1

Romney: No 2012 Straw Polls

This is fine with me. From what I have seen of straw polls over the past few years they are even worse than newspaper polls.

2

Australia hasn't given up on teh stupid

Australia is considering awarding carbon credits for killing feral camels as a way to tackle climate change.

HavenÂ’t they been keeping up with the news?

3

CME Group eyes Illinois exit; Emanuel confident it will stay

This story was breaking yesterday (w/o the BS from Emanuel) but on F&F this morning they added Caterpillar to the list of companies that are looking at bailing from IL since they raised taxes. Believe it or not F&F blamed it on the UNIONS. They said that while all the rest of the States resisted raising taxes and cut spending instead (I don’t think it was all), IL under pressure from the unions who didn’t want any “service cuts” raised taxes.

We here at AOSHQ have been saying this for months now, you can NOT raise revenues by raising taxes!

4

Stupid brain-dead commies double down on stupid

Senior Senate Democrats are growing frustrated by what they see as President ObamaÂ’s passivity on the economy, and are beginning to discuss a large infrastructure package funded by tax increases. 

5 a large infrastructure package funded by tax increases. 

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 06:50 AM (M9Ie6)

Guys, I think you are already waaay past the wrong point on the curve!

6

Even more stupid from the commies, this one in the House

House Dems to call for expiration of Bush tax rates in debt-limit deal

Democrats lie, when you make a “deal” with them they will always reneg, usually before even completing the deal. Here they want to reneg after the deal is complete.  To the 52% of stupid people out there who voted for Dems last time know this. You can not trust these communist assholes, even if you pay zero taxes and a re a leech on the rest of us. They will still screw you in the end.

7

In case any of you morning Morons missed this breaking news from yesterday afternoon

Eye of Newt is sinking fast, possibly for good. Hell, we all deserve a little bit of good news every now and then.

8 If only there was a song about Friday.

9

50% Unemployment screams the Daily Caller HL/Link!

10

http://tinyurl.com/sensitivereporting

I just loves me them ethical dilemmas between reporting about an innocent relative by birth (daughter and son) of a Republican candidate and reporting about an innocent relative by marriage of a elected Democrat Congressman.  As an aside, the candidate has yet to be shown to have engaged in any shady unethical behavior, while the Congressman was known to have misused his office, lied to the public, defamed other parties, and engaged in very inappropriate behavior, not that that is relevant.

11

RE. 4 above:

“The last election was about jobs and the economy, and now we’re in a position where we really do need some economic pump-priming by the federal government,” he said.

What I'm about to say is in the most sincere, honest way I am able, ahem...

ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?

12 Posted by: Talibill at June 10, 2011 07:06 AM (WEWGu)

Let me be perfectly clear, We are convinced that We simply did not do enough in the beginning years of Our Imperial Presidency, and
this may be our last chance to raid the Treasury for several years.

13 9 I will put forth that there has never been an Administration as successful in achieving their personal and group goals as the current one. People weren't listening when Obama used the term Bankrupt on multiple occasions when talking to "The right kind of people."

14 It is easy to be green:
Utility giant American Electric Power said Thursday that it will shut down five coal-fired power plants and spend billions of dollars to comply with a series of pending Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

15 Here's a good question for the 'Mittens is a brilliant campaigner' crowd:  Why would Mitt say he favors ethanol subsidies then skip the Iowa straw poll?  That seems like the opposite of a brilliant campaigner to me.

16 Posted by: Talibill at June 10, 2011 07:06 AM (WEWGu)

Personally I think these things from both the Senate and the House are nothing more than rhetoric designed to mollify the base for the next election. They have to know that they have zero chance of getting ANY of this shit through the House.

17 I know this is a stupid question but does Obama still suck cock today?

18 Posted by: Kermit the Frog at June 10, 2011 07:13 AM (yrGif)

Yeah Kermit, as I said with that link to the EPA running amuck yesterday, this will be common in States where coal is a heavy use thing.

19

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 10, 2011 07:15

Now that was funny.

20 Ssshhhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet. We'w hunting Weiners.

21

More on the Ed Rollins crap

I too am waiting for Michelle Bachmann to show this slimy SOB to the door. This article gives some more background on this turd. He is beginning to look like a Will Folks without the humor of brain-dead sex jokes.

22

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 07:15 AM (M9Ie6)

Kind of agree Vic, I know it's highly doubtful that it would pass the house but I'm not so sure they wouldn't give it a shot.

23

Yet another warning on the consequences of nominating Romney (or another squish)

If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, Tea Party activists may not show up at all to vote in the general election, one leading group associated with the Tea Party movement is warning. “I think that’s a potential problem,” said Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks’ president, during a wide-ranging interview with reporters at The Daily Caller.

I have been warning of this for over a year now. This is a real possibility folks.

24

Another example of how stupid Alec Baldwin is. Attacks his own people.

25 Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 07:16 AM (M9Ie6)
The scary thing about this is that regulations can be written and enforced without essentially zero review and appeal, yet they have the force of law.  At least with legislation, I can bitch to my Representative and Senators (not that that seems to have any beneficial effect lately as I can't even find out when or if my Rep is meeting with constituents). 
The people in O's administration are destructive idiots and we have handed them unbelievable power to intrude into every aspect of our lives, and 50% are probably going to be willing to do it again in '12.

26

Opening rounds soon in the war between the Obama appointed union thugs, Boeing and SC

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley and Boeing officials are officially opening a South Carolina aircraft assembly plant that is the center of a National Labor Relations Board dispute.

And to the commie newspaper here. It is not a board dispute. One member appointed under a loophole w/o Senate confirmation brought this on.

27 Posted by: Hrothgar at June 10, 2011 07:25 AM (yrGif)

And they don't even show, publicize, or even provide an available link to their work to show the justification. That is what ticks me off. The last time they had to show their "work" it was in a court battle over second hand smoke.

The judge literally threw them out of court. They lost that single case but continued using their lying "finding" and to this day that discredited study is still used by the anti-smoking Nazis across the country.

28 the cost of energy will necessarily go up....b ho

29

First feedback from Gingrich on the news from yesterday

ATLANTA — Rocked by the stunning walkout of his entire senior campaign brain trust, Newt Gingrich is nonetheless vowing to remain in the race for president.

30

New member of Congress in the making?

Steals from people and eats the money!

31

Washington Times pushing Romney for us.

In the past month, Mitt Romney has delivered a widely panned defense of the health care legislation he signed as governor of Massachusetts and been the constant target of national Democratic attacks — and also has seen his poll numbers rise and his status solidified as the best-positioned candidate to win the GOP nomination and take on President Obama.

That PPP poll (if you followed it all the way to the pdf with detailed discussion) said that RomneyÂ’s numbers went up only because Huck dropped out. They said his unfavorable ratings were increasing showing a loss of momentum.  My opinion is that he is riding strictly on name recognition right now.

32 Newt's team didn't walk out en masse because they were goint to rick perry or because they suddenly, all together, as a unit decided that Newt wasn't serious about campaigning, they all left because they found out something so salacious they are pissed that he let them sign on knowing that there was a huge scandal in the making.

33

GovernmentÂ’s espionage case against NSA official stumbles

Government prosecutors announced a last-minute plea bargain Thursday evening in a high-profile leak case against a senior National Security Agency official, dropping almost all the charges in a decision hailed by government-transparency advocates as ending a case of Obama administration overreach.

Who are these lying shit-weasels trying to kid. Holder and the corrupt DOJ are not interested in prosecuting ANY people who leak classified material to the press unless it hurts Obama. This is just another case that the DOJ has decided to drop.

34

Democrat Stupid Idea Number 36

Let's shut down those dirty coal burning power plants even though we have nothing to replace them with!

35 32 Nah they were just all pissed he left them in the lurch fielding phone calla and working while him and his wife were on a greek cruise.

36

Morning and happy FIAF, m&ms!

Morons - will one of you please take this fine gal out on a date?

I hope you don't mind, she loves cats. I mean she really loves cats.

37 17 I know this is a stupid question but does Obama still suck cock today?   I have been wondering that myself...supposedly he was seen in the back of a limo w/some dude, smoking crack AND cock. Why would he stop?

38

An eye-opening example of how politics trumps science at the regulatory agencies

WASHINGTON—The U.S.'s top nuclear-power regulator "strategically" withheld information from his colleagues in an effort to stop work on a controversial proposed waste dump, according to a report by the agency's internal watchdog, a finding likely to inflame debate about how to handle the nation's nuclear waste.

This is how the Dems continue to try to subvert nuclear power in this country even while spewing rhetoric that they supposedly support it. This guy worked under the laughing stock of MA, Ed Markey. Ed Markey has been spewing anti-nuke hate for decades. After working for Markey he went on to work for Harry Reid who not only hates nuke power but has a burning passion to shut down Yucca Mountain.  So what do they do with this lifelong Democrat who was raised politically to hate Nuke Power? 

They make him the Chairman of the NRC. And you wonder why this country is so fucked up and going into terminal DOOM.

This is also why I am in favor of killing every federal regulatory agency and starting over from scratch.

39 That's it for today news headlines. Gonna do my walk and come back for today's candidate evaluation.

40 vic, thanks for your news wrap-up each morning

41 Is there a co-blogger or anyone with blog access awake who can delete all the vile comments by Drizzle in the Patterico post? It's disgusting and pornographic, and I'm pretty sure Ace wouldn't want it on his blog even if it was about an adult instead of a minor.

Srsly, please?

42

Demorcrat Stupid Idea Number 35

Hey, lets make sure we never ever get anymore nuclear power plants!

43 39 You mean todays candidate flagellation.

44
Dear Villanova Grad,

Saw your video and was intrigued with your love of cats.  I believe we have a bright future because I also love pussy.  Let's get together and comb and bathe your pussy.

Best Regards,

45

Democrat Supid Idea Number 38

Windmills!

46 case, if you want to count all the stupid Democrat ideas, you will need lots of fingers & toes.

47

Ahhh, there's nothin' better than getting a phone call at O dark 30 telling you to stay home from work today because the bad storms last night knocked out power to the office.

Happy dance!!!!!!!

48

Democrat Stupid Idea Number 36

Let's shut down those dirty coal burning power plants even though we have nothing to replace them with!

Posted by: Case at June 10, 2011 07:49 AM (0K+Kw)

Ahhh, but here's the thing.  They know full well we won't shut them down.  We can't.  They're doing two things.  First, shoring up the votes of the "green" lunatics.  Second, setting themselves up to drain the public some more by selling "carbon credits" and other pollution related offsets to the power companies - the cost of which will be passed on to us.  It's a money scam - just like everything they do.  They'd even abandon abortion if it didn't bring in so much cash.  They're just dirty thieves.   

My hope is that they over-reach and go too far, setting off a... vigorous... reaction against them.  The civil war has already started - our side just doesn't know it yet.  Hopefully the Left will get greedy, and wake us up.

49 2 Australia hasn't given up on teh stupid "Australia is considering awarding carbon credits for killing feral camels as a way to tackle climate change." HavenÂ’t they been keeping up with the news? Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 06:47 AM (M9Ie6) Actually, I think whoever came up with this excuse for killing the camels is probably very smart and clever: he short-circuited the knee-jerk anti-hunting animus of the Left by confusing them with a lot of babble about the need to wipe out camel farts. We on the right need to employ similar techniques of short-circuiting leftist ideology. Like, we need to think of ways to justify the dismantling of Obamacare by claiming it's the Green Thing To Do. Stop Farting Seniors!

50 Vic - that bullshit about tea part folks staying home on election day is just.. well.. bullshit.

It's a non-argument.  If the tea party folks want jugears for another 4 years, then that's what they get.

They are just saying that to scare people away from nominating Romney.

51 #8 May I recommend "Five O'Clock World" by The Vogues?

52 Major Garrett on the radio this am that the "difference in vision" between Newt and hist staff was on whether they were going to get paid or not. A dozen guys quit? All of them HAD to be at least $10k a month, probably way more. Have to raise a lot of money to feed that beast. They saw the numbers, they did hte math. I think all the stuff about Calista and the rest is just sour grapes and made up media crap after the fact.

53 Meanwhile - GOP: Weiner is going to go all in your face. Yeah, I said it. So make the Democrats pay for being friends with this guy. Do I post this in every thread? Yes I do. Do I think it will make the GOP un-stupid? No I don't.

54

They make him the Chairman of the NRC. And you wonder why this country is so fucked up and going into terminal DOOM.

I know that during the Japanese crisis they had to call Jaczko in and tell him to STFU. His statements were causing panic. Even our commie govt didn't want him causing the level of problems he was causing. BTW, he's not even a nuclear engineer.

55 What happened to, "If you want your dirty power plant you can keep your dirty power plant" ? Prez BoomBoom lied to us.

56 Rich tasty irony: The source said Hillary is mostly upset with how Weiner tried to cover up the allegations for a week before coming clean during a news conference on Monday afternoon. "What especially infuriates Hillary is how Weiner blatantly lied, and then gave that embarrassing and humiliating press conference when he ’fessed up,” the longtime Clinton supporter told the newspaper. “She can’t believe he’d just be so stupid about the whole thing." Seriously? We are supposed to believe this? Pink dress news conference anyone?

57

I guess we could call this doom light.  I saw this morning that a German rating agency downgraded U.S. debt to AA. 

It's started and downgrades like this don't normally come in ones.  Just sayin.

58 Blue dress (with a stain)

59 I think I got a job.  Had a killer interview yesterday.  Bad news is it is in New York City and I would have a 2-hour commute. 

60

Feral camels?  Check.

Democrats using the word infrastructure as if they know the meaning?  Check.

Romney is a RINO?  Check.

Weiner joke?  Check.

Can't use nukes?  Check.

Can't use coal?  Check.

Can't drill?  Check.

Ed Rollins is a self-serving dick.  (Not a quesiton--a statement.)

Democrats pretending to understand budgets and taxes?  Check.

Newt on fire and not in  the good way?  Check.

 

Must be Friday at Moron HQ.

 

61 32 Newt's team...left because they found out something so salacious they are pissed that he let them sign on...Posted by: dagny at June 10, 2011 07:47 AM (ib1Sm) That's what I'm thinking, too. The public explanations don't pass the smell test.

62 I think I got a job.  Had a killer interview yesterday.  Bad news is it is in New York City and I would have a 2-hour commute. 

Posted by: rockmom at June 10, 2011 08:32 AM (mBDmf)

Congratulations!  I think.....

Can you work from home?

63 Though, a bright dot on the horizon - Secretary Gates in a farewell address: "The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense," he said. Without naming names, he blasted allies who are "willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets."

64 Don't the Germans owe us money?  We rebuilt their whole damn country once.  (Well, most of it)  And don't we still help defend them?  Where is the love, Germany?

65

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 07:59 AM (M9Ie6)

The idiots won't allow reprocessing and they won't allow permanent storage both of which create greater danger than either of the alternatives.  As if the shit never came out of the ground in the first place.

66 Stop Farting Seniors!

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 08:19 AM (kUaEF)

Be careful with those unforeseen consequences when you propose something.  The IPAB has some ideas on how to do this!

67

Congrats rockmom, golfclap all around.

68

>>I hope you don't mind, she loves cats. I mean she really loves cats.Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 10, 2011 07:50 AM (pLTLS)

That was the single most disturbing thing that I've seen since Lassie got cancelled.

_{Now if you'll excuse me, I have several hungry wolves to feed.}

69

Seriously? We are supposed to believe this?

I'm still furious about K. Powers the other day using the fucking phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" at the same time being shocked, shocked at how blatently Weiner lied and accused people of framing him.

70 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 10, 2011 08:36 AM (jx2j9)

"Iran says it wants to enrich only to power a future network of reactors. But over the past two years it has started to enrich uranium to a level higher than what is needed for nuclear fuel and closer to the grade used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads."
But we let some countries play with uranium!

71

Weiner fix...........must have...........

Eat it.........snort it.......shoot it.........huff it..........smoke it in a pipe...........

72 Posted by: Mama AJ at June 10, 2011 08:41 AM (XdlcF)

The continued presence of K Powers, J Williams, A Colmes, and G Rivera on Faux, means I now watch a lot of HGTV, where I can learn how to rebuild the dump that I live in because I can't afford to move because of 0's economy.

73 For the second week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama 45% to 42% among Likely U.S. Voters in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

http://tinyurl.com/3n29gdc

74 This is me waving goodbye to Newt;

(_¦_)

Juvenile, I know.

75 Congrats about the job bro, I might be getting a new one here as well. Got an interview and physical next week for a Fed job. Btw for those of you interested ICE is hiring now.

76 vic, thanks for your news wrap-up each morning

Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 10, 2011 08:05 AM (5TCB2)

You're most certainly welcome

You mean todays candidate flagellation.

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 10, 2011 08:07 AM (BMuzZ)

Well I had not intended for it to start out that way. As I said yesterday I had intended forthe order to be by the ranking in that PPP poll, but because the small government white papers had not completed their work, I would follow their order instead and hope that they had completed some more as I worked through what they had. It is only coincidence that the first two were Romney and Newt.

The next one in the order from the white papers his T-Paw. Perhaps his will not be as big a "flagellation". But be advised I go heavy on record vs rhetoric.

77 Kristen Powers.........Sooooooper Genius

78 Stupid brain-dead commies double down on stupid

Vic, favorite quote in this one is:

“There are some things you can do without spending money, but that’s obviously a very tough constraint and not one that politicians should accept,”

Funny- it's the sort of tough constraint a couple hundred million of us plebes out in flyover land have to accept. Why not a bunch of shithead Senaturds?

Staggeringly pathetic.

79

Having thought as hard as I can to explain the track and trend of geopolitical affairs away, the only conclusion I have found is that there are Powers and Principalities at work. People just aren't that smart and commited to such a vastly complex, diabolical, and effectively successful conspiracy.

Posted by: Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome at June 10, 2011 08:43 AM (gMONh)

Agree that people aren't that smart, especially liberals, but a lot of individuals empowered to act criminally in their own interests, backed by the force of government, and unchecked by the people, can do tremendous damage without requiring complex conspiracies. 

80

Re Delta and the baggage fees:

I didn't learn much. One thing to note is that Delta increased the "free" number of bags for deploying/returning peeps to 4. Guess what? Sometimes people are required to have 5 bags!

So they deserve the bad publicity, in my grumpy opinion.

This isn't a new thing, just got noticed finally.

It doesn't make them look nice. I have to say again, though, I sure have benefited from this:

Active U.S. Military personnel are allowed to check three pieces of baggage free of charge when traveling on personal business or pleasure.

So your tax dollars pay for "extra" bags and I get a discount when I fly.

Sorry?

81 "...a large infrastructure package funded by tax increases."

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 06:50 AM (M9Ie6)

You made that up. Nobody is that stupid.

82 61,32   Newt's actions been a bit "odd"  lately.

83 I wish there were a vast right wing conspiracy.

84 Please tell me this is a spoof: "A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to "transmit or display an image" online that is likely to "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress" to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines." http://goo.gl/iu8SG

85 85 61,32   Newt's actions been a bit "odd"  lately.

Posted by: lan sing at June 10, 2011 08:53 AM (YHrQZ)

What do mean by lately?

86

Getting HBO, etc. for free this week on Direct TV. Thought provoking........what thoughts are those? Why, I wondered, with the great medical advances of the day, why they can't manufacture and install a set of bolt-on boobs that you can't tell are bolt-ons half a mile away.

/My deep contemplation for the week

Now, must sleep to recharge my brain cell..............

87 Let's talk about Weiner.

88 I know this is a stupid question but does Obama still suck cock today?

Ah hem. To answer, a little musical interlude:

In the mornin', in the evenin'-
Barry sucks cock.

We go no money, oh but honey-
Barry sucks cock.

The rent's unpaid dear
obama cocksucker
But smiles were made dear
obama, cock, suck.

89 Question:
Could Weiner have "info" on Pelosi, et al, that he is going to use as blackmail to keep his seat?  He seems to be digging in on not resigning, and we all know that politicians collect information on each other (Hannity had a republican congressman on last night who said Emmanual outed him), so Weiner may know something about Pelosi.

90

Kristen Powers.........Sooooooper Genius

For anyone who blogs here or elsewhere: In that post, Ace mentioned Clinton and the VRWC but I haven't seen anyone reminisce about how Hillary stood up and made that accusation. Yes, many of us remember it oh-so-well, but not everyone does. Somebody needs to detail and compare what the Clintons did with what Weiner is doing.

And by detail and compare, I mean laugh without mercy at the "shocked shocked" crowd.

91 Before I move on to T-paw I have today's metaphor learned from my Dr. Detroit this morning.

I passed a house that was under some heavy maintenance that required a portion of the backyard fence for it and the neighbor to be dismantled. This fence had been keeping a pack of feral Democrats in check but lo they were now on free range and off the leash after years of being hemmed in.

They all set upon me yipping and displaying their wish to show their true colors. So what were they saying in their pent up rage?

We want Porkulous, we want a trillion dollars in socialism, we want Obamacare no matter how we can force it on the nation, we want tax, spend, and regulate, we want 30 years of our communism and we want it today!

And now that the Republican fence is down, we got it. Folks we got to get that fence back up and reign in these feral Democrats. 

92

MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES!

93 "Weiner can't afford to quit the DC day job" 
link

$156,117.00 + $154,000.00 = $310,117.00

94

You made that up. Nobody is that stupid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 08:53 AM (LH6ir)

Surely you jest, remember we are talking Dems in congress.

95 It's tough to get a good job in today's economy, but remember--we're hiring.

96 50: We have to hear about electability with everyone else. Romney comes off as a statist. Sure most conservative people would drag themselves out and vote for him cuz at least he wouldn't veto bills a decent congress passed repealing O-care and the like but he'd be a hold your nose vote for a lot of people. There is also the Mormon thing. I don't care about it and the media TODAY paints it as only cultish evangelicals care. But if Mitt gets the GOP nom. every morning show, History Channel, Nat Geo, ...... is going to have retrospectives on every fringe Jack Mormon splinter group that ever forced young women to marry old guys etc etc. The serious news people will pretend to stay above that but will always mention him as Mitt Romney, trying to convince the public that mainstream Mormons are not like that, probably dropping references to other religious cult figures to try to convince the hipsters that they must elect Barry, the cool dude who doesn't take religion too seriously. Sorry to be a pitbull about this but its how the media works. As someone who was blind to them doing more than genteel Dem spin until 2008 I now have the fervor of an ex-smoker --they know one of the best chances for Barry to get elected is if someone comes in with some baggage that can be exploited to scare the 'mushy middle' that swing back and forth in their voting. If Huntsman is a non-starter they'll take Mitt and figure that their propaganda will be effective even if Mitt was governor of Mass so much of the NE knows he is just a plain vanilla politician.

97 It's tough to get a good job in today's economy, but remember--we're hiring.

Posted by: US Dept of Education SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:00 AM (VXBR1)

Please note, the ability to aim is optional!

98 Our guys even have Remington 870's with 14" barrels. They're illegal for anyone else to own, but we're special.

99

I'm starting to worry that the Democrats bad-mouthing Weiner are just distancing themselves with mere words and will do nothing to actually get him out of Congress.

I still think he will hit the curb soon, but I'm not as sure as I was earlier this week.

100 >>Make sense? Yes. Particularly when combined with what I think Romney's strategy is this time. Romney knows he isn't going to win in Iowa and probably not in SC. He's already minimizing the affect of these states because they don't play to his strengths. It used to be that a candidate had to win 2 out of the first 3 primaries to win the nomination. Not anymore. The ability to raise huge money allows a candidate to stay in the race longer and win in the later primary states. Romney is raising a shitload of money, some estimates have him raising more money than all the other candidates combined. He can afford to run a low key effort in Iowa and SC and put more emphasis on places like FL and MI and other states where he is a better fit. He stayed in the race last time after not winning Iowa or SC and was still considered viable until the Huck/McCain ambush in W. Va. Whether you like Romney or not I don't mind having a more competitive primary where a couple early states tell us who we have to vote for.

101 "Please note, the ability to aim is optional!" We're strictly an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don't discriminate against the visually or cognitively impaired.

102 RE cat video - W.T.F.? 

Either this woman is unhealthily obsessed with cats or this is some kind of e-harmony video prank.  Would any woman seriously seeking an relationship leave that video up?  She went from sane to maddened in about 6 seconds - who would be interested in that?

So if you're as big a kitteh lover as her, look her up.  Or maybe she doesn't need a human male, maybe she needs one of the Thundercats. 

103 Our guys even have Remington 870's with 14" barrels. They're illegal for anyone else to own, but we're special.

Posted by: US Dept of Education SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:02 AM (VXBR1)

What good is the Second Amendment if the DoEd can't have guns?

104 From the Dalai Lama:

His Holiness stated "as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist ... But not a Leninist."

... AND, BTW, "China is not an enemy."

105

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 08:58 AM (M9Ie6)

Feral Democrats can't be reasoned with. They can't be bargained with, they don't feel pity or remorse, and they absolutely will not stop, until America is dead.

They must be delt with via a hammerblow that crushes the overpowering stupidity that powers their micro (nano actually, see Kristan Powers) processor.

106 86 I wish there were a vast right wing conspiracy.

Posted by: dagny at June 10, 2011 08:54 AM (ib1Sm)

had a psych teacher in college who used this as an example of something called "projection".

I realize now all these years later that the guy was a conservative on a boat adrift in a sea of liberals.

(he was basically telling all his students that there was no vast right wing conspiracy but that there must have been a vast left wing conspiracy and they were sqawking (his word) about it cause they assumed since they had it the republicans had to have it)

107 NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley and Boeing officials are officially opening a South Carolina aircraft assembly plant that is the center of a National Labor Relations Board dispute.

Hope they use Rearden metal to build it, too.

This is really cool news. This could end up being huge- a test case on whether fey preznit backnine is a bitch or a bad ass.

108 UnbelievableÂ… Napolitano: Concentrating Terrorist Screening Efforts on Muslim Men Under 35 is Not Good Logic (Video)

109 And not all Villanova grads are like that.  My Uncle gradated from there and he seems sane. 

Here's some foreign policy doom -

UN report: Iran accelerating development of long-range missiles

110

Trying to sell this unwar as something “humanitarian” is excruciatingly offensive.  This is a kinetic butt wrangling so explicitly for oil and no other reason yet the left smiles their vacuum headed smile and all is heavenly because Barry did it.  Days he said.  Not weeks or months.  That was three months ago.  The reason we are in this cluster stoink is just another in the long list of reasons why this country is O V E R.

111 We're strictly an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don't discriminate against the visually or cognitively impaired.

Posted by: US Dept of Education SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:04 AM (VXBR1)

We do require that you be able to pull the trigger once, but we will provide the full auto feature to make it easier for the differently abled.

112 infrastructure package

Ha, make em afraid to even speak.
Why don't you tweet me a pic of that package and I'll get back to you.

113 "What good is the Second Amendment if the DoEd can't have guns?" Absolutely. Just wait 'till we get operations in full swing--we're gonna find those cows that give nasty, dangerous chocolate milk and terminate them with extreme prejudice. It's for the children.

114

Surely you jest, remember we are talking Dems in congress.

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 09:00 AM (M9Ie6)

Sadly, I was joking. The only infrastructure projects I would support are the demolition of the following buildings:

Department of Labor

Department of Education

Department of Energy

EPA

Department of Agriculture

Department of Commerce

Department of Transportation

See the trend?

115 Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 09:05 AM (nWikJ)
But we do need to feel up your pre-pubescent daughters (but only if you are not muslim).

116 arousal frenzy!

Why wasn't I told about this? It sound like something I should get into at once.

117 I've been saying forever on here that Columbus OH is a chock full of terrorists and I was pissed that BO didn't pick OH for a terrorist defense grant.

The local radio talk shows have retired FBI, CIA guys on their shows about once a month that outside of LA and NYC and Dearborn, MI, Columbus is always ranked 4th or 5th on the watch list.

Here's more proof:

.....Ahmed Hussein Mahamud was arrested Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, and made his initial appearance in federal court there on charges of providing material support to terrorists. An indictment unsealed Thursday says that from April 2009 to July 2009, Mahamud provided money and personnel to al-Shabab.

118 that cat video was teh funny...i feel bad for the girl if she really has those feelings about cats...because her mba will be useless, her house will be filled with emaciated cats lumped 10 to a basket choking on their little bow ties while she's rolling around in their feces.........

119 This morning on NPR:

If anything was going to crack the "Religion of Peace" monolithic liberal narrative, you might have thought that just maybe when a muzzie murdered a reporter the media would rally around the death of one of their own and start reporting a little truth.  You would have thought wrong.  The narrative lives, murderous Islamic rage had nothing to do with the murder but I guess it is remarkable that NPR even covered the trial of Yusuf Bey IV and actually mentioned the name of his business "Your Black Muslim Bakery". 

120 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 09:08 AM (LH6ir)

You can't demolish them, they are historical.  You have to convert them to office condos cause when capitalism comes back, office space will be needed.

121 "What good is the Second Amendment if the DoEd can't have guns for the children?"

Absolutely. Just wait 'till we get operations in full swing--we're gonna find those cows that give nasty, dangerous chocolate milk and terminate them with extreme prejudice.

It's for the children.

Posted by: US Dept of Education SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:08 AM (VXBR1)

FIFM

122 Unless on his own turf, Romney hasn't the guts to actually face up to a local straw poll that is accountable; exact people watching themselves be counted by their pollsters, ready to cry foul at fraud having the voters themselves there present to argue their case against the fabricators of whole cloth.

The only things that national polls reflect are what the establishment want the public to believe.

National poll figures are as reliable as the Federal figures being spun as if we believe that propaganda, either.

No camel swallowing, but straining at a gnat.

123 rockmom - maybe you can crash at the Ewok's place -- congrats

124

http://tinyurl.com/6eaoj2j

Aw, Ezra Klein is sad because those evil Senate Republicans don't want Elizabeth Warren to have unlimited power.

125 Mama AJ Treacher notes that Hillary is "pissed." That's where I got the Hillary stuff in my post above. I doubt Hillary is pissed she is probably advising them how to survive it all politically. If Hillary goes to Word Bank she probably can't have Huma as chief of staff, so I bet Huma runs for the seat, Weiner goes to work in President Clinton's office in Harlem.

126 Eye of Newt is sinking fast, possibly for good.

Rats jumping from one plague ridden ship to the next, Romney.

127 Posted by: Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome at June 10, 2011 09:11 AM (gMONh)

I can see why one would think about end times.  There is sanctioned evil throughout the world and a calculated attack on values that have stood the test of time.

128 Folks we got to get that fence back up and reign in these feral Democrats.

This place will be overrun with weiner-dogs for at least a month after he resigns if he does.  They'll be "the guys get shirts" style shout outs for years.

129

This story was breaking yesterday (w/o the BS from Emanuel) but on F&F this morning they added Caterpillar to the list of companies that are looking at bailing from IL since they raised taxes. Believe it or not F&F blamed it on the UNIONS. They said that while all the rest of the States resisted raising taxes and cut spending instead (I don’t think it was all), IL under pressure from the unions who didn’t want any “service cuts” raised taxes.

We here at AOSHQ have been saying this for months now, you can NOT raise revenues by raising taxes!

Posted by: Vic at June 10, 2011 06:47 AM (M9Ie6)

 

Quinn (Il. gov.) raised taxes on individuals and business and now when these large businesses start to make noises that they'll leave the state Quinn has been giving them tax breaks to stay. Kind of like getting exempt from Barry Care. This whole state is a disaster.

130 >>It isn't a grand national RINO conspiracy. If it was, I don't think Palin would be finishing second most of the time. You're only saying that because you're a RINO. RINO.

131 @129 And at the link I posted above, the first comment was someone asking why Obama couldn't just bypass name an acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If there was ever a time for "if Bush did it"...

132 If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, Tea Party activists may not show up at all to vote in the general election, one leading group associated with the Tea Party movement is warning. “I think that’s a potential problem,” said Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks’ president, during a wide-ranging interview with reporters at The Daily Caller.

I have been warning of this for over a year now. This is a real possibility folks.

I call BS. We'll all be there in 2012. 

Very little unifies and motivates a party more than hatred of an incumbent.

133 momma - big sis is partly correct. She speaks in terms of concentrating searches on a specific group - that shouldn't be done because it decreases the search rate on other populations. What needs to be done, and she won't speak to it, is a 100% search of high threat populations - while maintaining the current distribution of searches on the remaining population. The high threat populations are identified during the purchase process and notified that thy need to arrive earlier and to expect a segregated screening -- not just getting the dreaded SSS boarding pass. Additionally, she needs to lift any sort of quota or limit on the number of specifically screened people of a population - let the gate agents make the call, do not maintain a count, it will get abused.

134 rockmom, good luck

135 We've begun a massive expansion to counter the imminent threat to our chocolate milk cows posed by the US Dept of Education SWAT Team. Molon labe, bitches.

136 "6/9: Weiner Still Alive: Majority in Congressional District DonÂ’t Want Resignation"link
here is the actual poll

the poll is worth looking at cause I've heard folks say that 56% of his constituents want him to stay

137 The US Dept of Education SWAT Team is socking our posts. This will not stand.

138 I think DoE should be buying guns, judging from what I've seen at Appleseed events, re-introducing rifle training in school is necessary. DoE could "buy" old DoD stocks (ie CMP type stuff) for distribution to participating school districts.

139 Anyone else having trouble with the site?  I keep getting 'Service not available'.

140 tami yes

141 He can afford to run a low key effort in Iowa and SC and put more emphasis on places like FL and MI and other states where he is a better fit.

Especially since under the new rules these are now split delegate/proportional States while all the rest are winner take all. Iowa and NH were always worth little in the delegate department but SC was more important in the delegate count. Now none of the matter for anything but perceived momentum.

As for Romney and the polls, I think he riding on noting more than name recognition and Huck drop-out now. Remember at this stage of the MFM buss and polls of the primaries in 2007. It was all Hillary and Rudy.

142 Posted by: Jean at June 10, 2011 09:26 AM (WkuV6) Hahahahah!!! The guns are for US, not for YOU, silly woman.

143 Yeah, it acts like it is getting ready to crash.

144 Re: The Weiner story in the sidebar: So, he's got no marketable skills? Why, then, is he so fucking indispensable to the health of the nation?

145 Hell, a lot of Americans would have signed up for this job:

Dope-Smoking, Menstruating Monkey Study Got $3.6 Million in Tax Dollars (Golden Hookah)

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal governmentÂ’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different phases of the female monkeysÂ’ menstrual cycles.

146 The US Dept of Education SWAT Team is socking our posts. This will not stand. Posted by: US Dept of Agriculture SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:24 AM (VXBR1) Wait until you see what our IT guys can do with tracking IP addressees. Note that we have already hosed Ace's site several times due to this topic! And notice our DoEd font modifications before you very eyes.) This has been a test of the Internet "kill" switch.

147 146 His constituents are fucking retarded.

148 Tami, when I don't get a blank white screen, the page is very slow to reload. And most of the editing links are gone from the bar at the top of the comment box.

I blame Weiner.

149

Morning, all!  

I'm pretty sure this must have been mentioned previously but I didn't see anything on a quick read-thru on this thread, so here you go. 

(It's a fairly long excerpt from a rather short article, but the Meat & Poultry site requires a free registration, and I know that can be aggravating for folks who are in a rush.)

Via Insty:

Soaring feed costs may lead to hog herd culls 

DES MOINES, Iowa – US hog producers may begin culling herds as the sputtering economic recovery stymies pork demand while tightening corn inventories increase livestock-feed prices — thus, curbing animal supplies and increasing costs for meatpackers, according to Bloomberg.

Wholesale pork has dropped 9.6 percent since May 16 from the highest price since at least October 1997. However, corn gained 9.5 percent. Hog producers are faced with record production costs, based on current futures prices, said Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics, at the Work Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa...

...From October 2007 to February 2010, hog producers lost about $6.2 billion primarily due to high feed costs, Plain said...

...As a result, shoppers in the US could pay as much as 7.5 percent more for pork in 2011. 

150 Weiner will not resign. I mean, how much worse can it get for him? So make the Dems look like Weiner. Ads where someone morphs into Weiner, anything they have ever said nice about Weiner, whenever they go on Fox, before they get to say whatever their talking points are, make them defend or denounce Weiner. Weiner is a gift. Let's not feel bad about his personal tragedy, he is reveling in it.

151 Restart your browser--helped me recover formatting

152 As a result, shoppers in the US could pay as much as 7.5 percent more for pork in 2011. 

Posted by: MWR at June 10, 2011 09:35 AM (4df7R)

Pork is haram--higher prices will bring you into compliance with sharia!

153 >>>Posted by: nickless at June 10, 2011 09:32 AM (MMC8r) No marketable skills would cover the vast majority of Democratic politicians and their constituents. Its why they are so big on parasitizing those who do have marketable skills. They are ticks on the scrotum of society, and they wish to remain so.

154 Did we give permission for anyone to restart their browsers? We're taking names here, people.

155 Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 09:33 AM (nWikJ)
Using monkeys to do jobs Americans would do.  Something seems wrong about that!

156 Did we give permission for anyone to restart their browsers? We're taking names here, people.

Posted by: US Dept of Net Neutrality SWAT Team Recruiter at June 10, 2011 09:39 AM (VXBR1)

Look at the center of your browser window.

Your eyes are very tired.

You want to sleep.

You will not notice that we reset your browser via the internet. 

You will not wake up until Ace posts again!

157 Lanny Davis on Fox defending Weiner via Vitter.  It was lame....

158 Patterico makes his case... very well.

159 154 Re: The Weiner story in the sidebar: So, he's got no marketable skills? Why, then, is he so fucking indispensable to the health of the nation? Posted by: nickless at June 10, 2011 09:32 AM (MMC8r) Couldn't he work as a fluffer for gay porn videos? He already has the photos to send around to production companies.

160 Lanny Davis on Fox defending Weiner via Vitter.  It was lame....

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2011 09:42 AM (X6akg)

But there's a really interesting rebuild on HGTV.

161 Weiner, at best, follows, unfollows, then refollows high school girls on twitter. At worse, well we have no idea.

And the scumbags in NY don't even bat an eyelash.

Fuck all the degenerates on that island. They're all worthless.

162 When Lanny Davis is defending you you are pretty damn guilty.

163

This is a smart military blog, so I know y'all have seen this.  But it's a first-see for me, and it's YUMMY.

Face Time With the HK416—The Gun That Killed Bin Laden

Link to Popular Mechanics.  H/T Weasel Zippers.

164 But there's a really interesting rebuild on HGTV.

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 10, 2011 09:43 AM (yrGif) 

I now remember why I stopped watching Fox....

165

Weiner, like most democrats, has no clue how to make money outside of the tax payer funded position of power he holds.

 

Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn’t sure how he would make a living if he were to leave Congress and its $174,000 annual salary. “He’s worried about money and how to pay his bills,” said a Democratic insider. “He’s very concerned about that.”

166 Plus Lanny Davis is a Clintonoid. Hillary can't be too pissed if Davis is out there shilling for him. Like I said upthread - Hillary is coordinating this thing. She's constructing a soft landing for Huma.

167 Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 09:43 AM (kUaEF)

I thought being a politician automatically meant that you had no marketable skills and had to use corruption and graft to get by.

168

Pork is haram--higher prices will bring you into compliance with sharia!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 10, 2011 09:38 AM (yrGif)

Oooh, that means my chances of being beheaded as an infidel devil-woman are decreased by at least an eighth of a percent, right?  WOO-HOO!

169 "You will not notice that we reset your browser via the internet." We're not the retarded, jackbooted military wannabes you're looking for. Carry on.

170 So Weiner can't afford to quit his day job? Wait until he factors in alimony and child support. He'll need two sets of junk to pay all those bills.

171 Let me just say that when it finally starts "raining" in the ME, it is really going to pour:

IDF identifies thousands of Hezbollah sites in Lebanon

172 >>As for Romney and the polls, I think he riding on noting more than name recognition and Huck drop-out now. I think that's a large part of it. But people tend to discount or overlook how much work he has done since the last election. Romney has been extremely active supporting races for Reps, Senators and Governors. He certainly didn't generate the buzz, positive or negative, that Palin did but he was more active and raised more money. He clearly isn't the favorite of conservative Tea Party types but that is only part of the Republican base regardless of what blogs say.

173

The democrats answer to everything is to raise our taxes.

So tired.

The corruptocrats spend us into oblivion - and think that if they can just raise our taxes again we will be fine with it.

174 there really is no true upside to Mitt doing a straw poll. Its really more of an upside for the Pawlenty, Santourum, Bachmann crowd. Gingrich, if he is still in it, has the real incentive, just to show he is still viable (he isn't).

Make sense?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life and Killer of Polar Bears

 

Hmm. Good point. But don't many of the people in these things later become convention delegates? If so, then he is taking a calculated risk that he won't alienate them. And many of them become the backbone of the state organizations. Even if his calculation plays outs at the convention, he may lose the GOTV effort at the state level. And we already know that the GOP isn't raising the funds and getting the volunteers that it once did, so counting on that is foolish.

175 Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 10, 2011 09:48 AM (0fzsA)

Politicians can't skim their personal percentage unless the money goes through Washington!  You can't really expect our betters to lower their standard of living can you?

176 176 - Ha called it.

177 "The corruptocrats spend us into oblivion - and think that if they can just raise our taxes again we will be fine with it." What this country really needs is a little taste of law and order.

178

Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn’t sure how he would make a living if he were to leave Congress and its $174,000 annual salary. “He’s worried about money and how to pay his bills,” said a Democratic insider. “He’s very concerned about that.”

Posted by: Lemon Kitten

 

Our hearts would be bleeding, if we had any blood left.

179 That's not necessarily so, other wise he would have won, the Iowa Primary, he ended up second. He was the candidate of the big banks (the ones that were
subsequently TARPed)

180 You know those signs that say, "Please don't feed the bears?" Well, we're dropping that "please" part.

181 You all see Bicycle pony tailed boy's new lie?

182 Oh and the irony is too rich.

Clinton (both Slick and the Pantsuit) are beyond pissed and want the Weiner to resign.

183 I wonder why Weiner so readily conceded that the dork pics were of his dork. Wouldn't the obvious thing to do be, deny it's HIS? Unless... OMG, he doesn't have "Weiner by Weiner" tattooed on it, does he?

184 @196: I guess Democrats have entered the Hide the Weiner phase...

185 Posted by: chronic funemployed at June 10, 2011 09:54 AM (Gzv/o)

What I don't understand is how he can carry a balance on  his American Express and I have to pay mine all off every single month.

Also, here in NY almost everyone I know is getting a letter from those folks at the tax collection agency advising you that you should have done the alternative minimum tax and so we need to collect way more money from you and we want it now.   Maybe he got the letter too.  He's learning the consequences of saying they are keeping the bush tax cuts but then hiding taxes in other places that come out and bite people in the butt.

186

So, there really is no true upside to Mitt doing a straw poll. Its really more of an upside for the Pawlenty, Santourum, Bachmann crowd. Gingrich, if he is still in it, has the real incentive, just to show he is still viable (he isn't).

Make sense?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life and Killer of Polar Bears at June 10, 2011 08:49 AM (OWjjx)

The question isn't if it makes sense to skip the straw poll (maybe it does), it's why you would do that and support an ethanol subsidy.

By skipping the straw poll, he's pissed off Iowans.  Now if you are going to piss off Iowans anyway, why would you come out in favor of an ethanol subsidy the rest of the country hates?  I highly doubt Mitt truly believes ethanol should be subsidized.

187

North Korean defectors take the "Underground Railroad" to Thailand

And from there they're generally handed over to the South Korean embassy.  Reading the stories is just... painful. 

As they did nearly one decade ago, refugees continue to drift across the Mekong River at a port near SugintÂ’s home office, he said. But they are seldom as panicked and ragged as they once were.

He recalled a refugee years ago who was held at a police station for several hours until a bewildered cop, unable to communicate with the detainee, rolled back the cell doors and signaled for him to walk out. The frightened man gripped his seat and refused to budge.

“Now, they seem more relaxed, look clean and can even speak a little Chinese,” said Sugint, who has made a hobby of helping them fall into police custody safely. He’s even prodded his son to learn Korean and serve as the family’s pro bono translator.

188 Do not, I repeat, DO NOT follow Iowahawk on Twitter. The people in your life with think you have lost your sanity when your break out in spontaneous crazy man laughter. A tidbit: I don't know why Newt Gingrich's staff is abandoning him. It's not like he's in chemo or anything. #yeahIwentthere

189 btw, the Six Day War ended today 44 years ago.

Here is a primer on that conflict, should you need it:

The 1967 Six-Day War

/That Israel survived this was indeed a miracle, but this victory was also the result of superior Israeli tactics.  The outcome might have been vastly different had the IDF not commenced a pre-emptive strike on the Egyptian Air Force, thus providing the IDF with air superiority. 

190

Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn’t sure how he would make a living if he were to leave Congress and its $174,000 annual salary. “He’s worried about money and how to pay his bills,” said a Democratic insider. “He’s very concerned about that.”

Posted by: Lemon Kitten

I bet his little porn star twitter ho could set him up with something.

191 Romney ran last time, did well (he finished either 2nd or 3rd - I will let him and Huck argue about the semantics) and has managed to stay in the news...

Being a skeptic of the MSM sponsored national polls and of the propagandizing government figures does not make my skepticism a "conspiracy theory". That makes as much sense as arguing agnosticism the equivalent of atheism. 

These past years, Palin managed to stay in the news while Romney was not out front stomping the news on issues and events since losing his '08 campaign.

Sure, Romney campaigned for McCain's Senate re-election, enabling McCain to pursue his queerly elitist ideology to dominate the population through authoritarian legislative efforts (no more over-the-counter vitamins, minerals or herbal supplements). And Romney showed up for his own rallies. wow

Romney picked up exactly where he left off, pandering, "promise them anything" for the vote that never materialized last time, and must not this primary, either, because as Mark Levin points out, Romney is NOT conservative.

Rather than seriously projecting federal budget cuts, Romney is another pandering big spender whose executive experience proved his poor judgement and poor performance in government, supporting unconstitutional mandates depriving Americans of Liberty and Justice, promoting the tax funded finance for authoritarian federal bureaucracies to kill business, promoting the man made global warming fraud with no scientific merit. Mitt's policies promote American unemployment. His business experience was corporate raiding and now "financing" bail-outs of the corrupt financial industry, destroying the Dollar.

192 I don't know why Newt Gingrich's staff is abandoning him. It's not like he's in chemo or anything. #yeahIwentthere

Posted by: Pecos Bill

 

Proof yet again that we are harder on our own.

193 >>The question isn't if it makes sense to skip the straw poll (maybe it does), it's why you would do that and support an ethanol subsidy. Two reasons. 1) He said before he supported them and unlike Pawlenty or others he doesn't have the luxury of changing his positions. He's got the flip flopper tag and any additional changes hurt him while they seem to have either no affect or a positive one on his opponents. 2) He may actually believe in the subsidies.

194

House Dems to call for expiration of Bush tax rates in debt-limit deal

 

Wait...what??  Aren't the republicans the ones who are supposed to get something in exchange for raising the debt limit?  I don't think dems get the whole negotiation thing.

195

Mexico asks Texas to soften tone of travel alerts

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Mexico is asking Texas authorities to tone down travel warnings that broadly discourage tourists from crossing the border because of violence...

Now that?  That is some comedy right there.

196 Dems worry Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is too outspoken

They supposedly didn't notice that she'll say or do anything she thinks will help the cause before now.

197

Proof yet again that we are harder on our own.

You want to claim him? I sure as hell don't.

198 SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Mexico is asking Texas authorities to tone down travel warnings that broadly discourage tourists from crossing the border because of violence...

Now that?  That is some comedy right there.

Posted by: MWR

Wasn't someone murdered on a lake down there? The frickin' Coast Guard should be on the damned thing, complete with buoys and charts marked, "here be drug snorting dragons" and Mexico is whining about PR problems?

199

Well it looked more like "over 10", and given the recent news that sounds about right.

200 So Patterico 3 is out and has been thoroughly hashed over, eh? I have to say that the "69-honey mustard" weirdness is just so cartoonish and bizarre that it has to have been a reference to another conversation with a similar theme. I almost hope we never see any more of Weiner's e-mails/Tqweets/sexts.

201

Proof yet again that we are harder on our own.

You want to claim him? I sure as hell don't.

Posted by: laceyunderalls

 

Nor I, but he is on the team. Lest I be thought of bandying about the RINO title.

202

Wasn't someone murdered on a lake down there? The frickin' Coast Guard should be on the damned thing, complete with buoys and charts marked, "here be drug snorting dragons" and Mexico is whining about PR problems?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:06 AM (Gzv/o)

If I were Texas, I'd say, "Okay, we'll go easy on the bad PR, if you stop your frigging citizens from invading our country.  Have a nice day, y'all!"

203 Dems worry Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is too outspoken

Pft. They've never worried about any of their ilk being too brazen in front of a microphone before. Their problem is that they picked someone that appears too damn dumb to function.

204 miss 80's baby i think they liked that about her until it became obvious to them that she doesn't understand the issues she speaks up about.....the dems don't mind there own lying about issues if they actually understand the issue.....

205 "210 Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasnÂ’t sure how he would make a living if he were to leave Congress and its $174,000 annual salary." WANTED: Driver/Public Relations person for a fun, unusual position. Must be willing to travel.

206

Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 09:55 AM (nWikJ)

Johnson is beneath comtempt. He is just no longer anybody worth thinking about. Forget him. Like another dog turd, he will eventually dry up and return to the detritis.

207

Nor I, but he is on the team. Lest I be thought of bandying about the RINO title.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:07 AM (Gzv/o)

I get your point, Blue Hen, but Newt should not even be in the race at this point.  There is just too much vitriol toward him from the base, and antipathy from the moderates.  If I was going to vote for a RINO candidate it would be Romney.  Newt needs to get out of the race; he's an impediment.

208 They supposedly didn't notice that she'll say or do anything she thinks will help the cause before now.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 10, 2011 10:05 AM (ITYRW)

I like Wasserman-Schultz's way of helping the Democrat cause.  They should use her even MORE.

209 1) He said before he supported them and unlike Pawlenty or others he doesn't have the luxury of changing his positions. He's got the flip flopper tag and any additional changes hurt him while they seem to have either no affect or a positive one on his opponents.

No, Mitt came out after Pawlenty announced he wasn't supporting ethanol to say that yes, he most definitely was.  He could have just not mentioned it but he's very bad at this.

As for the 'flip flopper' tag, Mitt announced to all us Massachusetts residents that he would never oppose a "woman's right to choose."  Then, he fell off his horse on the way to Damascus.  Coincidentally, when he was entering the GOP primary.  This isn't a 'changing of position', it's naked pandering.  It's why he gets judged harshly when he changes positions .

Mitt is his own worst enemy.

2) He may actually believe in the subsidies.

Then he's absolutely the wrong guy for the job, and he isn't a fiscal conservative.

210 As an ex Romney supporter because of his AGW statement I am refraining from responding to some of the BS posted about him. I'll save my snark for a Palin thread so I can witness these same Romney critics whine about Palin being attacked.

211 Kirsty MacColl died at a Mexican resort - a well-connected rich young man drove over her with his motorboat while she was swimming at the El Presidente beach. Her young sons were with her (one was injured). They tried covering it up, that didn't work but the politico's son never was punished at all. I won't ever, EVER travel to Mexico again (and I used to frequent Cozumel, where this happened).

212

Remind me again why we should want to emulate Europeans?

Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister who now leads the Euro-liberals, is responding to the position of the British Government (and, though he doesnÂ’t mention this, 11 other governments), viz that Brussels should not be whacking up its budget at a time when national administrations are trying to cut theirs.

To remind you, Britain’s net contribution to the EU budget rose by an almost unbelievable 74 per cent in 2010. Far from being grateful, however, Eurocrats have pocketed the concession and are demanding more – demanding it, as you can see, in hectoring and contemptuous tones...

Sorry, Britain.  You reap what you sow.  I hope you come out of this Euro Union mess intact and solvent, but I fear you're too far 'round the bend.

213 Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:06 AM (Gzv/o)

I remember a couple on their honeymoon on either jet skiis or in a boat and as they were racing away he was shot and she made it back.  Haven't seen any updates on the story but I remember they didn't find his body.

214 I'll save my snark for a Palin thread so I can witness these same Romney critics whine about Palin being attacked.

You are supposed to attack candidates, it's how you make sure you get the best one.

215

Nor I, but he is on the team. Lest I be thought of bandying about the RINO title.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:07 AM (Gzv/o)

I get your point, Blue Hen, but Newt should not even be in the race at this point.  There is just too much vitriol toward him from the base, and antipathy from the moderates.  If I was going to vote for a RINO candidate it would be Romney.  Newt needs to get out of the race; he's an impediment.

Posted by: MWR

 

I don't agree. Unless someone can prove that he's hurting the party (translation: helping Obama) then he has as much right to run as anyone else. Do I want to see him sent packing? Yes. Let him be trounced in the first primaries /straw polls and/or die the death of poor fund raising.

216 "You are supposed to attack candidates, it's how you make sure you get the best one." Hmmm...maybe we should appoint a committee to study this idea further.

217 220 Dems worry Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is too outspoken

Pft. They've never worried about any of their ilk being too brazen in front of a microphone before. Their problem is that they picked someone that appears too damn dumb to function.

Obama wanted her because she is so outspoken and is able to parrot talking-points. I think their real complaint is that she's gone off-script and they weren't expecting that. Though she does that more often than they realize, so how they missed that is beyond me. The Dems repeatedly have trouble looking at the potential problem angle, which you'd think they'd prefer attack dogs who won't cause them trouble. But that's their problem.

218 Well he stung Ryan, on his budget, but you know how that works. The point is he continues to insist on AGW, even after it's 'sale by date'

219

I don't agree. Unless someone can prove that he's hurting the party (translation: helping Obama) then he has as much right to run as anyone else. Do I want to see him sent packing? Yes. Let him be trounced in the first primaries /straw polls and/or die the death of poor fund raising.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:19 AM (Gzv/o)

I vaguely remember Newt making a non-sensical statement about the Ryan plan and social engineering...which was immediately picked up by libs, and will certainly be used again.

220 Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:19 AM (Gzv/o)

the everybody into the pool theory is good, during debates and conversations and speeches you learn stuff you wouldn't ordinarily learn about a candidate you think you might like and about other candidates.

which is why i don't understand why they left out that johnson guy who was in the debate on fox and seemed pretty experienced and knowledgeable.

when they start not inviting people then you know they have more say than they should.

also, this morning glenn beck, who has been praising cain up the wazoo basically said he can't be the candidate cause of his remarks about being gay.  beck said the opposition would quietly ignore this and let it pass and then make a lot of it when the person became the candidate.   sheesh we aren't electing human beings anymore, we are electing pre scripted idiots then.

221 155 Hell, a lot of Americans would have signed up for this job: Dope-Smoking, Menstruating Monkey Study Got $3.6 Million in Tax Dollars (Golden Hookah) Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 09:33 AM (nWikJ) Yeah, I followed those monkeys too, you know!

222 kratos- I they mistranslated the Hebrew here, replace "identifies" with "targets with pre-planned fires"

223 234 220 Dems worry Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is too outspoken Get that? NOT worried she's too much of a freaking Radical. Just that she's too damned open about it. Anyway, I think their REAL concern now is that come 2012 they will get an electoral defeat handed them that may well end their putrid Socialist Conspiracy once and for all.

224

I don't agree. Unless someone can prove that he's hurting the party (translation: helping Obama) then he has as much right to run as anyone else. Do I want to see him sent packing? Yes. Let him be trounced in the first primaries /straw polls and/or die the death of poor fund raising.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 10:19 AM (Gzv/o)

I agree he has the right to run, but his comments RE: the Ryan Plan were a direct blow to the party.  His protest that people are "lying" if they use his own recorded words in anti-Republican campaign ads is the height of foolishness and desperation.  If he hadn't had such a disastrous rollout of his campaign, I wouldn't care that he's running.  But as it stands now, he's a fallen figure and a distraction.  Maybe not a Weiner-level distraction, but a distraction nonetheless.

225 God DAMN it, I checked all the punctuation - that last post should not have been all in bold. Sorry.

226 Oh, and off sock...

227 "Prosecutor in Edwards Case to Step Down"

228 I will not vote for Romney. Ever.

229 245 I will not vote for Romney. Ever.

Posted by: SurferDoc at June 10, 2011 10:28 AM (STdkO)

yeah, me too, been saying that before it was kewl to say it.  felt the same way about newt and huck.

230 "245 I will not vote for Romney. Ever." Me too.

231 >>No, Mitt came out after Pawlenty announced he wasn't supporting ethanol to say that yes, he most definitely was. He could have just not mentioned it but he's very bad at this. >>As for the 'flip flopper' tag, Mitt announced to all us Massachusetts residents that he would never oppose a "woman's right to choose." Then, he fell off his horse on the way to Damascus. Coincidentally, when he was entering the GOP primary. This isn't a 'changing of position', it's naked pandering. It's why he gets judged harshly when he changes positions . You're missing the point. ALL politicians change their positions on issues. Palin tried to set up a committee to look into how to set up a carbon exchange, Pawlenty was a much bigger AGW supporter than Romney and he was a big supporter of ethanol subsidies. MN is one of the top states in terms of ethanol subsidy dollars, right behind Iowa. But neither of them have gotten the tag as a flip flopper. Romney has and he can't shake it. Any changes he makes now will just add to that tag. His earlier positions, like 'em or hate 'em, are the ones he is going to have to run on. I'm also a MA resident and as we both know a Republican does not get elected dog catcher in this state let alone governor without at least giving a passing reference to being pro-choice. What never gets mentioned is Romney never did squat to try and advance the pro-choice agenda. I don't get all twisted about a politician saying what he needs to to get elected, particularly on an issue he really can't affect. I care more about what they do. >>Then he's absolutely the wrong guy for the job, and he isn't a fiscal conservative. There are no pure candidates. Again, Pawlenty was a big supporter of ethanol subsidies and he did some interesting things to "balance" the MN budget. It's now apparent those one time budget tricks left a multi-billion dollar deficit behind. Alaska is a huge federal welfare state. Remember the Bridge to Nowhere Palin was for before she was against it? Without massive federal dollars and huge bucks from the oil industry they would have to have taxes up the wazoo. You can make these lists about every candidate, particularly ex-governors. Their only job is to serve their constituents. They do what they have to do and then when they get on the national stage, things change. I'm not saying you should support Romney, I'm curious to see what others bring to the table including Perry who I really don't know that well. But pretending we have some pure candidates and some who aren't is silly. They are all politicians.

232

Hmmm.

The DOE, the Railroad Retirement Board...

Any chance that we misunderstood exactly what Obama meant by Civilian Security Force?

Did we assume he meant a force comprised of a bunch of individual leftists?

233
If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, Tea Party activists may not show up at all to vote in the general election, one leading group associated with the Tea Party movement is warning. “I think that’s a potential problem,” said Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks’ president, during a wide-ranging interview with reporters at The Daily Caller.

I agree with Ben. That's BS and like Mark Levin said, ANYONE BUT THE MARXIST must win the '12 election, and Republicans will vote for the Republican ticket.

Given that ANY Republican candidate, even a die-hard conservative, can beat Obama, then the Republican ticket "needs"  liberal Romney even LESS than we needed winnable McCain '08.

234 I'll vote for Romney in the general, but there is no way he can say or promise anything at this point to get my vote in the primary. I hope Pataki and Rudy jump in to dilute the Mitten's vote until a conservative consensus candidate emerges.

235 "Any chance that we misunderstood exactly what Obama meant by Civilian Security Force?" You know those tags on cushions that aren't supposed to be removed? Yeah, we're on it.

236 I remember a couple on their honeymoon on either jet skiis or in a boat and as they were racing away he was shot and she made it back.  Haven't seen any updates on the story but I remember they didn't find his body.



The Mexican detective who was investigating the murder was found decapitated.

In October 2010, Mexican police named two suspects in the case.

After that, nada.

237 The Hill claims that some GOP members are hesitant and jittery about a debt limit deal because of the Medicare reforms in the 2012 budget. Apparently, some of them are so afraid of being demonized that they would even refuse an offer that drastically cut spending. Only one lawmaker spoke on the record, so it's hard to tell whether he's projecting or if there are some Rs who really are so frightened of Mediscare that they actually feel a debt limit deal would be the final blow to their careers.

238 #199.  There has long been an option to carry a balance on an Amex card-they used to call it "Sign & Travel." 

239

 I'll vote for Romney in the general, but there is no way he can say or promise anything at this point to get my vote in the primary. I hope Pataki and Rudy jump in to dilute the Mitten's vote until a conservative consensus candidate emerges.

 

I don't have a friggin clue who I'll vote for in the primary. I do know who I won't vote for:

Gingrich

Trump

Rudy

Huntsman

Paul

Huckabee

Other than that, it's too early to tell.

240

 There has long been an option to carry a balance on an Amex card-they used to call it "Sign & Travel." 

Yes. On the Gold card the option is no different than carrying a balance on a Visa card. You select the charges that you want to carry and pay the rest off as you would normally.

241 Helpful job-hunting tip for A. Weiner: consider a career as a "before" model for penis-enhancement products.

242 The man who would choose Rep. Weiner's replacement

...if the Dems can bribe him enough to leave.

243 To conclude our program today, please stand with me as we sing "Solidarity Forever."

244 Ezra Klein could not pour piss out of a boot with the instruction written on the sole.

245

Tim Pawlenty

Cap and Trade/AGW

From the white paper:

In 2007, Pawlenty pushed for a regional cap-and-trade plan.  He signed the Next Generation Energy Act of 2007 into law, which required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2015 and 80 percent by 2050.  In addition, according to the non-partisan fact check St. Petersburg TimesÂ’ Politifact.com, Pawlenty “played a leading role in persuading members of the Midwest Governors Association to sign the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, an agreement that the states would develop a cap-and-trade mechanism to achieve greenhouse gas reductions in the area.” 

Since then he has backed off of the AGW regulation horse (Crap and Tax).

His current stance is that Cap and Trade was stupid

He renounces Cap and trade, but I do recall a speech he made somewhere where he equivocated on the idea of AGW itself.  I canÂ’t find that now.  It does appear that he is trying hard to walk back his record on Crap and Tax.

On a scale of -10 to 10 on the AGW issue (Al Gore gets –10) I will give him a zero. This is still a heavy burden for him to overcome.

Gun Control

He is rated good on Gun Control by the Jawa Report

Also, on the Issue site gives him high marks for Gun Control.

None of this is surprising though. Although MN is a heavy blue State, it is also a big hunting State so being pro gun control there is not healthy for a politician.

But, in the end, he has more than rhetoric backing him up on gun control, he gets high marks here.

Small government in general (spending and regulation)

On taxes club for growth gives him generally good marks, but dings him for a few small tax increases, including a 75 cent a pack cigarette tax, and the fact that a lot of his tax reductions were “carve-outs” for specific companies. I’ll him a plus here.

 On spending this is the quote from the white paper:

 Â“PawlentyÂ’s record on spending while in the state legislature was both good and bad”.

They praise him for his budget cuts and holding the line on spending but then ding him for direct subsidies and bills to support private ventures.

On “tax and spend” I am willing to give him a little slack. He is in a heavy blue State with a Dem legislature and he was able to hold the line on a lot of items. To me that is good so I am going to give a plus here.

On Regulation the quote from the white paper:

“Perhaps more so than any other issue, Pawlenty’s record on regulation is deeply troubling.”

His support for cap and trade, his call for mandating vegetable oil in diesel fuel, his call for raising the min wage in MN, his support for ethanol mandates in MN, and his support of the nanny State smoking ban in MN all gave him bad marks.

So what is the overall verdict for “small government”? Somewhat mixed for tax and spend with mitigation for a Dem legislature and a bad record for support on the heavy hand of government. I give him a neutral here.

Socialized Healthcare

On this his record and rhetoric is mixed. He opposed Obamacare but supported S-CHIP and socialized kid stuff in MN. He urged market solutions for healthcare in MN as governor.  His current web site attacks Obamacare hard. IÂ’ll give him a neutral here largely because again we are talking blue-blue here.

Border control/Amnesty

He generally gets high marks on this issue. He did support and sign into law a requirement for electronic verification for State employees in MN.  He has called for immigration enforcement as well. I seem to recall though that he offered some kind of compromise on the infamous McCain-Kennedy bill of 2006 but I canÂ’t find it. If any of the Morons have anything on this let me know.

On this IÂ’ll give him a plus.

Abortion

From On The Issues and Jawa it appears that he has been pro-life in actions, rhetoric,and record.

For the folks who have this as a major concern he gets a plus here.

OVERALL

His biggest hit is support for cap and trade and ethanol mandates. He is now trying to walk that back which is a huge “row to hoe” after so much support for so long. On the other issues his record has good and bad.

From my prospective because of the cap and tax he would not go on my short list but I could support him if it boils down to the end. He is NOT a huge RINO, but neither is he a huge conservative.

246 Just wondering, did O'Reilly have that "body language" dunce of his analyze any of the pictures Weiner sent?

That would have been must-see TV.

247 You're missing the point. ALL politicians change their positions on issues.

The point here is not Pawlenty's position.  It's that Romney actively coming out to say he supported subsidies - a position the rest of the country doesn't like much - after Pawlenty said he didn't support them, coupled with a decision to stay out of the straw poll, nets him the worst of both worlds.  It is yet more evidence that Romney is a bad campaigner.

I'm also a MA resident and as we both know a Republican does not get elected dog catcher in this state let alone governor without at least giving a passing reference to being pro-choice.

That is well and good, but then you can't expect a pro-life party to make you their nominee.  Nobody said Mitt had to run for governor in MA, especially since it was pretty obvious from his term here his goal was the presidency.  Again, bad political judgement.

I'm not saying you should support Romney, I'm curious to see what others bring to the table including Perry who I really don't know that well. But pretending we have some pure candidates and some who aren't is silly. They are all politicians.

I never said there were pure candidates.  But it seems to me that Romney is the one with the highest negatives, and his positives are tattered old references to Bain capital and the Olympics, which I'm sorry, aren't impressive.

248 hahhaha my dad is so dad like.  When I got my Amex card I was very proud and he said "now don't forget you have to pay it off in full every month".   I've done that ever since and never checked if that was true or not cause dad told me.  It's too funny but, I'm not in debt so it's all good.  but funny, dads are funny.

249 "263 Just wondering, did O'Reilly have that "body language" dunce of his analyze any of the pictures Weiner sent? That would have been must-see TV." I have NOT had phonesex with that woman, Ms. Bodylanguage...not a single time.

250

I agree he has the right to run, but his comments RE: the Ryan Plan were a direct blow to the party.  His protest that people are "lying" if they use his own recorded words in anti-Republican campaign ads is the height of foolishness and desperation.  If he hadn't had such a disastrous rollout of his campaign, I wouldn't care that he's running.  But as it stands now, he's a fallen figure and a distraction.  Maybe not a Weiner-level distraction, but a distraction nonetheless.

Posted by: MWR

 

A fair point. As far as miscues go, that indeed was a case of sticking one's weiner out in an embarrasing manner. If this is how he starts out, then he has to either do a helluva job in the second act or get the Hell off of the stage and let the trained animal act on.

251

I suppose many of you are wondering why, as the putative leader of some Religion, I'm a Marxist. It is because I have taken this tidbit of Marx's writing to heart. Never a truer word spoken. So now you know.

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of HegelÂ’s Philosophy of Right

 

 

252 aw shit

253 >>The point here is not Pawlenty's position. It's that Romney actively coming out to say he supported subsidies - a position the rest of the country doesn't like much - after Pawlenty said he didn't support them, coupled with a decision to stay out of the straw poll, nets him the worst of both worlds. It is yet more evidence that Romney is a bad campaigner. He came out an answered a question at a town hall event after Pawlenty made his flip flop public. What would you have had him say? And if he had changed his previous position would you be calling him a flip flopper or would your would your support of his candidacy have grown? >>That is well and good, but then you can't expect a pro-life party to make you their nominee. Nobody said Mitt had to run for governor in MA, especially since it was pretty obvious from his term here his goal was the presidency. Again, bad political judgement. As we all know, Reagan signed what was at the time the most expansive abortion bill when he was governor of CA. He then changed his position on abortion. Seemed to work ok for him, wouldn't you agree? >>I never said there were pure candidates. But it seems to me that Romney is the one with the highest negatives, and his positives are tattered old references to Bain capital and the Olympics, which I'm sorry, aren't impressive. Not to you, obviously. But somebody out there seems to like him. He is leading in every national poll and he has a commanding lead in NH. You keep saying he's a bad campaigner but he came in 2nd in his first national race and is now leading the pack. He may not win but given all the negatives you keep bringing up and the fact he is still leading he must be doing something right.

254

hahhaha my dad is so dad like.  When I got my Amex card I was very proud and he said "now don't forget you have to pay it off in full every month".   I've done that ever since and never checked if that was true or not cause dad told me.  It's too funny but, I'm not in debt so it's all good.  but funny, dads are funny.

Dad is right in that AMEX was developed as a charge card rather than a credit card and, far and away, the majority of folks pay off their charges each month. I do. The option to carry a balance is also not awarded to all cardholders and they tightened their policy about a year or two ago because folks were defaulting on them.

If you go to your account online there will be a little link to view the pay it now/pay it later charges. In your Recent Activity, if the option is available, you should be able to select which charges you want to defer.

255

You keep saying he's a bad campaigner but he came in 2nd in his first national race and is now leading the pack. He may not win but given all the negatives you keep bringing up and the fact he is still leading he must be doing something right.

Never underestimate the power of looking presidential.

That, and we are in an awful-terrible-no good-rotten economy and he has a successful record as a businessman.

256 Bain Capital not impressive. Olympics not impressive. Did Romney shoot your dog or something? You forgot to say going from a 1.6 billion dollar deficit to a 500 million dollar surplus was not impressive also. Your take on his abortion stance as well as the actions he took are at the least disingenuous.

257 I've been seeing herman cain and rick santoreum a lot.  they look very presidential.  And I heard thaddeus mccotter last night, he sounded very presidential and he soundly trounced ol mittens.  and rudy, well I've seen rudy's work.

I think people aren't going to admit it but they are done with the "create your ideas, your philosophy based on polls" crowd.  They are going to look for real human beings with character and conviction.  I think those, the cream, will rise to the top and the others are gonna sink and blend into the crowd.

258 Bill Kristal on Fox now. Senior staff went to Newt and told him it wasn't working and he could not win; that he should get out. He said no, they all quit. Newt has told Krystal he was not getting out. Also, the cruise was/is an issue.

259 >>Never underestimate the power of looking presidential. No doubt. Looks matter in today's politics. Look at the Tiger Beat love Obama got last election. >>That, and we are in an awful-terrible-no good-rotten economy and he has a successful record as a businessman. Yep.

260 But pretending we have some pure candidates and some who aren't is silly. They are all politicians.

I'll vote to conserve the Constitution, to prune off burdensome taxation supporting bureaucratic abuses of power and spending.

Having already pointed out Mitt's three strikes,  Mark Levin asks Romney supporters to define what makes Romney "conservative".

Gov. Perry also has three strikes against him for abusing his constituents' constitutional rights; 1) deny legal private property rights; 2) for a financial kick-back issuing his executive order to inoculate all girls with a genital wart vaccine causing serious side effects including death; and 3) using false witness to authorize the CPS kidnapping of an entire community of non-adult persons from their homes, denying the parent/child right to communicate while also not providing the children with proper hygiene and emotional well being, even losing track of some of the children taken forcibly into "protective" State custody. Finally, the Texas Tea Party knows Perry to be a smear tactic campaign liar every bit as deceitful as Obama.

As John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had no previous executive experience prior to serving POTUS terms in office, today's clamor for "political executive experience" of itself is only as valid as the performance in office proves the candidate's record. Poor performance or abuse of powers hardly inspires voters who want to halt authoritarianism and cut taxes while pursuing our First Principles Constitutional Governance.

I'll campaign against Ivy Beleaguering elitists who falsely presume the legitimacy of authoritarian abusive of power in America at MY expense, at your expense, at our expense being the utter demise of our nation. I will also not prioritize chasing wild geese abroad or vain attempts to coerce the re-education of other nations while our American borders and ports are unprotected, and we fail to be sovereign States within a sovereign Nation.

Maybe Herman Cain will be a great president, not trying to get away with what he shouldn't, being too busy in office doing what he should. He has a conservative constitutional platform with solidly productive executive experience.

What a shame that Mark Levin has no desire himself to forfeit his lifestyle to campaign for the office. If Mark Steyn were a natural born American, I'd support him for office. It isn't merely name recognition that would carry the day, but solidly constructive constitutional integrity.

261 Newt has told Krystal he was not getting out.

Then again, how can Newt get out of what he isn't really in? Newt's announcement that he's "in" fell on deaf ears. Newt's in a pickle.

262 In case anyone has forgotten the Romney evaluation here is the summary:

So in summary, out of the 6 major conservative issues he has flip-flopped on 3, total fail on 2, and at best mixed on one.

It is not a purity issue, unless you are looking for "pure fail".

263

You know why Arizona is burning???

Cuz so many people there don't believe in global warming.  Gaia is coming back and boy is she pissed.

264 He came out an answered a question at a town hall event after Pawlenty made his flip flop public. What would you have had him say?

Well, if he's going to the straw poll, 'subsidies for all!', if he's not going to the straw poll, 'down with subsidies!'  I fail to see how this half-measure is better.

As we all know, Reagan signed what was at the time the most expansive abortion bill when he was governor of CA. He then changed his position on abortion. Seemed to work ok for him, wouldn't you agree?

It didn't work out for Mitt though, did it?

Not to you, obviously. But somebody out there seems to like him. He is leading in every national poll and he has a commanding lead in NH.

And Giuliani was in the same position at this time in 2007.  It's meaningless.

You keep saying he's a bad campaigner but he came in 2nd in his first national race and is now leading the pack.

After he spent 40 million dollars on the primary.  He lost Iowa where he had spent a mint to a fat retard with no cash and New Hampshire in his backyard to a guy whose campaign had been declared dead.  He bought himself a second (arguably third) place finish.  This is not evidence of great campaigning.

Bain Capital not impressive. Olympics not impressive. Did Romney shoot your dog or something?

Can you name another CEO of Bain Capital or another guy who ran the Olympics?  Why do we keep picking governors and Senators if these guys are so awesome?

Your take on his abortion stance as well as the actions he took are at the least disingenuous.

You should re-watch the videos of Romney talking about abortion when he was running for governor in MA.  I'm not being disingenuous.

265 to change the subject.  Yesterday beck had jim rogers on his television program.  Everyone had jim rogers on, he comes from singapore like three times a year and he does the circuit.  But I was disappointed in beck.  Either he didn't do his research or he really does think his audience knows nothing and he has to educate them.   Rogers was soros's business partner for years..

Also, he claims with his new thing he wants to attract the young.  well last night my independent friend who I think is a closet conservative said to my other friends "don't any of you dare give that man 5 dollars to get his content, if he wants the young, he's going to have to be free or he's going to die on the vine of the internet just like he did on fox and his radio show's not doing so well either."  I was in a bar with "the young" and no one is paying him for content, no one, well except maybe old people, but no one young and he says he's doing this for the young.  the young are used to a different model and he better realize that before he spends all those billions and it's for naught.

266 In 1994 he was endorsed by MA Vitizens For Life even though he declared that he would not deny the right to choose mainly because he supported parental consent laws, opposed tax payer funded abortion and mandatory abortion coverage. He was also against the Freedom Of Choice Act which would have codified Roe v Wade. He has never been pro abortion but rather held the libertarian choice view until he thankfully saw the light.

267 I not only would never vote for Romney. I skip any post that even mentions his name.  Sure hope the primary ballots have a 'none of the above'.

268

Palin tried to set up a committee to look into how to set up a carbon exchange, Pawlenty was a much bigger AGW supporter than Romney and he was a big supporter of ethanol subsidies. MN is one of the top states in terms of ethanol subsidy dollars, right behind Iowa.

But neither of them have gotten the tag as a flip flopper.

Dayum! How did we miss going after that Palin broad? Quick, somebody get some dirt on her!  Try to do some damage here, people.

269 Posted by: MSM & Their Top Men at June 10, 2011 11:58 AM (Ew27I)

I"m seriously beginning to think that they may have realized the economy was eventually going to tank and they were using this global warming, carbon credits thingy to generate money to shore up the economy.

270 I laughed at the governor palin email thing.  I almost feel like that is the last you will hear about the emails cause they may actually make her look good and intelligent and like a leader.   I'm not a palin fan but that is my gut feeling about the emails.

271

289 I almost feel like that is the last you will hear about the emails cause they may actually make her look good and intelligent and like a leader.

Oh, rest assured - the ones they publish won't!

And by the way - the quote in the Blaze article about Politico's invented Palin quote: the "original" article wording they cite has been changed!!

Now they claim it said "Palin’s bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: “I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else.” Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point.

But it actually read "PalinÂ’s bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: “I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else.” she said.  Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point.

They are focusing on the quote as if they accidently made a hypothetical attitude sound like a quote.  Except those words "she said" blow that defense out of thei water.  These slimeballs are lying in their retraction!

272 41 Is there a co-blogger or anyone with blog access awake who can delete all the vile comments by Drizzle in the Patterico post? It's disgusting and pornographic, and I'm pretty sure Ace wouldn't want it on his blog even if it was about an adult instead of a minor.

Srsly, please?

Posted by: Michelle at June 10, 2011 08:05 AM (qlFJQ)

I see this whining ass brought her show on the road to this topic, as well. We'll let everyone read them and see if I was as "vile and pornographic" as you say, or if maybe you're the kind of asshole who pretends to be OUTRAGED! just so everyone will notice you.

273 But, upon further review, I HAVE asked Ace to remove said posts because where there's usually a squeaky wheel, there is a chance that said squeaky wheel will run to another site(usually LGF or KOS) proclaiming ACE to be the one approving of all comments.So I will gladly give any and all permiossion to remove any posts deemed "vile and pornographic"(?).

274 "Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home"

Couple that with the raid door busting raid by the Dep. of Education and the 4th Amendment has been vacated.

275 Dalai Lama misspoke. He meant to say " I am lovin' me some Mark Spitz, that man could swim. Oh and that mustache! Reminds me of that hotty Magnum PI!"

276 The fact that these Louis Vuitton HandbagsEE

277 A German organic farmer with an e-coli outbreak has now killed more people than the BP Oil Spill, the Fukushima meltdown, the recent Oklahoma F5 tornado, and Ted Kennedy's car combined.

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