I’ve heard much Talk Radio criticism of the Obama administration’s canning of the NASA’s Constellation program. This seems to be one government program that Conservatives feel strongly about. This may make me unpopular right now, but we can’t afford it now.

When Obama’s lips mouth the words “private sector”, my sincerity meter flatlines. The only budgets that seem to qualify for his scalpel are those that don’t involve Chicago slumlords or unions. But wouldn’t you agree that, at the moment, privatizing anything and simultaneously shrinking a bureaucracy is a good thing?

I only wish he was as “responsible” across the board. Maybe if Valerie Jarrett has a proposal for subsidized low income housing on the Sea of Tranquility or a special Director of Lunar Diversity position opened for Michelle?

I do wonder if this is part of the President’s disdain for American Exceptionalism; of which the Space Program is certainly one.

All that said, if we’re to be on board with fiscal conservatism, we have to be willing to let our ox get gored.

Our local township is home to the Revolutionary War’s Brandywine Battlefield. Due to a $1.8 million cut in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission budget, some hard choices are needing to be made. The Commission made this recommendation:

Considering that it costed $385,044 in 2007 to run the park and brought in $65,163 in paid admissions, it is prudent to look the options.

I’d probably be laughed out of our Republican-controlled township meetings for suggesting that a Revolutionary War historic site be trimmed back while funds don’t exist. Too Ron Paul-ish or something.

But there also other options on the table that should be considered. In fact, I’m proud that our township and state representative are remaining more clear-eyed than their counterparts in corrupt Philadelphia.

What do y’all think?

I wrestle with my selfishness.  It’s an unfair fight because no matter which side I root for either way I want me to win.  But no matter how self-centered I may become, it’s always assuring to know that I’m never the worst because “journalists” in the Legacy Media business can articulate it so much better than any of the other millions of unemployed.  They practice tugging at those heart strings.  Especially those of people out of work as a result of the positions and policies they engraved on the tombstones of their cover stories and editorial pages.

Who else ever got paid to alienate customers as long?

So who would want to be a journalist? It has always been work for the strong-hearted, the bull-headed and the hopelessly romantic. People do this work because they love it. They love telling stories, however grim, seamy, or heartbreaking. In fact, the more heartbreaking the better.

Exploiting the humanity of the downtrodden to raise the all-important “awareness”.  Preferably in pursuit of expanding the nanny state.

That’s not to say that the piece linked to above chronicling the personal experience of the toll on family and career is void of sincerity.  It does.  But it is completely absent of any attempt at understanding  the downfall that the old media brought and continues to bring on what’s left of itself.  An obvious and intentional lack of self-examination.  No amount of New Media business model synergies seminars are going to fix that glaring blindspot:

The end of a love affair is always a little sordid, isn’t it? Awkward moments, bracketed by false reassurances that everything is still OK, postpone the inevitable…. They eye non-profit status with government subsidies like it’s Viagra for print.

The noble non-profits in pursuit of The Public Interest ™.   Dutifully reciting Washington’s message in exchange for their bread.  Or cab fare on the nightstand.

Perhaps they’d like it more if the government decided to take over their business, shut down hundreds of small papers and let the ones who donated the most favorable coverage to their campaigns survive and the really doe-eyed idealists among them can go to Washington like Mr. Smith.

By O’Keefe’s count, “Thomson is one of at least 14 journalists to join the Obama administration, with virtually all of them serving in a communications capacity,” and, intriguingly, O’Keefe asserted “other reporters at national outlets are known to be considering similar roles.”

Maybe those precious few remaining ink-stained wretches can gin up hatred of some hard-hearted Senator who thinks that government employees don’t deserve special treatment more than the private citizens he represents.  Those kinds of “grim, seamy and/or heartbreaking” tales are shiny epaulets on that government communications job résumé.

What kind of vocation calls such brave men and women?  Fearlessly standing up for the Big Guy?  Willing to cut the average American off at the knees to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted?

For myself, I learned a long time ago the one thing we can count on is change. Because of my husband’s work, my life has had a rootlessness to it that I never intended, but have come to accept. The only thing that’s brought me to tears during our latest upheaval is the number of colleagues who’ve have contacted him about a job with the same company. So many good people, so desperate to escape the beast’s arms.

The Beast of the Old Media is unwanted and howling in the backyard.  It’s begs for Big Government to hold it’s tether and water it’s bowl.  It longs to attack on command in pursuit of a “progressive” agenda against the private citizen who must involuntarily underwrite it.  It despises the average American while claiming to look out for Those Who Vote Against Their Best Interests.

At the end, it never realized that all it ever had to do to be successful was to be fair.   Either that or it did and chose to fail.

Buffet friend and candidate for U.S. Congress, Brian Miller publishes this piece at Townhall.com.

My beef with the whole thing is that it is LBJ and FDR social engineering at it’s worst. This here isn’t hyperbole, just try to enjoy a day in Bloomberg’s New York City.

See also, soda machines on high school campuses.

Brian is truly conservative and importantly, a military man with no political connections. Exactly what we need.

He running for Arizona’s 8th congressional district and is the founder The Freshman 50, a pre-Tea Party political action committee dedicated to fielding conservative candidates in 2010.

Please support his candidacy and get involved. Here’s why:

In a strained defense of wasteful “make work” projects to temporarily sustain government employees and their favorite no-bid contractors, the Bolshevik revolution continues with aplomb as the SouthCommunists at the reconstituted Nashville City Paper (NCP) serve up a little cover story complete with quasi-Soviet/NorK iconography:

You Forgot To Add The Sickle

ed. note – Six Meat Buffet uses Commie iconography as parody – not praise.

Among some of the brilliant observations from the Kremlinesque note-takers at the NCCCP:

More than $1 billion in stimulus funds have flowed into Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who voted for the recovery act. That money has created nearly 7,000 jobs in the geographic area that includes Davidson and parts of Wilson and Cheatham counties, according to federal figures that cover Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009.

At $1,000,000,000.00, that’s roughly $143,000 per job.  Excuse me, “nearly” 7,000 jobs.  Round it up a little.  Now would those be full-time jobs in the private sector that will be contributing taxes next year or a gubmint project filling potholes for 3 months because that’s a top 1-percenter income being funneled through the models of efficiency that are the federal and state government.  At least on Charity Navigator we can see how much went to Administrative costs.

The government’s stimulus-tracking website, recovery.gov, is designed to offer transparency about how the federal funds are being spent, and indeed, the wealth of information is almost overwhelming. The slightest bit of navigation will reveal initiatives throughout Nashville. Some, mostly construction projects, were unveiled with staged photo-ops and now don the familiar red-blue-and-green stimulus logo at their sites. Others have gone largely unnoticed. The list is much too lengthy to cover in its entirety without risking utter boredom.

You read that right.  Indeed,  they would hate to bore all you 10+% unemployed Tennesseans out there with all this free funemployment time on your hands. The information is so overwhelming we simply don’t have the ink to describe how completely awesome it is.

I thought this level of lickspittle A2M Soviet cockslobbery was reserved strictly for The Nashville Scene.

Indeed, I certainly don’t want to bore you with any more of the slavish teabaggery that Joey Garrison begged for at the wrinkled sack of the Obama Administration but this was just too much:

More heat on the street: Perhaps the most celebrated stimulus project allocated to Metro — hailed by Dean and others — is the $9 million grant awarded to the police department to bring on 50 new officers. According to spokesman Don Aaron, most of the money pays for salaries and other benefits.

That’s $180,000 per police officer added for those Metro school graduates averse to math.  Ask those cops how much they get paid a year and then ask where the other $135,000 went.

It seems Pravda On The Cumberland finally got a little competition.

Best not to examine all those Phantom Congressional Districts that got $54 Million in cream right off the top.  You say “Cream!” too loud around these inky apparatchiks and all they do is close their eyes and open their mouths.

$54 Million??? Why, that’s almost 300 new Robocops we could have bought or at least fended off lawsuits over rightfully arresting illegal aliens.  Or at least put a down payment on a light rail so we can have the illegals polishing the brass on our Shining Sanctuary City On The Hill.

Robocop: Only cost $73k in 1987 dollars (though most of his parts were made in Mexico)

Whatever you do Joey and the rest of your Comrades at the NCCCP, don’t look into that ghost money.  We’d all much rather read your incessant lacrimosas over Juana Villegas’ spilled breast milk.

This cannot be true!

Toomey is truly conservative in the mold of Rick Santorum and has fought for Specter’s seat before. But the country wasn’t in the mood at the time.

Specter is something of a folk hero in Southeast Pennsylvania with fond memories of his days as a dynamic Philadelphia district attorney. Also, he brings home pork like crazy. I’m sure that helps too.

But because not all Pennsylvanians are morons from Philly and Murtha’s Jonestown district, I’m a little shocked. I’d expect Toomey to be doing much better.

(s/t Daily Caller)

I knew better. Really I did.

Nothing changes.

In the back of my mind, I wondered if Brown might be just another McShame in a more appealing package. Confirmed. Is there a money-back guarantee?

He was, however, joined by four other gutless Republicans (names we know well) – BOND, COLLINS, VOINOVICH, SNOWE.

Brown said he got the message. The message we get from Brown is that it only takes a scant few weeks for principle to be replaced by power and greenbacks. It’s even money on whether he will keep his promise to vote against Obamacare and Cap-and-Trade.

The biggest shocker here is that Alexander actually voted against the bill.

Earlier today, Weenie The Punchdrunk Midget of the Mighty Searchlight Fightin’ Dwarves spake thusly on The Nature of Man:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested Monday that domestic violence by men has increased due to U.S. joblessness.

Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, appeared to argue that joblessness would lead to more domestic violence.

“I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Why? Men don’t have jobs.”

He’s technically right but for the wrong reason.  And conclusion.  It makes you think that it’s the mens who are going crazy because they’re out of work, frustrated, in all likelihood bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.

But what if they’re not holding on to their First and Second Amendment rights?  What if it’s the mens getting beaten because they don’t have jobs?  Instead of clinging to the guns and the god, they’re substituting it with a tray of brownies and a six-pack of Fat Tire at 10 in the morning?

Thanks for standing up for us, little fella:

The wife of former professional wrestling champion Ric Flair was arrested overnight in an apparent domestic assault case, police say.

Jacqueline Beems, 41, was charged with misdemeanor assault, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.

Beems and Flair were married about three months ago.

If the Nature Boy’s getting pounded over the head with a folding chair in his own home, think of the whipping Mrs. Reid is going to lay on Dingy come November.  Woooo!

Last night I got a call from a survey company out of Denver.  It went something like this:

Hello, my name is ***** and I’m calling from ***** and was wondering if you had some time for a brief survey concerning your political opinions?

I felt a little energetic, so I replied in the affirmative.

Great Mrs. ****.  Tell me, how likely are you to vote in Tennessee’s next gubernatorial election? Not Likely, Likely, or Certainly?

Certainly.

(here I begin paraphrasing a bit.)

Thank you.  Mrs. ****.  Some in the administration have proposed that in order for Tennessee to be fiscally healthy, there should be a one cent tax on sugar, soft drinks, and sports drinks.  Others have proposed that local officials come and take your babies by force and have them severed in two.  Tell me Mrs. *****, which option would you support?

Uh.  Um.  Can I pass on that one?

Sure.  I’ll just note that you “don’t know”.

In the country right now there is an epidemic of obesity.  Some lawmakers in Tennessee have proposed that special funds should be set aside for educating school children, especially at-risk kids, about healthy lifestyles.  Others have proposed that all Tennessee babies should be force-fed crack sandwiches.  Tell me Mrs. *****, which option would you support?

I’ve gotta pass on that too.

Sure.  I’ll just note that you don’t care about children.

All right,  let’s see.  Mrs. *****, due to the same obesity epidemic, some lawmakers have proposed a law that would require chain restaurants to list nutritional information on their menus.  Those who don’t support the proposal have stated that they would like to stand by as fat customers choke to death on their fried buffalo bacon and bleu cheese sandwiches.  Which option sounds best to you Mrs. *****?

You know, all of these questions seem designed to get me to choose option A.

Ma’am, I didn’t design the questionnaire, I’m just reading from a form here.

Oh, I understand.  Can I just say something here?

Sure.

(here begins the transcript of my fantasy conversation.  The one I came up with after the survey while I was making bean sprout sandwiches on whole wheat with sugar free yogurt for the kiddies, and Nutri-Crap cake for dessert.  This is what I would have said if I had a quick wit to match my justifiable political cynicism.  I mean, do you know how long it takes me to write these things?!)

I think I understand the political purpose of this survey.  First to publish in the news that the population of Tennessee overwhelmingly supports higher taxes and greater government intrusion, since no decent survey taker ever supported option B.  Secondly to place in my mind (the Tennessee voter) that there are no other viable alternative solutions (besides the evil option B) to the problems of the budget or obesity. Thirdly, to place in my mind that the candidate I must vote for is the option A candidate, because his opponent is obviously an option “B” man, and to give the option “B” man our vote would prove that I hated children and thought they should grow up ignorant and die a slow painful death from diabetes and heart disease. Right?

Like I said, I didn’t design the questionnaire.

Let me just say this.  I’ll start taking the advice of my school officials on issues of children’s health when they stop loading my kids with white bread and high fructose corn syrup in the lunch room, and chocking kindergartner’s pie holes with marshmallows and chocolate kisses every time they bark like a trained seal.
And I’ll start giving Tennessee’s wise government authorities my ear about my kid’s health and safety when they start putting aside a bit of the budget to make sure autistic kids don’t end up in cages, and to do background checks on elementary school teachers to make sure they haven’t attempted to kill anybody in the last few years.

Mrs. ****, should I note that you intend to discontinue the survey?

Click.

Yeah.  That’s how it should have gone.

You’ve got to love the Legacy Media spin though:

From the New York Slimes:

Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos

From the Hill, “we’ll have hearings on the hearings until I get the answer I want!” says husband of drunken bar brawling corruptocrat:

Judiciary chairmen vow hearings on torture memos report

From the Administration’s public relations farm team at the Washington Post(Op Trannies):

Authors of waterboarding memos won’t be disciplined

From Neo-nationalist People’s Radio:

Yoo And Bybee, Lawyers Behind ‘Torture Memos,’ Will Not Face Disbarment, Criminal Punishment

al-Reuters:

US: Lawyers Misconduct Shows Need for Torture Inquiry

They have a real funny way of describing how someone was found innocent.

Actually two words – “one term”.

Hold on to your Bose Wave Radio and leatherbound Paul Harvey transcripts. Fred Thompson’s planning on releasing his memoirs:

“Teaching the Pig to Dance” recounts the movie star-turned-politician’s 50s-era upbringing in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

The title alludes to what Thompson concedes were some of his own flaws and specifically how difficult he made it for those who were trying to help raise him.

“There is an old saying that teaching the pig to dance is a fruitless endeavor,” Thompson said in an e-mail. “It is a waste of your time and it irritates the pig. That was probably how my parents, teachers, coaches and townsfolk felt about me.”

And me with all these hoof prints on the top of my shoes.

Give it a week. He’ll abandon his writing and ask you to read McCain’s biography again.

Feel safe knowing that the Department of Homeland Security has everything under control from their strategic command post monitoring the comments section at the Huffin’ Glue Post:

As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

Don’t you feel safer already knowing that instead of monitoring phone calls from Yemen to Dearborn, Michigan or that sketchy guy from Pakistan sitting in 26D who keeps trying to set his Hanes on fire that your witty and insightful comment on Sarah Palin writing notes on her hand has the attention of Janet Reno’s butch cousin.

Tea Parties dominated by conspiracist kooks. According to Newsweek’s Jonathan Kay.

This world view’s modern-day prophets include Texas radio host Alex Jones, whose documentary, The Obama Deception, claims Obama’s candidacy was a plot by the leaders of the New World Order to “con the Amercican people into accepting global slavery”; Christian evangelist Pat Robertson; and the rightward strain of the aforementioned “9/11 Truth” movement. According to this dark vision, America’s 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan.

Sure enough, in Nashville, Judge Roy Moore warned, among other things, of “a U.N. guard stationed in every house.” On the conference floor, it was taken for granted that Obama was seeking to destroy America’s place in the world and sell Israel out to the Arabs for some undefined nefarious purpose. The names Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers popped up all the time, the idea being that they were the real brains behind this presidency, and Obama himself was simply some sort of manchurian candidate.

Of course every movement has its radicals, but if these ideas dominated the Tea Party movement, wouldn’t I have heard about them before stumbling upon them in a Newsweek article? I mean, I know my political prophets and they’re all pretty much dead.  Well, not ‘Zo, but anyway.

Kay didn’t even mention all of the wordpress-hating, Bill Whittle goading, gun-toting, earth-loving, secular Christian, veteran Wiccan Tea Partiers that had me fascinated all morning, but then again, they don’t fit his narrative. If you’re at all intellectually/philosophically/spiritually curious, and willing to have all of your own stereotypes challenged, you should read the comment thread on that one.

Harold or Clayton???  I get these two so confused.

There are so many striking similarities.Quick, Prudence.  Tell Jasper to get the pick-up truck helicopter ready.  Brother Harold’s going to make white liberals in New York feel comfortable with him one egg-white garden omelet at a time.

Serial racebaiter Harold Ford Jr., of the notorious Ford Memphis Crime Family, gave a perplexing interview to some columnist named Marion Dowd of a paper named after her visage, the Old Grey Lesbian.  Enjoy how he remembers things the way they weren’t:

Ford said he and his pretty blond wife, Emily, a marketing expert, were married in 2008 after his racially charged run for the Senate in Tennessee. They have made her apartment their official home.

“My wife decided after the ’08 election,” he said. “There was so much bad racial stuff out of Tennessee on Obama. I’m in an interracial marriage. I don’t want to subject my wife to this, and I want to start a family. I think my marriage is more accepted here than it would be in Tennessee.

Then promise to never come back, asshole.

First off, race was never a factor in Ford’s losing effort to become a Senator.  If it was it was on his part.

Allow me to posit that there is a kernel of truth in his accusation about racism in Tennessee though.  If St. Alban’s little Lord Fauntleroy thought him marrying a “pretty blond wife” was going to lose him votes it was going to be from people on his own side.  Mainly, a fractured black vote against him for being a race traitor. All those black church ladies in Memphis might have a problem getting up to vote that morning if Harold’s son was sporting Pam Anderson on his arm every day.  Evidently they resent that kind of stuff.

He kept his fiancee in the closet so long that she needed the pedicures to remove the mold.  That’s not an indictment of Threlkeld’s hygiene as much as one of the fungus she’s attached herself.

Then Obama came along and the Clinton star that Ford attached himself to started to descend.  Apparently there were more palatable “light-skinned, clean and articulate” candidates out there who also were absent of that pesky negro dialect that some Nevada Senators find so objectionable.

The question New Yorkers must ask themselves is “Are they ready to elect Clayton Bigsby as their new representative?”

And The Ringo of Commies shall lead them back to the famine.

So ends the Orange Revolution:

Initial exit polls put Viktor Yanukovych, a Soviet-style politician, three to five percentage points ahead of Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival and the current prime minister. A fuller picture is expected to emerge on Monday, at which point 80 per cent of the votes are likely to have been counted.

If confirmed, Mr Yanukovych’s victory sounds a death knell for the country’s 2004 Orange Revolution that set it firmly on a pro-Western course but failed to deliver meaningful changes.

Those would be meaningful changes after Putin’s attempt to assassinate their leader.  Of course, what pro-Western country was left for them to turn?  Even in the U.S. we unfortunately have a President who dreams of a Post-American world.

Ahead of the vote, he appeared relaxed and confident. “I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life,” he said, casting his vote.

“That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.” His advisers concede he is a poor public speaker but insist he is hard- working and committed to delivering better living standards, something Ukraine desperately needs. They insist he is not the Kremlin stooge he is often made out to be, though admit his policies are likely to be more palatable to the Kremlin than those of outgoing president Viktor Yushchenko.

In other words, “Things have developed that’ll ensure security. I’ve just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.”

How’s that “reset” button working out for us?

Next stop, Romania.  Hours after stealing the Ukrainian election, the Kremlin fires a shot across the bow.

More on the AWOL, objectively pro-Communist President.

Here is an interesting look at the Tea Party / Republican Party dynamic from the New York Times(!).

The GOP is recognizing that there is a growing and influential voting bloc in the Tea Party movement. So here begins the delicate dance of continuing to make political sausage and appeasing conservative demands.

Already, there are signs that the Tea Party movement is devolving and may be a short lived movement, but I believe through 2010, they are performing a long overdue and valuable service.

Feel that splash of ice water on your face? Good. Brings everything into sharp focus, it does. I see that you finally got the picture.

Of course, all the talk above is just that, talk – The message. Considering that the majority of the stimulus was to sustain state spending and expand the federal government, there may be no real improvement in the economy under the Democrats benevolent hand.

By the way, good luck with the casting of “Democrats as defenders of the people against Wall Street, and to cast Republicans as defenders of bonus-laden bankers”. The Republicans should put up pictures of Timothy Geithner offering up wheelbarrows of cash to AIG, Chris Dodd’s Irish Cottage and Barney Frank making kissy-face with Fannie and Freddie at every opportunity.

Meanwhile, as the tide seems to be turning, please keep pressure on our side of the aisle to keep to the principles of fiscal responsibility.

Like Michelle Says.

Preach it, sista!

… at 9pm EST

Um, Nancy, Harry, Obama? I’m not sure if this message is clear, but the bluest of the blue states just sent you a message; “We don’t really want your healthcare.” Ignore this at your own peril.

Here’s to hoping that you ignore this.

-Love, Cranky

From the Boston Globe’s opinion page.

Really? Is the candidate’s absolutely inept campaign to blame? Well, to some extent, yes. Her divine right of ascension mentality and the countless gaffes that came with it probably was off-putting even to the generally elitist citizens of Massachusetts.

Maybe the tired rhetoric of looking out for the little guy by taking on evil insurance companies rang hollow even as she openly attended a fundraiser held by the aforementioned evil insurance companies.

Or, and I’m just shooting from the hip here, this is a referendum of Obama’s bankrupt-the-nation agenda?

Well, I’m going to start some premature gloating as the Brown-Coakley election takes place today.

Here’s a preview of some headlines coming out in the next few weeks.

The Boston Tea Parties, Rightwing Activism at its Worst.

Michelle Obama, once again, no longer proud of her country.

Ted Kennedy Weeps for Us All

Brookline’s Institutional Racism

Federally Funded Abortion, Union Exemptions – What’s Wrong With You People?

Scott Brown still has a chance to take that MA Senate seat. If you throw him a few bucks, that will help get his message out, which will help defeat the socialist hag who stands in his way. Anything will help. Time is running out!!

Contribute to Scott Brown Here

The only way to fix the GOP is to support conservatives like Brown. DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO THE RNC!!! Give to the Scott Browns and Marco Rubios who the GOP elites have abandoned.

UPDATE: Six Meat gets results!

Artist’s Rendering: Ass not really that dark.

Projection ain’t just for movie theaters, folks. As Cranky pointed out the selective outrage that always seems to effect national Democrats, the revelations that Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Game Change” is threatening to unleash is bound to give us a sequel to America’s Historic Conversation On Race that we all need to have so much:

–In lobbying the late Sen. Edward Kennedy to endorse his wife, former President Clinton angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. Telling a friend about the conversation, Kennedy recalled Clinton had said “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the authors paraphrase.

At least he didn’t say anything about Obama being the half and half for his coffee. These arbiters of racial sensitivity. And at least he didn’t say anything about shining his shoes or then Chuckles McPonytail would be obligated to defend him.

It’s this type of black-on-black violence, the First Black President and the Second One, engaged in these rhetorical drive-bys by the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X of our times that makes me worry about the future of our Idiocracy. A real tempest in a demitasse.

–Reid said Obama could fare well nationally as an African-American candidate because he was “light-skinned” and didn’t speak with a “Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” Saturday, the majority leader said he had used “poor choice of words” and called Obama to apologize; the White House issued a statement indicating that the president had forgiven Reid.

Now everybody’s making ado about the “light-skinned” and “Negro dialect” mentions but I don’t see anyone talking about the last part of it – the “unless he wanted to have one” comment. That’s the part that needs fleshing out. Why would such an erudite, by all appearances “clean” and well-scrubbed politician want to speak in some ghettofied dialect? Presumably, Reid is not referring to an African dialect but the one that Al Gore and Hillary Clinton usually devolve into – the Stepin Fetchit-ism from the pulpits of black churches.

That’s the explanation I want. When does Reid think that it is beneficial for Obama to get ghetto? Maybe when he’s going to shame someone on the other side for an innocuous remark?

Not to worry, folks. Not to worry. Once he knew the story was going to break (read: yesterday), Dingy Harry immediately called to apologize and kiss Obama’s light-skinned ass. All that’s left is for him to kiss it and for the media to ignore this story by tomorrow morning.

Nothing fosters racial conciliation more than a bigot and a race huckster coming together in the name of stealing all your money.

Thank God For Taxation Without Representation Update:  Attention, all you Washington, D.C. vacationers.  If you think you can seize on Harry Reid’s comments and find a friend in the black community then you better recognize:

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is warning Republicans against trying to make hay out of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s skin color and lack of a “Negro dialect.”  The nonvoting member of Congress said Reid’s opponents “will not find a welcome mat in the black community” if they try to seize on his remarks.

Norton, a black woman who represents one of the most heavily African-American cities in the country, said Reid will enjoy support from the black community because he has “earned it with long support of civil rights and many other issues that matter most to African-Americans.”

So don’t wonder where the mat is if you end up in the D.C. area.  You won’t be able to find it. Some crazy woman stole it and is running around with it to protect a man who can appreciate the finer points of her negro dialect that she’s taking out on you.

He earned that right.

Well how about that, Peggy Noonan reads the Buffet.

What can we as the grass roots do to help the GOP find their way? I don’t think the third party is the way to go, but if we build them up, maybe we can influence their choice in candidates and lean on the incumbents to do the right thing.

This quote from the much maligned Michael Steele gives me some cause for optimism:
Via Ace.

The article focuses on a “gaffe” he made by saying:

I’ll give that this is bad PR, but I think if it gives the GOP pause to consider running a better quality of candidates, then well done!

Republicans were poor representatives of fiscal conservatism throughout the Bush years, spending like they were Democrats (see Preston’s excellent analysis). However, Democrats, led by the leftest of the left, proved that Republicans were pikers when it came to spending.

Now, I believe, a good number of independent and middle of the road voters are completely fed up, if not a little scared of the possibility of the US reaching a financial point of no return.

Captioned on Drudge as GOP poised for comeback in midterm elections…, this article looks good for the GOP.

My question is whether these wins will translate into a more attuned Republican party or are we just changing the pigs at the trough again? At the very least, the power shift towards the middle will help make both parties ineffective, which is not necessarily a bad thing. A few more ridiculous bills quashed should help our maxed out economy.

Should Republicans regain a majority, I would like to see more effort put into fiscal restraint and less into flag burning amendments. These moves will not be easy as the media will immediately dust off the anti-Reagan boilerplate and resume criticizing the cold-hearted Republicans who pull blankets off homeless grandmas at every effort to cut back a program or sunset a useless bureaucracy.

It will take commitment and ideology to keep the Party from settling into the complacency of just passing omnibus spending bills with a little something extra for donors back home.

I think we must turn out to vote in force this year in order to stanch the bleeding. We need to stop Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank and Murtha from the spendapalooza this has become. But I wonder rhetorically, if we should still be willing to sit it out if the candidates offer us more of the same.

What do you think?