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September 7, 2011

GOP Debate Open Thread

This should be interesting. Prediction of sample question: “Representative Bachmann. You have crazy eyes and are batshit nuts, with a closeted gay for a husband. Tell the voters watching at home, why shouldn’t they take you out to a field and beat you to death with cinder blocks and a stretch of rebar?”

Northeastern elites and the death of movement conservatism

Ann Coulter is pushing warmist Chris Christie on us and, in private, trading jokes with Bill Maher. Laura Ingraham, when she isn’t fluffing O’Reilly’s seat, is alternately pushing Romney, defending Boehner, and telling us that rap music, coupled with our failure to tuck our shirts in, is a poignant sign of the deterioration of American culture. And yet these are the voices of modern conservatism? Wonderful. I hate to say

"'A social pariah': How lonely Monica Lewinsky has failed to find happiness… and is STILL the butt of lewd Clinton jokes"

Jesus. Suck one President’s dick while his wife’s away and it’s like your labeled forever. In all seriousness, though, it’s a tawdry testament to what’s become of our culture and our politics that Lewinsky remains a joke while Clinton tromps around as a statesman and a hero to the same left who claims to champion the rights of women.

"The Myth of Conservative Purity"

A sop to moderation and the joys (and necessities) of compromising principles, courtesy the Hoover Institute’s Peter Berkowitz. I’m not going to spend much time on this because frankly I don’t have to. I’ll leave that to Rush Limbaugh and the rest. Instead, here’s all you need to know about Berkowitz’s argument, distilled to its kernel assertion: the end game in political engagments is winning, using moderation as a tactic

Fathers of sons of bitches

Alan Krueger, Obama’s pick for head of the Council of Economic Advisors? Wanted to unionize prisoners. Not only that, but according to Bill Wilson, President of Americans for Limited Government, Krueger “has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?” Allow me to answer that for you, Bill. That’s not the objective. Once you understand

"Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package"

An investment. By the Chinese. In American make-work jobs and extended unemployment benefits. For the People! Because let’s face it: Obama can’t be expected to Win the Future™ without first buying off the present, deploying yet more government-directed intrusions into the free market, mostly by way of confiscated private sector funds that that same government will have already spent on accrued interest on the debt within the first hundred days

Gunrunners and Outlawry

Interesting bit from geoffB, in re: the “Washington Insider” update to this post. From geoff: Two new things popped up on the “Fast and Furious” investigation which lend some credibility to his idea that Holder will be gone before long. There was another operation in Indiana, “Gangwalker”, supplying guns to gangs. The apparent purpose of the operation was to lend the thinnest veneer of truth to the 90-percent lie spread