March 6, 2009
Sorry Opportunity [Dan Collins]

Waking up to the new America.

This one goes out to Brooks, Parker, Frum and company!

Treacher, on same.

Is Main Street starting to figure it out?

It’s hard not to see* the continued sell-off on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street as a product, at least in part, of the realization that our new president’s policies are designed to radically re-engineer the market-based U.S. economy, not just mitigate the recession and financial crisis.
[Commentary] Martin Kozlowski

The illusion that Barack Obama will lead from the economic center has quickly come to an end. Instead of combining the best policies of past Democratic presidents — John Kennedy on taxes, Bill Clinton on welfare reform and a balanced budget, for instance — President Obama is returning to Jimmy Carter’s higher taxes and Mr. Clinton’s draconian defense drawdown.

*Some people are very gifted this way, though. (h/t Gerry G.)

A little Rule 5: Dem politician takes campaign money from a broad.

Republican at dirty socialist NPR:

“If we lived under a parliamentary political system, an ideologically pure party that could get 30 percent of the vote would be a player,” Ayres says. “But in the United States you need to get 50 percent plus 1 — and ideological parties lose.”

“Michael Steele knows that,” he said.

Hate to break this news, but Obama’s Democrats are an ideological party.

Made for radio: R. Stacy McCain on G. Gordon Liddy’s show today.

Ain’t I a woman?

48 Comments  :::   Post a comment »

  1. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 7:55 am #

    We are sorry we elected a dirty little socialist idiot.

  2. Comment by Bob Reed on 3/6 @ 8:04 am #

    C’mon Dan…

    O! was only doin’ it for the mau-mau’s…

    I mean, he’s gotta keep the faith with his brothers in the motherland, right..?

    Unless of course one of them happens to be, you know, his actual brother; although he wants to spread all of our wealth aroung, both here and abroad, he can’t even let that poor, destitute, fellow hold a little sumpin’-sumpin’…Even though $100 dollars would set him up in fine stead for the entire year!

    Are we not our brothers keepers..? Shouldn’t we sacrifice to serve others..? Both are paraphrases of O!s pronouncements…

    Just Words!?!

    O!

  3. Comment by Dan Collins on 3/6 @ 8:07 am #

    Well, he’d better watch out how he puts these things. Someone might misinterpret him.

  4. Comment by Carin on 3/6 @ 8:10 am #

    Dear Britons,
    Sorry, but Obama’s just not that into you.

  5. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 8:14 am #

    RACISTS !!!

  6. Comment by Joe on 3/6 @ 8:14 am #

    Good one Carin.

  7. Comment by Sticky B on 3/6 @ 8:15 am #

    I don’t think it’s rational to compare the current inhabitant of the WH to any of the previous residents. He’ll make Carter look like Edmund Burke and Clinton look like Pope John Paul by the time he’s through fucking over people like me and you. What do you tell your kids?

  8. Comment by Dan Collins on 3/6 @ 8:17 am #

    That’s nice, dear, hurry up and finish eating your dog?

  9. Comment by SarahW on 3/6 @ 8:29 am #

    “A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.” – Michelle O.

  10. Comment by Darleen on 3/6 @ 8:31 am #

    It’s at this point that Obamabot trolls will wave a finger at the polls and say “lookie lookie His Hopeyness has grand approval ratings”

    which really goes to the Royal Image that Barry and M’chelle have been carefully crafting. That aroma of Devine Destiny puts up a thick layer of denial for the peasants that are so emotionally invested in the Hope!Change! The One loves us, LOVES us and wants the BEST for us…. the bad things happening are not his fault! NO NO NO

    It gets really ugly when the scales fall off … but we aren’t there yet. It remains to see how far Obama can fundamentally change America in the midst of the downward spiral before his acolytes become disillusioned with His shiney suit. This is the reason O is working so fast to slash the military and nationalize healthcare.

  11. Comment by alppuccino on 3/6 @ 8:32 am #

    Sorry Brits, we won’t be able to swing the 60b for your exports this year. We’re poor now. Enjoy Long Kiss Goodnight! That Samuel L. Jackson’s got it goin’ on!

  12. Comment by alppuccino on 3/6 @ 8:46 am #

    Is it possible those approval ratings polls were conducted face-to-face by large black men?

  13. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 8:48 am #

    Sorry that the current occupants of the racist half-White House have so little class or tact.

  14. Comment by Joe on 3/6 @ 8:57 am #

    Brooks is already pussying out

    Brooks said:

    Nonetheless, the White House made a case that was sophisticated and fact-based. These people know how to lead a discussion and set a tone of friendly cooperation.

    An example of Rahm Emanuel’s sophisticated, fact-based, friendly persuasion:

    On the night after the 1996 election, “Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting ‘Dead! … Dead! … Dead!’ and plunging the knife into the table after every name.”

    What Emanuel did after that:

    After serving as an advisor to Bill Clinton, in 1998 Emanuel resigned from his position in the Clinton administration. He then became an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella (now Dresdner Kleinwort), where he worked until 2002. In 1999, he became a managing director at the firm’s Chicago office. Emanuel made $16.2 million in his two-and-a-half-year stint as a banker, according to Congressional disclosures.

    It pays to be in politics! Even better than Pajamas Media Jeff.

  15. Comment by Carin on 3/6 @ 9:05 am #

    David Brooks is a tool:

    The budget, they continue, isn’t some grand transformation of America. It raises taxes on energy and offsets them with tax cuts for the middle class. It raises taxes on the rich to a level slightly above where they were in the Clinton years and then uses the money as a down payment on health care reform. That’s what the budget does. It’s not the Russian Revolution.

    Bullshit bullshit bullshit.

  16. Comment by serr8d on 3/6 @ 9:06 am #

    Sorry, Britons.

    And, consider yourself lucky this isn’t 1941!

  17. Comment by alppuccino on 3/6 @ 9:15 am #

    1400 extra in home energy costs = $27.00/week

    $1 extra in gas at 10 gal/week = $10.00/week

    Family gets $13 tax credit hoax – $13.00/week

    Plan only costs average American $24.00/week more.

    “That’s the change they need Houston”

  18. Comment by geoffb on 3/6 @ 9:33 am #

    The White House apologizes,

    Dear Gordo,

    Nice little country you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it now wouldn’t it?

    O!

  19. Comment by Sdferr on 3/6 @ 9:34 am #

    I’d bet Obama himself is somewhat surprised at how easily he has fooled such vast numbers of people.

    Hiding still what he must about himself, even to this day, he’s got to have that occasional jolly inner celebration of his talented put-over on the teeming rubes, so trusting, so simple. They are such fools that they haven’t yet figured it out, may never figure it out, in fact! That accomplishment alone is almost victory enough.

    Pah! Put it away Barack, there’s work yet to be done.

  20. Comment by Joe on 3/6 @ 9:36 am #

    Never waste a good crisis…

  21. Comment by geoffb on 3/6 @ 9:36 am #

    “Plan only costs average American $24.00/week more.”

    Well there goes my 4 oz Wagyu each Saturday.

  22. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/6 @ 9:40 am #

    Heard the other day:

    How do we know that Obama isn’t Jesus?

    Jesus could put together a cabinet.

  23. Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 3/6 @ 9:41 am #

    I sorta don’t get all the Marine 1 controversy – that smells more like a rookie mistake.

    Now, sending back the bust of Sir Winston, and the casual meeting between O and Brown (what do the US and England have in common, besides the fact that we’re a former colony? Our leaders are both Brown!) is a much larger deal. I think Carin’s got it just right. Which is funny, you know, since Euros love us (supposedly) since we elected this new president, and one of his first foreign policy acts is to alienate our closest European ally.

    I still hate the price America is having to pay, but I’m rather guiltily enjoying the schadenfreude.

  24. Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 3/6 @ 9:42 am #

    OKay, it wasn’t a POLICY act, per se, but foreign relations.

  25. Comment by Joe on 3/6 @ 9:44 am #

    Who does this character remind you of?

    The author of this masterpiece, one Alan Moore, is a paranoid left-winger (see V for Vendetta, for example), but the man can write. Perhaps the character whom people remember the most from Watchmen is Rorschach, a man in a hat and trenchcoat who covers his face with a mask of ever-changing ink impressions. Rorschach has no superpowers or even the genius and equipment of Batman. He is simply a man determined to set things right and uninhibited in his willingness to do violence to wrongdoers.

    Rorschach was once a more conventional hero, we find out, but he has seen too much of the evil in the world and is no longer prepared to accept limits on his efforts to bring retribution. This vigilante, full of retrograde opinions and mourning for an America whose best days are behind her, is Archie Bunker without the laughs.

    He is also a good deal more insightful than Bunker. Rorschach walks along a street in a city’s red-light district and notes that he is offered French love, Swedish love, and other exotic pleasures, but American love, he notes, “is like Coke in green glass bottles . . . they don’t make it anymore.”

    Rorschach is dangerous. And he is Moore’s idea of a conservative. If it is intended as an insult, it is one most of us can live with.

    Review of Watchmen

  26. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/6 @ 9:47 am #

    one Alan Moore, is a paranoid left-winger

    I’d characterize Moore’s position as “a pox on all their houses”, myself.

  27. Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 9:48 am #

    I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

  28. Comment by urthshu on 3/6 @ 9:49 am #

    >>he’s got to have that occasional jolly inner celebration of his talented put-over on the teeming rubes

    In front of the mirror with his balls tucked, like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs

  29. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 9:49 am #

    I still marvel at their audacity to call $13 a week some kind of meaningful tax cut.

  30. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/6 @ 9:51 am #

    Now, now, JD. Save that up for a few years and you can buy a nice pair of earrings.

  31. Comment by urthshu on 3/6 @ 9:53 am #

    Oh. Moore’s V for Vendetta was essentially different from the movie in that a radical Left government had previously destroyed the economy and led the world into a war, wherein the ashes were picked up by a far Right government. V was really just a Restoration kind of story in that sense.

  32. Comment by urthshu on 3/6 @ 9:54 am #

    The $13/week is still taxed as income.

  33. Comment by geoffb on 3/6 @ 9:55 am #

    “Jesus could put together a cabinet.”

    In both senses of the word cabinet too.

    That was a good one.

  34. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/6 @ 9:57 am #

    Moore has a long (and as far as I know, unblemished) history of demanding that his name be removed from movies alleged to be based on his work. V for Vendetta and Watchmen are not exceptions.

    He won’t even take the money.

    That said, I’m going to go see Watchmen this afternoon.

  35. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 10:00 am #

    $13 barely buys one large breakfast, with tip, at the Waffle House, or one good-sized lunch at Taco Bell.

  36. Comment by geoffb on 3/6 @ 10:06 am #

    When I take my wife out to eat at a halfway decent place $13 would be the tip portion.

    At Taco Bell or McDonalds on the dollar menu you could feed a family of 4 sorta.

  37. Comment by geoffb on 3/6 @ 10:16 am #

    We ran the wrong McCain.

    From a link at Dan’s link above.

  38. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 10:33 am #

    Dear Britons,

    I am sorry that Andrew Sullivan is an addled mental midget.
    I am sorry that the half-white President treated Gordo so poorly. He doesn’t know any better.
    I am sorry that you have a shortage of dentists.
    I am sorry that the neophyte asshat administration is driving the world economy into the ground, just so it can use the opportunity to push through more of its collectivist policies.
    I am sorry you do not have Dunkin Donuts.
    I am sorry that our forefathers fled your country to seek a life of freedom, one that our current President seems hell bent on ruining.
    I am sorry for the Backstreet Boys, N-Sink, 98 Degrees, Ashley Simpson, the Jonas Brothers, and Mario Lopez.

  39. Comment by Joe on 3/6 @ 10:37 am #

    Mission Accomplished!

    H/T: The Anchoress

  40. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/6 @ 10:56 am #

    I am sorry that Andrew Sullivan is an addled mental midget.

    Wait, shouldn’t they be apologizing to us for that one?

  41. Comment by JD on 3/6 @ 11:03 am #

    SBP – You are probably correct, but we are responsible for giving him a bigger microphone.

  42. Comment by McGehee on 3/6 @ 11:22 am #

    Iain Martin is quite right here: no matter how utterly rubbish we have become as a nation in the Blair/Brown years, Britain’s friendship is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly.

    No shit. It’s when a country’s people are already smarting from other crap they’ve been putting up with, that the last thing they’ll tolerate from an outsider is more crap. Anybody remember Charlie Daniels?

  43. Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/6 @ 1:06 pm #

    Dear Americans,

    We’re sorry for Amy Winehouse. And Andrew Sullivan. We cool?

  44. Comment by Paleo Pat on 3/6 @ 2:42 pm #

    Hey!! That guys got more hair on his face than me! *tee hee*

  45. Comment by Paleo Pat on 3/6 @ 2:43 pm #

    We’re sorry for Amy Winehouse. And Andrew Sullivan. We cool?</blockquote

    Word. *snort* I LOL’ed…hard.

  46. Comment by Paleo Pat on 3/6 @ 2:43 pm #

    d’oh! I also typo’ed…. crap..

  47. Comment by Rusty on 3/6 @ 5:29 pm #

    #43
    Dude! We can forgive anything, but you weren’t supposed to send Madonna back.

  48. Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/7 @ 12:01 pm #

    Listen, chaps, we’re not cross about the skeezy gifts to Broon – really. We can’t stand the bloke either. I personally wouldn’t have wasted the $29.99 or whatever it was Obambi shelled out for the DVDs. But sending the Churchill bust back….that was nasty. We won’t forget that one.

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