Kim Strassel, WSJ:
Troll through the voting rolls, and you’ll find an exclusive club of three House Democrats running for re-election who voted against the more controversial pieces of the Obama agenda: the $862 billion stimulus, Mr. Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget, cap and trade and, of course, ObamaCare. Troll through the polls today, and you’ll find a near-exclusive club of three House Democrats who are beating every electoral expectation. Were history, incumbency and the economy the main factors this fall, Idaho’s Walt Minnick, Alabama’s Bobby Bright and Mississippi’s Gene Taylor would be packing up. That they aren’t is a resounding statement on a failed Obama vision.
[…]
Note that these three are hardly Democratic apostates; all have voted with their party more than 70% of the time. What has marked them out in the public’s mind is their vocal opposition to those bills that most characterize the Obama agenda of bigger spending and bigger government. On those all-important issues, they are the anti-Obamas, and it is why they hold out hope of winning.
Note, too, that all three remain at risk for a reason bigger than their records. Conservatives may like these fellows, but they also know that a vote for any one is a vote for a continued Democratic majority. If this November shapes up as a wave rebuke of the party, even their voting records may not save them.
For now, however, the three incumbents—in red districts, with the burdens of a poor economy and history—are beating the odds. There’s no question as to why.
So. IN YOUR FACE!
DOES NOT FIT IN NARRATIVE: Initiate denial, avoidance and excuse making subroutine. ALSO: BuuuuuuuusssssshhhhhH!
These 3 must obviously be racist.
DOES NOT FIT IN NARRATIVE: Initiate denial, avoidance and excuse making subroutine. ALSO: BuuuuuuuusssssshhhhhH!
What LtC John wrote bears repeating …
Double posting is racist.
It’s going to be awkward in the minority cloakroom this winter.
Look, all of our current problems will soon be swept away when the econopalypse hits and the second Weimar Republic is ushered in.
Of course, all of our current jobs, homes, food, transportation, education, and safety will be, too, but you spoiled Americans always think you can have it all.
I hope Sowel took my advice and printed out that article.
OT: Before the First Family relaxes again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQc8vRfld8Q
– The WSJ piece did not mention some of the other turncoats that have wandered off the reservation, such as Donnely of Indiana, who is running his campaign based almost solely on anti-Obama-immigration, and support for Arizona, going so far as to publicly chide the One for not “going to the border” like he has.
– Of course he voted for everyone of Obama’s economic disasters, so its a clear feint to the right, but it all adds up.
Carin, you’re obviously an imperial oppressor of the oppressed, racist. Why in the world should he take advice from you? Plus, you didn’t give him any free shit (well, other than knowledge, but really, for the clinically insane, what good is that?).
#1 LTC John:
And then George W. Bush goes out to an airport USO and greets returning soldiers, and in one fell swoop the most moronic chimp to ever steal his way to the Presidency outmaneuvers the most intelligent President ever and takes more power out of the BuuuuuuuusssssshhhhhH! Card than could have been predicted.
– I’ll bet Clinton put him up to that. It has Slick Willey’s fingerprints all over it.
#10 OI:
Do Imperial oppressors get jackboots? I’d really like a pair of jackboots.
And a hot fudge sundae (but I can’t eat that – I guess I want the sundae more than the jackboots).
#13 – Yes, you get the boots, a riding crop, and a solar powered Tazer.
– You can wear them any day of the week, including Sundae’s.
OI, he’s really going to need something to sooth him when the ride gets bumpy in the coming months. Most libs I know who’ve refused to accept that their Oceans-are-gonna-rise Messiah may have oversold his abilities, have basically gone full-batshit insane.
Well, your last sentence perfectly describes willie, alright.
– I have no problem believing Bush41 an Willey are working behind the scenes to undermine Bumbblefuck.
– Which at this point, must feel a little like dropping icebergs on the Titanic.
Conventional metrics are all but useless this election cycle. When Wednesday morning comes this November the country’s political landscape will be irrevocably altered.
The Dems have always had a big fat soft spot for one-party rule. The good news is that thanks to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Soros they’re about to see what it looks like. The bad news is that the one party isn’t going to be the Democrats.
Is the Reichstag smoking yet? I have October 10th in the pool.
– Our best hope is the incoming flock will be similar to the people taking State races all over the country. Reps that are acting like moderates or classic Liberals, or at least lying about it til they get in office.
– It’s too early for the Reichstag thing. We still need a night of long knives, and someone to give a speech about “peace in our time”.
The gang from Chicago has replaced the venerable “Night of the Long Knives” with the “Months of the Big Bus”.
Think of how many people found to be ‘inconvenient’ have been tossed under it, never to be heard from again. They have made out better than the Germans though. Multi-million dollar payoffs will do that for you.
By the way, a federal appeals court overturned a district court decision. Congress can defund ACORN.
#11 – quite a classy little thing to do, wasn’t it?
*22 – At the risk of sounding even more cynical than they are, the Congress can do a lot of things it pretends it can’t, and does a lot of things it has no right too.
– Whatever the eventual outcome, ACORN will just reorg under a different name. They had already started to do that before this went to court. The Left will never give up its right to manipulate its elected victimized minorities.
ACORN dissolves.
Can you imagine those ACORN workers at a real job…
ACORN: “Do you need something forged, Boss?”
MANAGER: “Um…No. We’re a plumbing supply warehouse…”
ACORN: “Okay.”
MANAGER: “…”
ACORN: “If you need underage prostitutes for the Christmas party you be sure to let me know.”
MANAGER: “What the…?”
ACORN: “And I took the initiative and invented 386 completely ficticious employees and put them on the payroll. Look at this one, Mr. Spock! Ha! I love that one…”
MANAGER: “I’m calling the police now.”
ACORN: “Why?”
# 17, “dropping icebergs on the Titanic.” LOL.
Off topic: America’s latest stick-it-to-the-man star…
“….The airline said “the most distressing aspect” of news coverage is that the danger of deploying an emergency slide hasn’t been taken seriously enough.
“Slides deploy extremely quickly, with enough force to kill a person,” the letter to employees read. “Slides can be as dangerous as a gun.”
– Funny……For all my air travel I don’t ever recall a flight attendant mentioning that concern or possibility in a pre-flight announcement…..
– In trying to make sure they nail Slater, JetBlue may emergency chute-ing themselves in the foot….
*sigh*
BBH, why should a flight attendant have to mention that emergency slides have a lot of energy and should be used with caution?
Packed, it’s about a one-cubic-foot bulge in the door. Extended, it’s twenty feet long and four wide (or bigger), and it can support the weight of at least one person. It ought to stand to reason that the transition requires a lot of energy, and anything expending a lot of energy can be dangerous if you get in its way.
If someone like yourself feels that way, it explains why “tort lawyer” is such a profitable occupation.
Regards,
Ric
– Ric – I wrote that tongue in cheek, knowing how the average travel prawn would look at it with unwarranted and suspicious alarm.
– My actual point was, the airline, in trying to gin up as much support against the guys actions as they can, are over-doing it at the risk of generating a whole new class of banana heads.
– The only way you could be injured by the slide is if you were clinging to the side of the aircraft directly in front of the deployment apparatus at the moment of launch. Maybe the Airlines has an outdoor patio on the wings we don’t know about.
go fuck yourself Yglesias explained.
That’s simply awesome.
This seems on point:
A little lie here, some dirty work there, pretty soon ya gadda crew. It’s the Chicago way.
And so today the confluence of liberal and Islamist thought has one more eddy in it; it is okay to lie in the service of Islamism/Liberalism in order to fool the Journalists/Journolists.
Hey, I say “go fuck yourself” all the time, and I didn’t even go to Harvard!
In an interview, Yglesias said he was not referring to his own conduct as a blogger for the nonpartisan think tank, the Center for American Progress, in advocating dishonesty.
Is that supposed to be a joke?
What ever happened to Saint Shirley? We haven’t heard from her in ages. Did she sue Breitbart yet?
I don’t believe she’s sued Breitbart yet they may have quietly settled.
I can say “go fuck yourself” in English and Spanish, so I must have twice the Harvard education that Yglesias does.
IN YOUR FACE!
Breitbart doesn’t do quietly. Plus, he’s all about the slavery, so…
Oh, no way there was any settlement … Yiggeylseeus is Ezra Klein, just less TV time. A douche.
– With the uncovering of documents detailing Shirleys plantation owner past, replete with child labor and wages at 87 cents a day, he has lots of additional info if he chooses to use it. Probably keeping his powder dry as long as she lets it be.
Well, Chet Edwards (TX-17) may be in trouble, even voting against Obamacare.