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Archive for July 2nd, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 7/2/2008

by @ 17:49. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I warned you today would be a recovery day. It’s a good thing too, because Mary came across the reason why I’m no longer featuring Summerfest acts; they pulled the US Army display.

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  • Wyatt Earp remembers that it was this day 232 years ago that the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the resolution for independence from Great Britain.
  • Frank Lasee expounds on the meaning of freedom.
  • Mary Lazich reprints a letter from Rep. Mark Gundrum, who is serving in Iraq. Bravo Zulu, sir, and see you when you get back.
  • Matt Burden remembers who thought The Surge wouldn’t work. Why am I not surprised to see both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark on that list (I’ll be back to them in a bit)?
  • How much progress? Warner Todd Huston caught the presstitutes including our allies’ casualty numbers to try to keep the anti-war American spin machine going.
  • Sean Hackbarth is keeping track of the benchmarks the ‘Rats suddenly forgot about because Iraq is better than 83% there.
  • Of course, not all the news from Iraq is good; Dr. Rusty Shackelford found Hezbollah setting up shop in Iraq. Say, isn’t that a 25-year itch that needs some extra-strength medication?
  • Uncle Jimbo says, “Character matters.” If only John McCain weren’t so stubborn in eviscerating the First Amendment, granting amnesty to Mexicans here illegally, and killing the economy on the altar of Gorebal “Warming”,….
  • Moron Pundit decodes the message of Hugh Gubmint – “You’re too stupid to live your lives.”
  • Dad29 caught soon-to-be-ex-Justice Loophole Louis Butler being the decisive vote on a case in which a party donated to him. Need I mention that it was a liberal group, and Loophole voted in their favor?
  • Headless Blogger dips into the dustbin of history to explain why we don’t have tracked trolleys anymore. No wonder why the liberals got history excised from the schools; it’s so much easier to repeat the failures if nobody remembers why they failed the first time.
  • Bryan Maersch explores why MATC taxes are going up 4.9% this year. If MATC president Darnell Cole got his most-recent raise while working in the private sector, especially with MATC’s (lack-of-)performance, the presstitutes would be having a 30-ton cow.
  • Moe Lane eviscerates Dingy Harry Reid on energy.
  • Speaking of the Dingy One, see-dubya caught him going to the Nazi attack. Now, what’s the principle that says the first one to the Nazi references loses?
  • Update on yesterday’s stupid union item; Lance Burri now reports Baraboo’s public employee union is going to drop their grievance about not being called first to fill sandbags.
  • Now, it’s Obamination Time. Heather Radish asks Obama why he wants to kill Canadians with his plan to nationalize American health care.
  • The Unreal One has the Obamination Demotivation Poster of the day.
  • Flip notes that the drive to 100% taxation will really take off with an Obamination Administration.
  • Jim Geraghty has today’s Expired Obamination Words – that 16-month withdrawal pledge isn’t a deadline.
  • Jonah Goldberg found a rather-interesting (in the Chinese, likely Red, sort of way) group organized on the Obama campaign site.
  • Duane Lester found another recipient of a sweetheart mortgage deal – your presumptive ‘Rat nominee for President.
  • Ed Morrissey isn’t buying the Obamination Excuse that it was competition for a hot new successful ‘Rat pol. Oh, I don’t know; buying pols is standard operating procedure in Chicago.
  • Zip does the math on Obama’s experience. If you took the over-150 days between swearing in and creating a Presidential Exploratory committee, rip up that ticket because it’s worthless.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 1 – Jim Geraghty found Obama pulling Clark up from under the front bumper of the Obamination Express.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 2 – Fred found George Soros and company under the wheels.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 3 – Charles Johnson found there is a bigger bus than the Obamination Express.

Hey, it’s still before 6 pm here in the land of cheese and beer, so it’s not Evening Scramble yet :-)

Minnesota Senate – Will Jesse Run?

by @ 13:00. Filed under Politics - Minnesota.

On July 1st and for the next 2 weeks, the window to file is open, should one want to be on the November ballots.   The MN media is now atwitter as it tries to read the tea leaves to determine if Jesse Ventura will file to run for the US Senate seat against incumbent Norm Coleman and Dem endorsed Al Franken.

In this interview  by the Rochester, MN ABC affiliate, Ventura’s former campaign manager, Dean Barkley pontificates on whether Ventura will run, the issues he will face and his prospects for the race.

On whether Ventura will run, Barkley says:  

I know his arguments pro and con of what’s going through his mind. If I had to guess I think it’s more likely he’ll run than not. He knows the opportunity is there. He’s not stupid. He knows this is probably a historic opportunity for an independent to win this senate seat.

I’d agree that with Coleman, a well documented RINO who would get Conservative votes not just with a nose held but with full Hazmat suits on, and Al Franken, a candidate who makes Alec Baldwin appear logical and even tempered, running there is room for the incredibly  enigmatic voters of Minnesota to go for an independent. The problem is that Ventura isn’t independent. While he could claim “independence” when he ran for Governor, this time he has a record. A quick review of his record as Governor will show that while he talked as an independent, he governed mostly aligned with the Left.

When queried as to how Ventura would be able to compete in a campaign that has become the most expensive in Minnesota history, Barkley says:

He’ll just have to go out and be Jesse. Just tell them the truth; tell people what he’s thinking, what he thinks is wrong

And there’s the rub. Most onions would have skins determined to be impenetrable in comparison to Jesse’s. Barack Obama would have a better chance of being considered “just one of the guys” in an Evangelical, NRA meeting in Pennsylvania than Jesse would of the vast cross section of Minnesotans. Jesse as Jesse is what took him from Minnesota’s man of “Hope and Change” to a historical political oddity.

Some may fantasize that Ventura will be able to do to the Senate race what he did to the Governor race. They believe that Jesse will be able to invigorate a section of the electorate to vote where they had normally not done so.    That, along with a dissatisfaction with the two party system, would put Jesse over the top. The problem with this thinking is that the invigoration has already been done by Barack Obama. The young folks who Jesse brought to vote are already in. The other problem is that unlike the first time around, Minnesotans now  know Jesse.

In the end, other than some good theatre, it probably doesn’t matter much whether Jesse runs or not. A recent poll by KSTP-TV  shows that Coleman is polling ahead by 12 points if only he and Franken run. Coleman has a 10 point lead over Franken and Ventura finishes a distant third if he enters the race.

If Jesse decides to run, he will likely find Minnesotans following the famous Chinese proverb: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!”

Deciphering Mugabeese

by @ 5:51. Filed under International relations.

After being challenged about the validity of the recent “election,” a spokesman for Robert Mugabe, “president” of Zimbabwe said that any one who questioned the election could “go hang!”   He followed up that simple retort with one that was more illustrative:

They can go and hang a thousand times.”

Some reporters have been puzzled as to the meaning or the need to “hang a thousand times.” After all, shouldn’t one hanging do the job? The answer is quite simple: Yes, most brutal, thug dictators would find it sufficient to silence their critics with one hanging.   I believe “presidential ” spokesman George Charamba was just recognizing the obvious and trying to cover his bases. I mean if you’re a brutal, thug dictator and you can’t manage to rig an election to get 99.9% of the vote on the first try, how likely is it that you’ll be smart enough to manage to kill someone on the first hanging try?

Weather Forecast: Cooling in Nevada

by @ 5:51. Filed under Politics - National.

You may have missed this bit of fun between Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell. It took place last week during a discussion regarding allowing a 10% reduction in payments to medicare physicians. If you haven’t heard it, take a quick listen.

So Harry Reid thinks the Senate should just go along with his desire because the President’s approval rating is low. In Harry’s mind, a low approval rating removes any claim the person has on the ability to think critically and develop good policy.

OK, I’ll play!

The latest poll for Harry shows that his home state approval rating is down to 41%…quite amazing when you consider he’s Senate Majority leader and has represented the state for years. One would expect that on his home turf, Harry would get some sympathy, not the case.

On the other hand, Mitch McConnell’s latest approval rating from Kentucky, put him at 57%. I’d say that’s pretty comfortable for a Senator who is part of a party on the outs.

I guess if Harry’s point is “He who has the highest rating wins,” he loses. The same would be true if we were to look at Congress’s approval rating versus the President’s or any other comparison you’d like to make.

So Harry’s on the south end of approval ratings both at home and nationally…and that was before this:

Last I looked, tourism is Nevada’s largest industry. Tourism, especially Nevada’s, is dependent upon people traveling to do the touring. Harry thinks every time someone starts a car, a plane, a train or pretty much any other mode of transportation that can move you faster than 40 MPH for more than a couple hundred miles in one shot, is just “making us sick.”

I’m guessing that even with the heat wave going through Nevada, Harry could be receiving a very cool reception at any July 4th activities.

 

Not the Ones We’ve Known

by @ 5:04. Filed under Miscellaneous.

And yet another Democrat leader, this one from Durham County, NC,  arrested for alleged improprieties…not that that’s unusual anymore.   Another thing that is no longer unusual for the Democrats is someone at a mic ready to throw you under the bus.   Watch as a Democrat Senator from NC does that do the alleged wrong doer.

As I wrote a couple of weeks back,when Al Franken tried to apologize for his sexist writings by saying he wasn’t the Al Franken he had know for 57 years, I’m convinced the Dems have issued an election manual that gives the “that’s not the person I’ve known,” as a key talking point. How else to explain it’s use in multiple states and multiple levels of elections.

As much as I hate to give advice to the competition, I think they’ve hit on something. As the Dems continue to respond to the hard core left and ignore the demand from the American Public to Drill here, Drill now, pay less, they should use their talking point direction as a campaign slogan. I’ve even prepared a bumper sticker for them:

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