No Runny Eggs

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln

Apparently you can fool a majority of the people every two years!

Both Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich won thier primaries last night. Kucinich won with 50% of the vote. Paul got 70% of the vote in his primary.

Both of these guys have held office since 1996.

With folks like these (and I could list a number of others) is it any wonder there is such a division in American politics?

It’s still way early but why not join in the fun of speculation about who John McCain will pick for VP.

A new name on the list is Senator John Thune.   John who?   Well for starters, he’s reportedly a good friend of John McCain’s

John Thune is the junior Senator from South Dakota.   As far as Republican politics though, he’s no junior.
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Today, the UN Security Council voted to increase sanctions on Iran over their nuclear program and concern that it is being used to develop weapons.   I thought the National Intelligence Agency said they weren’t a threat anymore?

Looks like another instance where Hillary voted to support  President Bush, but was duped to do so! Or was she duped and then reduped?

Cue the cherubs, cue heaven opening, cue the music…now watch:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_X0ZwwJDY8[/youtube]

Something to think about….is it time to consider somekind of a mass intervention for these people?   This looks like they’ve moved past messiah and have arrived at deity!

Hattip The American Mind

This endorsement from the Dallas News makes me wonder why they even bother to endorse a Republican.   I guess it’s so no one would think they are biased! (more…)

Like many of you, I’ve heard several reports about Michelle Obama’s comments at the Zanesville Day Nursery.   Some of the more amazing and highly reported comments included ironically, her encouragement to give up hope and not pursue a lucrative job:

"Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."

Michelle also spoke about the difficulties of living with the consequences of her choices:

Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. "The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,"

Finally, Michelle tells us just how expensive it is to keep kids in extracurricular activities:

"I know we’re spending "” I added it up for the first time "” we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth,"

Michelle Obama’s economic views are the kind that have created the subprime mess: (more…)

Wasn’t the New York Times all heated up about John McCain writing a letter to the FCC?   As I recall, that letter didn’t suggest to the FCC how to decide the issue but rather to JUST DECIDE?   So………how come, after the article that the New York Time’s wrote about John McCain, an article that had no facts and tried to create a controversy from something that didn’t rise to the level of hear-say, they haven’t had a chance to write a front page store on Obasmic securing $855,000 in fees for a political contributor who wasn’t even a constituent?

At the risk of asking a rhetorically squared question (that’s a question that is so rhetorical it hurts to ask):

Am I missing something? Obviously the New York Times is; an ability to investigate NEWS!

It’s hard to know how to read this one. On the one hand, Pawlenty was advocating a position that would align with McCain’s goofy gorebal warming perspective. On the other hand, getting shot down by the National Governor’s Association, an association Pawlenty leads, can’t help on the credibilty front.

I think Pawlenty may be in trouble as this is the second time he’s been thunked this week. Earlier in the week, Pawlenty was unable to hold  his minority, Minnesota House Republicans together to sustain his veto on the largest tax increase in Minnesota history.    This  could spell the end for Tim Pawlenty’s VP aspirations.

2/28/08 update: This portrayal of the NGA meeting makes it sound really bad for Pawlenty.

Phil Kerpen at National Review online suggests that Mike Huckabee ought to cede the presidential race and run for a Senate position.  The article reports Huckabee’s response as:

Huckabee denied any interest in such a run last week, saying he would more likely "get tattooed and go out on the town with Amy Winehouse" than try for the Senate.

Frankly, Hucakbee needed to be out of this race a few weeks back. If someone can get me Amy’s phone number, I’ll pop for the tattoo!

So….Barack Obama doesn’t like working with the press.   I guess that’s best when you have a fragile shell  and nothing inside!

The Des Moines Register released a poll on Sundayshowing the Iowan preferences in a McCain/Clinton and a McCain/Obama head to head. In the poll, McCain beat Hillary 49% to 40%. However, Obama beats McCain 53% to 36%.

As I’ve posted before, it’s hard for me to discern much policy difference between the two Democrats. However even with my disinterested review, I can tell that while both candidates are Socialists, Hillary is Socialist lite.
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While I’m sure it wasn’t on his “things to do this week” list, John McCain got some of the Republican base rallied last week as he turned the tables on the New York Times, junior high smear piece….”Psst, do you know who I saw with John McCain?   I think they LIKE each other!”

Now that the House is back in session, McCain should use his position as the assumed Republican Nominee (sorry Huck folks) to explain to the American people why the FISA bill, as passed by the Senate, is important to American security and should be passed without delay.   In doing so McCain will accomplish 3 things:

1. Get important intelligence tools back in place.
2. Define the differences between Republican priorities for the nation and Democratic priorities i.e. Security for the American people versus security for the American trial lawyers.
3. Build upon the base awakening that was caused by the NYT and give them a rallying point for another week.

McCain can only win the general election if he gets the base to not just tolerate him, but embrace him.   Issues like FISA give him the perfect issue to work towards that goal.