An uprising in Tampa over proposed rule changes has grass roots activists in a lather. Mark Levin notes on his facebook page that a compromise has been reached, but the celebration may be premature: my understanding is that the Romney people / RNC compromised on one rule concerning delegates, but a second rule — an amendment to rule number 12 under this year’s convention — would allow the establishment to
August 28, 2012
GOP ruling elite propose rule changes that would effectively blunt grass-roots / TEA Party influence
August 28, 2012
RAAAAACIST charge reveals something else [Darleen Click]
Chris Hayes hissy-fit over Romney’s ads over welfare is boring over the fact it is entirely predictable. He’s charging racism because the ad doesn’t have any black people in it. You will note in the Romney ads, there is not a single African-American that appears in them. […] They (Romney campaign) understand what the history of the racial subtext is, but they also understand how that appeal and that charge
August 28, 2012
ObamaCare’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ solution [Darleen Click]
Certainly, delivering medical care is just like serving up another plate of Crispy Chicken Costoletta. No one did more to sell the Affordable Care Act than Peter Orszag, the former White House budget director who claimed during 2009-2010 that as much as a third of health spending is “waste” that doesn’t improve outcomes. But now that he’s repaired to Wall Street and writes an online column, he’s deriding the idea
August 27, 2012
“Anyone that disagrees with scientific fact must be, in effect, brainwashed.” [Darleen Click]
August 27, 2012
“RINOS Play FarmVille”
Katie Kieffer, Townhall: Renowned economist Henry Hazlitt writes in Economics in One Lesson: “The most frequent [economic] fallacy by far today … is to concentrate on the short-run effects of policies on special groups and to ignore or belittle the long-run effects on the community as a whole.” He continues: “In the eyes of most congressmen the farmers simply cannot get enough credit.” But this ends up hurting the society
August 27, 2012
Electoral pragmatism, the GOP, and the anti-intellectual impulse
Okay. Let’s work through this: “It’s a problem. There is no doubt about that,” [Senator John] McCain [R-failed presidential candidate and megalomaniac] said on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” when asked about the impact of [Todd] Akin’s remarks on the Republican presidential ticket. “Mr. Akin should recognize having the nomination of your party is a privilege and if you abuse that then you are not eligible to keep it. What he
August 27, 2012
“U.S. Debt On Track to Hit $16 Trillion Within Week”
CNS: The federal government’s debt could hit an unprecedented $16 trillion this week while the Republican Party is holding its national convention in Tampa, Fla. On Monday afternoon, at the opening of the convention. the Republicans will try to draw attention to the mounting debt by unveiling a debt clock in the Tampa Bay Times Forum, where the convention will be held. At an event in Waterloo, Iowa, earlier this
August 26, 2012
“Obama Remembers Neil Armstrong. By Posting A Picture Of Himself.” [Darleen Click]
Narcissist in Chief thanks to Weasel Zippers
August 26, 2012
New York Times ombudsman shocked, SHOCKED to find liberal bias going on … [Darleen Click]
Arthur Brisbane does a turn as Captain Renault: The Times is hardly transparent. A reader still has to work very hard to find any Times policies online (though some are tucked away there), and there is still no place where Times editors speak on the issues. As for humility, well, The Times is Lake Wobegon on steroids (everybody’s way above average). I don’t remember many autopsies in which, as we