No Runny Eggs

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Archive for October 22nd, 2008

RNCC Punishing Conservatives

by @ 18:40. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I wish I had one of those flashy light thingys like Drudge has. Steve, can I get one for Christmas?

Revisions/extensions (8:47 pm 10/22/2008; steveegg) – You asked; you get…

Oh cool! Christmas comes early! Thanks Steve!
Tom Cole Representative from Oklahoma and head of the RNCC, has decided to pull all funding from Michele Bachmann, Representative Minnesota, for her comments about Barack Obama.

In the event you don’t know, Bachmann is in a close reelection. She has been a solid conservative and is one of the few that had the spine to vote against the bailout provisions.

I don’t normally steal stuff but there is no reason to improve on a perfect statement.   From Erick Erickson at Redstate.com:

Let’s just call Tom Cole (R-OK), the head of the NRCC, what he is: a douchebag.

Some of you will be upset by the language, but I think it is an accurate description.

We chronicled for you the need to ditch Tom Cole from the NRCC months ago. Sure, we knew it was going to be a bad year, but Cole seemed more interested in the perks of the office than actually trying to mitigate damages.

Cole defended Don Young.

He also defended Rick Renzi despite the criminal investigation that forced Renzi from office.

And while Rome was burning, Cole fiddled away demanding an apology to Indians.

Now, in the height of all douchebaggery, he has pulled all funding from Michelle Bachmann’s very winnable race in Minnesota, in which she is presently leading, though not by a great deal.

Why? Because Bachmann had the nerve to point out Obama pals around with anti-American domestic terrorists and other unsavory characters, i.e. she’s echoed Sarah Palin.

But that’s okay. Apparently we have Republicans to spare.

Help Michelle Bachmann. This race is absolutely winnable. Hell, she’s winning right now. But she needs our help.

And then call Tom Cole and give him a piece of your mind.

UPDATED: For perspective, Tom Cole has been sending money to Don Young in Alaska. So attacking the Democrats is unacceptable to Tom Cole, but taint and corruption is perfectly fine.

You still upset I called him a douchebag?

As Erick says, we need to help Michelle now! It’s clear that the RNCC would rather be politically correct than politically successful. Send Michelle what you can to help her out here! After sending Michele some love, send Tom Cole some of your thoughts here.

I am Joe the Plumber

by @ 13:41. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Charlie Sykes)

The McCain campaign has unleashed an ad that ought to be somewhat familiar to those of us who are John Doe.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSEcL9xFQk[/youtube]

Just because I can, and because the original is THAT GOOD, I’ll bring back the original.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfguzjUoCoI[/youtube]

The Morning Scramble (Part 2) – 10/22/2008

by @ 10:56. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’ll try to limit the Obamination in Part 2. Can’t say I’ll be entirely successful, so let’s have some blues as we dive in…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuK2msTzec[/youtube]

  • Before we get to the heavy stuff; a news item that is a bit personal – the gang at Tuscarora Outfitters report that the idiot that started the Ham Lake fire 2 years ago has been indicted. I use Tuscarora for my yearly canoe trips, and that fire nearly burned them down (they did lose an outbuilding), so I want the book tossed at that idiot.
  • Ed Morrissey explores how few Americans will have a net tax liability in the next administration. As I have said off and on lately, we are rushing toward Europe; the only choice is Western or Eastern circa 1985.
  • Perri Nelson notes the socialist water is just about at a boil.
  • Owen notes a disturbing economic trend – a renewed interest in Karl Marx, the original Communist. One thing I remember Dad29 telling me at Drinking Right-Milwaukee (or was it Blog ‘N Grog?), Marx said that a revolution wasn’t exactly necessary in the US (or the UK).
  • Frank Lasee explains why socialism doesn’t work.
  • Fausta caught Argentina trying to socialize the pensions. She also warns that the same is in the works here.
  • Maj. Pain opens the NSN bureau to report that John McCain is leading Barack Obama 3-1 among military personnel.
  • Trail-Mix lists “just a few” reasons why he’s voting for McCain instead of Obama.
  • Moe Lane notes that the McCain campaign and the RNC are walking the walk by publicizing those who donate less than $200. Gee, I wonder why the Obama campaign isn’t following suit.
  • Slublog notes that no less than Obama supporter and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell (D) isn’t buying the overcooked pro-Obama polls.
  • Doc explores the presstitutes’ role in the Dirtiest Campaign Evah™.
  • How far in the Obaminaton Express are the presstitutes? Lawhawk notes even Dan Rather admits the full tank job.
  • Stephan Tawney reports a second all-the-way-in-the-tank presstitute has been grounded from the Straight Talk Express flights. Gee, I wonder why an opinion columnist who has done nothing but bash McCain (Joe Klein) would get booted from the McCain campaign plane </sarcasm>. Actually, I wonder why they bother to still talk with him.
  • William Teach wonders why the New York Times Sedition Slimes would be bummed about having to photograph the success that is The Surge.
  • How successful? Uncle Jimbo reports on the success story that is Gryphon Airlines.
  • Of course, not all news is good – Wyatt Earp notes that asking questions of the local cult gets one 20 years in Afghanistan. Given all the ObamiNation In Your Face Violence tour news and casual tosses of “racism” highlighted in Part 1, I wonder when that will be codified here.
  • Lance Burri takes a dark look at the future under the ‘Rats.
  • Bill Quick explores what passes for a legal system in that frozen country of good walleye, long waits for health care, and hyper-political correctness to our north. Again, if you think it can’t happen here, just take a good look at what the ObamiNation Cult is offering.
  • Speaking of that long wait for health care, Walter E. Williams has a wake-up call on that. Whether it’s “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin, or Obama’s health plan, or HillaryCare 2.0, socialized medicine does not work.
  • Brian Fraley pictures the Axis of Taxes.
  • He forgot one – Peter spotlights Barney Frank’s plan to tax the rich until there are no rich no more.
  • John McAdams caught the majority of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors rubbing right up against (and IMHO crossing) the line against electioneering in favor of an advisory referendum calling for a tripling of Milwaukee County’s sales tax (from 0.5% to 1.5%). For those not in the Milwaukee area, that would make Milwaukee’s sales tax anywhere between 9.5% and 16.7% higher than surrounding counties (depending on the county and item bought). I previously ran the math on that here.
  • William Amos explores why the GOP is failing in its campaign strategy.
  • Nick Schweitzer makes the non-partisan case against voter registration drives.
  • Soren Dayton explains how the Left “legitimizes” voter fraud. Remember, it’s all about winning by any means necessary every means available for them.
  • Mark Tapscott exposes Anthony Socci for the Algore Goracle shill he is.
  • Owen observed Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle (D) proving that even blind squirrels occassionally find a nut by asking the EPA to declare in compliance the 6 counties the EPA pre-emptively declared (by 6 years) out-of-compliance of fine particulate pollution because they will be in compliance by the time those standards are actually in effect.
  • Marshall Manson found the next target of those that have a visceral hatred of weapons – knives. I kid you not; (formerly) Great Britian has declared a war on knives after their “successful” war on guns simply changed the weaponry that thugs use in crimes.

And some people wonder why I don’t do these every day anymore. There’s too many good bloggers out there, both those I do manage to read (at last count, somewhere north of 270), and those I don’t. Not that I’m complaining about that situation :-)

The Morning Scramble (Part 1) – 10/22/2008

by @ 9:41. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Yes, it’s back for a very-limited engagement (unless I can figure out how to keep this from taking all day).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1RqyNdzbE[/youtube]

That doesn’t mean it’s a short-stack. I can’t do that to you.

  • The ObamiNation In Your Face Violence Has Begun, Part I – Jim Hoft reports a John McCain supporter had his car vandalized for the “crime” of having a McCain/Palin sticker on it.
  • The ObamiNation In Your Face Violence Has Begun, Part II – Jim Hoft also reports some ObamiNation zealots tried their damndest to get run over by Sarah Palin’s motorcade. Fortunately, the lead officers in the motorcade reversed their motorcycles and moved them out of the way before they could get steamrolled.
  • The ObamiNation In Your Face Violence Has Begun, Part III – Sean M. notes that Maryland’s ‘Rats are eating their own who dare to have an independent mind.
  • The ObamiNation In Your Face Violence Has Begun, Part IV – Sean M. also found the selective vandalism has reached Indiana.
  • The ObamiNation In Your Face Violence Has Begun, Part V – Warner Todd Huston found an advanced ObamiNation acolyte literally laying the wood to a McCain supporter. Bonus; the assaulter was a male, the assaultee was a woman. I’ll let you decide what the NAGs and the press organs are (not) saying.
  • Erick Erickson introduces us to Bill, a typical union thug leader. Long-time readers of NRE will know why I went out of my way to utter the “t-word.” I wonder if that acolyte from the above item got his lessons in getting into peoples’ faces as The Obamination has ordered from Bill or his union cohorts.
  • Sister Toldjah channels Jeff Foxworthy in introducing us to the latest card from the ObamiNation Race Deck – socialism.
  • Stephen Green has the definitive answer to that charge. He forgot Iosif Stalin, to whom Obama and especially his acolytes bear more than a passing resemblence.
  • Tom DeLay found that many Communists agree that Obama is the closest thing to a Communist out there today.
  • Laura Elizabeth found Obama’s true running mate, just in case The Human Gaffe Machine doesn’t quite make it. Yes, Karl Marx would be very comfortable with him.
  • Headess Blogger found that even the youth of America are not immune from the card if they dare oppose The Obamination.
  • Eric notes the next target of the Obamination Express is the Republican Jewish Coalition. At least they have the decency to merely ignore them rather than include them in the In Your Face Violence Tour (if only for now).
  • Bruce has the bumper sticker of the day week month year…

    Read it and weep, liberals. I’m going nowhere.

  • Tom McMahon introduces the Obama-Biden Gaffe-O-Matic. It’s only in alpha, so it’s missing a lot of gaffes.
  • No worries, Michelle Malkin makes a few additions to the Joe Biden half of that.
  • Zip tosses in one for the Obama half – changeable sports loyalties. What does one expect from a White Sox fan, after all?
  • Swint wonders if Biden is trying to sabotage the Obamination Express.
  • RightwingSparkle has an addition to the extensive case against Obama – his stance on guns.
  • Lance Burri pages the ‘Rats who thought that money in politics was bad only before the Obamination Express rolled up $150 million in September.
  • Victor Davis Hanson asks the $640 million question – why did Obama maintain his friendship with Bill Ayers for 4 years after 9/11?
  • Charles Henrickson mints a new parody classic on the Ayers/Obama connection.
  • On the first day of the Obama/ACORN Connection, Jessi gave to me deep roots in the ACORN tree. Yes, there is a reason why I don’t sing.
  • Jim Geraghty found a 13.45-percentage-point difference between Obama and McCain over President Bush.
  • Ed Morrissey caught the Obamination Express telling the presstitutes, “Show me the money!” I wonder how many press organs would be busting every campaign finance rule by showing them the money.

Part 2 will be up shortly. First, I have to find a second song.

How To Balance The Federal Budget

by @ 5:48. Filed under Politics - National, Taxes.

With the Barack Obama Spend-o-meter now near $1.3 trillion and Barney Frank doubling down  on Obama’s call for excessive taxing of the rich, it seems like it may be time to start looking at options for deficit reduction. A story out of Rochester, MN provides a viable solution.

As reported in this story, a Rochester woman was arrested after stealing $10K-$15K from a Casey’s General Store. According to the story, the woman was taking the money and wiring it to Nigeria. No, she wasn’t sending it to family, she was sending it because she had received an email from Morgan Smith of Nigeria saying that the woman was to receive $10 million from investments gains on oil and diamonds. All the woman had to do was send money to Nigeria for plane tickets and a transfer certificate.   The woman was just planning to “borrow” the money and had full intention of returning it after she received her $10 million.

So I’m thinking….I’ve received 10’s of dozens of letters from Morgan Smith and other envoys trying to deliver an inheritance, income I’ve made on some investment I’ve forgotten about or by helping them get their fortune moved, entirely legally, from some third world country to the US. In each case, I could receive $10 Million or better.

If Barack Obama just got 1,050,000 people to forward the emails they’ve received from Mr. Morgan Smith, to the Federal Treasury, they could collect on them and get enough to retire the $10.5 Trillion debt!

Seriously, did you ever think there was anyone so stupid that they would actually follow up on one of those emails? Yeah, you’re right, there do seem to be plenty of people who think that Obama’s plan can actually reduce taxes for 95% of taxpayers and increase taxes on only 5% and none of that will have any reprecussions.

Yeah, you’re right, there are a lot of stupid people!

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