No Runny Eggs

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.

Archive for September 17th, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 9/17/2008

by @ 13:09. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’ve been busy and out of energy since I got back from Phoenix, so this one’s going to be a bit slow and short (as well as late)

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  • Jim Geraghty read my mind on the Wisconsin portion of the election.
  • Owen caught DPW chair Joe Wineke admitting that fraud is part of the ‘Rat strategy in Wisconsin.
  • More of the Indispensible One – Jim Geraghty explodes the myth of the pollsters missing something with cell-phone only folks.
  • Ari Kaufman makes the case that this election is really no different than any other. Well, except for this potentially being the final firewall betweeen us and one-party socialism (read, Communism), I’d agree.
  • Rick Esenberg continues the theme of the new boss being the same as the old boss.

    Executive decision; since the same happened in Chicago last night, and because I missed yesterday, I owe you a second song.

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  • Trail-Mix tracks the money spent by Fannie and Freddie to protect their golden parachutes. Yes, they are a pair of ‘Rat-leaning organizations; 57% of their donations went to the party of surrender and socialism.
  • Donna Martinez has the jaw-dropping attack on Christianity news of the day – the rosary is now considered a “gang” symbol. No word on whether the burka (the camouflage of choice of Islamokazis) will similarily be considered a “gang” symbol.
  • Fred says to follow the money on the Gorebal “Warming” racket.
  • Scott compares Barack Obama to FDR and finds the former falls short.
  • Bill Quick found yet another PUMA jumping ship. I disagree with his assessment that it doesn’t matter; with the current “base-only” strategy from the Obama campaign, they need that part of their base to not bolt (besides, the more PUMAs that complete the bolt to the McCain camp, the less likely it will be that we can contain the bad side of John McCain).
  • The Game reports that Obama’s Teleprompter now has a seat on the plane.
  • Trail-Mix has video of what happens when that Teleprompter goes bad.
  • Bruce runs the MasterCard numbers on Obama’s all-star gala fundraiser. He forgot the punchline – There are some things HopeandChange can buy. For everything else, there’s Reality.
  • Jim Hoft reports that the battleground states are starting to break John McCain’s way. Could that trend, and the presstitutes’ unwillingness to accept that the people are rejecting their annointed one, be why I haven’t seen any new polling in Wisconsin lately, or could the pollsters be as cynical as Geraghty and I are?
  • Richard Baehr runs down the battleground states one by one.
  • Kate pictures the humor of our troops. I got a very good laugh out of the minesweeper one.
  • CDR Salamander takes the three-day view on a proper response to an Iranian attempt to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. I STRONGLY recommend you also read the comments; he continues his trend of drawing very insightful commentary.

Too much to do, too little energy to do it. I still have to complete my dig through the No-Drill bill, there’s some comparisons between 2004 and 2008 that will likely take a few more days, and I have a dig-and-hack to do on the successful attempt to weasel a “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin referendum on the Oak Creek ballot. Short version; it was a malformed direct “legislation” attempt that, despite the legal misgivings of both the city attorney and mayor (who both actually support socialized medicine), was sent to the ballot in part because of some blustery lies from the outfit attempting to push the $30 billion tax increase.

When “Partisan” becomes Prickly

by @ 8:53. Filed under International relations.

According to the News Agency Who Shall Not Be Named, Hillary Clinton was scheduled to take part in a protest organized by several American Jewish groups to decry  a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN.

According to her spokesperson, Clinton declined attending when she heard that Sarah Palin was also attending.

“Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event,” said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. “Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending.”

What?

Partisan:

an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, esp. a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.

Since when did an event become partisan simply because there are people of different political perspectives attending it?

I’m pretty sure there are Republicans, Democrats and Agnostics like myself at the Club when I run each day. Does that make my run a partisan event?

The only partisanship I could see in the protest is that the people there should be “emotionally biased” and be “supporters of a cause” that supports a non nuclear Iran or human rights in Iran or (and this is really going out on the partisan ledge) the right for Israel to exist!

In late October, 2002 Paul Wellstone, one of Minnesota’s Senators, was killed in a plane crash. His memorial service became a tasteless, partisan event. There is no doubt that the way some Democrats politicized that event allowed Norm Coleman to be elected to the Senate.

I don’t know that Hillary’s exit from this protest rises to the level of the Wellstone memorial. However, I’ve rarely seen a more partisanally calculated response than her refusal to participate and denounce the positions of someone who openly supports genocide.

Talking to Four Year Olds – Oversight Edition

by @ 5:40. Filed under Politics - Minnesota, Talking to Four Year Olds.

As I’ve related before, our boys, Thing 1 and Thing 2 are twins. The great part about twins is that they always have a playmate. The tough part of raising twins is dealing with discipline.

Because our boys are nearly always together, when something “happens” we tend to hear “not me” from both of them. That leaves Mrs. Shoe and I to do our best impression of Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened and who, if anyone, gets disciplined. Because they spend much of their time together, we tend to find that it is rarely ever just one that was involved in the “happening.” Typically we find that both of them were involved, with perhaps one acting as the ringleader but, the other also involved. In those situations we always council the one that tagged along, “Listen, you may not have had the idea but you were just as involved and had a chance to change your behavior but didn’t. For that, you get disciplined as well.”

Pelosi: Dems bear no responsibility for economic crisis

That was the headline posted on TheHill.com.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when asked Tuesday whether Democrats bear some of the responsibility regarding the current crisis on Wall Street, had a one-word answer: "No."

Really? None? Nada? Zilch? Zero?

Hmmmmmmmm.

According to the Committee on Rules of the US House of Representatives, the US Congress is responsible for oversight. The House’s own document defines in detail, what “oversight” is:

Congressional oversight is one of the most important responsibilities of the United States Congress. Congressional oversight refers to the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs and policy implementation, and it provides the legislative branch with an opportunity to inspect, examine, review and check the executive branch and its agencies. The authority of Congress to do oversight is derived from its implied powers in the U.S. Constitution, various laws, and House rules.

Futher on, it provides a list of reasons why “oversight” is required:

Why Does Congress Need to Do Oversight?

Ensure executive compliance with legislative intent.
Improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and economy of governmental operations.
Evaluate program performance.
Prevent executive encroachment on legislative prerogatives and powers.
Investigate alleged instances of poor administration, arbitrary and capricious behavior, abuse, waste, dishonesty, and fraud.
Assess an agency or official’s ability to manage and carry out program objectives.
Review and determine federal financial priorities.
Ensure that executive policies reflect the public interest.
Protect individual rights and liberties.
Review agency rule-making processes.
Acquire information useful in future policymaking.

OK, just to recap: Congress (read that SanFranNan’s House) is responsible for oversight.   According to it’s own document it is “one of the most important responsibilities of the United States Congress.”   And, while SanFranNan claims that Buuuuuuuuush hasn’t protected the America public, it’s ironic that one of the reasons for oversight is to “Investigate alleged instances of poor administration, arbitrary and capricious behavior, abuse, waste, dishonesty, and fraud.”

The brilliance of the Founding Fathers is that they gave us a constitution which had 3 separate but co-equal branchs of government.   The co-equal part only works if you have people in charge of them that are smart enough to read and understand the constitution and not just make up what they want about it.

Yes, something has “happened” in the financial system and markets.   Contrary to SanFranNan’s protests, the co-equal part of the Constitution means that it wasn’t just the Executive branch that was there, the Legislative Branch (read that SanFranNan’s House) was there (or not there as  is probably more the case) too.   SanFranNan may want to be careful about calling too much attention to the fact that something “happened.”   Just  as when something “happens” with Thing 1 and Thing 2, SanFranNan may find herself included in the discipline doled out by the American people.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire!

by @ 5:01. Filed under Energy.

Just last week Denny Hoyer, sent out by Nancy Pelosi because she’s incapable of saying “I’m wrong,” was quoted by TheHill.com as saying:

"[Republicans] will have the opportunity to offer their alternative, yes," Hoyer said in response to a question about how the energy bill will be introduced. "We understand that their motion to recommit will be their Republican alternative."

Representative Marsha Blackburn (R) Tennessee calls “Bullshit” on Denny and Nancy with her statement:

"After a five-week vacation and a cross country book tour; during which time Democrats turned off the lights, turned off the cameras, and refused to address the energy issue; we have this 290 page sham energy bill dropped in the middle of the night. There hasn’t been a single hearing on this bill and not a single amendment will be allowed. This is no way to address the most pressing issue for America. On the process alone, this is unacceptable."

The bill the Dems dropped on the House today was just another example of Nancy Pelosi marking time and accomplishing nothing for the American people. Amongst other things, the ridiculous bill included:

  • The ability to drill offshore only outside of 50 Miles
  • The ability for states to opt out of the drilling forcing drilling out to 100 miles
  • Didn’t include some of the most productive drilling areas
  • Increasing taxes on oil companies, regardless of what they recovered, but up to $30B…most of which was going to be used to “invest” in unproven and going nowhere “alternative” energy solutions.

Besides the fact that in reality, this only opens drilling outside of 100 miles and really doesn’t add any substantial amounts of additional energy to the mix, the areas on the West coast that are at the 100 mile + distance are very difficult, if at all possible to drill because of the depths of the ocean.

Pelosi is trying to give her Democrat House members cover in the upcoming elections.   She’s trying to be able to say the the Republicans wouldn’t agree to a bipartisan bill.   You and I know the truth…pass it along.   I’m hoping the American people see through her ploys and shows her the door in November!

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