Monthly Archives: February 2010

McCain Has His Priorities In Order

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gopherArizona must be so proud.

They have their very own environmental superhero, Captain Chipmunk/John McCain, proclaiming his belief in global warming even as evidence pours in that much of the science behind it was shoddy at best.  His sidekick, The Pomeranian Lindsey Graham, is working on the cap and trade bill with the Democrats.  Don’t you just admire such heroic maverick consistency in the face of…

  • Widespread evidence of manipulated science
  • Obvious hyperbole by politicians cynically agitating a desire for responsible ecological stewardship for a power grab
  • Potential damage to the economy for no good reason
  • Unwarranted resistance by us pesky conservative rubes

But wait!  The heroics don’t end there.  Not only does Arizona’s finest environmental superhero face down the tough problems of global warming, but he’s also fighting the evil scourge of…dietary supplements!

That’s right!  McCain is co-sponsoring a bill with Senator Dorgan to give regulatory oversight of vitamins to the FDA.  And he’s using the excuse that some athletes are taking steroids to justify this huge expansion of government.  So, in a time of job loss and economic malaise, McCain can see through to the important stuff…the evil plot by Vitamin D to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!  Support the McCain-Dorgan vitamin crackdown for the good of all mankind!

Yes sir, McCain has his priorities in order.  He’ll never let pesky things like mounting evidence, more pressing issues, or not having any sort of a good reason stand in the way of his maverick behavior.  So fire up the Chipmunk Signal, Arizona, and accept no substitute chipmunkery!

More Than Electoral Consequences to Obamacare

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

Even after their smackdown at the Obama healthcare “summit”, the Democrats are moving forward with Obamacare.  Or trying to, anyway.  Whether or not they succeed yet remains to be seen, but the logic behind it is this:

  1. They’re already going to take an electoral drubbing.
  2. It won’t change whether they do this or not.
  3. So why not pass something they’ve calculated will give them long term power.
  4. It’s not as though the Republicans have the guts to repeal an entitlement.

Ok, so let’s start out with the premise that this sort of thinking prevails in the Democratic party, and they’re really going to give it a shot.  Being the political hobgoblin that I am, I can think of a few more consequences to this that don’t have anything to do with politics.  What else could happen?

  1. De facto exile:  I’ve mentioned this before but it bears repeating.  Ben Nelson is two years out of a re-election fight, but he’s scrambling to distance himself from the Cornhusker Kickback right now.  Why?  Because he’s paying for it now, as demonstrated by the pizza shop incident.  He’s a pariah in his own home state for just taking one action on this potential nightmare.  What happens if it passes?  The reminders of his complicity in this never end, and he’s never welcome in his home state again.  Now, why don’t some of those Democrats thinking they’re going to vote for this imagine that it’s them, because it very well could be.
  2. Entitlement?  What entitlement?:  “Oh, it’s an entitlement, and they’re never repealed!”  Great thinking, except that it’s not an entitlement until 2013.  Right now, it’s a combination monster tax hike/Medicare cut/individual mandate all-in-one-infuriate-everyone bill.  They can’t run on “Well, the Republicans will repeal it if they’re elected” attack line if there’s no sugar from the federal sugar daddy until 2013.  Especially since it will be all but certain that Obama is gone in 2012.  So basically, who wants to lose their jobs for nothing when they still have a chance to save them by flipping votes with a good excuse?  Show of hands, please!
  3. What goes around, comes around:  These politicians may not have to suffer the same medical system they helped to destroy, but how about someone they know?  How about their grandchildren?  How about the day they couldn’t pull strings fast enough for someone they loved who needed life-saving medical care in minutes, but couldn’t be penciled in until next week because of the wonderful new medical rationing system they helped to create?  Want to imagine how much fun that funeral won’t be?  I wouldn’t either, so why risk it?
  4. Do they really think their leadership knows what it’s doing?:  I mean, come on.  There have been such monumental displays of competence from Reid, Pelosi, and President “Votes Present” himself.  Nothing like the Tea Party movement could ever happen.  And no one ever protests pork like that imaginary state of Nebraska and that whole non-existent Cornhusker Kickback thing.  I’m sure it will all have just gone away by November, when everyone realizes how brilliant they all are despite the fact the country is still in a recession and everyone is mad because the medical system is going to hell on top of it.

This bill isn’t merely an electoral nightmare for those who’ll consider voting for it.  It could well become the thing that goes bump in the night for a lot of the true believers, or those too scared to resist their leadership.  Losing their seats could be the least of their problems.

A Few Thoughts on Killer Whales

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fishThere have been a few instances in the blogosphere about “McCain made great comments at the healthcare summit” and so forth, but as a proper maverick supporter, I don’t care.

If you would like to see this sort of behavior in Republicans more often, you can help insure it by replacing McCain with a junior Senator like Hayworth.  Unlike McCain, Hayworth can’t force his way into leadership roles and take them away from more deserving sorts like DeMint or Inhofe once he reverts to progressive form after an election.  That’s because he will both be a junior Senator, and that there’s no progressive in him.  He also has no track record of turning conservative Senators into gibbering idiots, like McCain did with the Official Maverick Lapdog Lindsey Graham (Pomeranian – SC).

He’s the only reason McCain is pretending to be conservative so aggressively lately anyway.  Win or lose, McCain will be his annoying self after the Republican primary in August.  It’s just that if he loses, you won’t have to put up with it for as long.

But forget all that.  Today, I want to talk about killer whales.

A killer whale recently killed its trainer at Sea World, and yes, this is tragic.  The bottom line, however, it that they are called KILLER whales for good reason.  Despite their beauty and well-trained “friendliness” in theme park shows, they don’t refer to them this way as a form of ironic humor.  In the wild, killer whales are CARNIVORES which eat things like seals.  Violently.

Well, in captivity, these creatures don’t suddenly take up a Vegan diet.  They still eat meat.  And while they tend to be a bit tamer, somewhere in their makeup is the potential for behavior that keeps them alive in the wild.  The predatory sort of behavior that makes sure they eat enough of what they need to keep living.

In the end, they’re a lesson on leopards changing their spots, like Democrats and mavericks pretending to be conservative around election time.  Yes, they’re big and beautiful, and they can be trained to act friendly and perform tricks.  However, the bottom line is that they’re still killer whales.  And occasionally, Tea Partiers.

Captain Chipmunk Rides Again!

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gopherThere’s plenty of other maverick news today folks, but the big one?  Captain Chipmunk/John McCain rides again!  He reaffirmed his belief in the cult of global warming, which he referred to as “climate change” to use the latest fashion, and in an election year no less!  Such courage of his convictions, especially after all the scandals involving the scam science of global warming.  Of all the things he could choose to not waffle on, it’s this.

To top it off, his sidekick, the Official Maverick Lapdog Lindsey Graham (Pomeranian – SC) is trying to pass a “bipartisan” cap and trade bill.  He’s calling for carbon caps.  To get votes for a piece of legislation based on a hoax.  That will harm the economy in a recession.  And he doesn’t think his owner is going to pay for it in August if he succeeds?

You can read more about it at Michelle Malkin’s blog.  It’s become so absurd, it’s time to suggest that these two get their own product lines…

  1. Captain Chipmunk action figures!
  2. Captain Chipmunk wind-up toys (batteries are bad for the environment)!
  3. Captain Chipmunk DVDs!
  4. The complete line of Pomeranian dog toys, but only if Captain Chipmunk gives his permission!
  5. And most importantly, Captain Chipmunk’s very own personal retirement plan, courtesy of J.D. Hayworth!

Speaking of which, Hayworth has challenged McCain to a series of debates.  He says he wants at least ten of them, but I don’t know.  If McCain wants to keep taking positions like this, it might not hurt to cut back a little and give McCain some time to hang himself before nailing him on dumb positions like cap and tax.