The Ramble for 9/29/11

Duncanon,PA– I’m here for a rest break. I’ve got a different truck today since my usual one is in the shop… just fixing up my wish list, plus a few usual maintenance items. New tires, shocks, Oil change, lube, etc. I’ve been pounding on my ride for the last 6 months now, without much more than fuel and bare minimum service. It’ll be good to get a lot of the heavy work out of the way. I’ll get a better truck back.

I bitch, a lot of times about the wrenches that work for this line, but I also make no bones about this; They’re bloody miracle workers, when it comes down to it.

From here I’ll run to Carlisle, PA, then to Queens, NY. Then Dayton NJ then to Mountaintop PA and back to Queens. Prolly be home Friday night late.

In answer to some questions folks have asked me about the specific stops I make, and some of the details of those businesses, I actually don’t know much about them. I just drive the truck. (grin)

•  Crony Capitalism=Democrat:  We all know about what’s been going on with the “Green Jobs” bit with Obama. It gets better when the name of Nancy Pelosi comes up. Tell me again why they want more tax money, eh?
• Speaking of Solyndra: It appears Dems have found a way out of being blamed for the squandered money there…. the meme now is Solyndra violated the terms of the loan.  Does anyone buy this as an excuse?
• Bring the ad back, Ford: Noted at Glenn’s place:
  

  MICKEY KAUS: Why’d Ford Pull That Ad? “Poor Ford. They don’t go broke like their rivals. Then Obama White House props up and promotes those rivals. They try to point out their relative independence in an ad, which then risks turning the Obama White House into an actual enemy. But when they pull the ad it only reinforces the point that they have to suck up to the Obama White House. Corporatism’s a bitch.”

  True. But watch this: Ford didn’t go broke because among other reasons, Ford was spending less on “green” then their government funded rivals. Think the “mainstream” news folks will notice? And why is it that nobody has noticed that the ones in government interested in running America’s car companies, are ones who are on record as saying we drive too much? And their supporters? Well, it’s like I said last winter… the Prius is the ideal car for those who don’t like to drive. You can make believe you’re saving the planet…. and get punished for it at the same time.  Why is it the folks who think they’re saving the planet are invariably the ones driving like idiots?

• An ACORN by any other name: Just because they got caught, don’t think for a minute they’ve gone away. They are like roaches.
• Compromise:  Tammy Bruce says yesterday….
  

  Amazing, Christie’s spewing about the importance of ‘compromise,’ Remember–that’s *conservative* compromise, he’s not talking to liberals

  Just so. When is the last time liberals compromised? I’ll wait. (Crickets) Look, Gang… the GOP establishment would like nothing better than their base to go away. Troubelf rot hem is that’s why McCain lost. It went away. Sat on it’s hands. The GOP base IS the majority, folks.

• Oh, please: I see they gave Troy Davis a funeral  the other day. That’s the moron that both David and I spoke of last week. Why bother with the funeral? A little gasoline  and a match oughta do it.
• Google This: Remember I said the relationship between Google and this corrupted White House should be investigated? Well, the guy who stood up and said “please raise my taxes” the other day? He worked at Google. Huge Dem contributor. Need I say more?  And look, just think; If we could just get these morons to simply send their checks to the treasury instead of the DNC, we’d save money at both ends, ya know? I mean, why the request for requirement of taxpaying? If they want their taxes raised why not do it on their own? Why demand that  government force them to, hmmm? Consider Warren Buffett who played the same game recently in public while behind the scenes his lawyers fought to keep from paying billions he owes.
• Random House stands by a Palin hating liar.

From Andrew Restuccia,Hill:

The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two separate solar energy projects.

The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009, filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers, setting off a firestorm in Washington

[…]

“If we want to be a player in the global clean energy race, we must continue to invest in innovative technologies that enable commercial-scale deployment of clean, renewable power like solar,” Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a news release.

Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over, but somehow expecting different results.

As for Chu, does he have a mouse in his pocket.     With whom is Chu racing, with our tax dollars, to win is imaginary global clean energy race?

Westbury, Long Island, NY– A frequent stop for me… dropping off some drinks to the thirsty club shoppers. Nearly 80 here… you’d not know it was fall. Today, I’m going to do a one subject Ramble.

Some observations on the GOP races and faces:

• Romney:Certainly the favorite of the GOP establishment. That alone, given what the GOP establishment has given us  in the post Reagan era… Republicans In Name Only… people who try to claim Reagan’s mantle yet clearly do not share Reagan’s values. Anyone who creates anything resembling Romneycare most certainly doesn’t have a bloody clue what Reagan was about.And let’s do some serious thinking on the matter. Granted he could win the nomination, ….and given Obama’s horrendous approval numbers… the lowest in our history… he could win the general election as well. But what then, do we have? We have a man who is not a conservative, who doesn’t share conservative values, whose policies certainly won’t be conservative, and yet when his playing the center backfires… as it always does… (Observe Nixon, Gerald Ford, 41 and 43) conservatism gets the blame… and the cause of conservatism takes it on the chin along with the country.

  The establishment is uneasy with Romney. They have begin to recognize what I’ve been saying all along; Romney is at best a centrist… and the electorate is up for some serious conservative values.Have been for decades, now. As such if Romney gets the nomination, you should expect a large number of conservatives.. including the newly minted ones added to our rolls as Obama has turned them off to liberalism…. to sit on their hands. Just as they did with John McCain and Bob Dole.

  We tried “centrist” with Bush and McCain and Dole, for that matter. Such are what happens when we allow the leftists in the press to pick our candidates for us. Let’s recall, please… The GOP establishment rejected Reagan in 76 and in 80. The GOP lost in 76 because of their efforts to go to the center, and their ignoring their roots, and the roots of the country. I’ll tell you true… Now as with Jimmy Carter…the only chance Obama has to be re-elected at this point is if the GOP establishment succeeds in nominating another centrist like Romney. And The Democrats know it. Why don’t the denizens of the GOP establishment?

• Huntsman:Another centrist with all the negatives Romney brings to the table, with the added attraction of being about as interesting to listen to as watching cars rust. Non-player and deservedly so.
• Cristie:I observe Christie with a slightly amused and somewhat jaundiced eye. Not Christie himself so much… I think we can take his statements as being more or less on the level… Including his “I shouldn’t have done that” kind of statements when he gets called out on various things.It’s the reactions to him I find of interest.I take for example, the high level of interest on the part of the GOP establishment and the left in a Christie candidacy to be a tacit admission of doubt in Romney and his ability to win in the general election. That unease among the GOP establishment, I think, is not without justification, as I’ve said. . A Romney presidency represents less of a loss for the left, including the leftists running the press…  and for the establishment GOP.

  Admittedly, Christie would be lightyears ahead of Obama, as Bush was lightyears above Gore… but, I will point out again, he’s also not nearly as strong  a conservative as what the electorate wants. As for Christie himself, as I’ve said, he would be lightyears ahead of Obama. But he’s certainly not my first choice for the role.

• Cain:I find a lot of Herman Cain interesting.  He certainly has the guts to speak the unvarnished truth.  He also would not be my first choice but I find him far more attractive as a candidate than I do for example, Romney… or Huntsman for the reasons I’ve stated earlier.
  His win at the debates the other night was remarkable if for no other reason than nobody figured he had it in him. Clearly his message of unapologetic conservatism is resonating  much more powerfully than the left the press and the GOP establishment would like.      That win does not make him the most desirable candidate, however, particularly given his rather sporadic performance at the other venues.
• Perry: The favorite of the GOP rank and file. You can tell he was in the lead by the way the left and the establishment types have been hammering away at him. As with Cain, I’m unconvinced his debate performances are all that important to what kind of POTUS he would make.  Most of you know, that I spent a few years behind a mike. Some of the smartest people I ever knew tended to freeze up behind a live mike or in front of a camera. Some of the dumbest people I ever met were as smooth as glass in such situations. That’s not the rule, but I’m suggesting that the connection between debate performance and thought process, or for that matter, of a principled foundation, is less than direct. Perry needs to be judged on his principled conservatism, including his mis-steps in that regard, such as the Guardasil thing.  He seems principled enough, and seems to have a good foundation under him.  The trick as with anyone having that kind of power, his keeping him bolted to that foundation.

Queens, NY– I’m dropping a load here, and will run to Buffalo to grab next Monday’s load. Raining here, and will be raining at home by the time I get there. Really wanted to wash the truck, but…(shrug)

• What this “tax the rich” meme is really all about:  Krauthammer nails it
  

  

  Doctor Charles Krauthammer

  A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless. . . . The authentic Obama is a leveler, a committed social democrat, a staunch believer in the redistributionist state, a tribune, above all, of ‘fairness’ — understood as government-imposed and government-enforced equality

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• My death penalty take: David touched on this already but….
  Kim Kardashian has spent a fair amount of time recently, talking about Troy Davis, (much of it on Twitter) and the injustice of the Death Penalty. But I personally find it interesting that so much angst as been spent on Davis and none on the other convicted murderer who was put to death yesterday… Lawrence Russell.

  Oh, I’m sure you don’t recall the name. And perhaps without a sexy brunette taking up his cause, most folks wouldn’t. Russell, for the record, is the racist moron who tied James Byrd to the back of a truck and took him for a scrape around the neighborhood. Dragged him to death.Now both men swore to the last second that they were innocent. Both were liars, of course, having been proven such many times over in the course of their legal ordeals.

  So, let’s understand this one… If the guy is black and killed a cop, in what was clearly a hate crime, he deserves to avoid his punishment. If he’s white and killed a black guy in what is equally clearly a hate crime, he gets the needle without even a whimper? Sorry, that doesn’t seem quite correct.

  (interesting aside, Russell became something of an item over W not wanting to sign a hate crimes bill, if I recall… the left insisting that Because he wouldn’t sign such a bill, he shared blame with Russell for the act. Absurd, yes, but that’s what passes for thinking on the left, anymore. )

  See, here’s the issue; The opponents of the death penalty seem to me to be rather selective on the flags they fly on this issue. And the flags they fly all tend to tilt left. And we’re not supposed to notice these things. And, sadly a lot of folks don’t… even ones that call themselves conservatives.

  Oh, I’m sure there are some sincere folks in every political corner who object for some reason of their own to the death penalty. Trouble is, they tend to get used by the left, even if they don’t know it.

• The UAW….  I see the UAW is now suffering from the same problems they and the government forced on the automakers. Gee, big shock, huh?

Port Gibson, NY– As this is written, I’m setting up for the last outing of the week. A quick shot to Carlisle, PA, and then to Queens. And from there, I don’t know, but something to get me towards home is what I expect.

We had an issue with the site yesterday. For some reason the database server was overloading. Since I’ve not made any code changes to the site recently, I must assume that we were the subject of a PHP injection attack. They’re looking at the problem and I’ll let you know when I hear something.

• Wishful thinking: Doug at OTB:
  

  In the immediate aftermath of his entry into the Presidential race, Rick Perry seemed unstoppable. Almost immediately, his poll numbers skyrocketed him right into the lead, knocking Mitt Romney out of the comfortable place he’d been in all year and leaving other Tea Party backed candidates like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain in the dust. Then the debates happened. In the first debate, Perry was called to the carpet for his past comments on Social Security and came away bruised. In the second debate, co-sponsored by Tea Party groups, the Social Security issue came up, but so did Perry’s past positions on immigration and his controversial decision to mandate the HPV vaccine for 6th grade girls in Texas schools. The result, as Nate Silver notes today, is that public opinion of Rick Perry are turning more negative:…

  Wishful thinking, Doug. The GOP establishment and the left would like nothing better than a Romney nomination. The latter of the two knows a Romney nomination would be by far easier to beat. That’s why the “mainstream” press badgered Perry, at the debates and elsewhere, as has been noted on this blog and several others. The former hasn’t a clue. The electorate wants Conservatism. Perry qualifies. Romney doesn’t. Remember, gang, the crowd that wants Romney (Or, uggghhh… Huntsman….)  wanted McCain, as well. Remember how that worked out?

• Gee, there’s a shocker….  The Examiner, under the headline:
  Soros turns up in Obama’s LightSquared imbroglio

  As Republican lawmakers begin to dig into the White House’s cozy relationship with a startup wireless company and the wealthy Democratic donor who owns it, a new character has appeared on the story’s edges: liberal superdonor, conservative bete noire and controversial investor George Soros.

  Soros reportedly invested in the telecom company LightSquared through a hedge fund, and many of the nonprofits he finances have backed LightSquared in regulatory and policy disputes.

  Hardly new, gang. It’s even money that Soros is to be found at the root of Solyndra, as well. It’s as I said years ago… Soros, has a President bought and paid for. Why do you suppose that after taking over GM illegally, Obama screwed over GM’s investors, but Solyndra’s investors were covered with taxpayer dollars?

• Oh, speaking of Solyndra….. I gather that Solyndra officials plan to take the 5th in the House hearings. So, whom are they protecting? Themselves, or Obama? The speculation is that they will do so because of the FBI investigation now working. Problem with that is that the FBI works at the behst of the White House. Were I the cynical sort, I might suggest that the evidence in this case is going to be lost, or destroyed by a fire of suspicious origin while in FBI care. The usual mantra is that the DOE’s loan guarantee program is to blame. But we know the DOE was being pressured by the White House. Does anyone suppose this won’t come up in the election?
• And your little Google, too. The relationship between Google and the White House needs serious examination as well. Soros will be at or near the root of that one, as well.
• Attention Alec Baldwin: You’re a bloody moron… and a hate-filled one at that. Be gone. That is all.

It takes some nerve  for a convicted murder to beg for clemency.   If Troy Anthony Davis has shown his victim the late Mark Allen MacPhail any clemency, or mercy, Davis would not now be on death row, from Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Parole board denies clemency for Troy Davis

The mother of a murdered police officer reacted with caution when she got the news Tuesday morning that the state Board of Pardons and Paroles had declined to commute the death sentence of Troy Anthony Davis, the man condemned for killing her son.

I say give Davis all the mercy he gave to MacPhail, to wit none.

Brooklyn, NY– I’m being unloaded… a load I picked up last night at Mountain Top, PA. From here, I run to Monroe Township, NK and to Windsor Locks, CT. Raining around here. A decidedly fall tilt in the air. Along with some rain.

• Truth Telling is why the farthest right are the most popular pols. Backman, Palin, and yes, Rick Perry:
  

  Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasn’t naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous.It must be said, first, that Israel is our oldest and strongest democratic ally in the Middle East and has been for more than 60 years. The Obama Policy of moral equivalency which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult.

  I say again… Obama has reduced our credibility in the world by intentional act. There’s no other conclusion to draw. Not just in foreign policy as Perry notes, but in economics, too.

• Suddenly (Unexpectedly?) Scandals? Drudge is running a headline, saying… HOUSE TO PROBE OBAMA ACTIONS ON SOLYNDRA, LIGHTSQUAREDTom Blumer suggests that Obama has taken us from a Squeaky clean image to scandal fatigue in three weeks.  An interesting read but I suggest that what’s really happening is the scandals have always been there. It’s just that Obama’s been getting a pass from the press, being black, being a liberal, being a Democrat… in that order. That pass kinda wore out as Obama placed more and more liberal policy in place, thus killing our economy. As more and more people got affected by this, the rebellion started… and continues. If liberalism actually worked, the pass would have continued. It doesn’t and the press finds they can no longer protect him. They need a scapegoat… something to blame other than liberalism, as I suggested as regards Snake-Head, yesterday:
  

  The problem is the politics of the left.. and they’re so much worse just now because the liberal mantra sees it’s fullest flower in Obama…. even more so than Carter.

  Liberals, including those running the press cannot bring themselves to admit it’s the liberal policies they’ve had wet dreams over for decades, that has caused our current problems, just as it did under Carter. So, they blame the guy, instead. And all this … stuff… starts pouring out of the press that’s been sitting on this info for years, now.Doesn’t help that Obama and his people, like all Democrats, are stone cold liars.

• ATTENTION TONY BENNETT: You’re a freakin’ idiot, and an anti-American idiot at that. Of course, we knew that when you refused to sing our national anthem years ago. You should be ashamed of yourself. Be gone.

Queens, NY– I’m at College Point again, unloading as this is written. I’m writing ths on m Palm Pre’ so it’ll be a ittle shorter than usual, perhaps. 

A nice weekend, but a bit short. It’s cooler around here this week and the leaves in the upper elevations along I80 and I81 are already starting to change… the Sumac, particularly. Winter driving is soon.. and I’m not overly happy about it. Part of the game, I guess.

• $1,500,000,000,000 IN NEW TAXES..That is what Obama plans. This is his “jobs” plan.  And if you look… really read what the proposal contains, he says those tax increases don’t show up until after the election.  So, elect Obama, and get a tax increase. Does anyone figure he’s got a hope in hell of being re-elected? I mean, does anyone remember Walter Mondale? 
• The Panic is Palpable:Yes, I saw the article Snake head posted. He’s downright panicked…. but, observe, please that even in his panic, he’s suggesting they need to find something to blame other than the liberal ideology. That’s his biggest concern… that liberalism itself not be blamed for the morass we find ourselves in.  Rather, that we blame Obama for being inept.The problems he complains about though,  are no more a case of ineptness than was under Jimmy Carter.  Certainly, there is much evidence that each is inept, but that’s not the root cause. Carville, in his writing, keeps pointing to Clinton as some kind of success. Whereas Clinton was able to save his own butt, Obama won’t have that ability.  The difference between them is that Clinton was smart enough to understand that the liberal agenda has its limits in terms of voter supportand acceptance. Obama has no such understanding, being a died in the wool socialist… a true believer. That’s also exactly why he’s so very confused just now.  He’s so stewed in socialist dogma he knows nothing else… which is why they’re out of ideas.In the end, The problem is the politics of the left.. and they’re so much worse just now because  the liberal mantra sees it’s fullest flower in Obama…. even more so than Carter.  If you’re Carville, would you ever admit that truth?
• ATTENTION TUCKER CARLSON: Your Palin hate has caused you to lose your friggin mind. It’s amazing what a strong woman will bring out in people.
• The Value Of School Lunches: I’m willing to bet these two lobbied for them
•  Huh?  Are you really sure you want to say this?
  

  Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).

  So lemme understand you clearly… the reason you’re not marching on the White House is because he’s black? And we’re not supposed to see this as reverse racism? And, are you tossing your voters… Your constituants, aside, because Obama’s black? Really?

:Jill may be missing the forest for the tree, Pundit & Pundette

Obama’s hostility not confined to women in the White House

In his new book about the inner workings of the Obama White House, author Ron Suskind quotes insiders who accuse President Obama of being “hostile to women”:

If you had to go home to Moochelle every night, you would be bitter too.

Jill is missing the point. It not that Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama is bitter towards women. He man is just plain bitter. He refers to his political opponents as enemies. Has worked to eliminate American jobs and the State of Israel. Has rallied against thowe bitter clingers, who cling to there guns and religion, Palled around with domestic terrorists and attended Jemimah Wright church for twenty years.

Aside from himself, you would be hard pressed to find anybody or anything Obama does like.

Paul Krugman growls, from New York Times:

Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the genial economist identified laissez-faire economics with personal choice and empowerment, an upbeat vision that would be echoed and amplified by Ronald Reagan.

I’m referring, as you might guess, to what happened during Monday’s G.O.P. presidential debate. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not to purchase health insurance suddenly found himself in need of six months of intensive care. Mr. Paul replied, “That’s what freedom is all about — taking your own risks.”

The answer to Krugman’s question of when did Friedman’s ideas morph into Paul’s, is they did not. Friedman was a conservative. Paul is a libertarian.    Sadly Paul is also a foreign policy ding bat.   I do give Paul credit for sticking to his libertarian position.

Dorrence,PA– I’m on my way to Saratoga, NY after, running last night from Florence NJ to Carlisle, PA. Some rain around here, some of it fairly intense. Word was they had a number of houses burned from Lightning strikes in the York, PA area.

• The Lessons of NY9:I mentioned this race and it’s outcome in yesterday’s Ramble, but there’s an important aspect of all this that I’ve overlooked, at least insofar as my online comments. The lesson is that there’s a number of longtime held myths that this race and it’s result blows sky high. The best way to do that is to look at what the winner in that race, Bob Turner, did during his campaign.First of all the old Tip O’Neil bromide that “all politics is local” just went out the window. Turner did not even mention local issues in his campaign.  Rather, it was all national issues.Further, in that framework, and not once during his campaign, at least so far as I know, did Turner suggest he wanted to work with the Democrats and arrive at anything remotely resembling a ‘bipartisan solution’.During the campaign, Turner repeatedly… and loudly, said he would eliminate the US Department of Agriculture the EPA and reduce the size of the Department of Education.  The stated aim, reducing spending at the federal level by some 35%. Turner made no secret of not wanting Amnesty for illegals.. Turner’s a Roman Catholic, and therefore is  pro-life. He’s stated he supports the Defense of Marriage Act.  He also wants  Obamacare repealed. Doesn’t much sound like the bipartisan noises we’re supposed to be making, does it?

  I mean, look; We’re always told… mostly by the RINO crowd and by the left, (Granted, a repetition, anymore)…that if we speak out against liberals with the truth, we’d push independents right into the hands of the Democrats. And, of course, we’ll never win over Democrats themselves with such talk.

  Yet, look what happened: Turner, a staunch Conservative, won in landslide proportions in what is unarguably one of the most liberal sections of the country…. in a district held by Democrats for 90 some odd years… by the mere possession of a spine… standing up for his beliefs… IE;doing exactly what the CW says he’s not supposed to do….  And this proves exactly what I’ve said since Reagan.  Not compromising your beliefs… standing up for them… is what conservatives should be doing.

  And The Democrats… and the RINO crowd with them, are downright despondent over this one. Turner has shown us the way… and I say again, this is the way I’ve been suggesting for well over a decade, now.

  Bottom line: Don’t be afraid to be conservative. Stand up for your beliefs. Don’t try to work with liberals. Work instead to defeat them. You will be rewarded… and on that path, our country has a chance. And, dear reader, that is exactly what is at stake, here.

• Hope and Change:(nods to Drudge)  'WAVE OF FORECLOSURES'... BIG JUMP IN JOBLESS CLAIMS... INFLATION RISES... All “unexpectedly” of course. Do we really want to compromise with the Democrats… the ones who got us to this pass?
• Jobs Bill Not a priority for Harry Reid:  Dirty Harry is in no mood for Obama’s “jobs Bill”… which still doesn’t really exist as such yet… see David’s post of Yesterday. The reason is simple enough… there are too many Senate Dems up for re-election… an election they’ll never succeed in, if they were to back Obama’s nearly naked power grab. What IS the priority? Bike Paths.

The libtards keep telling how smart Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, is.   Whereas it is my contention that Dumbo is a moron.   Proof:

Not that I would expect Dumbo to actually know this, but the American Jobs Act, HR 2911 ,is a bill which would  zero out corporate taxes.

How radio active is Dumbo. The suggested bill that Dumbo had wanted to call the American jobs Act was distributed to member of Congress two days ago, from Hill:

Texas GOP Rep. Louis Gohmert officially introduced the American Jobs Act of 2011 on Wednesday afternoon.

[…]

So, at 1:20pm Gohmert filed his own version of a jobs bill, under the title included on the president’s legislation distributed to members of Congress two-days prior.

Representative Gohmert introduced the official version of the American Jobs Act six days after Dumbo proposed it and two days after is was distributed to members of Congress Yet no democrat was willing to to file Dumbo’s bill. Telling.

Reax, Nice Dob:

Dems in Congress must be trying to figure out how to escape this albatross around their necks. If the jobs bill is a big loser with the public, they are going to be hard pressed to vote for it if they want to keep their jobs. As many Democrats found out in November, 2010, the voters may express their outrage at their fiscal insanity by voting them out of office.

How is Dumbo going to get his fellow ‘rats to support his bill with no name, if he could not even convince one to file the bill with the House clerk?

Aside to libtards, if you have any reason to believe  I am attempting insult, impugn or  mock Dumbo,  feel free to report this  post to Attack Watch

Auburn,MA– Came in around 0130. I’m dropping a load of foam plates as this is written and will go from here to Newburgh,NY, and then who knows where. It’s been a fairly easy week so far, and as a result of some dumb luck, I’ve managed to rack up most of my base miles for the week in the first two and a half days. The weeks come like that, sometimes. Blue skies, middle 70’s a beautiful day for driving. Which, of course means DOT on the road to Newburgh. (Sigh)

• Green Jobs: It turns out that “Green Jobs” means private investors… people who just happen to be heavy contributors to leftists… get taxpayer green. Meanwhile, said  taxpayers get left holding the bag. The Solyndra muck-up,  is everything that’s wrong with leftists running things, encapsulated. The Obama White House is up to it’s eyeballs in this, and someone needs serious jail time.
• The Spinners: No, not the great 60’s and 70’s group… The White House.
  

  The White House is girding for a political loss in the heart of New York on Tuesday.They’re also spinning up an explanation that won’t entirely result in the blame landing on the low popularity of the president. As in Massachusetts, where Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley was faulted by the White House and many others for tone-deaf campaigning, Democratic candidate Dave Weprin may see the undercarriage of that new White House campaign bus.

  Obama won the district, which spans southern Brooklyn and Queens, by 11 percentage points in 2008. His approval rating there is now 33 percent.

  You’ll recall, I mentioned recently that the Democrats’ biggest worry these days is not so much Obama losing… (apparently they’re internally viewing that loss as a foregone conclusion) but taht Obama will drag down the party with him. Gee, ya think?

• NY9 is now Republican held: The Democrats are trying to claim it’s a hard district for them and that’s why they lost. Bovine feces. The fact is it’s been a safe district for them since 1923. The WH is denying that this loss has anything to do with Obama.  Spin, certainly. But, look…They’re actually half right about that.
  Look, gang, it’s this simple… while the press likes to spin this as a reflection of Obama’s popularity, the voters now see clearly that Obama is not the underlying cause of our current problems. Our current problems are being caused instead by the liberal mantra, to which Obama and all the remaining Democrats subscribe. It’s a rejection of that mantra and the downright stupid policies that spring from it, and not Obama personally, that is being reflected in the polls.

  Now, staunch Democrats may well blame Obama,  and try to cast him as inept…but why? After all, he enacted all the nonsense that liberals have been having wet dreams over for decades now.  And he’s still at it… this “jobs bill” is little more than the same BS he’s been pushing for years… Exactly what has not worked so often before… tax increases and government give-aways. Why would they blame Obama for that? Because it’s easier for their lack of mentality to blame Obama than it is to contemplate the idea that the cause of the failure is Democrat policies. Want proof? Look at how vehemently they deny that there’s any similarity between the failures under Jimmy Carter, and failures under Barack Hussein Obama.

  Getting the picture?

• Attentiion, ATTACK WATCH: You’re officially on notice… This site will not back down from the truth. Get used to it.

At this point, I am still not inclined to support Newt Gingrich, but when Newt is in the game and on his game, he can throw verbal grenades with anybody, video:

Hat tip:   William A Jacobson, Legal Insurrection.

 Marcy, NY– I’m at the Wal-Mart Regional Distribution center, dropping off some Oatmeal and such. The roads around here are still a bit messed up from the flooding last week, but in better shape than they were then, at least. I-81 still has a serious washout north of Binghamton, for example.  Cooler, this week around here. It’ll struggle to get out of the 60’s.

• Perry and Socialist Security: I note Drudge running a story that suggests Rick Perry isn’t backing off on the Socialist Security Saga. Good.  I had been concerned based on what I was hearing, that he had. Turns out to be some editorializing from folks who would rather he didn’t get nominated. He really shouldn’t back off. Here’s why:
  

  Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s description of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” is drawing lots of criticism from rival candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich. But so far at least, it’s not drawing much criticism from the voters most affected by the issue.In a new CNN poll that finds Perry at the front of the Republican pack, the Texas governor’s lead among GOP voters age 65 and older is actually bigger than his lead among younger voters. Fifty-two percent of respondents over 65 say Perry is their choice for president, versus just 21 percent who choose Romney. In the overall numbers, Perry leads Romney 32 percent to 21 percent, with Ron Paul following at 13 percent, Bachmann and Gingrich at seven percent each, Herman Cain at six percent, and Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum at two percent each.

  Republican voters over 65 also believe Perry has the best chance of defeating President Obama in next year’s general election. Perry leads Romney 58 percent to 22 percent among older voters on that question.

  Moral of the story: Voters tend to stick by people who stand for something and don’t back down. Did Reagan teach us nothing?

  Oh, and as for Perry’s point… we have 1.75 workers per SS recipient. The money’s simply not there to tap, Gang. I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again… what we are witness to is the end of the social Welfare state, world wide. No matter who runs it, the model is simply unsustainable.  It fascinates me that this rather obvious point needs be remade continually.

• Net Favoritism is nearly law, now:  While all the other stories are going on, the FCC which is stacked with leftists, has been quietly  going about pushing what is laughingly called “Net Neutrality”… and it’s nearly law, now. Does anyone really suppose that government’s record with the net will be any better than it has been with anything else they’ve tried to take over? Most folks already know we’re over-regulated. Why isn’t government getting that message?
• The WTC:  I dunno if I’m going into NYC this week or not… I usually do at some ppoint during the week.  But it occurred to me over the weekend, that I missed one aspect of the attack on America…. That being that save pictures and movies and such, I’ve never known the NYC skyline with the World Trade Center in it.  I’d never seen the place in person. It’s only been the last year or so that I”ve been driving down there. Hard as it is for folks not a part of Western NY state, where I’m from, people often spend their entire lives without going to the big city.  It’s 400 miles away, more or less from my front door. That doesn’t alter the writings and perceptions about the place and the events surrounding it, that I’ve posted here.  But, it does give a different angle than say, a resident of Manhattan would have. I’m not sure how important that is to the events that happened, there.  But I cant help but feel I missed out on something important.
• Speaking of 9/11, The Chicago Boys make an important point:
  

  The only part of the American national security establishment that successfully defended America on 9/11 was the portion of the reserve militia on board Flight 93, acting without orders, without hierarchy, without uniforms or weapons, by spontaneous organization and action.

  There is no more heartbreaking audio in the world, than the sounds on 911 tapes of victims pleading for help from government and dying for not getting it. There is no larger lesson of self-reliance than those same audio snips.

• Union Thuggery, Now in Government:  Glenn writes, this morning:
  

  ORRIN HATCH TO NLRB MEMBER CRAIG BECKER: Did You Write The SEIU Intimidation Manual? “U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today wrote to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member and former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) official Craig Becker to inquire about his involvement in union intimidation efforts. The letter sent to Becker comes after the SEIU’s ‘Contract Campaign Manual’ was made public. The handbook tells union members to purposefully try to damage their employers’ reputations by coming up with allegations against their employers and managers and to even break the law to gain leverage in contract negotiations.”…

  Well, I agree with Michelle Malkin about Hatch.  Still, credit where it’s due. And take this as a sign that the Union thugs are now a part of our government…. as if, given Obama, we didn’t know that already.

• Jim Toranto on Krugman: (There’s a visual I didn’t need…) Jim has some comments on Krugman’s nonsense, the other day, and as always with Toranto, it’s worth the read…. this time particularly so.  A taste:
  

  Krugman goes on to observe that beside Bush, Giuliani and Kerik, “a lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits–people who should have understood very well what was happening–took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?”

  He has half a point here. We remember one professional pundit who behaved quite badly, writing on Sept. 14, 2001: “It seems almost in bad taste to talk about dollars and cents after an act of mass murder,” he observed, then went ahead and did so: “If people rush out to buy bottled water and canned goods, that will actually boost the economy. . . . The driving force behind the economic slowdown has been a plunge in business investment. Now, all of a sudden, we need some new office buildings.”

  That was former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, who added that “the attack opens the door to some sensible recession-fighting measures,” by which he meant “the classic Keynesian response to economic slowdown, a temporary burst of public spending. . . . Now it seems that we will indeed get a quick burst of public spending, however tragic the reasons.” He went on to denounce the “disgraceful opportunism” of those who “would try to exploit the horror to push their usual partisan agendas”–i.e., conservatives who he said were doing exactly what he was doing.

  For all of his complaints, he himself acts shamefully if it means he can slip in a poliical point or three, in support of his devout and unapologetic left-leaning, and hatred. That alone should tell you the quality of the man, or more correctly, his lack of it. As Glenn said the other day, Krugman is a sad little man and ultimately irrelevant, except as a gauge of how far gone the left has become.