The reports you have no doubt heard by now are correct: I did in fact agree to meet off the record with myself, having been invited by me to an informal gathering where I was assured I’d be given the freedom to talk to myself with complete candor. And, after what was a rather unexpectedly pleasant and even at times charming experience — it turns out I can be quite a down to earth fellow, in those times when I’m not forced to keep my guard up against myself! — I concluded, along with me, that I can get along just fine with myself, and can even find some common ground to act as a united front against those who aren’t me and who wish me to be something other than myself.
The secret to this arrangement, which is what’s best for the country, both I and me decided, is figuring out a coherent narrative that we would both stick to, while agreeing — off the record — to follow a singular, bi-me strategy, emphasized by the need for me to get together with mysefl to hash out any differences I may have with myself in order to end the public friction between myself and me.
Privately, however, we get along swell — and I can really see myself having a few beers with me when the day ends and policy talk gives way to talk about how best to manage all those who aren’t me.*
So all in all: success!
— that I say that off the record, naturally.
here’s another one
Yellen’s Exclusive Interview, With Yellen
So we can expect things to actually improve, now that you have agreed with your general goals, in an informal kind of way, and totally bullet-proof should anyone ask, even my priest or in front of a grand jury?
Just for the record.
Your linky is blinky. But, being me, I figured out it goes here. Yay, me~!
– The return of the Squishies
© : Chapter 2013.
>The return of the Squishies<
i like it. shutdown theater can continue with nps starring.
– Can we get a refund: The CommieCrats dream.
– Even the Taliban are laughing at our Clown disaster lead-from-behind-in-chief now.
eric erickson
Conservatives need to push the debt ceiling fight off the front burner to after Christmas.
Republican Leaders are begging us to merge the continuing resolution fight and debt ceiling fight. They covet this with all their mind and heart.
They do not want a stand alone fight on Obamacare. They want to conflate it with the debt ceiling so they can do a grand bargain and leave Obamacare alone.
Consider Rep. Paul Ryan’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. He wants a grand bargain and not once mentions Obamacare. Not once.
link
Is it just me or does Sarah Hall Ingram look like Karl Rove’s twin sister?
SpiteHouse: National Park goons remove handles from trail water fountains
Park Rangers Refuse Truckload of Porta Potties for WW II Veterans
– Actually she could almost pass for Rove’s brother.
Looks like the Park Service should go away with the IRS. Competitive private contracts for a diminished national park system can step to the fore, while States can tend to greater control of their own lands. Bugger the goddamned bureaucracy.
– So now we know that the MB has something on Bumblefuck that undoubtedly leads back to Benghazi, now that he’s cut them another break with the military aid denial to Egypt.
– I’m guessing when this is all over honest historians, you know, the ones that will be back in vogue once the Red Progressive threat is destroyed, will have many decades of books to write recording the many unlawful and traitorous acts of Bumblefuck and the politoboro.
You’re right. I was trying to be kind, BBH.
Who are these honest historians you speak of? And will they be writing these books in Chinese, Russian or Newspeak?
the ones that will be back in vogue once the Red Progressive threat is destroyed,
diane west waves
She looks like a Phelps of the Westboro persuasion.
astroturf
Obama’s Shutdown Theater Reaches New Low
She does, Pablo.
Thanks. I think.
“She looks like a Phelps of the Westboro persuasion. ”
Ah yes, the Innsmouth look.
proggtardia news
After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife
settled baseball pit 1 stl 6
Is it just me or does Sarah Hall Ingram look like Karl Rove’s twin sister?
I get a Ben Franklin vibe off the shot Drudge is running.
oh my
Eleanor Holmes Norton confronts Obama on D.C. budget bill
interesting
Overnight Open Thread (10-9-2013)
More From Vaclav Havel’s 1978 Essay, “The Power of the Powerless”
In which he lays out what it means to be a ‘dissident’, how to live ‘within the truth’ and ways
to resist a totalitarian system even when you have no power at all.
link
If Jeff went on Mark Levin, I bet he could obfuscate, interrupt, barf up Boehner/McConnell talking points, be defensive and petulant, and act like an Even Bigger Jackass than Senator Ron Johnson did today.
Painful to hear, it was. The man sounded exactly like a Formerly Honest Man Who’d Been Compromised.
“Ah yes, the Innsmouth look.”
I don’t do this very often: LOL!
@dicentra
potpl page 127
The fact that the establishment gave the task of
defending its positions to the usual political and journalistic hacks
was probably a case of Hobson’s choice in an emergency, but it
gained it nothing and was just one further error, since those gentlemen’s
standards are notorious. As could be expected, they immediately
brought into play against the Charter a whole set of slanders,
distortions, abuse, half-truths and absolute falsehoods which all
represent the dismal range of their capacity. Ispeak from experience
as one who has been a favourite target for their sort of behaviour for
the past thirty years, and who could well lay claim to the laurels of
seniority and worthy service. Though the powers that be may not
know it, or rather, would sooner not know it, nay, cannot afford to
know it (for where else would they find more obedient, unscrupulous
and servile creatures), the media are the principal, albeit
unintentional, creators and encouragers of opposition, since they
are totaJIy suspect and nobody believes them. People almost automatically
take for gospel the opposite of what the papers say. Once
all-powerful, the media were capable of pointing the finger that
condemned people to death. As they lost all credibility they also lost
some of their power, and at the very least were obliged to change
their methods, if not their ends. Nowadays, they do not directly fix
the noose around people’s necks, but they do endeavour to destroy
their honour and slay them with a hail of repeated slanders and lies,
Sarah Hall Ingram, never hoid ov’er, but my patriot heart was warmed immediately I trusted her because I’m convinced she’s direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin.
There’s some crap floating around Facebook about how the
Princes of DarknessKoch brothers are supposedly selling dollar-denominated assets short. Never mind that their family got rich by making actual stuff, not currency speculation, and that their business consist almost exclusively of making stuff to this day.George Soros, of course, would never dream of doing anything like that.
@ page 127 potpl
In Czechoslovakia the right to work means that renowned
surgeons or violinists may be forced to make a living at manual
labour and still count themselves fortunate that they can at least
earn their keep that way. If surgeons or violinists do practise their
real professions, they are not exercising a right, but enjoying a privilege
that can be denied them at any time. In the course of the 1960s,
only those against whom this elementary rule of totalitarianism was
used were aware of its full extent, whereas in the 1970s everyone
knows it, including children.
Working at one’s real profession was very probably made a privilege
that can be denied the disobedient because otherwise there
would be nothing left to take away from people. The levelling of the
living standard has gone so far that everyone is in the same boat and
the totalitarian power must therefore endow even the most natural
social functions with the qualities of privilege.
But he said there should be no cause for worry because as long as they have the power to tax, they could always take away from the people whatever they needed to bail them out of trouble. And they’re doing just that.
link
“Sarah Hall Ingram, never hoid ov’er, but my patriot heart was warmed immediately I trusted her because I’m convinced she’s direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin. ”
Well, Ben did write a quasi-scientific pamphlet about how much he enjoyed a good fart every now and then. It was written to poke fun at his French hosts for inviting him to a ‘write an enlightening pamphlet that examines the universe, life, history, philosophy, or the human condition because you are considered smart and famous, and that’s what us very tony smart people do for our hobby’ party. It was sort of like making fun of pointless vacuous tweets today only more expensive.
– Some of the true believers are getting restless.
Roger Simon gleefully demonstrates why he cannot be trusted. Sure, some people have heard of Machiavelli, read him even, but still haven’t a clue what he was about.
Simon isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.
We’re surrounded by surrender monkeys.
Re: R. Simon.
Once you buy into any part of the left’s propaganda effort, especially when they go all “politics of personal destruction” then you will be led by your nose down a path which they, the leftists, at least, think will bring them success and power.
Listen to Sen. Johnson mistake tactics for strategy. It’s the end, the telos, that these sad people don’t understand: lacking a concept of the end, they can’t possibly find their way out of the thicket of power transfer the progressives have created for them.
sdferr, I have a question regarding the 14th Amendment, section 4 that I hope you might answer for me. I’ll quote from Wiki (I know, I know) because I read an article that was alarming yesterday and decided to check into it:
The piece I read late last night insisted that O’jughead may seize the ower of the purse from the congress and that there was nothing to be done about it. I say this sounds like a load of nonsense.
Wjhat say you?
*My bold in blockquote
Please excuse typos in the above.
Can you link the thing you read leigh?
Setting the particulars of whatever claim may have been made there aside, there is of course plenty that can be done about it, should TheClownDisaster overreach the Executive powers yet again, albeit in an even more heightened regard. Congress, for instance, can begin immediate impeachment proceedings. Some determined individual actor might look to the motto of the State of Virginia.
May he do so?
He has shown that he “may” do anything that comes into his head, illegal, legal, constitutional, unconstitutional, since with Reid and the MSM in hand no ill effects can come to him from whatever the House does.
Will some foolish souls buy the bonds so made available for sale?
Let us hope that all the billionaires, multimillionaires, on the left do so with all their resources. When the result comes down that the bonds are worthless paper they can all go live under that “bridge too far” together.
Here is the link to the piece and a video. It’s very short and lacks detail.
A few pieces on the 14th and the debt limit, here, here, here, here, here.
Thanks, geoff. I’ll go read.
leigh, take a look at Hinderaker’s recommendation. Looks sound to me, which means, in all probability, Boehner and the rest of the surrender caucus won’t follow it.
Isn’t it interesting that some obscure vegetable vendor in Tunisia sets himself on fire and the whole Middle-East explodes — that when some American, in possible imitation of that Tunisian guy, sets himself on fire on the National Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument. . . silence.
But some other American guy attempts to mow the lawn at the Lincoln Memorial and gets chased off, it’s hubbub kablooey? Does this speak to the lack of lawns in Tunisia, or the superfluity of life in America?
Well, after reading all that I’m reassured that those advocating the prez seizing congressional power is indeed impeachable.
That won’t stop him, of course.
I like that Hinderaker piece. That’s been my position on this nonsense all along. I’m becoming unnerved by the d-bags in the GOP and their slouching toward surrender.
Hinderaker is more optimistic than I.
sdferr, interesting that you mentioned the Tunisian and the immolating guy on the Mall. I had said something along those lines when it happened and kept waiting for the newsies to make what seemed an obvious comparison between the two.
Still waiting . . .
The inventor of the Franklin stove!? That abomination that pumps evil, evil carbon di(abolical)oxide into the innocent atmosphere?????
Woman needs to lose about three fourths of her weight and cut her hair so she can look like a proper pinch-faced scold.