Archive for December, 2009
Question of the Day: Would a major terrorist attack boost Obama's approval ratings?
Last night, at Sidetracks for Showtunes Night, of all places, we overheard a few guys talking around the long central table in Side Bar about the latest attempts by Muslims to blow airliners out of they sky. Not that we were eavesdropping, but we were totally eavesdropping. One of the guys said he still thinks Bush let 9/11 happen so that his approval ratings would rise, because whenever anything really bad happens, people rally around the president and love him again. “Oh, s***, if that’s true then we all better watch out, because Obama’s numbers are in the toilet so I hope Rahm doesn’t get any ideas,” is what another in the group said.
This thought practically gave us nightmares, and has been on our mind ever since.
Rahm Emanuel is a vile, hideous, human being.
He has no morals, no scruples, no sense of decency, and knows no limits in the quest for whatever he wants. There has never been anyone like him, not even in the Nixon Administration, in the position of White House Chief of Staff. The MSM liked to call presidential advisor Karl Rove “the evil genius”, and genius we’ll grant him, but evil’s certainly been redefined since Rahm Emanuel started work at the White House.
The Keystone Kops routine Janet Napolitano seems to be running at Homeland Security gives us great pause. “Big Sis”, as she likes to be called, embarrassed herself more than usual this week, first claiming security measures worked fabulously, and that there was no problem at all with a Muslim carrying high-explosives in his underwear and almost killing 300 people en route to Detroit. Now, we realize 300 people being killed in Detroit doesn’t seem at all unusual, but typically they’re killed after arriving in the city itself, one at a time, picked off by what’s left of the population in the classic example of what happens to a perfectly good city when placed squarely in Liberal control for generations. The only reasons those people aboard the Christmas Day Delta/Northwest are alive all fall under Christmas luck: the Muslim wasn’t well-trained enough to detonate the bomb, the Muslim who made the bomb didn’t design it well enough, and a hot Danish alpha male leapt across other passengers and stopped the Muslim from being able to fiddle with the device enough to actually set it off.
Big Sis, this is not fabulous security. It’s a tragedy averted only by the intervention of angels, however you wish to define them. Such as hot Danish guys.
As we’ve stated on this site many times, we’ve come to reevaluate the Bush Administration since Dr. Utopia and his band of loons took over last January. It’s preposterous to believe people who love this country with their whole hearts would allow it to be attacked just to boost approval ratings. We do not believe, for a moment, that Condoleezza Rice deliberately ignored any warnings about Al-Queda, as Liberals keep insisting. We believe, instead, that the incoming Bush Administration in 2001 inherited hundreds if not thousands of plots in the works against the United States. They stopped as many of them as they could, just as the Clintons stopped as many as they could on their watch. The USS Cole and Oklahoma City got through in the 90s, but the attacks on Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, and the New Year’s Eve 1999 bombings were stopped. 9/11 happened, but Bush prevented scores of other attacks, from hits on the Sears Tower to the bombing of New York’s subways.
We do not believe the Clinton or Bush Administrations would ever have allowed Americans to be killed just so approval ratings would rise. Not in a million years.
But, what about this current administration? What about Rahm Emanuel, the foul-mouthed, vicious Chief of Staff, who believes every day should be all-out open war on someone for political purposes?
We do not believe the current President of the United States loves or respects this country. His presidency is the culmination of his own narcissism and egomania. He is not in office to serve the people, but instead to be served as the world’s largest and most self-important celebrity. We believe, truly, he couldn’t care less whether Americans lived or died, so long as he looked smokin’ on the next GQ cover.
But, that’s still a giant leap to conclude he’d deliberately allow Muslims to murder Americans in the hopes he’d receive a 9/11 style boost in the polls. As much as he wants his approval to be 90% like Bush’s was in September of 2001, even Dr. Utopia himself wouldn’t, in our opinion, take the chance of allowing a major terrorist attack on US soil. The potential for that backfiring on him is too great for him to risk anything like that. Just because Bush received that massive wave of support doesn’t mean Utopia would, and he knows it.
However, we do believe a major Muslim attack on the US is more likely in 2010 than it’s been at any time in our lifetimes, because this current administration is inhibiting the collection of intelligence from terror networks, is aggressively targeting and persecuting those in the CIA and military charged with obtaining intel, and views Muslims as misunderstood Care Bears picking daisies while spreading ‘The Religion of Peace” through any means necessary.
We’ve likened the current president to Timothy Treadwell before, the idiot naturalist in Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” documentary. Treadwell believed grizzly bears were just misunderstood Care Bears. He thought all they needed were hugs, and that possibly the addition of kisses and maybe well-placed rainbows would turn these aggressive killers into the bestest of friends. He and his girlfriend were eaten by bears.
Hope!
Change!
Grrrrrrrr!
When Muslims hit us in the next three years, it’s not going to be because Rahm Emanuel and Dr. Utopia decided he needed an approval boost so they deliberately let it happen — it will happen because the current president is naive and in over his head, but more dangerous than that, he truly does believe Islam is “The Religion of Peace” and Americans must submit themselves to it. He thinks our military and intelligence networks are too tough on terrorists, and that hugs and kisses would be more effective than the intelligence-gathering techniques that have kept America safe since 9/11. His Justice Department, under notorious race-baiter Eric Holder, makes it more and more difficult every day for our best trained operatives to do their jobs to keep Americans alive in the face of daily Muslim threats. Homeland Security, under Utopian Big Sis, might as well be run by the Marx Brothers (whose far distant relative, if in name only, the current president is evidently quite fond of).
This is a perfect storm of naivety, gross incompetence, dereliction of duty, and idiocy that’s tilting the odds towards a major attack on US soil where many lives will be lost.
The current administration is not, in our opinion, doing enough to prevent this.
When, not if, it happens, the White House will indeed follow Rahm Emanuel’s directives to “never let a good crisis go to waste”, and we believe won’t be all that broken-hearted when something bad goes down — even if they didn’t intentionally let it happen.
The MSM sold you a bill of goods that these people you sent to Washington on wings of Hope! and Change! are really magical unicorn-riders full of rainbows — when those of us from Chicago know who they really are, and can tell you it’s less Care Bear and more dangerous than anything you’d ever be unfortunate enough to stumble upon in the woods.
Heaven help us all.
They are almost as bad as the Muslims plotting to kill us — and they are the ones charged, currently, with keeping us all safe.
Tuesday Open Thread: December 29th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
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Don’t forget to watch BRAVO tonight and catch Tabatha’s Salon Takeover of Chicago Male salon here in Boystown. For those of you who wonder what an “Aberzombie” is, and how big of a d-bag guys in Boystown can be, you can see a classic example in the stylist Drew Freund featured prominently in the episode. The bar MiniBar exists for people like this — for which we should probably be grateful, because it gives them all a place to congregate away from the general population. Apparently, from what we’ve heard, the absolute worst of gay life in Chicago is featured on this episode: the theatrics, crybabies, guys who have absolutely no idea how to manage money or run a business. There’s a watch party for the episode tonight at Halsted’s Bar & Grill that we’re going to, so we’ll give you any scoop on that tomorrow. Apparently, they’re going to have a drag queen impersonate Tabatha, which should be interesting. Once again, Tabatha was incredibly nice and so much fun when she was in Chicago — such a good person, and so FUNNY. BRAVO keeps saying it filmed this episode last February, but we met Tabatha when it was nice enough for none of us to have any coats on, so we don’t know what’s up with that. It felt like late spring, very early summer, but who knows. That woman smokes like a chimney and sure knows how to tell a good dirty joke, and we hope she comes to Chicago again in the future because there are a lot of other salons that could really use her help, that’s for sure.
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Speaking of famous people being in Chicago, the actor Nathan Lane’s been here for a while performing in the new musical Addams Family, which is doing previews here before going on to New York. The musical’s a lot like “The Princess & the Frog” cartoon from Disney in theaters now: people say they like the idea, and they like the look of it, but no one can remember any of the songs afterwards, and when pressed about the story or any of the characters, nothing makes much of an impression.
The same can’t be said for Lane himself, however. He’s a total d-bag. On Sundays and Mondays, he’s been going to Sidetracks, usually around 8pm or so, during Showtunes, where it appears he tries to catch himself on the screens in “The Producers”. He sits in glass bar, towards the back under the ivy near coat check, and does a weird Greta Garbo sort of kabuki — staging himself in the perfect position to be noticed, but then being incredibly rude to everyone who comes over to him.
Our good friend Pete, a local Broadway expert, went over to Lane this weekend and thanked him for coming out, told him how nice it was to see him, and then said how much he enjoyed “The Producers” and the “The Birdcage” and “Love, Valour, Compassion” and whatever else Lane’s been in. Lane just looked him up and down and made “some kind of noise”, rolled his eyes, then stared at the wall until Pete walked away. It’s the strangest thing.
When Tim Curry and David Hyde Pierce were here doing Spamalot, they used to hangout in the back bar at Sidetracks, and weren’t d-bags at all. Cyndi Lauper always shows up when she’s in Chicago, and is PHENOMENALLY kind to everyone. So, we don’t know what Lane’s deal is. He clearly wants to be recognized and positions himself for maximum attention (because everyone going to check their coat HAS to walk right passed him), but then seems to take a weird delight in being rude to people.
Very, very odd.
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Some of you asked for an update on Pie Hole Pizza Joint, our favorite restaurant here in Boystown that’s lost its lease and will be forced to close in May. For starters, Pie Hole’s owner, Doug Brandt, was overwhelmed with all the kindness sent to him via email by all of you. It was a great boost to his spirits, from what we understand. The problem he’s facing is that currently he’s breaking even with the restaurant but is not pulling in the kind of profits he needs to convince banks to give him the loans he’ll need to build-out a new restaurant in available storefronts in the neighborhood. So, it looks like finding a new space for Pie Hole isn’t the problem, it’s that once he finds that space, he can’t get the loan to build a new pizza shop since credit is so tight these days and small business loans aren’t being made. As we understand it, that’s the impasse here, and why Pie Hole’s still unsure whether or not it can reopen somewhere new in 2010.
Please chime in and let us know if you think saving Pie Hole could be an interesting project for us to collectively tackle. Our thinking is this: where did all that stimulus money go last February? Pie Hole is a small business that will shutter, taking about 15 jobs here in Boystown with it, unless it can get the loans it needs to stay in business. Why isn’t keeping a steady business in the area a priority to the local Alderman and the City of Chicago itself? Isn’t there some stimulus money left to help a small business grow and expand into a new space so that it can stay alive? That sure sounds like what the stimulus was supposed to do in the first place — provide the boost to help small businesses overcome the credit crisis and depression afflicting the country. Instead, it seems this money was wasted on various flights of fancy and pork barrel idiocy.
We have a concret example of a business that needs a little help to survive — and it doesn’t appear to us any of the crooks in Chicago government care a lick.
It’s a shame too, because the December special pizza was a “Christmas Pizza” — their absolute best special yet: BBQ sauce, ham, four cheese blend, sweet potatoes, marshmallows, and cinnamon. So good. So good. So good.
Any ideas you have on how we can collectively keep this place in business would be appreciated. With Tavern on the Green closing in New York on New Year’s Eve, and other restaurants like Minnie’s here in Chicago that we loved gone for good, we’re more conscious of the fact that if you love something you shouldn’t let it disappear without a fight. But, HOW to fight for it is the operative question.
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Is Obama reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"?
We personally don’t believe any President should ever take a vacation. We know 99% of you out there don’t agree, but the job’s too important to be screwing around in Hawaii for two weeks, or even to be screwing around at Camp David. You wanted that desk in the Oval Office, now sit your a** in it and do your g-damn job.
That said, it’s disconcerting to believe the current president, Dr. Utopia, is reading the latest Harry Potter adventure, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
J.K. Rowling is a wonderful person. We are delighted for her success, and never missed a single “Harry Potter” midnight release party whenever any of her books debuted. Yes, we dressed up in wizarding costumes, ate chocolate frogs in line, snuck Bertie Botts’ nasty flavor beans into other people’s jars of Jelly Bellys, and devoured every Potter book in less than 24 hours after buying them.
We see people reading these all the time on the trains or buses here in Chicago. It’s definitely nothing to be ashamed of.
But, is that really a Harry Potter book the current president is carrying?
Isn’t there something more important he should be reading — like, for instance, reports on just how dramatically and detrimentally the Healthcare Rationing his Senate is forcing onto Americans will affect this country?
Should the President of the United States REALLY be wandering about carrying children’s books?
The MSM excoriated George W. Bush for reading to actual children on 9/11. As Muslims plot to take more of our airliners out of the sky, the current president is reading children’s books by himself, no children in sight.
Is this unsettling to anyone else?
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NOTE: We just realized this, but if you look at the photo above, you’ll see it’s taken of Dr. Utopia’s “forbidden side”, from the angle the press is prohibited from photographing him. In shots of the back right side of his head, you can clearly see scarring from some sort of massive head injury or operation he had at some point.
The press has never talked about this, and the current president has repeatedly refused to release his medical records (unlike all presidents before him), so no one has any idea what those scars are from. Apparently, massive head injuries and cranial operations were not mentioned in the books William Ayers wrote for him.
It’s a mystery what happened to him.
And very rare to get a good shot of those scars.
Unlike Harry’s lightning bolt, we don’t believe these things make him “The Chosen One”, no matter what Oprah tells you.
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Here’s a better shot of that scar:
What is that from?
Great Merciful Zeus: Tavern on the Green closing for good
We just heard Tavern on the Green is closing for good.
Great Merciful Zeus.
Apparently, it’s not the economy that’s forcing this, but New York City deciding not to renew the lease on the space in Central Park. There has to be a bigger story to that.
Last Christmas, we ate at Tavern for what now looks like the last time, on a morning when we strategized and tried to run into HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy somewhere in the city to try to get her on film refusing to answer questions as she tried to elbow her way into Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.
Through the years, we’ve celebrated a few birthdays, holidays, and other random occasions there. We remember it being like eating in the garden department of Home Depot, but not in a bad way. Guess this is why we’re not food writers by trade, but it’s the best way to describe the place: it was cavernous, with lots of plastic sheeting covering various entrances and exits onto the park, with garden furniture under tons of “crystal palace” glass bubbles that were so popular in the Victorian era.
Strangely, there were plans in the late 1800s to turn the White House into something similar, adding “crystal palace” accents to the landmark. It’s a rare occasion when cooler heads prevailed in the capital.
We don’t remember the food at Tavern AT ALL, though. One morning, we had Irish oatmeal with cinnamon there, while someone at our table had eggs Benedict. Both were adequate, but not worth the price we paid. Breakfast at the hot buffet at Whole Foods is much, much better.
We’re sad, though, to see this place close — just as we were sad when the Rainbow Room shut down in the late 90s and was rebirthed as whatever it is now, a party space, or cocktail lounge, or whatever. The Russian Tea Room is gone, too, which is sad. Here in Chicago, Minnie’s restaurant disappeared in 2009, and our beloved Pie Hole Pizza Joint will shutter next May.
It’s all a reminder to continue to support the local businesses you like while you still can, because they can all go under at any time.
Above everything else, our thoughts are with the staff of Tavern. Waitering gigs are pretty hard to get in New York, with all the competition from the actors/models/singers. Just try working in a restaurant or bar in Chicago without looking like you fell out of a catalog — so we imagine how tough things are going to be for the old timers of Tavern.
If anyone out there knows the FULL story on Tavern’s closing, please chime in. As usual, our “journalists” didn’t bother to include that as part of the story linked above. We wonder why New York City didn’t renew the lease on a landmark like this. Tavern was struggling financially for a while, but the article said this was not their decision to close, but the City’s.
We wonder what Bloomberg is up to, and what he wants to put in Tavern’s location instead.
Could the "Underwear Bomb" herald the coming "Diaper Bomb"?
About ten years ago, one of us here wrote a paper in college for a political science class on Terrorism speculating on what Muslim terrorists would do in the future to attack Americans.
We remember the professor writing “Chilling” on it, and adding “I hope to God this never happens” at the end.
We detailed five things we expected Muslims to do to America in the relatively near future, back in 1999, including hijacking airplanes and using them as missiles to crash into buildings. No one here is a psychic or genius. All of this is pretty easy to figure out using common sense. If they already have hijacked jets, why haven’t they taken the next logical step to use those jets as weapons to take down buildings and kill more people? All they would need is pilots well-trained enough to change the plane’s course and destroy a target. Obviously, we didn’t know they would do that to the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9/11/01 — in our paper, we thought it would be the White House, Congress, or Statue of Liberty.
“The Diaper Bomb” is what scored “Chilling” from the professor, because it’s what we believe Muslims will use in the next few years to take out a large number of planes in mid-air. We’re thankful they haven’t done this yet, but wonder what’s stopping them, as we doubt airport security could stop this.
Muslims sewed explosives into underwear in their attempt to blow up the Delta/Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas.
What if they used diapers instead — items that are bulky, filled with lining and material, and carried quickly through security with babies?
Would Muslims use infants as living bombs like this, strapping them into diapers packed with explosives, knowing TSA agents would wave mothers with small children through screenings quickly?
Diaper bags themselves have immense opportunity for the smuggling of everything needed to make a bomb in-flight. Isn’t infant formula omitted from the list of restricted liquids that aren’t allowed through screening checkpoints?
There are websites that teach how to turn a plastic coke bottle with liquid inside into a stash can to hide marijuana or money. You can Google those for yourself, but they show you how to split the bottle in two, with an empty section for whatever you want to hide there. Baby bottles could easily be used in a similar way, to hide some other liquid in a chamber within the bottle itself.
So, in this scenario, a baby diapered with explosives could pass through security sucking on a bottle of formula with a hidden chamber in it containing whatever liquid needed to be combined with the explosives to create the bomb.
We hope experts on K-9 training will chime in here, because in our paper we speculated dirty diapers could possibly throw off any bomb-sniffing dogs, too. Wouldn’t a ripe diaper throw off more scent than explosives? Couldn’t a particularly fudged diaper mask whatever Muslims wanted to hide in the diaper?
TSA agents are human. They are often harried, and want to move that line of people through as quickly as possible. An infant screaming its head off would be quite a distraction; we know we’ve tried to concentrate on something with babies screaming and have not been able to. We’ve personally seen women fidgeting with babies, almost dropping them, being waived through security lickety-split, especially by TSA agents who are parents themselves and sympathize with the plight of parents traveling with infants.
It’s surprising to us that Muslims haven’t used all of this to their advantage.
There are, no doubt, thousands of attempted attacks foiled every day around the world that we never hear about.
No matter how angry we all are over 9/11 and the bombings of airlines, we all must remain forever grateful to the eternally vigilant men and women who have preventing catastrophes from happening all around the world. Maybe they are on constant lookout for Diaper Bombs. Maybe Muslims, as hellbent on destroying the West and establishing an Islamic Caliphate to conquer the world as they are, never would stoop to using infants as bombs. They’d also, of course, have to employ female operatives to carry the children onto the planes — as we assume they’d know men traveling alone with children always draw tons of attention (though, that’s because people notice men with children thinking the men are trying to abduct them…it looks out of place, and we’ve found people to at least glance at men with babies when women carrying children would be totally invisible).
The women and children could, actually, be totally in the dark about what’s going on, too. Really, the Diaper Bombs just need to make it through screening — so they could also be smuggled through on the babies, then removed after the checkpoint and placed in a Muslim’s own carryons, with the women and children getting on separate flights to somewhere else. Or, the bombers could just never tell the women that they were going to be blown up in the air: the husbands could just weaponize the diaper bags in flight and never let on what’s happening.
Underwear was always an obvious place to hide explosives, considering how easy it would be to make a fuss about being searched in the genital area, and how reluctant TSA agents would be to “go there” with passengers over and over again all day. It would not be socially acceptable to have dogs sniff everyone’s nether regions like that all day either.
The Diaper Bombs are the other really glaring area of concern as Muslims continue to look for new ways to game the system and murder hundreds of people on airplanes.
We’ve seen clearly what “The Religion of Peace” finds acceptable…and wonder when, not if, they really will start weaponizing diaper bags and Diaper Bombing airplanes.
MUST READ: Regular Americans Turning Away From Democrats
Please read this article by Carol Platt Liebau, “Why Regular Americans Are Turning Away From Democrats”.
It’s another take on what we have been saying to you for the last two years.
It’s what every Democrat we know has been saying: “We are through with the Democrat party as it exists now”.
If you’ve been reading us for any length of time, we’ve been speaking out against the Democrat Party since May 31st, 2008, when the Rules & Bylaws Committee in DC so egregiously shifted rules in favor of Dr. Utopia’s candidacy that any loyalty we had to the Democrat Party was extinguished.
But, you need to understand that prior to 2008, we were the most committed and partisan Democrats any of us knew. We were FERVANT Democrats, dyed in the wool, and sided with Democrat candidates blindly time and time again.
Look where we are today. We want to see every Democrat ejected from Congress. Every last one of them, because these lunatics ram through legislation that will destroy this country without even READING IT.
What we want to note here is this, and it hasn’t been picked up by the political commentators yet: but if people like us, Democrat loyalists, have now completely turned against the party to the point where we no longer selectively pick and choose which Dems to support, but are actually going to vote straight-ticket Republican and will work to defeat Dems we once actually supported in the past, then we wonder what else is happening out there in formerly Democrat households.
“We’re done” is what we’re hearing from all Dems we know. Granted, our friends were never Liberals…we’re moderates and centrists, and so our our friends and family. So, when we speak, we speak from this perspective. When we tell you the Dems we know have had it with this party, we’re talking about these moderates.
We have no idea what’s going on in Leftist loony land, as we don’t associate with that crowd.
Done. Done. Done.
We hear that every day.
We have no idea what’s going to happen in 2010, but don’t see any possibility at all this rift will be healed by the next election.
It is truly unlike anything we have ever seen before.
The Future of America
Here’s an excellent guest post from our friend Eric, bumped up to a post in its own right as it’s too well-presented just to leave as a comment in another thread:
Here’s what I feel is important for the future of America:
1) Congress doesn’t read the bills. John Conyers’ incredible admonishment of those who expected him to read a bill he voted on was a shocker, even to me, and I was already a cynic about Congress.
What to argue for: Every bill must be read into the record prior to voting. Every member of either house of Congress must be present for the entire reading, or they are not allowed to vote. Pipe it into the bathrooms so there are no excuses. The only way to override this requirement is a 2/3 majority, thereby having a provision in case of an emergency.
2) Nobody knows who writes the legislation that gets passed. The gigantic stimulus bill was apparently written in a matter of days… maybe hours. How? Congress had ready-made legislation just sitting around for plugging into various bills, most of it written by the Apollo Alliance. Prior to this, I assume Congressional staff wrote the bills at the direction of the sponsor(s).
How to argue: Why should private, non-governmental groups get to be involved in the creation of legislation, and the American public doesn’t know who was involved or to what level? If ever there should be transparency in Government, this is the place. Why not require that each individual person, along with their private and/or public affiliations, be included as an author on any bill they’re involved with, and that information is fully published along with the bill online?
3) Congress can ram legislation through using stupid procedure rules and vote trading. The Health Care bill is just the latest example. Obama promised 3 full days for the public to review everything online before he signed it, so far it hasn’t appeared.
Solution: Every bill must be posted for a minimum of three business days, plus an additional one full day for every 100 pages beyond 300 BEFORE CONGRESS VOTES FOR FINAL PASSAGE. This will give the public and the media ample time to review the bill before it even goes to the President. This should be law. Congress can bypass it with a 2/3 majority in case of emergency.
4) Congress doesn’t care about Constitutionality of bills. They pass legislation and leave the legality of it up to the Constitutional lawyers later. Most members of Congress view the Constitution as an obstacle that must be overcome, instead of a guiding document.
Solution: An non-authoritative review panel should be set up, just like the CBO, to evaluate the Constitutionality (or lack thereof) of every piece of legislation that goes through Congress. The “Congressional Constitutionality Office” would of course be non-partisan and unofficial, and Congress could pass the bill regardless of the office’s scoring, but the act of evaluation and the opinion would be released publicly and BEFORE the vote, rather than privately and after.
5) Congress exempts itself from most bills. Whether it’s health care reform/public option, right-to-know laws, equal pay laws, insurance control laws, etc… Congress is generally exempted. This may be technically legal, but it’s definitely a huge violation of the public trust and the vision of a true and just nation as set forth by our Founders.
Solution: Congress cannot exempt itself from ANY law. Who can argue this would be a bad thing?
6) States rights are being trampled by the federal government. States no longer have any representation in Congress and, therefore, no power to protect their own rights or limit the growth of the Federal government.
Solution: Repeal/replace the 17th Amendment, which turned Senate elections into popular elections instead of State legislative elections. We need to develop a more states-rights-centric approach to electing Senators, but also need to prevent the possibility of deadlock, so some thought and care would have to be given to the process. Alternately, a State legislature could, by majority vote or maybe 3/5 vote, start a recall effort which would then go to the ballot, thereby making accountability to the State a factor in Senatorial conduct.
Question of the Day: What will be the driving national narrative in 2010?
One of the biggest questions we have currently is if Sarah Palin will rise to the challenge in 2010 and become the voice of the people that’s needed right now, the person who will clearly articulate a driving national narrative that will sweep liberals from power in November’s elections.
We believe Palin is on a collision course with destiny. The stars are aligning, with Fate conspiring to set the stage for a loud, pro-American, patriotic voice to become a larger-than-life, history making figure in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt. Dr. Utopia’s effeminate, prostrated, prolonged global apology tour and the reckless, irresponsible, unconstitutional behavior of Democrats in Washington demand a realignment of American politics as we know it: with the country waking up to the realization that most Democrats, after all, really do hate this country and want to see it destroyed.
The 60 Democrats in the Senate deserve to be removed from that body in handcuffs, for voting on legislation they have not fully read or bothered to comprehend, which usurps the Constitution and requires Americans to purchase products against their will. It’s sickening they rammed this through the Senate in the dead of night, with as much secrecy as possible, knowing full well if they operated transparently the people would revolt and march on Washington to stop what they are doing.
We are ashamed of how the Democrats have abused their power and violated the public trust.
We will be voting straight-ticket Republican in 2010, to teach the DNC a lesson we hope it never forgets.
But, obviously, we are more involved in all of this emotionally than the average person. We wonder what you are hearing from your less politically-minded friends and neighbors. How upset are they at this point?
What do you think the narrative needs to be next year to guarantee Democrats are driven from office?
Do you think it’s possible for Democrats to lose “safe” seats like those in New York, Illinois, California, and other Democrat strongholds?
If the Contract with America engineered by Newt Gingrich was so effective in 1994, what do you think needs to be put into public discourse to create a tidal wave against Democrats even greater than THAT?
As lifelong Democrats, this is the first time in our lives where we honestly want every Democrat in elected office to be fired. Every last one of them. Even people we genuinely love. The fact they refused to stop the madness of the Healthcare Rationing Bill is proof positive they are all unfit for office.
Once we came to this conclusion, it became obvious we need to do something to guarantee the largest losses any party has ever suffered in an election year. This must be a tsunami against Democrats of epic proportions.
For that to happen, the Republicans need a good message, and a solid national narrative that convinces voters to get off their lazy butts and drive the liberals from Congress like snakes from Ireland.
Once in a generation, a hero rises when her people need her most. We believe Sarah Palin could be that hero if she decides to be…and we believe all she needs now is a sword and shield of sufficient emotional heft to rally Americans to her cause. Those armaments are something like the Contract with America, but this time delivered by someone more persuasive and talented than Gingrich. Someone like Palin who not only could rev people up on policy points, but who could summon the emotional tide needed to turn states red coast to coast, even in allegedly permanently blue domains.
What points should be included in that anti-Liberal narrative?
What will most effective in convincing people America really is at stake, and they must all do their duty to defeat the Liberals once and for all in 2010?
What think you?
One of the hardest things we've ever had to write: Martha Coakley should NOT be the next Senator from Massachusetts
This is, truly, the most difficult essay we’ve ever had to write, but after an agonizing internal debate, we need to ask everyone who reads this to support Republican Scott Brown for US Senate in Massachusetts.
In any other year, in any other election, we’d work our hearts out for Martha Coakley. We like Martha Coakley. We’d love to see her be a United States Senator. But, this Massachusetts special election to fill the seat of deceased murderer and disgraced drunk Ted Kennedy is a chance to knock the Democrats down to 59 seats in the Senate, meaning the unconstitutional train wreck they’ve put this country on with Healthcare Rationing will come to a screaching halt the moment Scott Brown is elected.
Years ago, we had a choice like this to make that literally made us sick to our stomach with conflicting interests. A good friend of ours asked us to be a reference when she tried for a job with the CIA. Though she had been a friend of ours for many years, and though we would have done just about anything for her, we knew she used drugs like ecstasy and cocaine through the 90s, she dated married men and ruined a few marriages, she routinely went crazy over minor problems and threw things, deliberately broke everything expensive of her boyfriends’ when mad at them, and went out of her way to get people she didn’t like fired from their jobs over things she perceived as wronging her. In short, this person was not of the moral quality the CIA claims it’s seeking. We did not believe she was up to the job, based on her peformance at every job she’s ever had. So, we were faced with a horrible decision: either tell this friend we could not recommend her, and would have to tell the truth about her past if asked, or lie to the CIA by omission and not say a bad word about this person. We could have dodged any questions about her past that necessitated negative responses by saying, “Oh, it’s been so long. We weren’t really around for that, maybe you should ask her about that” and things of that nature. We would have NEVER directly lied and said we didn’t know about any of those things, but we could have been cagey. That was the end of that particular friendship because we told the person we couldn’t recommend her, so she stopped talking to us.
But, the thought of this person becoming part of the CIA, when she would have been terrible in the job, and would have posed a security risk in our opinion (since, we truly believe, she would have abused her access to sensitive materials to get back at exes), was enough for us to take the stand we did.
Our decision to support Scott Brown has nothing to do with Martha Coakley.
We would not support any Democrat running for that Senate seat, because for the sake of the country we believe Democrats should lose the 60-vote edge they currently are abusing.
Every Democrat blindly voting for the Healthcare Rationing bill is doing a great disservice to this nation. They have not read this bill. They do not know what’s in it. They are not executing their sworn duties as representatives of the people to work in their best interests. This is a pork-laden bill filled with hundreds of millions in bribes. It is a bill that will, for the first time in history, usurp the Constitution to force Americans to purchase products against their will. It is a bill that dictates how Americans can spend their own money. It is a bill that will eliminate the Flex Spending Accounts so many families we know of depend on to make ends meet in their household budgets.
It is a tragedy of legislation, rushed through Congress for no valid reason. Instead of behaving in a considered and responsible way, Democrats are ramming this junk through the Senate at full speed while they have those 60 votes. They know that, without that 60-vote edge, they would never be able to wreck the havoc they intend for this country.
So, it is thus with a very heavy heart that we say, clearly, that Martha Coakley must be defeated — this time — in her bid for the Senate.
Coakley has said she will vote the party line on the Healthcare Rationing Bill. That’s enough for us to say she should not be installed in the Senate next month.
Democrats should not have more than 59 votes, so that bills this massive and economy-changing cannot be shoved through in secret in the dead of night.
Support Scott Brown, and stop liberal tyranny from destroying this nation, while we still have a chance to do some damage control.
Question of the Day: Do Republicans really want to take back the Senate in 2010?
Here’s something that really frustrates us, because we don’t want to see Dick Durbin become the next Majority Leader once Harry Reid is removed from Congress next year — we do not want to see Democrats maintain control of the Senate, but that’s apparently what Republicans, at least in Illinois, really DO want.
Last night, we talked to some Republican friends of ours, and the topic of Rudy Giuliani came up. We’re upset Giuliani decided against taking out Kirsten Gillibrand in New York — because, as we told you, and we sincerely do mean this, we want to see every last Senator voting for the monstrous and unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill to be booted from the Senate. Giuliani would have beaten Gillibrand, and that would have been one more GOP Senator in Washington. As it stands now, Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer will both be re-elected in New York, when Republicans had the chance to take one of those seats away with Giuliani. Why didn’t they take it?
It’s the same story here in Illinois.
Republicans are going to allow Alexi Giannoulias, the scion of the mob banking Giannoulias family (and close personal friend and b-buddy (the “b” stands for basketball, though we can see why clarification was needed) of the current president), to take Roland Burris’ place in the Senate next year. Running Mark Kirk for Senate is worse than running Jack Ryan (then Alan Keyes) back in 2004. It’s clear Republicans don’t want to win that Senate seat. Kirk not only has infuriated conservatives and moderates in Illinois by supporting Cap & Tax, but he’s a fatally flawed candidate who Democrats are going to expose as a liar and adulterer in the general election. It is an open secret in Illinois that Kirk is gay, and just about everyone in Republican circles has heard the salacious details of his nocturnal antics, as revealed by his own wife in what’s been a nasty divorce. There are at least three closeted gay men in the Illinois Republican Congressional delegation, one of which is running for Senate in 2010 and the other one’s going to run against Durbin in 2014, most likely. These guys, and the Illinois GOP in general, are beyond stupid.
In a week, it will be the year 2010. Voters don’t care if you are gay, but they do care if you are a sleazeball who cheats on your wife with men and gets up to all manner of shennanigans while you are in Washington, typically involving the other closet case you share your Washington condo with. This is what happens with closet cases — instead of doing what they want to do in the open where people would accept them, they decide to have the fake wife and facade they believe voters want, and then think they can do what they want to do in secret and no one will ever find out. Well, just because Democrats didn’t expose you all the times you ran for Congress doesn’t mean they are going to let you win a Senate seat.
Democrats are going to out Kirk in the general election, and it’s going to be Larry Craig/Mark Foley in terms of ugly. They will expose Kirk as a liar, which fits into the narrative already out there about him, after he foolishly became one of only eight Republicans voting for Cap & Tax. Republicans we know feel Kirk stabbed them in the back, so they plan on stabbing Kirk right back if he’s on that ballot for the Senate. They won’t vote Giannoulias, but will vote for a crazy third party candidate or not vote for Senate at all, rather than send the lying Kirk to Washington with more power than this damn fool has now. Democrats almost don’t even need to out Kirk, or expose his roommate in Washington along with him. What Kirk did to himself with that Cap & Tax vote is enough to bring him down.
So, why is the GOP running Kirk?
Why isn’t Governor Hoeven running against Senator Dorgan when Hoeven would CREAM Dorgan in a Senate race, giving the GOP yet another Senate seat?
Why isn’t the GOP behind Chuck Devore in California, who would have a better shot of defeating Barbara Boxer than Carly Fiorina would (as much as we like Fiorina, but see that her heart just isn’t in this, considering her unwillingness to use a penny of her own massive fortune in the campaign)?
The GOP doesn’t seem to want to win Senate seats in New York (2 up for grabs in 2010), Illinois (1 up for grabs), California (1 up for grabs), or North Dakota (1 up for grabs).
That’s five seats, right there, the GOP could have if it ran good candidates against bad Democrats, and properly funded those campaigns. instead, they’re either running people who already poll 10-20 points behind the incumbent or are pushing candidates who will go down in flames in the general election once their personal scandals and baggage are made public.
Is the real GOP agenda to NOT win the Senate back…but just to win enough seats to prevent Democrats from passing anything else crazy for the next two years?
Is this the strategy, so that the House shakes out at 218-D and 217-R, with the Senate 51-D and 49-R so that Dr. Utopia and the Democrat Party have to own absolutely everything in Washington leading up to his re-election bid?
This is the only way we can justify what’s going on with the Illinois Senate race: the GOP doesn’t want that seat, and people in the GOP don’t like Kirk, so this is a chance to get rid of him politically by letting Democrats nuke him with the outing bomb. Kirk made a lot of enemies by voting for Cap & Tax, and is truthfully an ass to deal with who does not have a lot of support from Republicans we know. We remember clearly back in 2008 Log Cabin Republicans here in Chicago telling us they were glad McCain was the nominee because this meant McCain would have to go away after he lost — he had his chance, now he needed to get off the stage and stop being a perpetual contender for the nomination. Kirk will get his chance at the Senate bid, will fail, and the GOP will be done with him, which is what they seem to want. Of course, these fools don’t realize the rest of Illinois has to then suffer under Senator Giannoulias. The mob’s banker, cum United States Senator.
Do any of you have any better insight on what the GOP is up to with the Senate races? Because from our standpoint, they are not just missing out on some good opportunities for pickups, but they’re engaging in outright lunacy in places like Illinois.
