Archive for 6 Aug 2009

Yep. Sure does.

I had a few posts today and will end with this.

Funny quote of the day:

“How do you personally feel about the President?”

Happy, plus I’m really good-looking

Unhappy, and I’ve gone all pear-shaped and I smell like funky cheese

Angry, crazed, and racist, and also my dick is the size of watch-battery and/or I’ve got chronic swamp-ass

This comes from Ace of Spades:

Defending tthe CNN Poll, a Little

The people are starting to revolt. This shit is gonna get deep if the idiots in Congress don’t get the message now. I don’t think they will. Expect this revolution to get bigger, really quick.

Prairie-Fire Anger

Why Are People in Revolt?

The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives—cap-and-trade, health care overhaul, government take over of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus—are already less than half of polled voters. Obama’s own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent. A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda. The Republicans—written off just a few weeks ago as an obsolete party headed for oblivion—are now often polling higher in generic surveys than are Democrats.

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RAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!

What does that term mean again?

Yep. That didn’t take long. WaPo once again jumps on the race bandwagon. What a bunch of losers. I stumbled on this at Drudge, but I’ll let Ace discuss it here:

WaPo Staff Writer Is Clearly A Racist

How else to explain the conclusion that when Philip Kennicott sees the “‘urban’ makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker”, he automatically thinks “black” “deformed product of urban violence.” No, really, and it gets ugly:

By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and ’70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.

The Joker’s makeup in “Dark Knight” — the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world — emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking goes — don’t just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus. Scientific studies, which demonstrate the social consequences of living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, get processed and misinterpreted in the popular unconscious, underscoring the idea. Violence breeds violence.

Oh, but Kennicott’s quick to reassure that he doesn’t believe blacks carry the violence within them (like…in their blood? I told you this was ugly.). Rather, he claims that is what “a certain sort” think when they see the Joker. …And why a certain sort fear the Joker. And why a certain sort fear Obama in Joker makeup. Or something.

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A little Econ 101, well, maybe a little 102. Don’t worry, there are plenty of understandable analogies spread throughout.

Value and Choice
by Doctor Zero

I’ve seen some people try to defend Obama’s ludicrous Cash for Clunkers program as something akin to a tax rebate or tax credit. This is rubbish, and betrays a dangerous misunderstanding of where government money comes from. A better understanding of basic economics would help Americans avoid the kind of snake oil salesmen currently running Washington. If the public school system won’t provide such an education, then it falls to conservatives to explain the basics, in order to build support among the voters for the policies necessary to repair the damage Obama’s madcap liberalism has wrought. We can use the Cash for Clunkers boondoggle to illustrate an important point about the relationship between freedom of choice and value. C4C doesn’t just waste money – like every instrument of central economic planning, it destroys value.

Cash for Clunkers is not a “tax credit” or “rebate” of any sort. In order to be either of those things, it would have to be restricted to those who paid the taxes in the first place. Furthermore, it would have to be awarded progressively, just as taxes are assessed progressively. The top 1% of wage earners pay about half of all federal income taxes, so half of a true “tax credit” would have to go to them. Something tells me we’ll never see a Cash for Jaguars program. Tax credits never work that way. When taxes are collected progressively, but credits and rebates are given in flat amounts – or weighted toward the lower tax brackets – the credits amount to more redistribution of wealth. If I pay twice as much in taxes as you do, but we both receive the same credit, the procedure amounts to a strikingly inefficient way to redistribute my money to you.

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We of the unwashed masses are growing rather uppity. Of course, assholes like the queen of the morons, Olbermann, say it is “manufactured” and not the real people speaking out. Idiot.

THE DAILY NEWS
Fox News Report on Sebelius/Specter Event

Sen. Specter and Sebelius Face Protest in PA
Olbermann Says Protests Are ‘Manufactured’
Rep. Kagen Faces Protest in WI-08
Rep. Barrett Booed in Greenville, SC
Punk’d Protest in Virginia
A front page story in the Washington Post was accompanied by this video of a woman who voted for Obama and now regrets it.
Protest in Raleigh, North Carolina
Rep. Bishop Faces Protest in NY-01
Rep. Doggett Faces Protest in TX-25
Health Care Ad Wars Heat Up as Recess Begins – Emily Cadei, CQ
How to Fix the Health-Care ‘Wedge’ – Art Laffer, Wall Street Journal
Dems’ Health Plan is ‘Voodoo Economics’ – Brian Riedl, Washington Times
Healthcare: Dems vs. Dems – Wall Street Journal Editorial
Those ‘Town Hells’ – IBD Editorial
When Doesn’t Reputation Work Well? – Bryan Caplan, EconLog
Republicans Cave on ‘Clunkers’ – David Lightman, McClatchy
Obama Urged to ‘Make the Case’ for Free Trade – Edward Luce, FT.com
Measuring Economic Growth From Outer Space – Phil Izzo, WSJ
Sestak Challenges Specter, Defies Obama – S.A. Miller, Washington Times

Buyer’s remorse has been setting in from the word go. It seems to be gathering momentum.

Democratic Voters Flee the Obama-Pelosi Bandwagon
By
Brad O’Leary

As President Obama’s approval rating continues to nosedive toward that of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one has to wonder: Who are these naysayers abandoning the dynamic duo of government-run everything?  While it’s true that a majority of the discontented comes from the ranks of Republican and Independent voters, it is also true that many Democratic voters are parting ways with the Obama-Pelosi agenda on several fronts.

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I see Nazis. They’re called Democrats and liberals these days, but they pull the same crap as the Nazis did under Hitler. All that screaming about Bush being Hitler was just smoke and mirrors. True socialists one and all.

Let’s not forget what Nazi stood for: National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Just the facts ma’am.

Citizen Informants
By
Bart Willruth

In 1930’s Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers’ Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear. A modern inquisition ensued; a terror to free thought and expression. Increasingly harsh penalties were meted out to those who dared to dissent.

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In case you were wondering where I got the “Resist Obama” pic:

Resistance is NOT futile. Socialism is futile.

The Obama Resistance Grows
By
Lee Cary

Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate — citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day.

America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loyal to the King. Some of the bitterest fighting in the American Revolution was between Loyalists and Patriots. And all of it was between Americans in the Civil War. We know how to resist.

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Resistance is NOT futile. Socialism is futile.

The Obama Resistance Grows
By
Lee Cary

Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate — citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day.

America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loyal to the King. Some of the bitterest fighting in the American Revolution was between Loyalists and Patriots. And all of it was between Americans in the Civil War. We know how to resist.

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