1 During the Oblahma road kill bus tour, Sheriff Crackhead flies into the sunset to sell China Bluffy's debt ceiling "deal".

Carrion.

2 Barky is now talking up entitlement reform. Yes, rhetoric. And we know how much his rhetoric is worth.

3 Where's Bluffy's identical half brother in China when he needs him?

4

Unleashed from Washington, Obama declares war on House GOP

 

New tone from The Hill? Not much.

 

In nakedly political terms, Obama spoke repeatedly about challenging Congress in next year's elections if they refuse to compromise with him on the economy, and he took thinly veiled swipes at his Republican opponents.

 

So I guess even his own PR rags are admitting this is a campaign tour and the DNC should pay for it, including those $2.2M buses that he just had to have because all the other candidates have buses (that they leased).

 

Oh, did I mention that he is a shitweasel and a clusterfuck of a failure?

5

Issa calls the NYT liars

6

DC thoughts on Iowa, Pawlenty, and the current establishment brand of Republicans

 

Basically its wake up, this ainÂ’t your old Republican electorate. I like this opinion piece because it is exactly what I have been saying for a long time.

7 Rhetoric never cost so much as from Oblahma.

8

TexasÂ’ Perry to headline S.C. GOP fundraiser

 

Perry will be the keynote speaker at a $75-a-person party fundraiser Friday in Columbia in the midst of a campaign swing through the state, GOP executive director Matt Moore said.

 

The article says he will not be the only one there but there is no list of the other candidates. Also recall that I posted a link that said originally there was no money in the budget to pay for the Republican Primary. Haley vetoed the legislatureÂ’s arrangements but they overrode the veto.  Work is still underway for some public funding but it will not be enough.  This fundraiser is intended to pay for the primary.

 

One other important thing to consider in this fight over primary funding. The courtÂ’s ruling on open vs closed primaries hinges exclusively on who pays for the primary. If the primary uses any State resources then the State has the authority make them open or closed. Perhaps Haley is working on something more here than cutting the budget????

 

The other thing that I do not understand is that the court ruling has also said that the legislature can act to call this either way because of public resources being used.  So why have the Republicans gone through the courts multiple times to get the primaries closed?  It obviously has to be because they do not have the votes in the legislature to close the primaries despite the fact that they have large majorities in both houses. Makes you wonder donÂ’t it.

 

Maybe that will change now that the Lady-Boy faction is no longer in charge of the State Party.

9

Perry will not be the only one in SC this week, Bachmann will be here as well.

 

It looks like both Perry and Bachmann are ceding NH to Romney and he is ceding SC to them.  It still looks like what I said previously is shaping up in the early three. Bachmann will take Iowa; Romney will take NH, and it will be a tossup between Bachmann and Perry in SC with a lot riding on who Nikki Haley endorses. Oh, Romney will get some votes from the “relocated Northern crowd” that live around Myrtle Beach but not many as most of those will vote Democrat unless they elect to forgo the Dem Primaries because there is no real Statewide office up for grabs in 2012.

10

It is shit like this that caused the great real estate bubble boom and bust and keeps it in a turmoil

 

This at the same time the government is broke. One wonders how he thinks he is going to get this new huge spending program through after trying multiple such programs before, all of which were just like him; a clusterfk of unmitigated failure.

 

Most likely this is just campaign rhetoric on his non-campaign public financed bus tour. The only way this would get through is another weeping Boner compromise.

11

Perry says Bernacke would be committing treason if he prints more money before 2012

 

He says this in relation to the rumors of more “Quantitative Easing” and that doing so would be interference in the election to help Obama. Well Mr. Perry I have some news for you. Every time the Fed buys T-Bills because nobody else will at their current artificially low price, it is “printing more money” whether they call hit Quantitative Easing of Quantity of Horseshit.  And they have been doing that all along. The only thing that stops them is that debt ceiling which they literally ignored since May.

12

Another foreign policy win for the Obama team. One of his State Department appointees makes a racial slur to ethnic Indians in their own country

 

All I can find out about this woman is that she is an ultra liberal and an Obama appointee.

13

Byron York via the Washington Examiner looks at the Ron Paul problem

 

He says the party is baffled by the success of Ron Paul and that they dodged a major bullet (barely) in Iowa. Iowa Republicans also said it was a narrow dodge that prevented the Iowa GOP from being marginalized by Paul.

 

They wonder how he can draw such support despite a foreign policy program that is crazy. I donÂ’t. He really doesnÂ’t have that much support and that which he has is made up of fringe elements of libertarians who want to do away with drug laws combined with peace activists who are not socialists.

 

The only place where he shows up leading polls is these kind of straw polls like the Ames one and the one that CPAC runs at their meetings. He doesn’t have that much support but the ones he has are fanatics and will go to great links to “bomb the polls”. This is why a lot of internet sites no longer include him on their polls because as soon as his crowd learns that there is a poll it is swamped. The results become meaningless.

 

And here is something else to think about. Without the paulbots using BachmanÂ’s and others $30 each ballots to bomb the poll, T-Paw would have come in second and maybe would still be in the race.

14

No medical tort reform in the Obamacare bill and the WE asks why here

 

Its because the head of the committee who read it out, Pigface Waxman, received huge bribes from the Lawyer Industry lobbyists.

15

Short story at Weekly Neocon on Perry's comeback to Politico asshole Ben Smith's gotcha question

16

We often wonder how the liberal eco-tard movement can be maintained despite illogical and shoddy science

 

Well the answer to that question lies with the watermelon wing of the movement mostly, but also with groups like the above who join with them. They are literally batshit crazy.

17 Man I hate Mondays!!11!  Wait, what?!?!

18 Morning all! OT: Just wanted to tell you guys some great news! About a year ago my wife decided we didn't make enough money and needed "assistance". WIC, specifically. I said no. She was adamant. I was adamantly against it. Fights ensued. I relented. It's been a very painful year and we almost got a divorce over several issues but I think it was my bitterness of having this forced on me. In any case, I am proud to report that we will no longer be (unwillingly) suckling off Uncle Sam's teat. I'm making a bit more money and we sacrificed but the freedom is soooo worth it.

19 Christ on a stick, give people a chance to wake up.

20 One last thing that is going down today that I didn't see in any of the big papers.

Today is the Democrat recall in WI. Do any of the 'rons know how many are up for grabs there today?

21 "there are FOUR lights!" you're such a geek.

22 21 One last thing that is going down today that I didn't see in any of the big papers.

Today is the Democrat recall in WI. Do any of the 'rons know how many are up for grabs there today?

I think it is two that will not change the Rep. majority even if they are lost.  For what it is worth.

23

Never mind, here's the story

Its two seats

24 Due to a combination of EPA regulations and inability for the government to pay it's bills, you only have enough power for one bulb.  Also, the lights are now outlawed incandecent bulbs, so you'll have to change over to more expensive CFLs. 

25

There. Are. FOUR. Lights!

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 06:54 AM

No, there are FIVE lights!

26 Two Dem seats are up. Might take, belonging to Holperin, who represents northern climes. Would increase the Pubbie margin to two seats, making our Jeffords -like sqish not so important as he'd like to be.

27 Somebody hack the GPS systems on those busses, send him down into Texas.
That would be fun to watch

28 Sheesh. Might take ONE seat, belonging to Holperin...

29 Sheesh. Might take ONE seat, belonging to Holperin...

Posted by: Popcorn at August 16, 2011 07:20 AM (OOehk)

Yeah, after doing a little more research that's what it looks like. The other guy is a long term incumbent.

30 There. Are. FOUR. Lights!

That is one small Christmas tree ...

31 Be interesting to see if some other Tea Party types can get close enough to JEF to challenge him like the guy from Iowa did yesterday.

32 18  s☺mej☼e..... It's OK. You didn't miss anything.

33 Focused, like a laser!  A laser, damn it!  (as soon as the bus tour is over)....(then as soon as vacation is over)   Then!  Like a laser!

34 Be interesting to see if some other Tea Party types can get close enough to JEF to challenge him like the guy from Iowa did yesterday.

F&F played that clip a few minutes ago. It is being billed as rude tea party guy "dissing" the President. "Showing no respect for the office.

I almost puked.

35 Vic, good Daily Caller link.

Funny, though. No more "big tent" gone bust in favor of "fusionist" though neither would excommunicate the Logcabin Republicans and burn the Tea Party candidates at the stake without revisionism in language. It's amusing to note how the leading candidates assume more and more of Ron Paul's platform in order to attract the belabored voter support. At the first Republican debate came the Republican candidate chorus chiming in to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. The list goes on.

But the contours of a satisfactory alternative to establishment drift are easy to recognize. In foreign policy, end our indefinite military garrisons, increase our ability to poke hard with a sharp stick at key moments and help our cornerstone allies in Europe and Asia better assert a constant regional presence. On criminal justice, legalize soft drugs, clean up the appeals and capital punishment process, overhaul our corrupt (and corrupting) prison system, and reform and reintegrate felons. On border issues...On social issues...And on the defining issue of our time — subsidy and entitlement spending writ large —...There’s no reason a Republican candidate can’t embrace these or similar positions. They amount to a post-establishmentarian vision of governance that steps outside the box created by misleading categories like “extreme” on the one hand and “centrist” on the other. And they sharply rebuke the sitting president.

PawlentyÂ’s brand of mainstream, fusionist conservatism..."Sam's Club Republicans"

That may feel compassionate — or even merely prudent — but on anything more than the most shortsighted of timelines, it is neither. The endemic subsidization on which our virtual prosperity depends is incompatible with any fair view of Americans as a free people. And against that most serious charge, Pawlentyism — no matter how conservative in its convictions, commitments, and attitudes — has no answer. ... Tim Pawlenty didn’t flop because Iowans are crackpots or Tea Partiers are wingnuts. It’s not extremism along the traditional political spectrum that grassroots Republicans (and independents and others) want. It’s an extreme departure from that spectrum, which has become — to say nothing of the parlous state of the left — a license and excuse for a great drift into inadequacy by conventional fusionism on the right.

36 32 The Yahoo News headline "Obama spars With tea party activist"

More like he lied in their faces then he ran away

37 ItÂ’s scary how so many Americans are fucking idiots.

LOL, did you go to that link at 17?

38 Also from behind the Cheddar Curtain, the special prosecutor selected to investigate our "grabby" supreme court justices is the Republican Sauk County DA. Apt Ouse has details.

39 Romney and Perry: How the numbers and the calendar stack up.

40 Apt Ouse has details.

?????

41 32 I always thought it was a civic organization when I was a little kid.
Youth In Asia....almost as bad as when my mom told me I was just a human bean.

42 Sheesh. Althouse has the details. I need to get out of bed and use the computer rather than my iPhone!

43 sorry comment directed at #39

44 @ 44 lmao "Apt Ouse"

45

Here is that Althouse link. Not much there mostly inside baseball stuff for locals

46 Ugh. Yet another hit piece on Perry. I'm gonna post these as much as I can just so we all know what we're dealing with.

47 There is no need to post hit pieces from Politco. Everything they do is a hit piece as they are the NYT of the internet.

48 I'm not reading the whole thing but it's Four. Pages. Long. Let's see if any of you morons can get through it, not that it's necessary.

49 There is no need to post hit pieces from Politco. Everything they do is a hit piece as they are the NYT of the internet. Perhaps. I just thought it would be a good idea to keep abreast of any weird attacks on the candidates so we'd be prepared to defend. Hahaha...."abreast"

50
No, there are FIVE lights!

Posted by: Kim Kardashian at August 16, 2011 07:16 AM (FkKjr)

I see eight lights (unless I close one eye and then I see four lights.

51

 "Obama spars With tea party activist"

Damn, teabaggers!  Look at this, cracka crumbs!  Cracka crumbs everywhere!  I can't get rid of them!

52 Hey Vic - Why wouldn't the SC Dems vote in the GOP primary if it is open?

53 Vic at August 16, 2011 07:03 AM

Wait.. You haven't thought this through.

You could bundle up those mortgage backed securities, and sell them on the open market.

What could possibly go wrong?

54 Joffen!  Thanks for sharing your good news, and congratulations.

Vic,  Thanks again for the news.  I hope your health is continuing to improve.  You don't mention it often, but I know it concerns you and us.

55 Hey Vic - Why wouldn't the SC Dems vote in the GOP primary if it is open?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 16, 2011 07:50 AM (UTq/I)

I think I said they may be more apt to this time since there are no Statewide offices open in this upcoming election. But even if there are no Statewide offices open there are still local offices open.

And like most Southern States, most of the local offices are ALL Democrat owned. When I voted in the last Primary the ballot officials asked me three times if I was sure I wanted the Republican ballot. Our local county sheriff's office was up for an open election and there were NO Republican candidates. So the Dem primary was the local sheriff's election.

That is what slows them down on that.  

56 I hope your health is continuing to improve.  You don't mention it often, but I know it concerns you and us.

Thanks, I am doing OK for now, going to the hospital on Wed and Fri for some more testing.

57 Focused, like a laser!  A laser, damn it!  (as soon as the bus tour is over)....(then as soon as vacation is over)   Then!  Like a laser! Posted by: Case

Deja vue on and off "effort" given McCain's '08 suspended campaign results.

/Timmons: I'll bet someone back east is going, "Now why don't he write?"

58 as always Vic, thanks for the morning news.

59 You're welcome

60 going to the hospital on Wed and Fri for some more testing.
Posted by: Vic

Hope it is good news, Vic.

*scribbles reminder: Vic will be absent Wed and Fri, do not fret*

61 I'll be here Wed morning (early) and maybe Fri afternoon.

62

Way, way off topic, but the Mrs. is having surgery on her knee this morning.  (Basically having some bone shaved off, then the kneecap realigned, then screwed back in place.) Not life threatening, but it should help her with her knee pain. 

The weird thing is that after 14 years of marriage (with the exception of childbirth) this is the first surgery she's had, compared to the 40 or so I've had.  I don't like being on this side of the waiting room.

Anyway, please pray, burn incense, put sauce on the flying spaghetti monster, or offer up a burnt offering of hobo, as iss your custom, for her.  I'd appreciate it.

63 If Texas would have had poor employment numbers, Perry would be getting pilloried for that.  Instead, with great employment numbers, the administration and DNC shitheads, aided by their ministry of propaganda, seek to pillory him for that.

64 @66.  Right!  It's called spin.  Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

65

Bad!  Bad Congressman West.  See what you did?  You offended the poor muzzies!  Bad!

HereÂ’s a treat!

66

Bad!  Bad Congressman West.  See what you did?  You offended the poor muzzies!  Bad!

HereÂ’s a treat!

"Then CBS4 News discovered that during World War II, General Anthony McAuliffe famously wrote a one-word letter to the Germans in response to a surrender ultimatum. The word used: “Nuts!” "

Fucking idiots had to 'discover' the historical reference?

67 58 I hope your health is continuing to improve.  You don't mention it often, but I know it concerns you and us.

Thanks, I am doing OK for now, going to the hospital on Wed and Fri for some more testing.

Posted by: Vic at August 16, 2011 08:02 AM (M9Ie6)

Will keep you in my prayers, Vic.  Please let us know how you're doing.

68

Will keep you in my prayers, Vic.  Please let us know how you're doing.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 10:04 AM (UOM4

Thanks these are really nothing more than tests though. There is really nothing serious going on.

69

Re: 69

Ha ha!

70 Here is a site that discusses many of the issues surrounding Perry.  I think the author is pro-Perry but they contain a lot of links to primary sources to back up their claims.  I even learned a few things and I live in Texas.

71 Did you notice Obama putting his dominant 'power hands' on the Tea Party woman to shut her up?  I guess it would be bad form to karate chop his arms off of you.   Unless you like burly men to jump on top of you.  

72

The term currently being used in our culture to describe roaming gangs of thieving pukes, "flash mob", will not appear in any of my future comments. I refuse to provide any assistance to the linguistic softening and mental image misdirection that is occurring in the popular media concerning the feral gangs of thieving pukes roaming our streets.  I suggest the strike-through and replacement of that descriptor with a more precise term for the activity involved wherever that other term is found. 

73
FYI, that welding technique in the video dump is called "Friction Welding".  It's pretty cool.

74 And Here, We, Go..Karl Rove Defends Ben Bernake From Rick Perry
I said this a while ago. If you though Rove's "analysis" of Palin was bad, just wait until you hear his "analysis" of Perry. [Ben]   Fox already have Juan Williams to spout the anti-conservative/republican line why do they need Rove as well?  And 'he calls them as he sees them' excuse is not enough.

75 I love what you guys are frequently up too. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the terrific works guys IÂ’ve added you guys to my blogroll.

76 Of course he wants higher taxes, that's because HE won't be paying them.

As I understand it his money is long term investments so until he cashes them in, he pays no taxes on them. Also, I'm sure he has a whole floor of attorneys whose only job is to limit his exposure to any taxes.

Good for him, I say but I'd like him to STFU about more taxes.

What they should do is pass a Warren Buffet's Save the U.S. Tax and tax his investments as if he cashed them in. Do this every year.

Betcha it's be a lot of money.

Betcha he'd be squealing like a stuck pig.

And maybe we'd stop hearing him complain about not paying enough taxes.

77 Thanks for the "17 Things" article. I'll bet nobody's called Perry a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure, have they?

78 sssssssssss