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If the Tea Party were the GOP

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Michele Bachmann says she’ll bring back $2/gal gas.  I believe her.  CNN snickeringly informs us that she’s all wet, but it’s CNN that doesn’t understand how marginal effects and market confidence work.  But enough of that.  I’m here to pick a different fight.

If Michele Bachmann were to be elected, and then try to wriggle off of the hook using GOP tactics as gas went through $5, it would sound like this:

Well, when I made that promise, gas was $3.79, and a reduction to $2 gas would be a $1.79 savings.  If it were not for the measures I have implemented, gas would already have risen past $8, so $5 gas is a $3 savings; you people are just ingrateful, and your criticism is unwelcome.

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Cantor to Tea Party: Shut Up and Spend

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Cantor thinks we’re stupid.

To help reduce uncertainty, Cantor is moving to quell rank-and-file grumbling about 2012 spending and the supercommittee.

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Cantor is also urging his members to support the deficit reduction supercommittee created by the debt deal, adding that the supercommittee must succeed in coming up with “at least” $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts, rather than allowing automatic cuts to be triggered.

This is profoundly disappointing, and a continuation of the Tea Party’s reasons to oppose this moronic supercommittee.  Don’t forget that the automatic cuts which are now used as a club to beat the Freshmen and Tea Party into line were brought into being by approving this awful committee as a Hail Mary around the ridiculous August 2 “deadline”.

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Bernanke: Japan 2.0

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Japan’s economy has been stranded by the same moronic scheme announced by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.  Japanese politics is an impenetrable hive-mind of graft and just-so stories, but the fundamentals of the economic problems are shockingly similar.  And I try not to sprinkle the internet’s favorite word about too much.

Japan, inc. was overvalued and when the walls came down, nobody got out.  Yet an unwillingness to allow real corrections has resulted in a state of suspended economic activity, where the official policy is zero interest, and everybody’s still waiting for the other shoe to drop.  Periodically you see headlines announcing that the worst is over, that they’ve turned a corner, that this at long last is the real bottom, except that nobody actually believes it.  The media, … Continue reading →

Leftist Agitator Beaten by Agitated Leftists

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This is the guy who fawningly crafted the neo-Soviet Obama “Hope” propaganda piece.  His latest kumbayah government suck-up agitprop was set up in Copenhagen, but his syndrome is one-hundred percent Stockholm.  He’s worried about his lefty street cred after getting whipped by the lefty street.  What a pathetic tool.

The artist said he had not filed a police report following the attack in Copenhagen. “I did not know any of the people or get a great look at them, so it seemed pointless,” he said.

“I’m not a huge fan of the cops anyway. The only thing I could see coming out of it was further media commentary like ‘street artist whiner Shepard Fairey can’t hold it down in a fight so he snitches to the cops’.”

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Obama's Bus Trip to Hell

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If he had it to do all over again, he wouldn’t.

Somehow the President of the United States has been reduced to commissioning a million-dollar bus to support a three-state misery tour of his own home turf.  Presumably this is to shore up sagging numbers in the wake of the Republican Iowa shenanigans sucking all the oxygen out of the midwest.

He should have stayed in Washington.  Jay Leno is roasting him, the Democrats despair for leadership, and even the reprehensible Wasserman-Schultz is hard put to defend this tawdry little man from his own lies, caught on tape.  And aired on, well, one major network, at least.

Fox News is gleefully showing clips of him being grilled by Tea Party people who ask him fair questions, and the … Continue reading →