The problem with basing your entire worldview on the power of manufacturing perception is that there are still people around willing to find, confront, and photograph naked emperors and their courts — then publish the pictures on Photobucket. Yes. That was an extended metaphor. This? This is an objective correlative. Albeit one that still contains a now exposed dick, if you’ll allow a continuance of my metaphor…
October 2013
October 4, 2013
“Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven’t Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father”
October 4, 2013
The progressive endgame, and how to prevent it
It is clear now that the Obama/Reid plan to refuse negotiations — again, the GOP is asking for universal delay of ObamaCare rather than Obama’s selective waivers; and it asking that Congress be compelled to follow the law it passed, nothing more — is orchestrated and intended to move directly to the debt limit debate, which the President, his administration, progressives, the news media, academics, and leftwing law professors (but
October 3, 2013
TNR Senior Editor Julia Ioffe yearns for Obama’s big stick or something … [Darleen Click]
Her naughty bits feel a tingle at the thought of Obama’s tanks blowing up heretic members of Congress . What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives? Well, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected president, was once faced with a similar situation exactly 20 years ago, in October 1993. The parliament, then called the Supreme Soviet,
October 3, 2013
Removing the filter
Here are the actual GOP compromise proposals, both of which Harry Reid and Barack Obama have rejected — and both of which the media have eschewed reporting in favor of breathless concerns over canceled park vacations and a sadly fade-to-black Panda cam: 1) agree to a universal 1-year delay for Obamacare enrollment rather than granting delays to selective constituencies; 2) insist that those lawmakers who crafted and passed ACA be
October 3, 2013
NROHNOES!
I made this observation earlier on Twitter, but let me repeat it hear, where fewer people will read it: reading through the comments of an NRO piece by Robert Costa this morning, it occurred to me that the commentariat at NRO is really not significantly different these days than the commentariat at Huffpo. And it’s not just that the left has brought in a vocal minority: look at the up
October 3, 2013
How intentionalism can save us from Obamacare: addressing the left’s big canard
We’ve all heard it by now: “ObamaCare is the law of the land!” — the implication being, even from some Republicans (and John McCain), that a law passed using parliamentary gimmicks and tied to budget reconciliation cannot possibly be dealt with by the House in what is, in fact, a budget standoff. But those constitutional and ethical points aside (the Dems passed the law in a corrupt manner, foregoing regular
October 2, 2013
“We will march on Washington against your tyranny. You’ve been warned.”
Mark Levin tonight (courtesy of The Right Scoop, who provides a partial transcript): I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?! I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this
October 2, 2013
BREAKING: DESPITE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, LOCAL MAN STILL ABLE TO BUY BEER, SHOOT OUT A LAMPPOST
Which, sorry about that. But my kid’s Daisy Red Rider was just kinda sitting there calling out to me from the hall closet — much like God sometimes calls to Bill O’Reilly when the Lord wants a hackneyed, trite, simplistic book written tout de suite! And who doesn’t like the sound of opaque polycarbonate panels shattering, anyway?