August 23, 2010
— Ace Pretty good ad, cute but making some tough points about Harman.
Here's an older interview with Mattie Fein (not about this ad, but about her candidacy) conducted by Red State's Moe Lane. "She has voted down the line for every single one of Obama's policies."
The Other McCain was pushing this race a bit, and at first, I shrugged it off, thinking Jane Harman was safe, until I remembered the basic operating theory this election: Virtually no Democrat is safe.
Here's her site, where you can donate or volunteer to do GOTV or phonebanking or maybe just chill out in their Young Franenstein set.
By the Way: Harman is in a quite-blue district but she is also disliked by liberals for being a "Blue Dog," which she's really not -- she talks a Blue Dog game but then votes liberal as hell.
So there might be a lot of dispirit in her district -- perhaps the troops won't rally to hard. Making this a possible steal opportunity.
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Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2010 07:19 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: FreakyBoy at August 23, 2010 07:22 AM (uKraB)
I wonder if this goes hand and hand with the fact the Dems ran a moderate to conservative campaign in 2008 and have governed as hard core leftists since then.
There are maybe half a dozen Dems you could argue are moderates in the House, and maybe Lieberman in the Senate.
People don't want to pay attention to politics, as least the mushy middle that decide elections, but when the Democrats make you lose your job and take away your health care, it is hard not to notice...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2010 07:22 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: Monty at August 23, 2010 07:23 AM (/0a60)
Posted by: Nighhawk at August 23, 2010 07:23 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2010 07:24 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 07:24 AM (lV4Fs)
And this from Jim Geraghty at NRO is just astounding.
http://tinyurl.com/33c7qzy
The Political Expendables
By some counts, the GOP has a shot at 103 currently Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives this year.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 07:25 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 07:26 AM (lV4Fs)
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at August 23, 2010 07:26 AM (HaYO4)
Considering Fein's status as an unknown, more time should be spent telling voters what she stands for, not making amateurish and somewhat incoherent attacks on Harman.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 23, 2010 07:27 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: yournamehere at August 23, 2010 07:31 AM (2Ugp6)
One wonders if the average citizen will know?
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 07:31 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:31 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 23, 2010 07:32 AM (664Zx)
Posted by: yournamehere at August 23, 2010 11:31 AM (2Ugp6)
No, but Philly charges him $600 for the pleasure of holding a blogging license.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 07:32 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 07:33 AM (lV4Fs)
Well, since NYC is classier than Philly they have to pay $1,000 for a blogging license.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 07:34 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 11:33 AM (X2eGz)
I was just joking. And the blogging license is only $300, anyway.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 07:35 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 23, 2010 07:35 AM (yVCKZ)
We need to pull up every quote made by a Democrat in 2007 who said Iran is ten years away from nukes.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 07:35 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Philadelphia City Council Member Gollum at August 23, 2010 07:35 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:36 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 11:34 AM (/jbAw)
And licensed NYC bloggers aren't allowed to smoke or have salts or transfats within 30 yards of any computer they use to blog. Otherwise, that's a $10,000 fine.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 07:36 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 11:35 AM
$600 for double posts!
And twice the outrageous outrage from "Poppin' Fresh" because ace didn't tell us whether he's being paid to blog about Fein....
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 23, 2010 07:38 AM (Ulu3i)
Take a look at Jane Harmon's picture. Not hard to guess where they got the idea for this commercial.
Posted by: rdbrewer at August 23, 2010 07:38 AM (p/npo)
Posted by: Dave C at August 23, 2010 07:38 AM (W8f0O)
Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2010 07:38 AM (U9Dsf)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:38 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Barbarian at August 23, 2010 07:39 AM (EL+OC)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:39 AM (X2eGz)
You haven't been to New York State, bud. This is the DNC Matrix....
Posted by: ParisParamus at August 23, 2010 07:40 AM (fEj4O)
Posted by: joncelli at August 23, 2010 07:41 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: FreakyBoy at August 23, 2010 07:41 AM (uKraB)
I'm having ann 80's flashback--I'm hearing that group, Foreigner in my head!
Posted by: runningrn at August 23, 2010 07:41 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:41 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Philadelphia City Council Member Gollum at August 23, 2010 07:41 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 23, 2010 07:42 AM (xmEXV)
If it was her single, only ad, I would agree, but awareness as Stage I of a campaign, has value separate from effective message. That's, apparently, what Demon Sheep was about for Carly Fiorina....
Posted by: ParisParamus at August 23, 2010 07:42 AM (fEj4O)
It's a roll out. Posted by: Dave C at August 23, 2010 11:38 AM
I hope there will be some serious ads in the roll out. Fun is fun, but a lot of voters won't support Fein simply because she has a sense of humor. It didn't help Zombie Gary Coleman when he ran for governor in CA.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 23, 2010 07:42 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:42 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: yournamehere at August 23, 2010 11:31 AM (2Ugp6)
Only if it is a review of Michael Steele's new book.
By the way, do you know Michael Steele has written a new must read best seller?
Posted by: The RNC at August 23, 2010 07:43 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 07:43 AM (lV4Fs)
Besides, the mood here in PA is such that this might actually HARM Sleestack.
Yeah, how's a Republican endorsement gonna fly with the regressive base? Surely it will count as a strike against Sleestak, yes?
I wouldn't feel too good about voting for Toomey if he got, say, Diane Feinstein's endorsement.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 07:44 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Old Hippie Vet at August 23, 2010 07:45 AM (OefT/)
Posted by: Michael Steele at August 23, 2010 07:47 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:49 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: The RNC at August 23, 2010 11:43 AM (7BU4a)
I'll try and fit him in between Newt, Beckel, JC Watts, and my tour promo's [Thumb Up]
Posted by: Sean Hannity at August 23, 2010 07:49 AM (EL+OC)
The add became famous and went viral, but nobody could remember what was being advertised, or who was doing the advertising. That makes it a FAIL in marketing terms.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at August 23, 2010 07:50 AM (eVJ7T)
Posted by: I'm your huckleberry at August 23, 2010 07:50 AM (2p0e3)
Posted by: Ace's Headline at August 23, 2010 07:52 AM (554T5)
Posted by: Teri Garr at August 23, 2010 07:53 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 23, 2010 07:53 AM (664Zx)
Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at August 23, 2010 07:55 AM (QBQcg)
Posted by: alexthedude at August 23, 2010 07:56 AM (X2eGz)
Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at August 23, 2010 07:56 AM (QBQcg)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 07:58 AM (lV4Fs)
By the way, do you know Michael Steele has written a new must read best seller?
I'll bet it's not as good as my new thriller, the Whatchamacallit Window.
I'll have Steele on my show when we do our Friday history lesson, The Story of Mindless RNC Chairmen and the Women Who Love Them.
Posted by: Glenn "the weeper" Beck at August 23, 2010 08:03 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: JEM at August 23, 2010 08:04 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Luca Brasi at August 23, 2010 08:08 AM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: yournamehere at August 23, 2010 08:10 AM (2Ugp6)
Don't forget Clinton vetoed the so-called Welfare Reform three times before signing it and then taking credit for it.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:11 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 08:11 AM (lV4Fs)
When (if) the Republicans take back the House...
Obama becomes the President of No.
Unless of course the Republicans fuck it up and spend the next two years on defense rather than on offense.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:12 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 11:58 AM (lV4Fs)
I agree, but that would only be VERY temporary. Nothing can undo the financial and monetary storms which are headed our way.
In addition, even switching out to all GOP in the federal government would do nothing to fix the fact taht the US is no longer trustworthy. That was the real damage of the 2008 election; America can turn on a dime and become a totally different country, willing to throw away all concept of the rule of law and publicly stating so. That damage is irreparable without something much more serious than merely switching out those in power.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 08:13 AM (Qp4DT)
Ace is seeing double already this morning. I'll drink to that.
Maybe Ace already did?
It's Val-u-Rite Monday!
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at August 23, 2010 08:13 AM (I1+0R)
Oakland County Clerk claims forged candidate filing from “fake” Tea Party
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson, a candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, says she has evidence of forgery in one of the candidate statements for the "Tea Party" political party. The supposed candidate, Aaron Tyler of Springfield Township, has been in Phoenix, AZ, and told Johnson's office that he did not wish to be a candidate, did not sign his name on candidate statement paperwork, and had no idea his name was in the process of being placed on the ballot.
According to the release: "Johnson said the alleged false Tyler paperwork was notarized by a Jason H.Bauer. According to Michigan Capitol Confidential.com, a Jason Bauer has registered twice to run for office in Oakland County, once as a Democrat in May of this year. Mr. Bauer notarized paperwork for eight Tea Party candidates running in the November election."
Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2010 08:13 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 11:58 AM (lV4Fs)
Not with ObamaCare still in place. There is still too much uncertainty regarding taxes, fines, fees and pickpocketing losses. Until ObamaCare is repealed, business growth will remain stagnant or decline.
Plus, if the Republicans wipe the floor with the Dems and have a midterm win of historic proportions, there is still the matter of a kamikaze scenario taking place after the elections and before January 1st. The loser Dems will have nothing further to lose, so going full-bore all in will be a natural move, including passing Cap 'n Tax, Shamnesty and other disastrous legislation. Then you'll see the DJIA really tank.
Posted by: RickZ at August 23, 2010 08:13 AM (+CvIz)
??????
There isn't a Democrat in office who is not either a socialist or a communist.
Hell, half the Republicans are socialists themselves.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:13 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 23, 2010 08:14 AM (xxgag)
Speaking of the Tea Party...
did you see that Tea Partier in the Phillipines take the bus passengers hostage?
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:16 AM (uFokq)
Old and busted: The Keystone Kops.
New hotness: The Kommiekaze Kongress.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 23, 2010 08:16 AM (xxgag)
Obama becomes the President of No.
Unless of course the Republicans fuck it up and spend the next two years on defense rather than on offense.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 12:12 PM
More likely, enough of them will already be infected with D.C. Spenditis, and will go along with the Osama Obama regime to keep their share of the pork flowing in their direction.
I haven't heard all that many Repub candidates talking about cutting the budget, a necessary corollary to cutting taxes....
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 23, 2010 08:16 AM (Ulu3i)
I would add, the insanity in how legislation was shoved through is another artifact of this dem reign that will not disappear. We have broken taboos and destroyed tradition - and the GOP never made it clear that they found all of this to be illegal and un-American. SO, now, the new methods of legislation (deem and pass, reconciliation for ANYTHING, lying about budgets and everything else, ...) are part of what is considered "normal" in American governance.
I think that most people seriously underestimate how bad and permanent this damage has been.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 08:16 AM (Qp4DT)
Doesn't some have Ace's phone number or something?
"Dude, minimize lesbiancheerleaders.com and get back to the blog. You double posted again."
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 23, 2010 08:16 AM (fLHQe)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 08:19 AM (lV4Fs)
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 12:11 PM (/jbAw)
Not only did he take credit for it, but Clinton also promised the left that it was only temporary - that he would get legislation passed in his second term that undid much of it. Of course, no one believed him, because Clinton never managed to get any of "his" legislation passed. Nothing. Somehow, that part about Clinton promising liberals that he would override welfare reform, later, has gotten lost in the passage of time.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 08:19 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 08:21 AM (lV4Fs)
Obama will fight tooth and nail against any Republican-led recovery efforts, unlike Clinton in 1995. He's just a died-in-the-wool socialist, hardcore. Clinton, while also a socialist, would to anything to save his own ass. Posted by: Luca Brasi at August 23, 2010 12:08 PM (YmPwQ)
Or get some.
Posted by: Old Hippie Vet at August 23, 2010 08:22 AM (OefT/)
Meh. Nobody in PA knows who Hagel is. (I barely know who Hagel is.) But it's a fascinating view into the mind of this idiot.
Of all of the races to cross party lines (though he's out of office now, so can you say this is the definition of masturbatory exercise) this is the worst. Sestak is a left-liberal -- far to the left of the PA electorate. Toomey is a mainstream conservative who focuses on fiscal issues. Toomey is winning so comfortably, this is a bad endorsement strategically.
The only "reason" I can think of is that he's doing the whole military solidarity thing.
Hagel runs an irrelevant foreign policy think tank now. He's nobody.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 23, 2010 08:22 AM (T0NGe)
Alternatively, Tiger is running the country as well as Obama is playing golf.
So we have that.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 23, 2010 08:24 AM (T0NGe)
Of all of the races to cross party lines...
Indeed. And of all the years to side with the Democrats when they are at their lowest approval in modern times...
Let me put it this way: This is a good year to be a Republican.
Yet we'll always have the Hagels, Snowes, and Collins's stupid enough to side with the Democrats.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:27 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Dave G at August 23, 2010 08:28 AM (p+X9Q)
I guess Hagel didn't pay attention to what happened to his friend Arlen Specter.
Oh and it's a nice slap in the face to Specter, too, for Hagel to endorse Sestak.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:29 AM (uFokq)
You see, even Snowe and Collins aren't this stupid. They'll cross party lines (mostly out of comity) but they won't do this kind of pointless garbage. It just makes no sense to do this.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 23, 2010 08:29 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 23, 2010 08:29 AM (0q2P7)
Do you understand what socialism is? Well over half of our budget is going into socialist entitlement programs.
Karl Marx called socialism the intermediate step between capitalism and communism. Anytime you pass a law that spends money on a social program it is by definition socialism.
Bush's no child program was socialism as well as the drug benefit plan.
Socialism becomes communism when they start taking private property. They have been doing that small pieces at a time for the last 50 years. Obama only sped it up here recently.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:29 AM (/jbAw)
Where if it's good enough the first time, you might as well do it twice.
Some really loose shit.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 23, 2010 08:30 AM (rUKTY)
No, but my point was that of all the times to support a Dodd bill, this is the worst time for Collins and Snowe to do so.
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:31 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: dananjcon at August 23, 2010 08:33 AM (pr+up)
I have a feeling that if the Repubs do take back the Senate those two will switch. I also have a feeling that they may switch anyway after the next tine each is elected. They already have ACU ratings less than 50.They are DIABLOs already.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:33 AM (/jbAw)
I think that most people seriously underestimate how bad and permanent this damage has been.
I will vote Republican but I don't have any expectation that things will get better. Most of the Republican leadership are the same one's that let things unravel to the situation we are in right now.
The only answer is dissolution!
Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at August 23, 2010 08:34 AM (4JpPD)
double down
double posts
double double with animal fries
double d's
Double is good.
Posted by: CAC at August 23, 2010 11:24 AM (lV4Fs)
Double Dip!
Posted by: Ratzo Russo at August 23, 2010 08:34 AM (pr+up)
It will still take time to recover and the housing market has still not had its correction yet, but we will start to recover.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:35 AM (/jbAw)
If they switch, Vic, it will be a Jeffords switch to Independent.
But holy shit are they both that stupid? After it's clear that the majority is rejecting the radical Democrat agenda the twins would switch to the less popular party?
Posted by: fiscal ferret, social fruit bat at August 23, 2010 08:37 AM (uFokq)
They moved to the left a long time ago. Putting a "D" after their name would be truth in advertising. Maine used to be a hardcore Republican State. It was socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Now not so much so. putting a "D" would not hurt them politically.
That is no longer the case. Too many people trying to escape the high taxes of MA have moved there and are rapidly converting Maine to MA.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 08:43 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: rockhead at August 23, 2010 08:44 AM (RykTt)
Posted by: Tommy V at August 23, 2010 08:51 AM (qU57d)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 23, 2010 09:02 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: logprof at August 23, 2010 09:14 AM (BP6Z1)
In addition, even switching out to
all GOP in the federal government would do nothing to fix the fact taht
the US is no longer trustworthy. That was the real damage of the 2008
election; America can turn on a dime and become a totally different
country, willing to throw away all concept of the rule of law and
publicly stating so. That damage is irreparable without something much
more serious than merely switching out those in power.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 23, 2010 12:13 PM (Qp4DT)
I blame television. Before it came along, people lived REAL lives. Now they live vicariously through the fake lives of people who entertain them. Lack of real world experience makes a lot of people very stupid.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at August 23, 2010 09:27 AM (eVJ7T)
Bush's no child program was socialism as well as the drug benefit plan.
Socialism becomes communism when they start taking private property. They have been doing that small pieces at a time for the last 50 years. Obama only sped it up here recently.
Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2010 12:29 PM (/jbAw)
If I never hear the term "Compassionate Conservative" again, that will be too soon.
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at August 23, 2010 09:31 AM (eVJ7T)
Posted by: rdbrewer at August 23, 2010 09:54 AM (p/npo)
The question is, if this is his opening act, how much further will he actually go to get the job?
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