Dems: We Don't Care What You Want

120 Days to Go Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History

Senate Numbers

Sabato: GOP to Take House, Maybe Senate in 2010 Election

NUMBERS Drudge has this titled "SHOCK PREDICTION," but if you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention, and still don't know. To answer your unasked question: “ If the Senate is split 50-50, who is in control? Has there ever been an even split? If the voters were ever to elect 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats to the U.S. Senate, the party of the Vice President would be considered the majority party. The Vice President is named by the Constitution to be the President of the Senate [the presiding officer]. The Vice President would cast the tie-breaking votes on all the resolutions organizing the new Senate, including electing its officers and assigning committee seats. In 1881, the Senate stood at 37-37, with 2 Independents: one tended to vote with the Democrats and the other with the Republicans. When Vice President Chester Arthur became president after the assassination of President Garfield, the Vice Presidency was left vacant, leaving no one to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The two parties came to an agreement where the Republicans controlled the committees and the Democrats managed the patronage. ” A better analogy, I think,  is 1980.  Reagan's sweep brought with him a Republican Senate, but the House remained Democrat controlled.  Didn't matter.  Houses Dems were so fearful of Reagan's popularity that House Republicans were able to steamroll them - for two years.  I see the same thing happening in a split Senate.  Plus, if Reid manages  to be one of those 50 Democrats, it will be an easy task to get him indicted, something that's way-way overdue.

The Big Blow

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Another meta-4 DAYBREAKERS

Indeed

“ Watched the Ethan Hawke vampire movie "Day Breakers" with my daughter the other night. The idea is that the world is 95% vampires and only 5% humans and there aren't enough humans to supply blood. Made me wonder if it was a metaphor for government and taxpayers. -Steve in Greensboro ”

Pulling the right strings

Pulling Strings

“    Though he served as Prime Minister of Japan for a mere two years in the early '70's before being driven from power in Nixonian fashion in a Watergate-like scandal, for the next decade and a half Kakuei Tanaka served as Japan's shadow leader, known forever as The Kingmaker  for his uncanny ability to govern Japan from the shadows, often hand-picking who would lead the country by controlling a powerful bloc of legislators. In modern American political history we haven't had a Tanaka-like Kingmaker, until now ... .Why Be President When You Can Be King(maker)? ” If I could stop myself, I'd be famous and rich.  Sighing but LOLing.

Now Serving ... .

The Face of Islam

Open to interpretation, but I find this picture downright chilling.  It appears the executioner is looking at the "check-out line"  while he tends to the current "customer."   Or, perhaps watching the face of the victim's family as he prepares to take a life. The face of Islam.

Meta4

Coming to a Congress Near You Job Satisfaction

Huff 'n Puff Revisited

Obama’s missile defense decision–a move that puts more military assets in position more quickly against the Iranian missiles –not only increases the pressure on Iran but allows  Russia to move closer to the U.S. position  without appearing to be buckling to America. The Greatest Strategist Ever

An Impeaching Majority?

Wha?  I just about fell out of my chair when I read that John Dingell is in trouble! More happiness

Power Washin

“I HAVE A CLEAN”

Banana the Terrible

You can have fun with anything

Thomas Sowell's Pessimism

"Doomsters are a dime a dozen. But when a leading economist who's been called "the nation's greatest contemporary philosopher" sees serious trouble ahead, we'd better listen up.

Sowell sees the national equivalent of a "perfect storm," a gathering of "dangerous forces (that) have been building .. . for at least a half-century."      Yes, he says, our great nation has weathered many storms. But, he quickly notes, so did the Roman Empire before it collapsed. "Is that where America is headed?" Sowell asks upfront. "I believe it is. Our only saving grace is that we are not there yet - and that nothing is inevitable until it happens."......     The Obama administration "is not the root cause of the ominous dangers that face this country at home and aboard," Sowell says. But "it is the embodiment, the personification and the culmination of dangerous trends that began decades ago. Moreover, it has escalated those dangers to what may be a point of no return.  [Sowell's Pessimism] Opinions about the nexus of that perfect storm are also a dime a dozen, and in my case free of charge.  August 9, 1974.  The Nixon  bloodless coup.   Sowell's fifty-year parameter takes us to JFK's election, in effect the beginning of The Great Society.  Hard to argue that too. Secession is still the only course of action I can think of.  Things will still be tough, but at least "we" will have the opportunity to rebuild without the constraints and gloom imposed by statist government. And, we'll have hope where none now exists.

Anyone seen Kusak?

Voted Obama? Embarrassed yet?

C ritchfield says he's received death threats due to the sign; people accuse him of hate speech and racism. He insists the billboard was for something more American in the name of discourse, conversation, and old-fashioned debate. ” It appears the unhinged left poses a threat => al Qaeda.  Waiting for the media blitz.

A Cardboard Dry Run?

A Colossal DHS Error, or a Tale of Two Terrorists Gone Awry?

I think, neither one Annie “ This was a dry run as a prelude to a big attack. This is exactly why the stories are being changed to confound the public. [comment #10] ”

Fear of Flying

Lexington Green

I Think I See What Glenn Beck is Doing

via Gerard

Birther's Good Catch

Out, damn'd spot

“ I try to ignore the birther movement unless it inducts someone important -- a congressman, for example. The (sigh) American Patriot Foundation's announcement that Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (ret.) has signed an affidavit supporting court martialed birther Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is actually a pretty big coup. How wild is McInerney's statement? This wild: A Good Get for the Birthers. ”

I read the Lt. General Thomas McInerney story (the One Nice Deb posted on), and let it slide because I've been down this road countless times, only to be disappointed.  Just now Grumpyunk :alerted me to this SLATE article; A Good Get for the Birthers.  Maybe the reason it's  so much on Obama's mind is that he knows this one has legs?  I want closure on this thing.   And gloating rights.

In a vacuum

OMG- Is that the Starlighters playing? When's the last time you used a tube tester? When's the last time you saw vacuum tube electronics for sale?

That's right.  4 Watts for $140.00 at Woot.  Whereas today I love the smell of cordite, bourbon and cigar smoke,  I would dearly love to relive  vacuum tube smell, Canoe aftershhve, and Kathy Shinner's perfume.

Helen sensed that she'd wasted money on this fantasy

I am having difficulty getting started this morning.

Barry Gets Even

Teleputzing

And he was a friend