Category: Politics

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(Link seen on Instapundit.)

How would the passage and signing of cap-and-trade legislation help in President Obama’s stated goal of keeping health care costs down?

Last time I was in a hospital, there were lots of blinky lights, garbled intercoms, and buzzing machinery that need energy to function. With more expensive electricity, how many treatments must be denied to make the scales balance for the unelected board or commission in charge?

24th State asks some questions about Robin Carnahan’s involvement with ACORN.

Sarah Steelman forming exploratory committee for Senate run

Link seen on, believe it or not, Prime Buzz, the Kansas City Star‘s political blog that frequently links to me and sometimes mischaracterizes me as a left-wing crank.

I hope Rush Limbaugh distances himself from this knucklehead:

In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, Grassley (R-Iowa) said: “The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them if they’d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things — resign, or go commit suicide.”

This sort of comment from an elected official is reprehensible, and from a Republican who theoretically values life and opposes euthanasia, is beyond the pale. This man Senator deserves ostracization (note to that ignorant Senator from Iowa: that is not a medical procedure).

Hank Williams, Jr., will appear with Governor Palin in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Because, face it, the national Democratic Party doesn’t have room for his sort of people. It has massed other, more powerful tribes, it thinks.

So, how come everyone compares Obama’s television extravaganza to Ross Perot, but nobody compares him to Lyndon LaRouche?

Short term memory on part of the pundits?

Obama/Biden ’08: Because Unionized Federal Doctors sounds like a good idea!

You know, maybe it’s just me, but the pop art propaganda iconography of the Obama campaign isn’t making me rest any easier. Couldn’t they have at least masked the Soviet heroism look and feel just a little bit?

I know, some of you readers might be disappointed that I’m not daily dishing out snark about the election or mocking the mockery of a candidate thrown up by the Democrats for the position. However, let’s just say I’m feeling a little sanguine about the prospects for the future. So sanguine, I’m italicizing it even though it’s not a foreign word.

How sanguine? This describes my mood:

Listen to the words, children. Do not be confused by the pretty Starman like story. Remember Robert Hays for his excellent work in Airplane!.

If you want me, I’ll be in the back yard, burying copies of the Federalist Papers, Milton Friedman books, printed copies of Ace’s and Porch Girl’s blogs, and Sean Hannity’s Deliver Us From Evil, the last unwrapped and acting as fertilizer for my upcoming Wealth Spread Garden.

You know, that bumper sticker I made insinuating that Obama was a communist is one thing; another thing entirely are the line of official Barack Obama signs and whatnot with the freaking Soviet star on them:

What, you’re going to tell me that’s supposed to imply the Red Star Yeast logo because Obama is going to raise us all or the Macy’s logo because Obama wants to turn the government into the citizens’ department store, where they can get anything they want as long as it’s red.

If you voted for a dead man for Senate and knowingly sent a woman to the United States Congress based on her qualification that she was the governor’s widow, you may now shut the hell up about a sitting governor being unqualified to be vice president.

Last night, Gimlet, Froggie-Girl, Jack Straw, and a civilian attended the Palin debate watching party and rally at SLU’s arena:

I drove down to the local state senator candidate’s office, dragging two reluctant children including one who found a golf ball and decided to show his pitching arm in the office while I filled out personal information on attendees. No one collected the tickets at all.

Unlike the cool kids like Gateway Pundit, we didn’t get to sit in the lower bowl or work the rope line. We sat upper deck amongst the plebes.

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There are the floor level people gathering before the debate.

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Here, an MC whose name I didn’t catch tries to rally the troops. Me, I remained unrallied, at least to the point of the chanting.

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We watched the debate on the big screens.

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Biden on the big screen. To be honest, I applauded at some things that Biden said. Unfortunately for Biden, it was when he said things like John McCain clubs baby seals, at which point I clapped loudly because I hate the little carbon emitters myself. On several of the points Biden made and I applauded, a lot of people in my section applauded as well. Others thought I was a Biden plant.

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While we waited for Palin to arrive after the debate, a country and western singer entertained us with “God Bless the USA” and a couple of woman anthems. I set the odds at 3:7 that she’d sing “Gunpowder and Lead” by Miranda Lambert; I lost, but we did get a bit of “Independence Day” by Martina McBride, a different song about killing your man.

Some people say Obama cannot draw a mass crowd without a free concert. I have to admit the same holds true for Palin. I just came to see this singer. Whoever she was. I’m her biggest fan.

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The Straight Talk Express pulls right into the arena. It looks to be burning oil. Jack Straw asks, “Do you think they pulled it right into the arena?” Oh, yeah. Secret Service preferred it that way.

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There she is. She spoke for a couple minutes, using a bit of the same things she said at the debate.

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There she is, working the rope line. Might be shaking Gateway Pundit’s hand there or something. Wait, hang on.

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That’s her.

Final thoughts: Palin did really, really well. It’s the largest rally that I’ve attended, and frankly, it weirds me out to see that many Republicans having fun in one place. Also, the whole political rally was very close to a hockey game atmosphere, although they weren’t serving beer. They couldn’t have served enough beer to keep up with the Joe Biden drinking game. Also, I have a serious case of camera envy. Jack Straw’s camera took pictures such that you can actually see the people in them.