The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
Today is a good day to be a fan of beer:
– George Will declared beer to be essential for civilization.
– The Brewers won, and the Cubs and Cardinals lost. We’re now only 4 games behind the Cubs for the NL Central, and we’re a half-game ahead of the Cards for the wild card.
– Corey Hart is going to “The City”.
HOORAY BEER!
There’s too many changes, both additions and subtractions, to sum up. I’ve thrown in a few of the Chatizens of the Ed Morrissey Show, a few other new(er) blogs, and The Wisconsin Institute for Leadership, while taking out a few dead blogs. All I have to say is, “Let there be bloat!”
Revisions/extensions (6:50 pm 7/10/2008) – Let’s see if I can remember all the additions:
– The Wisconsin Institute for Leadership
– Righty Blog
– Iowahawk
– The Next Right
– Ladies Logic
– My World
– Perfunction
– Radio Blogger
– Anger Central
– The Savage Republican
I probably am still missing a few (or more than a few) good blogs.
R&E part 2 (7:34 pm 7/10/2008) – I knew there was somebody I forgot; Katie Harbath.
R&E part 3 (7:37 pm 7/10/2008) – Make it two; Instapundit (very bad Egg; forgetting everybody’s Blogfather, even though he never got an Instalanche).
R&E part 4 (7:45 pm 7/10/2008) – The quest for 300 continues unabated with Stix Blog.
R&E part 5 (8:00 pm 7/10/2008) – Growin’, growin’, growin’. Keep them roll’s a-bloatin’. Adding The American Thinker this time around.
As reported yesterday here on RedState, Congressional Democratic leaders, who promised in 2006 to create a more “open” government, are now proposing a new rule that would prevent Members of Congress from using the Internet to communicate with the American people unless the Web site they are using has been “approved” by a panel responsible for creating internal House rules.
Millions of Americans, and hundreds of Representatives — including myself — use video-sharing Web sites like YouTube, personal blogs, and online community sites like Red State to keep track of what is going on in Congress, to provide constituents with information and insight, and to build and foster communication between elected representatives and the American people.
The Internet and the New Media have made Congress more transparent, sometimes against its will, and have better empowered Americans to hold elected officials accountable for their actions, statements, decisions, and votes. Instead of embracing and working to further this new level of openness and transparency, as they promised when they were candidates for office, Democratic leaders are fighting to close the new lines of communication between politicians and the people that the Internet has opened.
Please read on.
As the Directors said yesterday, "Congressmen should be able to decide for themselves where and how they interact with their constituents and the American people." Using such Orwellian tactics to limit our contact with you the people, and vice versa, only serves to make government more secretive and less transparent – which is the exact opposite of what the Democratic leadership promised to do when elected.
Please take a moment and sign the petition on my Web site. Tell the Democratic Congressional leadership that preventing elected representatives from communicating with the American people will not stand.
The post was written by Congressman Mike Conaway on the Redstate.com site. He’s working to make sure that the “new media” remains available for Congress to use for communications. I don’t typically do direct copy and pastes of articles but this one is important. Click the link and sign the petition. The Dems have done some stupid stuff and this ranks up amongst the worst!
(H/T – Jon Ham)
I like the way President Bush left his last G8 meeting (relayed by The Daily Telegraph):
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter."
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Nothing quite like one last knife twist before we elect a Gorebal “Warming” acolyte. ‘Tis a shame that we’re about to lose the political battle even as the scientific one is being won.
Revisions/extensions (6:13 pm 7/10/2008) – Jim Hoft reminds us that Red China is now #1 in that department. I wonder where the entirety of the EU would be if it were treated as a single entity instead of more than a dozen.
Here was my list. I went with the full boat of 10. In no particular order…
Bobby Jindal
Sarah Palin
John Kline (My CongressCritter)
Michelle Bachmann (the only other solid MN CongressCritter
Jeff Sessions
James Inhofe
Jeff Flake
Jim DeMint
Tom Coburn
Mike Pence
John Hawkins sent an invitation this way to participate in his latest right-of-center bloggers poll, so Shoebox and I both submitted our lists of favorite gubernatorial/national elected Republicans. We could send between 1 and 10, and I chose 8. While I don’t know who Shoe voted for, here’s my list (in no particular order beyond what I typed in):
– Paul Ryan
– Marsha Blackburn
– Bobby Jindal
– Sarah Palin
– Jeff Flake
– Steve King
– Jim DeMint
– Tom Coburn
To see which ones (if any) made it into the top 20, as well as the complete top 20, you’ll have to head to Right Wing News.
We also submitted our least-favorite elected Republicans; that list will be out tomorrow.
It’s Thursday; the Scramble might be longer than usual, but it’s still Open Thread Thursday (as if I get people to play)…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7icIRP5MQ[/youtube]
Even though I read too many blogs, I know there’s stuff I miss. Go ahead, let me know about it. I dare you.
Yesterday, Shoebox noted that some of Barack Obama’s newest flip-flops have come so quickly, that Jim Geraghty’s Maxim of all of Obama’s words having an expiration date is a bit dated. In the course of an e-mail discussion between Jim, Shoebox, and me, a couple of new catch-phrases came up. I went with “half-life”, while Shoebox went with “momentary considerations”. Guess it’s as good an excuse as any to fire up the NRE Poll machine…
What should we call Obama's future flip-flops?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
Total Voters: 15
Loading ...This one will close the morning of July 24, so get your votes up quickly. If you do choose “other”, please let me know what you want.
With just a few days left to file for a possible Senate run, Jesse Ventura is playing coy with the media about his true intent.
In a morning report from NPR, Jesse seemed to be providing the latest inkling that he was going to enter the race:
That’s the reason I run. Not to sell books. I run because it angers me,” Ventura says.
and
All you Minnesotans, take a good hard look at all three of us. And you decide, if you were in a dark alley, which one of the three of us would you want with you.
Of course, as Jesse is prone to do, later in the day he told people the press didn’t get his quotes right:
I gave [NPR] the reasons why I would run,” Ventura said. “But I said ultimately, it will come down to whether I want to change my lifestyle and go to that lifestyle or not.
As I’ve said before, I would really like to see Jesse run. If he actually files I won’t have any problem finding things to write about until mid November!
That said, I went back and looked at the most recent poll from Rasmussen showing a three way Minnesota Senate race. The short take on the poll shows Coleman winning a three way race and Jesse taking more from Franken than Coleman. In fact, with Franken’s ongoing revelations of “oops I forgot,” I wouldn’t be surprised that Franken goes further down as more of his support gives up on him and moves to Jesse who is really Dem lite. The revelation in my latest look at the poll is in the favorable/unfavorable ratings for each of the candidates.
The voting percentages for each of the candidates is roughly equal to 100% of their “very favorable” percentage and about 1/2 of their somewhat favorable percentage. This obviously works in Coleman’s favor as he has a total favorable of 51%. We’ve known for a while that Franken is a very unhappy man and it appears that Minnesotans recognize that in that 50% say they have an unfavorable opinion of him. The “revelation” was in looking at Ventura’s. Ventura’s unfavorable rating is 62%! and 38% have a Very Unfavorable rating of him!
In today’s NPR report, University of Minnesota political scientist Lawrence Jacobs says Ventura could win:
He’s coming in with about a quarter of the vote, and he’s not even declared his candidacy. That is much better than where he was in 1998, where he started off in single digits and frankly was a joke candidate
Jesse may be starting from a better place but today, unlike his last run, people in Minnesota know Jesse. For Jesse to win he would need to convince a lot of people that the charicature that was Jesse as Governor is no longer the charicature that would be a Senator. That will take A LOT of convincing.
Oh, and did I mention that Jesse is a 9/11 truther? I’m sure that fact alone will help his cause significantly!
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