Posted by: Edge at August 29, 2010 12:45 PM (h7kan)

I hope we can find some of the sorts of leftist comments I remember seeing in early 2009 about how if the Republicans didn't kowtow to the leftist agenda the Dems would pick up more seats.

That fire-breathing conservative dragon in #4/Fish looks an awful lot like the Goracle in that photoshopped pix that was making the rounds....

http://tinyurl.com/29zo89g

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 12:50 PM (rIm2V)

Well, that's my story, anyway.

Posted by: Keynes at August 29, 2010 12:50 PM (FcR7P)

I'm pretty sure Keynes wouldn't have supported a trillion dollar payoff to Obama's friends and allies either.

Posted by: Joejm65 at August 29, 2010 12:56 PM (sj5Ix)

And deceptive.  Alaric and his savages have been sacking the city for 19 months straight, already.

The problem with the Leahy quote/NYT narrative about all the Rs 'who did not know what they were doing' getting elected in 1980, is that those were by and large not the Republicans who were voted out in 1986.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2010 12:59 PM (bgcml)

Agreed. I will take your point one step further...

Which parties candidates are unabashedly supported by the MFM? Which constituency is most dependent on others telling them how to vote?

Here is a US House race we need to concentrate on, if we really want to strike fear & loathing into the democrats & their agenda.  Joel Pollak is the republican candidate in IL-9, the house seat currently held by Jan Schakowsky (D).  Schakowsky is Pelosi's best friend in the House, she is to the left of Lenin.

You may remember Joel Pollak from a couple of years ago, he was the Harvard Law student who stood up at a Q&A with Barney Frank at Harvard, and asked Frank some pointed questions about the financial mess, etc.  He had Frank on the ropes, sputtering and shouting.

Joel Pollak's website is Pollak for congress dot com    or for those who actually like tinyurl here it is:

http://tinyurl.com/ygl8cff

“It was a very weird time,” recalled Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who narrowly won a second term that year. “A lot of those people had no idea what they were doing.”

Fuck you Leahy. Parliamentary procedure isn't rocket science. They knew what they were doing. It's just that you didn't fucking agree to what they were doing.

Leahy is the fucking poster-child for trem limits

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 01:08 PM (rIm2V)

Can't beat their syrup or their concealed carry laws.

Other than that, they can fucking rot, in my book.  They send some amazing pieces of shit to Congress.  Bernie Motherfucking Sanders?  Give me a break.

Posted by: nickless at August 29, 2010 01:05 PM (MMC8r)

Only 52% were wise and thoughtful. The rest were a bunch of bitter, clinging racists. Now that hateful 48% has taken their rabble rousing, hate speech to the Lincoln Memorial other KKK rallies (forgetting that the KKK was a Democrat entity and Dr. King was a Republican) throughout the country and is confusing the wise and thoughtful 52%. No worries though. The MFM will rally against those racist tea baggers and set things right.

Part of the problem is that those bitter clingers can't read and therefore missed the message on all the stimulus-funded road signs. Hmmph! Typical White people... don't know what is good for them and don't give a damn about all the Brown people who lost their looted 42" flat screen TVs to the floods of Katrina.

Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 29, 2010 01:16 PM (Oj/ob)

Lots of good stuff in that article.  A snippet.....

@52:   Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott recently spoke for many in the party when he said it didn't need anymore "Jim DeMint disciples."

Herein lies my concern and contempt.

 Â“A lot of those people had no idea what they were doing.”

Yes, and that's why they were voted out of office. Bwahahaha!

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at August 29, 2010 01:25 PM (62atQ)

My FB is working.  Try logging out and back in.

 Â“A lot of those people had no idea what they were doing.”

Yes, and that's why they were voted out of office. Bwahahaha!

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That's how I initially read it too

I knew what the a-hole meant. Now he knows how we roll.

Dems in Congress, don't sign any long-term leases. November's coming, and that right soon.

It jsut struck me as to what this is really all about...

The Media is part of the POLITICAL Class... they are part of the entrenched system...

And this election is all about the disconnect between the Political Class, and the rest of us.

On issue after issue, the polls show the "Political Class"'s beliefs are the opposite of what the rest of us think....

On the Mosque, saw one poll that said 68% of the Pols wanted it, yet 77% of the rest of us did not...

And the Media is PART of the system... and will defend that system because its how they make their living.

Repubs will do OK this election, but the current R leadership will see this election as prooving support for them... when it is not... and will thus try to keep the Political Status quo in tact.

OT...Record cold high temp for Redding California of 66 degrees. Previous was 78 back in the 1920's. Plus it rained. For the uninitiated Redding is a hot box that routinely breaks 115 this time of year.

Algore, where are you?

Fire-breathing, my ass.

We're f'ing obstreperous, dammit!

Posted by: Malia & Sasha at August 29, 2010 01:36 PM (NAPGP)

Sweeties, Marine One landed on Bo a couple months ago, I was just too busy golfing to tell you.

52 by the way, Joel Pollak is having Vivica A Fox at a campaign event on Labor Day.   CAC

I went back to the campaign website and looked at the header, I have no idea who Vivica A. Fox is, but she's headlining the Pollak campaign event on Labor Day at Evanston High School.  Evanston, IL is the center of the universe of suburban Chicago north shore lefty politics.  For students who show up at the event, school supplies will be distributed.  That and Ms. Fox ought to get a good crowd of the younger demo out to the event. 

Posted by: erp at August 29, 2010 01:42 PM (Wkm4K)

I don't know, I sure like Jim DeMint.

The New York Times has instituted a new strategy to arrest the freefall in readership that has plagued us over the past decade.

Pinch, the NYT isn't in freefall. It's in a power dive.

The NYT article is (not surprisingly) wrong about the GOP class of 1980; they were actually probably the best Senate freshmen in the last several decades.  They enacted the Reagan tax cuts, ending stagflation; paid for the defense buildup, ending the Cold War; and dropped leftist projects of the Democrat Senate such as gun control, the ERA, and socialized medicine.

The Dems won back the Senate in 1986, not because of the poor quality of GOP Senators, but because (1) a drought in the Midwest caused farmers to vote for Democrats who would give them handouts relief; (2) the Jesse Jackson candidacy in 1984 registered millions of new black voters, who in 1986 voted for southern Democrats who put on enough of a moderate front to also get a large minority of white votes; and (3) Reagan, in an unusual failure of nerve, put freshman Republicans in a bad spot by first supporting cuts in cost-of-living increases for Social Security, and then opposing it after they had voted for it and put themselves on the record.

Vivica A. Fox is very descriptive.        

1980 was the year of Iran hostage and Afghanistan, presaging most of our current foreign policy disasters and problems with Islamic holy warriors and theocrats.   The similarities are striking.  Now Iran hopes to hold whole cities hostage.  So that's different.

Sluggish economy, high unemployment, trade deficit, energy crisis...  But then they had high interest rates.       

OT but important:  Republican primary candidate for MA-3 has had his home vandalized for a second time

from the press release:

Holliston, MA ...Today, Marty Lamb, ">Republican candidate for Congress in Massachusetts Third District, has filed another police report about vandalism that took place at his home late Saturday night at his home in Holliston.

This time vandals threw broken glass, old books, suit cases, and broken lamps on to the candidate's family lawn along with stealing their campaign signs.

"I am concerned about the escalation of vandalism at my home where I live with my wife and two daughters.  It is one thing to have a political disagreement, but going to a candidate's home is just plain wrong," said Lamb.

During a campaign candidates often see lots of theft of signs.  It is unusual to have people throwing glass and dumping garbage on a candidate's lawn. 

Mr. Lamb graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 1985 and received his Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 1982. He has an extensive background in real estate law, formerly with Adelson, Golden & Loria, P.C., Edward A. Sokoloff & Associates, and Lamb & Shaffer, P.C. and is currently with Lamb and Browne, P.C. He is a member of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts. An active participant in community affairs, Mr. Lamb sits on the Board of Directors of New England Region of United Synagogue and is a past president of Temple Beth Torah in Holliston. He has also served on the Holliston Elementary School Council and the Campaign for Holliston Schools. He resides in Holliston with Peri, his wife of 20 years, and his two teenage daughters Elissa and Simma.

I do think that the NYT article has one thing right, however:  this is looking more like 1980, which was a lasting political shift, than like 1994, which was more a reversion to the normal after the left-wing policies of Clinton's first two years.  In 1994, I don't recall huge rallies for conservative politics.  Also, politics does seem to follow a 30-year cycle; i.e., the 1900's, 1930's, 1960's, and 1990's were either somewhat or very liberal, and the 1890's, 1920's, 1950's, and 1980's were either somewhat or very conservative, with the other decades being transitional.

84 You don't know Vivica A Fox?
Have you seen Kill Bill or Curb Your Enthusiasm?

Kill Bill was a Hollywood movie & I just can't be bothered anymore.  I don't need to pay money to be insulted for 2 hours.  Haven't been to a movie in years.

Curb Your Enthusiasm was that Larry David/Laurie David cable show, life is too short to waste on those two dummies. 

I believe Joel Pollak is an Orthodox jew, but not african.  He was at the Chicago Tax Day event this year in Daley Plaza, and played a funny protest song on his guitar. 

_{I'll bet 10,000 babies have been named "Barack" since 2008. Expect a big surge in name-change petitions when they reach majority....}

Nope. Expect half of the prison population class of 2026 to be named "Barack."

Republican candidate for Congress in Massachusetts Third District, has filed another police report about vandalism that took place at his home late Saturday night at his home in Holliston.

This time vandals threw broken glass, old books, suit cases, and broken lamps on to the candidate's family lawn along with stealing their campaign signs.

Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 01:56 PM (HLGCA)

I'm sure the police response will be vigorous and effective.  HAHAHAHAHA!  Fat chance.  Conservative pols might just as well plan to move into condos or apartments with no private lawns.  This kind of thing is only going to keep getting worse.  I wonder how long it will be until the physical violence starts? 

Thank you for coming and joining, Sukie!  Your story is compelling, and it's heartening to hear it repeated over and over all over the country and many, many times on this site. 

It takes a special sort of moron to truly appreciate the likes of Greg Gutfield, Iowahawk, or Ace.  If you can stand us, we're happy to have you.

Any show that has the line "fuck you Ted Danson" warrants at least a passing glance.

It's a shame about Ted Danson's crash last night.  I always loved to hate him.  He was like a more self-important David Hasselhoff.

Posted by: logprof at August 29, 2010 02:14 PM (BP6Z1)

No worries - penicillin will clear that right up.

128 - Thanks for the info on Joel Pollak, I knew that he and his parents have lived in the Skokie, IL area for many years, I did not know they emigrated from South Africa.

129 - There's a theory going round some blogs that the lefties want the violence and are trying to incite violence, which can then be used to show how violent & out of control the bitter clingers are.

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 02:19 PM (p302b)

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it.  The Left ALWAYS goes violent.  In past decades they were too-few to really dare poke their heads up.  Now things are polarizing to the point where radicalization is more extensive.  The worthless fucks have gone too far in this administration, and now that America is rejecting them they'll see they can't win through the democratic process.  That leaves only two things - the courts, and violence.  They'll try the courts first, since that has been effective at destroying the law in the past.  But if that fails, they'll move on to the only other thing they know.

Arm up.  It'll be a hell of a turkey shoot.

Posted by: logprof at August 29, 2010 02:14 PM (BP6Z1)

Posted by: Boots at August 29, 2010 02:25 PM (06JTY)

They have no idea what kind of bear they're poking.  If the Right was driven to violence, it would probably be pretty epic.  Conservatives are invariably law-and-order types.  We don't rise up, we don't go around breaking the law, and we don't shoot the neighbors.  But if pushed to that extreme through constant abuse, the hammer would come down pretty hard.  The Leftist orgs had better keep their member lists closely guarded - I'd pay handsomely for those should the civil war break out.

O/T but funny.  I saw this on the BeJohnGalt blog.

"A friend of mine started a new business.  He makes landmines that look like prayer rugs.  The Prophets are going through the roof."

Anyway, I heard a speaker at the Glenn Beck rally who said to tell all vets "Welcome Home" and he said he was going to say it to Vietnam vets who had never had it said.  So, even though I have not seen Nam Grunt lately on here, "Nam Grunt, Welcome Home."  Sincerely.

Well, tra-la and good day to you all.  My family is due back from their event shortly.  Which means I'm back to... whatever they want from me.

I hope the rest of your Sunday works out well.

I knew if I lurked here long enough, one of you wingnuts would say something to scare my lefty readers into showing up at the polls in droves.

Johnson, Charles has readers?  Who knew???

Posted by: Navycopjoe on his IPhone4 at August 29, 2010 02:35 PM (vn9+L)

This coming from a Navy guy who had his teeth removed to please his shipmates.

157 The fact she's winning the absentee ballots by a comfy margin doesn't concern you?

It does concern me, absentee ballots "discovered" in closets & car trunks are the ballots that allow close elections to be stolen.

O/T, but Malkin put up a pair of links to show the difference between the Mall after a Leftist rally, and the mall after yesterday's rally.  It's not surprising to us, but should be a real eye opener to anybody still wandering around in moderate land.  The Libs left a scene of disaster, and the Wingers left cleanliness and order.

After scrolling down a bit they can be seen here.

http://tinyurl.com/29xx6u7

Posted by: mr magoo at August 29, 2010 02:36 PM (GfGBM)

Posted by: mr magoo at August 29, 2010 02:44 PM (GfGBM)

I agree with the principle, but isn't "Party of Stupid" a little to close the the Republicans' trademarked slogan, "The Stupid Party"?

Anyway, I think Party of Thieves is at least as accurate.

After scrolling down a bit they can be seen here.

http://tinyurl.com/29xx6u7

Posted by: Reactionary at August 29, 2010 02:48 PM (4nbyM)

Didn't it cost something like $4 million to re-sod the Mall after Obama's inauguration?

Posted by: mr magoo at August 29, 2010 02:36 PM (GfGBM)

No, because this isn't all outstanding ballots we're talking about, just the early votes.

There are something like 23,000 ballots outstanding.  Some of the absentee ballots won't be returned at all, a quarter of them or more are Dem, and 10% of the votes cast on election day didn't include any preference for Governor, with some voters opting only to vote on the abortion-parental-notification initiative.

So assuming there are 15,000 outstanding R ballots that are returned on time, accepted, counted, and include a vote for the R Senate candidate (and I think 15,000 is a very generous figure), and Murky wins 54.1% of those ballots, she still comes up 400 votes short. 

But she won't win 54.1% of the remaining ballots unless there is some major shenanigans going on.  Remember, the 54.1% number was EARLY votes, not all outstanding ballots.  The votes cast later will favor Miller more heavily, I would assume, since he surged very late.  Also, a significant number of the outstanding ballots in question are ballots that have been challenged, meaning some of them will probably be thrown out (probably cast by inbred mouth-breathers who wrote in "lizard people" or whatever).

Posted by: Navycopjoe on his IPhone4 at August 29, 2010 02:52 PM (vn9+L)

haha, there you go. Stay on message!

Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 02:54 PM (Gr1V1)

Big surprise there. I wonder what the final bill was? Fuckers probably imported the sod from New Zealand or something.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 29, 2010 01:58 PM (mHQ7T)

An American Krystalnacht. Where's the MFM on this one?

Listening to the POTUS' speech.

Is there a Tampa, LA?

Is there a Tampa, LA?

Posted by: jmflynny at August 29, 2010 03:05 PM (fyuGu)

Not that I can find. BTW, thanks for taking one for the team. I can't listen to the dickbag anymore.

Is it a major speech as in the more than 20 minute variety?

#125

will have microscopes implanted up their asses before they ever embark on their journey. 

oh yeah, you WILL fit in here.. welcome

TGSG

I stepped into the kitchen to make a pastramia and swiss sammich and I think I heard Teh Won saying something about people no longer being abandoned because of race or age or some shit. I was a little bit in shock so I'll have to wait for the transcript before becoming too outraged.

Maybe I misunderstood since I was between t.v.s at the time.

Posted by: bigred at August 29, 2010 03:46 PM (cX9pO)

Ah yes, the MN SecState, Mark Ritchie.  The guy was a fucking ACORN member, and he got elected to SecState.  Then again we elected Jesse Ventura and Paul Wellstone, so nothing the voters here in MN do should surprise you.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 29, 2010 04:04 PM (mHQ7T)

I could be wrong but I think curious is referring to how the McCain campaign treated her?

230 Many believe it'd be MUCH easier to turn Giannoulias once he's in-

Obviously "TurningThePage" is an Axelturfer Troll.  Giannoulias is a longtime dem from a mob-connected family, which owned a mob-connected bank named Broadway Bank (which just "failed" a couple of weeks ago, resulting in taxpayers giving the Giannoulis family a couple hundred million bucks.  How convenient for the Giannoulis for Senate campaign.  Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.)

Giannoulias and Obama go way back in Illlinois, and neither one of them can be trusted, or would ever vote as a conservative.  There is a greater chance of Saul Alinsky himself coming back from the dead and joining the Tea Party.

The Mob & unions & democrats & Illinois go hand-in-hand. 

You are an Axelturfer Troll - HardToBelieveBut UnfortunatelyTrue, or TurningThePage, or Trounced...Not, or whatever nic you use.

Well, Meow, if you were really from Illinois, you would know that nobody nobody nobody on either side of the political fence thinks that Alexi Giannoulis is a closet republican or a conservative or has any right leaning tendancies whatsoever.  You don't have to be a Kirk supporter to know that the Giannoulis family goes way back in democratic politics. 

Also Meow, I've been commenting on this blog for a couple of years now, and you are brand new.  Trolls helicopter in, with new & multiple names, write their paid by the word drivel, stay on dead threads in order to get the last word, and generally make a nuisance of themselves.