We cannot let up. We cannot assume our adversaries won't fight back. They assumed that, that we were demoralized, broken. And we were.

No more. We have to push the ball over the goal line more than once, and punish them until they break. They know it's coming, but they hope against hope it "won't be so bad". We have to dispel that notion, now and for good.

We have quite a few internal arguments, all healthy and good, about the upcoming November elections. I loves me a primary fight. Our adversaries know they have screwed the pooch, with their goddam Obamacare crap.. the never ending regulatory garbage.. and their in-your-face blatant attack, attack on our prosperity, and our Constitutionally protected rights.

Cage match.

Organize. Mobilize. Take the fight to these sonsofbitches. Bring up the reserves and fill the lines. In every tough fight, the troops need a rallying point, something to pull them up out of the chaos, the churn, the ordinary struggle to survive, and push them harder than they in and of themselves think they can go.

This one worked once. It was a dare.

No more Obama-anything. Enough. Enough already.

UPDATE: screw you Dems. This is happening.

ALSO ALSO: Smush them. Reminder from wiserbud. Good call. For an idiot.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 01:29 PM | Comments (360)
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Remember how it was so damn important to do healthcare reform right freakin' now because thousands of hard-to-insure people couldn't get medical care? President Obama told dozens of stories about people who just couldn't get coverage from greedy insurance corporations. In fact, midnight votes and bought votes and non-stop demagoguery were all justified on the idea that ObamaCare would be necessary to save lives.

It seems that the Democrats had a solution in search of a problem:

States across the country are reporting lower than expected participation in the high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions, raising concerns that a lack of public engagement could affect the program's success — and that of health reform more generally.

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Iowa, for example, had received only 32 applications by the middle of this week, even though state officials told the Des Moines Register that they were expecting many more because the pool's premiums are "much cheaper" than those in the state's long-standing pool.

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Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, a Republican who chairs the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, offered a different take. She said the high cost of premiums and out-of-pocket costs was to blame for the slow movement in Kansas, where only 17 people had enrolled by Friday in a program that started taking applications in mid-August.

The Hill quotes a libtard professor who says that low participation is really because people are put off by the negative things the public are discovering about ObamaCare. No, really, she believes there are people out there who really want this type of coverage -- in fact, who may die without it -- but won't sign up because the press is mean to Obama.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 11:48 AM | Comments (127)
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Alright, alright. Jeez, keep your panties on.

Oh, and because I care so much...

more...

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Continuing the Obama Administration's frontal assault on John Boehner is Bob Schieffer on this morning's "Face the Nation":

Schieffer: “Mr. Boehner, I'm going to ask you this question because I'm not objective about this - I'm a cancer survivor, I used to be a heavy smoker. Do you still smoke?”

Boehner: “I do.”

Schieffer: “You have taken $340,000 from the tobacco industry. They've been the largest contributor to your political campaigns over the year. How do you square that with the fact that cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in this country, 435,000 people, their deaths are linked to cancer, that's 1 in 5. How do you justify that in your own mind?”

Boehner: “Bob, tobacco is a legal product in America. The American people have a right to decide for themselves whether they want to partake or not. There are lots of things that we deal with and come in contact with every day, from alcohol to food to cigarettes, a lot of the things that aren't good for our health. But the American people ought to have the right to make those decisions on their own.” …

Schieffer: “If you should become Speaker, you could set a good example for the country by saying, 'I'm going to stop smoking.'

You know who the highest-profile smoker in the country is, right? And who repeatedly lies about it too? Yeah, it's the President.

But this is a stupid issue anyway. We've got an economy in the drink and there's a war on. Suddenly, the MFM just wants to talk about John Boehner's smoking habit.

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Obama gave a speech on Thursday where he repeatedly went after House GOP Leader John Boehner. This left many folks why Obama was picking a target no one outside of Ohio and political geeks had even heard of. My theory is, he simply needed a target for his daily Two Minutes of Hate leading up to the elections to rally the base and if he has to build one to do it, so be it.

Of course we should never underestimate the willingness of the lapdog media to help out the cause. To wit, today's front page piece (not sure if it's above the fold) in the NY Times headlined, "A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists". To be honest, I haven't read it yet but I'm sure it meets the usual high standards the Times' normally applies when writing about Republicans and lobbyists (cough)Vicki Iseman(cough).

Boehner's team is fighting back.

In one key passage, the Times cites a lobbyist who says he "won" Boehner's backing on a number of high-profile matters. This is the passage, emphasis added:

"One lobbyist in the club -- after lauding each staff member in Mr. BoehnerÂ’s
office that he routinely calls to ask for help -- ticked off the list of recent issues
for which he had won the lawmakerÂ’s backing: combating fee increases for
the oil industry, fighting a proposed cap on debit card fees, protecting tax
breaks for hedge fund executives and opposing a cap on greenhouse gas
emissions."

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel says he received a fact-checking email from Times reporter Eric Lipton Friday evening asking if Boehner did in fact oppose the cap on greenhouse gases, the tax change for hedge fund executives, the debit card fee cap, and increased fees on oil and gas companies. "Yes, that is correct," Steel responded to Lipton, adding "I can tell you why, if you care." Steel says he received no further notes from Lipton.

Interestingly Gibbsy is all over this story on Twitter.

Now that the Times has set the standard of going after Boehner and Obama's mouthpiece has given it his seal of approval, you can be sure we'll see more pieces like this throughout the MSM this week. American's need to get to know Obama's new Public Enemy Number 1 and they need to know him on Obama's terms.

The President whined last week about how "they" talk about him like a dog but it's clear the relationship is between Obama and the MFM is like the old RCA logo which was captioned, "His master's voice". In this case, Obama isn't the dog and the MFM knows who its master is.

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A little more subdued than your average ONT given the date but IÂ’m sure youÂ’ll soldier through.

Tonights musical selection is:

Here's some random lameness I had laying around the house...

Tonight's Caturday Content:

Actually, Maet sent this to me earlier (he's always thinking about you little darlings, even when he's not here and despite the nervous tic he's developed from doing the ONT). It's a video that answers that age old question: What would happen if you turned 100 cats loose in an Ikea? I can't top the description on the link:

An English IKEA decided to release 100 live cats overnight. Why? Why would you question such a thing? The video is the most amazing and life-affirming event. Ever. Embrace it. Watch it a thousand times. Watch it ten thousand times."

Truer words were never spoken.

More down there in the basement... more...

Posted by: Genghis at 06:15 PM | Comments (628)
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They really DO think the public is stupid. Packed prisons? Less crime? Pure coincidence.

For years, it was one of the GOP’s most potent political epithets – labeling a Democrat “soft on crime.”

But the Obama White House has taken the first steps in decades to move away from a strict lock-‘em-up mentality on crime – easing sentences for crack cocaine possession, launching a top-to-bottom review of sentencing policies and even sounding open to reviewing guidelines that call for lengthy prison terms for people convicted of child pornography offenses...

My take is this simply demonstrates that Democrats are bad at perception math. Clearly they think two negative issues (for them) added together will result in a net zero number. While that indeed works for number type math, perception math works somewhat differently.

ex. (-2) + (-2) = -8 in perception math. Its kinda like a cubing factor where additional incremental douchbagginess ratchets up public loathing by significantly non-linear amounts as your douchbagginess factor moves from the "suspected" column into the "confirmed" column.

As a practical matter, I think that perception column switch happens at around the point where some politician has blown through the public's sensibilities on an issue 3 times.

Rather than getting away with this and having it fly under the radar, I suspect its going to solidify the independents against them once word gets out. The indies are already hacked off about a couple of things, and another is going to cause that cube factor to start rocketing through the roof.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 05:43 PM | Comments (142)
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Churcillian. If they ever get around to detonating an atomic bomb on US soil, he'll up his rhetoric to call them "scamps."

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The annoying thing is he thinks he's oh-so-clever but I knew his "shock reveal" by his headline.

Much of the controversy over Cordoba House has focussed on its location. Critics rage that it’s a mere two blocks from the 9/11 site—way too close. Defenders counter that it’s two whole blocks from the 9/11 site—by lower Manhattan standards, real far. Critics say it should be put somewhere else, though they tend to be vague about where. Even some defenders have timidly wondered whether some other spot might be more “appropriate” in terms of the symbolism of it all.

Fortuitously, there exists one location that would be ideal for the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” That location would be . . . Ground Zero.

And blah-blah-blah.

Thanks to Allah.

Posted by: Ace at 10:32 AM | Comments (125)
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Here's where we tell each other how much we really appreciate one another, oh and also your team sucks canal water.

Big matchups today between Ohio State (2) and Miami (12) at 3:30 EDT, FSU (17) at Oklahoma (10), same time. Georgia (22) and South Carolina (24) at noon.

Here's a cute Buckeye.

Buckeyes are those things on her top that the laces go through. A friend of mine from Ohio told me that.

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