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It Doesn’t Get More Ridiculous Than This

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judgeACORN is reverting to liberal form.  When backed into a corner, go on the offensive.  That’s why they’ve filed suit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com for the the sting that may well bring them down.

It doesn’t get more ridiculous than this.

Million dollar cups of coffee and criminals successfully suing their potential victims for damages don’t compare to the hubris here.  ACORN is completely wrong, and they’re still playing the victim.  Furthermore, it gets even more fun, because two of the Democrats in Congress are making noises about investigating this.  Not ACORN’s criminal behavior, but the facts related to the sting.

If a legal defense fund forms for James and Hannah, let me know (if I don’t already).  The link will go up in my blogroll, and I’ll do my small part in helping them out.  As far as I’m concerned, both of them are heroes.

The Funny Stops at the National Defense

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No jokes now, folks.  It’s zero flak time.

Two incidents of note to pour some cold water on my otherwise demented sense of humor:

  1. The FBI is investigating a plot to detonate explosives in mass transit systems.  They’re concerned because one of the suspects they have in custody may have been trained to deal with explosives, and is not part of the less-adept sorts they’ve previously encountered.  Fortunately, Obama will have all this sorted out as soon as his union buddies quit squabbling over who does security.
  2. General McChrystal, the general in charge of the effort in Afghanistan, threatened to resign if enough resources weren’t given to him to win there.  This after Obama’s position that “Afghanistan was the real war” became something along the lines of “let’s think about it”.

The funny stops at the national defense.  Obama’s not up to the task of anything but socialism, and now there’s a real problem.  He’s nowhere near up to the task of defending the country, unless we can torque his massive case of narcissism enough to insure he decides our security is in his best interest.

It’s going to be a wild 3 1/2 more years.  We’ll all get to live in interesting times.

The Problem Isn’t “Conservative Anti-Intellectualism”

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professorHere’s something I found from a rant on Digg today:  “Conservative Anti-Intellectualism”.

To hear this, you’d think it was something on the rise.  It’s not the first time I’ve seen or heard something like this, either.  A blog troll here, a post there, some comments against Fox News and Glenn Beck in particular.  Not quite a talking point yet, but the sentiment is floating around in cyberspace.

It’s bunk, of course.  There’s nothing anti-intellectual about us.  We still do things like back up positions with facts.  Some, like Sowell and Levin, can do so eloquently.  However, none of this is the point because it’s not the rising anti-intellectualism of conservatism that’s the cause of complaint.  It’s the rise of conservative anti-passivity.

Our leaders failed and betrayed us before self-destructing.  Now we’re stuck with Obama, and he’s not wasting any time destroying everything he touches.  His power grabs have been many and shocking, and the Republicans are still worthless.  That means we do something about it, or no one does.

So we did.

Suffices to say, it isn’t funny to the left when the activists are working against liberalism.  So, much like the complaint of “the lack of civility” that used to occur when Congress was majority Republican, we now have “conservative anti-intellectualism”.  We haven’t become dumber, just louder and more assertive in resisting the left.  If anything, this was long overdue, and I’m just as guilty about trusting my leaders over my own initiative as a lot of us once were.

It’s not going to happen again.  So find new and amusing things to call us, liberals, because we’re not going away.  I’m sure there’s a slogan you’ve used before that applies.  How about “I’M FIERCE, I’M A FEMINIST, AND I’M IN YOUR FACE!”

Uh…never mind.

Are We Supposed to Be Impressed Now?

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gopherLet’s just start with the news first.  McCain made some remarks about Carter’s accusations of racism against town hall protesters.  He calmly stated that Carter deserved his place as the worst President in history, if not simply the 20th century.

I say “made some remarks” and “calmly stated” because that’s what it was.  McCain’s commentary deserves no stronger a description.  It was a statement that may as well have been prepared in advance and read from a note sheet as a matter of course.  In other words, typical of His Maverickness.

Gateway Pundit has the sound bite if you’d like to hear it and decide for yourself.  As a proper maverick supporter of His Maverickness, there’s no way on Earth the video would appear on this site.  It’s way too flattering to McCain, and frankly not worth posting because it demostrates nothing real about him.

Seriously, are we supposed to be impressed now that he’s going through the motions of standing up to defend us?  Are we now supposed to ignore the fact that for both terms of the Bush administration, he was for all intents and purposes a mislabeled Democrat?  Are the years he ran roughshod over conservatives in a misguided attempt to advance his own ambitions and bask in puff press supposed to magically disappear from our memories?  Is his desperation to get re-elected in 2010 with all of this conspicuous conservatism he doesn’t mean not supposed to be transparent?

I’d tell him to give it up, but it’s fun to watch.  The only reason he’d even conceive of doing this is because he thinks he’s in real trouble.  Could it be because of his primary opponent, Chris Simcox, or the two consecutive RINO purges in 2006 and 2008?  May he be right.