Category Archives: American Politics

"Cut, Cap, Balance" A Bunch of Unicorn Poop

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[Update: 19JUL2011: Cut Cap and Balance is going for a vote as early as today, in the House. I support it fully. I am pleased with the fight so far shown by the Speaker and the Leader, and while I do not agree with everything, I can hardly make that my condition for support. We must offer support whenever possible, and be blunt about when we feel support is not possible. I sincerely think that efforts such as refusing to “sign any more damned pledges” makes for a more attentive GOP and a Republican presence worth defending and expanding in Washington. Who knows: they might even pull off the cut and the cap this time. I might justsign the next pledge, if they can manage not to … Continue reading →

Obamacare Death Star Will Strike Soon

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Excellent write-up by Senator Jim DeMint.  Here’s a part, the whole ting is quite good.

Obama’s use of waivers also conceals the financial blowout that is coming in 2014. More than three million Americans haven’t seen any changes in their health insurance, yet because the president gave them a waiver, provided they first prove that ObamaCare would hike their premiums or slash their benefits.

But, all those waivers expire in 2014. And when the waivers are no longer available, rising costs will force businesses to push their employees off of private plans into the government system.

Caterpillar Corp. has said it could save 70 percent on health care costs by dropping coverage and paying the penalties. AT&T’s $2.4 billion in annual health care expenses would drop to just … Continue reading →

Intent

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[pullquote]The constitution means now what it did long ago.[/pullquote]

I don’t much care for the term “original intent”. The constitution has a meaning and that meaning does not change over time. Time does pass and things do change, but if there was intent at the beginning then that intent can hardly change when the ones who intended are gone.

There is exactly one way to change the meaning of the constitution, and that is through Amendments. Anything else is interpretation, which is good and absolutely necessary to the functioning of society, but it does not supplant the intent. Unfortunately, many today believe that interpretation does supplant intent either from their own ignorance or the ignorance of their teachers. Don’t believe it.

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Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge is a Trojan Horse

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The more I think about this, the more I vehemently dislike this pledge idea.  Stop talking, and just fight.

[pullquote]We already had a pledge and the Republicans sold us down the river.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.[/pullquote]

There are several honest Republicans pushing this idea, but it’s still rotten.  This is marketed as an offense to be used against Democrats, but in fact, it is a defense to shield Republicans from the base.  This is establishment Republicans trying to convince us that the way to win in Washington is to help them convince their democrat friends to vote with the Republicans.

That is the wrong answer.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.  We do not need to expend a single … Continue reading →

Respect for Huma

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I am disappointed in some of the comments I see about Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced classless jerk Anthony Weiner.

Anthony Weiner mixed up his personal and professional lives, and did so in a really offensive way. The original actions are outrageous, and his subsequent actions even more so.

Huma on the other hand, has done nothing of the sort. I’d like to know how taking cheap shots at her at this point is anything other than yet another example of attacking a pretty woman with whom one disagrees.  She’s pretty and there’s a media firestorm in her house, so I understand the interest.  But not the vitriol.

She seems to be the only person on the democrat side who hasn’t made a hash of this.  There was … Continue reading →

Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down – FoxNews.com

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With Huma just back in from overseas, he will probably have to bend over to pick up his dick on the way out.

The New York congressman, who has faced three weeks of scandal over pictures he texted to women he communicated with on Twitter and Facebook, had been facing a revolt from Democratic leaders, who had planned to meet Thursday to consider whether to strip Weiner of his role on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

via Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down – FoxNews.com.

Congressman Weiner’s office initially had no response to the report, but he did tweet “O ya, did sombdy say STRIP WEINER? Jumbo dog w/EVERTHNG right here! #NoReally”.

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The Great Wait Has Begun

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The Wait

America’s friends and enemies alike are waiting for the results of the 2012 election as much as Americans themselves.  Perhaps more.  Much is at stake, but for many reasons, the most valuable tactic of delay is the least-mentioned.  The clock is running out on Obama, and those who can wait are holding out in civil fashion for better days.  Those who cannot are scrambling to survive.  But if Obama wins in 2012, all bets are off.

Abroad

The American right is not much given to complaining about its government overseas, so that the perennial threats made by famous but inconsequential people to move abroad are not a feature of unpopular democrat administrations.  Neither are tens of thousands of YouTube videos and online still photos with perky … Continue reading →

Inequality In Equality

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The DoD briefs that it will not create a new data category for sexual orientation, that it will not require personnel to identify sexual preference.

Fine, but then where does that leave all the bean-counting for race, sex, religion, and “ethnicity”?  Either data categories are necessary to ensure fairness or not.

Conversely, either a some behavior is protected just like immutable characteristics or not.  I understand that the DoD is complying with requirements handed down from above, but this implementation seems to carve out a zone of preferential treatment for homosexuals.

If the argument is that the behavior connected with sexual orientation rises to the same level of protection as genuinely immutable characteristics such as sex and race, and constitutionally protected behavior such as religion, then all of … Continue reading →

Weinergate Explosive: It's Raining Women!

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Oh, man, when it rains, it pours. Breitbart was actually contacted BEFORE the now-famous #Weinergate picture went public.

BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com were approached regarding this information more than a week prior to the separate, independent event of Friday, May 27, 2011, when a link to the now-infamous “gray underwear” photograph appeared publicly on Rep. Weiner’s Twitter feed.

via Weinergate Bombshell: New Woman Comes Forward Claiming Cache of Intimate Photos and Online Communications with Beleaguered Congressman – Big Journalism.

 
Look, all y’all who tried various means to explain away the obvious did some pretty stout work. But Breitbart has the goods. Follow up over there as the news unfolds.

The implications are not good for the soon-to-be-former-Representative Weiner, but fantastic for conservatives. Breitbart is on top … Continue reading →

A Dark Horse Approaches

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I’m just thinking out loud.

The appalling awfulness of King Obama’s rule is settling in as a fact among a growing percentage of a formerly free people.  The Republican field is not bad, but nobody has gotten the base past a threshold of both queasiness and numbers, although several have beaten one metric or the other.

One reason I feel so free to thump on candidates currently running is the suspicion that the only way to get more into the game is to not accept the current slate.  So you’re darned right I don’t like Romney, Newt or any of the rest of them.  I can’t even keep straight who has declared yet and who has not (without taking a refresher).

So this is completely non-scientific.  I just … Continue reading →