Now playing the part of The Wisconsin Sports Bar, Fire Ned Yost Now. Good call on the name change, Chris. Hopefully Melvin will figure out who to replace Yost with before we get too far into the Yost hole.
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 posts by steveegg.
May 11, 2008
Call me a late-adopter
Just in case you didn’t notice that little item on the right sidebar, I’m probably one of the last bloggers on the planet to jump into the Twitter pool. Don’t expect a lot of stuff there, but why not give it a shot (I would’ve added “and a beer”, but it’s too early).
Eggs on the road – week of 5/11
I’m going on vacation at the end of the month, but first I’ve got some wanderlust to take care of :-)
– Tuesday, 5/13: Drinking Right, Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, 7 pm
– Thursday, 5/15: Day trip to St. Louis for a ballgame at New Busch Stadium and dinner at Favazza’s (see, I’m combining my trips)
– Friday, 5/16 – Saturday, 5/17 (tentative) – Wisconsin GOP convention in Stevens Point for a liveblog
Oh, that question on the sidebar is for the national GOP convention. Stevens Point is close enough for me to drive back home Friday night.
May 10, 2008
Why it’s all or nothing for Clinton
I previously noted that in the modern era of Presidential politics, the Republicans have always gone for the person deemed to be “next in line”. One of the criteria used to determine the person who is next in line is the person who finished 2nd in the previous contested primary season.
There is no similar “next in line” in the Democratic Party. Indeed, 5 of the last 6 Democratic candidates, prior to their first nomination, had never sought the office of President, with the sixth (Al Gore) attempting to get a promotion from Vice President. Yes, Walter Mondale also had served as Vice President, but 1984 was his first and last attempt to become President.
The last person who won the nomination after failing to secure it in a previous attempt and without taking up residence at the Naval Observatory was George McGovern. He finished 3rd in 1968, and used the reforms he came up with to take away the nomination process from the party bosses to become the nominee in 1972. Before that, one has to go back to 1924 and John W. Davis and his nomination on the 103rd ballot after failing to get the nod in 1920. Needless to say, neither recycled candidate won the White House.
Revisions/extensions (1:58 pm 5/10/2008) – The news just gets worse for Clinton if she fails this time around. The Democrats have gone for a previous failure (either in the nomination process or in the general election) five times in the previous century (William Jennings Bryan for a third nomination in 1908, Davis in 1924, Adlai Stevenson for a second nomination in 1956, McGovern in 1972 and Gore in 2000), and lost all five times. Past performance is an indicator of future performance.
R&E part 2 (2:10 pm 5/10/2008) – I forgot to mention Lyndon Baines Johnson and his last-second attempt to get the nomination in 1960. In any case, he did serve as VP and President prior to 1964.
May 9, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/9/2008
Time to dip back before I was born again…
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– PJ-Comix uses Operation Chaos to laugh at the HUffies.
– JammieWearingFool has exclusive video of the effects of Operation Downfall on Hillary Clinton. Warning; the video is most certainly NSFW.
– Slublog delivers yet another instant-classic SluShop to Clinton’s peg leg.
– Flip has some good news and some bad news for John McCain on the economic front. The good; 75% of economists that answered like him better than Clinton or Barack Obama on the economy. The bad; half of them asked took a pass on the question.
– Uncle Jimbo and Just A Grunt look at both sides of two things the House Rats are bound and determined to kill without making it look like they want them dead; funding for the War and a new GI Bill.
– Michelle Malkin is ready to go RINO-hunting with Pat Toomey. Mind if I bring a .308?
– John Hawkins answers why the GOP is fading fast. I don’t think it’s a coincidence I’m putting this item where I put it.
– Ed Morrissey highlights another reason why I didn’t support Mike Huckabee. Not coincidentally, Huckabee’s comparison of diabetes to terrorism also plays into the previous two items.
– Shoebox says the birds of Minnesota could’ve used some actual global warming; The Winter That Won’t Die™, 10,000 Lakes Edition killed off a heap of songbirds.
– Greg Kowalski says Boomgaard is going back to the drawing board.
– CDR Salamander has a must-read Fullbore Friday, featuring the most-decorated plane crew ever and Old 666.
– Stephen Green channeled Rammstein (the band, not the air base or town for which it is named) when he found out why NBC is going with Microsoft to distribute its shows online. To paraphrase their “biggest hit” on this side of the Atlantic… Sie. Sie hassen. Sie hassen uns.
– Wyatt Earp highlights the Stupid Criminals of the Day. Guess they rooted for Wile E. Coyote as children.
– Plebian has your daily mental exercises. The crooks in the last item failed to do them, and look what happened.
May 8, 2008
The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 5/8/2008
It’s Thursday; you know what that means…
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– In case you missed doubleplusundead’s and Ace’s call, Stashiu needs your help to keep his adopted daughters. The lawyer he trusted to file the proper paperwork way back when didn’t exactly do so, and ICE is giving him a hard time.
– Sister Toldjah is looking for a new host. If you have any suggestions, please let her know (if her blog is down and you don’t have her e-mail, you can leave it here and I’ll make sure she gets it).
– Matt Lewis says, “Bloggers matter.” Allahpundit may disagree, but it’s kind of hard to argue with Matt Naugle and The Hammer.
– Speaking of AP, he’s yelling, “COBRAMA!”
– Jib has some timely advice for Brewer fans. It’s getting ugly, and June’s coming up real quick. I don’t have a link, but Jeff Wagner remembered that it wasn’t until June 1982 that Harvey Kuenn took over for the Brew Crew, and that team came within a game of winning a World Series. Hint to Doug Melvin – “Fire Yost now and beat the rush.”
– Tom McMahon takes up the cause of Minnie Minoso.
– Owen notes the motto in Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) administration is, “Don’t worry about what we’re telling the presstitutes; take those junkets.”
– Ed Driscoll has the post title of the day – “Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!” Barack Obama does make a perfect Sheriff of Nottingham, but I don’t see a Bugs Bunny anywhere, much less in Rockefeller Center.
– Pejman Yousefzadeh has the runner-up – “Meet The New Boss”. Looks like the Sovi…er, Russians are getting fooled again.
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May 7, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/7/2008
Continuing the tradition of grabbing songs from Queen following a big election….
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– Michelle Malkin and Slublog (complete with a classic SluShop) say it’s, “Game over, man. Game over!”, for Hillary Clinton. Was it over when FALN bombed the Pentagon?
– Kathryn Jean Lopez notes that, suggestions that Clinton will use the pull-out from the morning talk show circuit to drop out notwithstanding, the NRE Spring Hill campaign will still have her to kick around prop up for the time being.
– I must note that this next item was posted before the results of last night, but Allahpundit exposed the true mind behind Operation Chaos…Wolf Blitzer! There is a reason why I call CNN the Clinton News Network.
– Remember that “crowded” Barack Obama rally last night? Mary Katharine Ham exposes the tricks used to make it seem more crowded than it was.
– JammieWearingFool asks, “Who do you trust?” Can I throw Nigerian terrorists farther than I can throw Obama?
– Michelle Malkin has the top 10 reasons John McCain should repudiate La Raza. There’s one overriding one he won’t; it’s another knife in the back.
– See-Dubya expounds on reason #10 by noting that New Mexico (home of what was once considered the “serious” ‘Rat candidate) is the hub of a national fake-ID ring thanks in no small part to said former candidate.
– Allahpundit asks how bad it’s going to get if Newt Gingrich’s grand plan to save the GOP is to institute GPS-based air traffic control. Asian Badger could fill him in on how useless that is, but that would likely trigger a THIRD LOOK AT RITUAL SUICIDE! (I triggered the second look with my answer).
– Owen found something Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle’s clinging to; corn-a-hole. Do read Kevin’s comment on why he’s clinging to corn-a-hole like Obama’s version of the disadvantaged clings to guns.
– Bill Quick has a succinct, not-quite-safe-for-work answer for Algore Goracle’s claim that the Burmese cyclone is all the fault of Gorebal Warming eeeeeeeeeeevil SUV-driving conservative Americans. I’ll add two words – “…and rotate”.
– Tom McMahon puts the 1-2 punch delivered to the print media into 4 blocks. Once again, those of you who do not have 4-Block World in your feed readers, correct that oversight now.
I’m up way too early after a long night last night.
Clinton channels Churchill
This comment from TheBigOldDog on Ed Morrissey’s post asking when Hillary Clinton will drop out has to be the Comment of the Week™…
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Kentucky and West Virginia, we shall fight on the rally stages and in the dinners, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength on the air. We shall defend our campaign, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the telephones, we shall fight on the Internet, we shall fight in the party backrooms and in the streets, we shall fight in the newspapers and magazines. We shall never surrender!"
As for when I think she’ll drop out, No Sleep Till Denver!
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May 6, 2008
Late-night Indiana live-blogging
Since I’m not running CoverItLive (it was too late to get it started), do scroll down and hit refresh for updates. The last one went up at 12:12 12:23 am 5/7/2008.
Guess I’m taking over for ST and Ed/Allahpundit. I don’t feel like firing up CoverItLive, but I’ve got my Mountain Dew, and a quick recap:
– With 86% in, Clinton’s up 560,720 to 521,415.
– They’re hand-counting about 11,000 ballots in Lake County (the county closest to Chicago), so no results from them yet.
– There’s also no results from Union County in east-central Indiana, which is Clinton country.
– Obama and CBS have conceded Indiana to Clinton, but nobody else is calling it.
10:09 pm – For those thinking that Lake could deliver the state for Obama, I’m estimating he’ll need about 38,000 votes. Ed noted in the Hot Air live thread that there were about 110,000 votes for Kerry in 2004, so if that’s the base, Obama would need about a 35-point win. The primary numbers are actually running about 30% higher than that statewide, so there’s likely about 143,000 votes out there. That would suggest he would need a 27-point win.
10:21 pm – Karl Rove just ripped Hillary for having a red-faced Bill out there. I guess it has to be said…”Rove you magnificent bastard! Hill should’ve read your book!”
Lead’s now 568,039-528,432, 87% in. Projected pre-Lake (and pre-Union County) lead still holding within a couple hundred.
10:39 pm – Lead’s down to 574,643-536,332, 88% reporting. The memes are already starting for Clinton to drop. I say, “No sleep ’till Denver!”
We’re down to 8 counties with partial or no results:
Lake – no results
Union – no results
Porter (81% in) – Clinton up approximately 16,900-12,300
Laporte (88% in) – Clinton up approximately 13,100-12,100
Hamilton (99% in) – Obama up approximately 25,300-16,500
Hancock (98% in) – Clinton up approximately 6,100-4,100
Marion (98% in) – Obama up approximately 121,900-60,200
Monroe (67% in) – Obama up approximately 8,900-4,600
10:50 pm – Statewide, with 91% in, it’s 587,973-566,988 Clinton. That’s Lake County’s Gary’s effect (that’s from CNN); with 28% in Lake County, it’s 27,991-9,470 in Obama’s favor. Porter’s also all in.
11:01 pm – It’s 588,106-567,104 Clinton. American Pundit is also burning the midnight oil (literally).
11:09 pm – Wolf Blitzer really laid into the Hammond mayor (Clinton supporter) for Lake County’s refusal to release partial results. Somehow I doubt CNN will be joining the Drop Hill meme.
Meanwhile, Laporte finished reporting, Clinton up statewide 588,823-568,156 (92% reporting). Still no results from Union County.
11:18 pm – No new numbers, but some back-of-the-envelope math of what’s still left to be picked up in the other counties reporting partial results:
– Hamilton (99% in) – Obama should pick up about 100 votes
– Hancock (97% in) – Clinton should pick up about 100 votes
– Marion (98% in) – Obama should pick up about 1,300 votes
– Monroe (67% in) – Obama should pick up about 2,100 votes
Union County, which still isn’t reporting, should get Clinton about 2,000 net. That would cut Clinton’s statewide lead to under 20,000, which would give the state to Obama if Lake matches Marion (Indianapolis). Lake is the second-most-populous county behind Marion, and is essentially a suburb of Chicago.
11:22 pm – Er, make that even approaches Marion. The rest of the county would need to go 60-40 Obama to put it in the margin of error.
American Pundit, who’s kept an eye on Fox, notes that 6,000 absentee ballots may not be counted tonight. Oh brother.
11:27 pm – Guess I better listen to Fox rather than the Clinton News Network (where a flack is trying to spin) – they’re reporting that Clinton has canceled her morning appearances (thanks again, AmerPundit).
11:37 pm – More numbers from both Lake and Monroe Counties. Clinton’s lead is now 606,497-589,888 with 95% reporting. Will be back with analysis shortly.
11:53 pm – Bear in mind that there are potentially 6,000 absentee ballots that won’t be counted tonight. The freshly-reporting portion of Lake County went 55-45 Obama, putting the county thus far at 65-35 Obama. If the rest of the county reports the way the fresh numbers came in, Clinton should have about a 10,000-vote win. If they report the way the county overall reports, it should be about a 2,000-vote win for Obama.
AmerPundit notes that it came from Merrilville and part of Munster along with the rest of Gary, so those more-familiar with the lay of the land can tell me which way the wind’s blowing.
11:54 pm – Make that 7,000 absentee ballots in Lake County (thanks again, AmerPundit). Also, Monroe County is 98% in.
12:02 am 5/7/2007 (assume the new date) – The Clinton News Network just got done grilling the mayor of Gary (an Obama superdelegate). Also, it’s all-but-official in North Carolina – Obama took it 56.7%-41.9% with 99% reporting.
12:06 am – This is just too rich; the Hammond mayor (Clinton supporter) accusing Lake County election officials of hanky-panky on CNN. Reap what you sow…. AP, you getting this?
12:12 am – Time’s almost out for Obama to declare a sweep. Almost all of Lake is in, and the statewide Clinton lead is now 637,389-615,370. Lake’s at 98% and Obama’s lead is 66,265-53,310.
CNN calling it for Clinton. So is Fox, ABC and NBC. Union County, which won’t report until 2 am, won’t matter.
Good night, good fight.
12:23 am – Meh; call me a pol. CNN got the numbers out of Union, which Clinton won 803-383 (everybody reporting). Statewide, it’s Clinton up 638,192-615,753.
NOW I’m history.
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The Morning Scramble – 5/6/2008
Today is somebody’s last stand, though I hope it lasts another 3 months…
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– Blogs4Bauer has a reason for Dave Bauer to get off his duff and save DC; the Attorney General is an envirowhacko.
– Owen has the appropriate two-letter answer to Fed chair Ben Bernanke’s call for intervention in the mortgage market.
– William Teach notes Mad Vlad Putin wants Georgia as a going-“away” present. Looks like it truly is back to the USSR.
– That goes so well with this item; Slublog notes the Soviet Union Russia is going back to the old practice of marching weapons through Red Square. Maybe I shouldn’t have struck out the once-and-likely-future name of that country.
– Staying with the Communists, Lawhawk and Jim Hoft run through the contents of the computers that belonged to former (dead, actually) FARC head Raul Reyes. Did I mention that Interpol didn’t find Karl Rove’s fingerprints on some rather damning evidence against the ‘Rats and Barack Hussein Obama?
– The folks at Investor’s Business Daily dip into the memory hole to rescue Obama’s rather-lenghty and cozy relations with Marxists both past and present.
– Michelle Malkin took my first choice for today’s song in what should be her live-thread for today’s primaries.
– Mary Katharine Ham notes one bad side-effect of Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill campaign; S(l)ick Willie got his groove back.
– Slublog breaks out the Hulk for Hillary Clinton’s plans to “smash” OPEC. But, but, but I thought she wasn’t for blood-for-oil (or maybe she thinks they’ll listen to lawyers like they didn’t do in the 1970s).
– Meanwhile, Fausta found out Hillary didn’t “exactly” report $24 million of Bill’s income to the Senate. Then again, she’s a ‘Rat and a Clinton, so other than PMSNBC and the rest of the Obama Media focusing on this, expect nothing from the LeftStreamMedia.
– Jim Geraghty explodes the myth that it is one man, one vote in the party of the Rat.
– Allahpundit rolls the official DVR of the blogosphere on CNN’s smug announcement that they’re a Wright-free zone. My answer; this place is neither Wright-free nor Hussein-free.
– Staying with the media, Amanda Carpenter notes that a pair of sinking ships are tying the knot to tag-team against the person who used to be their favorite Pubbie. Grey Lady, meet the Leg Thrill.
– One more free shot at the presstitutes; Plebian stole AP’s new style book.
– Doubleplusundead has today’s McCain Photoshop.
– Shoebox has today’s lesson of supply and demand. The same thing that happened to oil is happening to the bipartisan Party-In-Government’s prefered substitute, corn.
– Random10 exposes yet another reason why the Gorons that run the Sierra Club are not conservationists but Marxist envirowhackos.
– Bill Quick notes even Jay Leno realizes that, had we started drilling in ANWR when Bill Clinton shot that down, we’d have that oil on-line now.
– Josh Schroeder says the Rats are preparing for the inevitable overturning of Roe v Wade as only they can. Now, who said that abortion was not an issue?
– JammieWearingFool asks, “You got change for a ZW$250,000,000 bill?” On the black market, that’ll get you about US$2.50.
– CDR Salamander has a couple of gripes about LCS (PCU) 2. Nothing like leaky aluminum on a ship designed to fight in close to shore.
– I missed out on the initial react to the proposed $10 county-wide wheel tax for the buses, but Donna Martinez sums up why it’s a bad idea, using Durham, North Carolina as the example to not follow.
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May 5, 2008
Latest doses of stupid from the GOP
That’s right, doses. Guess almost everybody that voted so far in the latest NRE poll is going to be disappointed if the GOP finds this post, but I can’t NOT comment on this trifecta.
– Item #1 (H/T – Brad V of Try 2 Focus, not to be confused with the Brad V at Letters in Bottles) – John McCain is already tacking heavily to the left to the mutual exclusion of healing the rifts with conservatives. Now, which exhibit is this in the assumption that conservatives won’t bolt (or is this exhibit D in the final betrayal of conservatives by the GOP)?
– Item #2 – Michelle Malkin notes McCain will be going to the convention of a group whose ultimate goal is to separate the Soutwest from the United States. Guess the majority that successfully blocked Shamnesty last year despite the support of McCain and the rest of the bipartisan Party-In-Government doesn’t matter. Bonus mandatory reading – doubleplusundead’s take.
– Item #3 (H/T – Slublog) – House Pubbies are rolling again and again and again on Nancy Pelosi’s attempts to lard up the pork barrel. Scratch one of the two differences between McCain and the ‘Rats. Guess being the permanent-minority half of the ever-bloating bipartisan Party-In-Government is more important.
Stuff this ballot box – America’s Favorite Mom
Despite a whole heap of reminders, I almost forgot that today is an election. NBC is running a contest for America’s Favorite Mom, and today is the vote for the finalist from the Military Mom bracket.
I wholeheartedly endorse Patti Patton-Bader, the head angel of Soldiers’ Angels.
Did I mention that NBC is letting you stuff the ballot box up to 10 times, or that voting ends at 8 pm? So, what are you still doing here? GO VOTE PATTI PATTON-BADER FOR AMERICA’S FAVORITE MILITARY MOM.
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Revisiting Boomgaard
A commenter over on Greg Kowalski’s post on the alternatives to Boomgaard went and did some research on “Boomgaard”. Somehow, I doubt that this name would have flown had either the steering committee or either Common Council had known what Unfettered Candor found out:
It’s too bad I did not get an email reply from my Dutch friend from
Amsterdam before the public comment site for the Boomgaard District expired.
Several days ago I mentioned the crazy Boomgaard controversy and how there was such a public outcry in opposition to this title.
Today I learned that there is a district in Amsterdam that has been dubbed the "Boomgaard District" as well. It is a homosexual red light district. He said the title "Boomgaard" [fruit orchard] was a lampoon of that area….
Given that the stretch is pretty much bracketed by a sex toy shop and a strip club with a few not-exactly-4-star motels in between (necessitating special attention from both the Oak Creek and Franlkin police departments), I guess that puts another spin on the name.
Do go read Fred Keller’s further comments.
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The Morning Scramble – 5/5/2008
We need voltage after the usual weekend enjoyment of one of the three good weekends of the year, and since I don’t know if a word in “Jailbreak” would fly over at TownHall, I’ll simply have to salute you…
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– John McAdams has another reason to not shop at American (besides the high prices, low quality and poor customer service); they’re bringing anit-Christian Bill Maher to town. Oh, and off goes WKLH (96.5 FM) from the presets.
– Ace found the Gorebal Warming acolytes are blaming shark attacks on Gorebal Warming. Is there nothing Gorebal Warming doesn’t do?
– Ed Morrissey prepares to hold services for the Minneapolis Red Star Tribune. I better find “Taps”.
– Sister Toldjah took two for the team as she went to see both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Bonus coverage – she caught the return of the Obamessiah Faint®.
– Jim Lynch breaks out the Shakespeare for Michelle Obama’s latest bout with foot-in-mouth disease.
– Flip notes Barack wants to deregulate…wait for it…wait for it…the Teamsters. He’s locked up the Mob vote.
– SteveF asks, “Why choose the lesser evil?” Yes, it is a tough call between Ktulu (sp) and Clinton.
– A.J. Sparxx asks if amnesty is back in McCain’s plan. Has it ever left the playbook?
– Owen has another thing besides voting that’s about to require a photo ID. I wonder if the Coast Guard wants that to apply to canoes as well.
– Caledonia Unplugged has the double-rainbow pic of the day.
– JammieWearingFool has the PBR me ASAP story of the day. Make mine a Sprecher.
– Vivian Lee answers some of where Pubbies are going wrong. Guess the permanent-minority disease has infected the House.
– Dad29 notes the Conservative sweep in Britain is a backlash against the nannism of the sort sponsored by both halves of the bipartisan Party-In-Government.
– Charlie Sykes bursts the corn-a-hole bubble. I wonder what is keeping my Congresscritter, Paul Ryan, from co-sponsoring the end of government involvement in the corn-a-hole market, especially since he broke bad on it in a newsletter that popped into my mailbox this morning.
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May 3, 2008
The usual weekend crickets
Cue them here as usual, but in case you haven’t noticed, Barack Obama has gone back to the fainting routine. Sister Toldjah, in part one of her taking two for the team, caught it. Do also read the full recap of the Obama rally, and head back there tomorrow for the recap of the Clinton rally.
If I had more energy, I’d really deliver the snark at the Journal Sentinel for making their whine fest over food-service cuts in jails the lead item in Friday’s paper. Once again, the Fifth Column at Fourth and State prove their lack of touch with reality.
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May 2, 2008
Re: We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident
In case you missed Shoebox’s discussion of a piece that identifies Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as essentially left-of-the-Democratic-center (which is well left of the actual center) clones, do read it. It does illustrate the divide that has happened in the last 20 years, and also identifies McCain as left-of-the-Republican-center.
There is an assumption made by Kevin Poole and company that I do take exception to, however. Take another look at one of the graphics Shoebox borrowed from them, specifically the one comparing the 90th, 100th and 110th Congresses.
It would appear at first glance that the Left hardly moved further left over the last 40 years, while the Right moved quite a bit further right over the same time. However, that assumes that the middle didn’t move either direction. I beg to differ.
Just as a singular example, let’s take a look at Medicare. Back in 1965, roughly half of the Republicans were opposed to its creation (do ignore the error in the House Dems’ “no” vote total; it is a government operation I’m linking to). Of course, since they were in an extreme minority, it passed rather handily.
Fast forward to 2003. In the face of a decade of projections declaring that Medicare was facing a financial time bomb, President Bush (R) proposed a massive expansion of Medicare in the form of prescription drug benefits. Nearly all of the House Republicans and Senate Republicans agreed.
I know, it’s not perfect (neither Congress in the chart was the one that voted on Medicare), and McCain did vote against the drug bill, but it is rather illustrative of the leftward tilt of the Republican Party. I could also mention pork, the shift of the rhetoric of tax-rate cuts from actually reducing the amount of taxes taken in by government to raising the amount of taxes taken in by government, and the utter abandomnent of the idea of getting rid of government agencies.
Before the Lefties start streaming in to say that proves they’ve moved to the right, I’ll briefly touch on why so few Democrats agreed to that expansion of government-run health care. It was not because they didn’t want to also expand Medicare; it was because they wanted to go even farther. Indeed, their Presidential candidates and the last Democratic President wanted to create a “full-coverage” government-run health care system, and saw this as too small a step.
The Morning Scramble – 5/2/2008
Where else do you go from Elmore James to Iron Maiden? :-)
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– Teresa lists just some of the bigger ironies of the 2008 election.
– Sticking with the bi-partisan, Shoebox declares stupidity is party-agnostic. Yes, there is a new reason why I call it the bipartisan Party-In-Government.
– Professor Stephen Bainbridge confirms something Shoebox noted a couple months ago; there’s a new Lost Generation coming.
– Jim Geraghty thinks over what John McCain should and should not be looking for in a candidate, using Dan McLaughlin’s 19 Do’s and Don’ts.
– Sean Hackbarth asks, “Why not Paul Ryan?” Do click through to John Gizzi’s case for Ryan. If I thought we had anybody waiting in the wings here in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional, why not indeed.
– Ed Morrissey has a new sponsor for his radio show – LIAGRA. Hillary-tested, Barack-approved.
– Matt Lewis has the RNC smackdown on Barack Obama’s hypocrisy on gas-tax holidays. I wonder when McCain will come out against that </sarcasm?>.
– Speaking of Obama and gas taxes, PrivatePigg lays the economic smackdown.
– Jim Lynch grabs the ReWrite™ Machine and corrects Obama.
– Dan McLaughlin notes the rank hypocrisy of the Kyoto crowd. Guess speaking while being holier-than-thou is conducive to producing copious amounts of carbon dioxide.
– Sgt. Relic asks when Congress will dump the Greenies. “Never” rings a bell.
– Since we’re asking questions, Bull Dog Pundit asks why the presstitutes insist on saying that keeping the current tax rates will cost money. Simple; they and their fellow travelers on the Left believe that since government prints all the money, they own all the money.
– Rick Moran says we will survive even an Obama Presidency. I’m not so sure; the clock is so close to midnight.
– Justin Higgins reminds us why we’re more than just a nation.
– John Hawkins says, “Stand up, be proud.”
– Patrick McIlheran goes into the history vault to answer what happens when America abandons our allies. A free piece of advice to the Dems; those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.
– Speaking of history, Zip remembers women had more rights in the Middle East before the Islamists took over.
– Lance Burri catches one of the no-ID crowd admitting that it truly is by hook and by crook.
– See-Dubya plays Name That Presstitute Outlet.
– Moron Pundit has the 411 on this month’s Stupid Criminal of the Month.
– Curt has today’s story of government waste. I wonder if the Census Bureau borrowed Wisconsin’s IT department.
– Little Miss Sunshine delivers a literal pick-me-up.
– Chris says no to hybrids.
– Anwyn bemoans the latest example of the decline and fall of Disney. When Walt was alive, they never would have used the language I’ve been known to use from time to time.
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May 1, 2008
Drinking opportunities – May edition
Attention. Attention bloggers. Attention Wisconsin bloggers. With the successful launch of the Blog n Grog, there are now two opportunities to drink with your favorite bloggers (and most of the time, me) each month:
– Drinking Right – The second Tuesday of each month (this month, it’s the 13th), 7 pm, Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee
– Blog n Grog – The last Tuesday of each month (this month, it’s the 27th), 7 pm, Neighbors Social Club, 260 W Main in Waukesha
Because I’ll be out of town the country the last week of May, I’ll unfortunately miss the Blog n Grog. Don’t let that stop you from attending one or both of these events, though.
Roll bloat – working on May Day edition
The Latinos, unions and Communists (I repeat myself) took the day off to pay homage to their hero Che, but I worked hard (or is it hardly worked; what’s the difference?). Guess it’s time to add once again to that overloaded roll:
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NRE Poll – Should I try to get blogger creds for the GOP convention?
While the state GOP still hasn’t reached out to the blogosphere for the state convention (at least nobody has mentioned any outreach), the national GOP is looking for a few good bloggers. I know I’m a very long shot for various reasons (excessive expletives, a general dislike of McCain, a lack of knowledge of the difference between morons and Morons™ that would cause confusion about a large portion of my readership, not-nearly-Hot Air readership numbers), but it would be an excuse to head up to the Twin Cities.
Here’s where I ask for your help. I won’t promise to listen, but I will definitely take it under advisement.
Should I try to get blogger creds for the GOP convention?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
- Yes (85%, 11 Vote(s))
- No (15%, 2 Vote(s))
Total Voters: 13
Loading ...We paid the Zizzo Group how much? UPDATE – $329,633?
Greg Kowalski not only recaps the list of other finalists for what’s now the Boomgaard District (DUCK!), but the other names the Zizzo Group came up with.
– Citygate – Yeah, that worked real well in DC </sarcasm>
– Twin Corridor – There is no trace of the old 41 Twin drive-in anymore. Other than that, and an otherwise-complete lack of originality, it actually isn’t too bad.
– Metro South – Yeah, that’s going to go over real well with those that think the metro area ends at the Menomomee River valley or Oklahoma Ave.
– 27 South – Welcome to the jungle, fellow gangbangers.
– Root River Junction – Honestly, I like it. However, do you really want a harsh focus on what most of those on either side of the Root River consider an impenetrable barrier?
– Orchard Station – Station? STATION?
– Orchard Six – Juuuuust a bit too cute by half (literally).
– SouthCorr – Real attractive name…NOT!
– SoCol – See Root River Junction and Metro South, and add in a dash of Orchard Six.
– 27 Stretch – I’m sure the On the Border guys love it. I’m not so sure about anything else.
– Lower Six – There’s exactly one “Lower” that’s been successful, and we’re not in Manhattan.
I may not be creative, but I know butt-ugly names when I see them. The ad hoc committee and ultimately the Common Councils should’ve gone back to the drawing board.
Revisions/extensions (6:30 pm 5/1/2008) – $329,633 for this load?
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Summarizing the Rats in 7 minutes
(H/T – Mary Katharine Ham)
I’m as jaded as the next guy, but Slate has a killer video distilling the ‘Rat campaign to 7 wicked minutes…
If it’s May Day,….
…there’s a lot of Che Guevara sightings. Do notice where Jim Hoft got his first batch of pics from – I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the Islamokazis look up to a Communist murderer.
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Preview of what’s to come with a closing of Club Gitmo
(H/T – JammieWearingFool, though Allahpundit has a lengthier comments thread as usual)
Who here didn’t see this headline coming – Ex-Guantanamo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing? Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, late of Club Gitmo and released in 2005, recently blew himself up in a suicide bombing in Mosul. His cousin, Salem al-Ajmi, is missing only a single “shocked” in his reaction – “We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon … through a call from one of the friend’s of martyr Abdullah in Iraq.”
Allahpundit has a bit more of the story. Once again, I am left to surmise that “peace” is really “pieces”.
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The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 5/1/2008
If it’s Thursday,….
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– Fausta remembers today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.
– S. Weasel delivers yet another stunning WeaselShop. Nice hat, Barack.
– Rick Esenberg, among others, asks whether Obama’s grandmother is next to go under the disowning bus. I do believe she was already run over once this campaign season.
– Allahpundit has Hillary Clinton’s GHWB Memorial Clueless About Technology Moment. Remember, while the current target is Obama, we do have to keep an eye on Clinton lest she slip into our six.
– Following up on something from yesterday’s Scramble, Dad29 cheers a rather unequivocable counterattack on corn-a-hole Jim Sensenbrenner is co-sponsoring. I’ll have to double-check the co-sponsors of that bill to see if my Congresscritter is on board; the list wasn’t updated beyond the 4 sponsors that signed on Tuesday as of Wednesday afternoon.
– Beth puts the hate on Google drive-by trolls. Hopefully this will bring her some higher-quality traffic (of course, in terms of steering power, I’m like a feather put behind the Queen Elizabeth II).
– Silent E delivers an eulogy for common sense.
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