democrats on something that can actually pass both chambers and be signed into law. ” There was a time when I thought idiocy like this was tongue-in-cheek.  I was stupid.

No Thongs Either

Sandals Only

Okie-Dokie  Tom Mann

Quote of the Week

QOTW “ What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today. Nancy Pelosi on raising debt limit ”

How Hot Is It in Texas?

How Hot Is It in Texas?

R.W. Forsythe

Where's Ali-Waldo?

Army: AWOL soldier admits to Fort Hood attack plan I'm sorry, did I say his name was Pfc. Naser Abdo?

“ Abdo's arrest came after the owners of a local gun store - the same store where the 2009 Fort Hood shootings suspect (suspect?)  Maj. Nidal Hasan (also Muslum) bought a pistol used in the attack - called police, the Army's alert said. Store clerk Greg Ebert said the man arrived at Guns Galore LLC by taxi Tuesday and bought 6 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, three boxes of shotgun ammunition and a magazine for a semi-automatic pistol, paying about $250. Ebert said he became concerned when the man asked questions indicating he didn't know much about the items. ” Not one of the 544 words in this AP story  is "Muslim;" or "Muslum," Islamo fascist," nor "Mahometan." The Toronto Star told me.

Rep. Jim Jordan: The Right Stuff

Today's Greatest Republican Who Ever Lived Jim Jordan:  Next House Speaker?

“ U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan's open defiance of Speaker John Boehner's efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe seat in next year's election. Two Republican sources deeply involved in configuring new Ohio congressional districts confirmed to The Dispatch today that Jordan's disloyalty to Boehner has put him in jeopardy of being zeroed out of a district. "Jim Jordan's boneheadedness has kind of informed everybody's thinking," said one of the sources, both of whom spoke only on condition of anonymity. "The easiest option for everybody has presented itself." Jordan's rural 11-county district, which has a 60 percent Republican voter index, "is easy to cannibalize because it stretches so far," said the other source. [Payback may be coming for congressman's 'disloyalty'] ” If Boner's a hidebound jackanapes, and he is, then Jordan must be very speciual indeed. Carry on sir.

Give me your credit card, or ... .

Give me your credit card, or we want a f'n divorce.

“ The White House has warned of "catastrophic" consequences if a deal is not reached by August 2, rejecting the idea that Obama could invoke an obscure constitutional clause to raise the debt limit. Several House Democrats planned to hold a news conference on Thursday to urge Obama to take that option if necessary. [Full] ” "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law ... shall not be questioned," it reads.  But, is this an argument about not paying our debt?  Or an argument with a crazy bitch who keeps charging more stuff to the credit card?   Rhetorical question of course, but that sliver from the 14th Amendment does not begin to apply here.  We'll pay our debts, but we want the credit card, and we want a lot of useless crap she purchased returned (like Obamacare).  At least I hope that's what we want.

National Piss on Lenin Day

Yesterday was National Piss on Lenin Day and nobody told me.

Hippie Jailed

Eco-activist gains fame for civil disobedience

“ Protesters gathered around the courthouse and dozens were arrested Tuesday as Tim DeChristopher launched into a lengthy address urging others fight climate change by taking similar steps of civil disobedience. But U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said there was no excuse for the 29-year-old former wilderness guide's blatant disrespect for the rule of law.  Benson sentenced DeChristopher to two years in prison on Tuesday ... . He was jailed for for failing to make good on bids at a lease auction of Utah public lands. He ran up bids on 13 parcels totaling more than 22,000 acres in order to keep them from gas and exploration.   Look for Hollywood asshats to turn him into another Billy Jack, the 6o's counter-culture hippie hero.  Yes, we are living in the 60's again.  See also: Ohio National Guard gains fame for stopping civil disobedience

America's Burden

Today's Metaphor

1979 dela vu all over again

1979  deja vu all over again That Jimmy Carter was president was quite enough, thank you.

“ What big news do you remember from April 1979? That Iran voted to become an Islamic Republic? That a threatening swamp rabbit was stopped short of President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat? That Jane Byrne took office as Chicago's mayor? How about the heated debt-ceiling debate on Capitol Hill up until the last minute, followed by some missed Treasury bill payments? [Chicago Tribune]

Cat Nip ...

I think we're all a little tired of this genre of cheap joke fodder, after this one..

G'dt

My memory is not completely shot.  News that  AOLHUFFPO STOCK HITS ALL-TIME LOW  reminded me that I gave Huffington title instead to Newsweek in a plea to save Reader's Digest.  Shit. I need an editor.  Any volunteers?

Boner cracks the RINO whip

Boehner tries to tame GOP on debt ceiling plan

“ In a closed-door Republican Conference meeting on Wednesday, Boehner demanded his wavering members “get your ass in line” to back his proposal, and some members obliged. Michigan Rep. Thad McCotter, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, switched from voting no to yes during the 90-minute session. Reps. Blake Farenthold of Texas, Billy Long of Missouri and Jeff Denham of California are now backing the speaker’s plan, as are Reps. Darrell Issa of California, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, Nan Hayworth of New York and Dan Lungren of California. Lungren even got up during the meeting and likened Boehner to Ronald Reagan, the conservative icon who was president during Lungren’s first stint in the House. Other hard “no” voters have flipped to leaning no or even undecided. ”

Dem's shortcut to closing wealth gap backfired

Feds' Dem's shortcut to closing wealth gap backfired on minority homeowners

"Did you see the devastating numbers about the wealth of minority families? Their savings have largely been wiped out. White households now have 20 times more wealth than black households and 18 times more wealth than Hispanic households."

“ There are various reasons. But a big one is this: The federal government turned home ownership into an affirmative-action program, complete with quotas. And a lot of people who had no business buying houses bought them and then lost them. "As sad as it is to say, this began in the Clinton Administration as a response to the argument that the poor and minorities couldn't get credit and were being left out of the home-ownership dream," says James Wright, a sociology professor at University of Central Florida. "They couldn't meet credit requirements. There was a lot of pressure in progressive circles" to change those requirements.  [Full] Holy Crap! Orlando Sentinal columnist Mike Thomas comes closeer to articulating the truth about this as I've seen in print.  “ To further this goal, Fannie Mae agreed to buy high-risk subprime loans in 1999. This meant lenders could sell the loans to unqualified buyers and then dump them on Fannie and the taxpayers. The Department of Housing and Urban Development set a goal that, by 2001, half the portfolios of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be composed of loans to low-income and moderate-income buyers. Once Freddie and Fannie were fully engaged in the subprime business, the market went crazy. Lenders enticed unqualified and unsophisticated borrowers into signing loans they couldn't possibly pay off. ” I'll take small victories where I can find them.

Franken's Monster Mash

Monster Mash-up Democrats see wiggle room on Obama’s Aug. 2 debt-limit deadline The Aug. 2 deadline for raising the nation’s debt ceiling might not be as rigid a cutoff date as the administration has been saying, according to some senior Senate Democrats.

Meanwhile Franken's SNL moment in Senate “ For a moment Wednesday, Al Franken looked like he was back on the set of Saturday Night Live and not on the floor of the U.S. Senate. In a speech explaining that there would be no money to pay for military and security personnel if Congress doesn’t pass a bill increasing the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, Franken unveiled a large poster in the chamber that said, “Welcome Terrorists. Franken aimed his theater of the absurd at those who believe the U.S. doesn’t have to raise the debt limit to avoid economic catastrophe. He couched it as black humor, but certainly not as comic relief in a House and Senate deadlock that economists say puts the U.S. at risk of a financial meltdown. [Star Tribune] ” Franken's charts A previously referenced  Red State's "Seven Reasons Why August 2 Isn’t the End of the World"  chart compared with Franken's: RED STATE FRANKEN Federal Debt Interest $30 29 Social Security $50 49.2 Medicare-Medicaid $50 50 Veterans and active-duty military $9 — Defense vendor payments  — $32 Federal Unemployment Payments — $12.8 TOTAL $139 $172.7 Red State concludes: “ So that’s a total bill of $136 billion, easily covered by the $170-200 billion we’ll take in.  Of course, we won’t be able to afford everything the government currently spends on.  The Departments of HUD, Transportation, Commerce, Energy, and Education, for example, may have to take a pause while Congress works out a deal with the President.  But is that really “the end of the world”? ” Franken concludes: ???? I guess by saying if we cut anything, the terrorists win.  But it's really very simple.  It took me just 3 minutes to save $71B a month. Plus, cutting EPA's  $900 million would result in immediate 200% increased production and several $B of increased tax revenue.  End of story.

Closer Look at Herman Cain

Closer Look at Herman Cain

New Header

PSA

In case you missed it, I'm using he new header to run interesting (to me anyway) videos.  Currently it's about ants. You can normally go full screen by clicking the full screen icon.   In addition, Archives were fixed.  You're welcome.  As a matter of curiosity, did anyone watch the TOP GEAR drive to the North Pole while it was up?

Billfold 2012

Wait!  Will you have enough to get some lettuce too?

Ka-Ching!

MISH'S 10-Point Credibility Scale

Rating the Obama, Reid, and Boehner Deficit Reduction Plans on Mish's 10-Point Credibility Scale

“ $4 trillion sounds like a lot but it is only $400 billion a year, while the deficit is $1.4 trillion. Thus it's tough to give that plan a rating higher than Jello, and impossible to give it a rating higher than fudge.  ” “ 10-Point Credibility Scale Golden Rock Solid Fudge Jello Marshmallow Cream Puff Nauseous Gaseous Imaginary Delusional Scoring the Proposals Given a $1.4 trillion deficit, the latest plan from Boehner to cut a minuscule $85 billion a year (and back-loaded at that) is somewhere between nauseous and gaseous. It's no wonder that various Tea-Party members will not vote for it. Obama's plan is imaginary or delusional depending on whether or not the President actually believes he has a plan, when he doesn't. Parts of Senator Reid's plan are gaseous and the rest is clearly imaginary. In contrast, the gang-of-six $4 trillion deficit cutting plan has something of the consistency of Jello, fudge, or marshmallow depending on details that were never disclosed. ” There you have it. Boehner has proposed a $850 billion reduction over 10 years, a minuscule $85 billion a year on a deficit of $1.4 trillion. Bear in mind it is far worse than it looks because it is heavily back-loaded. The 2012 reduction is only $4 billion. Marc Miller

Late Night Obama

Late Night Obama

Tea Party Wants Boehner, Obama Fired

Tea Party Wants Boehner, Obama Fired

“ If House Speaker John Boehner or his senior leadership team thought they had the support of the Tea Party movement, they better think again. An internal poll of the largest group in the movement, the Tea Party Patriots, found that they are dissatisfied with the House leaders, Boehner in particular, and simply can't stand President Obama. Co-Director Jenny Beth Martin told Whispers bluntly: "We're really not satisfied with any of them." [Check out editorial cartoons about the Tea Party.] ” This is keeping me from losing hope: --81.5 percent are not satisfied with the House GOP leadership. --74.1 percent, asked if they want a new House speaker, said yes or maybe. --71.7 percent are not satisfied with the performance of the House. --97.6 percent are not satisfied with the performance of the Senate. --98.8 percent are not satisfied with Obama's performance.

When is an Ideology Responsible For Murder?

When is an Ideology Responsible For Murder?

“ The left wing media was only too eager to point to [Anders Behring Breivik's] ideology as the rationale for the shooting. David Neiwert of CrooksandLiars [...] A more rational answer would require an ideology to fulfill two basic criteria in order to be blamed for a particular act of violence. First, the ideology must itself promote the sort of violence get in their faces  at issue and the type of violence that takes place must bear some resemblance to the violence being promoted. This makes sense. If a group of pacifists shot-up a school, we could say with accuracy that they'd clearly misinterpreted pacifism. The same does not hold true of neo-Nazi ideology and Jews. Second, a large number of adherents to the ideology must engage in or support the form of violence in question. It is possible for formerly violent ideologies to change over time -- no one, for example, save Timothy McVeigh, thinks that Constitutional ideology is violent anymore, despite Thomas Jefferson's proclamations about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots. [Ben Shapiro cont.] ” Well said, but let's not get carried away Ben. Wunderkind Ben Shapiro has a mind like a steel trap, and is a member of that rarest of breeds—   hardcore Jewish conservatives.  But,  I don't remember Timothy McVeigh citing Constitutional purity  as motivation for his OKC bombing.  Instead,  it was being pissed off at the  government for WACO.    So here is my quibble, a rather large quibble— If  "Thomas Jefferson's proclamations about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots" is no longer valid in his world,  at what point would he suggest taking forcible action to defend against a demonic government (on the off-chance one should ever emerge, of course)?

Gun Holder

A [real] journalist's guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four