Category Archives: American Politics

El Gobernador Rick Perez

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Texican Governor Rick Perry, in a speech ten years ago:

We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.

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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.

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Entitlements: Plan C

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[pullquote]Plan C is you can shiver hungry in the dark for all I care[/pullquote]

You boomers are in trouble.  Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets.  This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked.  They used it as intended, and you have abused it, hollowing out the programs while expanding them, so that all that remains is a system of empty shells.  Now you want to retire on it, and there’s nothing left.  So you’ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.

Well maybe we will, and maybe we won’t.

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She Likes Us! She Really Really Likes Us!

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Now if only we could find a better use around here for Maureen Dowd than as ballast, she’d be a shoo-in.

Tea Party budget-slashers didn’t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.

They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved … Continue reading →

A Secular Defense of the 9/11 WTC Cross

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Apparently some atheists are upset that a 9/11 memorial will have the “WTC cross” found in the wreckage of steel girders where the towers had stood.  I am agnostic, but I am not easily offended by displays of religion.  It is a freedom which I feel very well pays its own freight.  I used to be fairly militant in my atheism, but that stance made little sense to me after some years.  How could I be so smug and inflexible on a topic where my whole thesis was that certainty without evidence was unacceptable?

The cross discovered in the smoke and rubble was a powerful symbol to many who served on scene, and was a comfort to those who toiled in the swirling mist of human and architectural … Continue reading →