You boys could use a little churchin' up.

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@conartcritic Whatever you are using, please sell me some.

— Ben(@BenK84) September 9, 2012

When the Badger state comes in red, you can all have what I'm having: more...

Posted by: CAC at 07:43 PM | Comments (231)
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No matter what Obama, Clinton, any Democrat or the media say, the middle class will HAVE to have a tax increase to pay for these entitlement programs and Democrat policies. Desperately Seeking Middle-Class Tax Hikes.

Mr. Ryan's major contribution has been to expose the illusion that Mr. Obama's re-election campaign rests on: pretending that raising taxes on a few thousand "millionaires and billionaires" can fund an ever-growing government.

The shaded wedge represents the smallest possible tax increase Mr. Obama would need to achieve the same fiscal balance as Mr. Ryan—except that, in his budget, spending would be at a quarter of the economy and climbing fast. And that's by the White House's own most optimistic projections. The reality will be far messier.

Every time Mr. Obama warns about Mr. Ryan "gutting" this or that "investment," what he's not saying but is unavoidably implying is that taxes must be far higher to finance this spending. Assuming he can read the budget tables, he knows the government has made promises it cannot mathematically keep—but he hopes nobody notices.

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Yeah, no.

(I realize that internetism is four years past its expiration date but I think the current circumstances permit its use.) more...

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There was a day when reporting stories embarrassing to the Democratic Party was so commonplace the media didn't really have a name for it. They just called it "reporting."

Now it's such a rare phenomenon that Dave Wiegel has to engage his thinker to figure out the process by which a story embarrassing to Democrats could possibly get traction. He calls it "trolling" -- in a "neutral sense," he means.

Why do these stories come from the conservative press?

Because the "mainstream" press, which is of course actually liberal, does not want to cover them. They refuse to report on them. The conservative press is thus left with scoops, which they develop.

The conservative press then develops the stories the "mainstream" press took a deliberate pass on enough to prove that these *are* stories the public is interested in. Then the "mainstream" liberal media is forced, against their wishes, to report the news.

And this, then, is what David Wiegel calls "trolling" -- reporting the stories the "mainstream" press has chosen to embargo, and chosen to embargo for the simple fact that they are unhelpful to the political party they vigorously support.

Wiegel calls it "trolling." I call it "ignoring the embargo that JornoList has declared on all stories not deemed helpful to the Great Patriotic Cause of the One Party State."

Oh: Wiegel calls these stories "distracting."

The Examiner, Washington Times, and Center for American FreedomÂ’s teams were only fractions of the size of the CNN or New York Times teams in Charlotte. But they wrote the conventionÂ’s distracting stories.

95% of the convention was pre-scripted advertisement. It was a pageant, with a fixed outcome. Most conventions are.

The actual "news" is the stuff that happens that wasn't scripted -- that is, what the conservative "trolls" like YidWithLid reported on.

But Dave Wiegel considers the news a "distraction" from the pre-scripted Democratic Messaging Operation.

The Narrative

Any facts which "distract" from it are nonfacts and thus non-news.

Posted by: Ace at 01:01 PM | Comments (378)
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This was September 4-6. I believe those are the exact days of the DNC, so the poll wouldn't really capture any bounce.

Still, interesting. 49-46 for Romney, and the lead grows when you screw around with their data to weight on party ID (which, I'm told, is sort of dangerous).

Of course, Gallup has it 49-45, Obama. And Rasmussen has it 46-44, Obama.

Posted by: Ace at 12:30 PM | Comments (165)
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Less centered this time.

Posted by: Ace at 10:06 AM | Comments (382)
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Oh hellsyeah. Football, all over the September.

It's back baby.

No top ten head to heads (ask Michigan how they like that now), but lots of games on board today. But the top 5 are: Alabama (1) against W. Kentucky, USC (2) vs. Syracuso, LSU (3) against Warshington, Oregon (4) vs. Fresno St., and OU (5) takes on Florida A&M.

Have a great weekend morons. The heat finally broke here in Texas today and this makes Dave as happy as a leetle girl.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 08:02 AM | Comments (315)
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ICYMI, Ace was in rare form last night on Twitter, as chronicled here by Twitchy.

.@elizabethforma What do you think was the most difficult part about growing up as a Woman of Color in Oklahoma?

— The Student (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 8, 2012

As hard as it is to believe, Lieawatha of the Affirmative Action tribe still has a decent shot at winning. It is Massachusetts and all.

Donate to Scott Brown here.

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The AP reported that Mexico has arrested one of the suspected killers of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.

They couldn't resist this shameless bit of hackery, though:

In Operation Fast and Furious and at least three earlier probes during the administration of President George W. Bush, agents in Arizona employed a risky tactic called gun-walking ...

Guess whose names they don't mention in the entire article.

Also, conflating these various operations is complete bullshit. If you're going to call OF&F "botched", you need to be able to explain how it was supposed to work.

In one of the operations not run by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, we used GPS trackers in the guns and suspended it when the trackers didn't work. And in all of the operations not run by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, Mexican officials were working with us so we actually had an effin' plan to track the guns on the other side of the border that didn't involve recovering them from crime scenes.

(h/t JWF)

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