Breakfast Scramble (Wednesday)

It is the incompetence stupid , Eugene Robinson, Washington Post plays the race card and tries to argue that the Teat Party movement is somehow racists:

I have to wonder what it is about Obama that provokes and sustains all this tea party ire. I wonder how he can be seen as “elitist,” when he grew up in modest circumstances — his mother was on food stamps for a time — and paid for his fancy-pants education with student loans. I wonder how people who genuinely cherish the American dream can look at a man who lived that dream and feel no connection, no empathy.

I trump Robinson’s race card, with an incompetence card.   Never attribute to racism what can be explained by sheer incompetence.   Barack Obama is somehow uneducated, lazy, but yet arrogant.    Go figure.

The same person who was hailed as a brilliant orator and communicator, spent two years explaining, or at least attempting to explain, his policies,  now attribute his, and his party’s woes to the public’s failure to understand his policies.

Incomplete, Michael Kinsley argues, rather lamely, that the United States is not the greatest country,from Politico:

This conceit that we’re the greatest country ever may be self-immolating. If people believe it’s true, they won’t do what’s necessary to make it true. The Brits, who suffer no such delusion (and who, in fact, cherish the national myth of being people who smile through adversity), have just accepted cuts in government spending that no American politician — even a tea bagger — would dream of proposing. Maybe these cuts are a mistake or badly timed, but when the British voted for “change,” they really got it.

Kinsley is free to argue the United States is not the greatest country.   Yet  Kinsley never defines what  he means by greatest country, suggests which is the greatest country, nor reveals his plan to emigrate there, wherever  there is.

Stupid, Dumbo holds that as voters don’t like neither his policies nor objectives that they are stupid.  Now British homophile, Stephen Fry, has basically said that as women don’t like to have sex with him, that they therefore don’t like to have sex, at all, from Neil Sears, Daily Mail:

He has been called ‘the cleverest man in Britain’. But even Stephen Fry’s fans must feel there are limits to his expertise.

And as one of the country’s most famous homosexuals, female sexuality is unlikely to be one of his specialist topics.

Yet 53-year-old Fry has raised eyebrows by claiming that women are unenthusiastic about sex, and see it only as ‘the price they are willing to pay for a relationship’.

Retort, Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom:

… being a gay man doesn’t make one an expert on female sexuality.

Further retort,Caroline Winters, Woman’s-World:

I could defensively argue that, wait, some women do like casual sex as much as men! That is certainly true, but it misses the point entirely. The real problem with Fry’s comments is that he appears to qualify a person’s interest in sex in terms of their interest in shtupping strangers. Per the usual, sex is defined in men’s (supposed) terms: Real sex, sexy sex, is sex of the uncommitted wham-bam variety. Sex within committed relationships is written off. Truly liking sex means liking it with strangers, because emotion and intimacy dilute sexual pleasure – or something.

Mr. Fry’s view, such as it is not sexist, per see, in that it does not reflect a male view.   Men too covert relationships.   Rather Fry’s view is that the homonormative that can’t see past the causal  hook up of the tea room scene.   As Fry can not understand the value of relationships,  he doesn’t undersand why anybody would value them.   That should be viewed as Fry’s loss, and not as his panacea for a better world.

Man up Mr. Fry.

A requiem for a bitch *, the demise of Mrs. Pelosi’s career in national politics, by Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner:

The epic loss on Tuesday will launch a thousand op-eds and who knows how many dissertations. But the explanation is very simple.

Never have two modern American leaders been so utterly bereft of graciousness. Americans do not particularly value humility in their politicians, but arrogance and disdain are poison to the public

Mrs. Pelosi wounds were in large part self-inflicted.   For the party  in power to lose seats in the mid-cycle election is usual.    However the scale of Mrs. Pelosi’s debacle will be historic.

Can Dim Won learn bumility? I say not.

Nina Totenberg watch, recently Juan Williams, late of NPR, now of Fox News, expressed fear of some Muslims.  For his honesty, Williams was fired by NPR.  Now Nina Totenberg, also of NPR, expresses her fears, from Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & :Light:

GORDON PETERSON: Nina, columnist Paul Krugman says if the election goes as expected, his advice is be afraid, be very afraid. Should we take his advice?

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: I am already afraid, very afraid. I mean, it’s not like governance has been going great. I think we’ll, I don’t know whether I should be afraid, but there will be gridlock

If NPR actually fires Totenberg, I will have to eat this post.  If not, way is unacceptable for NPR contributors to express fear of Muslims but very acceptable to express fear of conservativs?

Even the total mess Barack Obama, Dirty Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and gang have made of our economy, foreign policy and health care, it hard to see how anybody, if the party of John McCain, and Mike Huckabee could any worse, if they tried.

PBS makes nice or Michelle has an anger management problem.   Michelle is reporting recieving this letter from PBS:

Michelle,

I wanted to send out a note to invite you to participate – even embed – the PBS NewsHour’s online-only live show tomorrow night (starting at 10 p.m. EST). It’s the first time we have done a broadcast-style show (complete with legendary political columnists Mark Shields & David Brooks) wholly online – and we’re hoping to make it a big success. All you have to do is grab our embed code (below or via http://ustream.tv/pbsnewshour) and add it to your site, wherever you typically place political coverage. Host your own NewsHour – on your homepage – and join the conversation. For a full rundown of our multi-platform, election-night plans, click here.

On Facebook? You can add the tab to your page too – just follow the instructions below.

Thank you so much for your consideration. Even if you can’t embed, join the conversation Election Night – we’ll be liveblogging from 5:45 p.m. EST until the wee hours of the morning. Check it out at: http://newshour.pbs.org.

Please feel free to call or e-mail with any questions.

Jason Kane
Communications Assistant

I believe the classic response was “Nuts!”

Halloween costume of the year, from Jim Hoft,  Gateway Pundit:

Alternative title: What our founding blogger did for Halloween?

The kid has got spunk.   Does he blog?

Oprah sees no  Joy in bitch,  from Caroline May, Daily Caller:

Women’s groups are cheering Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that the word “bitch” will not be tolerated on her new network, but say that there remains a great deal more work to be done in the fight against sexism.

* Still a term of endearment?  I don’t watch the Spew.

Just how dumb is Dumbo? MoDo sours on Dumbo b/ka/a Barack Obama, Maureen Dowd, New York Times:

Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story.

At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.

But now he acts like he really thinks he’s on “West Wing,” gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded by the end of the hour

Whereas Dowd used to once think Obama was brilliant,  Clarice Feldman appears never to been aboard that particular band wagon, from 27 July 2009, from  American Thinker:

I have another purpose. I do not believe that someone with such a  consistently weak understanding of economics, history, and the guiding legal document of our nation and its language  merited admission to Columbia University or Harvard law school. Nor can I imagine how anyone could have merited graduation from these institutions (let alone edited the Harvard Law Review, the most prestigious legal publication of its kind) with these deficiencies.

And yet more Feldman, from American Thinker:

I don’t know that Obama would deny being an intellectual, except as an insincere attempt at humility. He thinks he’s very bright, and he persuaded hordes of academics and media stars that he was one based on no evidence. The lack of proof of his intellectual prowess has not been rectified in the two years since his election.

Clarice makes her case in detail that there plenty of  evidence of Obama being far less than intelligent, and little, if any, to the contrary.

Is Dumbo an elitist, Peter Baker, New York Times:

Mr. Obama’s remark that autumn evening played into a perception promoted by his critics that he is a Harvard-educated millionaire elitist who is sure that he knows best and thinks that those who disagree just aren’t in their right minds. Never mind that Mr. Obama was raised in less exalted circumstances by a single mother who he said once needed food stamps. Or that although he went to private school, he took years to pay off his college loans.  Something about Mr. Obama’s cerebral confidence has made him into a symbol of something he never used to be.

If makes Mr. Baker feel any better, I do not believe that Obama was educated at Harvard, or any where else, for that  matter.

I blogged yesterday:

Consider this closely, now;  The Democrats have had an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress, and had the White House as well.  Yet, they claim that one of the reasons for their slow “progress” to the left has been Republican stonewalling?  Oh, please.  The reality there is one of two situations, or more probably both:

1. The absolute incompetence of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi was fully exposed once they were given absolute power.
2. The policies that they have been pursuing from the hard left for so long to our proven to have not worked .  In fact, such policies are so bad that they have not been able to garner the support among their fellow Democrats to get them passed.

In either case , the attempts to pass the blame to anyone and everyone but the hard left, are laughable at best, and in truth, outright lies.

What of the legislation and other governmental action that the democrats did manage to cram through?  They’ve managed to settle our children with record levels of debt.  In the doing they’ve managed to create policies which are on arguably killing jobs.  (I think I should be right in pointing out what “green” initiatives have been put into play for example …). With the stroke of a pen the Democrats managed to kill off our medical system, which heretofore was the envy of the world.  The Democrats have essentially nationalized many different industries, the benefits of which are far from obvious.  Then, there’s the Jimmy Carter -esque reliance on a command economy, where the white house gets to direct who wins and who loses in the world of business.  (Apparently, one of the major factors there is where said businesses spend their money on elections.)

I caught some negative feedback for those comments.

I will issue a challenge, however, that is going to rattle some rafters.

I challenge the supporters of the Democrats, and particularly Obama to describe to us all just what positive things have been accomplished by this lurch to the left.

Use the comment section on this post. I await what will doubtless be a resounding silence.

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Yes we can becomes No we can not, from Trevor Kavanagh, Sun(UK):

Mr Obama may have inherited the crisis from George W Bush, but voters are focusing on his failure to deliver. The President seems impotent as storms rage around his head. Worse, he appears to have no idea what to do next. Key economic advisers are quitting mid-term and leaking damaging gossip about “The Chief”.

And Mr Obama is notoriously impatient, slapping a time limit on all discussion.

“If there is no agreement in 45 minutes, no matter how important the issue may be, he simply stands up and walks out,” says one aide.

What was this about Dumbo’s b/k/a B arack Obama,  world class temperment?

Green dreams, from Rich Moran, American Thinker:

There is something truly pathetic in the administration’s childlike faith in the efficacy of “green” solutions to what ails the American economy, environment, and politics. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, we will not save our environment by switching willy nilly to alternative energy sources, nor will we create the “millions of green jobs” promised by the administration to offset the loss of employment in the fossil fuel industry.

[…]

It’s just not possible, feasible, or was it ever realisticA stubborn refusal to face facts is not very smart. And you don’t need an Ivy League education to figure that out.

But in the face of a cult-like belief on all things green, reason and logic make no progress.

Obama may be indoctrinated, but he is not educated.

Well, we are as of this writing, mere days away from the mid-term elections… which by all acounts, even among Democratic pollsters, isn’t going to go down well for the Democrat party. The only question, seemingly, is just how much of a Democrat bloodbath this election will be.

The reasons are simple enough; The American people clearly see that the Democrats running things, created an economic and social disaster for the country. … a disaster that has many Democrats running away from the hard left that is Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

Consider this closely, now;  The Democrats have had an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress, and had the White House as well.  Yet, they claim that one of the reasons for their slow “progress” to the left has been Republican stonewalling?  Oh, please.  The reality there is one of two situations, or more probably both:

1. The absolute incompetence of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi was fully exposed once they were given absolute power.
2. The policies that they have been pursuing from the hard left for so long to our proven to have not worked .  In fact, such policies are so bad that they have not been able to garner the support among their fellow Democrats to get them passed.

In either case , the attempts to pass the blame to anyone and everyone but the hard left, are laughable at best, and in truth, outright lies.

What of the legislation and other governmental action that the democrats did manage to cram through?  They’ve managed to settle our children with record levels of debt.  In the doing they’ve managed to create policies which are on arguably killing jobs.  (I think I should be right in pointing out what “green” initiatives have been put into play for example …). With the stroke of a pen the Democrats managed to kill off our medical system, which heretofore was the envy of the world.  The Democrats have essentially nationalized many different industries, the benefits of which are far from obvious.  Then, there’s the Jimmy Carter -esque reliance on a command economy, where the white house gets to direct who wins and who loses in the world of business.  (Apparently, one of the major factors there is where said businesses spend their money on elections.)

We are left, with the blame for our current situation in this country squarely in the lap of the Democrats. The remaining question is how much of that reality has sunk into the minds of the electorate?  If the specter of voter fraud doesn’t cloud the issue we’ll have our answer come Tuesday.

Candidate assaulted in Rochester NY, Rochester media stone cold silent, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Rochester, NY – Wednesday evening, Jill Rowland, the 28th congressional district candidate, was attending a question and answer round table discussion at the Radisson hotel in downtown Rochester. Dr. Rowland was an invited guest of the Turkish American Business and Development Council. At around 10 PM, a man clad in sunglasses and of questionable attire entered the hotel lobby and headed directly toward the sizeable group. A campaign staff volunteer approached the man and asked him if he needed any help. The man did not respond and appeared to retreat momentarily. He then darted to the opposite side of the group where he promptly positioned himself in a threatening pose directly across from Dr. Rowland

Dumbo’s economics, Dumbo b/k/a Barack Obama fell into the classic socialist trap, from Christian Science Monitor:

“[W]hat people really want is fairness” Mr. Obama stated during the campaign. “They want people paying their fair share of taxes. They want that money allocated fairly.” After his victory, despite the economic crisis, he eschewed the Clinton mantra of “it’s the economy, stupid” and set out to make America more equitable.
Voters want economic growth

Voters, it turns out, are much more concerned about ensuring the economy grows than who gets what – especially during a deep recession. Unfortunately, the president seems locked into the mindset that greater equality of income must come at the expense of economic growth.

So if Dumbo ever studied anything while he was supposedly attending college, it sure was not economics.    Economies based on distribution of wealth only distribute poverty.  Look at the former Soviet Union.   Like at the Red China. and look at Fidel Castro’s  Cuba.  Prospertity  is  generated by  economic  growth.

Dumbo’s brain, or lack thereof, Jame Taranto, Wall Street Journal:

Occam’s razor suggests that Obama is a mere conformist–someone who absorbed every left-wing platitude he encountered in college and never seems to have seriously questioned any of them. Kloppenberg characterizes Obama as a skeptic, not a true believer. We’re not sure he has an active enough mind to be either one.

Dumbo’s Daycare, a possible theory to explain Obama aloof and arrogant attitude, to wit daycare, from Rachael Rettner, Live Science:

NEW YORK — Day care may prevent certain children from establishing a healthy relationship with their parents, a new study suggests.

The results show the more time fussy, irritable infants spend in day care, the less likely they are to develop a so-called secure attachment with their mothers. A secure attachment means babies are at ease exploring their surroundings, but can still seek comfort from their mom when they need to — they are not clingy or aloof.

From a glass half-full perspective, the findings also mean irritable infants do better when they’re mostly cared for by their parents or other family members.

“People have always thought of irritable, difficult babies as being more likely to have poor outcomes if they have stresses,” said study researcher Beth Troutman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa.

“But the other side of that is that they’re more likely to have good outcomes if they have more positive supportive environments,” Troutman told LiveScience.

“So it’s not just that having them in day care is a risk, but also that irritable babies really benefit from spending time with family members.

Hat tip:  Jill, Pundit & Pundette.

Alternative title I:  Mother knows best

Alternative title II:  Mothers who don’t parent, don’t bond.

Vote republican and retire the Bitch*, from Jay Newton Small, Time:

As Nancy Pelosi goes, so might a generation of her colleagues.

If Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives next week, as most political observers expect, there is a good chance that the House Speaker will opt to spend time with her eight grandchildren rather than toil in the relative obscurity of the minority. Even if she wanted to stay on, it’s not at all clear that she would win the position of minority leader: seven Democratic incumbents and several candidates oppose her leadership

I like Tom Reed so much in NY-29, that I am going to vote for him twice.

* The term has been said to a term of endearment.  Who I am I to argue?

Paving with elephant dung, Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:

How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign rallies of many of his fellow Democrats?

The first answer is well-known: His policymaking has been grandiose, thoughtless and bullying. His health-care bill was ambitious to the point of destructiveness and, finally, so chaotic that today no citizen knows where they stand in relation to it. His financial-reform bill seems little more than a short-sighted scapegoating of Wall Street. In foreign policy he has failed to articulate a role for America in the world. We don’t know why we do what we do in foreign affairs. George W. Bush at least made a valiant stab at an American rationale—democratization—but with Mr. Obama there is nothing.

Dumbo does Daily Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, did the Daily Show, and Dana Milbanks was none too impressed, from Washington Post:

On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night.

Kyle-Anne’s words of Joy, American Tbinker:

Ms. Behar needs a muzzle. She also needs the confessional. And a little soap in her mouth wouldn’t hurt, either

Sonya Sotomayer: The not so wise Latina, from Ariane de Vogue reports, ABC News:

In May of 2009, just after Justice David Souter announced his plan to retire from the bench, constitutional law professor Larry Tribe– who is considered a liberal legal icon– advised President Obama NOT to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the bench.

In a letter, first reported by Ed Whelan of the conservative National Review, Tribe told the president, “Bluntly put she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is.”

Alas there is no Joy in Behar, If Sharon Angle does as well in her match with Dirty Harry Reid as she doing with her cat fight with Joy Behar, she will win in landslide. Michelle has the details on a most one sided cat fight:

After Joy Behar’s “bitch” session on The Spew yesterday, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle struck back…with flowers and a cheery note.

I don’t think the Alinsky playbook has a chapter on flowers.

Susan Estrich, I was shocked the other day to read a column by Estrich on which I agree.  She was chiming in on the Juan Williams NPR fiasco with the old Jesse Jackson quote.  Well, Estrich was right for once, but now she back to normal, from RCP:

That is why Reid should win.

It may not be fair, and it’s certainly not her fault, but Reid can do a lot more for the people of Nevada at a time when they need all the help they can get.

He can do that because, if he’s re-elected, the president will owe him. He will still be his party’s leader, and he can bring home more to the state of Nevada than a goof-prone newcomer with a penchant for putting her foot in her mouth – who would be one of the most junior members of the Republican Party.

At the end of the day, Nevada may not want Reid, but they can hardly afford to get rid of him. And that might be enough this year.

It was Dirty Harry’s enabling of Barack Obama’s agenda which created the diaster in Nevada.  The last thing Nevada needs to Dirty Harry abetting Dumbo agenda to wreck Nevada, and the nation, for the next two years.

The wave cometh, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe:

THE HILLS are alive with the sound of liberal Democratic contempt for the electorate. So are the valleys, the prairies, and the coasts. For months, voters have been signaling their discontent with the president, his party, and their priorities; in less than a week, they appear poised to deliver a stinging rebuke. Yet rather than address the voters’ concerns with seriousness and respect, too many Democrats and their allies on the left have chosen instead to slur those voters as stupid, extremist, or too scared to think straight.

Gridlock will never look so good.

It is the economy stupid, from Mary Beth Schneider, Indy Star:

The same slogan that Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign made famous in 1992 is driving this year’s election: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

No issue is more important to voters after two years of rising unemployment and rising federal spending.

Stupid president looks for enemies, from Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

Obama has turned manic in his efforts to save his sinking presidency.  Every divisive tactic has been tried — and yet so far found wanting. We have gone through, in creepy Alinskyite fashion, all the bogeymen, JournoList enemies — Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Justice Roberts, the Tea Party, John Boehner, Karl Rove, and Ed Gillespie. We have witnessed the furor over the voters’ purported stupidity — the dopey clingers who do not understand science or logic, but are driven by their “fears” to reject the hope and change salvation. Obama hammers that condescension home; everyone from Jimmy Carter to John Kerry in similar exasperation joins that chorus that we know not what we do.

Mr. President, your enemy isn’t Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party or any of myriad of other bogey men you have imagined.    No Mr. President,  your worst enemy stares at you through your mirror when y9u shave every morning.   Quit blaming the American people for your personal problems.

Don’t cry for the Blue Dogs, from Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON—More than half the members of the Blue Dog Coalition—the organization of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House—are in peril in next week’s election, a stark indicator of how the balloting could produce a Congress even more polarized than the current one.

The Blue Dogs are often seen as a kind of human bridge, connecting left and right in the House. But that bridge is imperiled by the coming Republican wave in midterm elections, the most stark example of how the midterms are likely to weaken Capitol Hill’s political center

The point is that if  every Blue Dog were to swept from office, nobody would miss anyone of the sorry lot..
Democat campaign stooge attacked by one of her own, from a deluded Brian Beutler at TPM:

Josh Green flagged an incident that occurred outside of the Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate in Lexington, Kentucky Monday night that’s already dominating the news in Kentucky and could easily make headlines nationally.

As the candidates arrived, a group of Paul supporters pulled a female MoveOn member to the ground and held her there as another Paul supporter stomped on the back of her head and neck.

Beutler does not identify his imagined attacker.  So I will explain it to him   The person assaulting the Move-On thug and co-worker Lauren Valle is using the Community Organizer in Chief favorite rassling move, the boot to the throat.   Dim witted OFA types have trouble distinguishing heads from throat, but you get the  idea.

Beutler does not identify Valle, but Jim Hoft,  Gateway Pundit does:

For the record…

The Unhinged Leftist Who Lunged at Rand Paul Is a Paid Activist

MoveOn.org contract employee Lauren Valle stalked and lunged at Rand Paul outside the final debate last night.

Move-On planted Valle in the crowd and there is no reason to believe that Valle was Move-On’s only plant.   So it is impossible for Beutler to simply assume the person with his boot on her head was an actual supporter of Rand Paujl.

Boot owner identified, Robert Stacy McCain,  Other McCain:

Paul supporter Tim Profitt said video of the scuffle made it appear worse than it was and he chided police for not stepping in. Lauren Valle, the 23-year-old activist with the group MoveOn.org, said her face was swollen and her neck and shoulder were sore after she was wrestled to the ground

It is now incumbent for Move-On to prove that P:ofitt was not on their payroll.

A history of recent campaign violence, from William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

As I have documented dozens of times before, the left-blogosphere has concocted allegations against Tea Party members for much of the past year in an effort to paint opponents of Democrats as extremist and violent.  Really for the first time, they have an incident they can blow out of proportion for political purposes.

It is the democrats who have the history campaign violence.

Dope from Hope blasts Karl Rove, from Ben Smith Politico:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today broadened the assault on the Republican Party establishment — and former Bush adviser Karl Rove in particular — levied recently by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, blasting the “elitism” and “country club attitude exhibited by Rove and others who dismissed Delaware Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell.

“I was very disappointed in some, particularly Karl and others, who were so dismissive of Christine O’Donnell,” Huckabee told Aaron Klein on the latter’s WABC radio show Sunday.

“Unfortunately, there is an elitism within the Republican establishment,” Huckabee told Klein. “And it’s one of the reasons the Republicans have not been able to solidify not only the tea party movement but solidify conservatives across America.”

Granted Huckabee is not an elite.  He is from Arkansas.  Sadly neither is Huckabee a conservative.

George Will picks Alan Grayson clean, from Newsweak:

ORLANDO—There are hundreds of plausible nominees for the title of America’s Second-Smarmiest Politician, but surely the top spot is un-contested. Americans of all political persuasions can come together in affirming one proposition: Public life would be improved by scrubbing Rep. Alan Grayson from it. This act of civic hygiene probably will be performed Nov. 2 by voters of Florida’s Eighth Congressional District. Polls indicate that a majority of them plan to deny Grayson, 52, a second term by electing his resonantly

While Will leaves much to be desired as a pundit, he unmatched  as an artisan with words.   Not to worry Al, you’ll always have PMSNBC.

Obamatards: bigs rigs to go green,from Drive On:

The Obama folks have proposed the first-ever fuel economy rules for over-the-road trucks, medium-duty trucks (including heavy-duty pickups) and school buses.

Under proposed rules for these vehicles unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department, fuel economy would have to increase 10% to 20% from the 2014 models to 2018. The rules, with whatever modifications follow the comment period, are expected to be final next summer.

Leave to the retread in the Obama administration, who never had a day job, to keep Detroit to be able to jump to their tune.   Given the horribly high cost of fuel, I expect that truck manufacturers have already done what they can to maximize fuel mileage.    About the only wat left to increase mileage to reduce weight, which just does not make sense for big rigs.   After all, they are in the cargo hauling business.

Get NPR off the public dole, from Mark Browning, American Thinker:

In the end, then, local NPR affiliates derive something like 41% of their funding from taxes, either directly or indirectly

Remember Vivian, you’ll always have George Soros.

Bumper  Snicker  of the Day, spotted in Ithaca, NY by William A Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Snicker reads:   Feminism  is the radical notion that women are people.

It should read:  Gender feminism is the radical notion women are people, except if their mother decides to kill them, they are  born, and only hold approved liberal views.

Firs, smoke, birth certificate, Obama campaign has spent over a million dollars to hide his birth certificate, or lack thereof, from Clyde Middleton Liberty Pundits:

Federal Election Commission records show $1,352,378.95 in payments were made by Obama for America to Perkins Coie while the law firm was representing Obama in various court cases which have sought to obtain Obama’s long-form birth certificate to determine if he is a “natural born” citizen under Article Two, Section 1 of the Constitution.

I do believe that Barack Obama was born in the United  States.  However even Obamatards do not spend over a million dollars, and counting, to hide records, unless there is something to hide.

Meanwhile back in the igloo, from Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News:

FAIRBANKS — A judge ruled Saturday that the Fairbanks North Star Borough must release personnel records of U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller.

In an unusual weekend hearing, retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank ruled that the public’s right to know about candidates outweighed Miller’s right to privacy.

“I hold that although Mr. Miller has a legitimate expectation of privacy in those documents, Mr. Miller’s right to privacy is indeed outweighed by the public’s significant interest in the background of a public figure who is running for the U.S. Senate,” the judge said. He noted that U.S. senator is among the highest elected offices in the nation.

Burbank ordered that nothing actually will be released until Tuesday afternoon, however, to allow for the ruling to be appealed to the

To which Professor William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, responds:

So This Means We Get To See Obama’s College And Law School Records, Right?

Somehow, I suspect the answer will be no.  What say you?

Thanks for nothing Dumbo, from Frank Rich, New York Slimes:

PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none of these good deeds, no matter how substantial, will go unpunished if the projected Democratic bloodbath materializes on Election Day. Some are even going unremembered. For Obama, the ultimate indignity is the Times/CBS News poll in September showing that only 8 percent of Americans know that he gave 95 percent of American taxpayers a tax cut.

Sarah Palin on Dumbo, from Kevin Bogardus,  Hill:

“Well, Mr. President, you have got it right on one point there. We are afraid knowing that your economic policies are driving us off a cliff and knowing that your fundamental transformation of America is turning into a nightmare.”

Rich argues that Americans should be grateful to Dumbo for supposed jobs that nobody outside of the Beltway can find.  In contrast, Palin argues that Americans can see what Dumb, and the democrats, have done to the economy, healthcare costs, the Gulf  and what they want to do with Cap and Tax.   Do you see Obama supposed saved jobs, or do you see the wreck of an economy?

David Scrambled:

NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him for having expressed himself on a TV show. But some are going too far in Williams’ name; they vindictively want to totally de-fund the left-leaning NPR because of this outrageous firing.

Big mistake. There ought to be uninterrupted public dollars in support of public radio.
Withdrawal of public dollars would raise the specter of official censorship and selective bans on “objectionable ideas,? and that would only strangle independent voices on public radio, and on public television as well.

Meyers is full of it.  National Public Radio has the right to be either public or partisan.   It has no right to be both.  As long as NPR accepts public money, it is obligated to represent the views of all Americans, and not just the hard core leftards.

Of course, I agree. The problem with the analysis is that the argument has long since ceased to be whether or not NPR has the right to be partisan.  Regardless of their having the right in actuality, they have long since ceased to be anything but partisan.

I submit that while he may in fact be (as Billy suggests) naught but a punk, this latest episode with Williams is really just the latest in a long string of such incidents.  Consider what Billy also points out, elsewhere:

“I think he ought to be worried about the — about what’s going on in the good Lord’s mind, because if there’s retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.”

That was Nina Totenberg on Jesse Helms in 1995. Why does this botulitic dipshit still have a job at NPR?

And of course by extension consider the difference between Totenberg and Williams and the relative reactions by NPR to each.  The reason for that difference between them is the leftist, big government slant that has always existed at NPR. When you have an media entity that is funded by the Federal government and by rich leftists (such asthe millions being poured in by George Soros) …what else could possibly occur by the leftist slant in their output?  I submit that Williams is the latest proof of this concept, in a long list of such.

As Jim DeMint suggests:

“I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network – and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is,” said House Republican leader John Boehner (R-Ohio.)

Williams, for his part, appears to have learned a hard lesson.  The fact is that Williams has been reliably Liberal, and reliably carrying water for the leftists, for decades now.  Apparently, the treatment received at the hands of the people he’s been carrying water for so long for, has woken him up.  He calls the firing “censorship”,

Juan Williams

and he’s absolutely right.   It is said that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.  Apparently, Williams considers that he has been mugged by NPR.

JUAN WILLIAMS, FIRED NPR NEWS ANALYST: I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I have written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I have got to tell you if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

NPR’s reaction was lame at best, in light of their history:

VIVIAN SCHILLER, NPR PRESIDENT AND CEO: This action was not anti-Fox. This action was pro-journalistic standards, and a news analyst cannot continue credibly to analyze the news if they are expressing opinions about divisive issues. It’s that simple, and the same would go with anybody. We are not picking on Juan

Which o course is why the aforementioned Nina Totenberg still has a job at NPR, right, Vivian?

Let me be clear; I shed no tears for Juan Williams.  When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Sorry, what it is. The man has been a tool of the left for as long as he’s been around the Journalistic world.  But it’s time that we call NPR the flat out liars and left wing shills that they are, as Williams has now started doing, if for no other reason than this situations does such a wonderful job of exposing them as such.

Ohhh… and does anyone think this will not have an effect on the upcoming election ?  The left was already on the ropes.  It strikes me that this situation isn’t going to do their imaging any good at all.

NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him for having expressed himself on a TV show. But some are going too far in Williams’ name; they vindictively want to totally de-fund the left-leaning NPR because of this outrageous firing.

Big mistake. There ought to be uninterrupted public dollars in support of public radio.
Withdrawal of public dollars would raise the specter of official censorship and selective bans on “objectionable ideas,? and that would only strangle independent voices on public radio, and on public television as well.

Meyers is full of it.  National Public Radio has the right to be either public or partisan.   It has no right to be both.  As long as NPR accepts public money, it is obligated to represent the views of all Americans, and not just the hard core leftards.

More NPR, from Charles Krauthammer, via RCP:

“I don’t understand the inconsistency here,” Dr. Charles Krauthammer said on PBS’s “Inside Washington” Friday night. Another guest on the panel was NPR’s Nina Totenberg, whom Krauthammer targeted for her consistent liberal bias.

“Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly? And she’s an honored correspondent there; in fact, they mention your status here on [“Inside Washington”] in your biography at NPR. And Juan, because he expresses his opinions, he gets canned from NPR,” Dr. Krauthammer said.

Video at the link.  For the record, I commend Nina Totenberg for way she handled Krauthammer’s line of questioning.

Schooling the White House in economics, from Keith Hennessey, video:

Doctor Austan Goolsbee would have you believe that losing jobs less slowly is good.  Goolsbee tried to sell the tale nine consecutive months of jobs losses somehow constitutes improvement.  With economic advisers like Doctor Goolsbee, no wonder unemployment is pushing ten percent.