Monthly Archives: June 2009

I Wanna Be Like Mc, Part II

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It’s official, folks!  Norm Coleman has been defeated by the comedian Al Franken in Minnesota, and it’s time to shower him with infinite kudos.  He decided that “I wanna be like Mc” and went the extra mile to join the Gang of 10 and help the Republicans create all the maverick supporters they needed to make this possible.  Now, ye newest member of the maverick paradigm, you get to join the…

Yes, the Gang of Goodbye.  A prestigious grouping of former Republican Senators and Congressmen who, through their enlightenment in the maverick paradigm, have been blessed with an abundance of free time by their newfound maverick supporters.  They didn’t need those pesky responsibilities of governance anyway.  It’s more fun to put those pesky conservatives in their place.

Now, some people will mourn the career of Senator Coleman. But I’m sure he won’t be one of them, because he followed the maverick paradigm right to the Promised Land of the Permanent Vacation. You can try to credit Minnesota, or ACORN, or dumb voters, but I’m having none of it!  The bottom line is that Coleman, with a lot of help from the enlightened Rockefellar Republicans, bent over backwards to create maverick supporters in droves in 2008.  Give them credit for all their hard work, and let them reap the rewards of their efforts without stealing their self-esteem.

Seriously, if Coleman didn’t want to end up like this, why on Earth join a Senate Gang only a handful of weeks out of an election?  Anyone who was paying attention knows this is an excellent technique by the Master Maverick to garner puff press and maverick support.  So smile, folks!  Coleman meant to do this.

They all wanna be like Mc!

Tea Party Time Again!

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It’s Tea Party time again folks.

The last one was on April 15th.  I blogged about it but couldn’t attend because of work.  This time, they put one on a holiday, and I can make it now.  No more excuses from me.  It’s time to go, and I’m encouraging you to do it too.

For those of you who think I’m a paid participant of astroturfed street theatre:  what are you, nuts?  Do you think any corporate type would be caught dead near my blog?  I take pride in running one of the most demented political commentary sites on the Internet, at least until it’s time to show my maverick support for John McCain again in 2010.  If it was an astroturfed event, the corporations would be paying me to stay away.

For those of you who are considering attending, remember this:

  • They don’t care about your political affiliation
  • They are not affiliated with the Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else.
  • They are interested in the fact that failed leaders from both parties are spending us to ruin, and trying to ram us headlong into socialism.
  • If you want to stand against this, there are no barriers.  It has nothing to do with race, age, gender, or anything else.  Just show up.

Washington will hear us yet.

The Cap-and-Trade Crystal Ball

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Hello, all you happy Democratic Congresspeople (and the occasional RINO)!  This little bit of conjecture on my part is aimed at all of you lovely types wondering if you’re about to do the right thing.  So, to help you on your way, I’m going to give you a hypothetical.  Think of it as your very own cap-and-trade crystal ball.

It’s October of 2010.  Cap and trade is alive and well, having passed through Congress over the objections of the other side and the normal people.  Your constituents have just been through another summer of $6.00 a gallon gas prices.  Plus, the cost of electricity it took to remain even halfway comfortable through the summer season was nearly twice what it was before your glorious bill.  Of course, that’s presuming a lot of your constituents could even afford to run their air conditioning, seeing as how the price of everything has gone up.

You see, you raised the cost of energy.  Your mutated environmental radical base loved it.  However, the cost of everything made with energy (which is everything) goes up too.  The companies pass the cost along to their customers because that’s what they do.  And the normal people, who exist in far greater numbers than the environmental radicals, now hate your guts.

The neat games you played, the rhetorical tricks you used, and the short memories you thought would save you aren’t getting it done.  This is because the suffering cap-and-trade has caused is real and never-ending, and you had the poor sense of timing it took to pass it in a recession.  On top of that, your political opponent is beating you over the head with it.  You’re using global warming demagoguery to counter them, but the people don’t care about your bunk when they’re taking body blows to their budgets all day.

Still, be a good Democrat.  By all means, cower to Pelosi.  Give the leadership what they want.  It’s only your job and not theirs that’s on the line.

Update, 6/26/2009:  Eight Republicans voted for this bill.  Hot Air has their names.

On the flip side of this, kudos where they’re due.  Boehner deserves credit for trying to filibuster this thing.  He did good.

Obama Doesn’t Volunteer for the People’s Health Care

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It’s another Captain Obvious moment.  Obama isn’t going to volunteer his family for the health care he’s going to inflict on us little people.

It’s a pure liberalism moment.  They feel they’re entitled to get different rules from us peasant folk, and Obama slipped and revealed it again.  Their eco-speaker in chief, Al Gore, can ride around in limousines and fly on private jets, but not us.  We all have to answer for our failures in one fashion or another, but liberals who do massive legislative damage never do.  And we’ll have to settle for our third-rate socialized medicine while Obama gets the very best care for his own family.

Sorry, I don’t think so.  If Obama doesn’t want to give his family the same as the rest of us, it means he knows his health care plan is a complete disaster.  Since other countries have tried it with awful results, this conclusion isn’t a great leap of logic.  If he doesn’t like it for himself, he should NOT inflict it on us.  I bet he won’t volunteer his family for The People’s Forced Unionization from the Employee Free Choice Act either.

Just because the liberals think they’re special doesn’t make it so.  You just got a taste of what he thinks of his own health care proposal.  Defeat Obamacare.

Link courtesy of Hot Air.