— Or if they do, they don’t much mind. Words can’t begin to express my disgust with those people who would rather play the game of politics than defend the principles of liberty and the sanctity of the Constitution. I won’t live as a subject. So if I’m forced to, I plan to make some of those who forced us into accepting such a fate my own personal prison bitches.
October 2013
GOP on Twitter
If you follow the GOP mouthpieces on Twitter, the running meme has been that conservatives — because of their stubborn, unrealistic expectations — harmed the Party, who without them may have been able to win certain concessions from Obama, who as we all know is a post-partisan, pragmatic fellow eager to compromise, just not when he’s being held hostage by wacko bird demands that, say, Congress have to live under
Coming up momentarily: House to vote on Senate “compromise” bill
Caucus of Dems and some in GOP will once again give Obama all he wants, is my guess. And they have to: because Ted Cruz, as Jen Rubin reminds us this morning by way of a retweet, is probably a Democrat sleeper agent — and the TEA Partiers, the Dems and some GOPers keep reminding us, are “nutty” terrorists who must be purged from the Big Tent. To, you know,
A reminder from we hostage takers / anarchists / terrorists / racists about why we insist on fighting [updated]
I’m sure I linked this back in August, but I’m going to post it here again, first because it needs repeating, and second because I think the surrender caucus — who is both comprised of, and or advocates on behalf of, the geniuses who have stopped virtually none of this since the TEA Party they so despise propelled them into the House majority — need to be shown yet again
Language, intent, politics, policy: on the “fundamentally unserious” idea that fighting linguistic battles is “fundamentally unserious”
Regular reader and commenter John Bradley sent along this, from Daniel Greenfield, who addresses the “The Battle of the Redskins” in a way that will sound, particularly toward the conclusion of his piece, quite familiar to many longtime readers of this site: […] liberal speech codes emphasize the formalism of offensiveness. It’s not why you say something or what you mean. It’s whether something you say resembles something on the
On Bob Costas’ sudden, 30-year-late pronouncement that “redskin” is a “slur”
— Even after admitting that 1) most Native Americans weren’t bothered by the name of the DC football team in the slightest, and 2) that those who use the name now naturally don’t intend it as a slur –a fact made all the more clear in that it is, when coupled with “Washington”, a referent that attaches itself to the professional football team, not to the Trail of Tears or
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, 8
Billy Joel: “A bottle of red. A bottle of white. What ever kind of mood you’re in tonight — ” Barack Obama: “Why not both? Hell, make it two. Or 4! Just make sure you put it on a credit card. Because you don’t have to pay those things back — and even if some Fat Cat Banker tries to make you, just give me a ring and I’ll
“Liberals Must Destroy Conservative Traitors Like Us”
Nice piece by Kurt Schlichter that reiterates what we’ve all been noting here: it’s always those who decry the right as “eliminationists” who turn out to really seem to toy with idea, be it Ayers and his Prairie Fire crew of domestic terrorists (now comfy tenured profs with Obama’s eternal gratitude and an invitation to appear on “The Morning Joe”), or progressive hacks like David Plouffe and the bizarrely manic
“Moody’s offers different view on debt limit”
From the WaPo, the very paper Sargent writes for: One of the nation’s top credit-rating agencies says that the U.S. Treasury Department is likely to continue paying interest on the government’s debt even if Congress fails to lift the limit on borrowing next week, preserving the nation’s sterling AAA credit rating. In a memo being circulated on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Moody’s Investors Service offers “answers to frequently asked questions” about
“Don’t Believe The Debt Ceiling Hype”
In a back and forth with WaPo’s Greg Sargent this morning — and with several self-styled conservatives on Twitter last evening (one of whom has, predictably, threatened to block me, ostensibly for violating some Twitter rule I care little about, but mostly because I’ve been pointing out his sneering, brash, almost adamant calls for surrender) — I’ve been pointing to a piece in Forbes by Jeff Dorfman that underscores the
